Jazzy, Jimmy, and Phreddie

The Three-Headed Man

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Jazzy, Jimmy, and Phreddie met in the mid-90s at a model railroad workshop. For the next 25 years, they have talked and talked and talked. Usually, Phreddie, Jimmy, and Jazzy spoke on the phone, and occasionally, they organized trips together. With the universal acceptance of Zoom conferencing, they began to meet every Tuesday, to continue their friendship. The podcast is Jazzy’s fault. He initiated the idea, and Jimmy and Phreddie agreed mostly because all we had to do was talk, and it is more interesting to do something together, than it is to chat together. Their conversations are centered...

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Jazzy, Jimmy, and Phreddie

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Society

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3headedman.captivate.fm

Latest episode

Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

Story 01.08.2021

Jazzy begins the discussion by telling us about his father's health. Phreddie immediately responds by reminding us of the film "Rashomon". Perspectives. Jimmy ask, "Is a painting a story?" THE THREE-HEADED MAN concludes, "It's all a story..." Phreddie adds a phrase that he learned from Robert Flaherty, sometimes we have to "lie to tell the truth". THE HEADS ask, "How do we share our truth? And, th...

Weakness 25.07.2021

Jazzy begins the conversation by wish to self-direct his time. Jimmy quickly turns the conversation toward taking advantage of one's weakness. How can one use their weakness? Or how can one strengthen their weakness? Jazzy reminds the heads that a joke contains a shift in perception, and using the shift in perception contained in a joke one can see a perceived weakness from a positive vantage poin...

Sort of Sorting 18.07.2021

THE THREE-HEADED MAN are prompted by Jimmy to have a conversation about a phrase: "Sort of Sorting". The heads explore its obvious and subtle implications. Jimmy begins the exploration by wondering about certainty and messiness. Phreddie replies by saying "sort of sorting" implies a process. We gather data and sort it. Jazzy reminds the other heads that we have begun investing and creating NFTs. W...

Coincidence 11.07.2021

THE THREE-HEADED MAN has a conversation about COINCIDENCE. Thy begin by discussing prompts for creativity, leading them to speak on randomity, limits and teleporting Jimmy introduces the idea of data and connections, while Phreddie asks if a person can massage events to encourage good coincidences. Jazzy continues by adding story to the conversation, which births a conversation about fate and dest...

Belief 04.07.2021

THE THREE-HEADED MAN discusses their ideas on the topic of belief. Jazzy begins by explaining his mother's dementia. Jimmy reminds us of the definition of belief, which is expectation, faith, and trust. Phreddie considers himself a science person, and THE THREE-HEADED MAN considers data, science, and belief, which leads them to the question, "What is faith?" and "What is certainty?" Jazzy asks wha...

Apathy 27.06.2021

THE THREE-HEADED MAN discusses, "I don't wanna..." Phreddie remembers bumper stickers -- "Just Say No Apathy" They ask, "Is doing the enemy of apathy?" Jimmy questions the relationship between apathy and depression. What are remedies for apathy? Inner tasks and outer tasks -- what others can see can be used as motivation. Jimmy recalls something his father said, "Be good to yourself." Jimmy contin...

Crisis 20.06.2021

Jimmy introduces our topic: Crisis. He relates it to an earlier conversation about "the cull", which we have yet to release because we believe the topic is insensitive to those who are currently suffering. Crisis as a single event, which provides food for moving forward, says Jimmy. Jazzy adds time and deadlines as factors in business to the crisis discussion. Phreddie questions, "What's a crisis...

Mood 13.06.2021

"Mood" is the prompt for this week's THREE-HEADED MAN conversation. Jimmy begins the conversation by referring to himself as a stable actor -- he is stable, steady, simple -- tidy -- that's Jimmy, and he has an aim of "Zero Mood". Moodless. Jazzy has an evil thought, and attempts to provoke Jimmy, "did Mary call you in the background?" Phreddie asks, "Does a mood come from outside?" What changes o...

Silence 06.06.2021

This week THE THREE-HEADED MAN quietly discuss Silence Jazzy is reading prayers for the passing of the Queen of Samadhi. He reads an invocation to the " divine silence of the soundless voice ". Jazzy continues with the silence of the Sikh deities and listening. Miracles are obtained by listening. Jimmy returns the conversation to more concrete experiences -- Silence and Sound -- and the everyday s...

Lottery 30.05.2021

Jazzy begins by saying, "A lottery could anything," and Jimmy adds, that "Lottery is a supreme performance." "You gotta play to win." Phreddie wonders, "Who is the luckiest?" Jazzy defines Lottery as the manifestation of something that has tiny odds -- THE THREE-HEADED MAN continues to discuss luck. Luck is recognition. Jimmy says he is pretty good at recognition. He says the lottery is like a joy...

Gaming 23.05.2021

Jazzy introduces the topic of gaming through the board game of "Monopoly." He learns t try something different to win. Jimmy adds that games can become like war and that games are an illusion. Eliminating the war quality of games is how he views games. Jimmy continues by discussing teammates. He remembers creating equal teams when he played soccer. Jimmy desires competitive balance. Strat-o-matic...

Exalted Spaces 16.05.2021

This week's conversation is an exploration of exalted spaces. THE THREE-HEADED MAN chases and attempts to capture the wordless experiences of extraordinary experiences with words. Phreddie concludes his introduction of the topic by asking, "Why say anything in an exalted space?" Jimmy thinks in partials. We are not in one or the other spot, exclusively. And he adds, "Churchy" -- Things get churchy...

Ruts 09.05.2021

"A rut is a habit," says Jimmy, and "being in a rut with yourself is not so good," he adds. Jimmy has Ruts on his road, and he can work with those. A rut is a habit, a pattern. Jazzy considers positive and negative ruts. A groove is a rut. Jazzy and Phreddie ponder getting into a groove with a group. Is a personality a rut? Language -- Jazzy speaks Punjabi and English. Each expresses language diff...

Hell with a "P" 02.05.2021

Jazzy begins the conversation by commenting upon self-made folks, those who do it all by themselves. Phreddie changes the direction by adding dividing help into receiving and giving. Helping others is not linear path. Do some suffocating others with help? Phreddie adds the adage: "Go where they're at." Jimmy -- help is a state, and that help goes both ways. Joy, Love, and Help -- each are giving a...

Transitions -- Part Two 25.04.2021

Transitions, Part Two The THREE-HEADED MAN continues their conversation of transitions. Moving -- Spacial Awareness as feedback. Jimmy is better in motion. Phreddie introduces the idea of Maintenance. The will to move. Where does the will to move come from? Taking out the garbage includes an awareness of the garbage, an acknowledgement of the family responsibility, and, of course, remembering to r...

Transitions 18.04.2021

"Transitions" is a partial episode. The second part will be released next Sunday. The entire episode is near 45 minutes, so we decided to break it into two parts. Jimmy calls the tune, and the song is in the key of transition. Jimmy goes on to explain and define transition. He says it insinuates coming from somewhere and going to somewhere. Quickly, the conversation segues to death -- another Tran...

Marriage 11.04.2021

Marriage Phreddie asks, "What did marriage mean when you got married?" Jazzy asks, How is marriage defined? Jazzy's marriage is arranged, and he discusses the boundaries between him and his wife -- yet, there is a family. Jimmy recalls how he met Mary. Jimmy's father said Donald men are like geese -- they mate for life. Currently Mary and Jimmy are managing. It's a more difficult time -- Jimmy's d...

Joy 04.04.2021

The THREE-HEADED MAN'S conversation about Joy begins with Jazzy's account of the death of his friend -- His friend died of Covid-19. Jazzy continues by telling of his own Covid infection, and the death of his mother from the Covid-19 virus. Jimmy says, "Joy is in between happy and love -- it's a state." He continues by saying happy is for the self -- Joy is more mature. It is shared. Joy is a conn...

Home Too 28.03.2021

Jimmy introduces this week's topic: the sanctity of home. Jimmy recalls that THE THREE-HEADED MAN met himself, and when he met the other two heads, he was searching for a home, a metaphysical home, and Jazzy and Phreddie happened to be in the home he found on his search, a home of brothers and sisters and oddballs Jazzy recollects his memories and recalls that a home needs a strong foundation -- T...

Clutter 21.03.2021

Jazzy leaves stuff out, stuff like his recorder, and his wife likes to dust and put things away. Jazzy uses clutter as a reminder, a reminder to do things. However, Jazzy's wife sees his recorder as clutter and puts it away in a drawer. Phreddie asks, "Are tidy people, better people?" Jimmy adds that farmers move stuff around and leave stuff around because they will use it the next day. Farmers ke...

Loss 14.03.2021

In this episode, "Loss", the THREE-HEADED MAN, engages in a conversation about the death of their parents and grandparents. This conversation was recorded a few days after the death of Jazzy's mother. While playing Diablo 3 with Phreddie, Jazzy receives a phone call, his mother has passed. "Here you are, and there you go" Phreddie tells a story about his own death. In this moment of realization, h...

Whatever 07.03.2021

Jazzy titled the show, "whatever," because whenever he tries to involve his two boys in his projects, they reply, "whatever dad." The conversation, as it usually does, meanders. It begins with a question of doing, and Jimmy suggests that actions can be better understood through the lens of "Want v. Need." Jazzy and Phreddie respond to Jimmy's categories by pondering the relationship of judging, gu...

Play 28.02.2021

In Episode 10, Jimmy tells us he is a seeker of play -- he plays music, and he plays while digging holes. He searches for people with playful natures. Phreddie responds by saying he plays while he works, and he is serious while he plays. Jimmy reminds us that play is what children do, while adults tell us that play is wasting time -- children are not serious. Jazzy and Phreddie explore the relatio...

Connections 21.02.2021

The Three-Headed Man explores connectedness. From this topic springs the topics of perception, permanent hurts, and death. "They're alive too," says Jimmy. We know this when we connect. To give a concrete story to explain himself, Jimmy recounts a story of connecting to his dog, Skinny. What level of connection is needed to connect to all living things? asks Jazzy. What is alive and perceiving thi...

Headspace 14.02.2021

"Headspace" could be misleading. It could be misconstrued. We apologize. The Three-Headed Man recalls the books that led them to the place that began their friendship. This episode is about books and preparatory experiences. Phreddie directs Jimmy and Jazzy to consider the headspace that allowed the book to drop into their lives.

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