February 1, 2025 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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conditioner kicks in when we need it. My co host
in studio, Bingo Emas, Hey, Ben.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Great.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Are you excited about tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What is tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The NASCAR race?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I won't sleep tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Practices today, yeah? Yeah, qualifying you've raised at the classes tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Man, I can't yeah, I can't wait. I have no
ideas tomorrow. Okay, no clue.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well it's you know the old days used to be
the week before the Atona and now in the Super
Bowl got pushed back a week, so it's on this
week the Super bowled and they start raising Atona.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I will be here a dayton a weekend. By
the way, you're gonna get Aaron.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You want to Why don't we do the show Live
from the pit. Yeah, you do that one ship, Yeah,
I do it. I just don't even know what the
pit looks like. So I have no I always send
you pictures you do. But I've I've never been to
a race. I watched one in my life because I
was told to. I had to. But I did have
an Indy car driver on Faith in the Zone. Yeah,
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what was his name? It was a real different name,
sting Ray Rob.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Sting Ray Rob.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Actually, if you ever go, when you go to race track,
he actually has a little booth set up, you know,
and it's you know, it's you know, Christian stuff that
you can help support his cause and everything. And then
I've actually been his Well they actually have our ministry
they go through when I go to Indy races and
stuff like when walking miles here Googa races, I go
to Indy race I do it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Also they do it like a Bible study and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, no, they have like they have masses to.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Be a favor. If you guys, get me a couple
of racer names and I'll get them on Faith in
his Zone. He was really interesting and his real name
is sting Right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
There's a lot of people because you know. You know,
do you know what I hear about the right They
go to turn one, they're racing to the see God
and he turned left.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, well those guys are really going.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
They are going. There's no doubt. Hey, I'm excited about
today's show, and I want to thank Milwaukee Nary h.
They've got a big show coming up at State Fair
Park on February fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, and we've got
a few people in studio. We're going to get to
Huxley Glazier. He is a sophomore at Witnell High School
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and he's involved with the Greenhouse Grove project.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And that's also the school that Zach and Sam.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, I know. And I asked him when he walked in,
and you're gonna win the thing? He said, yeah. I said,
you're you're better because we don't we don't take people
that take seconds.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm not biased or anything, but yeah, winnow's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Are you the judge? If I was, if you were,
if you were in studio with us. And we'll get
to Huxley a little bit later in the show. Tom
des Hermit, he is the Youth Apprenticeship program coordinator. It's
good to I've had you on the show, but first
time we met in person.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How you been excellent? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You're way better looking than than Bigo told me. He said, Man,
wait till you see this guy. He's got a face
for radio. I go, that's me. That's him and I
are like twins. Hey, how long have you been the
Youth Apprenticeship program coordinator?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So I'm in my six year doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And prior to that, you were at Union Grove.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, it was actually the high school principal at Union Grove.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So on my high school show, we do a thing
called the Superhero of the Week, and last year superhero
of the Year was a girl from Union Grove outstanding. Yeah,
she was unbelievable and for that we sent a five
thousand dollars Well they did not week. I'm not taking
credit for it, but we we selected her as our
Superhero of the Year and five thousand dollars scholarship to E. W. Parkside.
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And she's amazing. The principal over there is a really
good guy. I don't know if you know him or not,
but yeah, he's he's he's been very active with his
Superhero of the Week and do you miss being a principal.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh, you know, I miss the people and I miss
the students, you know, but you know the job that
I have now I get a chance to meet with
the Bengals of the world. And really it's just a connector,
you know, between our five schools and our consortium and
in the you know, the good people of Naarry and
other businesses.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, so let's say if we can, and we've had
you on in the past, but it's been a while,
talk a little bit about what your job is in
the schools you work with.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
So we're always trying to make connections and giving kids opportunities,
whether it's job shadowing opportunities, or we have a huge
trades hiring event that we have coming up, or we
bring in as many contractors that we have, lots of
them are Narry people.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wait when is that?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
That's on March fifth at Franklin High School at night.
We literally invite seven counties worth of students and every
contractor that we know. Uh so that students having a
chance to get into the trades. And so that's that's
the My job is really connecting kids with opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You're kind of the micro of the areas at how
that that works. You're right, get dirty and let's be
proud of what well.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
What he does is because we have just people out
there are just really good construction companies are looking to
train people for a trade, I mean a career right right,
and there's people out there that want to work with
their hands easily. Guy to find those people and connect
them with people like us.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You know the day's time of years ago when you
know kids in the high school level, just sophomore, junior,
senior would go to the guidance counselor and they look
at the grade and say, okay, you should go to
a four year college. You know, you should go to
a two year college. You should do this, this, this,
you should go with the military. Maybe you should go
in the trades. That's changed now, it seems to me,
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and maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that
now it's it's within the conversation of hey, listen, what
what do you want to do? And you know you're
a three five student? Do you want to go to
a four year Well, I want to get into trades.
And it seems like it's it's now getting to be
cool again to let's let's look to do this, and
we're going to talk with hustle Use, a sophomore at Whitnell.
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And when he came into the studio, I said, look,
how'd you get involved in this? And he said, look,
here's what happened. And I think I want to get
into trades when when? When I get done with school?
So what a perfect opportunity for him? And and well
we'll get his story in the second segment. But kids
like that, you know, that's what we need in the trades.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Right absolutely. I call it the buffet.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And really what it is is just showing all of
the kids all of their opportunities, and getting into the
trades is one of them, you know, not just a
pigeonhole himself and think about just one particular path, but
look at all of them. And you're right, Mike, it's
very exciting to see very high achieving students looking at
this as a direct route to a you know, a
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really good wage, you know, a really good opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, I agree with that. And I think from when
I was coaching basketball, it seemed to me and I
had done it for so long, and it seemed that
that pendulum has switched a little bit and changed a
little bit. Well where some of these kids. And I've
told the story one hundred times. There's a kid at Greendale,
Martin Luther, when I was coaching, and he was about
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a three to five student, really good football player, average
basketball player. And I saw him after graduation in the
weight room and I said, where are you going? And
he said, I'm not going to school? And I said really,
and he goes, no, I already know what i want
to do and I'm going to pursue it. And I
said what do you want to do? He said, I
want to become an electrician and I said, great, what
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have you done with that? He saw, I'm going to
wait for my buddies to go off to school and
I'm going to figure it out. But that I know
what I want to do. And I said, I can
get a job, share a ride share right along like tomorrow,
if you want to do that at Current Electric. And
it was like a Tuesday, Wednesday did the ride along, Thursday,
went back and did it with their solar department, and
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on Friday they made him an offer. He's he's about
to buy his first house. His buddies are graduating from
college with a lot of dad.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know, it's a real typical story. And that's what
you know. There's a group of people that want to
work with their hands. And the difference is is you know,
I don't want to. It's like talk people out of college.
Is those Yeah, what you're doing is these people are, hey,
I'm graduated from college with all his debt. I'm going
to go find a place to live in all this stuff.
These people are usually own a truck in the house,
have stuff already.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
His mom, I love his family. And his mom said,
you know, he never studied in high school. He's just
he's a smart kid. He got a three five without
he did his homework, but he didn't study a whole lot.
Now he comes home from work and this was two
years ago, so he's been doing it longer. Comes home
from work, takes a shower, I make dinner, he eats,
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and then he studies and he's taken like half his
check and banking at the other half. He's buying tools
and he's getting making sure that he's fully prepared for
this career. He's now got his own truck at Current
Electric and he's rolling and he said, look, this isn't
going to be my forever home. I'm going to buy
a home. I'm going to fix it up, sell it
and move on and like to be out in the
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Pewaukee area on the lake one day because the kid
loves the fish, hunt, hunting all that stuff. But this
kid knows his buddies are like, Okay, I've been thinking
a degree in history, but I don't want to teach.
And it's like, wa, right, you should have thought that
a few years ago. I love the path that some
of these kids are taking. And boy, it just it's
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got to make you smile with the amount of the number.
Really does the numbers you have now? Has it grown
over the years?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh yeah, I mean we we are up to one
hundred and twenty youth apprentices. You know, healthcare is a
big deal, but number two is the trades. So we
have quite a few opportunities for students to at least
try it on, you know, and get into it.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And yeah, you come to it, you try, Like so far,
everybody it's ever you know, not that I'm not ripping
on our company or noting like this, but they come
to our company, they try. Like Katerra, right, She's like Triano.
She came to us and said, you know, this is
you know what I really want to do. And then
bam they You know, like we we all have friends,
you know, we all know each other. You can always
find somebody like you know, so I'm gonna be a plumber.
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Give Jesse a call. Jesse, He's like, I'm on it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I mean, I had lunch yesterday with Sherry Wagner from
Jean Wagner Plumbing and her father owned the company and
now Scott, her husband runs it and she owns it.
And you know, we talked about she was looking for
for for plumbers and she said, you know what, we
let's change our advertising with you because we found the
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guys that we need and we're rolling right now and
things are really good, busy, and we have enough help
that we can take the jobs when people call us. Hey, guys,
the Milwaukee the Narry Milwaukee Foundation this greenhouse project and
it's called Greenhouse Growth. Can we talk a little bit
about that? How did that come to play?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
So Cecily Vellani, she's from Landcrafters, but she's also Anarry member.
And Tom Geese who's in Milwaukee Design Build, he's the
current president of Nary. They came up with this idea,
and then they connected with me and said, you know,
can we make this happen in schools? And uh, you know,
we're trying to play off, Mike, you're a big sports guy.
Kind of playing off that the rivalry, you know, the
(11:18):
Witnell versus Greendale, the Franklin versus Oh Creek, the Muskigo
versus Mgwanago kind of play off, that intrinsic motivation of hey.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let's have a competition, you know, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Nothing gets more excited when tom and says they got
hold of me and he said, we need to bring
you in here because we need.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
To get on here. You need to get Witnell going.
And I told Huxley, if you guys don't win it,
you're not invited back. And he said, well, I think
mister Emmons is a yeah, he might be a judge.
So we got a pretty good shot. He didn't any
judge it. You know, you can't be right away.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
The Bengos walking around the room with all these contractors.
You know, we we have mentor businesses for every school,
you know, and we're having this sort of meeting about
this is kind of these are the rules of the game,
and Bengos run around congratulating everyone on taking second place.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, you know, he's getting in their kitchen, man, he's
getting in their head a little bit. Hey. So the
idea for these kids and again the schools that are involved,
and to be able to see the final project, you
need to go over to State Fair Park. It's going
to be a great show that their show starts February
fourteenth and it goes through the sixteenth, and I believe
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it's that Sunday that they're going to be judged, is
that correct?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And the Greenhouse Growth Project, these kids from Franklin, Greendale, Mcguannago, Muskego,
Oak Creek, Saint Francis, South Milwaukee, and Whitnell. They get
the design plans to and what are they building?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So they're building a six by a greenhouse. They can
personalize it to some level, but it's basically an opportunity
for them to showcase them the skills, work with side
by side with the you know, the Bengos of the
world and other contractors, and produce something that they can
showcase at this you know, at the event.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And really that's what it's all about, Mike.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's an opportunity to kind of, like you said, with
Mike rowe kind of promote the trades, you know, let's
elevate you know, kind of what's going on down there
and uh and and bring students along like Huxley and
give them an opportunity to, you know, be a leader.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Do you have a favorite in the in this race?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
By the way, you know, everyone seems to ask me that,
you know, I'm going to get in trouble if I
mentioned it, don't do it?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So everybody exactly exactly like you have kids. Oh yeah,
who's your favorite kid?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You're not going there either, Mike.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
No, Well, off the your I know that, Sam know, Zach,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, they might be rooting for Winnel too, But you know,
it isn't just this isn't just a product that okay
that you know there. You know, the tech department's working
on us, like the schools behind it. The superintendent says, oh, yeah,
we got a witness thing. I mean right, so we
actually actually witness is unique, like I say it now,
because there's no way the other guys can change it.
But they're making there as portable, but they can take
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it apart. Because the whole idea when we get done
with this one is to take it apart and put
it in the middle of the of the school for
the science department to use.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You have to take it apart to put it in
like in the courtyard.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You know, if I would have said that these other schools,
it's too late to change what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Right, to cut it in half.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, they're probably not going to cut it in half.
Probably not going to cut it in half. Hey, when
when you approached and I would assume you approached the
shop teachers and say, hey, do you want to put
a team together for this?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, Just you know, how can you
fit this in your curriculum. We're going to have some fun,
We're going to do something. You know, it fits into
what they're already doing. They're already working on projects. So
let's do something that is, you know, a final product
that we can showcase and and to Bengal's point, you know,
maybe it can be used in the community. You know,
Green Dell's using there as part of their horticulture class.
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I actually had a parent from Greendale. I don't know
how they got my number, called me up.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'd like to buy a greenhose.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I'm like, who is this is?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
This and what kind of budget do you have? That's
the question.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
The schools can do what really want when they can
sell it or when we didn't get done with this competition,
it's theirs.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And so if if if they want to sell it
for for something going on in.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The school or use the material you.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Know what, sell it and then put the money back
into the shop class to get materials. And speaking of materials,
who is there people that have donated the materials for this?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I know direxelsupp has Healthy Smart Sighting and all of
us sponsors. We all throw it a check for five
hundred bucks towards materials, you know, all the all the
sponsoring contractors.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's awesome, Yeah, that you know what to have to
have people sponsors, that's the way this thing can can work.
Right if the school has to pick up the cost,
if you have to pick up the costs of these kids.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It is just that too.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Because I got a call from Chris Ay we need
eleven sheets of plywood because we're not building this one.
They're building two and they're going to the better ones,
the one that they can enter in the contest.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, you're giving a lot of inside information.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We're not well, I like to see what Franklin's doing
because those that seemed.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
To be they're building six of them. Yeah, yeah, trust me.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Actually, oh Creek is building five?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are they really?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah? Because I know, yeah, they're building five of them.
They can only enter one.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Hey, And then each of these greenhous is going to
be judged by a panel and there's going to be
a trophy given to the school. There will also be
a fan favorite award given out to the school it
receives the most votes from the people that show up
at the show. And I like that you're doing that.
Let's let's do two, right, Let's let if if the
school wants to bring a thousand people to vote for ours,
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let's do it. And then you know, for the people
that the people that are judging this thing, let's judge
the actual project project and given award to the team
that does the best. I love the competition part of it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Each of the students actually has a n Airy shirt,
which is their ticket to get into the show. So
you'll actually see students that worked on these projects, you know,
and they're probably beaming with pride because you know they
had to, you know, they really worked on these things.
And of course it'll probably bring their parents and grandpa
parent's down and just give them an opportunity to kind
of see, hey, this is the quality of work that
students can do.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And even if you like went to high school west
Ellis Central or something, you can still come to this.
Right as we're I'm looking at at our next guest,
Huxley's mom, Billy, and you guys, she doesn't look familiar
to you guys, Right, okay, cut, and we'll we won't
talk about why that that's very important on the air,
but if it certainly if million wants to go and
she can vote three four times, right, absolutely, yeah, she's
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really proud exactly, so well, we will find out. We're
going to get to a break other side of the break.
Huxley Glazier, he is a sophomore at Witnell High School
and he is he's kind of one of the leaders
of that team for this project. It's the Greenhouse Grove project.
And again you can see these final projects next two
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weekends from now, right.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Is it fourteenth?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth State Fair.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Part Nothing says romance like the narrative.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Nothing I'm telling you you can take bring your wife, boyfriend,
and girlfriend. Hold hands and walk through the Naary show
and take a look at make sure if you're going
to that show that you head over and take a
look at the greenhouse grove projects that these schools have done.
You're going to be extremely impressed with the work these
high school age kids are doing. This is the Creative
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Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show on Fox Sports nine
twenty in your iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to the
Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show on Fox Sports
nine twenty and your iHeart Radio app. Coming live from
the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike
McGivern alongside Bingo Emmons. He's the owner of Creative Construction
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of Wisconsin. We're talking a lot about the Nary Milwaukee
show coming up. It's February fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, and
in particular we're talking about the greenhouse Grove. I guess
it's a competition, is what it is, between a number
of schools in our area. And I want to thank
Tom Herman for coming in and UH highlighted promoting this
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event that these high school kids are doing. We now
have a sophomore from Whitnell High School. He is involved
in this project. He is Huxley Glazier. Huxley. How you doing,
I'm doing all right?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, it's really nice to meet you. You and your
mom came in and and uh, she's awfully proud of
you for sure. Hey, talk a little bit about how
we got.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
To bring this up, because this is just I'm just
floored by this. This is there's only I only had
one real competitor, grand Rath, and we're actually, you know,
we're friends and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I didn't know. He says, that's a grandson.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You should have him come work for you. Granddad would
not be happy.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They can tell Granny that you got play some employment.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Wait whatever, grandpa's paying you, he's got you. He'll be
it by about fifty cents.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
An hour, because yeah, because grand Raftling, you know my dad.
They go way back. I mean it's I mean I
worked with Granny and Wally Demlar and those guys for
years back in the eighties, unbelieve. Yeah, everyways worked for
my dad one time or another. Yeah, well yeah, I
know I did. Yep, I know them for a long time.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Say, how'd you get involved in this, in this and
is this something that that you knew you want to
get involved in. Obviously I didn't know this, but this
is family right business to work with your hands? How
did you get involved with this project?
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Okay, So at the start of the semester, my teacher,
mister Jackson introduced my class to the Greenhouse Grove project,
and because we have around twenty people in our class,
we split it into two, so we built two in total.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
And he also told us that he would like some leaders.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
To kind of step out, and I just kind of
saw the opportunity and jumped at.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It as a sophomore. As a sophomore, usually sophomore stay
in the back and wait for the juniors and seniors
to take the leadership role. So well done. I think
that's awesome. That tells me a lot about the kind
of kids you are. Working with your hands is something
you've done already, and you've been you've been. That's kind
of the family business a little bit.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Or yeah, so I yeah, I plaster with my grandpa
when I can. But yeah, Bengo obviously knows him. And
it just shows to be how small the world it
really is.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, it is and and I thank your mom.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
For But he's good when a lot of times people say,
you know, is do you have any competitors and being
with real skill and grand Rass have the same skill
as you, because there's a lot of people that want
to be that's well they do dry well and then
you say I do textor finishing. I mean, he's a
real life plaster. That's awesome, man.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That that is. Hey, tell me about this project. When
you got the when you got the the instructions on
how to do it pretty It hasn't been an easy project.
Has been a difficult project for you guys. Tell me
a little bit about the journey on this thing.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Don't get me wrong. Parts are definitely easier than others.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Being in the class with people who have I mean
relative experience, but not much. It's there's definitely been some
speed bumps that come with that.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
But I say, overall, for what we.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Were given and the experience that the class has in total,
I think that we did pretty well with it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Hey, Tom, when you come back and bingle, maybe you
can answer. The principal at Milwaukee Lutheran, Wayne Jensen, just
one of the good guys in this world, sent me
a text and said how do I get Milwaukee Lutheran
involved in stuff like this? So if Tom, I'm going
to pass along Wayne Jensen's phone number to you and
if you can give him a call and talk a
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little bit about how that would come to play. I know,
the greenhouse growth project, it's a little late to get
involved in that, but there are certainly ways for the
people over at Milwaukee Lutheran. And my daughter teaches there,
and I'm a huge fan of obviously my daughter, but
the principal, Wayne Jensen, I've known for a really long
time and doing a great job, first year principal over
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at Milwaukee Lutheran. But he's a basketball coach there. He
went to school there, and he was the principal at
Martin luther when I coached there, and he moved over
to Milwaukee Lutheran and doing great stuff there. And for
him to reach out to me say hey, how do
we get involved in stuff like this? I think it's
would be a great phone phone call for you. Time
to give Wayne Chanson a call. Huxley twenty kids in
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shop class?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Yeah, twenty in my class?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And is it is it a what shop? Is it?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
So? The actual class title is building trades one. So
we kind of what the plan was that we just
kind of cover a lot a lot of everything, framing, siding,
all that fun stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
But yeah, like more specifically.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Was it an advantage to you to that you've done
some of this stuff with your grandfather before coming in?
Are there kids in here that this is the first
time they've ever done anything like this?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Oh yeah, they're definitely kids that this is brand new.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
And I would say yes, it was a bit of
an advantage, And that's part of the reason why I
jumped to the leadership role that I knew I had
that step ahead other I mean, rather than other people.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Do you do you feel like you're a sophomore, so
you're fifteen years old or something. Do you look at
when you get done with high school? This is something
that you want to continued? Is it more going to
be a hobby for you? What's your thought for the future?
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Still, I want to keep my options open, but it's
trades in my trades in my future is something that
definitely will I plan to.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, whether it's for a career or for a hobby, right, yeah, yeah,
either way. So the project itself is it, are you
guys complete. Is it done? Or are you still putting
some finishing touches?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Just some finishing touches are still getting thrown on.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Are you happy with you get a picture of it.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
By the way, I do not have a picture, unfortunately
I probably should.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But no, that's all right, that's all right. I look,
what you should say is we'll buy a ticket and
come down and vote for witness. Is what you should Yeah,
that's what you should tell me again the fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth at State Fair Park. You're going to want
to head over to the twenty twenty five Spring Home
Improvement Show again that Nary Milwaukee. And what I love
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about the greenhouse project is it benefits the foundation. And
for years Huxley, I've been telling people that the Nary
Milwaukee Foundation does great work, but they don't get up
on the mountaintop to tell people about it. They do
they phenomenal work and giving back to to people in
our community, and I always yell at them that they don't.
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They don't. They don't pound their chest enough to say,
look at what we're doing here. So guys like me
talk about it. But I've been a fan of the
Narri Milwaukee Foundation for a really long time and think
they do great work. And I love the fact that
they're involved with the Greenhouse Growth project. When you guys
started building this and when when you say, look at
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they asked to have a leader on this thing. Are
you the guy then that that that comes in each dances,
here's what we're going to get done today? Or how
does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
So basically that's exactly what I do.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
I give my team, because my team's around ten people,
what are what we need to get done today? Basically
we have a whiteboard in the class. That's what I
put it on there, and that's basically, yeah, what I do.
Just try to make sure everyone stays on task and
the work gets done.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
First time you've tried to manage people.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Uh, I would say, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
More difficult than you think. So it's like hurting cats sometimes, right,
especially kids at high school? Though, Are some of the
kids that you're managing juniors and seniors? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
So yeah, there are some juniors and seniors in my group.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And that's a whole different dynamic, right, Yes, you know,
and now you're saying, hey, man, this isn't what we asked.
You got to do it this way. Yeah, are you?
Are you? Is the project, the finished project going to
be as good as you thought it could be?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Yeah, Uh, it's better than other schools out there.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You don't even you haven't seen the other schools. You
just know I'm gonna see them Tuesday because they're gonna
see him tuesday.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah. Maybe maybe they fall off the truck.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Maybe they fall off it. Oh, Creek, be careful with
yours important that How competitive are you?
Speaker 7 (26:58):
By the way, I would say pretty compet if I
play football.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
So it's just that's kind of been.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, so to beat the other Witnell team pretty important.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
The other Witnell team wasn't as much of as a
concern to me. We obviously I wanted to do better
than them, but my biggest concern was doing better than
the other schools. I mean, at the end of the day,
we are Witnell. We're all one school and we can
do what we can to help each other out.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Maybe politics is in your future. What a political answer
that is? Oh that was beautiful, Well done, miss Millie.
You did good. You did good. The little role played
in the car in the front of the building. If
they ask about the other Witnell team, you say nothing
but good things. When we go to a break, you
can tell me what you really feel. I'm just kidding.
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Out of all those schools, you know, on the football field,
you guys, you want to beat them all, but in
this thing, you obviously want to beat them all. But
you know, when you look at some of the bigger schools,
like a Mesquigo or a Franklin, those are the ones
you want to see right below ye are you guys?
Witne one or Wittno. Two? Or how does that work?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
It doesn't necessarily work like Witno. One or whitne two.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Like we all just try to me and the other
group just try to strive for the same goal of
getting a complete and getting it done.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, how did you? How did how did mister Jackson
split the teams?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Actually know how they did that? Eric said, okay, you
should be a captain and you should be a captain.
And then they actually picked them because.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Yeah, so like like a draft, we kind of did
really get the first pick or the next I had
the next two?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, I think I like the next two. Well, we'll
see how this thing works for for.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Sure, because they actually saw that when that class actually
picked their own teams.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Hey, so what what's next? Then for did you go
to like, did will you take a shop class then
next semester or is this already second? It is already
second semester, so the next year, well will you continue?
Did you take any shop classes last year?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
So I took a shop class from the semester last
year is called Home Repair and Maintenance. But now I
was in building trades one first semester that's where we
did the greenhouse, and now I'm in building trades.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Too this semester.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
What's the difference?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Building trades two? So it's a block schedule, so it's two.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Hours instead of one, and we just try to cover
like more, spend more time on more topics.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Did you go out? Did you do mister Jackson, take
your guys out to the field at all? Do you
are everything you do inside the building at winnow?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
So right now, because the weather outside, mostly everything that
we're doing is.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Inside.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
But I think we definitely do have plants to not
only get outside, but to get to other job sites
and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Field trips.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, I would assume that ride alongs and things like
that is something you'd be interested in. Has taken these
classes just.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Thrown it out there. We do ride along as advertise
every week about.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That creative construction Wisconsin. Don't tell your grandfather, don't tell
them all. What I want, though, is for you to
put one of these shirts on in front of the
truck and get a picture and send it.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I should have thought of it. Yeah, yeah, I should
have gave my shirt. Then you give weekend awards.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But oh yeah, because I didn't even look.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Somebody should have told me Huxley was coming in, because
when I got the text, it said that Spencer. I
don't even know who this is. So I'm very happy
that you're hearing, very happy that you came in. Do
you see is there part of these classes you've taken
made you have more interest in you know, maybe electrical
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or HVAC or things like that. Have Have there been
been parts of the classes you've taken with the trades
at went in to high school that you found yourself
having more interest in different areas than you thought coming in.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Yeah, So, being like kind of overseeing it all, I
didn't get as much hands on that I would like
to because I'm just kind of basically giving people certain
jobs instead of me actually going the one actually doing
the jobs. But it doesn't mean I just kind of
sat back and relaxed the whole class.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
No, no, no, no, managers, don't you know. I bet
it keeps you up at night a little bit, right,
I mean, how do I get this group to get more? Look,
both your your parents were in education for a while,
and they understand the difficulties of getting Look, the definition
of team is two or more horses pulling in a
similar direction for a common goal, right, And that's what
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this is, this team that you that you're coaching, managing
things like that, and you can't you can't spend the
whole time doing the work for them, but you can
oversee it. Are there times that as the manager you'd
be like, Okay, I'm not sure I would have done
it that way, But that's what they're thinking that we're
going to go with it.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Definitely, with being like a newer to the leadership world,
there's definitely things that I wish I could go back
and restart. But at the end of the day, you
just kind of gotta continue on and strive on to
be better the next day.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, you will. You be nervous on Saturday night before
all the votes are in, and on the fifteenth of February,
the sixteenth is when they're going to announce the winners.
You're gonna be pretty nervous on the fifteenth, you think, oh, oh,
you're nervous.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Now, Yeah, a little bit, because it's just as we're
getting closer to that deadline. We just we want to
make sure everything gets done and we want to make
sure it's quality.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
What was the most difficult was the most difficult part
for you making sure that you had you had your
team and there's ten of you, but your team, Okay,
you're going to take care of this part. You're going
to take care of this part, and we're going to
take care of this. Was it making sure that everybody
knew what their goals were and what the timeframe was
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and making sure that everybody stayed to that.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Yeah, at the start, it kind of I had to
kind of hit everyone with like a reality check that like,
we need to get this done. We can't just go
around to that. Yeah, there's an actual deadline to this
and we need to get this done. So at the yeah,
towards like the start, like around November, I just kind
of had to tell everyone that we need to get
our stuff together and.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, it's sometimes management's not and you know they talk
about you behind your back, right, you know that, right,
they're like, man, he's he's cracking the whip today, what's
he do? You know? That kind of stuff. BEINGO you've
you've seen both projects over when the both teams.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Well, I don't get this. I don't get to go
look at him all the time. You know, Eric goes
over there and does that. But I see pictures and
I see stuff good. But what I really like about
is it's this whole project. You know, when you go
to schools, it's just nice to see, you know, because
you always like, man, what are we gonna do? We're
our workers, we can't do stuff. And then you go
to you see these kids and they're like they're proud
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of what they do and they're happy to be there,
and it's it's just so inspirational to see that there's
another there's a future of people that are going to
come out there and do this trade. It's just, you know,
it's it's nice to see it because you know, because
you see what I mean, just for years, like you said,
you know, Conning Council, they rather go to the army
right than than go into construction.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
You know, so they just they got that stigma for
a while and it's nice to see just there's a
group of people out there that want to work with
their hands. Well, you know Zach right, you know, he
was accepted an mllc um. We tried to get him
into college and my sister is still trying to get
him into college. But you know, I mean, you know,
he closed down a house. He has got a brand
new house, you know, your mega house and Iguanago and
you know, and he's you know, the trucks and and
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all the people, you know, the people in the trades,
right like the own houses.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Correct, they don't rent, no, no, they're buying them. Yeah,
one hundred percent. And I think that, uh, I think
that when you when you talk to a young man
like Huxley, who's the software in high school. And I
get a chance on my high school show to talk
to high school kids all the time.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And now that I know he's a grand rather, he
doesn't have to ever worry about working his whole entire.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Life, right, you just don't have to.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And for the whole world will walk in and shake
my hand and look me in the eye and say, hey,
thanks for having us and thanks for talking about this.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I want to thanks for Granny for training our new
star employee.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Oh man, you're gonna look great and red. That's all
I can tell you. We're gonna get to a break.
We're gonna keep Huxley with us. We're gonna ask Tom Herman.
He is the Youth Apprenticeship Program coordinator. And what that
means is connecting businesses with students and learning opportunities with
not only the trades, but other things. And Tom does
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a great job. And Wayne, if you're still listening, and
I will pass along your phone number as the principal
of Milwaukee Lutheran. When when principals call and say how
do we get involved in stuff like this to you
should have saw Tom Herman light up. He's like, oh yeah,
I will definitely make that call. Let's we'll get to
a break and ask Tom to join us. I've got
a number of questions for him on the other side.
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This is the Creative Construction of Wisconsin Home Improvement Show
on Fox Sports ninety twenty and your iHeart Radio app Well,
welcome back to the Creative Construction of Wisconsin Home Improvement
Show on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeart Radio
app coming live from the Donovan and Jorgans and Heating
and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike McGivern alongside Bigo Emmons, the
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owner of Creative Construction of Wisconsin, Thomas Herman. He is
the Youth Apprenticeship program coordinator. We're talking specifically about the
Greenhouse Grove project that you can go out and see
at the NAARY show coming up at State Fair Park.
It's the twenty twenty five Spring Home Improvement Show February
fourteenth through the sixteenth, again at State Fair Park. You
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can go to NARY Milwaukee dot org to get tickets.
You can save a little money if you buy them online.
And the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth at State Fair Park.
On the sixteenth the Greenhouse Grove Award presentations. And we're
also joined by Huxley Glazier. He's a sophomore at Whitnell and.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
He is scourage you come to that get the get
the trophy. Oh yeah, yeah, you should show up their Sunday.
You can watch them get the watch him get the trophy.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
They're gonna you know meat, you know what. And I'm
telling you I don't want to tell Huxley this, but
they're getting gatorade the poor in his head if they
if they win this thing, they're gonna and it'll be
the color of the Witnell Falcons, kind of that dark blue,
I guess is what they're gonna pour on on you. Hey,
we talked, Thomas. We talked early in that first segment
about the March fifth event over at Franklin High School.
(37:16):
It's a trades hiring event. Let's let's talk a little
bit more about that. Open to anybody.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, that's open to anybody.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You can move the microphone. It doesn't squeak anymore because
Bingo fixed it. There you go.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's open to anybody.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
We invite all the students from Milwaukee County, uh Waukesha County,
Northern Mersine County, basically seven counties, and we invite as
many contractors that we can get together and it's it's
a meet and greet. Come in, you know, dress you know,
dress for success, bring your resumes, Go and talk to
the Bengos of the world. Find out what they do,
and I feel like what they have to say, then
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give him a resume and hopefully you hear from them.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
And for a guy like Wayne Jensen is the principal
Milwaukee Lutheran who would send me this text. I forward
his his cell number to you so that you can
call him. This would be a great first kind of
initial feel for what you guys do, if if he
had time on March fifth to go over to Franklin
and walk through that and and kind of watch as
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these high school age kids basically sell themselves or find
out about different different companies they might want to work at.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Nobody there's lot of you know, the businesses are there,
but like Narry's there talking about their organization, and then
and then John Scoviak, there's other trades organizations that you know,
you don't isn't it just people hiring? There's also if
other things for people to other schools to talk to
about these all these organizations are looking for workers.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Hey, when when when I asked you about about like
a school like Milwaukee Lutheran, you said one hundred percent,
and we're looking. We've had the conversations to start to
expand what you do as the youth Apprenticeship program coordinator.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, we're we're we're all about making
connections for our students and and really I see all
students as are students.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You know, we're all in this together.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's that principal hat that you it is right. Yeah,
when you get a chance to talk to to Wayne Jensen,
who has been a principal for a while, you guys
get along really well because you understand the struggles that
he's going through and to be able to say, hey, listen,
this is an opportunity for your kids to know more
about what we do. I think is that. You know,
I'm glad that he sent me that text. I think
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it'll be a really good relationship that the two of
you have.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
And we're looking to expand the Greenhouse Grove project next year,
so we're going to add a couple more schools. You know,
we want more people to have these opportunities to uh,
to get in and get after it.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Man, I think that's really important. And you said, look
private schools, I'm okay with that. We we accept everybody
over here exactly.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
You know, we're about the students and UH and trying
to fill the talent pipeline. You know, there's a shortage
of you know, construction workers in quite a few trades.
So let's let's bring these people together.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Do you think you guys will do this the same
kind of project next year.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Well, actually we're talking about expanding it and making sort
of like a big backyard, and so schools can come
in and they can do smaller projects, they can continue
to do a greenhouse project, maybe they do a bigger project.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
So we've moved the microphone over. Let's talk to the captain,
the leader of one of the teams at Witno. I
saw you shaking your head. You've already got ideas and
what you'd want to do next year for a backyard project,
don't you. Yeah, And you don't have to give out
any any secrets or anything, but I see I see
a light bulb on over your head right now going
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beep beep. I've got an idea here that for you
is kind of exciting the thought process of oh if
maybe we could do this to set us apart from
the school as we're competing with.
Speaker 7 (40:47):
Yeah, I mean, it takes off a little bit of
the restrictions that that we were originally given. We can
just kind of do what we want and that could
set us apart from other schools on a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
So think about the group you have now, it's you
and nine others. Correct ten others, so there's eleven of you.
If the nice part about this project is you know
you have to build a greenhouse? Yes, next year you can.
You can make some decisions, but it's gonna have to
be a team decision. And trust me, I've coached a
long time to get ten people to everybody to agree
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on anything. The sky is blue. It can't do it right.
And so you're gonna have to figure out how to
sell your idea to get them to go, Oh my goodness,
that's what we should do. You're right, we should do that.
So give that. You know, I'm sure all the all
the things that I would talk to my mom, that's
who I would talk to.
Speaker 7 (41:40):
You.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You have her sell it that West Alli Central bulldog
in or she can get all that stuff sold for
for sure. Will you be there for all three days
over at the and everything or do you just show
up on Sunday?
Speaker 7 (41:54):
I don't think I'll be there for all three days.
I might, I honestly could be, but right now I
do not believe. I think Sunday is the only day I.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Will move the microphone back. Thomas, When did they bring
the greenhouses in? Did they bring it in prior to morning,
an eight and ten whole lot of thimas. I'm not
talking anymore, mister Bingo. When did they bring the projects in?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Tuesday morning? We do an eight and ten spacific deadlines.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
So these kids, they they they come over and they
they built. Well, yours, you guys can just put together,
I guess right.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
But no, we actually we actually have a you know,
a big fifth wheel truck that we're gonna go around.
We're gonna pick these up and then well we're picking
up I think three schools.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
You know, some other schools are bringing their own. But
but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Let's make sure the two witnow ones are right next
to each other. We don't want that. We don't want
these guys aready.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
The school is like Old Creek and I mean Franklin.
They only can enter one, right, there's only one there.
We're not bringing them up, but we'll have to. No,
no one only get to bring one.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Do we know which one?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Obviously it's it is.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Yeah, it will be our.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
His name is Huxley Clazier, and he's made the prediction
it will be ours. You you know that for sure?
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Right now, I just about do.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Who made that decision, Well, mister Jackson, and it had
nothing to do with that. He was your linebackers coach, right, No, no,
nothing at all. Pretty good football.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
Coach, very good football coach.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Yes, demanding, demanding, but he makes makes everyone on the
team better.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
The the the being competitive on the football field is
different than being competitive in the in in in shop class,
but there's some carryover.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Right, and especially in the leadership role that I was
granted it definitely.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
They correspond, Hey, Thomas, you like to hear that, And
you were shaking your head when I talked about being
competitive on a sports field or a court, right, and
then carrying over that competitiveness. Look, Bingo, when you talk
to him, is he competitive? I don't know. He seems it,
but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
On the job, I just want who's gonna win second.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
But in real life he's proud to know that. Other
than you know, the company that he competes with that
he said, look, we you know they're they're really good.
Other than that, he wants to beat everybody, and and Huxley,
my grandfathers. He doesn't want to beat him every time.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
But I did. They got a ringer.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
I didn't know they had a grand Rath was looking
at the house. And that's talent.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
That's talent.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
That's talent.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
That is talent. You like the fact that these kids
should be competitive, and.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
You know, I'll say I'm all for all kids, but
you know, when it comes down to it, every school
wants to win. You know, they want to have theirs.
There's to be one that that's the showcase at him.
So before two o'clock on Sunday on the sixteenth, that's
when all the votes need.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
To be in before two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
Yeah, if parents and grandparents want to come on down,
they need to vote before two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
And uncle's friends, girlfriends, every both of them. Yeah, sisters,
if you got two, that's spring man like Chicago, baby
like Illinois. Verte vote early, vote often, head down to
State Fair Park and we're gonna be talking about this,
I think next week as well. Twenty twenty five Spring
Home Improvement Show. It's the NARI Milwaukee. Go to Narimlwaukee
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dot org to get more information. You can buy your tickets,
give you all the times of the show. Get in
the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth. But pay special attention when
you're on that website. Take a look at the Greenhouse Grove,
take a look at what the project is. It gives
a really nice definition of what they're doing with it.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
And a lot of those students will be there. They'll
be hanging around. Give meet a lot of those students,
the people that you just see the joy in their face,
of these people that are in this competition and enjoy
working with their hands.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
And if you meet Huxley, you're not going to forget
that name. He's the first Huxley I've.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Ever met you wearing a creative construction shirt.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Ye hey, I'm not getting involved in that. He won't
be able to go to his grandfather's house. Don't be
having him do that, Huxley Glazier. Thank thank you so much.
Sophomore over at Whitnall High School, Thomas Herman, well done again.
It's good to meet you in person. Keep up the
good work with these kids. It's it's good to the
future of of the trades, you know, is kind of
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in your hands. Man. These kids that you're turning onto
this this part of their life is very very important. Bingo,
it's good to see you. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yep, I'll be here next weekend with the following weekends
they don't if you haven't.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah, maybe I should take the day off too so
I can watch now. Probably not.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Oh you're getting Aaron.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, there you go. It's good to see you, guys.
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job of making sure that our heat and our air
conditioner kicks in when we need it. My co host
in studio, Bingo Emas, Hey, Ben.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm great.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Great.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Are you excited about tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What is tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The NASCAR race?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I won't sleep tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Practices today, yeah? Yeah, qualifying you've raised at the classes tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Man, I can't yeah, I can't wait. I have no
ideas tomorrow. Okay, no clue.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well it's you know the old days used to be
the week before the Atona and now in the Super
Bowl got pushed back a week, so it's on this
week the Super bowled and they start raising Atona.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I will be here a dayton a weekend. By
the way, you're gonna get Aaron.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You want to Why don't we do the show Live
from the pit. Yeah, you do that one ship, Yeah,
I do it. I just don't even know what the
pit looks like. So I have no I always send
you pictures you do. But I've I've never been to
a race. I watched one in my life because I
was told to. I had to. But I did have
an Indy car driver on Faith in the Zone. Yeah,
(01:24):
what was his name? It was a real different name,
sting Ray Rob.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Sting Ray Rob.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Actually, if you ever go, when you go to race track,
he actually has a little booth set up, you know,
and it's you know, it's you know, Christian stuff that
you can help support his cause and everything. And then
I've actually been his Well they actually have our ministry
they go through when I go to Indy races and
stuff like when walking miles here Googa races, I go
to Indy race I do it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Also they do it like a Bible study and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, no, they have like they have masses to.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Be a favor. If you guys, get me a couple
of racer names and I'll get them on Faith in
his Zone. He was really interesting and his real name
is sting Right.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
There's a lot of people because you know. You know,
do you know what I hear about the right They
go to turn one, they're racing to the see God
and he turned left.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, well those guys are really going.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
They are going. There's no doubt. Hey, I'm excited about
today's show, and I want to thank Milwaukee Nary h.
They've got a big show coming up at State Fair
Park on February fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, and we've got
a few people in studio. We're going to get to
Huxley Glazier. He is a sophomore at Witnell High School
(02:28):
and he's involved with the Greenhouse Grove project.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And that's also the school that Zach and Sam.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, I know. And I asked him when he walked in,
and you're gonna win the thing? He said, yeah. I said,
you're you're better because we don't we don't take people
that take seconds.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm not biased or anything, but yeah, winnow's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Are you the judge? If I was, if you were,
if you were in studio with us. And we'll get
to Huxley a little bit later in the show. Tom
des Hermit, he is the Youth Apprenticeship program coordinator. It's
good to I've had you on the show, but first
time we met in person.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How you been excellent? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You're way better looking than than Bigo told me. He said, Man,
wait till you see this guy. He's got a face
for radio. I go, that's me. That's him and I
are like twins. Hey, how long have you been the
Youth Apprenticeship program coordinator?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So I'm in my six year doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And prior to that, you were at Union Grove.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, it was actually the high school principal at Union Grove.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So on my high school show, we do a thing
called the Superhero of the Week, and last year superhero
of the Year was a girl from Union Grove outstanding. Yeah,
she was unbelievable and for that we sent a five
thousand dollars Well they did not week. I'm not taking
credit for it, but we we selected her as our
Superhero of the Year and five thousand dollars scholarship to E. W. Parkside.
(03:48):
And she's amazing. The principal over there is a really
good guy. I don't know if you know him or not,
but yeah, he's he's he's been very active with his
Superhero of the Week and do you miss being a principal.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh, you know, I miss the people and I miss
the students, you know, but you know the job that
I have now I get a chance to meet with
the Bengals of the world. And really it's just a connector,
you know, between our five schools and our consortium and
in the you know, the good people of Naarry and
other businesses.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, so let's say if we can, and we've had
you on in the past, but it's been a while,
talk a little bit about what your job is in
the schools you work with.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
So we're always trying to make connections and giving kids opportunities,
whether it's job shadowing opportunities, or we have a huge
trades hiring event that we have coming up, or we
bring in as many contractors that we have, lots of
them are Narry people.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wait when is that?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
That's on March fifth at Franklin High School at night.
We literally invite seven counties worth of students and every
contractor that we know. Uh so that students having a
chance to get into the trades. And so that's that's
the My job is really connecting kids with opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You're kind of the micro of the areas at how
that that works. You're right, get dirty and let's be
proud of what well.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
What he does is because we have just people out
there are just really good construction companies are looking to
train people for a trade, I mean a career right right,
and there's people out there that want to work with
their hands easily. Guy to find those people and connect
them with people like us.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You know the day's time of years ago when you
know kids in the high school level, just sophomore, junior,
senior would go to the guidance counselor and they look
at the grade and say, okay, you should go to
a four year college. You know, you should go to
a two year college. You should do this, this, this,
you should go with the military. Maybe you should go
in the trades. That's changed now, it seems to me,
(05:45):
and maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that
now it's it's within the conversation of hey, listen, what
what do you want to do? And you know you're
a three five student? Do you want to go to
a four year Well, I want to get into trades.
And it seems like it's it's now getting to be
cool again to let's let's look to do this, and
we're going to talk with hustle Use, a sophomore at Whitnell.
(06:08):
And when he came into the studio, I said, look,
how'd you get involved in this? And he said, look,
here's what happened. And I think I want to get
into trades when when? When I get done with school?
So what a perfect opportunity for him? And and well
we'll get his story in the second segment. But kids
like that, you know, that's what we need in the trades.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Right absolutely. I call it the buffet.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And really what it is is just showing all of
the kids all of their opportunities, and getting into the
trades is one of them, you know, not just a
pigeonhole himself and think about just one particular path, but
look at all of them. And you're right, Mike, it's
very exciting to see very high achieving students looking at
this as a direct route to a you know, a
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really good wage, you know, a really good opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, I agree with that. And I think from when
I was coaching basketball, it seemed to me and I
had done it for so long, and it seemed that
that pendulum has switched a little bit and changed a
little bit. Well where some of these kids. And I've
told the story one hundred times. There's a kid at Greendale,
Martin Luther, when I was coaching, and he was about
(07:13):
a three to five student, really good football player, average
basketball player. And I saw him after graduation in the
weight room and I said, where are you going? And
he said, I'm not going to school? And I said really,
and he goes, no, I already know what i want
to do and I'm going to pursue it. And I
said what do you want to do? He said, I
want to become an electrician and I said, great, what
(07:34):
have you done with that? He saw, I'm going to
wait for my buddies to go off to school and
I'm going to figure it out. But that I know
what I want to do. And I said, I can
get a job, share a ride share right along like tomorrow,
if you want to do that at Current Electric. And
it was like a Tuesday, Wednesday did the ride along, Thursday,
went back and did it with their solar department, and
(07:57):
on Friday they made him an offer. He's he's about
to buy his first house. His buddies are graduating from
college with a lot of dad.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know, it's a real typical story. And that's what
you know. There's a group of people that want to
work with their hands. And the difference is is you know,
I don't want to. It's like talk people out of college.
Is those Yeah, what you're doing is these people are, hey,
I'm graduated from college with all his debt. I'm going
to go find a place to live in all this stuff.
These people are usually own a truck in the house,
have stuff already.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
His mom, I love his family. And his mom said,
you know, he never studied in high school. He's just
he's a smart kid. He got a three five without
he did his homework, but he didn't study a whole lot.
Now he comes home from work and this was two
years ago, so he's been doing it longer. Comes home
from work, takes a shower, I make dinner, he eats,
(08:46):
and then he studies and he's taken like half his
check and banking at the other half. He's buying tools
and he's getting making sure that he's fully prepared for
this career. He's now got his own truck at Current
Electric and he's rolling and he said, look, this isn't
going to be my forever home. I'm going to buy
a home. I'm going to fix it up, sell it
and move on and like to be out in the
(09:07):
Pewaukee area on the lake one day because the kid
loves the fish, hunt, hunting all that stuff. But this
kid knows his buddies are like, Okay, I've been thinking
a degree in history, but I don't want to teach.
And it's like, wa, right, you should have thought that
a few years ago. I love the path that some
of these kids are taking. And boy, it just it's
(09:30):
got to make you smile with the amount of the number.
Really does the numbers you have now? Has it grown
over the years?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh yeah, I mean we we are up to one
hundred and twenty youth apprentices. You know, healthcare is a
big deal, but number two is the trades. So we
have quite a few opportunities for students to at least
try it on, you know, and get into it.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And yeah, you come to it, you try, Like so far,
everybody it's ever you know, not that I'm not ripping
on our company or noting like this, but they come
to our company, they try. Like Katerra, right, She's like Triano.
She came to us and said, you know, this is
you know what I really want to do. And then
bam they You know, like we we all have friends,
you know, we all know each other. You can always
find somebody like you know, so I'm gonna be a plumber.
(10:11):
Give Jesse a call. Jesse, He's like, I'm on it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I mean, I had lunch yesterday with Sherry Wagner from
Jean Wagner Plumbing and her father owned the company and
now Scott, her husband runs it and she owns it.
And you know, we talked about she was looking for
for for plumbers and she said, you know what, we
let's change our advertising with you because we found the
(10:34):
guys that we need and we're rolling right now and
things are really good, busy, and we have enough help
that we can take the jobs when people call us. Hey, guys,
the Milwaukee the Narry Milwaukee Foundation this greenhouse project and
it's called Greenhouse Growth. Can we talk a little bit
about that? How did that come to play?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
So Cecily Vellani, she's from Landcrafters, but she's also Anarry member.
And Tom Geese who's in Milwaukee Design Build, he's the
current president of Nary. They came up with this idea,
and then they connected with me and said, you know,
can we make this happen in schools? And uh, you know,
we're trying to play off, Mike, you're a big sports guy.
Kind of playing off that the rivalry, you know, the
(11:18):
Witnell versus Greendale, the Franklin versus Oh Creek, the Muskigo
versus Mgwanago kind of play off, that intrinsic motivation of hey.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let's have a competition, you know, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Nothing gets more excited when tom and says they got
hold of me and he said, we need to bring
you in here because we need.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
To get on here. You need to get Witnell going.
And I told Huxley, if you guys don't win it,
you're not invited back. And he said, well, I think
mister Emmons is a yeah, he might be a judge.
So we got a pretty good shot. He didn't any
judge it. You know, you can't be right away.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
The Bengos walking around the room with all these contractors.
You know, we we have mentor businesses for every school,
you know, and we're having this sort of meeting about
this is kind of these are the rules of the game,
and Bengos run around congratulating everyone on taking second place.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, you know, he's getting in their kitchen, man, he's
getting in their head a little bit. Hey. So the
idea for these kids and again the schools that are involved,
and to be able to see the final project, you
need to go over to State Fair Park. It's going
to be a great show that their show starts February
fourteenth and it goes through the sixteenth, and I believe
(12:26):
it's that Sunday that they're going to be judged, is
that correct?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And the Greenhouse Growth Project, these kids from Franklin, Greendale, Mcguannago, Muskego,
Oak Creek, Saint Francis, South Milwaukee, and Whitnell. They get
the design plans to and what are they building?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
So they're building a six by a greenhouse. They can
personalize it to some level, but it's basically an opportunity
for them to showcase them the skills, work with side
by side with the you know, the Bengos of the
world and other contractors, and produce something that they can
showcase at this you know, at the event.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And really that's what it's all about, Mike.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's an opportunity to kind of, like you said, with
Mike rowe kind of promote the trades, you know, let's
elevate you know, kind of what's going on down there
and uh and and bring students along like Huxley and
give them an opportunity to, you know, be a leader.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Do you have a favorite in the in this race?
Speaker 5 (13:17):
By the way, you know, everyone seems to ask me that,
you know, I'm going to get in trouble if I
mentioned it, don't do it?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So everybody exactly exactly like you have kids. Oh yeah,
who's your favorite kid?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You're not going there either, Mike.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
No, Well, off the your I know that, Sam know, Zach,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, they might be rooting for Winnel too, But you know,
it isn't just this isn't just a product that okay
that you know there. You know, the tech department's working
on us, like the schools behind it. The superintendent says, oh, yeah,
we got a witness thing. I mean right, so we
actually actually witness is unique, like I say it now,
because there's no way the other guys can change it.
But they're making there as portable, but they can take
(13:56):
it apart. Because the whole idea when we get done
with this one is to take it apart and put
it in the middle of the of the school for
the science department to use.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You have to take it apart to put it in
like in the courtyard.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You know, if I would have said that these other schools,
it's too late to change what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Right, to cut it in half.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, they're probably not going to cut it in half.
Probably not going to cut it in half. Hey, when
when you approached and I would assume you approached the
shop teachers and say, hey, do you want to put
a team together for this?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, Just you know, how can you
fit this in your curriculum. We're going to have some fun,
We're going to do something. You know, it fits into
what they're already doing. They're already working on projects. So
let's do something that is, you know, a final product
that we can showcase and and to Bengal's point, you know,
maybe it can be used in the community. You know,
Green Dell's using there as part of their horticulture class.
(14:46):
I actually had a parent from Greendale. I don't know
how they got my number, called me up.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'd like to buy a greenhose.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I'm like, who is this is?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
This and what kind of budget do you have? That's
the question.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
The schools can do what really want when they can
sell it or when we didn't get done with this competition,
it's theirs.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And so if if if they want to sell it
for for something going on in.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The school or use the material you.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Know what, sell it and then put the money back
into the shop class to get materials. And speaking of materials,
who is there people that have donated the materials for this?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I know direxelsupp has Healthy Smart Sighting and all of
us sponsors. We all throw it a check for five
hundred bucks towards materials, you know, all the all the
sponsoring contractors.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's awesome, Yeah, that you know what to have to
have people sponsors, that's the way this thing can can work.
Right if the school has to pick up the cost,
if you have to pick up the costs of these kids.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It is just that too.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Because I got a call from Chris Ay we need
eleven sheets of plywood because we're not building this one.
They're building two and they're going to the better ones,
the one that they can enter in the contest.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, you're giving a lot of inside information.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We're not well, I like to see what Franklin's doing
because those that seemed.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
To be they're building six of them. Yeah, yeah, trust me.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Actually, oh Creek is building five?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are they really?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah? Because I know, yeah, they're building five of them.
They can only enter one.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Hey, And then each of these greenhous is going to
be judged by a panel and there's going to be
a trophy given to the school. There will also be
a fan favorite award given out to the school it
receives the most votes from the people that show up
at the show. And I like that you're doing that.
Let's let's do two, right, Let's let if if the
school wants to bring a thousand people to vote for ours,
(16:31):
let's do it. And then you know, for the people
that the people that are judging this thing, let's judge
the actual project project and given award to the team
that does the best. I love the competition part of it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Each of the students actually has a n Airy shirt,
which is their ticket to get into the show. So
you'll actually see students that worked on these projects, you know,
and they're probably beaming with pride because you know they
had to, you know, they really worked on these things.
And of course it'll probably bring their parents and grandpa
parent's down and just give them an opportunity to kind
of see, hey, this is the quality of work that
students can do.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And even if you like went to high school west
Ellis Central or something, you can still come to this.
Right as we're I'm looking at at our next guest,
Huxley's mom, Billy, and you guys, she doesn't look familiar
to you guys, Right, okay, cut, and we'll we won't
talk about why that that's very important on the air,
but if it certainly if million wants to go and
she can vote three four times, right, absolutely, yeah, she's
(17:29):
really proud exactly, so well, we will find out. We're
going to get to a break other side of the break.
Huxley Glazier, he is a sophomore at Witnell High School
and he is he's kind of one of the leaders
of that team for this project. It's the Greenhouse Grove project.
And again you can see these final projects next two
(17:51):
weekends from now, right.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Is it fourteenth?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth State Fair.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Part Nothing says romance like the narrative.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Nothing I'm telling you you can take bring your wife, boyfriend,
and girlfriend. Hold hands and walk through the Naary show
and take a look at make sure if you're going
to that show that you head over and take a
look at the greenhouse grove projects that these schools have done.
You're going to be extremely impressed with the work these
high school age kids are doing. This is the Creative
(18:18):
Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show on Fox Sports nine
twenty in your iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to the
Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show on Fox Sports
nine twenty and your iHeart Radio app. Coming live from
the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike
McGivern alongside Bingo Emmons. He's the owner of Creative Construction
(18:41):
of Wisconsin. We're talking a lot about the Nary Milwaukee
show coming up. It's February fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, and
in particular we're talking about the greenhouse Grove. I guess
it's a competition, is what it is, between a number
of schools in our area. And I want to thank
Tom Herman for coming in and UH highlighted promoting this
(19:02):
event that these high school kids are doing. We now
have a sophomore from Whitnell High School. He is involved
in this project. He is Huxley Glazier. Huxley. How you doing,
I'm doing all right?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, it's really nice to meet you. You and your
mom came in and and uh, she's awfully proud of
you for sure. Hey, talk a little bit about how
we got.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
To bring this up, because this is just I'm just
floored by this. This is there's only I only had
one real competitor, grand Rath, and we're actually, you know,
we're friends and everything.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I didn't know. He says, that's a grandson.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You should have him come work for you. Granddad would
not be happy.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They can tell Granny that you got play some employment.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Wait whatever, grandpa's paying you, he's got you. He'll be
it by about fifty cents.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
An hour, because yeah, because grand Raftling, you know my dad.
They go way back. I mean it's I mean I
worked with Granny and Wally Demlar and those guys for
years back in the eighties, unbelieve. Yeah, everyways worked for
my dad one time or another. Yeah, well yeah, I
know I did. Yep, I know them for a long time.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Say, how'd you get involved in this, in this and
is this something that that you knew you want to
get involved in. Obviously I didn't know this, but this
is family right business to work with your hands? How
did you get involved with this project?
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Okay, So at the start of the semester, my teacher,
mister Jackson introduced my class to the Greenhouse Grove project,
and because we have around twenty people in our class,
we split it into two, so we built two in total.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
And he also told us that he would like some leaders.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
To kind of step out, and I just kind of
saw the opportunity and jumped at.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It as a sophomore. As a sophomore, usually sophomore stay
in the back and wait for the juniors and seniors
to take the leadership role. So well done. I think
that's awesome. That tells me a lot about the kind
of kids you are. Working with your hands is something
you've done already, and you've been you've been. That's kind
of the family business a little bit.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Or yeah, so I yeah, I plaster with my grandpa
when I can. But yeah, Bengo obviously knows him. And
it just shows to be how small the world it
really is.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, it is and and I thank your mom.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
For But he's good when a lot of times people say,
you know, is do you have any competitors and being
with real skill and grand Rass have the same skill
as you, because there's a lot of people that want
to be that's well they do dry well and then
you say I do textor finishing. I mean, he's a
real life plaster. That's awesome, man.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That that is. Hey, tell me about this project. When
you got the when you got the the instructions on
how to do it pretty It hasn't been an easy project.
Has been a difficult project for you guys. Tell me
a little bit about the journey on this thing.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Don't get me wrong. Parts are definitely easier than others.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Being in the class with people who have I mean
relative experience, but not much. It's there's definitely been some
speed bumps that come with that.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
But I say, overall, for what we.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Were given and the experience that the class has in total,
I think that we did pretty well with it.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Hey, Tom, when you come back and bingle, maybe you
can answer. The principal at Milwaukee Lutheran, Wayne Jensen, just
one of the good guys in this world, sent me
a text and said how do I get Milwaukee Lutheran
involved in stuff like this? So if Tom, I'm going
to pass along Wayne Jensen's phone number to you and
if you can give him a call and talk a
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little bit about how that would come to play. I know,
the greenhouse growth project, it's a little late to get
involved in that, but there are certainly ways for the
people over at Milwaukee Lutheran. And my daughter teaches there,
and I'm a huge fan of obviously my daughter, but
the principal, Wayne Jensen, I've known for a really long
time and doing a great job, first year principal over
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at Milwaukee Lutheran. But he's a basketball coach there. He
went to school there, and he was the principal at
Martin luther when I coached there, and he moved over
to Milwaukee Lutheran and doing great stuff there. And for
him to reach out to me say hey, how do
we get involved in stuff like this? I think it's
would be a great phone phone call for you. Time
to give Wayne Chanson a call. Huxley twenty kids in
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shop class?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Yeah, twenty in my class?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And is it is it a what shop? Is it?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
So? The actual class title is building trades one. So
we kind of what the plan was that we just
kind of cover a lot a lot of everything, framing, siding,
all that fun stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
But yeah, like more specifically.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Was it an advantage to you to that you've done
some of this stuff with your grandfather before coming in?
Are there kids in here that this is the first
time they've ever done anything like this?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Oh yeah, they're definitely kids that this is brand new.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
And I would say yes, it was a bit of
an advantage, And that's part of the reason why I
jumped to the leadership role that I knew I had
that step ahead other I mean, rather than other people.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Do you do you feel like you're a sophomore, so
you're fifteen years old or something. Do you look at
when you get done with high school? This is something
that you want to continued? Is it more going to
be a hobby for you? What's your thought for the future?
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Still, I want to keep my options open, but it's
trades in my trades in my future is something that
definitely will I plan to.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, whether it's for a career or for a hobby, right, yeah, yeah,
either way. So the project itself is it, are you
guys complete. Is it done? Or are you still putting
some finishing touches?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Just some finishing touches are still getting thrown on.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Are you happy with you get a picture of it.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
By the way, I do not have a picture, unfortunately
I probably should.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But no, that's all right, that's all right. I look,
what you should say is we'll buy a ticket and
come down and vote for witness. Is what you should Yeah,
that's what you should tell me again the fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth at State Fair Park. You're going to want
to head over to the twenty twenty five Spring Home
Improvement Show again that Nary Milwaukee. And what I love
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about the greenhouse project is it benefits the foundation. And
for years Huxley, I've been telling people that the Nary
Milwaukee Foundation does great work, but they don't get up
on the mountaintop to tell people about it. They do
they phenomenal work and giving back to to people in
our community, and I always yell at them that they don't.
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They don't. They don't pound their chest enough to say,
look at what we're doing here. So guys like me
talk about it. But I've been a fan of the
Narri Milwaukee Foundation for a really long time and think
they do great work. And I love the fact that
they're involved with the Greenhouse Growth project. When you guys
started building this and when when you say, look at
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they asked to have a leader on this thing. Are
you the guy then that that that comes in each dances,
here's what we're going to get done today? Or how
does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
So basically that's exactly what I do.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
I give my team, because my team's around ten people,
what are what we need to get done today? Basically
we have a whiteboard in the class. That's what I
put it on there, and that's basically, yeah, what I do.
Just try to make sure everyone stays on task and
the work gets done.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
First time you've tried to manage people.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Uh, I would say, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
More difficult than you think. So it's like hurting cats sometimes, right,
especially kids at high school? Though, Are some of the
kids that you're managing juniors and seniors? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
So yeah, there are some juniors and seniors in my group.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And that's a whole different dynamic, right, Yes, you know,
and now you're saying, hey, man, this isn't what we asked.
You got to do it this way. Yeah, are you?
Are you? Is the project, the finished project going to
be as good as you thought it could be?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Yeah, Uh, it's better than other schools out there.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You don't even you haven't seen the other schools. You
just know I'm gonna see them Tuesday because they're gonna
see him tuesday.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah. Maybe maybe they fall off the truck.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Maybe they fall off it. Oh, Creek, be careful with
yours important that How competitive are you?
Speaker 7 (26:58):
By the way, I would say pretty compet if I
play football.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
So it's just that's kind of been.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, so to beat the other Witnell team pretty important.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
The other Witnell team wasn't as much of as a
concern to me. We obviously I wanted to do better
than them, but my biggest concern was doing better than
the other schools. I mean, at the end of the day,
we are Witnell. We're all one school and we can
do what we can to help each other out.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Maybe politics is in your future. What a political answer
that is? Oh that was beautiful, Well done, miss Millie.
You did good. You did good. The little role played
in the car in the front of the building. If
they ask about the other Witnell team, you say nothing
but good things. When we go to a break, you
can tell me what you really feel. I'm just kidding.
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Out of all those schools, you know, on the football field,
you guys, you want to beat them all, but in
this thing, you obviously want to beat them all. But
you know, when you look at some of the bigger schools,
like a Mesquigo or a Franklin, those are the ones
you want to see right below ye are you guys?
Witne one or Wittno. Two? Or how does that work?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
It doesn't necessarily work like Witno. One or whitne two.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Like we all just try to me and the other
group just try to strive for the same goal of
getting a complete and getting it done.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, how did you? How did how did mister Jackson
split the teams?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Actually know how they did that? Eric said, okay, you
should be a captain and you should be a captain.
And then they actually picked them because.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Yeah, so like like a draft, we kind of did
really get the first pick or the next I had
the next two?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, I think I like the next two. Well, we'll
see how this thing works for for.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Sure, because they actually saw that when that class actually
picked their own teams.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Hey, so what what's next? Then for did you go
to like, did will you take a shop class then
next semester or is this already second? It is already
second semester, so the next year, well will you continue?
Did you take any shop classes last year?
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
So I took a shop class from the semester last
year is called Home Repair and Maintenance. But now I
was in building trades one first semester that's where we
did the greenhouse, and now I'm in building trades.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Too this semester.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
What's the difference?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Building trades two? So it's a block schedule, so it's two.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Hours instead of one, and we just try to cover
like more, spend more time on more topics.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Did you go out? Did you do mister Jackson, take
your guys out to the field at all? Do you
are everything you do inside the building at winnow?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
So right now, because the weather outside, mostly everything that
we're doing is.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Inside.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
But I think we definitely do have plants to not
only get outside, but to get to other job sites
and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Field trips.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, I would assume that ride alongs and things like
that is something you'd be interested in. Has taken these
classes just.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Thrown it out there. We do ride along as advertise
every week about.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That creative construction Wisconsin. Don't tell your grandfather, don't tell
them all. What I want, though, is for you to
put one of these shirts on in front of the
truck and get a picture and send it.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
I should have thought of it. Yeah, yeah, I should
have gave my shirt. Then you give weekend awards.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But oh yeah, because I didn't even look.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Somebody should have told me Huxley was coming in, because
when I got the text, it said that Spencer. I
don't even know who this is. So I'm very happy
that you're hearing, very happy that you came in. Do
you see is there part of these classes you've taken
made you have more interest in you know, maybe electrical
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or HVAC or things like that. Have Have there been
been parts of the classes you've taken with the trades
at went in to high school that you found yourself
having more interest in different areas than you thought coming in.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Yeah, So, being like kind of overseeing it all, I
didn't get as much hands on that I would like
to because I'm just kind of basically giving people certain
jobs instead of me actually going the one actually doing
the jobs. But it doesn't mean I just kind of
sat back and relaxed the whole class.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
No, no, no, no, managers, don't you know. I bet
it keeps you up at night a little bit, right,
I mean, how do I get this group to get more? Look,
both your your parents were in education for a while,
and they understand the difficulties of getting Look, the definition
of team is two or more horses pulling in a
similar direction for a common goal, right, And that's what
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this is, this team that you that you're coaching, managing
things like that, and you can't you can't spend the
whole time doing the work for them, but you can
oversee it. Are there times that as the manager you'd
be like, Okay, I'm not sure I would have done
it that way, But that's what they're thinking that we're
going to go with it.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Definitely, with being like a newer to the leadership world,
there's definitely things that I wish I could go back
and restart. But at the end of the day, you
just kind of gotta continue on and strive on to
be better the next day.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, you will. You be nervous on Saturday night before
all the votes are in, and on the fifteenth of February,
the sixteenth is when they're going to announce the winners.
You're gonna be pretty nervous on the fifteenth, you think, oh, oh,
you're nervous.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Now, Yeah, a little bit, because it's just as we're
getting closer to that deadline. We just we want to
make sure everything gets done and we want to make
sure it's quality.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
What was the most difficult was the most difficult part
for you making sure that you had you had your
team and there's ten of you, but your team, Okay,
you're going to take care of this part. You're going
to take care of this part, and we're going to
take care of this. Was it making sure that everybody
knew what their goals were and what the timeframe was
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and making sure that everybody stayed to that.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Yeah, at the start, it kind of I had to
kind of hit everyone with like a reality check that like,
we need to get this done. We can't just go
around to that. Yeah, there's an actual deadline to this
and we need to get this done. So at the yeah,
towards like the start, like around November, I just kind
of had to tell everyone that we need to get
our stuff together and.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, it's sometimes management's not and you know they talk
about you behind your back, right, you know that, right,
they're like, man, he's he's cracking the whip today, what's
he do? You know? That kind of stuff. BEINGO you've
you've seen both projects over when the both teams.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Well, I don't get this. I don't get to go
look at him all the time. You know, Eric goes
over there and does that. But I see pictures and
I see stuff good. But what I really like about
is it's this whole project. You know, when you go
to schools, it's just nice to see, you know, because
you always like, man, what are we gonna do? We're
our workers, we can't do stuff. And then you go
to you see these kids and they're like they're proud
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of what they do and they're happy to be there,
and it's it's just so inspirational to see that there's
another there's a future of people that are going to
come out there and do this trade. It's just, you know,
it's it's nice to see it because you know, because
you see what I mean, just for years, like you said,
you know, Conning Council, they rather go to the army
right than than go into construction.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
You know, so they just they got that stigma for
a while and it's nice to see just there's a
group of people out there that want to work with
their hands. Well, you know Zach right, you know, he
was accepted an mllc um. We tried to get him
into college and my sister is still trying to get
him into college. But you know, I mean, you know,
he closed down a house. He has got a brand
new house, you know, your mega house and Iguanago and
you know, and he's you know, the trucks and and
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all the people, you know, the people in the trades,
right like the own houses.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Correct, they don't rent, no, no, they're buying them. Yeah,
one hundred percent. And I think that, uh, I think
that when you when you talk to a young man
like Huxley, who's the software in high school. And I
get a chance on my high school show to talk
to high school kids all the time.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And now that I know he's a grand rather, he
doesn't have to ever worry about working his whole entire.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Life, right, you just don't have to.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And for the whole world will walk in and shake
my hand and look me in the eye and say, hey,
thanks for having us and thanks for talking about this.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I want to thanks for Granny for training our new
star employee.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Oh man, you're gonna look great and red. That's all
I can tell you. We're gonna get to a break.
We're gonna keep Huxley with us. We're gonna ask Tom Herman.
He is the Youth Apprenticeship Program coordinator. And what that
means is connecting businesses with students and learning opportunities with
not only the trades, but other things. And Tom does
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a great job. And Wayne, if you're still listening, and
I will pass along your phone number as the principal
of Milwaukee Lutheran. When when principals call and say how
do we get involved in stuff like this to you
should have saw Tom Herman light up. He's like, oh yeah,
I will definitely make that call. Let's we'll get to
a break and ask Tom to join us. I've got
a number of questions for him on the other side.
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This is the Creative Construction of Wisconsin Home Improvement Show
on Fox Sports ninety twenty and your iHeart Radio app Well,
welcome back to the Creative Construction of Wisconsin Home Improvement
Show on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeart Radio
app coming live from the Donovan and Jorgans and Heating
and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike McGivern alongside Bigo Emmons, the
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owner of Creative Construction of Wisconsin, Thomas Herman. He is
the Youth Apprenticeship program coordinator. We're talking specifically about the
Greenhouse Grove project that you can go out and see
at the NAARY show coming up at State Fair Park.
It's the twenty twenty five Spring Home Improvement Show February
fourteenth through the sixteenth, again at State Fair Park. You
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can go to NARY Milwaukee dot org to get tickets.
You can save a little money if you buy them online.
And the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth at State Fair Park.
On the sixteenth the Greenhouse Grove Award presentations. And we're
also joined by Huxley Glazier. He's a sophomore at Whitnell and.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
He is scourage you come to that get the get
the trophy. Oh yeah, yeah, you should show up their Sunday.
You can watch them get the watch him get the trophy.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
They're gonna you know meat, you know what. And I'm
telling you I don't want to tell Huxley this, but
they're getting gatorade the poor in his head if they
if they win this thing, they're gonna and it'll be
the color of the Witnell Falcons, kind of that dark blue,
I guess is what they're gonna pour on on you. Hey,
we talked, Thomas. We talked early in that first segment
about the March fifth event over at Franklin High School.
(37:16):
It's a trades hiring event. Let's let's talk a little
bit more about that. Open to anybody.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, that's open to anybody.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You can move the microphone. It doesn't squeak anymore because
Bingo fixed it. There you go.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's open to anybody.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
We invite all the students from Milwaukee County, uh Waukesha County,
Northern Mersine County, basically seven counties, and we invite as
many contractors that we can get together and it's it's
a meet and greet. Come in, you know, dress you know,
dress for success, bring your resumes, Go and talk to
the Bengos of the world. Find out what they do,
and I feel like what they have to say, then
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give him a resume and hopefully you hear from them.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
And for a guy like Wayne Jensen is the principal
Milwaukee Lutheran who would send me this text. I forward
his his cell number to you so that you can
call him. This would be a great first kind of
initial feel for what you guys do, if if he
had time on March fifth to go over to Franklin
and walk through that and and kind of watch as
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these high school age kids basically sell themselves or find
out about different different companies they might want to work at.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Nobody there's lot of you know, the businesses are there,
but like Narry's there talking about their organization, and then
and then John Scoviak, there's other trades organizations that you know,
you don't isn't it just people hiring? There's also if
other things for people to other schools to talk to
about these all these organizations are looking for workers.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Hey, when when when I asked you about about like
a school like Milwaukee Lutheran, you said one hundred percent,
and we're looking. We've had the conversations to start to
expand what you do as the youth Apprenticeship program coordinator.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, we're we're we're all about making
connections for our students and and really I see all
students as are students.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You know, we're all in this together.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's that principal hat that you it is right. Yeah,
when you get a chance to talk to to Wayne Jensen,
who has been a principal for a while, you guys
get along really well because you understand the struggles that
he's going through and to be able to say, hey, listen,
this is an opportunity for your kids to know more
about what we do. I think is that. You know,
I'm glad that he sent me that text. I think
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it'll be a really good relationship that the two of
you have.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
And we're looking to expand the Greenhouse Grove project next year,
so we're going to add a couple more schools. You know,
we want more people to have these opportunities to uh,
to get in and get after it.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Man, I think that's really important. And you said, look
private schools, I'm okay with that. We we accept everybody
over here exactly.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
You know, we're about the students and UH and trying
to fill the talent pipeline. You know, there's a shortage
of you know, construction workers in quite a few trades.
So let's let's bring these people together.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Do you think you guys will do this the same
kind of project next year.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Well, actually we're talking about expanding it and making sort
of like a big backyard, and so schools can come
in and they can do smaller projects, they can continue
to do a greenhouse project, maybe they do a bigger project.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
So we've moved the microphone over. Let's talk to the captain,
the leader of one of the teams at Witno. I
saw you shaking your head. You've already got ideas and
what you'd want to do next year for a backyard project,
don't you. Yeah, And you don't have to give out
any any secrets or anything, but I see I see
a light bulb on over your head right now going
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beep beep. I've got an idea here that for you
is kind of exciting the thought process of oh if
maybe we could do this to set us apart from
the school as we're competing with.
Speaker 7 (40:47):
Yeah, I mean, it takes off a little bit of
the restrictions that that we were originally given. We can
just kind of do what we want and that could
set us apart from other schools on a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
So think about the group you have now, it's you
and nine others. Correct ten others, so there's eleven of you.
If the nice part about this project is you know
you have to build a greenhouse? Yes, next year you can.
You can make some decisions, but it's gonna have to
be a team decision. And trust me, I've coached a
long time to get ten people to everybody to agree
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on anything. The sky is blue. It can't do it right.
And so you're gonna have to figure out how to
sell your idea to get them to go, Oh my goodness,
that's what we should do. You're right, we should do that.
So give that. You know, I'm sure all the all
the things that I would talk to my mom, that's
who I would talk to.
Speaker 7 (41:40):
You.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You have her sell it that West Alli Central bulldog
in or she can get all that stuff sold for
for sure. Will you be there for all three days
over at the and everything or do you just show
up on Sunday?
Speaker 7 (41:54):
I don't think I'll be there for all three days.
I might, I honestly could be, but right now I
do not believe. I think Sunday is the only day I.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Will move the microphone back. Thomas, When did they bring
the greenhouses in? Did they bring it in prior to morning,
an eight and ten whole lot of thimas. I'm not
talking anymore, mister Bingo. When did they bring the projects in?
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Tuesday morning? We do an eight and ten spacific deadlines.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
So these kids, they they they come over and they
they built. Well, yours, you guys can just put together,
I guess right.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
But no, we actually we actually have a you know,
a big fifth wheel truck that we're gonna go around.
We're gonna pick these up and then well we're picking
up I think three schools.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
You know, some other schools are bringing their own. But
but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Let's make sure the two witnow ones are right next
to each other. We don't want that. We don't want
these guys aready.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
The school is like Old Creek and I mean Franklin.
They only can enter one, right, there's only one there.
We're not bringing them up, but we'll have to. No,
no one only get to bring one.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Do we know which one?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Obviously it's it is.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
Yeah, it will be our.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
His name is Huxley Clazier, and he's made the prediction
it will be ours. You you know that for sure?
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Right now, I just about do.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Who made that decision, Well, mister Jackson, and it had
nothing to do with that. He was your linebackers coach, right, No, no,
nothing at all. Pretty good football.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
Coach, very good football coach.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Yes, demanding, demanding, but he makes makes everyone on the
team better.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
The the the being competitive on the football field is
different than being competitive in the in in in shop class,
but there's some carryover.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Right, and especially in the leadership role that I was
granted it definitely.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
They correspond, Hey, Thomas, you like to hear that, And
you were shaking your head when I talked about being
competitive on a sports field or a court, right, and
then carrying over that competitiveness. Look, Bingo, when you talk
to him, is he competitive? I don't know. He seems it,
but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
On the job, I just want who's gonna win second.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
But in real life he's proud to know that. Other
than you know, the company that he competes with that
he said, look, we you know they're they're really good.
Other than that, he wants to beat everybody, and and Huxley,
my grandfathers. He doesn't want to beat him every time.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
But I did. They got a ringer.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
I didn't know they had a grand Rath was looking
at the house. And that's talent.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
That's talent.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
That's talent.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
That is talent. You like the fact that these kids
should be competitive, and.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
You know, I'll say I'm all for all kids, but
you know, when it comes down to it, every school
wants to win. You know, they want to have theirs.
There's to be one that that's the showcase at him.
So before two o'clock on Sunday on the sixteenth, that's
when all the votes need.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
To be in before two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
Yeah, if parents and grandparents want to come on down,
they need to vote before two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
And uncle's friends, girlfriends, every both of them. Yeah, sisters,
if you got two, that's spring man like Chicago, baby
like Illinois. Verte vote early, vote often, head down to
State Fair Park and we're gonna be talking about this,
I think next week as well. Twenty twenty five Spring
Home Improvement Show. It's the NARI Milwaukee. Go to Narimlwaukee
(45:16):
dot org to get more information. You can buy your tickets,
give you all the times of the show. Get in
the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth. But pay special attention when
you're on that website. Take a look at the Greenhouse Grove,
take a look at what the project is. It gives
a really nice definition of what they're doing with it.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
And a lot of those students will be there. They'll
be hanging around. Give meet a lot of those students,
the people that you just see the joy in their face,
of these people that are in this competition and enjoy
working with their hands.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
And if you meet Huxley, you're not going to forget
that name. He's the first Huxley I've.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Ever met you wearing a creative construction shirt.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Ye hey, I'm not getting involved in that. He won't
be able to go to his grandfather's house. Don't be
having him do that, Huxley Glazier. Thank thank you so much.
Sophomore over at Whitnall High School, Thomas Herman, well done again.
It's good to meet you in person. Keep up the
good work with these kids. It's it's good to the
future of of the trades, you know, is kind of
(46:13):
in your hands. Man. These kids that you're turning onto
this this part of their life is very very important. Bingo,
it's good to see you. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yep, I'll be here next weekend with the following weekends
they don't if you haven't.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah, maybe I should take the day off too so
I can watch now. Probably not.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Oh you're getting Aaron.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, there you go. It's good to see you, guys.
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