Hey, Pat Sullivan here, and if you're ready to start the new year taking care of you,

then my friends at Hope Plumbing are here to help.

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Let's celebrate the new year with the gift of soft water

and ditch annoying scale buildup, failing appliances, and rough skin and nails. Call my friends

at Hope Plumbing today. Jimmy, did you happen to notice? I have not looked. Did the Dodgers

play a late game last night? I did not check. Eddie's usually my baseball go-to guy.

They did not play last night and there was only like four games yesterday.

That is good news for our next guest because had the Dodgers played, he'd be having an extra

cup of coffee this morning after staying up late to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers, but

he doesn't need any coffee to be energetic about what's going to happen tomorrow

night in Phoenix, because from 2012 until 2013, the Honorable Mitch Daniels was the president

of Purdue University, that of course after his term as governor of Indiana. And he joins us on the

program. And Mitch, I guess I should begin by saying boiler up, right?

Well, unless you want to sing the North Central fight song first, but yeah, that's a good place. I can do that too, right? I can still do it. But no, boiler up is the right

place to start, of course. Hey, let's go back to this because, you know, this, I was thinking

about this on the way in,

and I don't think that it ever became anything more than just like a ripple in the pond.

But there had been times where people, Purdue fans that I know, were like, I don't know if Matt Painter's the right guy.

They get beat early in the tournament and da-da-da-da-da.

Did you, when you were at the helm of the university, and I realized there were bigger

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