Greg Adamec - Greenhouse Grove - 6/7/2025

Full show from the Donovan & Jorgenson Heating & Cooling Studio: Saturday, June 6th, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming live from the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios.
I'm Mike mcgiver alongside the owner of Creative Construction Wisconsin.
The's Bingo Emmons Bingo. How you been.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're doing good. We're doing good.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
On Sam wants to remind people that we pretty much
are full for this summer.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
No, okay, three people walked into the studio earlier, and
you're booking appointments for them.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Okay, no trying, guys. All the people stand in line.
We're not getting guys ahead.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Not supposed to lie, So I'm only kidding Sam. He
did not do any of.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
The other ways. Yeah, December and January for insight plasts,
y and stuff. We still have openings.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Good Creative Construction. They've been around a long time. Sixth generations.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh yeah, by the way, did you watch Arka race
last night?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I did not. I did not. I was watching we
watching paint.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know, because butter being won. So you know, if
you're a race fan, you know butterweighting. Wait, what does
that mean? Everybody goes to the Waffle Holls for some reason,
But that's what they all do. I'll go to Waffalls.
See if you're a race car fan, you would know this.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Actually I wouldn't know that, but I'm not. And you
always want to talk about race and they just turned
last year.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's true, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Actually, actually had I had a NASCAR guy on to
come out call live at our radio and he didn't
know what that Mike did. I don't even know what
to talk to him about him.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I had no idea. So what kind of tires you you?
Stuff like that? I got nothing, I got nothing. Our
special guest in studio, he's always full of surprises, always
full of surprises. We have mister and missus Greg Adamic
in studio.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Greg, how you've been I've been amazing, thinking mind, it's
good to see you again for long time.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
It has been a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
You walked in and you brought a special guest with you,
very special guests. Congratulations, Thank you very much. I see
similar to Bengo and Iye, you all kicked your coverage.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
You bet?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Huh. Miss Becky's way too good looking for you. Let's
just be let's just be honest to you, throat. Is
that what you mean, Nancy? Yeah, I've got it right here. Look,
I've got no I've got it there. I just didn't
have a glass.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
And I know I'm not gonna correct you.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Miss Nancy. That's okay. And she's here and she's like, oh,
I'll sit in here, but I'm not going on the radio,
and I go, yeah, right, all right, yes you are,
because I got a bunch of questions her decision process
is what I want to know.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well, this is about the foundation, so we'll talk.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, you are a foundation, and she's complete.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
She's the president of.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
The Greg adamcfounder the whole village. You are a village
of it. You are the president of the foundation, and
that's really cool. And uh, I got a lot of
questions for you. Got a couple events coming up. July
ninth is the gal founding, right teed up for the Trades.
September twelfth, Pull for the Trades is uh yeah, pretty cool.
You guys do a clay shoot fundraiser, yeah, and raising

(02:50):
money for the foundation. And for years, mister Adamic, I've
I've used this show to complain about thenary Foundation.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah you have.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
My complaint is you guys. I don't think you do
a good enough job of getting up on the mountaintop
and saying look at the great work that we're doing.
You guys do all the great work and then you
don't tell anybody about it. And I look, I have
kids in here. After this show. I do a high
school show for two hours, and we have high school
age kids in here. And I wouldn't say weekly, but monthly,

(03:21):
we'll have kids that go, I want to get in
the trades. I'm getting in the trades. I'm not sure
which trade. I'm going to do this And here's the journey.
And I tell them to go to the Nary Milwaukee
Foundation and do the scholarship thing, and they're they're hoping
that more the more kids sign up. And a lot
of times people are like, what, wait, which foundation?

Speaker 6 (03:40):
What is?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
What is? What is Nary Milwaukee Foundation.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
So I appreciate you here, he's no president. They change
over to board. The board's been changed over in the
last year or so. Though coming they're changing stuff. They're
going to go another dressing because what it is it's
been like a secret. Yeah, it's been like a secret.
I'm gonna marry member for a long time, and you know,
you don't talk what the foundation was, but now it's
it's it's Craig is gonna make sure we hear about it.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Great, doesn't mind getting up on the mountains.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Happened, and I'm I'm not too shy. I was the
president back in two thousand, two thousand and seven or eight, no,
nine to fifteen.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
But and thank you for bringing that up because you
did that rummage sale.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, that thing was a monster. You want to talk
about something that raised a bunch of money. It was
a lot of work, man, it was. I went over
there like it was like from eight to four. Let's
say I would go over there at like three thirty
and you'd be like, hey, Matt, just make an offer
on some of this stuff. I'm going to have to

(04:44):
get rid of all of it, So anything you want.
But it was amazing. It was amazing. And I don't know,
I don't think you had a lot of help at
the end there.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
I didn't want to talk about this right now. I'm
getting I'm getting jittery right now because there was a
lot of.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Work, and I for completely it was great. It you
were were at the other radio station and you were
talking about it and you and you had said to me, look,
I can tell you all about it, but but if
you you got to show up. Just show up and
look around because you're gonna find some great deals and
all this money's going to the foundation. And I remember
right near the end and you were like, I don't know,

(05:20):
I can't do this anymore. It was taking up a
lot of your time.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, I waited up as Billy.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, it took up my whole building, took up his
whole billing.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yes it was.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
The runners say it was great and it was a
great fundraiser for us, and we moved on to a
bigger and different things and that was that was a
great time back then.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
So yeah, it raised a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Though, it raised a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
And right now we have some new fund raisers that
have kind of taken place of those those things. Yeah,
like you said, the golf outing is coming up. That's
one of our biggest fundraisers. Are you golfing on that?
By the way, I am not you and Spencer going
to be on a force.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
No, like Spencer says yes, Spencer, okay, yeah, see he
get over there.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
It's a great fundraiser for us.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
We also we also have our Sporting Clay shoot in
September September twelve that has been a great walk.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
So yeah, I don't think I've missed. I don't think
i' missed a year of that.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, we started that. It was at Warren Valley.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
We had thirty people an hore in the We're over
one hundred and now this year, I want more people
and the public is welcome. It's a it's a great
shoot again raising funds for people getting into the trades.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
So I just kids.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I told you when you came in, we talked about
this trip. I went to San Diego, this hush Marine
who camp thing and I got a chance to shoot
a weapon for the first time in my life. And
we were shooting at a target. Yeah that is why where? Yeah,
and I went seventeen. I hit the thing seventeen out

(06:49):
of twenty. And I was all cocky and I said
to Major Blackwell, I go, can you do that? You
started laughing. You said, I'm a sniper. I go, what
does that mean? He goes, you're shooting from to one
hundred yards? Put it at six hundred yards same weapon.
I'm twenty for twenty center mass And I'm like, are
you kidding me? I was all cocky, like some barely

(07:10):
hit the target? Yeah, And he said, yeah, no, you
got a long way to go.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
Pell those guys. For the reason it was pretty.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Cool and I wasn't horrible at it, that clay shoot
might be something fun for a guy like me.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Oh absolutely, and we take you know, if you're a
pro shooter, if you're a you want to just get
into it, like like Bingo and Zach just got into it.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
At the beginning, Zach borrowed a gun.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Zach is so addicted now I don't even know how
many guns he's gotten out.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, it's either golf or clay shooting.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, And we started the shooting because there's not a
lot of people like the golf and we wanted to
include everybody. So we started this shoot and it's just
been growing and growing and it's just been a great fundraiser.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
So hey, let's talk a little bit about the mission
statement for the Nary Milwaukee Foundation. You as president, and
I know that that some angels are being made, which
I think are a good thing. If somebody asks you
what what you feel is the president of the Narry Foundation,
what the overall mission statement would be for the foundation,

(08:11):
what would you say.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well, the foundation is the the Molacinary Foundation is the
fundraising chapter, the fundraising arm of the Molwaccuinary chapter. So
we raise funds. Education is huge for us. We raise
funds for people that are getting into the trades. I
used to say kids getting into the trades, but it's
people and it's it's also Milacuinary members that are trying

(08:34):
to advance their careers within their own companies.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Bingo has utilized to.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Get different certifications for his people and himself and it's
just a it's great continuing education for a professional, a
professional contractor in the market.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
And people have got all the crs after name, all
those initials after their names. Yeah, Nary does up does
all his educations. And then they also they'll give you
a scholarship for doing that, like Aaron, Aaron just did
a course, like let's think of a six week course
you I mean, normally it would have cost him six hundred bucks.
But the foundation does scholarships, and it's it's a lot
about education. Like he just said, foundation is a charitable

(09:13):
arm and we do other things. They do, you know,
scholarships the people, right, was that I think we the
last one we did that. I was going to Stellar
or something for construction management and he gave him a scholarship.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Last one, I think it was all was that.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
And they've given the foundation over the years have given
more than a quarter of a million dollars away in scholarships, grants, equipment,
and supplies to Wisconsin based educational institutions. A quarter of
a million dollars has been given away. And let's let's
make sure that we say that a couple of times
because all this work that you guys do and we don't,

(09:49):
we don't need to talk about the old rummage sale
think because you have on your forehead right now, but
certainly with with people donating as you're you're listening to this.
If you want to know more about the foundation, go
to Narry Milwaukee dot org and they go to the
Milwaukee Foundation page and they give you the value statements
and guiding principles. They talk a little bit about giving funds.

(10:13):
If you're feeling led that you might want to continue
and help this foundation, whether it's five bucks or one
hundred bucks, understand where the money's going. They are a
registered five oh one seats a nonprofit organization. The money
is going to a really good cause. When you talk
about giving away scholarships and it's to high school age

(10:34):
people and then to people that are either displaced or
feel like they want a career rather than a job
and they need some help as far as education. The foundation,
you fill out a pretty easy form, by the way,
it's pretty and yeah, and get in and get your
name into to get some The money that they give

(10:54):
to people in our community is really incredible, and I
think it's important that people understand that Narry Milwaukee members
they're very generous, but there are people outside of the
Narry Milwaukee family that are also giving money or they're
coming to some of these fundraisers because somebody in their
family has either gotten one of these scholarships or they've

(11:14):
gotten some equipment or supplies, and understand some of the
great work that this foundation is just.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Some of us we do.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, the Narry Foundation does a lot of things,
some things that you know, they just don't talk about
it because you know, they're like, we model a kitchen
for one of the you know, battered wife, sure syndrome things,
whatever they is that they do, and you can't you
can't say, hey, look at what we did over here
in this secret location, and we do a lot of
stuff they do a lot of stuff like that. They
help people with other organizations. We just we gave a

(11:44):
bunch of kids that are trying to get into the trades.
You know, Waukee Christen Center is working with these kids.
They tear down a house, We build a house, trying
to keep these guys the career and stuff. So then
it's winter time, so we end up buying them some
winter jackets, gloves through the foundation. Yeah, through the foundation
to help these kid out.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
And if you'd have seen, it's it's kind of funny
because when we walked up to the job site, it
was rainy, it was a really bad day, and these
kids are out there and their hoodies and they're not
dressed for it, and they just they were smiling and
they were doing their thing. And then we gave them
these big industrial coats and hats and and bakle of us.
Anybody know what a bacle is, Spencer, I'll take two

(12:24):
places and.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Uh and and gloves and everything.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
And these these kids were just with open arms and
we had twenty five kids there and it was a great.
It was great cause because now they can work on
the elements, which if you're in the trades, are going
to be working on the elements. No matter what, if
you're an electrician and you're a plumber, you're siding roofing,
you're going to be in the elements at one point.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
And these kids were very grateful, So it was a
good cause. Greg.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Have you seen over the years that you've been involved
in all of this, have you? Are you starting to
see the pendulum change and switch a little bit where
you feel like kids that are in high school, not
every guidance counselor are saying you're a four year or
college year, two year college, or you should take going
to the military, and then the last two guys who you know, oh,

(13:07):
maybe you should go in the trades. Do you feel
like that's changed a little bit?

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Oh, it's changed drastically. We've done so much work over
the years and we're seeing educators just like you said,
educators are saying, you know what, it's not that school
is not the right path for anybody, but hey, the
trades are a great example of how you can make
a very good living. We have statistics that show that
you go to a four year college or you you

(13:32):
go into the trades right away, and we have statistics
of how much it costs you to go to college
and how much money you'll make and unless you're an
extreme doctor of some sort, the person that goes to school.
And don't anybody challenge me on this. Just I'll get
phone calls off.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Her dot com or reach out to Nancy exactly.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
But I mean, we have statistics and figures that show
how long it takes for the for the person that
went to school to catch up to the person that's
in the trades dollars.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
ABC actually has one of those charts to it, like
if a person gets out and wants to become a
surgeon and that person joins the Carpenter's you know Carpenter's deal,
right right, right, you're fifty four to fifty six years
old before the doctor starts making more than that Carpenter.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
Amazing trying to pay off his two fifty thousand dollars school.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, And I tell this story a lot. I had
a kid from Greendale, Martin Luther, that's now at Current
Electric and he's been there I believe four years now,
and his buddies are all getting done with school or
they have another year left, and he is like buying
his first house, right, And the idea is he's going
to buy it, flip it. And he said, you know,
by the time I'm forty, I one a house out

(14:43):
on Milwaukee Lake. And here's the way I'm going to
get there. Yeah, all of this. So, hey, before we
get your break, if you can slide the microphone over
a little bit.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
It's stuck.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, it's not. No, it's not Miss Nancy. How are you.
It's nice to meet you.

Speaker 7 (14:58):
Nice to meet you too, well, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Congratulations on marrying a really good guy. Superman over here
is what Clark kent kind of thing. Hey, so tell
me where you work. What do you do?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
So?

Speaker 7 (15:13):
I work for SRS Building Products.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
We're actually a new supplier that came into Wisconsin two
years ago.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
ACA House Business. Great, Yeah, what do you do for them?

Speaker 6 (15:22):
I am a territory manager. It's an outside sales roll.
So I go and sell. I try to get builders
to come and purchase from me.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, so you guys located We.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Are in Menominee Falls, Delivan, Madison and Steven's point.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Wow to you and where's their corporate offices?

Speaker 7 (15:41):
Mckidney, Texas.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, look, man, good for you. You handle this area
or do you handle.

Speaker 7 (15:46):
The state of Wisconsin, the state of Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
So you traveled a little bit.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
I do quite a bit, man.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
What did you do prior to that? And is this
the industry that you've always been involved in?

Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yes? I actually used to work for ABC supply.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, well and born born in Mexico, but lived in Illinois.
And you said, look, I'm officially a chiefs head. No, yes,
well it wasn't after the wedding in January. Was that
one of the things that Adam ha said you have
to be a Yeah, yeah, that was part of it,
part of the freedom. You got to be a packer fan,
a Bucks fan, can't be a Cubs fan kind of stuff. Well,

(16:20):
it's really nice to meet you and big fan of
your husbands. He's a good dude and he does really
good work, and he busts me up a little bit.
But other than that, he's he's not he's not. He
means well, Yeah, he does mean well. Has he talked
about me behind my back to you at all?

Speaker 7 (16:35):
All the time?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
All the time. Yeah, for sure, we're going to get
to a break on this side of the break, Greg,
if it's okay, we want to kind of recap that
Greenhouse Grove project that that you guys did kind of
when we talk about getting high school aged kids more
involved in the trades. What a great project. And we're
going to talk a little bit about the schools that

(16:56):
were involved. Will continue to ask Nancy what she was thinking.
But I think she made a good decision. I don't
know if Fingo does or not, but well we'll figure
that part out. You got something to.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Say here, Well, now I know why she travels around
the stake. You have to get away from.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
That there it is, that's hold on. That's called the
mic trot.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, I hear that. You know.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
One thing that Michael has told me is don't ever
wrestle with the guy with a microphone.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
So I don't know you don't, I don't. I never have.
I've never disputed you in your powers.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
No.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
As soon as we go to a break though, that's
it's coming coming.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Trust me.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
He is Greg Adamic again. He is the president of
Nary Milwaukee Foundation and his wife Nancy here in studio
alongside Bingo Emmons. I am Mike McGivern and this is
the creative Construction Wisconsin home. I Proumachow on Fox Sports
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(17:50):
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the largest employee owned HVAC company in this state of Wisconsin.
I'm Mike McGivern alongside the owner of Creative Construction Bingo Emmons,
and our special guest mister Greg Adamic.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Hello again.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
He is the president of Nary Milwaukee Foundation. His wife
Nancy is in. I was shocked when he introduced Nancy,
this is my wife, and I well, I was funny.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
You weren't funny. That was funny to your friends. Does
your family and friends tell you that you're funny?

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Yes? I support you.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
You know what I'll play you during the break. I'll
play you in a boy smail. I got YESTERR, my
brother tip, because I was messing with him and he said,
you are an awful funny human being.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
You ever talked to you.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
That's your brother. He's supposed to support you. John mcgi
is the funny one. No, everybody knows that.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, no, no, My dad did that one time.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
We were in the game me the show one time
and he goes, oh, I thought I was coming here
to see John mcgibbrin.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh yeah, that one hurt me. Yeah. Now used to
mess with me a lot with that, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
He like, he books events, I mean he books stadiums.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Anyway, he sells them off to the Nary Foundation. You
know what. You know what, I get told a lot, Hey,
can I meet the famous mcgiffern. I'm like, sure, you
can't meet the famous.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
One of my favorites is when people go, man, I'm
a huge fan of your brother John's I never missed
one segment of Around the Corner ever, And I go, really, yeah,
do I look familiar?

Speaker 5 (19:33):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
And I go out on the show one eight years
I was on the show. I did the sports for
a minute. Oh yeah, I must have missed it. So
but you watched every episode, yep, every single episode. Hey,
one event that we we do we failed to talk
about in the first segment. We talked about the golf event,
talked about the clay shoot event. But you guys have

(19:54):
a cigar and kind of bourbon. They have some bourbon
out there. Yeah, Cigar Bourbon event June eighteenth, Metro Cigar
in Germantown. Tell me about that.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, so it's a we just kind of invented this one.
This was just something that Cecily from the office said, Hey,
we should do something different, so we came up with
a cigar event. It's a Metro Cigar in Germantown. I
don't have the address of Metro Cigar, but it's not
hard to find. And it's for Nary members and non
Nary members. We just it's there's no agenda. We just
want to get a bunch of people. It's kind of

(20:22):
a networking event. You get to you get two drinks
and you get a cigar, and and there's a there's
a you know, obviously there's a fee where it's a fundraiser,
but yeah, just come out enjoy a cigar. Register online
yet at Milwaukee Airy Foundation dot org. That'll get you

(20:43):
on there, and it's just gonna be a great event.
We just want to kind of chill out and just
get together. Like I said, there's no agenda on this thing,
and it's filling up quick, so.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
And and do me a favor if you can. It's
it's not. I'm on the events page for foundation, and
I know this thing just came up, but let's if
there's if we can on Monday or so, let's get
some information on the Nairy Foundation page so that people
can register. June eighteenth is coming up quick to Wednesday
night Metro Cigar in Germantown, and you'll be able to

(21:19):
sign up, or if you have any questions, called the
Nairy Milwaukee office and they can get you in contact
either with Greg or somebody from the foundation board and
they'll answer. I'm sure at the main office I'll answer
any questions that you have for that event again. June eighteenth,
Metro Cigar in Germantown. Hey, I wanted to talk a

(21:39):
little bit about the Greenhouse Grove project and we talked
a lot about it beforehand, the schools that were involved,
and I just think that this event to get these
schools involved being going are pretty incredible, to be honest
with you, and how much work that you guys do
with that you you were happy with, how you're one

(21:59):
of the Greenhouse grow project went through. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah. Who won the viewers choice or the people's choice.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'm thinking it was the Witnell felt.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yes, right, yeah, oh yeah, wasn't that your team? That's
the one that we sponsored.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
And do you feel Look, we talked a lot about
it before it happened. How are you feeling after any
changes that you want to see or did it work
out really well? Would you like to.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Ask all schools, you know, the the outreach program that's
that runs this thing.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, they.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
It was a good event, but they actually they want
to do something better. So now we're going to do
what they call a big backyard. So so some some
schools have some challenges. You know, some schools are you know,
can do stuff great and some schools are just you know,
in their beginning stages of their tech programs, so they can, uh,
they can accept the challenge now something that's easier for
them they get from from I don't know, I think Asauna.

(22:49):
I saw one of them a play set. There's different
things now they can do for making a big backyard.
Every every school's got a chance to participate in one
of those sections on the project.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Greig, same question over the you happy with the way
Greenhouse Grove performed and we're making some changes with it,
but as far as the amount of schools involved, happy
with how the whole thing worked out.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, it worked out really good for our first year.
This kind of curtailed off of our past lives in
at our at then Area Foundation where we did the
shed or playhouse uh competition and we had schools build
a playhouse and then we raffled them off at the
show and it was just it was It was great
for the foundation and it was horrible for the foundations

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because logistics, it was.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
We had to get them out of there was bad.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
So we created as Greenhouse Grove and we got the
students involved, high schools involved. We had Oak Creek there, Franklin,
Saint Francis, South Milwaukee was there, Muskigo was there, Mcgonaga
was there, and Greendell was there, and Witnell and.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Don't forget Whitno because I think didn't they win the thing?

Speaker 5 (23:55):
Oh yeah yeah, okay, and Whitne was there.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Anyway, we got a competition going on in the studio anyway. Yeah,
it was great the kids, they all jumped in and
they performed really well. And like Bingo was saying, one
of the flaws that we found not a flaw, but
some schools have different skill sets or different capabilities based
on the shops that they have and so this year
we've created this big backyard and it is exactly what

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it's going to be. There's going to be playhouses there,
there's going to be decks there, there's going to be
planters and Arondick chairs whatever any kind of school can
build kind of a it's going to be built to
your level.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
And we're really excited about this.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
It's going to be a big feature at the Spring
Home Improvement Show.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
So anothery're going to bring up too is out that
whole This whole thing's also started like Greg a long
time ago with the Narry Foundation was skills usas did
the first couple of houses were out of your shot.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yeah, we had three, we had three high schools.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah. The day that blew up, it was a really
big part.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
It took up like a third of the of the
of the Narry Spring Show was so big and then
COVID came in that just never never never made it back.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Well, I look the Greenhouse Grove we we had we
had a young man from Winnell in studio who won. Yeah,
and he was he was the leader of his team. Yeah,
they did win, by the way, and if you don't
remember who won, just as Bengo because.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
He will tell you written down somewhere.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah. And the kid was amazing, he really was. He
he knew what his grandfather owns a company that competes
against Bengadon And we didn't know that going in until
the kid got to the microphone and then we talked
about it. But he he was a great ambassador for
the Greenhouse Grove project on how he just jumped in

(25:43):
and started to be a leader on his team and
made sure that everybody was kind of doing what they
needed to do. And he was so excited about their project.
And I said, look, how do you think you guys
are going to do? And he goes, Oh, we're winning
this thing. We're winning it. And I go, how do
you know? He goes, because we're putting in all the time,

(26:04):
all the sweat equity, we're going to win this thing.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well, they actually what Witne did is they actually build
two of them and took the best one and took
the best one.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Very smart.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I got more information on the event on June eighteenth,
Connections SIPs and Stogies and again there's no agenda here,
it's just good conversation. Come on out four pm. To
seven pm Willow Creek Way in Germantown at the Metro
Cigar in Germantown again four p to seven p. Head

(26:32):
out there. If you haven't met Greg Adamic, you'll be there, right.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah, you and Spencer will be there too, right.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Spencer will Yeah. But then you'll have to uber back
to Cohler because there is bourbon there and somebody can
somebody can, somebody can drive you. It's gonna be a
great event, yeah, for sure. Again raising money for the
Nary Milwaukee Foundation. Bigger When you said, look where there's
going to be some changes. Do we know the specifics
for next year's Greenhouse Grove or is it going to

(26:58):
it's the it's the big backyard as we described it
as bad.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
So to be a variety of different I mean it
builds that.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, there's difference there. They can go or I think
if the school can think of something they want to
do instead, and it's some people, you know, just to
make it easier for some schools. You want to do
something complicated, you can do it.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Somebody.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
You want to do something that's simple because our program
is kind of new, then they can do that too.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
You know what what's cool about it is all of
the Nary Companies and the Friends of the Nairy Foundation,
of Druxeal Buildings Supply and Wilso Supply and the Creative
Construction Wisconsin. There's a number of companies that donate product
and time to make this thing happen.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
Right.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Oh, it's a huge conglomerate. So we had we had
mentors that we're working with each school and and some
schools needed a lot of help and some schools didn't.
And some schools have a big tech shop and some don't.
And that's that's kind of what we're impressing on the
schools now, is hey, you you got to have got
to get a shop, got to get because these kids
just want to get interested and involved in the trades.

(28:03):
And our mentors they came back with so much information
going had This school didn't have what it took, and
we made it work anyway.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
And not every school gets it. Some schools do get it.
Greg It was just that one a Tolsi East right,
their school gets it, and mayor gets it. The city,
the village is behind them.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
There's some people that want to go that want to
go into their trades.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
And it look I think that if there are schools
out there, I can tell you that when we were
talking about the Greenhouse Growth project, the principal at Milwaukee
Lutheran sent me a text during the show said, how
do we get how do I get my school more
involved in this? And then we kind of set it
up where you know, somebody went over and met with

(28:49):
them and they're trying to figure that part out. But
there are schools out there that, look, administration's changed a
lot in different high schools, and some got some principals
really want to get involved in this. Others are like, no, no,
that's not what we do here. But it's almost to
the point now, Greg that I don't think schools should

(29:10):
ever say that's not what we do here. That's got
to be part of what they do, and it's got
to be and it's got to be something that they
can offer these kids that are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
as yet another option for what they're going to do
with a career, what they're going to do after high school.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, it was just that, as Bingo said, I was
just at Wawatosa East and they have this day called
Signing Day, and this was an amazing.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
This was an amazing time. I spent some time.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
The governor was in town and he's involved in the
workforce development program.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
For schools that are.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
That want to push tech and doctor means that at
Tosa Doctor Means doesn't believe that everybody needs to go
to college. And there's a lot of there's a lot
of focus on trades right now. That and that that
Tosa East has got just an amazing shop. It would
make it would make companies jealous. Really is such a

(30:08):
great shop, and hey, can.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
You move the micro real quick? As we're talking about this, Nancy,
how did you get involved in this industry and was
it something that you grew up thinking this is what
I want to get involved in.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
No, I actually I started. I was actually going to
college to be a dentist. And my cousin's wife, now,
she was doing outside sales for ABC at the time,
and I just needed a change. And she said, you know,
we're opening up any location in Illinois at the time
when I was living in Illinois, and you should try
it out.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
You're selling it's just.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
Got to be to a new type of customer, right,
new product, but it's going to be the same thing selling,
so I said I'll.

Speaker 7 (30:49):
Try it out. I got hired on the spot, and
I suck with it.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
The rest is history. You know, we talk about high
school age kids. I think that we need to do
a better job of identifying all kinds of different jobs
in the trades for both men and women and boys
and girls. And I love the fact that you know,
you're proudly involved in the home improvement industry and you

(31:16):
get a chance to go out and shake hands and
talk about what you have to sell. But you understand
and I'm sure how important it is for us to
be able to open up the doors if we have
girls that are junior seniors in high school that have
interest but don't think they want to swing a hammer
every day. There's a lot of jobs in your industry

(31:37):
that for both men and women and boys and girls
that maybe we don't talk enough about.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
Absolutely, for all the women that are listening it, do
not be afraid. It's a great industry. I've never seen it.
I've never thought that I couldn't do something just because
I am a woman.

Speaker 7 (31:53):
It's there's so many.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
Great people that are willing to mentor you and help you.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Hey did if I talked to you as a senior
in high school and said, here's what's going to be
happening in the future, and this is what you're going
to be doing. You're going to make a great living.
You'd be married, doing nice hands well, n Prince charming,
Prince charming, Clark kent over here, Why I don't have
my own microphone?

Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
What would you have said to me? Because I would
assume that Nancy at sixteen seventeen years old. Again, the
dentist route was the way you were going. But if
I said here's what you're going to be doing, you
would have thought I was out of my mind.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Right, Oh yeah, I would have never thought I'd be
doing this.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
How many people do you manage at this point? I
guess how many? Four different offices?

Speaker 7 (32:43):
Five?

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Actually there's two in Madison, one in Bevielville, which we
technically called Madison, okay, and then in Madison Central Medicine.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
So it is it a mix of male female that
you have and when you're looking to hire somebody, it's
the most qualified.

Speaker 7 (32:59):
And correct correct.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yes, And I love the fact that we can have
this conversation. There are there's so many opportunities for people,
whether they think they want to be right, like like bingo, right,
they're going to be doing the work or they're going
to be behind the scenes a little bit. And it's
a great career for people to have.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
It's a great career.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
I mean, there's there's been so many amazing things I've
been able to accomplish at a young age.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Man, That's that's awesome. Okay, bring the back, bring it
back over here to mister president Greg adamic He is
the president of the Narry Milwaukee Foundation. Fy.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Nancy is also an education committee for Narry too.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Look, she's jumping right in, man, getting involved. How'd you
guys meet? No, we'll do that during the break. I
know how you how you got her to go out
with you for the first time? You know, was it
was it, you know, a nice line or was it
she was trying to convince me? Oh she was.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
She was hitting you over the she was begging.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
You know, people felt bad for going to get to
you and you like she was a puppies. I was
so tired from yeah there, Oh please, you know what,
we're not supposed to lie on The Narry Show or
the Narry Show, the Creative Construction Wisconsin Show. Hey, last
question before we get to a break when if people

(34:22):
want to be involved, you have your board, but there
are ways that that NARY companies people that are members
of NARRY if they have employees that want to get
involved in the foundation, whether it's you know, to run
for the board or.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Just to help out. I've got to believe that these
events that you have, yeah, you're willing to take some
people if they can help and volunteer.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
We're always looking for volunteers. So so if if you're
an AIRY member and you want to get on a committee,
that's the best thing that we can do is tell
people to get involved in any committee. We have tons
of committees out there, from bylaws and ethics to show
committee and everything. Get involved in a committee. To get
on a board of the foundation, you have to be
voted in. You have to apply. Same thing with the

(35:04):
chapter board. But just get involved. Get to a networking event,
just get to see the people that you're involved with.
And when I tell people to get involved in NEARI
you know, it's like a gym membership. You can have
a gym membership, but it's not gonna do a damn
thing for you unless you show up. So show up
to the neary networking, get involved, just talk to people.
I mean, there's so many people out there, like Bingo

(35:25):
has had years of experience that want to teach people
his trade or talk to people about the industry. That's
the best way to get involved. Show up, show up
to a Sagara night. I mean, you're just gonna run
into people. You're gonna you're gonna meet new people, and
and everybody is willing to help.

Speaker 5 (35:42):
Well.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Connections, SIPs and stogies.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Hey, by the way, I didn't name that.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Did Nancy know how much volunteer work she was gonna
have to do before she got married?

Speaker 4 (35:50):
I have I warned her you did, And I said,
once you get involved in a in an association, as
soon as you say yes, you will never say no.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
You got to keep coming back. You got to keep
coming back. Hey, there's some events for the foundation coming up.
The first one coming up June eighteenth, Wednesday night, four
pm to seven pm, so late afternoon, four pm to
seven pm. And you didn't name it, but I like it.
Connection SIPs and Stogies. So way to hang out with
some Nary members non Nary members get an idea and

(36:23):
what the foundation is all about. And then if you
get a chance, go to Narimlwaukee dot org to the
foundation website, and I would ask that you that you
go to the Schools and Scholarships page because that's the
one that I think is the most underused and under
talked about supporting the workforce of tomorrow. And there's an

(36:44):
easy button apply for scholarship. So if you're if you
want to go to a trade school w CTC M
atc UH, you can go and apply for a scholarship.
And they're they're asking for people to apply on these
because they've got money to give way to continue your education.
So do that apply for that scholarship at Narrymwaukee dot

(37:06):
or the Milwaukee Foundation Schools and Scholarships page. We're going
to get to you a break. Other side of the
break will continue our special guests in studios, Greg and
Nancy adamic I love that, by the way, you did
good pell and we're talking about the Narry Milwaukee Foundation.
This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home improvement Show on

(37:28):
Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeart Radio app.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
And welcome back to the Discontent Home Improvement Show and
the Fox Sports nine and your iHeartRadio app. Relying from
the Donovan and Jorgas and he didn't Cooling Studios Mike.
Mike had to leave.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
So this is way better.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, this is way better. And last that we need
to talk about here with Greg. So, Greg, what do
you actually do besides the Narry Foundation?

Speaker 5 (37:54):
Well, thanks for bringing it up. Bingo.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
I've I've been in the industry, the building industry for
about thirty five years right now, which is killing me
to say, but I've I've opened a consulting company, a
Primitive Edge Consulting. I work with businesses between one and
ten million dollars, anyone that's trying to rebuild process and procedures,
or build a sales team, or transitioning out of ownership.

(38:17):
I work with lots of companies that are that are
in the building trades. So and I can work with
people in the building trades or work with machine shops
or gun shops.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
Or whatever business is business. I love to help them all.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Okay, So, like, what's your ideal client? What are you
what are you looking for?

Speaker 4 (38:34):
So you, for example, your your company would be great.
So Bingo's looking at transitionality's going to sell it to Zach.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
So I work out the.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I work with the zags buying. And I think you
just assumed that.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
I'm just using this an example, Zach, if you're out
there put an offering, but I would work out a
program for you guys to buy you know, your son
that buy you out in a a in an easy
manner so you can just drift off from the sunset.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
You could stay involved as long as you want.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Or if you're trying to build a build a new
sales team, or the main thing that I find is
people just need process and procedure to create their own
efficiencies to make them more money. And you know, you're
you've got a company and you're working in it and
it just works, but you never really di've dove into
your numbers.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
And that's kind of why you must find some companies.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
When you're like looking at how they operate their business,
you're like, ah, you know you might want to change
as first, before you guys do the transition.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I see some disastrous things, and you know, just because
you know you have your knowledge, and that means that
when BINGO says something, it happens. But we got to
get your knowledge on paper and we create that. I
turn that into a process and procedure and and you
know from from cradle to grave. So phone call comes in,
Hey I need some plaster work done on my house,

(39:46):
and all the way to invoicing and then all way
to have a happy customer and bring them back. So
I create all that stuff and you have it in
your head you know it, but you know it, or
Zach knows it, or Zach just knows to go do
something that you say to go do. But I always say,
I want somebody with a general high school education to
be able to walk in here and read the process
and procedure and go, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
It'll get like a man a rule book.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Yeah, rule books.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
How do people get in touch with you for that?

Speaker 4 (40:13):
So consulting is a is a is one of those
jobs that nobody wants to talk about because nobody ever
wants to admit that they have a consultant that they're
working with. So you find me on LinkedIn. It's the
best way to do it. You can see my whole
career there. But it's primitive edge consulting and I'm proud
to be doing I've been doing it for about eight years,
non kind of in and out of different what size companies,

(40:36):
do you work with between one and yeah, one in
ten million dollars. That's kind of like my wheelhouse. It's
a small business, family owned. Typically I can dip into
some bigger, bigger sizes, but they already have crazy HR
processes and that that's not my gig.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
No, I can't. He can't be good for you. I
mean keeping you busy.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
Yeah, yeah, keeping me very busy.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
And you're you're you're okay to have new clients call
you next week if they have interest in what you're
doing in that in that space.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm a I'm a I'm a small guy.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
It's just me.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
I don't study a book. I don't you know.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
I'm not talking about stones. I'm not talking about any
of that kind of stuff. It's just me and my
thirty five years of history from salesman to COO, CEO, owner,
vice president of companies.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
And president of Nary Foundation and president of foundation. Yeahsidact,
that you brought security in with you is a little
bit odd, but that's just how you roll exactly. Yeah,
that's they're still out there. They are. Yeah, they yelled
at me for I was supposed to be on the air,
but I was talking to Stephanie Grady, who's coming in.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
That We rolled in really smooth.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
That was probably the smoothest transition I've had from a
break and Bengo, I want to thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
That's great. Yeah. Thanks Here, I'm a consultant. I can
help you through the next Oh, boil boy, well hopefully
you said, coming live from the dive in and jury
eating and cooling studios, all of that stuff. Oh, I
had the script You had the scripture right here.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
He didn't need it. That was so smooth about it.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah, I don't really need it.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Two years I got to memorize now, Yeah, hopefully we do.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I don't remember my nieces and nephew's names, but I
can do The Creative Construction Wisconsin Home improvement show on
Fox Sports nine twenty quite a bit. Hey, coming up
June eighteenth, let's make sure that we plug that one
more time out in Metro Cigar in German Town and
Sound Willow Creek Way, four to seven o'clock, four pm

(42:31):
to seven pm. Connection Ships and Stogies. You don't love
the title, but I do. I think it's good.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Whatever brings people there, that's good. And Metro does a
great job. They have a have a full bar, and
they got a walk in humidor that. If you're not
a cigar smoker and you're intimidated by it, but you
want to try stop in. They got experts there. It's
just gonna be a great event. You don't have to
have a cigar. You just come on and enjoy the fun.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well, and I looked at the prices, like fifty bucks
seventy five by thee.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
It's a fundraise.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
It's really inexpensive, to be honest with.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
You, Yeah, it's We try to make it the right
range for people to enjoy it and not worry about
their pocketbook. We're gonna have food there. I don't know
what kind of food. It's going to be great food.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Whatever it is, it's going to be the greatest, greatest,
going to be the greatest. One thing that you and
I want to get to this before we have to
get out of here. You had said to me during
the break, Hey, it's not just it's just not m
ATC W CTC anymore. You've opened up the scholarships to
the whole UW system. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Back back when I was president of the first run,
we decided that, Hey, why can't we just open up
to the entire UW system.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
Kids going to UW.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Lacrosse or Stout or Energy that's way up there.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
We we open it up to anybody and getting into
the trade. So if you're an architect or a designer
or anything that's going to go building, construction management, whatever
it may be, if you're going to UW system around
in the state, by all means, apply for scholarship.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, and I'm right now on that how to apply,
And I've seen some sixteen eighteen page to apply for
this one thousand dollars five hundred dollars scholarship you basically
got to when I was in fifth grade, I did this.
This is a nice easy one cheater.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
That's nice because I hate those. I those one of
those applications that are harder than the course you take.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Yeah, you don't have to give blood anymore.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
That's awesome. Can you move the microphone because I before
we get out of here, I want to say what
a pleasure it has been to meet you. So my Nancy,
thank you so much. Maybe one day we'll have you
and studio and we'll talk about Greg behind his back.
Would i'd be okay? We could do that if you'd like,
I would love that. I think he probably need to
be married about a year to really get the full

(44:52):
greg adamic kind of what we could.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Talk about automatic experience.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Yeah, keep up the good work. And it was just
very very nice to meet you. And I love what
you're doing here in the state of Wisconsin. And uh,
anything that you need for me, if you need him
to be snapped on, you call me. I I have
no problem doing that. So it's nice to meet you.

Speaker 7 (45:13):
Thank you. It was a pleasure meeting you.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Greg. It's good to see you again. People love the
good work. Wednesday, June eighteenth. Don't forget about the golf
outing and us certainly the clay shoot. You can go
to Nary Milwaukee Foundation. Look at that website to read
their mission statement and the things they're trying to accomplish
and any ideas you have for Greg. Get a hold

(45:35):
of Greg and you can find him on LinkedIn and
see what he's doing and the amount of we're working
with a lot of local companies to help them through
some stuff that maybe they didn't even know that they needed.
So it's good to see you Greg.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Yeah, don't worry.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
I look going to schedule, you'll be home in plenty
of time to watch the truck racist afternoon.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
I am, and I've taped it just in case I
miss any part of it. I'm completely lying, yeah, but
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