The Cold Oatmeal Podcast Resch Strategies

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 anniversary and a jury, and it’s the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

We’ve often thought listening to this podcast was like taking a flying knee to the face. Today, it kinda is.

UFC mixed martial arts star Gray Maynard is our guest. Gray fought on TV and in the UFC for more than a decade after wrestling for the Spartans of MSU and appearing on the reality show, The Ultimate Fighter. Now, Gray is back in Lansing. He’s opened a training gym, Prime Combat, and he’s stopping by as probably our most world-famous (next to Santa Claus) Cold Oatmeal guest.

Plus an added bonus, our good friend, Bob “The Voice” Olsen, helps us knock out the cold open.

Ding, ding, ding. It’s the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

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. Everyone gets a Reschie!

It’s the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

A mid-Michigan institution and international retailer, Elderly Instruments is now also award winning. Recently named America’s Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Elderly isn’t slowing down, even if their CEO did just stop by to talk with us.

Lily Werbin is our guest. Her dad started Elderly more than 50 years ago, and now she runs the internationally known seller of new, used, and vintage musical instruments.

Then, once Lily leaves the studio, we raise the level of conversation to include our banjo Top Hits list and Joe’s fancy, new backyard soaking tub.

It’s the Cold Oatmeal Podcast. You know you love it!

It’s time to kick off season seven of Cold Oatmeal, and we do it by meeting our newest downtown Lansing neighbor, Grewal Hall at 224.

Grewal Hall at 224 is a concert venue and event space that is set to open its doors very soon. We talk to one of its owners, Jenna Meyer, about the Lansing music scene, what a concert promoter does, the history of Lansing’s Common Ground music festival, what was the most annoying artist request and her plans for bringing live entertainment to downtown.

Then, 1985 takes the stage with Nick, Laura and Matt’s favorite artists.

You’re listening to the Cold Oatmeal Podcast.

A wise man once said, “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.” So, our initial instinct to take the summer off from the podcast studio has led us here today to a first-of-its-kind July episode of Cold Oatmeal and a conversation with someone who launched his very own Year of the Opposite project.

Travis Stoliker is a mid-Michigan entrepreneur who has been at the center of two familiar Lansing success stories: the development, growth, and sale of the internet company Liquid Web, and the popular restaurant Saddleback BBQ. But it was the death of three close friends over a few short months that led him to face difficult times and the decision to change up his life by trying the opposite.

Travis is our guest, and rather than tuna on toast, we go for the chicken salad on rye, untoasted.

You’re listening to the “Hot” Oatmeal Podcast.