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The Masonic Roundtable - 0564 - Right Here, Right Now · The Masonic Roundtable - Freemasonry Today for Today's Freemasons

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  Speaker: Be the change.
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  Speaker: Hello and welcome back to the Masonic Roundtable, a weekly
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  Speaker: You know me John Ruark, past
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  Speaker: master of the Patriot Lodge,
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  Speaker: number nineteen fifty seven in
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  Speaker: Fairfax, Virginia.
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  Speaker: We've got the whole deck stacked tonight.
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  Speaker: We've got, uh, we have a Robert Johnson sighting.
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  Speaker: Let's, uh, say hi to Robert.
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  Speaker: How's it going?
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  Speaker: It's going wonderfully.
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  Speaker: Uh, Robert Johnson here past
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  Speaker: Master Waukegan and, uh, seventy
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  Speaker: eight and Space Nova eleven
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  Speaker: eighty three.
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  Speaker: Uh, yeah.
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  Speaker: Uh, just hanging out.
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  Speaker: Good old me.
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  Speaker: Secretary of stuff.
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  Speaker: Uh, editor in chief at the Lyceum.
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  Speaker: Who?
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  Speaker: Great.
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  Speaker: Great publication.
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  Speaker: Thanks.
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  Speaker: Have a Jason Richards spotting.
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  Speaker: Hello and good evening.
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  Speaker: Hi. Jason Richards stuffing things.
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  Speaker: I'm a past master, a rough.
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  Speaker: Yay!
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  Speaker: I didn't get a harrumph out of that guy.
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  Speaker: You watch your ass.
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  Speaker: Speaking of ass.
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  Speaker: Joe, you know me, Joe Martinez.
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  Speaker: Uh, let's see.
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  Speaker: Past master of Manasseh Lodge
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  Speaker: number one eighty two in
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  Speaker: Manassas, Virginia.
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  Speaker: And, uh, I am, uh, mobile in the
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  Speaker: lovely Kansas City area this
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  Speaker: week.
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  Speaker: So good to be with y'all.
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  Speaker: Awesome.
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  Speaker: The internet connection looks
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  Speaker: very good outside of the blue
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  Speaker: laser eyes coming out of your
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  Speaker: I know it's my glasses, but then I can't see you guys.
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  Speaker: I'm getting old Gen X in in post right after you say laser eyes.
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  Speaker: I'm going to put like an epic.
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  Speaker: Awesome.
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  Speaker: And then we transition over to
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  Speaker: the other favorite part of the
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  Speaker: show.
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  Speaker: You know it as.
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  Speaker: Tarot card of the week.
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  Speaker: Wayne's world.
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  Speaker: It's literally every week I just
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  Speaker: I'm waiting for like Joe to
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  Speaker: like, slide in with a Conan
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  Speaker: O'Brien wig.
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  Speaker: Oh, I'll make that happen.
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  Speaker: We can do something with AI and fix that.
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  Speaker: All right.
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  Speaker: Let's talk about tarot card of the week.
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  Speaker: Jason was showing me in the
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  Speaker: green room a fancy deck he's
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  Speaker: acquired.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: So you know how masonry is not
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  Speaker: appealing to some of the younger
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  Speaker: generation.
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  Speaker: And we're trying to make masonry more hip.
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  Speaker: And so I figured it was a
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  Speaker: language barrier and a
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  Speaker: communication problem.
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  Speaker: And so in my recent outing to Seattle, I picked up the Gen Z
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  Speaker: tarot, a deck and guidebook for your healing era.
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  Speaker: It hits different.
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  Speaker: It's got big aura.
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  Speaker: That's pretty slick.
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  Speaker: Pretty slick.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: No cap.
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  Speaker: Jesus.
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  Speaker: I'm glad I made this stiff.
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  Speaker: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker: What do we got?
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  Speaker: He's laughing.
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  Speaker: We have the seven of mood.
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  Speaker: The seven of cups, which is the situation ship.
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  Speaker: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker: Oh, dang.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: Is that a hydro jug?
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  Speaker: Is that little.
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  Speaker: Yeah, it's it's a Stanley.
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  Speaker: It's a little Stanley.
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  Speaker: Yeah, I like it.
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  Speaker: That is, I know, I know people with that that card.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: I wonder how that.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: I guess it does kind of equate
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  Speaker: to I mean it could equate to a
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  Speaker: situationship, right?
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  Speaker: Like opportunities and alignment values and things.
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  Speaker: And you're kind of just hanging out, going for the ride.
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  Speaker: Uh, let's see where this goes.
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  Speaker: Dreamland.
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  Speaker: Imagination possibilities.
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  Speaker: Wishful thinking, wishful thinking.
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  Speaker: I dig it.
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  Speaker: Yeah, that's really cool.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: We could use some wishful
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  Speaker: thinking as we think about
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  Speaker: tonight's topic.
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  Speaker: Ooh.
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  Speaker: Untitled.
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  Speaker: Right here, right now.
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  Speaker: But specifically clear Pepsi.
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  Speaker: Mhm.
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  Speaker: What can we do?
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  Speaker: Uh, today.
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  Speaker: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker: What is that one say?
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  Speaker: Gigachad.
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  Speaker: The emperor.
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  Speaker: Ah. That's good.
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  Speaker: Anyway, you should be mewing.
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  Speaker: Wonderful.
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  Speaker: Mew mew, mew.
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  Speaker: All right.
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  Speaker: Joe.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: This was your great idea, so.
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  Speaker: Well, it was actually Robert's,
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  Speaker: but I. I latched on to it pretty
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  Speaker: hard.
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  Speaker: Yes.
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  Speaker: You did.
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  Speaker: Um, because it resonates with me so much because tonight we're
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  Speaker: going to put aside all the tradition and we're going to put
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  Speaker: aside all the platitudes.
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  Speaker: And we're tonight we're going to talk about my favorite saying in
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  Speaker: masonry being the change you want to see in the world.
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  Speaker: Yes.
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  Speaker: So everybody leaves a Masonic meeting or leaves a Masonic
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  Speaker: event with, you know, hey, we should have done this better.
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  Speaker: Or, hey, we ought to do this.
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  Speaker: And, uh, you know, I think this term was originally associated
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  Speaker: with Gandhi, although I don't think it's factual, but being
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  Speaker: the change you wish to see.
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  Speaker: Um, and whether or not he said it is not important.
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  Speaker: Um, every one of us who are Masons always hope and wish and
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  Speaker: pray for a better lodge or a better lodge experience.
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  Speaker: Um, and it's easy to wait for someone else to make it happen
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  Speaker: or we, we put all our eggs in the basket of waiting for
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  Speaker: someone to be that change.
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  Speaker: Um, spoiler alert you are all
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  Speaker: the change and you are all the
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  Speaker: ones that are there to promote
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  Speaker: that change that you want to
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  Speaker: see.
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  Speaker: Um, every lodge that we consider
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  Speaker: great is the result of lots of
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  Speaker: brothers deciding to make one
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  Speaker: small improvement instead of
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  Speaker: waiting for someone else to do
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  Speaker: it.
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  Speaker: So tonight that's what we're going to talk about.
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  Speaker: We're going to talk about ways
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  Speaker: to improve our lodge that
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  Speaker: doesn't require miracles, that
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  Speaker: doesn't require, um, injecting,
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  Speaker: you know, seven figures of cash
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  Speaker: into your lodge or convincing
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  Speaker: every past master to agree on
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  Speaker: one thing.
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  Speaker: Um, Most of what makes a large grade doesn't require things
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  Speaker: like bylaws forming committees that just ramble on endlessly,
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  Speaker: or waiting for next year's master to take over.
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  Speaker: Right.
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  Speaker: So small improvements, things
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  Speaker: that you can do today is going
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  Speaker: to be the topic of our
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  Speaker: discussion tonight.
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  Speaker: Yeah, I was going to elaborate
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  Speaker: on that because, um, a lot of
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  Speaker: issues we talk about are
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  Speaker: systemic issues, leadership
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  Speaker: issues, uh, strategy things,
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  Speaker: right.
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  Speaker: Twenty forty.
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  Speaker: Right.
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  Speaker: And that's some of that seems either untenable or just so far
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  Speaker: out, so big.
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  Speaker: Like, what can I as one brother do to fix things?
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  Speaker: That's an issue in the world, right?
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  Speaker: If you make a problem too big, it's never going to get solved.
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  Speaker: Right?
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  Speaker: And that that is a, that is a problem of the human condition,
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  Speaker: not just in masonry.
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  Speaker: So, um, let's talk about those little tactical wins that can
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  Speaker: make things better.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: Well snackable.
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  Speaker: All right.
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  Speaker: So, um, I guess we can kind of do this as a round robin.
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  Speaker: Those are always fun.
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  Speaker: And so we'll just go and fire off the first thing that comes
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  Speaker: to mind and have a little discussion and move on.
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  Speaker: So these are all things you could do.
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  Speaker: And I'm advocating that you pick things that require like zero to
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  Speaker: very minimal preparation, right?
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  Speaker: Or very little effort.
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  Speaker: You're going to say effort.
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  Speaker: Oh, and there it is.
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  Speaker: Okay.
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  Speaker: Or effort, effort, effort needed.
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  Speaker: Want to make this as easy as possible.
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  Speaker: So let's start with spin the wheel.
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  Speaker: Joe Martinez oh, crap.
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  Speaker: Okay.
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  Speaker: Um, my, my, my suggestion is being the change you want to see
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  Speaker: in the world.
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  Speaker: No it's not um, I, oh yes.
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  Speaker: Add that to the bingo card.
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  Speaker: Um, yeah, my quick suggestion is
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  Speaker: decide to take ten minutes of
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  Speaker: every meeting and make it worth
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  Speaker: attending.
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  Speaker: So add a ten minute education program.
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  Speaker: Share an interesting piece of Masonic history.
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  Speaker: Having an invite.
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  Speaker: An open discussion in your lodge, you know.
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  Speaker: Pick a topic and discuss it.
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  Speaker: Have people stand up and
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  Speaker: basically take the focus away
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  Speaker: from the business portion of the
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  Speaker: meeting.
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  Speaker: Um, because that's what ninety percent of a meeting is, right?
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  Speaker: And it's boring.
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  Speaker: People don't like it.
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  Speaker: They don't come, they don't want to hear the minutes.
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  Speaker: People don't join a fraternity to hear the minutes and listen
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  Speaker: to arguing about the bill.
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  Speaker: So if you can't make an entire
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  Speaker: meeting memorable and value
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  Speaker: added, just pick ten minutes in
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  Speaker: it.
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  Speaker: And it doesn't require much.
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  Speaker: You know, it requires one person or a suggestion or doling out
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  Speaker: assignments like, hey, this month, John's going to talk
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  Speaker: about this next month.
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  Speaker: Robert's going to talk about that.
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  Speaker: Take ten minutes and see how it goes.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: You know, your brothers, if
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  Speaker: they're digging it, they'll ask
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  Speaker: for more because now it's
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  Speaker: available.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: My mother in law used to do they
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  Speaker: call them three, five or seven
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  Speaker: minute talks.
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  Speaker: That's all it takes.
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  Speaker: I love it.
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  Speaker: All right.
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  Speaker: Jason, what would you do to be the change?
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  Speaker: Um, I would make sure that I
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  Speaker: introduce myself to someone I
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  Speaker: didn't know.
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  Speaker: Every single meeting.
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  Speaker: Like you might have candidates.
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  Speaker: You might have brothers visiting from other lodges.
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  Speaker: Um, just pick somebody you don't know.
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  Speaker: Um, take five minutes, establish that connection.
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  Speaker: Can we pull the thread on that a little bit?
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  Speaker: Um, pulling.
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  Speaker: Yes, I would love to see and I, and I see Jason do this.
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  Speaker: Um, and this is why I bring it up.
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  Speaker: Break out from those cliques
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  Speaker: that you have in your lodges,
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  Speaker: right?
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  Speaker: Like, you know, people come to dinner at lodge and they sit
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  Speaker: with the same three or four people every single month.
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  Speaker: Nobody knew who gets to sit at that table.
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  Speaker: Like, break up those clicks, sit with someone new, sit with
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  Speaker: someone you haven't the lodge black sheep like I just.
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  Speaker: But you do.
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  Speaker: Every month I see you sitting at a different table, you know?
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  Speaker: And I'm like, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker: He's putting the time in too, because he gives a crap and
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  Speaker: wants to meet someone new.
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  Speaker: You know, how often of us do we do that?
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  Speaker: We don't.
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  Speaker: That's why there's clicks and lodges, because it's the same
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  Speaker: three or four old dudes that sit with each other every month for
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  Speaker: twenty years, and they probably don't know all the people in
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  Speaker: that room, you know?
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  Speaker: So I love it.
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  Speaker: Yeah.
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  Speaker: So I, I will say over the past couple months, that has been
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  Speaker: because I've just kind of wanted to be by myself and people, you
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  Speaker: know, gravitate toward me.
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  Speaker: Um, but like, we can, we can
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  Speaker: keep the facade of, uh, of I'm
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  Speaker: reaching.
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  Speaker: Let me rephrase what you said.
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  Speaker: What Jason is saying is he's being the change in real time.
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  Speaker: So yeah, good job buddy.
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  Speaker: Nice.
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  Speaker: Robert.
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  Speaker: Oh, man.
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  Speaker: Uh, so many great answers so far.
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  Speaker: Um, I think I love I love the idea of, you know, putting
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  Speaker: yourself out there.
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  Speaker: You're tackling two birds really with a stone.
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  Speaker: Um, I think.
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  Speaker: A lot of like, I want to say things like hold a, like an open
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  Speaker: debate night or something where you guys can sit at a table and
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  Speaker: throw a question out, but I'm not sure that that always works.
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  Speaker: Like it would work at SpaceX, but it wouldn't necessarily work
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  Speaker: at Waukegan with everyone.
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  Speaker: Like I know my past.
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  Speaker: My younger dudes would be all into it, but it would take some
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  Speaker: work to try to, to get our, uh, our older guys in because I feel
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  Speaker: like they don't always think we value their opinion or like.
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  Speaker: MM. Like, I mean, for instance, depends on the opinion.
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  Speaker: That's true, that's true.
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  Speaker: But if you got it in a way that sort of keeps it away from, from
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  Speaker: anything that, you know, we could construe as, um, inciting
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  Speaker: any sort of emotional feelings outside of good ones.
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  Speaker: Um, so if you do decide to do this, you call it like a no rank
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  Speaker: open table night.
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  Speaker: And what you'll do is you sort
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  Speaker: of pick some non-dogmatic
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  Speaker: questions.
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  Speaker: No, it doesn't really matter what they are, but like you
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  Speaker: could put them out there.
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  Speaker: And even if you have guys sitting at different tables, you
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  Speaker: know, maybe one of your more enthusiastic guys, or if you
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  Speaker: have somebody who wants to be more enthusiastic, but he's
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  Speaker: trying to build up a little bit of, uh, confidence, you can have
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  Speaker: him kind of be the, uh, the interlocutor here, right?
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  Speaker: He can ask these questions like,
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  Speaker: uh, what is true leadership look
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  Speaker: like?
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  Speaker: Or just kind of interesting questions.
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  Speaker: And I think what you're going to get is not necessarily people
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  Speaker: who go, oh, servant leadership.
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  Speaker: And then next, if you push some
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  Speaker: of these older guys, um,
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  Speaker: seasoned masons and seasoned
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  Speaker: living people.
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  Speaker: You will get stories and those
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  Speaker: stories are usually pretty darn
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  Speaker: epic.
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  Speaker: Um, I remember I've heard some bad ones, but sure, sure.
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  Speaker: Uh, like we, we sat in lodge, uh, the guy was in our, he's in
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  Speaker: all of our York right stuff.
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  Speaker: He's always at our lodge meetings.
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  Speaker: His name is Hardy.
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  Speaker: Hardy Evans.
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  Speaker: He was even on the Travel Channel once because he built a
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  Speaker: huge log cabin motorhome.
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  Speaker: Okay.
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  Speaker: So this guy is super interesting.
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  Speaker: Nobody knew anything about this guy's real life, right?
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  Speaker: They just know he's an awesome brother.
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  Speaker: He's always there, like the usual stuff.
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  Speaker: I asked him some questions that are real easy.
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  Speaker: Like, what did you do before you retired?
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  Speaker: Nobody knew he'd been coming to lodge like forty years.
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  Speaker: And so then he's like, oh yeah, this one time we were working
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  Speaker: outside and a lightning bolt came down and it knocked all of
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  Speaker: us out of our boots, literally.
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  Speaker: And I was like, oh my God, we almost lost.
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  Speaker: Hardy Evans, you know, this was the coolest story.
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  Speaker: Uh, and you, you don't get that, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker: If you're not willing to let
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  Speaker: them know that like it, it
• 15:59
  Speaker: matters.
• 15:59
  Speaker: It value you have a genuine interest.
• 16:02
  Speaker: So just some things like that.
• 16:04
  Speaker: I feel like to start, start it up right.
• 16:07
  Speaker: Uh, in the dining hall even before the meeting.
• 16:10
  Speaker: Very easy to do.
• 16:10
  Speaker: Yep.
• 16:11
  Speaker: And ask those open ended questions.
• 16:13
  Speaker: I'm a huge fan of Socratic questioning.
• 16:16
  Speaker: Don't just say, you know, what's your favorite degree?
• 16:20
  Speaker: Fellowcraft degree.
• 16:21
  Speaker: Like, okay.
• 16:22
  Speaker: You ask like, you know, what
• 16:25
  Speaker: are, what do you take out of
• 16:26
  Speaker: masonry back into the real
• 16:27
  Speaker: world, right?
• 16:27
  Speaker: You don't ask a question that
• 16:29
  Speaker: has just a yes or no answer or a
• 16:31
  Speaker: absolutely.
• 16:33
  Speaker: Mhm.
• 16:33
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker: All right.
• 16:36
  Speaker: So mine is maybe a little unorthodox, but it is servant
• 16:42
  Speaker: leadership, which is pick something up like, you don't
• 16:46
  Speaker: have to be the steward.
• 16:47
  Speaker: You don't even have to be a
• 16:48
  Speaker: member of that lodge when you're
• 16:50
  Speaker: visiting.
• 16:50
  Speaker: Like, hey, if you see something, a chair needs to be pushed in,
• 16:53
  Speaker: you know, you need a, some trash that that just missed the
• 16:56
  Speaker: container all the way up to, hey, offering to help out to
• 17:00
  Speaker: help the stewards.
• 17:01
  Speaker: Like, hey, do you need an extra hand in the kitchen?
• 17:04
  Speaker: Like, how amazing is that?
• 17:05
  Speaker: Uh, to just be some simple not, you know, we're not, we're not
• 17:11
  Speaker: saying, you know, go off and, uh, you know, wash the, the side
• 17:15
  Speaker: of the temple, but like just little basic things that you
• 17:18
  Speaker: could do while you're there right before the meeting.
• 17:21
  Speaker: Uh, that makes things just a
• 17:22
  Speaker: little bit, a little bit tidier
• 17:23
  Speaker: and feel like you're
• 17:25
  Speaker: contributing.
• 17:27
  Speaker: Easy peasy.
• 17:28
  Speaker: Anyone can do that.
• 17:30
  Speaker: Lemon squeezy.
• 17:31
  Speaker: Well, real quick, just to say, when you got a clean lodge, that
• 17:38
  Speaker: is a value proposition.
• 17:40
  Speaker: I mean, that's value prop, right?
• 17:41
  Speaker: Like you don't want to go into a
• 17:43
  Speaker: dirty, nasty, stinky lodge or
• 17:45
  Speaker: the lodge where you go into the
• 17:46
  Speaker: bathroom.
• 17:47
  Speaker: And yeah, they got like either
• 17:49
  Speaker: OS people or, or the, the kid
• 17:52
  Speaker: groups are coming and cleaning
• 17:53
  Speaker: the lodge, but they're still
• 17:54
  Speaker: dead flies and bees on every
• 17:56
  Speaker: windowsill.
• 17:57
  Speaker: Like.
• 17:58
  Speaker: Mhm.
• 17:58
  Speaker: No. Take some time.
• 18:00
  Speaker: Clean that off.
• 18:02
  Speaker: Nobody wants to go into a bathroom where the the dividers
• 18:07
  Speaker: for the urinals are like caked in piss rust.
• 18:10
  Speaker: It just takes you.
• 18:11
  Speaker: Yeah, like one minute to do.
• 18:12
  Speaker: Come on.
• 18:13
  Speaker: Okay.
• 18:14
  Speaker: And I think that's a huge one.
• 18:16
  Speaker: You get those, uh, tape traps with all the flies.
• 18:19
  Speaker: The flies walk through them.
• 18:22
  Speaker: It's like, just.
• 18:23
  Speaker: You just don't hang those by the urinal.
• 18:25
  Speaker: It's always the best when those are hanging in the kitchen.
• 18:27
  Speaker: Those are my favorite.
• 18:28
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 18:28
  Speaker: Yeah, totally.
• 18:30
  Speaker: Don't.
• 18:30
  Speaker: Don't hang those too low by the urinals.
• 18:32
  Speaker: Yes.
• 18:32
  Speaker: That's the thing to avoid.
• 18:35
  Speaker: Back to Joe.
• 18:36
  Speaker: Yes.
• 18:37
  Speaker: Um, here's an easy one.
• 18:39
  Speaker: Um, and I see some lodges do it
• 18:41
  Speaker: and some don't, but I think
• 18:42
  Speaker: everyone should have a pack of
• 18:45
  Speaker: greeters at your door at every
• 18:47
  Speaker: meeting.
• 18:47
  Speaker: Just have a bunch of people who
• 18:49
  Speaker: like you can even make it a
• 18:51
  Speaker: gauntlet.
• 18:51
  Speaker: Like make sure welcome to Walmart.
• 18:54
  Speaker: Yes, every person that comes in gets greeted by five or six
• 18:56
  Speaker: people, and you ask their name and you repeat their name and
• 19:00
  Speaker: you know, oh, hey brother Jason, great to see you, brother Jason.
• 19:03
  Speaker: Always a pleasure to have you here.
• 19:05
  Speaker: Better to be seen than viewed, Joe.
• 19:07
  Speaker: Indeed.
• 19:08
  Speaker: Make people feel overly welcome
• 19:11
  Speaker: that they took the time out to
• 19:13
  Speaker: come tonight.
• 19:13
  Speaker: You spelled that wrong, you dum dum.
• 19:16
  Speaker: So, yes, I typed too fast.
• 19:20
  Speaker: Um, but yeah, have an onslaught
• 19:22
  Speaker: of greeters at your door every
• 19:23
  Speaker: single time.
• 19:25
  Speaker: He did that intentionally to avoid copyright infringement.
• 19:29
  Speaker: No, he did not.
• 19:31
  Speaker: Not a sponsor.
• 19:32
  Speaker: That's a great idea, Joe.
• 19:34
  Speaker: Uh, many years ago.
• 19:37
  Speaker: Uh, so it was a guy named Eric
• 19:40
  Speaker: who took the East and right
• 19:42
  Speaker: after me, and then after him was
• 19:44
  Speaker: a guy.
• 19:45
  Speaker: Corey, uh, uh, Carlos and Corey
• 19:49
  Speaker: and then Ben, that line like
• 19:51
  Speaker: this for years, we everybody
• 19:54
  Speaker: enters through the back of the
• 19:56
  Speaker: lodge.
• 19:57
  Speaker: No, and we don't like our front is right on Main Street.
• 20:00
  Speaker: Nobody walks in through that door.
• 20:02
  Speaker: So we would make it a point for like those three or four years.
• 20:05
  Speaker: We all just even though we came
• 20:07
  Speaker: in the back way, we all kicked
• 20:10
  Speaker: that door open and just hung
• 20:11
  Speaker: outside.
• 20:12
  Speaker: And those guys would do their
• 20:13
  Speaker: cigars right out there, right on
• 20:14
  Speaker: the thing.
• 20:14
  Speaker: We were in suits.
• 20:16
  Speaker: It was public awareness.
• 20:18
  Speaker: And yeah, when guys started coming into the front door, it
• 20:23
  Speaker: was it's awesome.
• 20:24
  Speaker: They just it feels cool.
• 20:25
  Speaker: It's like when you're at Scottish Rite, right?
• 20:27
  Speaker: And all the candidates are coming out and everybody's
• 20:29
  Speaker: clapping or, you know, meeting everybody, it's it's nice.
• 20:32
  Speaker: I don't know what you're talking about there.
• 20:34
  Speaker: Well that's okay.
• 20:35
  Speaker: Yeah, you will one day.
• 20:40
  Speaker: Awesome.
• 20:41
  Speaker: Okay, so we got Joe back to Jason.
• 20:45
  Speaker: Um. Do a quick sweep of the lodge room after a meeting.
• 20:54
  Speaker: Like, just look for water bottles that were brought in
• 21:01
  Speaker: that, uh, that were left, like, um, you know, make sure the
• 21:07
  Speaker: candy dish has been refilled.
• 21:10
  Speaker: Those little butterscotch
• 21:12
  Speaker: candies with the extra loud
• 21:14
  Speaker: cellophane.
• 21:15
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker: Crinkles.
• 21:16
  Speaker: Um, you know, just again, quick sweep and just make sure the
• 21:23
  Speaker: place is, is tidy.
• 21:25
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker: Your stewards are going to thank you for that.
• 21:28
  Speaker: Um, a brother I know I've left
• 21:30
  Speaker: so many things back in lodge, I
• 21:31
  Speaker: had to go back and get um, and
• 21:35
  Speaker: yeah, it just sets the pace for
• 21:36
  Speaker: the next, the next time the
• 21:37
  Speaker: lodge opens.
• 21:38
  Speaker: Mhm.
• 21:39
  Speaker: Easy peasy.
• 21:42
  Speaker: Cool.
• 21:43
  Speaker: Robert, over to you.
• 21:46
  Speaker: I think they're super lame.
• 21:49
  Speaker: Um, but the idea like lunch and learns, you know what I mean?
• 21:53
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 21:54
  Speaker: Um, especially in Masonic context, like if they go, oh,
• 21:57
  Speaker: we're having a, we're going to do a, a lodge, uh, lunch and
• 22:01
  Speaker: learn at the Scottish Rite on a Saturday, like, okay, great.
• 22:05
  Speaker: And they're going to talk about something that I don't care
• 22:07
  Speaker: about, like retirement planning.
• 22:09
  Speaker: Um, even though I should, even though I should.
• 22:11
  Speaker: Right.
• 22:12
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker: Um, but I think that topic, just not a Masonic topic hashtag, not
• 22:16
  Speaker: Masonic education, right.
• 22:19
  Speaker: So I'm thinking it might not have to like almost everything
• 22:24
  Speaker: can be tied back to some sort of Masonic education, but there are
• 22:29
  Speaker: a ton of things that I find interesting that I recognize.
• 22:34
  Speaker: Brothers in my lodge are subject matter experts on, and if they
• 22:40
  Speaker: could share a little bit of that, whatever their expertise
• 22:44
  Speaker: is with the Lodge and like, say ten minutes, right?
• 22:46
  Speaker: So like, what if they could do aside from Masonic education,
• 22:50
  Speaker: you give a little bit of a added value, you know, on the thing.
• 22:53
  Speaker: It's like, hey, the education for tonight is this.
• 22:56
  Speaker: And by the way, we're going to have a ten minute masterclass by
• 23:00
  Speaker: John Ruark, who's going to talk about basic home cybersecurity
• 23:05
  Speaker: that everyone should use.
• 23:07
  Speaker: Or, um, maybe Scott Duvall
• 23:10
  Speaker: stands up and he's like, hey,
• 23:11
  Speaker: here's how to smoke the perfect
• 23:12
  Speaker: brisket.
• 23:13
  Speaker: Um, just anything that I'm like,
• 23:17
  Speaker: hey, here's how to prompt
• 23:19
  Speaker: engineer your ideal AI
• 23:21
  Speaker: girlfriend.
• 23:22
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker: Exactly.
• 23:26
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker: Just a little bit of, um, Like
• 23:30
  Speaker: real world coming into, into
• 23:33
  Speaker: masonry.
• 23:34
  Speaker: Um, it's not exactly like a lunch and learn, but it's, it's
• 23:39
  Speaker: kind of cool because then you have brothers who came to lodge,
• 23:42
  Speaker: learned some Masonic education, learned a little bit about their
• 23:44
  Speaker: guys, and also left with some, some, uh, practical, real world
• 23:49
  Speaker: skills they can use tomorrow.
• 23:54
  Speaker: Nice.
• 23:55
  Speaker: I like it.
• 23:57
  Speaker: Uh, I guess it's back to me.
• 23:58
  Speaker: So here's one that's interesting.
• 24:00
  Speaker: Be the guy who remembers member milestones, whether it be
• 24:09
  Speaker: Masonic birthdays or their actual birthdays, right?
• 24:14
  Speaker: Or how many years they've been a member.
• 24:16
  Speaker: Little things like that go a
• 24:18
  Speaker: long way to, you know, uplifting
• 24:22
  Speaker: the craft.
• 24:22
  Speaker: And you could be the guy.
• 24:24
  Speaker: It's not hard.
• 24:25
  Speaker: Just hit up the secretary and say, hey, can you give me a
• 24:27
  Speaker: printout Of all the members, and then I'll keep that up to date
• 24:33
  Speaker: and be that guy.
• 24:34
  Speaker: So every time you meet.
• 24:35
  Speaker: All right.
• 24:35
  Speaker: Here's here's Robert with the member milestones.
• 24:39
  Speaker: Take it away.
• 24:41
  Speaker: So what you're saying is be the
• 24:43
  Speaker: guy who collects PII on all
• 24:47
  Speaker: Social Security numbers, credit
• 24:48
  Speaker: card numbers, mother's maiden
• 24:50
  Speaker: name.
• 24:50
  Speaker: What am I missing?
• 24:51
  Speaker: Okay.
• 24:52
  Speaker: Routing number.
• 24:53
  Speaker: Okay.
• 24:53
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker: Oh, yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker: Everybody uses checks in masonry.
• 24:58
  Speaker: That's true.
• 25:01
  Speaker: Like, the only thing we use checks for.
• 25:05
  Speaker: I mean, really, this is how you.
• 25:07
  Speaker: This is how you catfish masons.
• 25:09
  Speaker: Just ask for a routing number like Joe.
• 25:11
  Speaker: Well, actually, cash on delivery.
• 25:16
  Speaker: Yes.
• 25:17
  Speaker: Delivery.
• 25:18
  Speaker: Uh, yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker: Is the only other thing.
• 25:21
  Speaker: Maybe.
• 25:22
  Speaker: Do people still do cash?
• 25:23
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker: They do.
• 25:24
  Speaker: They do?
• 25:25
  Speaker: Yes.
• 25:25
  Speaker: Only works if you're catfishing
• 25:27
  Speaker: someone you know across the
• 25:29
  Speaker: pond?
• 25:30
  Speaker: No, we don't like that.
• 25:34
  Speaker: Yes, yes.
• 25:35
  Speaker: Do not do that.
• 25:36
  Speaker: That would be all right, Joe.
• 25:37
  Speaker: What's another one?
• 25:38
  Speaker: Yep, I got some.
• 25:39
  Speaker: I got some do nots or nevers.
• 25:41
  Speaker: Um. So two.
• 25:43
  Speaker: Never let a brother eat alone at dinner and never let a visitor
• 25:50
  Speaker: sit alone in lodge.
• 25:52
  Speaker: Never.
• 25:53
  Speaker: So if you got a visitor, someone coming from somewhere else or
• 25:57
  Speaker: you got a brother, you do not let them sit alone.
• 26:00
  Speaker: I don't care if you know them.
• 26:01
  Speaker: If this is the first time you're
• 26:02
  Speaker: meeting them, you engage with
• 26:04
  Speaker: them and you make sure that they
• 26:05
  Speaker: feel welcome and you make sure
• 26:07
  Speaker: that they feel like they're
• 26:08
  Speaker: participating.
• 26:09
  Speaker: So you never let visitors sit alone.
• 26:11
  Speaker: Question.
• 26:12
  Speaker: Go. We're all pretty well traveled.
• 26:14
  Speaker: Um, have you ever visited a
• 26:17
  Speaker: lodge and had that exact
• 26:18
  Speaker: experience where, like, no one
• 26:21
  Speaker: came up and said, hi, you just
• 26:22
  Speaker: kind of found your little spot
• 26:23
  Speaker: in the in the pew, and That was
• 26:27
  Speaker: it.
• 26:27
  Speaker: I got a real zinger.
• 26:28
  Speaker: Um, so I, I'm not going to name
• 26:30
  Speaker: names of places and people and
• 26:32
  Speaker: things.
• 26:32
  Speaker: Um, but I was raised in a lodge in Maryland, uh, way back in two
• 26:36
  Speaker: thousand and five.
• 26:38
  Speaker: And, uh, I had gone back and I
• 26:41
  Speaker: moved to Virginia two years
• 26:43
  Speaker: later.
• 26:43
  Speaker: So I hadn't been back for a while.
• 26:46
  Speaker: Uh, I went back on my tenth Masonic anniversary.
• 26:50
  Speaker: Um, because in Maryland, they give you like a little
• 26:52
  Speaker: certificate or whatnot.
• 26:54
  Speaker: Um, so I got the email.
• 26:55
  Speaker: I was like, hey.
• 26:56
  Speaker: And for me, it was like a two and a half hour drive.
• 26:58
  Speaker: So I went, went back to my lodge.
• 27:01
  Speaker: Um, I didn't know.
• 27:03
  Speaker: I knew very few people there because it had been ten years.
• 27:06
  Speaker: Um, but I introduced myself.
• 27:09
  Speaker: I even wore my old lodge name
• 27:11
  Speaker: badge so they would know I was a
• 27:12
  Speaker: member there.
• 27:13
  Speaker: And I sat alone at dinner the entire night.
• 27:17
  Speaker: And I also sat by myself in the lodge room for the entire night.
• 27:21
  Speaker: And I walked away.
• 27:22
  Speaker: They gave me my certificate, um, didn't know who I was, and I
• 27:25
  Speaker: decided then that I would never go back to that lodge again.
• 27:30
  Speaker: I don't know if I've heard that
• 27:31
  Speaker: story before, so that's
• 27:32
  Speaker: fascinating.
• 27:33
  Speaker: And I admitted the next month.
• 27:35
  Speaker: So yeah, but that was a bummer.
• 27:38
  Speaker: Five hours of driving and no one came and talked to me.
• 27:44
  Speaker: You should have been the change.
• 27:46
  Speaker: I was not enough of the change that night.
• 27:49
  Speaker: And I've learned that now, so.
• 27:52
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 27:54
  Speaker: Wow.
• 27:54
  Speaker: These are good.
• 27:55
  Speaker: And I'm sorry you had that experience.
• 27:57
  Speaker: Well, we're good now.
• 28:01
  Speaker: Good.
• 28:02
  Speaker: Jason.
• 28:02
  Speaker: What's next?
• 28:06
  Speaker: What's another simple thing you can do today?
• 28:14
  Speaker: Never make assumptions about.
• 28:22
  Speaker: A brother's background or status.
• 28:25
  Speaker: Get to meet all different people
• 28:29
  Speaker: in lodge and even people you
• 28:31
  Speaker: know.
• 28:32
  Speaker: Um. You know, I, I was in lodge last.
• 28:43
  Speaker: I'd say last month, uh, manassa and was kind of off sitting by
• 28:47
  Speaker: myself and, uh.
• 28:52
  Speaker: I had a brother come up and, uh, you know, sit down and I was
• 28:58
  Speaker: like, oh, you shouldn't be sitting by yourself.
• 29:00
  Speaker: Uh, I'm like, well, yeah, you know, there's a lot of heavy
• 29:05
  Speaker: stuff going on.
• 29:07
  Speaker: And, uh, he's like, wow, I, I would not have thought that from
• 29:13
  Speaker: the way you carried yourself.
• 29:16
  Speaker: And so like, I think it's, it's important to understand that,
• 29:21
  Speaker: um, Um, you know, you could have brothers who are there who are
• 29:25
  Speaker: all smiles and they're going through the hardest period in
• 29:28
  Speaker: their entire lives.
• 29:29
  Speaker: Um, and so don't, don't make assumptions about.
• 29:37
  Speaker: What the brother's going through
• 29:39
  Speaker: with their station is, um, just,
• 29:42
  Speaker: you know, try to be genuine, um,
• 29:46
  Speaker: and, and try to make sure, you
• 29:48
  Speaker: know, when they, when they talk,
• 29:50
  Speaker: you listen.
• 29:52
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker: Um, I like that because it's,
• 29:55
  Speaker: uh, to make it more of a, of a
• 29:57
  Speaker: positive.
• 29:58
  Speaker: It's, uh, kind of read the room and be authentic.
• 30:03
  Speaker: Well as authentic and like
• 30:05
  Speaker: active listening to yes, like
• 30:07
  Speaker: participate in active listening
• 30:08
  Speaker: if you're in a conversation with
• 30:10
  Speaker: somebody.
• 30:11
  Speaker: Yep.
• 30:12
  Speaker: Don't listen to respond.
• 30:14
  Speaker: Listen to understand.
• 30:16
  Speaker: Sounds cliche, but it's, it's these are cliches for a reason.
• 30:21
  Speaker: Mhm.
• 30:22
  Speaker: So if you ever encounter that,
• 30:24
  Speaker: start every sentence off in your
• 30:26
  Speaker: response with as an empath
• 30:29
  Speaker: comma.
• 30:29
  Speaker: And then.
• 30:33
  Speaker: Uh, I watch a tick tock recently where and I, because this is
• 30:36
  Speaker: something I've been working on, you know, years ago and where
• 30:41
  Speaker: it's, you know, you ask like, hey, Joe, like, have you
• 30:45
  Speaker: traveled anywhere lately?
• 30:46
  Speaker: And Joe's like, hey, you know, I just, I was just in Kansas City
• 30:50
  Speaker: and then you immediately go, well, I was in Kansas City once.
• 30:52
  Speaker: And let me tell you about all the stuff that I did when I was
• 30:54
  Speaker: in Kansas City.
• 30:54
  Speaker: It's like, wait, wait, wait, you know, that's not a conversation.
• 30:56
  Speaker: That's just you waiting to
• 30:58
  Speaker: insert yourself into the story,
• 31:01
  Speaker: right?
• 31:01
  Speaker: It's, uh, what do you call it?
• 31:03
  Speaker: Uh, a main character syndrome.
• 31:05
  Speaker: That's what you should not do when you're, when you're hanging
• 31:08
  Speaker: out with brothers.
• 31:09
  Speaker: Um, of course, Robert and I, you
• 31:12
  Speaker: know, it's a great way for
• 31:13
  Speaker: everyone to immediately
• 31:15
  Speaker: understand that you're an
• 31:16
  Speaker: asshole.
• 31:16
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker: Avoid that guy.
• 31:18
  Speaker: Yeah, but but the opposite is true.
• 31:20
  Speaker: I'm not talking to you ever again.
• 31:21
  Speaker: Okay.
• 31:22
  Speaker: Exactly.
• 31:23
  Speaker: Um. And Robert and I are big fans of, um, how to win friends
• 31:26
  Speaker: and influence people.
• 31:27
  Speaker: Right.
• 31:27
  Speaker: Like, the very first thing is
• 31:29
  Speaker: genuinely care about the other
• 31:31
  Speaker: person.
• 31:32
  Speaker: It's not about you.
• 31:33
  Speaker: It despite what you you think it is not all about you.
• 31:38
  Speaker: Yep.
• 31:39
  Speaker: That's how you get there, Robert.
• 31:42
  Speaker: Next up.
• 31:44
  Speaker: So there are some things I think I'll save for later, because
• 31:48
  Speaker: there are things that I have witnessed Joe do, and I think he
• 31:53
  Speaker: may mention this.
• 31:54
  Speaker: I don't want to say them because
• 31:55
  Speaker: I thought they were amazing when
• 31:56
  Speaker: he was doing the statute of
• 31:58
  Speaker: limitations up or, uh, so this
• 32:03
  Speaker: idea, uh, was born out of a, an
• 32:06
  Speaker: educational.
• 32:10
  Speaker: Idea that I heard about.
• 32:12
  Speaker: Um, but I think you can make it
• 32:16
  Speaker: less, uh, like involved by just
• 32:22
  Speaker: amending it.
• 32:23
  Speaker: So a candlelight seventeen hundreds ritual night.
• 32:28
  Speaker: So if you don't have like, this is something you can put on the
• 32:33
  Speaker: invite to the meeting and that and a bro's going to read that.
• 32:37
  Speaker: And he might think, wow, I gotta go to that.
• 32:40
  Speaker: That'll be sweet.
• 32:41
  Speaker: So no electric lights.
• 32:43
  Speaker: You gotta leave your smartphones
• 32:44
  Speaker: outside the lodge unless you
• 32:46
  Speaker: got, you know, you're on vibrate
• 32:47
  Speaker: and you got emergency situation,
• 32:48
  Speaker: whatever.
• 32:49
  Speaker: We all know those things.
• 32:50
  Speaker: Uh, like no power, no Wi-Fi, nothing.
• 32:54
  Speaker: Just do candles.
• 32:57
  Speaker: And like, most rural lodges.
• 32:59
  Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:02
  Speaker: Uh, and then afterward, Stella Moon Lodge in twenty twenty six.
• 33:06
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 33:07
  Speaker: And then after you guys do the
• 33:08
  Speaker: ritual, like you're in
• 33:09
  Speaker: candlelight, you do it, you kind
• 33:10
  Speaker: of feel it, you know, and maybe
• 33:12
  Speaker: you, you do some, some cool
• 33:15
  Speaker: reflection moments or whatever
• 33:17
  Speaker: in this nice, really cool
• 33:19
  Speaker: atmosphere.
• 33:20
  Speaker: And then afterward, if you can find a nice place that you guys
• 33:26
  Speaker: like to go that doesn't have a thousand TVs, you know, go there
• 33:30
  Speaker: and have a pint or a Coke or whatever, follow it up with a
• 33:33
  Speaker: little, you know, historic pub fare or something.
• 33:36
  Speaker: Um, or if you don't have a, uh,
• 33:40
  Speaker: a moratorium against drinking in
• 33:42
  Speaker: your lodges, you know, crack a
• 33:43
  Speaker: few beers in the, in the, uh, in
• 33:46
  Speaker: the dining hall and like further
• 33:50
  Speaker: fellowship.
• 33:51
  Speaker: Um, but still just over candle, uh, keep it cool like that.
• 33:56
  Speaker: The original idea that, that I was thinking about this from was
• 34:00
  Speaker: a more complex idea that, um, a brother had told me they did and
• 34:04
  Speaker: it was amazing.
• 34:06
  Speaker: Basically, they passed out candles to everyone in the lodge
• 34:12
  Speaker: who came in, and then they did the lodge, uh, in um, like in
• 34:18
  Speaker: candlelight or whatever, very low light, just the altar light
• 34:21
  Speaker: and I think one up by the master and they passed out these
• 34:25
  Speaker: candles and they asked a question like a philosophical
• 34:28
  Speaker: open ended question.
• 34:30
  Speaker: And if you answered, you could light your candle.
• 34:34
  Speaker: And then by the end of the
• 34:35
  Speaker: night, the idea is everybody
• 34:37
  Speaker: brought light to the lodge,
• 34:40
  Speaker: right?
• 34:40
  Speaker: That's cool.
• 34:41
  Speaker: So it was a, it was a like, it
• 34:44
  Speaker: sounds goofy, a little bit
• 34:47
  Speaker: maybe, but I thought it was a
• 34:48
  Speaker: really cool way to physically
• 34:51
  Speaker: manifest the the thing we say we
• 34:54
  Speaker: do.
• 34:57
  Speaker: I could take some notes.
• 34:58
  Speaker: Now.
• 34:58
  Speaker: That's a good one.
• 34:59
  Speaker: I love it.
• 35:02
  Speaker: Well, I can't top that one, but I'll try.
• 35:04
  Speaker: You can.
• 35:04
  Speaker: And it's not my idea.
• 35:05
  Speaker: I, if I had to guess, I, I think
• 35:07
  Speaker: maybe it was Adam Rigdon in
• 35:09
  Speaker: Wisconsin.
• 35:10
  Speaker: Maybe.
• 35:11
  Speaker: Or maybe it was somebody in Colorado, but I don't know.
• 35:16
  Speaker: Uh. Let's see.
• 35:17
  Speaker: Next up on my list is do the retrospective for your lodge
• 35:24
  Speaker: right after the lodge meeting.
• 35:26
  Speaker: Doesn't have to be a big, big, formal thing.
• 35:28
  Speaker: No post-it notes.
• 35:29
  Speaker: No whole, you know, stop people from leaving, but do some
• 35:33
  Speaker: handshakes on the way out the door and say, hey, what did you
• 35:36
  Speaker: like about tonight's meeting?
• 35:37
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker: What can we do better?
• 35:39
  Speaker: What didn't you like?
• 35:40
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker: What didn't you like?
• 35:41
  Speaker: Right.
• 35:42
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker: If you could change one thing, if you could be the change, what
• 35:45
  Speaker: would you change?
• 35:47
  Speaker: So. Well, and a little side note for that.
• 35:51
  Speaker: Don't just ask the people that you know are going to give you a
• 35:56
  Speaker: response you like, you know, ask that grumpy past master, hey,
• 36:00
  Speaker: would you like about tonight?
• 36:01
  Speaker: Oh, that was too long.
• 36:03
  Speaker: You know, get that input because they've still taken the time to
• 36:06
  Speaker: show up that evening, you know, and even if you don't want to
• 36:09
  Speaker: hear it, it's feedback.
• 36:10
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 36:10
  Speaker: In fact, I'd even take that a step further.
• 36:14
  Speaker: Find those guys that you know are going to find something to
• 36:16
  Speaker: complain about because, right, you're, you're trying to do this
• 36:20
  Speaker: in the spirit of harmony.
• 36:21
  Speaker: You're trying to solicit, you know, again, non-confirmation
• 36:25
  Speaker: bias, non selection bias.
• 36:28
  Speaker: And, you know, you don't have to
• 36:29
  Speaker: take all the advice that the
• 36:32
  Speaker: free advice you get, but you
• 36:34
  Speaker: can't say you didn't know about
• 36:35
  Speaker: it.
• 36:36
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 36:37
  Speaker: So do that retrospective.
• 36:38
  Speaker: We did a whole episode on like
• 36:40
  Speaker: retrospectives, uh, in, in
• 36:42
  Speaker: masonry.
• 36:43
  Speaker: It doesn't need to be that formal, but asking, just asking
• 36:46
  Speaker: how you can improve both good and bad goes a long way.
• 36:50
  Speaker: Right, Joe?
• 36:52
  Speaker: Exactly.
• 36:53
  Speaker: How could you improve on your
• 36:54
  Speaker: previous questions with your
• 36:55
  Speaker: next question or your next
• 36:57
  Speaker: answer?
• 36:58
  Speaker: Excellent.
• 36:58
  Speaker: Um, this is one that, uh, I'm a big fan of, and it takes a
• 37:03
  Speaker: little bit of work and coordinating Hawaiian shirt
• 37:06
  Speaker: night, not Hawaiian shirt night.
• 37:08
  Speaker: Joe does not like Hawaiian shirt.
• 37:09
  Speaker: Night.
• 37:10
  Speaker: Aloha, bitches.
• 37:11
  Speaker: Oh. personally invite members to the meeting.
• 37:17
  Speaker: So not just a trestle board, not just something that goes out in
• 37:20
  Speaker: the mail, not just an email reminder that says, hey, our
• 37:23
  Speaker: stated meeting is this night, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:26
  Speaker: Grab some numbers, hand them out
• 37:28
  Speaker: to brothers and have these
• 37:29
  Speaker: people call.
• 37:31
  Speaker: Say, hey brother, how are you?
• 37:32
  Speaker: Looking forward to seeing you on Friday and have a five minute
• 37:35
  Speaker: conversation with him.
• 37:36
  Speaker: A personal invitation has more
• 37:39
  Speaker: weight than any single email
• 37:40
  Speaker: you're ever going to send out,
• 37:42
  Speaker: and I guarantee you that ninety
• 37:43
  Speaker: nine percent of lodges do not do
• 37:45
  Speaker: that.
• 37:47
  Speaker: No, it's it's so true.
• 37:48
  Speaker: Um, I think back to when I was
• 37:51
  Speaker: really deep into all the
• 37:53
  Speaker: membership data about ten years
• 37:55
  Speaker: ago, uh, I was working with, um,
• 37:58
  Speaker: s Brent Morris and he was
• 38:00
  Speaker: talking about how they got, um,
• 38:02
  Speaker: they got over the hump at that
• 38:04
  Speaker: time for Scottish Rite Masons to
• 38:06
  Speaker: come back.
• 38:08
  Speaker: And, uh, one thing that they did at the time, if my memory serves
• 38:13
  Speaker: me correctly, was they reached back out to the brothers who had
• 38:18
  Speaker: been demoted over the past five years or more and just said, hey
• 38:22
  Speaker: brother, we miss you.
• 38:24
  Speaker: And you know, we're doing this thing where if you just pay, pay
• 38:29
  Speaker: one year's dues, you'll be healed and you'll be back.
• 38:32
  Speaker: We'll walk.
• 38:32
  Speaker: Welcome you right back.
• 38:33
  Speaker: No fuss, no muss.
• 38:35
  Speaker: And, uh, according to Brent Morris, that most of the
• 38:41
  Speaker: feedback, the qualitative feedback that they got was.
• 38:45
  Speaker: I'm just happy you called.
• 38:48
  Speaker: I didn't.
• 38:49
  Speaker: I would have paid more than one year's dues.
• 38:51
  Speaker: It's the fact that you just literally picked up the phone
• 38:54
  Speaker: and called and asked how I was doing and where I've been.
• 38:58
  Speaker: Now I'm ready to come back.
• 38:59
  Speaker: So you don't know how a simple thing that takes minutes to do.
• 39:05
  Speaker: Instead, a five minute timer on
• 39:06
  Speaker: your phone call up and say, hey,
• 39:10
  Speaker: you haven't been to Lodge for a
• 39:11
  Speaker: while.
• 39:11
  Speaker: And I'll say, got it?
• 39:13
  Speaker: Let me let me kids get a little bit older first.
• 39:15
  Speaker: Well be ready.
• 39:17
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker: Right.
• 39:18
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 39:18
  Speaker: Because there, you know, there's going to be somebody and they're
• 39:22
  Speaker: going to say, you might ask him something and maybe you didn't
• 39:26
  Speaker: craft your questioning.
• 39:28
  Speaker: Right.
• 39:29
  Speaker: And they're going to start talking.
• 39:32
  Speaker: And you know what?
• 39:35
  Speaker: Uh, little old retail trick, but
• 39:37
  Speaker: something I heard for the first
• 39:39
  Speaker: time from, uh, Chad Lasik
• 39:41
  Speaker: instead of in your head going,
• 39:43
  Speaker: oh, God.
• 39:44
  Speaker: Go. Oh, good.
• 39:46
  Speaker: And, uh, and, and, and just get
• 39:49
  Speaker: in it, you know, let that person
• 39:51
  Speaker: talk.
• 39:52
  Speaker: More often than not, you're the guy.
• 39:55
  Speaker: Like, they're not talking because they talk all the time.
• 39:59
  Speaker: They're talking because they don't.
• 40:01
  Speaker: Well said.
• 40:02
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker: No, I just just to add a little cherry on top of that John cake.
• 40:06
  Speaker: Um, Yeah.
• 40:09
  Speaker: It's delicious.
• 40:09
  Speaker: Picture that.
• 40:10
  Speaker: Um, so this didn't actually start with me.
• 40:13
  Speaker: This started with the master a couple of years before me.
• 40:15
  Speaker: Um, Phil um, for those that remember Brother Phil.
• 40:19
  Speaker: Master.
• 40:19
  Speaker: Good dude moved to Florida.
• 40:20
  Speaker: Oh. Brother McCracken.
• 40:22
  Speaker: Yes.
• 40:23
  Speaker: Um, he started what we call the Sunshine Committee, and it was
• 40:27
  Speaker: brothers who they've not seen in lodge in a while, to the point
• 40:32
  Speaker: where, like most of these guys, we knew them by name only.
• 40:34
  Speaker: We did not know what their faces looked like.
• 40:36
  Speaker: Um, and he started Sunshine Committee.
• 40:38
  Speaker: He's like, every month you're
• 40:39
  Speaker: going to call these people and
• 40:40
  Speaker: you're going to ask them how
• 40:41
  Speaker: they're doing, ask them what's
• 40:43
  Speaker: going on and ask them if they
• 40:44
  Speaker: need anything.
• 40:44
  Speaker: And it was a list of about probably sixty people when all
• 40:49
  Speaker: is said and done.
• 40:50
  Speaker: Um, I cannot and we started that year and we did it for a good
• 40:53
  Speaker: couple of years.
• 40:54
  Speaker: Uh, I can't tell you how many new faces would show up at a
• 40:57
  Speaker: lodge meeting one night.
• 40:58
  Speaker: It's like, hey, I haven't been to lodge in twenty years.
• 41:00
  Speaker: It's like, awesome, so glad you're here.
• 41:02
  Speaker: And we've gotten folks that have
• 41:04
  Speaker: been active ever since that
• 41:05
  Speaker: initial phone call, um, that he
• 41:07
  Speaker: started.
• 41:08
  Speaker: Um, some of them became officers.
• 41:10
  Speaker: Some of them now come to lodge all the time.
• 41:12
  Speaker: Some of them are.
• 41:14
  Speaker: And these are again older brothers, right.
• 41:16
  Speaker: Who haven't been to lodge in ten, fifteen, twenty years.
• 41:19
  Speaker: Um, who ask things like, hey,
• 41:20
  Speaker: when are we going to do the next
• 41:21
  Speaker: book club?
• 41:22
  Speaker: You know, it's not your younger guys, it's your guys that have
• 41:25
  Speaker: been away from masonry and long for it again, because someone
• 41:30
  Speaker: using Jason's parlance, gave a shit enough to reach out and
• 41:34
  Speaker: call them and see how they work.
• 41:35
  Speaker: Oh, is that my parlance?
• 41:37
  Speaker: Because you're the potty mouth nowadays, not me.
• 41:39
  Speaker: Trademark.
• 41:40
  Speaker: You okay?
• 41:41
  Speaker: There you go.
• 41:45
  Speaker: Yes.
• 41:46
  Speaker: So be the change.
• 41:47
  Speaker: Can we move on?
• 41:48
  Speaker: Okay.
• 41:49
  Speaker: Is it over to Jason?
• 41:50
  Speaker: I don't know if I'll get the censor button ready.
• 41:53
  Speaker: Uh, you went last, right?
• 41:55
  Speaker: So I guess me.
• 41:57
  Speaker: It's back to you.
• 41:57
  Speaker: Okay.
• 41:58
  Speaker: You just you just pulled that thread so long.
• 42:01
  Speaker: I know you unraveled my shirt.
• 42:03
  Speaker: Um. No, I went.
• 42:08
  Speaker: I went, it was personally invite people.
• 42:11
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 42:11
  Speaker: So it is.
• 42:12
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 42:13
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 42:13
  Speaker: Jason.
• 42:17
  Speaker: I'm just along for the ride in this situationship.
• 42:22
  Speaker: Um.
• 42:25
  Speaker: Oh. Let's see.
• 42:27
  Speaker: Um. Tell a master every now and then he's doing a good job.
• 42:37
  Speaker: Ooh, that's a lonely office.
• 42:41
  Speaker: And it is a lonely year.
• 42:44
  Speaker: Um, true.
• 42:46
  Speaker: And, uh, everyone's a critic and no one's happy, and you're
• 42:55
  Speaker: burning yourself out, and you're just doing the best you can a
• 43:00
  Speaker: lot of times.
• 43:01
  Speaker: So you know, You know, make sure.
• 43:06
  Speaker: Make sure the master knows you appreciate him, you appreciate
• 43:10
  Speaker: what he's doing or what he's trying to do.
• 43:15
  Speaker: Definitely the master, and I'd say extend it to a lot of the
• 43:21
  Speaker: other brothers too, but more especially the master.
• 43:28
  Speaker: All right, Robert, what say you?
• 43:31
  Speaker: Here's a short one, and I'm
• 43:32
  Speaker: going to kick it off of, uh,
• 43:35
  Speaker: contacting those those brothers,
• 43:38
  Speaker: um, a lodge chauffeur rideshare
• 43:40
  Speaker: program for a brother, a
• 43:44
  Speaker: brother.
• 43:44
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 43:45
  Speaker: There's all you gotta do.
• 43:47
  Speaker: Just make a spreadsheet, a group chat or something.
• 43:49
  Speaker: You pair some younger guys, uh, with some older guys that are
• 43:54
  Speaker: kind of live maybe around each other or who are willing to make
• 43:56
  Speaker: the time and, um, you know, just say, hey, if, if driving at
• 44:03
  Speaker: night is your thing, man.
• 44:06
  Speaker: We've got a bro who just would love to pick you up.
• 44:09
  Speaker: Right?
• 44:10
  Speaker: And, uh, if you gotta leave a
• 44:11
  Speaker: little early, that bro is
• 44:13
  Speaker: totally fine.
• 44:13
  Speaker: Leaving early with you to bring you home.
• 44:16
  Speaker: Uh, there's.
• 44:18
  Speaker: Yeah, these guys want to come to
• 44:19
  Speaker: lot, but driving at night is a
• 44:21
  Speaker: thing.
• 44:21
  Speaker: Or parking might be an obstacle, right?
• 44:23
  Speaker: Maybe there's not a handicap real close.
• 44:27
  Speaker: So you can have the guy pull right up and, um, yeah, it it,
• 44:32
  Speaker: it also just, it builds some intergenerational bonds too,
• 44:36
  Speaker: because then you get some older members who aren't quite
• 44:39
  Speaker: thinking, oh, um, these younger guys are lame.
• 44:45
  Speaker: No, they, they might still say you're lame, but also you're
• 44:50
  Speaker: dependable and, and damn it, I love that kid because he's
• 44:53
  Speaker: always helping me out.
• 44:54
  Speaker: And that's brotherhood, you know what I mean?
• 44:56
  Speaker: So I that and and you know what it it does take some some
• 45:01
  Speaker: putting yourself out there.
• 45:04
  Speaker: It's like it might be
• 45:05
  Speaker: uncomfortable for you to do
• 45:06
  Speaker: that, but more often than not,
• 45:08
  Speaker: you'll find something to talk
• 45:09
  Speaker: about.
• 45:10
  Speaker: It's not going to be like when you're in the in the car with
• 45:12
  Speaker: your best friend, and you fart and roll up the windows like hot
• 45:17
  Speaker: box and crank the heat.
• 45:21
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 45:23
  Speaker: Wow.
• 45:23
  Speaker: And I think like going back to
• 45:25
  Speaker: what you said, John, to genuine
• 45:27
  Speaker: interest to like, I'm not doing
• 45:28
  Speaker: this to, to just facilitate this
• 45:33
  Speaker: thing.
• 45:34
  Speaker: It's not a thing I have to do.
• 45:36
  Speaker: It's the thing I get to do.
• 45:37
  Speaker: It's, oh, gosh, I love that framing so much.
• 45:40
  Speaker: Um, it's that is so powerful.
• 45:42
  Speaker: Um, I, I, I've been using that a lot lately too, is I get to do
• 45:47
  Speaker: this like when I don't, when I'm tired at the end of the day and
• 45:51
  Speaker: my kids ask for something and I'm like, I get to get up and
• 45:57
  Speaker: get that for my kid.
• 46:00
  Speaker: Uh, Are a constant reminder of it.
• 46:04
  Speaker: Here's a fun one that I had.
• 46:07
  Speaker: Be the Lodge JW.
• 46:11
  Speaker: Oh, so even before you open lodge, there's nothing wrong
• 46:18
  Speaker: with, uh, with with the master's permission setting the mood.
• 46:22
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 46:23
  Speaker: Bring a little Bluetooth speaker in and play some light tunes.
• 46:26
  Speaker: Uh, you know, whatever is kind of, uh, not gauche for that
• 46:31
  Speaker: culture of the lodge.
• 46:32
  Speaker: You know, you throw a little
• 46:33
  Speaker: classical music on, you want to
• 46:34
  Speaker: throw a little light rock,
• 46:35
  Speaker: whatever, whatever kind of
• 46:37
  Speaker: floats the lodges culture, but
• 46:39
  Speaker: some background, some background
• 46:41
  Speaker: ambiance to help kind of set the
• 46:43
  Speaker: tone.
• 46:43
  Speaker: It's something that you don't get at home.
• 46:45
  Speaker: Something you don't get while
• 46:47
  Speaker: watching Netflix alone on the on
• 46:48
  Speaker: the couch.
• 46:49
  Speaker: So yeah, that's, that's easy peasy.
• 46:51
  Speaker: Easy thing to do.
• 46:53
  Speaker: Cost you nothing and, uh, can
• 46:55
  Speaker: definitely enhance the lodge
• 46:56
  Speaker: experience.
• 46:58
  Speaker: Big shout out to, brother Tom at
• 47:00
  Speaker: Manasseh who brings the, uh, the
• 47:03
  Speaker: heart pumping Hans Zimmer every
• 47:05
  Speaker: month.
• 47:06
  Speaker: Um.
• 47:06
  Speaker: Wow.
• 47:08
  Speaker: Zimmer.
• 47:09
  Speaker: Oh my God.
• 47:09
  Speaker: Zimmer, baby.
• 47:10
  Speaker: Yeah!
• 47:11
  Speaker: Love that.
• 47:12
  Speaker: That's how he do is Tom is the
• 47:14
  Speaker: one who played a rendition of
• 47:19
  Speaker: Metallica Fade to Black on
• 47:22
  Speaker: acoustic guitar.
• 47:23
  Speaker: Yes.
• 47:24
  Speaker: Wow.
• 47:25
  Speaker: One night and I was like, oh, man.
• 47:27
  Speaker: It was during reflection.
• 47:29
  Speaker: And it was the whole song, just quiet.
• 47:31
  Speaker: And it really did set a tone for the Lodge.
• 47:33
  Speaker: It was a nice time.
• 47:34
  Speaker: He did an acoustic guitar of the interstellar song.
• 47:39
  Speaker: Uh oh.
• 47:39
  Speaker: Interesting.
• 47:40
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 47:41
  Speaker: Your favorite movie?
• 47:42
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 47:42
  Speaker: It is.
• 47:43
  Speaker: Um, yes.
• 47:44
  Speaker: But yeah, Metallica and Hans Zimmer and I know we've said
• 47:47
  Speaker: this before, I mentioned this story before, but, uh, Jason was
• 47:52
  Speaker: my lodge JW Lodge musician, uh, during my year at the lodge and.
• 47:59
  Speaker: I'll never forget.
• 48:00
  Speaker: You know, I'm scrambling to get ready to open, make sure I got
• 48:03
  Speaker: my lines memorized, just all the logistics and mechanics that go
• 48:07
  Speaker: go with that.
• 48:07
  Speaker: And being a young master at that.
• 48:10
  Speaker: And, you know, we're, we usually
• 48:13
  Speaker: play music while, um, the, uh,
• 48:16
  Speaker: the deacons are walking around
• 48:18
  Speaker: setting up the furniture of the
• 48:20
  Speaker: lodge.
• 48:21
  Speaker: So it starts to, you know, the buzzing of the room starts to
• 48:25
  Speaker: settle down and I hear some classical music that's familiar.
• 48:31
  Speaker: And I'm like, where have I heard this before?
• 48:34
  Speaker: It's not it's not like Mozart.
• 48:38
  Speaker: What is this?
• 48:39
  Speaker: And, uh, Jason had found a great
• 48:42
  Speaker: playlist of like, modern rock
• 48:44
  Speaker: songs like welcome to the
• 48:45
  Speaker: jungle.
• 48:45
  Speaker: Right?
• 48:46
  Speaker: But in a classical music style,
• 48:49
  Speaker: it was it was just icing on the
• 48:52
  Speaker: cake.
• 48:52
  Speaker: And Hauser, the two cellos
• 48:54
  Speaker: version of welcome to the
• 48:56
  Speaker: jungle.
• 48:57
  Speaker: Yeah, it was.
• 48:58
  Speaker: Welcome to the jungle.
• 48:58
  Speaker: Gosh.
• 48:59
  Speaker: Welcome to the jungle.
• 49:00
  Speaker: You just burned that memory in my head, so I was thinking.
• 49:03
  Speaker: I was thinking you were going to say, like, uh, he found a a
• 49:06
  Speaker: classical rendition of Dead Mouse or something, since, you
• 49:09
  Speaker: know, you're nice, you know?
• 49:12
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 49:12
  Speaker: I was gonna say like, some big beat.
• 49:14
  Speaker: That's awesome.
• 49:15
  Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 49:18
  Speaker: They just have to, like, get a cello in there to like, drag it
• 49:21
  Speaker: across the string.
• 49:24
  Speaker: Just drag the cello across the, the ground, the asphalt.
• 49:28
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 49:30
  Speaker: Closest thing.
• 49:34
  Speaker: All right.
• 49:34
  Speaker: Speed round.
• 49:36
  Speaker: Last.
• 49:37
  Speaker: Last one.
• 49:37
  Speaker: Go, Joe.
• 49:39
  Speaker: Uh, give everyone in lodge a job.
• 49:41
  Speaker: Make him the photographer.
• 49:42
  Speaker: Make him the web guy.
• 49:43
  Speaker: Make him the clean the dishes guy.
• 49:46
  Speaker: Give every single person a job
• 49:48
  Speaker: and give them incentive to help
• 49:51
  Speaker: Jason.
• 49:53
  Speaker: Um. The extra generous and, um, caring and go out of your way
• 50:04
  Speaker: to, um, have a real genuine conversation with any family
• 50:10
  Speaker: members of brothers who are there for dinner.
• 50:14
  Speaker: Love it.
• 50:15
  Speaker: Robert.
• 50:16
  Speaker: Mid meeting.
• 50:18
  Speaker: Spend the time, go to refreshment, then go to the
• 50:22
  Speaker: dining room and have a toast.
• 50:24
  Speaker: Whether it's to missing brothers or people who are sick or
• 50:28
  Speaker: Masonic birthdays, whatever.
• 50:30
  Speaker: And then go back in.
• 50:32
  Speaker: Uh. Resume labor.
• 50:34
  Speaker: Finish the meeting.
• 50:35
  Speaker: Mhm.
• 50:36
  Speaker: Love it.
• 50:37
  Speaker: And mine volunteer just.
• 50:40
  Speaker: There's, you know, there's a committee that's not filled.
• 50:43
  Speaker: So be that guy.
• 50:45
  Speaker: Be the change.
• 50:48
  Speaker: All right.
• 50:50
  Speaker: Final thoughts.
• 50:50
  Speaker: Starting with Jason.
• 50:51
  Speaker: Bring it home.
• 50:53
  Speaker: Either change.
• 50:55
  Speaker: who?
• 50:57
  Speaker: And.
• 50:58
  Speaker: Robert.
• 51:00
  Speaker: Uh uh.
• 51:03
  Speaker: Say it, say it, say it, Joe.
• 51:06
  Speaker: Be the change.
• 51:07
  Speaker: Be the change, my man.
• 51:11
  Speaker: Joe.
• 51:12
  Speaker: Joe did amazing dinners.
• 51:14
  Speaker: He started amazing dinners before Lodge.
• 51:16
  Speaker: Remember that?
• 51:17
  Speaker: Families came out.
• 51:18
  Speaker: It was awesome.
• 51:18
  Speaker: I thought you were going to maybe say that enhancing
• 51:20
  Speaker: experience, but, uh.
• 51:22
  Speaker: Sorry.
• 51:23
  Speaker: We'll do this again.
• 51:24
  Speaker: We'll have a part two.
• 51:26
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 51:27
  Speaker: Uh, very popular in the chat.
• 51:28
  Speaker: A lot of good ideas in the chat to Joe.
• 51:30
  Speaker: Final thoughts.
• 51:31
  Speaker: You know what I'm gonna say?
• 51:33
  Speaker: Be the change, be the change, change the be.
• 51:39
  Speaker: Please, please turn that into some audio track and put some
• 51:43
  Speaker: Skrillex on it.
• 51:47
  Speaker: Dubstep.
• 51:47
  Speaker: Yeah, let's do it.
• 51:50
  Speaker: It is definitely happening.
• 51:57
  Speaker: How'd that go?
• 51:57
  Speaker: Joe, get some glow sticks.
• 52:01
  Speaker: You are really very happy to be here.
• 52:05
  Speaker: Mixing genres tonight?
• 52:07
  Speaker: Yes.
• 52:08
  Speaker: You're a genre.
• 52:09
  Speaker: Oh, okay.
• 52:10
  Speaker: Well, um.
• 52:11
  Speaker: This was fun.
• 52:12
  Speaker: This was exciting.
• 52:13
  Speaker: And, um, from.
• 52:15
  Speaker: According to the chat, lots of good ideas were flowing, both,
• 52:18
  Speaker: uh, bouncing off of each other, as well as just assembling some
• 52:21
  Speaker: things that we've talked about.
• 52:22
  Speaker: But now in one place, I think
• 52:24
  Speaker: the takeaway here is most, most
• 52:28
  Speaker: of these things are easy to do
• 52:30
  Speaker: require not much, uh, cash or
• 52:34
  Speaker: effort to set up and make a
• 52:36
  Speaker: difference.
• 52:37
  Speaker: So with that, be the change and keep searching for more light.
• 52:40
  Speaker: Have a good night.
• 52:41
  Speaker: Well, the change, the change.