Episodes

  • When Your Best Friend Gets Married

    When Your Best Friend Gets Married
    Nov 7 2026
    Paul's best friend is getting married in June, and the groomsmen group chat has already held three votes about socks. Sound familiar? Tonight Paul and Edzel wade into the happiest grief in friendship: when your best friend gets married. The suit tribunal (midnight blue versus navy), the registry problem, the plus-one summit, the seating chart war room, the speech rules, the bachelor party problem, and the reframe that fixes everything — you are not losing a best friend, you are gaining a couple-friend. Plus grief math, the envelope, and homework: send one text this week.

    Chapters:
    0:00 — Cold Open
    2:26 — Intro
    4:11 — Catch-Up
    10:03 — Setting the Scene
    15:49 — The Invitation
    21:30 — The Price Tag
    26:01 — The Registry Problem
    29:34 — The Speech
    35:32 — The Bachelor Party Problem
    39:39 — The Couple Friends
    44:50 — Resolution
    50:24 — Shoutout
    51:29 — Sponsor
    51:43 — Outro

    Next week: Episode Thirteen — The Friend You Just Met But Already Trust. New episodes every Saturday.

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    56 mins
  • The Friend Who Owes You Money

    The Friend Who Owes You Money
    Oct 31 2026
    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

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    Next week: Episode Twelve — When Your Best Friend Gets Married. New episodes every Saturday.

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    55 mins
  • Group Chat Politics

    Group Chat Politics
    Oct 24 2026
    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.

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    Names, locations, and identifying details in listener stories may be changed to protect privacy. Please do not use this podcast to identify, contact, threaten, or harass anyone discussed.

    This episode provides entertainment and general relationship discussion. It is not therapy, diagnosis, or professional mental-health advice.

    A ColoredJuice Podcast Studio production.
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    53 mins
  • The Friend Who Keeps Score

    The Friend Who Keeps Score
    Oct 15 2026
    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.

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    29 mins
  • Friends Who Only Appear When They Need Something

    Friends Who Only Appear When They Need Something
    Oct 14 2026
    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.

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    31 mins
  • When You Are Always the One Who Texts First

    When You Are Always the One Who Texts First
    Oct 14 2026
    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).

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    44 mins
  • The Friend Breakup Everyone Goes Through

    The Friend Breakup Everyone Goes Through
    Oct 12 2026
    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

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    51 mins
  • Setting Boundaries Without Losing Friends

    Setting Boundaries Without Losing Friends
    Aug 19 2026
    🚧 "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

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    45 mins