December 23, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 89: Long Live 2021!

December 23, 2021

Matt Resch

So, 2021 was pretty awesome, and we think it’s about time we talk about it.

Today, Lauren Gibbons, political reporter at MLive, Elisabeth Waldon, news editor of the Greenville Daily News, and Samantha Schriber, state Senate reporter for MIRS News Service, join the podcast.

What were the big issues of the year, and what’s ahead for 2022?

More importantly, did Nikki and Anna land tickets to see Adele?

It’s our year-end reporter roundtable episode, and you’re listening to the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

December 9, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 88: The Poinsettia King of West Michigan

December 9, 2021

Matt Resch

It’s the official Christmas plant, and today we learn all about the poinsettia from a man who has grown them for more than 30 years.

November 24, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 87: Extra Credit for the Win

November 24, 2021

Matt Resch

It’s been almost 30 years since I first met Ben Bodkin. High school classmates, college roommates, and now adult friends and professional colleagues, this episode was supposed to be a rip-roaring blast from our shared past. Instead, a story of miracles and gratitude broke out.

November 11, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 86: MapQuest

November 11, 2021

Matt Resch

Today, we talk to Ben Solis, reporter at Gongwer News Service. As part of a questionable, new-employee hazing process, our friend Zach Gorchow assigned poor Ben to follow every minute of this redistricting process and write about it. Now, Ben is quite an expert on it all.

October 28, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 85: A Michigan Murder Mystery

October 28, 2021

Matt Resch

53 years ago, Michigan was shaken by the gruesome murder of a family of six in their Northern Michigan, lakeshore cottage. Today, it remains one of Michigan’s most mysterious cold cases.

It’s a Halloween episode murder mystery, and it’s the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

October 14, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 84: The White Whale

October 14, 2021

Matt Resch

With agility and cunning, Kurt has evaded us these past many years, but no longer. As many know, Kurt is routinely named Michigan’s most effective lobbyist in the MIRS News Capitol Insiders Survey. Today, his stature grows even larger, because at long last, Kurt Berryman is our guest.

September 30, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 83: A Short Story

September 30, 2021

Matt Resch

Short’s Brewing Company is a Michigan treasure. Joe Short is its founder, and today he helps us kick off season five of the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

August 5, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 82: Some Personal News

August 5, 2021

Matt Resch

Today, we come out of our summer podcast siesta for a special one-time-only, news-breaking episode.

We have a new colleague joining the Resch Strategies/Cold Oatmeal team, and today you get to meet her… or him.

July 1, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 81: Timmy Skubs

July 1, 2021

Matt Resch

It’s the season finale, and we go out big!

Tim Skubick, Michigan’s Senior Capitol Correspondent and host of public television’s “Off the Record,” is our last guest of season four. Tim has more than 50 years in covering Michigan’s political beat.

June 17, 2021

Matt Resch

Episode 80: Law & Order: Breakfast Food

June 17, 2021

Matt Resch

Andy Arena has a nearly 25-year career as one of this country’s top FBI agents, with assignments in LA after the riots of ’92, organized crime, counterterrorism following 9/11, and public corruption in Youngstown, OH and Detroit.

He’s retired from the Bureau now and leads the Detroit Crime Commission, a non-profit founded to support the work of local law enforcement organizations. Naturally, he had time to come to Lansing to talk to us.