Time For Fellowship Masonic Podcast

Welcome back to Fellowship! This week your brosts Matt & Andrew sit down with Austin Shifrin, a 33° Scottish Rite Mason out of Pittsburgh who's been racking up degrees, offices, and appendant bodies since 2006 and somehow found time to write three books about it. We get into his path through the Craft, why he started writing it all down, and some real philosophy from his newest book, No C...

Welcome back to Fellowship! This week the brosts are talking about something every Mason has thought about but nobody brings up at stated: what are we actually doing to take care of ourselves? We vow to improve ourselves at every degree. We say it like we mean it. But somewhere between the late-night pizza after lodge and the three-hour sits on wooden chairs, the body kind of got left out of the c...

Welcome back to fellowship! Matt is off at the Scottish Rite, and Andrew joins Brother Tyler Mitchell the sojournings son of Lake Lodge who finished his masonic journey at Winter Park Lodge #239 in Florida. They talk about Wisconsin vs. Florida Masonry, motorcyling, and a bunch of fun stuff. So loosen up your gaters, get in your car, and we are going to Disney Land. Because it is time for fellowsh...

Welcome back to Fellowship! This week the brosts pick up the common gavel and point it inward. Turns out that little tool from your Entered Apprentice degree was secretly a leadership manual all along. Ego, distraction, vice, bad habits, we're chipping away at all of it. The perfect ashlar isn't achieved, it's aimed at. We're aiming. So grab your gavel, relfect on them edges, a...

Welcome back to fellowship. Our brosts Matt & Andrew recorded again live at Annual Communication! We are talking with interesting brother from all around the state, and enjoying the stories of Masons in Wisconsin. It's a muckle of fun, and give it a listen.  Text us for Fellowship YOU CAN NOW JOIN US ON DISCORD ! Please rate, review and subscribe for more fellowship! Follow Us: Tiktok

Welcome back to fellowship. It's Matt, Andrew, and a giant Hodag hole we've somehow fallen into. See ya at AC.  Text us for Fellowship YOU CAN NOW JOIN US ON DISCORD ! Please rate, review and subscribe for more fellowship! Follow Us: Tiktok

Welcome back to fellowship! Matt's out this week at the Rite, but the fellowship doesn't stop. Andrew sits down with Brother Reagan Schultz of James Muckle Hays Lodge No. 331 for a genuine hang about the road, the role of the counselor, and what it really means to become a better man through the Craft.  Text us for Fellowship YOU CAN NOW JOIN US ON DISCORD ! Please rate, review and subsc...

Welcome back to Fellowship! This week Matt and Andrew get into something every lodge is dealing with, whether they admit it or not. Buildings. Specifically: should your lodge own one? It sounds like a simple question. It is not a simple question. There's pride, there's history, there's the roof, and there's the very real possibility that your lodge has become a building mainten...

Welcome back to Fellowship! This week, our Brosts Matt and Andrew are joined by two brothers who are on a mission to make the Work competitive in the best possible way. Brother Ryan Thiele, a fan favorite from Lake and Middleton Ionic lodge circuit, returns to the show alongside Worshipful Brother Eric Pantano, District Lecturer of District 7. Together, they're building something pretty cool:...

Welcome back to fellowship! Your brosts are back, and this week we're joined by a special guest Brother Brock from Raven Lodge 303 in Illinois, and one of the hosts of the At Refreshment Podcast. He's one of our favorite people in the Craft, and we were stoked to finally get him on the show. We dig into Masonry, meander through some silly tangents, and explore every hogdag hole we can fi...

Welcome back to Fellowship! Our guest today is Brother Dave Vargas, Junior Warden at Wautoma Lodge and our Chaplain over at Lake. Almost exactly a year after his first appearance, he's back, and this one was worth the wait. We get into some great traveling experiences, take a look at gamification in Masonry, and a whole lot more. So lace up those traveling shoes, find a lodge, shoot an email...

Welcome back to Fellowship. When you walked into that lodge room for the first time, what were you actually looking for? Most men can't answer that question. But the hunger was real. This week Matt and Andrew get into the initiation hunger, why modern men are starving for rites of passage, what the Masonic degrees were built to provide, and whether years in the officer line helps a brother do...

Welcome back to Fellowship! Our Brosts are joined by a longtime listener and friend, Worshipful Brother Max Skenandore of Rhinelander Lodge #242, all the way up in Hodag Country. Join us as we talk cryptids, Masonry, and much more. So pick an animal, fake some bones, and become a folk legend. Because it's time for Fellowship. Text us for Fellowship YOU CAN NOW JOIN US ON DISCORD ! Please rate...

Welcome back to fellowship! This week, our Brosts Matt and Andrew wander headfirst into the world of AI and start asking the important questions… like “should this thing be helping run a lodge?” and “why is it better at writing emails than we are?” From drafting communications and building education to brainstorming ideas and generally making lodge life a little smoother, the brosts break down how...

Welcome Back to Fellowship!  In this special role reversal episode of Time For Fellowship with Matt and Andrew, Matt takes the interviewer’s chair and puts Andrew, currently serving as Worshipful Master of Lake Lodge #189, in the hot seat.  Three months into his year in the East, Andrew reflects on the realities of leading a lodge, including expectations, surprises, and lessons learned along the w...

The bros are back from their travels and ready to return to our regularly scheduled Masonic mischief. This episode features a very special guest, Worshipful Brother Jared Atkins from That Other Masonic Podcast . You may remember we previously had his co-host, W:. B:. Todd Whaley, join us in Season 2, Episode 12, and we have been looking forward to having Jared in the hot seat ever since. Not only...

Welcome back to Time For Fellowship! Our Brosst, Matt and Andrew return with for the final special episode recorded at the Conference of Grand Masters of Masons in North America in Rosemont, Illinois. More interviews. More fellowship. Possibly less sleep.  P.S. Matt snores Text us for Fellowship YOU CAN NOW JOIN US ON DISCORD ! Please rate, review and subscribe for more fellowship! Follow Us: Tikt...

Welcome back to Fellowship. Episode 3 continues our adventure at the Conference of Grand Masters of North America, where Matt & Andrew are still stationed at their little table with microphones, doing our best impression of legitimate podcast professionals. For four days the conference gathered some of the sharpest Masonic minds from across the continent. And for reasons we still do not fully...

Welcome back to Fellowship! Episode 2 finds your brosts Matt & Andrew still wandering the winding, slightly surreal pathways of the Conference of Grand Masters of North America . By now, the microphones feel less like equipment and more like enchanted artifacts we accidentally picked up after taking a wrong turn somewhere between registration and the really expensive hotel starbucks.  The adve...

Welcome back to Fellowship! Our brosts Matt & Andrew had the incredible opportunity to attend the Conference of Grand Masters of North America , where they were invited to set up a table and officially look like they knew what they were doing. For four very full days, they recorded interviews with fascinating Masons from all over the country. Some of the finest Masonic minds on the planet gath...

Welcome back to fellowship. In this episode, Matt and Andrew tackle a deceptively simple question: Is the Fraternity losing its mystery? A conversation about photos in lodge unfolds into a deeper reflection on initiation, presence, and the unintended cost of constant visibility. You can describe a thunderstorm forever, but standing in one is different. Degrees are designed to be thunderstorms. Soc...

 Welcome back to fellowship!  In this episode, the Brosts attempt to answer the philosophical question of what the Inner Temple is, how we build it, and what any of this has to do with pocket watches.  Matt and Andrew wander through allegory, speculate wildly with minimal qualifications, and somehow connect temple-building to time itself. Is it deep? Maybe. Is it ridiculous?  Absolutely. So prep f...

Welcome back to Fellowship! This time around, the brosts sit down with Worshipful Brother Frank McKenna from Lake Country Lodge #43 right here in the great cheese-filled land of Wisconsin. Frank’s lived a whole lotta Masonry and has stories, wisdom, and educational prowess.  We chat about Freemasonry, philosophy, life, the universe, and possibly breakfast sausage. It’s deep, it’s fun, it’s Frank....

Welcome back to Fellowship! On this episode, the Brosts are joined by Worshipful Brother John Pettigrew of James M. Hays Lodge No. 331. Naturally, the burning question had to be asked: what does the “M” stand for in James M. Hays? To many it remains a mystery… but rumors persist that it might stand for Muckle .  We share fellowship with John and dive into his unique Masonic journey, a bit of good-...

Welcome back to fellowship! On this episode, the brosts are kicking it old school with Worshipful Brother Brian Byrd from The Old Fashion Masonic Podcast . We talk shop, swap stories, and uncover the sacred truth behind why there’s no “ED” in an Old Fashion . Plus plenty more spirited discussion along the way. So grab some whiskey. Add a little sugar. Dash those bitters. Splash some water, drop in...