The Three-Headed Man
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 on a weekly topic or prompt. Essentially, the podcast is a recording of their weekly conversations, with some awareness of an imaginary audience.
Throughout their years of friendship, they have leaned on each other, shared notes and stories, and helped each other navigate the complexities and challenges of a life well-lived.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Getting Better
What did our parents get better at as they aged? Jimmy inserts the idea of judgement and being stuck as we hold strongly to our beliefs.
THE THREE-HEADED MAN confronts his retirement, and he acknowle…
Mistakes
Phreddie retells a story where about a rebellious 11 year old student.
This week THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders about mistakes. What is a mistake? What do we label as a mistake? Jimmy tells us that scho…
Process
How do you do it? We borrow from those have gone before. Jimmy tells us that process is a story. THE THREE-HEADED MAN recounts their work processes.
Jimmy explains building processes, Jazzy tells us …
Help! (for the aged)
THE THREE-HEADED MAN confronts aging and death. Jimmy begins our conversation by calling for help. The help he calls out for is help to maintain an independent lifestyle as he confronts his aging bod…
Cruisin' for Understanding
Jazzy returns from a week long Tai Chi cruise with a pair of new eyes.
Surprised by how his views of his life have changed after the cruise, Jazzy prods us with questions so that we can help him under…
How do we learn?
Phreddie tells a story about trying to teach his primary students that time is relative, then he explains how he is trying to learn Spanish through immersion. After Phreddie's lengthy opening, THE TH…
Tweaking
Tweaking the direction of life? An advocate for change? Self-Improvement? To tweak or not to tweak?
THE THREE-HEADED MAN wonders about he can change anything in our life.
Striving to use time better? S…
Service
THE THREE-HEADED MAN talks service. Who do you service? What is service? Service is in the physical realm. Doing the dishes...???
Service industries...do we do the service for ourselves?
Earning merit.…
Practical Honesty
Jimmy starts us by talking about charging a local guy with assault. His lawyer tells him there's no liability in truth. Opinions and individual perspective. Community communication. Being honest and …
"Other Beings" -- Season 3, Welcome back Jimmy...
Season Three begins with Jimmy's return....The Original Cast is reunited -- a hearty welcome to back to Jimmy.
"Other Beings" is inspired by Jimmy's and Jaswant's work in the Labyrinth's Readers Cours…
Information about Information
This week's coversation begins with a 1990s recollection of Robert Anton Wilson and his ideas about information doubling. With the context established THE THREE-HEADED MAN explores the various types …
Quality
THE THREE-HEADED MAN attempts to understand, "what is quality?" It's another tarnished word, and its significance can be applied to God and to Toyota. On the other hand, one can ponder the quality of…
Who ya gonna call?
THE THREE-HEADED MAN ponders, "When wishing for something, who do you ask?"
Who do you pray to? Who ya gonna call? Who do we ask for help? And, when help or good luck has been received, who do you th…
Jokes
THE THREE-HEADED MAN tells jokes. One-liners, stories, punchlines, and misses.
Jinx
Can our words change what can happen and/or what could happen? Ordinary words create incantations.
Do we have the power to influence events?
Superstitions -- "Don't say that, or it will come true." Or…
Punishment
THE THREE-HEADED MAN ponders punishment. "Does the punishment fit the crime?"
Consequences, Rehabilitation, and Benevolent Dictators.
"Gravity Happens"
Expectations
The THREEE-HEADED MAN shares the misery of expectations.
To project the worst, then "Things can only get better..." or to expect people to act accordingly, then disappointment.
The color of expectatio…
Marketing Religion
THE THREE-HEADED MAN ponders the marketing of spiritual ideas. He considers the ethics of marketing spirituality. Does it cheapen the journey? Selling ideas. Spiritual and religious stories that enti…
Memory
Where are memories stored? Are they packed in the body in the form of knots and nodes and pain? The muscles' memory.
THE THREE-HEADED MAN recollects their earliest childhood memory. Rembering the memo…
Recapitulation
THE THREE-HEADED MAN tries to understand the concept of recapitulation or they try to Gather lost energy...they consider their last hour of life.
Why is reviewing one's life useful? To Recapitulate ..…