*“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
This episode looks at an unexpected encounter with the future — a paper flyer in the mailbox announcing that a nearby building would be inspected by drone, operated by Rakuten Drone Co., Ltd.
It touches on the gap between knowing something exists and actually having it arrive at your doorstep. Drone inspections, AI-analyzed footage, autonomous systems — all familiar from the news. But a single sheet of paper making it local and immediate is something different.
There's also a brief look at why drones and building inspections are such a natural pairing: no scaffolding, no workers climbing to dangerous heights, cameras that can get close, and AI processing the images afterward. Technology stepping in where the work has always carried real physical risk.
The detail that sits at the center of the episode is the quiet irony of it all — that what announced this arrival of new technology wasn't an app or an algorithm, but an ordinary piece of paper dropped into a mailbox.
A small reflection on how the future doesn't always announce itself with fanfare, and how sometimes you only realize something has shifted when it turns up, printed on a flyer, among the ordinary mail.
13 Oct 2026
Queenstown, the Doomsday Retreat I Visited Just Two Months Ago
This episode revisits Queenstown, New Zealand — a place visited just two months ago — through a completely different lens, after coming across a newsletter describing the area as a favored doomsday retreat for the ultra-wealthy.
It looks at Peter Thiel's acquisition of New Zealand citizenship after just twelve days in the country, and his purchase of roughly 193 hectares of land near Lake Wānaka — part of a broader pattern of billionaires quietly treating certain beautiful places as insurance policies against collapse.
There's also a look further back: the land around Queenstown was originally home to the Ngāi Tahu, the indigenous Māori people of the South Island, who sold an enormous area to the British Crown in 1848 for two thousand pounds. The protections promised to them were never fulfilled. A formal apology came only in 1998 — about a hundred and fifty years later. Today, housing prices in the same region are a serious problem for the people who actually live and work there.
A parallel surfaces in Hawaii, where a large estate under construction on Kauai — reportedly including an underground shelter — sits alongside growing concern about local and native Hawaiian residents being priced out of their own communities.
A quiet reflection on what it means to visit somewhere beautiful, and how the same view can hold entirely different realities at once — a few days of scenery for a traveler, daily life for a resident, and an escape hatch for someone who may never need to use it.
13 Oct 2026
When Someone Says "That's Not Like You"
This episode looks at a phrase that seems harmless but carries a quiet weight: "that's not like you" — and what it might actually be doing when someone says it.
It touches on an idea from a newsletter by Takashiro Go: that the phrase might function as a kind of preemptive defense, a way of resisting change in someone else because it would require rethinking a familiar image of them.
There's also a reflection on how roles form — the quiet one, the funny one, the one who never says no — often starting from something said offhand, until eventually the person themselves begins to believe it and holds back accordingly.
Study abroad comes up, not just as a practical question but as a specific kind of freedom: going somewhere no one knows you, where the role that hardened around you in a long-standing circle of relationships simply doesn't exist yet.
A quiet look at the difference between the self others have defined and the self that hasn't appeared yet — and the possibility that wanting to change isn't a contradiction of who you are, but part of it.
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