The Cold Oatmeal Podcast

If it’s cold, cloudy and a weird mix of icy and muddy, then it must be award show season! And so it is, time for the 3rd Annual Reschies, our team’s look back at the highs, lows and inane of 2025. This year, with a special surprise. We have a guest host! No, not Conan, or Billy, Nikki, or Nate. It’s Michelle Lange, Director Emeritus of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget!...

We’ve found him! The guy in charge of finding and putting up in front of the State Capitol the State of Michigan Christmas tree. Or, more officially, The State Christmas Tree Guy. Heath Miller is our guest. Heath works for the State of Michigan, and, among other things, he is responsible for arguably Michigan’s largest and most prominent holiday decoration. It’s our holiday episode, and it’s a goo...

Buckle up! We break all the rules on today’s episode. Joe Ford of Netvantage SEO is our guest, and he is an expert in how we search the internet and the ads we all see as a result. He’s a CEO of SEO! Plus, we are all officially in Buell/Becsey wedding crunch time. Will Joe get his vows done in time? You’re listening to the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

You think your lawn is nice? Bet it’s not as nice as the Grassman’s. Trey Rogers is a professor and researcher in Michigan State University’s internationally renowned Turfgrass Management Program, and just like he did in 1994, he’s helping grow, move and place the playing fields for the World Cup happening across North America next summer. How do you grow beautiful, healthy grass soccer fields and...

I love me an amazing intro to a Cold Oatmeal episode. Especially an amazing intro in support of a terrific guest. Today, Samantha Harkins, new CEO of Lansing 5:01, is in the CO chair. Lansing 5:01’s mission is to retain and attract young professionals in the Lansing region. There’s no small task, but if you know Samantha, and we know that a lot of you do, you know there is no one better for the jo...

Despite internet and Lansing lunch spot conspiracy theories that Sean Fitzgerald was recruited to Resch Strategies in order to end the Cold Oatmeal Podcast once and for all, we are back! The Alec Baldwin of Cold Oatmeal, Zach Gorchow, is our guest - again. Zach is President of Michigan Operations for Gongwer News Service. He is an expert reporter of and pundit on all things Lansing politics, and h...

We’re back! Well kinda. Our technical difficulties have been addressed, and we are back in the Cold Oatmeal studios to welcome our new colleague, Sean Fitzgerald. Some might say his hiring was part of a grand and complicated conspiracy involving Avril Lavigne, Jose Uribe, traffic lights and a bay leaf. We explore, you win. You’re listening to the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

Whether nursing your Lame Duck hangover or fighting the traffic of last minute holiday shopping or ducking away from annoying relatives, we’ve got just what the internet-certified doctor ordered up… the 2nd Annual Reschies! That’s right. Do something once, and it’s a mistake. Do the same thing again a year later, and it’s annual. And so it is with the Reschies, our team’s look back at 2024 with aw...

We are one week out. Who’s gonna win this thing? We know it won’t be the American people, but respected pollster Richard Czuba joins us to share who’s trending to at least get the most votes. Richard owns the Glengariff Group and has been doing non-partisan opinion research and polling for more than 30 years. He’s the pollster for the Detroit News and WDIV TV 4 in Detroit, and today he’s our elect...

Residents and regular visitors to East Lansing – Heck! Even college football or basketball TV viewers across the country – know there are only a few iconic “college bars” in town. Mike Krueger owns them both. For decades now, Crunchy’s and the Peanut Barrel have been “the places to go” for MSU students and local residents alike, serving good beer, amazing burgers and great – although maybe slightl...

17 years ago, Jim Tobin started the first social media consulting firm in America while working here in Michigan. Let that sentence sink in for a minute. Jim literally wrote the book on social media marketing back then, and today, he and his social media and influencer marketing companies – Ignite Social Media and Carusele – are going strong. Is Twitter dead? Is AI scary? Is social media still jus...

Ferguson for three???… Money! Desmond Ferguson grew up in Lansing. He played high school, college and pro basketball, including a stop in the NBA. In 2002, he founded Moneyball Sportswear, a Lansing-based company providing customized team uniforms and individual apparel. Today, he’s on Cold Oatmeal. Plus, a quick engagement update and some whale watching. It’s the Cold Oatmeal Podcast. Moneyball S...

One might argue this is the most self-indulgent episode of Cold Oatmeal to date, and one is probably correct. But we’ve got big news to announcement and bucket list experiences to share. Joe and Carly took a long walk on a beach in Michigan in March. Steph sat a long time in a jury box in St. Johns. And the rest of us have been working here long enough to mark the occasion. It an engagement, an an...

Prime Combat Gray Maynard

It’s the Reschies! The year-end awards show you didn’t know your holiday week needed until this very moment. Join us, the Resch Strategies team as we bestow our awards upon the things that made or annoyed our 2023. Lunch of the Year. Person of the Year. Distraction of the Year. Dumpster Fire of the Year. Heck, Nick’s rambling Reschie earns its own Reschie for being the worst Reschie of the year. E...

Elderly Instruments America’s Small Business of the Year

Grewel Hall at 224

Year of the Opposite Saddleback BBQ

Lansing Symphony

Matt Eyde’s Demo Real Black Ops Arabesque , a short film by Nathaniel Eyde.

Rachel shoots hoops.

For more than 20 years, John Lindert has been a leading golf pro in mid-Michigan serving as director of golf at the Country Club of Lansing. This follows tours teaching the game at clubs around the country, and all those rounds, lessons, relationships, and – of late – airline miles recently landed John a new job. Late last year, he was elected and began his two-year term as president of the PGA of...

State of Fitness

State Representative Angela Witwer has had herself quite a few months. First, she led the MI House Democrats to an Election Day victory that earned the party majority. Then, she chaired the influential effort that assigned all House members to their committees. And then, she was named chair of the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee. But today, after all that, she’s truly arrived. Angela W...

If you’re a life-long fan of Michigan State basketball, there may not be a better job in the world than the one held by today’s guest. For every home game throughout the fall and winter, Jeremy Sampson has a courtside seat for it all. He’s the public address announcer for Spartan basketball, and today he joins the podcast to give us a behind the scenes look at a Sparty dream job. Then, Carly lands...