Friends on Purpose is a conversational podcast about the strange, funny, and surprisingly meaningful experience of being a person.
Through personal stories, curious questions, games, thought experiments, and plenty of tangents, Eric and Elaine explore the things that shape how we see ourselves and the world around us—from childhood memories, movies, humor, and friendship to identity, belonging, purpose, and the mysteries of being alive.
The show isn’t about giving advice or arriving at definitive answers. It’s about two friends taking ordinary subjects seriously enough to discover something unexpected in them, while never taking themselves too seriously along the way.
At its heart, Friends on Purpose is about life, love, and finding purpose—not by pretending to have it all figured out, but by being curious enough to keep talking about it.
What better way to end Season Three than by asking each other a bunch of questions nobody asked us to answer? In this finale, Eric and Elaine bounce from flying planes and surviving the post office to bad dancing, weird food, changing opinions, and the little things that somehow reveal way too much about a person. Somewhere along the way, the dumb questions get unexpectedly thoughtful, touching on gratitude, spirituality, growing older, and where meaning shows up in everyday life. It’s silly, reflective, occasionally unhinged, and a fitting sendoff to another season of friendship on purpose.
24 Aug 2026
Phone a Friend
What happens when we skip the topic and just hit record?
Eric and Elaine catch up on creative projects, growing kids, ambitious hikes, classic movies, disappointing blockbusters, and the mysterious appeal of smut. Elaine tries to be cool about hiking 13 miles, while Eric discovers that Rocky is less about boxing and more about being a genuinely decent guy. It’s an unplanned conversation full of opinions, detours, and the kind of nonsense that only makes sense between old friends.
17 Aug 2026
A Novel Kind of Healing
What if the books you’ve been told are “guilty pleasures” are actually good for you? This week, Emily joins us as our resident smut expert to explain how romance novels can reduce stress, build emotional resilience, and even help readers reclaim parts of themselves after trauma or purity culture. Along the way, we explore popular subgenres, beloved tropes, the five-chili-pepper spice scale, and why a happy ending is nonnegotiable. We also discover that demons may be misunderstood, stalkers can apparently be romantic, and four sentient wheels of cheese deserve love too. Come for the smut, stay for the character development.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
13 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
6 ratings
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