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.

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.

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!

How do you grow beautiful, healthy grass soccer fields and put them in football stadiums with cement floors, some of them indoors? How do you make sure the fields will hold up for the biggest sporting event in the world? What’s his own lawn look like? And how often should you mow? Trey Rogers, Michigan State University turfgrass guru, shares it all, and it’s fascinating.

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.

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.

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.

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.