3 is the Magic Number – Details, episodes & analysis

Well look at us! We are here! We are back! Welcome one and all, newcomers and seasoned old timers, to 3 Is The Magic Number, the podcast that asks guests for their Top 3 favourite things in any subject of your choosing. That sounds good, right? Well, make sure you subscribe as we return each Monday.

It’s true, we’ve been away for a little bit, so sorry about that, but you know…life. Everything changes now though, this is the start of Season 3 and what a brilliant opening episode, guest and subject we have for you.

Hosts Matt and Remfry are joined by globe-trotting and insanely talented musician Nikki Brumen, vocalist in the wonderful band Blood Command. Having moved from Australia to join the band, Nikki’s subject for the podcast is her ‘Top 3 Things She Learned From Moving to Norway’. An incredibly personal, funny and story laden chat awaits you all on this episode, as well as a nice, warm and authentic Aussie accent. G’DAY INDEED!

Some podcast housekeeping now, and to make a more streamlined podcast, the recommendation corner has now been shelved and placed on a leave of absence…maybe it will be back, who knows.

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Part 2 is here! If you are here before Part 1, what are you doing? Go back, check out Part 1 and then come back. Done that? Great.

Enjoy the year in review part 2, where hosts matt and Remfry continue their casual countdown jaunt through their top 5 fave things and stuff of 2024. Expect stellar games, albums, tv shows, films and more!

All we hear is radio ga ga this week, as we return from a few weeks of new season regulars back to the straight and narrow of Matt + Remfry + Guest = Episode. On today's podcast we welcome BBC Radio 1 DJ and Future Alternative show host Nels Hylton to discuss and dissect his Top 3, which given the guest, is very very on brand. Hoorah!

Nels talks about his Top 3 Favourite Albums Of The 00’s a topic with an almost infinite number of choices. Amongst some classic picks he also talks at length about one album and band very close to his heart, a dear to him, almost unearthed gem. I would give anyone a very large pile of gold if they guessed it ahead of listening to the pod chat. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

The chat over in that wonderful corner of recommendations this week sees the gang talk about a wonderful album and band, a new band and their EP and a world famous graphic novel series. Tasty!

We end the podcast with an incredibly strong Tuesday Top 3, a few shout outs, the reveal for next weeks guest and this weeks free indie label advert comes from the truly awesome Alcopop. Enjoy!

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Greet Death - New Hell

Late 90s - Everything is Closer Than It Seems

The Walking Dead

BANDS THAT DON'T EXIST ANYMORE THAT NEVER GOT THEIR DUES - Playlist

Love is in the air this week as we unleash our 2nd brand new season regular episode idea...the couples episode! In what we here at 3ITMN hope will be something we can actually keep going season on season, our guests in this week's pod are quite frankly one of the greatest couples in the metal universe right now, Sammy and Justine from Employed To Serve and Church Road Records (as well as so many other brilliant musical, business and life endeavours).

Sammy and Justine chose their Top 3 Comfort Films, with a slight extension/explanation added about the films being ones watched post tour, when all the hard work from playing shows and gigs has ended and the pair finally have a moment to themselves. The picks cover all bases, the classic, the guilty pleasure and the…erm…the really out there, leftfield choice.

All four take some time off their comfort film chatter and head to recommendation corner, where this week there is big chat about a classic album, a new album, a TV show that could be seen as a guilty pleasure, and a pair of TV shows some consider to be the very best. Crikey.

We end on a Tuesday Top 3 that sparks some healthy debate and chatter with M and R, a few shout outs, the next week guest reveal and this week's free indie label advert from Flatspot Records.

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Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion

Gilmore Girls

Giant Walker - All in Good Time

Better Call Saul / Breaking Bad

This week we reach the halfway(ish) point in Season 2, and have a brand new season regular to audioily (is that a word) unveil. Each season we here at 3ITMN are going to put out a podcast versus episode, where we chat with a fellow podcaster, fuse our podcast formats together and have a blooming lovely old time.

This week it is the turn of journalist Giles Bidder from the brilliant 101 Part Time Jobs podcast, a pod everyone should go check out immediately (after listening to this one first, of course!).

Giles chose his Top 3 Smells, a quite frankly outstanding topic choice that on the surface seems incredibly simple, but this chat is anything but. Diving into chat about family, love, work, life the universe and everything! Matt and Remfry also had a chance to spill some beans regarding their own life in work and jobs leading up to the present. Did Matt really work in the adult entertainment industry? Did Remfry really go to school with a load of incredibly famous actors? All will be revealed.

As with each and every episode, the threesome head over to recommendation corner and give big loud shouts out to a book, a game, a photographer and an extra bonus with a record shop (of sorts).

The podcast ends on a Tuesday Top 3, a few shout outs, the next week guest reveal aaaaaaand this weeks free indie label advert comes from Hassle Records. Magic.

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Bright Day Record Shop

God of War

Animal House by James Brown

Steve Gullick

On the 4th day of Christmas you may have got calling birds, but with us you’re getting something way betterer. Episode 4 of this new season has Matt and Remfry have a good old face to face natter with Mr metal himself Brady Deeprose from the genuinely world class Conjurer, a band on the forefront of all good things heavy (and indeed metal) in the U.K.

This episode was one that lived long in the memory and also the guts, as it was Brady’s Top 3 Diet Fizzy Drinks. The trio chatted on for a wholesome age about drinking and even used this as an opportunity to properly do a taste test...of many, many diet fizzy drinks…for the whole episode…so many drinks…too many to be honest. By the end of the chat, I’m pretty sure Brady had regretted his topic choice…even though he was literally wearing fizzy drink branded shoes (pictorial evidence will be posted on socials). LET’S GET FIZZICAL!

The trip to recommendation corner saw the guys bring up and big up a popular TV show, an album of the rock variety, and a brilliant, brilliant movie.

Ending this podcast with something a bit different, rather than a Tuesday Top 3 natter the pair head into battle with a mini quick fire Matt vs Remfry. This weeks free indie label advert comes from the sensational Venn Records. Enjoy!

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Meryl Streek - 796 (Venn Album)

Venn Records

RunPee Cinema App

The White Lotus

Everything, Everywhere All At Once

Humanotone - A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand

As with the title of this podcast, 3 is certainly the magic number as today, episode 3 of season 2, we totally keep our cool and totally keep our calm whilst talking to Jane's Addiction / Porno For Pyros drummer and all round legend Mr Stephen Perkins. MR STEPHEN PERKINS!

Now, this week's podcast might not follow to well worn and rigid 3ITMN podcast structure, but fear not as Stephen’s topic of Top 3 Influences On His Rhythm is one of the most engaging, fascinating and generally awesome conversations Matt and Remfry have ever had. A fantastic subject, a stupendous Top 3 and a properly incredible natter was had by all.

The journey over to recommendation corner was one to check out a couple of films, an album and also some general words of wisdom.

The chaps finish up the podcast with some Top 3 Tuesday chat, and this weeks indie label advert comes from the legends over at Church Road Records.

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Whiplash

48 Hrs

Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves

Episode 2 time all! Welcome to the second of this season's pods, this week those lovable chatty rogues Matt and Remfry, are grilling the fabulous Ithaca vocalist Djamilla Boden Azzouz on her Top 3 Pokémon.

Now being totally upfront, this is a subject our hosts know almost nothing about, so this whole podcast was a steep learning curved lesson for them both. The aged pair learn all about types of Pokémon, the different games, it’s origins and history, the mega success and even about how mistakes have even been turned into good for the Nintendo company.

Following this brilliant and in depth lesson, the 3 also head over to recommendation corner to biggedy big up a YouTube channel a videogame and a TV show.

Now hitting their stride on the 2nd pod, the pair also have a Tuesday Top 3 to discuss, the first of their free independent label adverts (A Cheery Wave), and some other general guffaw enduring natter. Hoorah!

Ithaca Bandcamp

Pokemon Sword and Shield

Pokemon Legends Arceus

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

Gaming Historian

Cult of the Lamb

The Bear

Merry first podcast proper of Season 2 to one and all! Our season opener has Matt and Remfry poised for a lovely face-to-face chin wag with music journalist, author and man of Barnsley, Ian Winwood. Ian and his exceptional book 'Bodies: Life and Death in Music' made both of our hosts cry tears of real teary water and then demand some answers!

Ian picked his Top 3 Places in Camden, the mighty borough, in the north of the mighty London Town where many a rock gig is set to occur each and every evening. This was a genuinely inspiring chat which included all manner of subjects including when is a home a home, how do you answer difficult questions about yourself and who could Ian never interview?

As per every podcast, our 3 amigos also head over to recommendation corner to give praise to a(nother) book, an EP from a new heavy band and a shop that sells books…a book shop if you will.

We also come armed with some nervous energy chatter and nonsense, a Tuesday Top 3 to discuss with some badly pronounced shout outs and we reveal next weeks guest as well. Get stuck in yo!

Bodies: Life and Death in Music is available to pre-order in paperback now

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink (Elvis Costello Memoir)

Welcome back one and all to the first episode of 3 is the Magic Number Season 2, the podcast that asks its guests for their Top 3 favourite things in any subject of their choosing.

We (as in your hosts, Remfry Dedman and Matt Hughes) just wanted to take a moment, and this short, sharp and snappy podcast, to say hello again, catch everyone up on things that have been going on in 3ITMN world, as well as give you some insight into exactly what to expect from Season 2.

We announce and chat about some of the amazing guests coming up, as well as introduce a few new season regulars that will be starting from this season onwards. We also talk about our new indie label advert scheme, tease some live shows, remind everyone about our monthly music playlists and give ourselves a probably just about deserved pat on the podcast back.

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