All About Friendships

ColoredJuice Podcast Network

Friendship can feel like family, rivalry, therapy, comedy, and emotional warfare—sometimes during the same conversation. All About Friendships is a candid relationship podcast hosted by Paul and Edzel, two frenemies with shared history, strong opinions, and absolutely no filter. Every episode explores the friendships that shape who we become: the ones that survive distance, conflict, and change; the ones that quietly fall apart; and the ones that leave behind lessons we carry for years. Through energetic debates, honest confessions, personal stories, and uncomfortable questions, Paul and Edzel examine loyalty, trust, betrayal, forgiveness, jealousy, boundaries, resentment, and personal growth between friends. They may not always agree. In fact, they usually do not. That tension is what makes the conversation honest. From best friends who become strangers and toxic friendship patterns to changing priorities, friendship breakups, second chances, and the people who stay when life becomes difficult, no topic is off-limits when your closest friend may also be your harshest critic. Funny, serious, inspiring, and brutally honest, All About Friendships is for anyone who has loved a friend, lost a friend, questioned a friendship, or discovered something about themselves through the people they chose to trust. Listener stories may be edited or anonymized to protect privacy. This podcast provides entertainment and general relationship discussion, not therapy or professional mental-health advice. Two frenemies. Real talk. No filter. Hosted by Paul and Edzel. A ColoredJuice Podcast Studio production. If you prefer to support us via Patreon for more exclusive episodes across our podcasts, go here. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    The Friend Who Owes You Money

    Paul lent a friend three hundred dollars in March. It is almost November, the money has never been mentioned, and yesterday the friend posted a rooftop cocktail photo. Sound familiar? Tonight Paul and Edzel wade into the most awkward water in friendship: the friend who owes you money. The stats are shocking (one in three friendships lost over money), the psychology runs deep (borrowers and lenders remember the same loan completely differently), and the fix is always one sentence long. Plus the taco-bill incident, Biscuit the dog economist, the subscription friendship, and the seven rules of the Friendship Money Constitution. Chapters: 0:00 — Cold Open 2:57 — Intro 4:51 — Catch-Up 10:43 — Setting the Scene 17:53 — The Borrow Pit 27:49 — The Lender's Dilemma 36:22 — The Ask 42:19 — Resolution 46:53 — Shoutout: Timeless Bible Stories 48:33 — Sponsor 48:46 — Outro This Episode is Brought to you by: Uppbeat — the music library for creators. Love the music in this episode? It is all licensed from Uppbeat — get 20% off and support the show when you join here: https://share.uppbeat.io/b1d396uc1nke Willow — the AI writing partner that helps you get the words right: https://go.willowvoice.com/coloredjuice Next week: Episode Twelve — When Your Best Friend Gets Married. New episodes every Saturday. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Friend Who Owes You Money
  2. Oct 24

    Group Chat Politics

    Paul and Edzel wade into the swamp: the side chats, the screenshots sent to the wrong thread, the friend who vanishes for a month and resurfaces at two in the morning, and the ancient unsolved mystery of how to leave a group chat without starting a civil war. Plus the seven species of group-chat citizen, two confessions, one three-day cold war between the hosts themselves, and the Group Chat Constitution — seven articles, ratified unanimously. Chapters: 0:08 — Cold Open 1:14 — Intro 2:26 — Catch-Up 9:56 — The Seven Species 16:39 — The Screenshot That Went Nuclear 21:30 — The Two in the Morning Bomb 24:53 — The Three-Day Cold War 30:15 — Are Side Chats Betrayal? 36:50 — How to Leave a Group Chat 41:29 — Read Receipts & the Mute Button 44:30 — The Group Chat Constitution 47:22 — Network Spotlight 49:30 — Goodbye This week we are shouting out the Mystical Archipelago Podcast — fascinating folklore, myths, and supernatural tales from across the Philippine archipelago. Bed music "Sentimental Friendship" by Pecan Pie, licensed via Uppbeat, code FVGQUJBYOZUT6QMS, link https://uppbeat.io/c/pecan-pie Love the music in this episode? It is all licensed from Uppbeat — get 20% off and support the show when you join here: https://share.uppbeat.io/b1d39... New episodes every Saturday. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Group Chat Politics
  3. Oct 15

    The Friend Who Keeps Score

    Seven dollars and forty-two cents. For garlic fries. From eleven months ago. In "The Friend Who Keeps Score," Paul arrives with a payment request and a grievance, and Edzel arrives with the screenshot, the calm, and the hard questions about the emotional accountants in all our lives. The invisible ledger, the accidental competitor, the great fairness-versus-scorekeeping debate, and the antidote: burning the scoreboard. Plus kamustahan, a moving-desk betrayal, and the wood-fired pizza theory of trust. About 29 minutes. 0:17 — Cold Open and Intro 1:32 — Kamustahan 4:52 — Setting the Scene 8:48 — The Invisible Ledger — Paul's Story 12:48 — The Accidental Competitor — Edzel's Story 16:23 — The Great Debate — Fairness Versus Scorekeeping 19:48 — The Gray Zone — Are You Keeping Score 23:12 — The Antidote — Burning the Scoreboard 25:40 — Shoutout 27:00 — CTA and Goodbye Next time: group-chat politics. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Friend Who Keeps Score
  4. Oct 14

    Friends Who Only Appear When They Need Something

    Paul counted. Twelve favors he did — and when he needed one back, suddenly everyone was busy. Today's topic: friends who only appear when they need something. Paul brings the story of the twelve favors and the green that asks back. Edzel brings the other side — the time he was the taker and didn't know it. Then the debate: open wallet or closed door? The three-question filter, the gray zone (are YOU the taker?), and a takeaway for setting boundaries without burning bridges. Chapters: 00:08 Cold Open 00:44 Intro 01:32 Kamustahan 04:20 Setting the Scene 07:51 Paul's Story — The Twelve Favors 10:54 The Green That Asks Back 13:45 Edzel's Story — The Other Side 17:06 The Debate — Open Wallet or Closed Door 19:55 The Debate Continues — The Three Question Filter 23:37 The Gray Zone — Are You the Taker 26:21 The Takeaway 27:39 Shoutout 29:04 CTA and Goodbye All About Friendships — Paul and Edzel on the friends who make you and the ones who take. New episodes regularly. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Friends Who Only Appear When They Need Something
  5. Oct 14

    When You Are Always the One Who Texts First

    Fourteen texts in a row. Zero replies. Paul counted — he made a chart, which he insists is science — and today's episode is the result: an honest, funny, occasionally painful deep dive into one-sided friendships. Paul brings the heat with the story of the fourteen texts (and the group dinner he found out about from a filtered story). Edzel counters with the story from the other side — the six months HE was the friend who vanished, and what drowning actually looks like from the inside. Together they build the Three-Text Test (three honest texts, then truth), draft Paul's real text fifteen live on air, hold up a mirror with five signs YOU might be the red friend, and land on the line of the show: love they cannot feel is just a secret. Plus: the green friendship that survived silence, and why somebody has to keep the porch light on. Chapters: 00:08 Cold Open 00:28 Intro 01:18 Kamustahan 05:36 Setting the Scene 09:23 Paul's Story — The Fourteen Texts 13:22 The Green That Survived 16:51 Edzel's Story — The Other Side 22:07 The Debate — Text Fifteen or Delete the Draft 25:08 The Debate Continues — The Three-Text Test 30:58 Drafting Text Fifteen Live 34:20 The Gray Zone — Are You the Red Friend 39:02 The Takeaway 40:47 Shoutout 42:12 CTA and Goodbye All About Friendships — two friends processing friendship, one honest conversation at a time. Next time: money and friendships (somebody might get exposed). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    When You Are Always the One Who Texts First
  6. Oct 12

    The Friend Breakup Everyone Goes Through

    No fight. No fallout. Just... nothing. One day they are your person, the next they are a stranger with your inside jokes. What do you call that? Paul and Edzel take on the friend breakup — the slow fade, the sudden cut, the friendship that quietly expires. Paul finally tells the Marco story he has been holding for six episodes. Edzel admits the betrayal he is still angry about. Together they map the four causes, the intervention script, and the ten-move playbook for surviving it. In this episode: - Kamustahan: a vanishing gym buddy and four judgy kittens - Marco: five years of friendship, zero closure - The four causes + the one phone call that fixes most - Anton: why Edzel is still angry after two years - The playbook, the homework, and Muggle Snuggle CHAPTERS: 0:09 Cold open: the dinner that never happened 2:45 Kamustahan: Raymond vanishes, Paul Junior arrives 13:28 Marco: five years, then silence 16:52 The four causes of friend breakups 23:26 The intervention script 30:01 Anton: the betrayal Edzel never forgave 33:10 Reorientation: who are you without them 35:55 How to not be the ghost 43:58 The ten-move playbook 47:26 Shoutout: Muggle Snuggle 49:14 CTA + next time: toxic positivity FRIENDSHIP BREAKUP SIGNS SLOW FADE HOW TO SAVE A FRIENDSHIP WHEN FRIENDSHIPS END TOXIC FRIENDSHIP VS GROWING APART Voiced by Paul and Edzel. #FriendshipBreakup #SlowFade #FriendshipAdvice #AllAboutFriendships #FriendshipPodcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Friend Breakup Everyone Goes Through
  7. Aug 19

    Setting Boundaries Without Losing Friends

    🚧 "Can't. Recharging." Two words that used to feel like rejection — and turned out to be the healthiest thing a friend ever sent. Paul and Edzel get brutally practical about setting boundaries without losing friends: why saying no feels like a threat, the childhood conditioning that made you a chronic yes-person, the difference between a boundary and a wall, and the actual word-for-word scripts for money, venting, chronic lateness, group chats, public volunteering, and guilt trips. Plus how to receive a no like an adult, and why the friends who adjust were the real ones all along. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Cold open: the "recharging" text 04:00 — Kamustahan: eleven yeses and a borrowed couch 09:00 — Why saying no feels impossible 16:00 — Boundary vs wall: the silent fade explained 22:00 — The cost of the unspoken no: resentment math 28:00 — The clean no: short, warm, no legal defense 33:00 — Scripts: money, emotional labor, the chronically late 40:00 — Speed round: public volunteering, one-drink lies, group chats 46:00 — The self-audit: dread, complaints, and the fake laugh 51:00 — When a friend walks: grief and gravity 55:00 — Maintenance: the gentle reset 58:00 — Shoutout: Kid's Bedtime Stories Podcast 60:00 — Next week: The Friend Breakup Setting boundaries with friends, how to say no without losing friends, people-pleasing recovery, friendship guilt trips, boundary scripts, healthy friendship habits, real friendship talk. #Boundaries #Friendship #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Setting Boundaries Without Losing Friends
  8. Aug 8

    When Friends Become Rivals - Competition Sneaks In

    🏆 Your friend got the win you wanted. You smiled. You congratulated them. And something inside you quietly died a little. Let's talk about that. Paul and Edzel go head to head on friendship rivalry: how competition sneaks into a friendship without anyone saying it out loud, jealousy in the age of social media comparison, how gender dynamics change the rivalry game, when therapy and honest communication can save the friendship, and when the rivalry means it was never really one. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Cold open: the congratulation that hurt 03:00 — Kamustahan: Paul's petty confession 08:00 — How competition sneaks in uninvited 14:00 — Social media: the comparison machine 20:00 — Gender dynamics: rivalry plays differently 26:00 — When to say it out loud: the honest conversation 31:00 — Therapy, communication, and the repair toolkit 36:00 — Network shoutout and sign-off Friendship rivalry and competition, jealousy between friends, social media comparison, gender dynamics in friendships, repairing competitive friendships, honest friend talk. #Friendship #Rivalry #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    When Friends Become Rivals - Competition Sneaks In
  9. Aug 6

    Long-Distance Friendships - Surviving Distance

    ✈️ Your best friend moved to another city, another country, another timezone. Now what — does the friendship survive on voice notes and good intentions? Paul and Edzel take on long-distance friendships: why distance exposes which friendships were just proximity, the jealousy that sneaks in when your friend builds a new life without you, anchor rituals that actually keep the bond alive, how to make visits count, and how to tell the difference between growing apart and just growing. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Cold open: the airport goodbye 03:00 — Kamustahan: who moved where 08:00 — Proximity revealed: what distance exposes 15:00 — The jealousy nobody admits: their new life without you 21:00 — Anchor rituals that actually work 27:00 — Visits: how to make them count, not just happen 33:00 — Growing apart vs just growing: the difference 37:00 — Network shoutout and goodbyes Long-distance friendship survival, anchor rituals, friendship jealousy, making visits count, growing apart vs growing, maintaining friendships across distance. This episode blends AI-assisted production with human creative oversight from script to final mix. #LongDistance #Friendship #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Long-Distance Friendships - Surviving Distance
  10. Aug 3

    Work Friends vs. Real Friends - Can They Overlap?

    💼 You eat lunch together every day. You survive meetings together. But would they show up at 2 AM when your life falls apart? Paul and Edzel get into the messy overlap between work friends and real friends: the proximity trap that makes coworkers feel like best friends, the promotion dilemma when one of you becomes the boss, the departure test that reveals who was real, and the 2 AM test that settles it once and for all. Plus remote work and what it did to office friendships. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Cold open: the lunch table question 03:00 — Kamustahan: workplace war stories 09:00 — The proximity trap: why work friends feel so real 17:00 — The promotion dilemma: when your friend becomes your boss 25:00 — The departure test: who survives the goodbye 33:00 — The 2 AM test: the only metric that matters 38:00 — Remote work and the death of the office friendship 42:00 — Network shoutout and sign-off Work friends vs real friends, the proximity trap, workplace friendships, promotion and friendship, the 2 AM test, remote work loneliness, real talk podcast. Created with AI voice production and shaped by human editorial judgment. #WorkFriends #Friendship #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Work Friends vs. Real Friends - Can They Overlap?
  11. Aug 3

    The Friend Who Disappeared

    👻 Your friend stopped texting back. No fight. No explanation. Just silence. What do you even call that? Paul and Edzel open the show with the friendship wound nobody warns you about: ghosting. They break down the types of friend ghosts — the slow fader, the sudden vanisher, the social-media-present-but-text-absent friend — why people disappear instead of talking, and what to actually do when it happens to you. Raw, honest, and funnier than it has any right to be. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — Cold open: the text that never came 03:00 — Kamustahan: Paul's week vs Edzel's week 08:00 — The ghosting spectrum: slow fade vs full vanish 16:00 — Why friends disappear instead of talking it out 24:00 — Social media ghosting: online but unreachable 32:00 — Can you prevent it? The honest answer 38:00 — Network shoutout 41:00 — When to let go, and how to close the door Friendship ghosting explained, why friends disappear, types of ghosting, social media ghosting, how to handle a friend who vanished, real friendship talk. #Friendship #Ghosting #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support. ❤️ Support All About Friendships! Help us keep honest friendship talk alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a friendship story? Share your friendship story in your own voice! Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/66a67aa2-c68f-4f5c-8cbd-c200b2b8da31 Follow the show and share it with your best friends! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Friend Who Disappeared

About

Friendship can feel like family, rivalry, therapy, comedy, and emotional warfare—sometimes during the same conversation. All About Friendships is a candid relationship podcast hosted by Paul and Edzel, two frenemies with shared history, strong opinions, and absolutely no filter. Every episode explores the friendships that shape who we become: the ones that survive distance, conflict, and change; the ones that quietly fall apart; and the ones that leave behind lessons we carry for years. Through energetic debates, honest confessions, personal stories, and uncomfortable questions, Paul and Edzel examine loyalty, trust, betrayal, forgiveness, jealousy, boundaries, resentment, and personal growth between friends. They may not always agree. In fact, they usually do not. That tension is what makes the conversation honest. From best friends who become strangers and toxic friendship patterns to changing priorities, friendship breakups, second chances, and the people who stay when life becomes difficult, no topic is off-limits when your closest friend may also be your harshest critic. Funny, serious, inspiring, and brutally honest, All About Friendships is for anyone who has loved a friend, lost a friend, questioned a friendship, or discovered something about themselves through the people they chose to trust. Listener stories may be edited or anonymized to protect privacy. This podcast provides entertainment and general relationship discussion, not therapy or professional mental-health advice. Two frenemies. Real talk. No filter. Hosted by Paul and Edzel. A ColoredJuice Podcast Studio production. If you prefer to support us via Patreon for more exclusive episodes across our podcasts, go here. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/all-about-friendships--7229736/support.