*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*

*“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

*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* is a society podcast hosted by MakotowillOlympusMons, with 658 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

MakotowillOlympusMons hosts *“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*, a society show with 658 episodes published.

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  Travel memories are surprisingly tied to sound.

  Aug 18, 20264 min

  This episode reflects on sound as a way of experiencing a place — not music or podcasts chosen in advance, but the unplanned noise that accumulates around you when you're somewhere new. It touches on a distinction between two kinds of listening gear: noise-canceling headphones for long flights, where blocking out engine sound makes a real difference, and open-ear earphones for everything else, where staying permeable to the environment actually matters. There's an observation that the ambient texture of a country varies in ways that are hard to name but immediately felt — India loud with its own rhythm, New Zealand quiet but present, Thailand warm and laughing, China always seeming to be in motion. Airport announcements, a rolling cart, staff talking to each other in a local accent: none of it curated, all of it adding up to something. The post draws a quiet distinction between music — something chosen — and the sound of a place, which wasn't. That unchosen quality is part of what makes it feel like the place is actually there. Walking through a destination with earphones in is described as a little like looking at scenery through a closed window. A small reflection on what gets lost when we fill travel with the familiar, and what's still there to take in when we don't.

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  When Rockets Become Ordinary

  Aug 17, 20263 min

  This episode reflects on a moment of quiet surprise: watching SpaceX launch footage from a hotel room in New Zealand and realizing the footage looked *familiar* — and then sitting with how strange that actually is. It looks at what it means that a rocket can fly to space, return, and land vertically, and have that feel routine. Two Falcon 9 launches from opposite coasts, 38 minutes apart — not a historic attempt, but something closer to an operation. There's a contrast drawn with an older image of space exploration: a country pouring everything into a single shot, everything riding on one launch. That atmosphere is gone, and the episode pauses on how completely the feeling has changed. The real observation at the center of it: SpaceX's most remarkable achievement may not be that they landed a rocket, but that they repeated something extraordinary until it stopped feeling extraordinary — until it became "oh, they're doing that again today." A quiet look at what it means to normalize the impossible, and how getting used to something remarkable can itself be a measure of just how much has changed.

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  Kawarau Bridge, Where Bungee Jumping Began. When You Think About It, Making a Living from the Jump Is Remarkable.

  Aug 16, 20263 min

  This episode looks at a roadside stop in New Zealand — a sign for AJ Hackett near Queenstown that turned out to mark the birthplace of commercial bungee jumping. It traces how, in 1988, the first paying customers jumped from Kawarau Bridge — twenty-eight people, sometime in the seventies-dollar range — and how that single day on a single bridge became the origin of a global culture. There's a comparison between two jumps: one from 233 meters above Macau, city and sea stretching out below, and one toward a canyon and an emerald-green river. Different in every way except the feeling — scared going in, glad it's over, and unable to forget it. The episode reflects on what bungee jumping actually requires as a profession: building safety systems, easing nervous strangers through fear, and reliably sending people away with the biggest smile of their lives. Every day, the same arc — frighten someone, then set them free. A quiet look at how unusual things become livelihoods, and the thought that the limits of what can be a job might be less about the world and more about how seriously someone decides to take something.

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  Preparation Has Value Precisely Because You Never Had to Use It

  Aug 15, 20262 min

  This episode reflects on a winter drive through New Zealand's South Island, and the question of whether careful preparation was ever really necessary. It touches on the specific choices made before the trip — a four-wheel-drive rental, snow chains added just in case, repeated checks of road conditions and weather forecasts for Lindis Pass — and how none of it ended up being needed. The roads were mostly dry, and the driving was comfortable. There's also a memory from years earlier, a sudden snowstorm in Arizona on a road that had seemed like pure desert, where having four-wheel drive actually mattered. That experience, quietly, shaped the decision this time around. The episode draws a thread between this and an earlier post about reserving a forward seat on a flight that turned out not to be necessary — arriving at the same conclusion both times: that the value of preparation might lie precisely in never having to use it. A quiet reflection on how that thinking has shifted with age — from feeling that something unused is something wasted, to finding a kind of gratitude in the fact that nothing happened at all.

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  Walking Mount Cook

  Aug 14, 20262 min

  This episode reflects on a walk through Mount Cook — snow-covered peaks, glacier-carved valleys, rivers a striking deep blue — and the unexpected thought it stirred: that landscapes this vast and wild can feel, in some ways, shared across the world. Having climbed the Seven Summits, there's a sense here that the awe mountains inspire has a common quality to it, regardless of country. Mount Cook is genuinely wonderful, but its wonder may belong less to this specific place and more to nature itself. That observation opens a quiet curiosity about somewhere not yet visited — the forests and lakes of Northern Europe, Finland, Norway, Sweden — landscapes where mountains give way to something else entirely, and where the midnight sun and aurora take center stage. There's also a note on the crowds. Mount Cook sits deep in wilderness, yet the popular trails were a steady flow of people. The contrast with Okutama, closer to home, equally remarkable and far quieter, raises a simple preference: places where the only sounds are wind and birdsong, and nature feels more directly present. A gentle reflection on what makes a landscape feel singular, and the long list of places in this world still waiting to be seen.

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