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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 31 episodes
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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.
Unknown Host hosts Friends on Purpose, a society show with 31 episodes published.
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
What if you’re not a dog person simply because you haven’t met the right dog yet? Fresh from the Smarty Pants Party, Eric and Elaine welcome winning presenter Sarah to explore the remarkable bond between dogs and humans,
What if friendship isn’t just good for you, but something your brain actually needs? Eric and Elaine explore the surprising science of friendship, from how holding a trusted hand can quiet the brain’s threat response to
What if your body knows more about you than you do? Eric and Elaine dive back into the metaphysical to explore gut feelings, out-of-body experiences, the placebo effect, and the unsettling possibility that the mind has f
When was the last time an ordinary afternoon felt like an adventure? This week, Eric and Elaine head back to the good old days to revisit the fields, forts, blankies, dead bunnies, and questionable adventures that became
What does an ancient Greek computer have in common with a Scottish bagpipe? This week, Eric and Elaine become amateur historians and present TED Talk-style deep dives into two remarkable inventions: the Great Highland Ba
If someone wanted to understand who you are, which five movies would you hand them? In this episode, Eric and Elaine revisit the films that shaped them and uncover the surprising ways those stories influenced who they be
Why is it that the funniest things are often the hardest to explain? This week, Eric and Elaine dive into the science, psychology, and sheer absurdity of humor, exploring everything from childhood laughter to the inside
Have we been hypnotized by trees, or is rural life actually better? In the first episode of Season 3, we kick things off with a surprisingly deep conversation about small-town living, open spaces, and whether peace is so
Season Two Finale! What starts as two friends giving extremely unnecessary presentations somehow turns into a full-blown symposium on air conditioning, childhood humiliation, personality formation, and emotional trench c
What songs instantly take you back to a specific version of yourself? In this episode, Eric and Elaine share the “soundtracks of their lives,” revisiting the music that shaped different seasons, friendships, identities,
From church rituals and grief ceremonies to porch sitting, fishing, candle season, and yes…fiber supplements…why do humans instinctively repeat certain behaviors? This week, we explore ritual as anxiety regulation, socia
What if we’re all just… slowly testing positive for age? We start with a torn meniscus and somehow end up talking about mortality, meaning, and whether sleep scores are now a personality trait. Elaine brings the science
Does your family still treat you like you’re twelve years old? In this episode, we dive into the chaos of siblings, birth order, and the roles we never quite grow out of, whether you are the responsible oldest, the overl
What if Shia LaBeouf was onto something? In this episode, Eric and Elaine refuse to let their dreams be dreams, from teeth falling out and missed exams to lucid dreaming, prophetic visions, and grocery shopping on roller
Can the way we observe the world help create the reality we experience? Eric and Elaine explore imagination, aphantasia, synchronicities, and the strange ways our minds assign meaning to everything from calendars to numb
Why does a personality test feel like it knows you a little too well? Eric and Elaine take the Enneagram and unpack what it reveals about identity, self-awareness, and the parts of ourselves we’d rather not admit. What s
What is the answer to life the universe and everything? One small thought turns into a deep dive into space, NASA’s Artemis missions, and the bigger questions about curiosity, purpose, and the unknown. Eric and Elaine ex
How does your sense of purpose change over time? In this episode of Friends on Purpose, Eric and Elaine explore how their sense of purpose has changed over time—while getting completely sidetracked by movies, personal gr
What if the scariest thing isn’t horror movies, it’s realizing how much of your life has been shaped by fear? Eric dips into the horror genre for the first time, while Elaine, our resident horror connoisseur, delightfull
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