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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One Important Thing 07.02.2021 30:37

What do we do everyday? The Three-Headed Man retells his daily practices, which are prompted by the question, "What is one thing important thing we do everyday?" Jimmy goes first, and straight away he mentions his morning readings from the American Book of the Dead . He follows by explaining his morning routine with his dog and his cat, which moves him to discuss his love of natural things, and hi...

Movement 31.01.2021 30:37

Jimmy asks, "What happened to us when we were young that led us to the place where we met?" Phreddie begins by explaining that what he is won't be visible until the end of the world, and he concludes by sharing a question that he has had since adolescence: "Why am I me? How come I'm a 'me'?" Jazzy responds with an "I am." And, he tells that he was dropped on his head and zapped by electricity, whi...

Obstacles 24.01.2021 32:20

This episode, "Obstacles," was over an hour long. No worries, Jazzy did a fine job of editing the hour-long recording to a respectable 32 minutes. Like many of our conversations, it starts with a topic, a prompt, and then "it goes." The episode is difficult to pin down. We begin with dreams. Jimmy tells a near nightmare story; somehow, Jazzy connects us to home repair. Then, we ricochet into the i...

Stupid Things 17.01.2021 33:48

Jimmy begins by saying, "Stupid is something that breaks up the tedium of excellence." With this definition, The Three-Headed Man retells his embarrassing, stupid things. We each confess a few moments of our stupidity: Jimmy's tale of an auto accident, Jazzy's almost tragic late night banking visitor, and Phreddie's frat-boy antics. Following our confessions, we begin to place our stupid things in...

Fear 10.01.2021 33:05

In Episode 3, The Three-Headed Man ponders his fear. He asks himself where does he put his fear? This question launches the show. This episode has a different tone than the first two shows. In the first two episodes, "Home" and "Food," we reminisce, we tell stories about our past. "Fear" is more immediate and exploratory. Jimmy, Jazzy, and Phreddie pass fear, like a ball, tossing it back-n-forth,...

Food 03.01.2021 32:00

School cafeterias, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and garden fresh vegetables. In this episode, The Three-Headed Man traces his food sources. From birth to their current states, each recalls and retells their food journey. For instance, Jazzy recalls encountering an aggressive lunch-lady. Phreddie remembers his nuclear family's "vitamin fortified" foods, and Jimmy, steady as ever, has been fortunate t...

Home 27.12.2020 38:55

The working title of our first podcast was "Mortgages." We called it "Mortgages" because that was our prompt -- mortgages. After the episode was recorded and edited, we told our colleagues and friends, "Hey, we finished recording our first podcast. It's called "Mortgages." Their faces told us we needed to rename the episode. Without a smart title for our first episode, I asked the other Heads for...