Your long summer of silence is over.  The Cold Oatmeal podcast is back! 

It’s season three, and we start it with Charlie. Charlie LeDuff, that is. Buckle up, and earmuffs, kids

How many “hits” must one have in order to compile a “Greatest Hits” album?  Today, we push this existential question to its limits.

Before our summer furlough, we listen back to our favorite moments with some of our favorite guests from season two.

You know those times when you have to get up super early, and you toss and turn afraid you’re going to sleep through your alarm?  Now, imagine “super early” actually means 1:30 a.m., and you have to do it every day, and after you do it you have to go on LIVE TV for four hours.

That’s the life of today’s podcast guest, Ann Marie LaFlamme.

It’s the “Nikki Summit,” and on the agenda are social media strategies and tips, John Beilein, online pet peeves, broccoli, and news embargoes.

It’s time to spin the wheel, draw a card, and hit the buzzer.

Today, Matt Ottinger is our guest on the podcast.  For 29 years, Matt hosted “QuizBusters” on PBS.  He’s also a game show expert and a former contestant.

We love stories about people who take a chance and start something cool.  We especially love stories about people who take a chance, start something cool and become the very best in the country at doing it.

That’s Linda Hundt’s story, creator of the Sweetie-licous bakery and winner of 19 National Pie Championships.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: running the Cold Oatmeal podcast is just like running the programing for Michigan’s biggest public radio station, and today we prove it!

With us is Zoe Clark, program director for Michigan Radio. 

Play ball!  The national pastime is back, and so is the Cold Oatmeal podcast.

Today we talk a little baseball with a guy whose job it is to literally talk about baseball.  Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, the radio voice of the Lansing’s minor league baseball team, the Lansing Lugnuts.

Road trippin’ it!  Joe bought a plastic tub, and the team hit the road to visit Michigan’s oldest restaurant.

Today, we tackle a topic ignored by the masses for just too long… the weather.  That’s right.  It’s time we shine the light of day on this issue that no one ever wants to talk about.

Ahmad Bajjey joins us to bring some serious weather knowledge to the podcast.  Ahmad is an award-winning meteorologist with NBC25 in Flint, and he’s awesome.