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The Three Links Odd Cast
The Three Links Odd Cast is an exploration of and discussion about issues in Odd Fellowship for members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. It provides a fun, light-hearted look at the history, traditions, customs, and practices of Odd Fellowship as well as an examination of where the fraternal order is today. NOTE: there will be *NO* discussion of The Unwritten Work or any of the signs, grips, or passwords of Odd Fellowship.
Episodes
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Hahn Farm Degrees
Tucked away in a secluded corner of Oregon's rolling farmland northwest of Portland sits the Hahn Farm. Owned by Gary Hahn, a third-generation Odd Fellow and…
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Join Or Die!
Civic life in America has been in decline for decades. A prescient few, including noted author Robert Putnam, have chronicled that decline. In his book…
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Dead Horse Cave
Odd Fellowship has found many spaces in which to adapt its Degree work. Our beginnings were in pubs and taverns so Degrees were originally performed there…
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Anniversary Spectacular 3: Onward!
Hard to believe, but it's been three years since the launch of the Three Links Odd Cast. Way back when, Sergio, Ainslie, and Toby could hardly imagine the…
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Are You Covered?
Insurance can be a touchy subject that's all too easy to avoid. There are multiple different reasons to avoid it including cost, complication, and just a…
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Leaving The Kitchen Table
Take one seventy-year Odd Fellow, his great grandson, a twenty-year Odd Fellow from Indiana, a guy from the neighborhood looking for a "thirty-year project"…
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Nevada Rising
Like many western jurisdictions, Nevada is small. The bigger cities—Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City—have lodges and there are a few scattered around the rest of…
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Benefits For Younger Members
Odd Fellowship, like many fraternal groups, is predominantly full of older members. For retirees and others in the later stages of life, our traditional focus…
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Leatherstocking Lodge
For the past couple of years, despite the challenges of the pandemic, something has been brewing in Upstate New York. Two Masons and and Odd Fellow, all…
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Incorporating Music Into Meetings
Music enriches every aspect of life so why should it not enrich our lodge meetings as well? Brother Mike has been adding music into the meeting of his…
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How To Make Change
Brother George Glover III, Past Sovereign Grand Master, joins us on this episode to pull back the curtains on the inner workings of the Sovereign Grand Lodge…
The Three Links Odd CastBrother Rud
As a special for the Presidents Day Holiday in the US, we interviewed Dustin McLochlin, PhD of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Brother…
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Making Connections Between Lodges
What do backpacks for the homeless, a late 70s Chevy Nova, and a "Sausage Grind" have in common? Earnie Taylor of Chester Lodge #281 in Virginia, that's what!…
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Kitchen Table Lodge
Inspired by a recent series of emails from a listener, Ainslie and Toby discuss the phenomenon of "kitchen table lodges"—those lodges which don't do any ritual…
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Gem City Revival
What happens when a barber in an old river city on the Mississippi finds a bunch of Odd Fellows collectibles? He starts a lodge, of course! That was the…
The Three Links Odd CastChristmas Episode III: We Three Links
Our annual Christmas episode has become the place where we look back on the year in Oddcasting and this year was certainly delightful. We brought on a new…
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Young Leaders In Odd Fellowship
Despite recent growth, Odd Fellowship is still predominantly full of retirees. While they present a wealth of knowledge and experience, they can also be…
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The Rose Float
With the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, we thought it would be an excellent time to talk turkey about one of the great New Year's Day traditions—The…
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Crossover 3: Now With More Goat Riding!
Our colleagues Billy and Tara from Modern Goat Rider join us to continue the crossover begun on their show. If you've not heard it yet, you'll want to hit up…
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Burying The Dead
Just in time for Halloween, we take a look into the death care industry through the eyes of Sister Kait Osman of Emerald Bay Lodge #50 in California. Sister…
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New Members' Insights
Ainslie, Mike, and Toby are all experienced Odd Fellows. They like to *think* they have a handle on what new members are looking for, but do they really? To…
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Our Own Spaces
At its beginning, Odd Fellowship was just for men (though some groups of Odd Fellows retain that tradition). In 2001 the Independent Order opened up membership…
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Reinstating Non-Profit Status
We've all been there—years of neglect to important lodge business has left a huge mess behind and we've just walked into that void of neglect. That happened to…
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Odd Fellowship i Sverige
On a dark, rainy September evening in Sweden, a young man stood on a curb as a nondescript sedan pulled over to meet him. The rear door opened and he was…
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Should We Pitch Our Tent?
We had to call another audible at the line of scrimmage as our scheduled guest was out sick this episode. With Sovereign Grand Lodge right around the corner we…
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Our Mentors
Technical issues prevented us from interviewing our scheduled guest so, being resourceful Odd Fellows, we called an audible at the line of scrimmage and…
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Anniversary Spectacular 2: Electric Boogaloo
July 2022 represents two years of podcasting for the Three Links Odd Cast and we are all very excited to commemorate this achievement with a celebratory…
The Three Links Odd CastPride In Odd Fellowship
June is a month of many celebrations and we're taking the opportunity to join in with one of them, though not the one Toby had expected. Brother Chris Emmons…
The Three Links Odd CastDon't Look In The Closet...
As Odd Fellows, we're not surprised by any old thing we find in a lodge hall. For non-members, though, it can be quite a shock when relics of a former lodge…
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Demystifying Grand Lodge
GRAND LODGE. The mere words strike fear into the hearts of Odd Fellows everywhere. What is this strange, mysterious conglomeration of Odd Fellows who gather…
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A Young Man's Benefit
What if the narrative we've all been told—that the government takeover of social services led to the decline of Odd Fellowship—was wrong? Esteemed Canadian…
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Pocatello Revival
As recently as 2017 Portneuf Lodge #20 in Pocatello, Idaho was moribund. Six people met twice monthly in a dusty old hall downtown with a worn-out, broken sign…
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Secrets Of Freemasonry Revealed!
Odd Fellows, like all fraternal orders, have to exist in the long shadow cast by the only fraternal group that has any awareness in popular culture…
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Three Links 'n' Ink
An interesting and unusual confluence has occurred where tattoo artists and Odd Fellowship have mixed, creating some interesting results. From some of the most…
The Three Links Odd CastFundraiser For Ukraine
A week and a half ago, Brother John Reitzer-Smith was presiding over a lodge meeting as Noble Grand when the question arose if there were any Ukrainian Odd…
The Three Links Odd CastFriendship, Love, And Texas
For this very special episode we visit with Meredith Moore, Past Grand of Fort Worth Lodge #251 in Texas. Sister Meredith has become an active, indispensable…
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Rose Float... or Ritual And Regalia
For this episode we had put out an invitation to members of the Rose Float Committee to join us and talk about how they put the float together and what it does…
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A Banner Down Under
In 2009, a hall at the Stroud School of Arts in Dungog, Australia revealed an engaging secret: a hand-painted silk banner from the 19th Century. Two years…
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Finding A Lodge In The Wilderness
A popular novel inspired a curiosity about fraternalism back in 2016 for Gary Harper which led him to start researching various fraternal orders. After some…
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The Important Crossover: Part 2
UPDATE: the correct audio file has been uploaded! For those that downloaded the previous version, we hope you enjoyed a preview of "The Scandinavian Polka…
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Patriarchs Militant
Brother Mike Duminiak of West Virginia joins us as we reconvene for the new year to tell the story of the Patriarchs Militant. This oft-ignored branch of Odd…
The Three Links Odd CastChristmas Episode II
Toby and Ainslie take a nostalgic look back at the past year in Odd Fellows podcasting and revisit some of the topics they covered. Brother Nick Curry of…
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The Sun Never Sets On Fraternalism
Medieval English Craft Guilds were the wellspring of modern fraternalism. From those original attempts to protect trade secrets, educate artisans, and assist…
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Rebirth In Northern Illinois
Amidst the fields of corn, soy, and wheat, there's something else growing in Northern Illinois: Odd Fellowship. Brother Ray Jackson of Ottawa Lodge #41 shares…
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Building The Grand United Order
With a strong interest in history, esotericism, and philosophy, it was only a matter of time before Asean Malik Bey found his way to Odd Fellowship. That first…
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Thinking Like An Odd Fellow
More than a decade ago, Scott Moye was just your average historian in Arkansas. Fueled by a desire and curiosity to be a part of a fraternal order, he started…
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How To Run A Lodge Meeting
We've all had to sit through long, meandering, pointless meetings. Why should we allow our lodge meetings to be disorganized and annoying to sit through?…
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Do we deliver what we promise?
Ainslie and Toby spend some time contemplating the culture clash that often happens when new members join lodges full of long-time members. On the one side…
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Odd Fellows' Primer
Back home from Sovereign Grand Lodge in Cincinnati, Brothers Ainslie and Toby share their exhaustive interview with Grand Master of California Michael…
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Idaho Museum Re-dedication
Toby and Christopher hit the road to attend the Rededication of the Idaho Odd Fellows Museum in Caldwell, ID. While there, they conducted interviews with Grand…
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Answering Half-Asked Questions
In April of this year the Half-Asked Podcast did an episode about the Odd Fellows. (You can hear their episode here.) Our colleague Billy Sanderson from Modern…
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Anniversary Spectacular
Ainslie, Toby, and Christopher are reunited with Sergio to celebrate the First Anniversary of the Three Links Odd Cast. The four Odd Fellows discuss the first…
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Thoughts From A Former Member
If you've ever wondered what former members think after they stop participating in a lodge, this episode is for you. The Three Links Odd Casters are joined by…
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Oregon's Online Sessions
In 2020 almost all Odd Fellowship was put on hold, including most jurisdictional Grand Sessions. For 2021, the jurisdiction of Oregon found some clever and…
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Fraternal History in the UK
Prompted by a character in an old episode of Star Trek, Owen Snowdon wanted to grow up and wear a sash. His grandfather, a member of the Royal Antediluvian…
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Another New Lodge - Wyoming
George Sliney, a young immigrant from County Cork, Ireland, rode out along Owl Creek in Wyoming Territory in the latter half of the 19th Century and staked a…
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What If - There Was A Crossover, Pt. 2
It's another crossover episode with our brothers and friends at Modern Goat Rider! Ours is the second half of the crossover so be sure to download and listen…
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About The Rebekahs
The Rebekahs are an important component of Odd Fellowship that frequently gets overlooked when talking about the Order. Prompted by a request from a Rebekah in…
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Musical Heritage of Odd Fellowship
Odd Fellowship has a long heritage of music, much of which has been forgotten. In this episode we explore the mysteries of the Ode Book and other forgotten…
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New Lodge In Virginia
Nick Curry was sitting in his hometown in Virginia looking for some kind of community organization to join. He searched on the Internet and made a list of all…