Today, in our latest Throwback Thursday encore episode, we say good-bye and best wishes to Mikenzie Frost.

Nikki’s turn, and Sal the Skunk Guy it is!

We talked to Sal Palombo of Michigan Animal Control back in February. By far one of the most fun guests we’ve had on Cold Oatmeal.

We were so little!

This is our first Throwback Thursday podcast of the summer, and it’s Matt’s pick. We go back to the very beginning: the pilot episode of Cold Oatmeal with Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service.

Today, we drop anchor on season three of the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

Today, we move some books.

Cheyna Roth, journalist and friend of Cold Oatmeal, is with us to talk about her new, great book, “Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection.” Yes, we talk famous unsolved murders, mysteries, and kidnappings with a first-time author who is now in the book marketing business.

If you held five people hostage and made them participate in a podcast, what would it look like? THIS PHOTO! Wait, no. That’s not how this is supposed to go.

How do you run a statewide, daily radio program in a pandemic? Yeah, that’s more like it.

Stephen Kemp is a metro Detroit funeral director. He’s worked in the industry for 36 years.

The last eight weeks have been unlike any he’s faced, and he wrote about it in Newsweek in late April. As of this posting, he’s buried or cremated 73 victims of COVID-19.

In September of 2018, we talked with Matt Mencarini. This week, he was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage.

In Matt’s honor and because it was a really interesting conversation, we are re-upping “Reporting ‘True Evil.”

Here at the Cold Oatmeal Podcast, we love eating out. A lot. Joining us today to talk about restaurants and the COVID realities they face is Justin Winslow, President and CEO of the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association.

Curious about the new realities of news reporting in the COVID-19 era? We go to the source and talk to Chad Livengood, senior editor at Crain’s Detroit Business.