{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"Will AI Become the New Oil?","slug":"will-ai-become-the-new-oil","published_at":"2026-07-03T13:18:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/will-ai-become-the-new-oil","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Will-AI-Become-the-New-Oil-e3lk2ma","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/122341514/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-3%2F77fda4b1-de95-ee68-7e57-d3817d106d11.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at a recent news story — OpenAI apparently proposing to transfer five percent of its equity to the U.S. government — and follows the thread back to an unexpected place: Alaska in the 1970s. When a massive oil field was discovered there, Alaska took an unusual path. Rather than extracting the value and moving on, the state built a fund around the idea that oil belongs not just to people alive today, but to everyone — including children not yet born. Revenues were invested, and dividends paid out annually to residents. The question the episode sits with is whether something similar might be possible with AI. If AI generates tens or hundreds of trillions in value, could a portion of that be held by society broadly — directed toward education, healthcare, or something resembling a basic income? It also touches on the longer historical pattern: oil once moved the world, driving economic growth and geopolitical tension alike. If AI is moving into that same position, the question of who receives its gains doesn't feel entirely new. A quiet look at how the kind of resource changes — from what's pulled out of the ground to what's generated inside servers — while the deeper question, whether to use up wealth now or build something to pass forward, may not change very much at all.","meta_description":"This episode looks at a recent news story — OpenAI apparently proposing to transfer five percent of its equity to the U.S. government — and follows the th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":173,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/will-ai-become-the-new-oil/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/will-ai-become-the-new-oil.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}