Robert meets World Podcast

About Robert meets World Podcast

Some questions don't resolve and this podcast doesn't pretend otherwise. Ranging from existential philosophy to conversations about therapy, dating and cultural theory of religion, each episode is less about arriving at answers than about taking the questions seriously. Essays, interviews and occasional side quests from the edges of how we think about meaning, identity, consciousness and what it actually means to live well, by someone still genuinely figuring it out. Produced by Aqua Flamingo Labs Inc.

Publisher

Aqua Flamingo Media

Category

education · health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

24 Feb 2025

Latest episode

30 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Oct 2026

   Surrender in the Icy Vise (Side Quest 17)

   As I sat at edge of Toronto's Harbourfront looking onto Lake Ontario, the grandfatherly words of Alan Watts entered my thoughts: The point of life... is to be alive.. that's it. I had heard this and numerous bits of wisdom like it before: koans, proverbs, dictum; all of which I yearned to live authentically by, automatically even, but never quite feel them at times. There is a superficial level of understanding, an intellectual grasp of a concept, but its another to really know and understand something deep down. If the point of being alive, is to be alive. I thought to myself, We only know what life means by knowing what it is to die. I continued.

2. 

   30 Oct 2026

   I Lost My Heart in Ericeira: the heart centre, cacao & connection

   I tell people I lost my heart in Ericeira. The ocean swept up my recklessness one June morning as I leapt forward into the freezing water—missing the icebaths back home. Exiting the freezing Atlantic to the crisp breeze of Portugal’s coastal surf town, I lost something without realizing it. Grief struck later, searching the mirror with a phantom touch to a beloved Malachite necklace, missing; the accommodation quiet with guests already out surfing the coastline. It was only my first month into travel, and here I stood, alone in a hostel built like the 70s. https://robertxworld.com/i-lost-my-heart-in-ericeira/

3. 

   23 Oct 2026

   SQ28 - The Shadow Artist, The Software Engineer: Getters, Setters, and Other Things I Loved Without Knowing Why

   Is programming a way to avoid making art, or a strange way of making it anyway? Drawing on Julia Cameron's concept of the "shadow artist," this essay traces Robert's path into software, past the AI hype, the technical debt, the algorithm interviews, toward Turing's original insight: that almost anything can be symbolic manipulation, including, maybe, creativity itself.

Who has been a guest on Robert meets World Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Wes Myers
• Dr Wolfgang Palaver
• Danielle Strachman
• MJ DORIAN

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

13,400

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

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Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

32

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