Home & Garden Show 2-7-26

·1 hr 21 min·5 clips

Wind, not just cold, is what usually freezes pipes in exposed home chases.

Pat Sullivan starts with a Hope Plumbing pitch. He links Indiana basketball to a spring plumbing warning, says Hope will snake your main line for $49 with a free camera inspection, and urges listeners to call 641-HOPE before the season makes things worse. Electrical help gets folded in too: the same sponsor spot says Hope’s electricians handle flickering lights, trip breakers, panel upgrades, and new outlets, so the read stretches from clogged drains to safer power without losing the friendly, familiar delivery. After a Michalis Corporation mention, the station audio needs a moment to settle. Once the microphones are behaving, the crew greets one another and makes clear they are live from the Suburban Indy Home and Outdoor Living Show at Grand Park in Westfield, with the room already busy enough to sound like a party before the real talking starts. The name of the event gets teased. They joke about the full title, compare notes on how many years they have been turning up for it, and treat the expo as something they have watched grow from a smaller repeat stop into a bigger fixture. Pat’s notes come up. Terry says the show changes when Pat is missing, Pat fires back that Terry actually makes sense when he gets a chance, and the two of them turn that into a quick riff about planning, loose banter, and the difference between a carefully built show and one that just tries to keep up. Donnell is part of the orbit. The hosts ask where the guest is, note that Donnell will be there, and slide into a joke about her husband, Lazarus, who gets described as a survivor because he keeps coming back from the dead, or at least from whatever trouble he has been through. Booth talk keeps surfacing. Sleep Source gets a plug in booths 445 and 544, the hosts joke about comfortable mattresses, and the broadcast keeps using little expo details to keep the live setting grounded. The building itself matters. Listeners hear about free parking, the little restaurant upstairs, and the fact that the show runs until seven on Saturday and four on Sunday, which makes the whole thing sound like an easy place to wander, eat, and browse. Wilson’s Farm Market shows up too. That name gets folded into the same community clutter as the rest of the floor, which is exactly how this show likes its material: sponsor reads, vendors, jokes, and local references all stacked on top of one another. The closer stays goofy. A leg-wrestling dare, waivers, a leotard joke, and a final reminder about the Suburban Indy Home and Outdoor Living Show leave the broadcast sounding like a live room that never bothered to separate the official program from the side chatter.

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A loose live home-and-garden hour where local color and personality carry the show.

This episode is a live Saturday home-and-garden hour built around Pat Sullivan and the crew at the Suburban Indy Home and Outdoor Living Show at Grand Park.

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You want a Saturday live radio show that feels busy, local, and a little unruly.

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