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  • 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

    All About Friendships is produced by Hustle Studios — two friends, zero ledgers, every episode. Follow the show; next time is group-chat politics.

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    29 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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. Produced with AI-assisted production. New episodes every other day.

    #FriendshipBreakup #SlowFade #FriendshipAdvice #AllAboutFriendships #FriendshipPodcast

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    51 min
  • 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.

    Produced with AI voices and human creative direction — written, reviewed, and approved before release.

    #Boundaries #Friendship #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast

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    45 min
  • When Friends Become Rivals - Competition Sneaks In

    When Friends Become Rivals - Competition Sneaks In
    Aug 8 2026
    🏆 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.

    Produced with AI voices and human direction — every episode reviewed before it reaches you.

    #Friendship #Rivalry #Relationships #AllAboutFriendships #Podcast

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    40 min
  • Long-Distance Friendships - Surviving Distance

    Long-Distance Friendships - Surviving Distance
    Aug 6 2026
    ✈️ 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

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    41 min
  • Work Friends vs. Real Friends - Can They Overlap?

    Work Friends vs. Real Friends - Can They Overlap?
    Aug 3 2026
    💼 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

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    46 min