Modern Goat Rider: an Odd Fellows podcast

We get crossover crazy with the gang from Three Links Odd Cast for a special two-part, double download set of shows. Part 1 is here on MGR and then swing yourself over to 3LOC to download Part 2 (after Nov 21) and while you are there remember to subscribe for their unique topics and discussion. Josh and Billy want you all to listen to both shows as good old MGR and 3LOC commentary is in full swing...

Brother Erwin Koopmans in the Netherlands joins Josh and Billy to help them discover how his lodge and lodges in his jurisdiction operate. Mutually sharing between everyone brought new understandings of the aspects of Oddfellowship which are important on each side of the Atlantic.  Check us out online at moderngoatrider.com Reach us at info@moderngoatrider.com   Intro – Drew Ericksen

Short of a scheduled guest this week, Josh and Billy take up an extended member to member check-in with each other, then share opinions on the Odd Fellows quotes and notions Josh has found with plenty of references to past episodes. And hang on to the end for a preview of the upcoming month’s shows.   Check us out online at moderngoatrider.com Reach us at info@moderngoatrider.com   Intro – Anthony...

Leadership should be everywhere, and it is! Josh and Billy invited PG Russ Campbell into Studio FLT for a roundtable discussion about how positive and negative leadership is found within a lodge as well as in everything we do in our work or daily life. We share plenty of stories and get to some listener mail.  Check us out online at moderngoatrider.com Reach us at info@moderngoatrider.com   Intro...

In this episode, Josh and Billy look across the spectrum of successful Columbia Lodge #2 programs that reach out to relieve the distress of food unavailability within our community. One program, led by Brother Alex Austin , is achieved with a little wagon and the other, led by Josh, with a transport truck trailer. Plenty of nuggets of inspiration any lodge can adopt to grow their own way to touch...

Josh and Billy had figured that someone moving to the largest city in the country would have no trouble finding FLT, but we discover that was not the case for Sister Shiromi Silva . With the help of Gene Dopp, Past Grand Master of Ontario, we discuss what has happened to all the Odd Fellows in Toronto. Even with shrinking memberships and COVID challenging her search, Shiromi is not wavering to joi...

Once discovering the Initiatory degree had lost much of its style over the past 200 years, this husband and wife team of Michael Greenzeiger and Linnea Bredenberg took up the task of bringing back what had been eroded away. Josh and Billy learn how they went through the process of writing and through the Sovereign Grand Lodge adoption of their versions for all lodges to use. The discussion moves i...

What’s it like to be a new Odd Fellow? Josh and Billy invited Chef Michael Williams to discuss his first year in Columbia Lodge #2, plus we cover a number of other H-Odd topics.  Check us out online at moderngoatrider.com Reach us at info@moderngoatrider.com   Intro – Toby Hanson Bragging Music – Drew Ericksen

Josh and Billy are pleased to sit down with PGM Gerry Ratchford along with his lock-tight memory to discuss his careers inside Odd Fellows and before joining in 1992. At 92 years young, Gerry filled us with so much life. Do check out Gerry’s military history and take the time to look up “Canada’s forgotten war” as Gerry told us to learn about the contribution of those service men and women during...

Josh and Billy were missing their Odd Fellows friends, so they picked up the phone to Cold Call seven of them. Although the audio is not perfectly clear each one of them delivered FLT messages that rang true with these two goat riders. Music: Telephone by Lady Gaga.    Check us out online at moderngoatrider.com Reach us at info@moderngoatrider.com  

This episode Josh and Billy go En-Camping with Toby Hanson as our trusty guide to all things Encampment. Toby is Past Grand Master and Past Grand Patriarch, so he is a treasure to our Order and wealth of knowledge. And he is part of Three Links Odd Cast . If you are a new member or a non-member do not be dismayed by the content as the conversation is still plenty of fun while you can learn along w...

Josh and Billy had the pleasure of welcoming Rachel and Bill Murphy into Studio FLT. The Murphys are a Father-Daughter team of Odd Fellows in Victoria. Bill is Junior Past Grand Master for BC, while Rachel has been in Bastion for 4 years. They tell us their Odd Fellows stories which brings us through many topics including recruiting 20-something people. In the second half of the episode, the four...

Joined by the wonderful Ainslie Heilich of Tuscola Lodge #316, in Tuscola IL. Josh and Billy learn about Ainslie's discovery of Odd Fellows and how he re-instituted the lodge after a 60 year slumber. Ainslie is a builder in our Order for the digital world that we are now part of. He is also part of the trio of members behind (or in front of the mics) over at the Three Links Odd Cast . Ainslie...

Josh takes a night off so Billy can interview Sister Becky Auld of Bastion Lodge #4 in Victoria, BC. Becky is also the Grand Secretary for the province of British Columbia. The conversation winds through the building of energy to a point where a group of modern, vibrant Rebekah members stepped out to establish North America's first Odd Fellows lodge that is female orientated. Enjoy the learni...

Oh boy. We might have to later apologize for this one. This episode was supposed to be Number 4 on a grab-bag of topics, but we couldn't resist pushing it out on the night it was recorded. It's a fun and not entirely rambling conversation from Billy and Josh where we cover Odd Fellows (abridged) history, the purpose of the Order in 1800s, the first "Braggin' on your Lodge"...

Introducing the MGR podcast and the co-hosts. ahhh you know…that’s Billy and Josh. Intro and Outro music by Victoria musician Anthony Shackell. Special thanks for ep.1 to Jon and Andy Check us out online at moderngoatrider.com