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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Creative Construction Wisconsin home improvement show on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports ninety twenty and your iHeartRadio app coming live

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Speaker 1: from the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios week Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's free. Well, it just go outside.

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Speaker 2: He open you hove up the window and just take seconds.

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Speaker 1: You know. I know when I was younger, it was cold,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we'd walk to school. But the other

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Speaker 1: yesterday morning it was seventeen below and I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm older. I don't remember being that cold.

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Speaker 1: And my dad used to leave January fifteenth when I

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Speaker 1: was a kid, maybe in high school, and go to Florida.

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Speaker 1: He went the first time for a week, then he

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Speaker 1: went for two, then he went for four. And he

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Speaker 1: passed away in Florida like April first, and he was

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Speaker 1: still it's January fifteenth trip. And I couldn't understand why

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Speaker 1: you would do that. Starting to understand it, Bingo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. I mean, it just it just hurts

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Speaker 2: to go outside. We actually, we just don't know being

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Speaker 2: in an old plaster world, especially working his home from

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Speaker 2: nineteen twenties and older stuff. There's not much insulation on

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Speaker 2: these walls.

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Speaker 1: We can't.

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Speaker 2: Really, we can't plaster a wall because it's first of all,

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Speaker 2: they start to sweat.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: You take these houses in their bone dry, right, and

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Speaker 2: then you put that we plaster on a wall and

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Speaker 2: you do a patch and stuff in the walls and

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Speaker 2: windows and everything starts sweating. It says, reckon stuff. So

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Speaker 2: we we could not work on Friday because of how

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Speaker 2: cold it was, even though it's what's inside. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: we'll do board damaging good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. People that I don't know if they understand that well.

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Speaker 1: Any issues you have with your furnace. Donovanjorganson dot com

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Speaker 1: HVAC company that stayed Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if we wonder if they're busy today?

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Speaker 1: Oh, man, so busy. But you know what, trust me,

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Speaker 1: if you're part of their maintenance program, you get pushed

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Speaker 1: to the top. So shoin that maintenance program before we

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Speaker 1: get to our special guests. You'd be so proud of me.

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Speaker 1: I am. There's not a bigger F one Formula one

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Speaker 1: race car fan than me. I watched the bread Pit

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Speaker 1: movie last night. Sonny Hayes. I think the name of

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Speaker 1: the driver is my new favorite driver.

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Speaker 2: And the driver you always your favorite driver, you know,

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Speaker 2: because that's the character's name.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And what I found out is NASCAR and

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Speaker 1: Formula one are really different.

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Speaker 2: Well he's a good yeah, Well one's on one's beer

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Speaker 2: cans and champagne and yeah.

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Speaker 1: And it was like, it really is that way.

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Speaker 2: I mean you used to see it's like fifteen dollars

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Speaker 2: ago to an F one race, right, NASCAR race you

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Speaker 2: can find a ticket from somebody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody in the parking lot. If you give them

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Speaker 1: a little cheer, you get to go in for free.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was really champagne and cavia compared

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Speaker 1: to what NASCAR is. And it's a really look, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Think where you live now, that's probably that's pretty much

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Speaker 2: what you guys have that condo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Hey, I'm excited about today's show.

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Speaker 1: Any chance we get to talk to a young person

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Speaker 1: that that got into the trades and they did.

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Speaker 2: It with the youth of us your program as a

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Speaker 2: young lady.

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Speaker 1: She is a young lady, and I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 1: talking to Haley in a minute. But Tom Herman, who

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Speaker 1: has been a guest on her show, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: a big fan of his and the work that he does.

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Speaker 1: And he's back in studio. Thomas, how are you Ben?

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Speaker 3: Oh very good, thank you for having me back.

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Speaker 1: How Come how come Haley and I didn't get the

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Speaker 1: memo about wearing red like you and Bingo, we didn't

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Speaker 1: get that memo.

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Speaker 3: You know, Well, she's sporting blue Jacket Builders.

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Speaker 1: That's where she's working. And I've got McGivern agency on here,

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Speaker 1: so you know, we get to support what.

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Speaker 2: We're I'm gonna have to talk to a nick about

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Speaker 2: changes called her red and make him fit in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna have Tod with his blue jack.

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Speaker 2: You had to be red jacket here be red jacket builders.

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Speaker 1: Could be, could be. Well, we'll talk to him if

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Speaker 1: we ever get him in studio, Thomas Howard things having

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Speaker 1: a good.

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Speaker 3: School year, Oh, outstanding school year once again. We're looking

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Speaker 3: forward to uh actually have a big event coming up.

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Speaker 3: We have our hands on hiring event coming up at March.

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Speaker 3: It's our fifth annual at Franklin High School March fourth,

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Speaker 3: five o'clock to seven o'clock. That's where we invite all

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Speaker 3: of the area high school students to come to get

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Speaker 3: a job in the Trades autos Manufacturing. That's where Haley

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Speaker 3: met Nick from Blue Jacket Builders.

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Speaker 1: Hey, before we get to Haley, do you feel things?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel that it has turned a little bit?

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Speaker 1: I look, I went to pick up a fish fry

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Speaker 1: last night at Sussex Bowl. They have great fish rites.

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Speaker 1: By the way, young guy had a Wave hat on

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Speaker 1: and I used to a million years ago I worked

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Speaker 1: for the Wave and I made a comment about it.

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Speaker 1: Turns out this kid is a senior at Lake Country Lutheran,

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Speaker 1: where two of my grandkids go. He is a he

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Speaker 1: works for an electrical company and he part time and

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Speaker 1: his hole. He's a three five three six student, but

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Speaker 1: he knows what he wants to do, and so he

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Speaker 1: will be an apprentice once he graduates, and he works

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Speaker 1: part time at this bowling alley. Kids busy that the

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Speaker 1: kid's really busy, but he talked about that idea, like

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Speaker 1: all of his friends are picking out what college you

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Speaker 1: want to go to, and he already knows what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. Like two days after he graduates, he's going

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Speaker 1: to start working full time for this electrical company. And

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Speaker 1: he's really excited about it. And as I got in

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Speaker 1: the car, I knew the first question for you. I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's turning and we're going to ask Kaylor

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 4: But it is.

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Speaker 2: It's just turning because we talk about wages. Actually, Tim

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Speaker 2: just did a summer about this. When I do, I

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Speaker 2: always talk about carpenters and surgeons and he doesn't know,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't. But it's not like, you know, people are

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Speaker 2: going to college and they're getting debt and by the time,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're fifty six years old between by

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Speaker 2: time a surgeon makes the same starts making more money

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Speaker 2: than a carpenter, right, Guys, Like, it's a whole different life.

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Speaker 1: It's a whole different life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely is. You're starting to see more parents

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Speaker 3: kind of give permission to their kids to look at

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Speaker 3: all the options. And it's the kids you can find them, Mike,

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Speaker 3: just like you when you were coaching basketball. You see

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Speaker 3: those kids that have skills, they are matured, their leaders,

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Speaker 3: they're ready to go, and they know what they want

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Speaker 3: to do. They want to be an electrician, they want

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Speaker 3: to be a carpenter, they want to be a plumber.

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Speaker 1: Hey know what, speaking of coaching basketball, do you still

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Speaker 1: talk to Aim and o'keep every once in a while.

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Speaker 3: Uh, you know, every once in a while, maybe once

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Speaker 3: a year.

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Speaker 1: Well, next time you see him, you telling mcgimner was

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Speaker 1: talking some stories a couple of Irish boys when I

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Speaker 1: was over at Dominican, and I told you, just getting

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Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble together. And the funniest part

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Speaker 1: is the people at Major Gruls. He's called Dominican to

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Speaker 1: complain about him and I and they got through to him.

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Speaker 1: They didn't know his name. He said, hey, I'll take

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Speaker 1: care of it, and he called.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the principal of Dominican at that time got

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Speaker 2: Actually, actually his son is a you know, we we

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Speaker 2: recommend them because they're one of those people that way

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Speaker 2: when your insurance companies give you a hassle. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: one of those companies to help you help you.

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Speaker 1: Joey O'Keeffe, Oh that's awesome. Hey, let me introduce another

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Speaker 1: special guest in studio. She's a Dominican or a Dominican

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Speaker 1: A Frank, I'm so sorry. She's a former Saber. She's

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Speaker 1: now a carpenter working through that. Haley, pronounce your last

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Speaker 1: name for me, Sevasta, Hailey, Sevasta again, Franklin grad working

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Speaker 1: now for Blue Jacket Builders. Talk to me a little

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Speaker 1: bit about how this happened. Was this did you know

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Speaker 1: going into high school that working with your hands is

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Speaker 1: something that he had interest in?

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Speaker 4: Not quite you know. I took some construction classes in

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Speaker 4: high school and I just I fell in love with

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Speaker 4: it from there, you know, woodworking, just learning the basics.

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Speaker 1: Well, what about what woodworking for you? And let me

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Speaker 1: preface this. My father was a bricklayer and mason. He

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Speaker 1: was so proud. Hey, look, all the mcgiffren boys, three

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Speaker 1: of us were really into sports, and my brother John,

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Speaker 1: that was not. But it's funny because what he was involved.

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Speaker 1: We're all really like proud of what we were doing,

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Speaker 1: playing basketball and baseball and all that. And my dad

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Speaker 1: would put the McGivern kids in the back of this

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Speaker 1: so proud of the work he did with his hands.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like that's part of the reason that

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Speaker 4: Absolutely? I would. I would make these projects in my

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Speaker 4: woodworking class and go home and I'd show my parents

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Speaker 1: I'd be like I made this like mom and dad

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Are you you'll be a carpenter or you considered a carpenter? Now? Yes?

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Speaker 4: So right now I am a carpenter. I just I

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Speaker 4: work three full days a week because I'm also going

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Speaker 1: Oh you are? Where are you going to school?

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Speaker 4: Go to w CTC. I'm going for real estate and

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Speaker 4: entrepreneurship man and property management.

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Speaker 1: So she's not lazy, lazy, I've got a lot going.

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Speaker 1: When do you sleep?

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Speaker 4: Not really, it's not in my schedule.

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Speaker 1: Do you know the young man that I met last

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Speaker 1: night from Charlie from Lake Country Lutheran High School who's

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Speaker 1: going to be an electrician? I told him about a

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Speaker 1: young man that I coached over at Greendal Martin Luther

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Speaker 1: Brodie Lee and I talk about him on here a lot.

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Speaker 1: I saw him after he graduated, and I saw him

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Speaker 1: in the weight room. He was lifting and really good student.

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Speaker 1: I said, we're you going to college? He said, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: And he wanted to pursue to be an electrician. I

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Speaker 1: got him a ride along at Colonel Electric. He's been

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Speaker 1: there ever since. His buddies have just graduated or going

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Speaker 1: to graduate with a mountain of debt. And he just

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Speaker 1: bought his first house. And it's like, hey man, and

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Speaker 1: he said, coach, this is a starter home. You know,

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Speaker 1: his goal is to be on a lake someday and

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Speaker 1: you know when he gets done with working and go

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Speaker 1: fishing and do all this stuff that he wants to do.

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Speaker 1: But the idea of his buddies not knowing what they're

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Speaker 1: going to do after they graduate, but they have all

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Speaker 1: this debt they have to pay. And this kid is now,

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Speaker 1: Hey, Haley, when when you were at Franklin and you

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Speaker 4: Well, they would give me options. They were like, hey,

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Speaker 3: You know, I've been in education for thirty four years

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, should I have had him call you? Do

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Speaker 3: You know, there's quite a few. There's a nice network

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Speaker 1: Of course, the mirror in O Creek is a guy

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Speaker 1: that people, like two people had said maybe he should

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and a twenty five of those kids should come

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Speaker 2: I mean, but what Tom was good for too is

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Speaker 1: Well Tom Herman, it's it's t Herman at witnel dot com.

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Speaker 1: pass along his phone number. Haley, Why why carpenter? I mean,

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Speaker 4: Well? In high school, I got the chance to build

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Speaker 1: And that's what you that and you thought man as

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Speaker 2: I mean they just said she does go in real estate.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm the three days a week that you work

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Speaker 4: All right, So we get to the we usually meet

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Speaker 2: That's really a great at It is a great attitude

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't have that guy, you know at least like, no,

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Speaker 1: don't don't ask me about those classes. Let's keep talking

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Speaker 2: parents on board with this. I mean, because there's kids

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Speaker 2: I want to work with their hands. I have a

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Speaker 2: creative they make a lot of money, vitrol, own your

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Speaker 2: own houses, a vacation houses, think and everything they want right.

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Speaker 2: But you know sometime some parent will just say, well,

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Speaker 2: I want you to go to college anyways, and you

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Speaker 2: know underwater basket, well whatever the major.

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Speaker 1: You know, underwater hockey. I did an hour on My Youth,

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Speaker 1: my high school sports show, but underwater it's trying to

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Speaker 1: make it a little You didn't even know that existed,

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Speaker 1: did you.

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, I don't hear too many professional underwater hockey.

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Speaker 1: Nope. College sport is a club sport. And a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine in o'condonwalker grandson played for Michigan State's team,

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Speaker 1: and we talked underwater hockey for an hour, which was incredible. Hey,

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Speaker 1: today's show the Youth Apprenticeship Program and when Tom Herman

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Speaker 1: comes in, it's always a show that I really like

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Speaker 1: because you know, two hours after this show, I do

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Speaker 1: a high school sports show and a number of these

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Speaker 1: kids and where I have felt this change. A number

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Speaker 1: of kids that come in studio that are really good

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Speaker 1: students like Haley was. They're like, look, I know what

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Speaker 1: I want to do, and to be able to do

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Speaker 1: what I want and be able to have job security

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Speaker 1: and the financial security of going into the trades is now.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing has changed and I'm really happy about it.

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Speaker 1: And the guys like Tom Herman with the youth apprenticeship

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Speaker 1: program are a big part of that. You can reach

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Speaker 1: out to Tom. It's t Herman at Witnell dot Com.

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Speaker 1: T Herman at Whitland. Tom. Any questions you have her,

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Speaker 1: get a hold of me and I'll pass along time's number.

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Speaker 1: This is the Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports ninety twenty and Your iHeart Radio app.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Creative Construction in Wisconsin Homieprovment Show

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports nineteen twenty and Your iHeart Radio app.

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Speaker 1: Coming live from the Donovan and Jordans and Heating and

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Speaker 1: Cooling Studios. I'm Mike McGivern alongside Bingo Emmons. He's the

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Speaker 1: owner of Creative Construction of Wisconsin. Our special guests in

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Speaker 1: studio Thomas Herman. He is in charge of the youth

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Speaker 1: apprenticing program. How many schools. By the way, we have

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Speaker 1: five schools. You have five schools. You can get a

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Speaker 1: hold of him by emailing him t Herman at Witnel

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Speaker 1: dot com. T Herman at Witnell dot com. Also in studio,

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Speaker 1: Hailey Sevastia. She is a Franklin grad and she is

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Speaker 1: she's a carpenter and also going to WCTC taking a

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Speaker 1: bunch of classes. She's really busy, she is. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: she got up this morning come in studio with us.

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Speaker 2: She probably what it was starting so late?

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Speaker 1: Why you guys stay? She was out in the parking

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Speaker 1: Live six point thirty waiting for this thing. Hey, Thomas,

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Speaker 1: you guys have a hiring event. And I just sent

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Speaker 1: a text to ken Over at Mesmer and I talked

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Speaker 1: in that first segment that he had called about a

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Speaker 1: number of juniors and seniors at Mesmer High School looking

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Speaker 1: to get in the trades and they want to bring

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Speaker 1: some union people in to talk to these kids. What

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Speaker 1: a great time for these kids to come over Franklin

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Speaker 1: High School March fourth at five pm. Talk to me

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Speaker 1: about that hiring event. How many different companies will be there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is our fifth annual and it gets better

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Speaker 3: every single year. We have union, we have merit based

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Speaker 3: employers there. This year we broaden it to include autos

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Speaker 3: and manufacturing. It's basically anybody that works with their hands

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Speaker 3: that wants to come and get a job. Our target

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Speaker 3: audience is our seniors who are graduating. They're looking to

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Speaker 3: get into the trades, and it's it's sort of a

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Speaker 3: thank you to all of our contractors who work with

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Speaker 3: our schools. Come in and get some quality leads, you know,

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Speaker 3: get some resumes and hopefully, you know, you hire maybe

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Speaker 3: one or two people out of it that you know

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Speaker 3: that person stays with you. It's we'll probably have about

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Speaker 3: seventy seventy five different tables full of contractors.

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Speaker 1: Well, real quick, His text to me was, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: have seventeen seniors from Mesmer High School showing interest in

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Speaker 1: the trades from carpentry to steam fitting to electricians, and

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Speaker 1: that event it would be perfect for them.

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Speaker 2: But what I just want to say is when you

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Speaker 2: come to this event, these are all contractors. These all

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Speaker 2: people that want to talk to you. They're not going

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Speaker 2: to like It's not one of those things where they

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Speaker 2: go they might call you. These are all contractors that

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Speaker 2: are really looking for people. They said, if they come

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Speaker 2: out of there with yeah, I mean, we're static if

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Speaker 2: we find one employee out of this that's I mean,

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Speaker 2: because it isn't like there's hundreds of people standing in

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Speaker 2: line for every single job. There's not, and there is

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Speaker 2: a shortage. So these guys are working very hard. Their

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Speaker 2: greatest center programs. Almost all I would say almost all

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Speaker 2: of them are willing to train. And we prefer people

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Speaker 2: that need.

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Speaker 1: To be trained, right, because then you can train them.

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Speaker 2: You're yeah, you train, learn, learn our habits.

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Speaker 1: Tim, would you recommend that these kids, this is you're

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Speaker 1: going to be interviewed, maybe on the spot, so come,

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Speaker 1: come prepared for that, Come dress for that. If you

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Speaker 1: have a resume, you know, I don't know if kids

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Speaker 1: that are seniors in high school have resumes, but maybe

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Speaker 1: they do. If they do have it, have a number

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Speaker 1: of copies to be able to leave.

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Speaker 2: But you don't, I just say, don't. You don't need those,

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Speaker 2: so I don't have a resume, so I can't come.

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Speaker 2: You do not need a resume.

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Speaker 3: No, in this field, you don't need a resume. I

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Speaker 3: would suggest that you put one together, but you don't

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Speaker 3: need one. I think the most important thing is that

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Speaker 3: you go out and you engage with all of these people,

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Speaker 3: and don't be bashful. The people on the other side

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Speaker 3: of the table want to talk to you, so go

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Speaker 3: up to them and introduce yourself, find out what they do,

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Speaker 3: and uh see if it's a good fit.

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Speaker 1: Hailey de you you've been to that event? Is that

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Speaker 1: where you met the company you're working for?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? So I reached out to Tom earlier in my

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Speaker 4: senior year and he was like, I want to set

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Speaker 4: you up with some company. So he sent me a

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Speaker 4: bunch of companies. I reached out to all of them,

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Speaker 4: and I got connected with Nick, which he I think

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Speaker 4: knew him through the all the hiring events and the

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Speaker 4: youth apprenticeships and all that.

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Speaker 1: But did you walk Did you go to the hiring event?

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Speaker 4: Yes, so, I prior to even working with Blue Jacket,

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Speaker 4: I went to that and I was looking. I was like,

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Speaker 4: I need to look at all of my options. I

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Speaker 4: was looking at being just a clean up person on

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Speaker 4: a remodeling site, that's what like, just to start to

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Speaker 4: get my foot in the door. And then I was like,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to do that, you know, And I

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Speaker 4: just kept looking and I never really stopped until I

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Speaker 4: found what I wanted. And then last year I actually

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Speaker 4: worked at the booth with Nick and with the company,

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Speaker 4: so I was talking to all the kids, getting to

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Speaker 4: know all of them, and we actually got somebody from

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Speaker 4: the trades hiring event to work with us.

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Speaker 1: Well again, you know what, doctor Jensen from Wwauque Lutheran

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Speaker 1: again just sent me a text sit we are interested

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Speaker 1: again as well, and so if we can, let's get

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Speaker 1: some information over to doctor Jensen from Milwaukee Lutheran High

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Speaker 1: School because he's got a number of juniors and seniors

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Speaker 1: that have interest in getting into the trades. And again

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Speaker 1: March fourth at Franklin High School and Tom, if you could,

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Speaker 1: as we get closer to that, send me an email

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Speaker 1: just you know, maybe that's Saturday before it I can

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Speaker 1: I can promote it again. Do the people have to

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Speaker 1: sign up to be able to come or is it

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Speaker 1: just do The doors are open.

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Speaker 3: No, the doors are open, and I encourage even younger

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Speaker 3: kids to show up. You'll see students that will be

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Speaker 3: there from there the last three years, you know, because

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Speaker 3: they're trying to discover what is that they want to do.

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Speaker 3: And we purposely put it at night so that parents

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Speaker 3: can come too. Very important quite a few parents have

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Speaker 3: not been in the trades. They need to learn too.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to figure out, well, how do I help

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Speaker 3: my my son or daughter.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me go back over to hell you.

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Speaker 2: I'll just say about the parents, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: parents that ask a question. And when I'm there, it

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Speaker 2: seems like the parents are asking more questions than the kid.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I mean because they're like, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, what will you be doing? How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be dangerous to work in bad neighborhoods.

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Speaker 2: I mean, because the parents are concerned.

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Speaker 1: Sure, one hundred percent. Haley. When you when you when

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Speaker 1: you went home and said to your mom and dad, hate,

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Speaker 1: I think this is what I want to do. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they had some questions because neither one is in

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Speaker 1: the trades. Were they very supportive for this?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they totally supported it. You know. They were like, well,

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Speaker 4: if you want to go to college, you can. If

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Speaker 4: you don't want to, you don't have to. You know.

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Speaker 4: They're like, well, whatever you choose, you can do. And

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Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, but I don't know if I

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Speaker 4: really want to do carpentry or if I really want

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Speaker 4: to do electrical or what. I had no idea what

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Speaker 4: I want to do. I just knew I wanted to

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Speaker 4: make money right out of high school. That's all I knew.

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Speaker 2: She's doing both.

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Speaker 1: No, I know she's doing all of it. Hey, Tom,

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Speaker 1: There's a number of pathways for high schools to enter

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Speaker 1: the trades, right. They can go to vocational or tech schools, apprenticeships,

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Speaker 1: dual enrollment programs, all of the it certificate all of

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Speaker 1: the ways that high school high schoolers can enter the trades.

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Speaker 1: That's that's definitely part of the youth Apprenticeship program to

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Speaker 1: be able to inform and educate kids and parents and

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Speaker 1: families on the pathways for this correct right.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, in the state of Wisconsin since nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety one, youth apprenticeship has been here. It's based on,

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Speaker 3: you know, the German model of apprenticeship that was brought

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Speaker 3: to here, you know, brought to Wisconsin. It is a

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Speaker 3: structured program where students learn how to work, they learn

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Speaker 3: how to you know, do certain skills, and they have

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Speaker 3: to do four hundred and fifty hours minimum while they're

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Speaker 3: taking corresponding curriculum. It's for that student that I would

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Speaker 3: say is is a little more mature and is ready

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Speaker 3: for it, you know, and they exist in every single school,

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Speaker 3: that student that's ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Hey, how is that the youth Apprenticeship program changed over

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Speaker 1: the five years that you've been involved in it? Has

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Speaker 1: it grown? Have you guys added things to it?

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Speaker 3: Across this We went from six thousand students when I

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Speaker 3: started to over eleven thousand, so it's almost doubled in

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Speaker 3: five years. So it has become something that school board members, principals, superintendents, teachers,

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Speaker 3: guidance counselors, parents, students, they're they're all understanding, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: this is a really good thing you were you were.

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Speaker 1: A principal at Wading Growth Union Growth. I knew it

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Speaker 1: was either Watchingston Grove. Sorry about that, the Mighty Broncos.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: I know that I don't know my niece and nephew's names,

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Speaker 1: but I know the Wolverines from water for the demons

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Speaker 1: from Burlington. It's ridiculous. When you were a principal, did

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Speaker 1: you understand would you have been would you be a

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Speaker 1: different principal today than you were back then when it

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Speaker 1: comes to this field.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny that you say that the

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Speaker 3: last couple of years that I was a principal. We

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Speaker 3: we kind of changed our mindset from hey, we got

651
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 3: to get all these students into ap classes to hey,

652
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 3: we got to have these kids get out and get

653
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 3: some experiences and do some things, get out and do

654
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 3: some job shadows.

655
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: And our board was.

656
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 3: Very, very supportive of that. In fact, we started our

657
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: very own sort of a hiring event where we had

658
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 3: a showcase of all these Racine County schools and colleges

659
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: and companies, just so our kids can understand, here's what

660
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 3: you're going to graduate too.

661
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: Right now, this is where you're going to go too. Well.

662
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: Ken from Mesmer High School just sent me a text

663
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, listen, I feel free to share

664
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: my contact information with Tom. We'll get the info the

665
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: event for our seniors. What a great opportunity.

666
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 2: What is texting? You probably should have them in studio

667
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: next time time shows up.

668
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't think about that. And you walked in

669
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: and I went, oh and look, Messmer's my alma mater.

670
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: So anything I can do to help those kids Mighty Bishops,

671
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: by the way, well, to be able to get them

672
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: to that March fourth event would be perfect. My daughter

673
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: teaches at Milwaukee Luther So I thank doctor Jensen for

674
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: being interested in this and getting kids from Milwaukee Lutheran

675
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: and the kids from Mesmer to come over to Franklin

676
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: on the March Worth at five o'clock. And we'll continue

677
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: to promote that event on this show because I think

678
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: it's so important And when you have somebody like Haley

679
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: who is just smiling, like, look, my future is really

680
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: bright because I've got a number of opportunities and being

681
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: a carpenter is right now foremost. But I'm still going

682
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: to school at w CTC for a couple of things

683
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: that I'm interested in, which I absolutely love. And remember

684
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: for doctor Jensen and for Kenned at mess with Milwaukee

685
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: Lutheran to tell these kids, this is you're going to

686
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: go through a quick interview process, so be prepared for that. Haley,

687
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: when you went to that event, were you nervous talking

688
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: going up to talk to these people in the booths

689
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: or were you comfortable in that setting?

690
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 4: Personally? I actually didn't mind it. I liked I like

691
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 4: talking to people, and I like just it's not it

692
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be like awkward, it doesn't have to

693
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: be like you're being interviewed. It's like you're just talking

694
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 4: to them, you can ask them about what they do,

695
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 4: you know, do just learn about their company. That's that's

696
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 4: what you can do. And then if you're interested, then

697
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 4: you can follow up and be like, hey can I

698
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 4: apply for this? Or like what are you looking for?

699
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 4: Are you looking for an apprentice? Are you looking for

700
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 4: full time? Part time? What do you like?

701
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: You just ask them, Hey, how much how much money

702
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: have you spent on tools?

703
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 4: Barely anything good?

704
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: You get to use blue jackets. Yeah, that's awesome.

705
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 4: I gave me all my hand tools, like drills, my

706
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 4: multi tool, saws, all all of it, and then they

707
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 4: supply everything else I just bought. I haven't I already

708
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 4: had them, but like I had like a tape measure,

709
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 4: you know, like the basics that kind of stuff.

710
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, the the young man that that went to

711
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: work at Current Electric, I talked to his mom about

712
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: six months and after, and she said, you know, he

713
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,719
Speaker 1: was like a really good student, but he didn't study.

714
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: He just he's just got good grades. And now he

715
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: comes home from a day's work and he's studying, and

716
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: he's taking his paycheck and he's buying the tools he

717
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: needs and the tools that he wants because he always

718
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: wants to have the best tools. And it's interesting because

719
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: like they supply him, but he wanted his own and

720
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: and that's what he did with with some of his money. Hey, Tom,

721
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: when when?

722
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 4: Uh?

723
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: If there are companies that want to get involved in

724
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: the Highered event, the fifth annual one, by the way,

725
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: on March fourth at Franklin High School? Do you still

726
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: have room for other companies if they want to come

727
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: in and talk to some of these high school kids.

728
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there are quite a few that have

729
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: been with us for three, four or five years, so

730
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 3: there are limited spots. So I would suggest that they

731
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 3: get a hold of me sooner than later.

732
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: We're in the high school. Is it in the gym,

733
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: it's in the cafeteria. In the cafeteria, Yeah, and it

734
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: goes down the hall.

735
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a nice event. I mean, if you're

736
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: if you're a think about first of all, it's a

737
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: litle brainer. He should really be there if you're a contractor.

738
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: But if you're thinking about getting into their trades, you

739
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: could really get a taste of everything because everybody there

740
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 2: is beggar and you you know, you say, if your

741
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: son's bashful or daughter's bashful. Don't worry about it because anyway,

742
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 2: what I always tell people, would you reason the way

743
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: you want to go and talk to his people because

744
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: you want to see It's about relationships, right, You want

745
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: to belong to a company, to be a part of

746
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: a company. You can hear the passion in her voice,

747
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: how she's so happy where she is, and that's what

748
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: all the for employees that want to be there.

749
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 3: And like you know, that's one of the outcomes that

750
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 3: we want. We want kids to learn how to talk

751
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 3: to adults. It is a networking event and kids need

752
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 3: to learn how to network. And like Haley said, the

753
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 3: people on the other side of the table are very agreeable.

754
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 3: They're they're great people. I mean, they're easy to talk to.

755
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 3: So you go up, you introduce yourself and let it

756
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 3: go from there.

757
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,959
Speaker 1: Hey, when when they come in, apprenticeships and the duel

758
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: enrollment programs that we talked about, and the idea of

759
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: of going to technical schools, those are all options that

760
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: I would think that you guys talk about. But at

761
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: this hiring event, they're they're saying to them, look, you know,

762
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: you graduate, take a few days off and then let's

763
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: get let's get after it. We've got this bright future

764
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: for you, correct, right.

765
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 3: So there are options for kids. They can go to

766
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: a duel enrollment while they're still in high school. They

767
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 3: can do you know, a work right away through the

768
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: youth Apprenticeship program. They can wait off because sometimes kids

769
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 3: are too busy. They can wait off until they after

770
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 3: they graduate. There's many different entry points into this. We're

771
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: just making it easy for them to connect with who

772
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 3: does that they want to actually talk.

773
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: To helely, did you do the duel enrollment program?

774
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 4: Yes, I did so. Yeah. I would go to instead

775
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 4: of going to school in the mornings for a semester,

776
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 4: I would actually go to work in the morning. And

777
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 4: I was making money in the morning, and that's what

778
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 4: I wanted. I was so excited. You were money motivated,

779
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 4: That's exactly it always And yeah, so I'd wake up,

780
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 4: I'd wake up, i'd get to the job site, I'd

781
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 4: be making money, and I'd go to school at maybe noon.

782
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 4: I'd get out at two and i'd go back to work,

783
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 4: you know. And I worked until four thirty five o'clock

784
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 4: and then I'd do the same thing every day and home.

785
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: We get your homework guys, and it was yeah, exactly,

786
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: get your homework.

787
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 4: That's exactly what I wanted. I just wanted to make

788
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 4: money good for you.

789
00:35:58,960 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

790
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 3: You know, when Haley told me that she is interested

791
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 3: in getting into a youth apprenticeship, I sent out a

792
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 3: text to a couple of people in my minory network

793
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 3: of businesses and uh Nick was the first one.

794
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: To call back. So, uh so you go, blue Jacket, Well,

795
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: you know.

796
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 3: The early bird gets the worm. I basically said, Hey,

797
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 3: this is a leader in this class of construction. Two

798
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 3: kids that just built a house. Okay, this is somebody

799
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 3: you want to get a hold of. You want to

800
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 3: get a hold of Haley.

801
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: Hey, Haley, are you going to be working that hiring

802
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: event for you? I'm sure Blue Jacket will be there

803
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: and I would assume they want you to put Franklin

804
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: gear on and come and and and show the saber colors.

805
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: And if I'm Nick, I would ask you to be

806
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: at that table to be able to meet kids and

807
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: tell them the journey that you've been on.

808
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I was there last year. That's basically what

809
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 4: I did. You know, kids would come up, they were

810
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 4: like they asked me, they like, are you are you

811
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 4: did you? Were you in this program? And I was

812
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 4: like yeah, and I would tell them all about it

813
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 4: and they It really got them engaged, honestly, because they

814
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 4: were like they could see that I was actually working,

815
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 4: Like I was like, I'm getting paid to stand here

816
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 4: and talk to us like this is like this is

817
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 4: my job.

818
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: She'll volunteer this, you know she will not she no,

819
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: sh I've never been meeting much like that before in

820
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: the in the studio like this.

821
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was just actually that it works when you

822
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: have a when you're a business. We're the same thing

823
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: we had, you know, Saxton brothers. We had them and

824
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 2: there Booth doing exact same thing. And we're gonna have

825
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 2: Carson this year. I said, you got to be there

826
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 2: because we we just did a one witnow and he

827
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 2: was helping Zach set up and hey, wy don't you stay?

828
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 2: Are we still Carson? Why don't you just stay? Because

829
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: he just graduated high school and kids can relate to him. So,

830
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: but if you're a contractor, my favorite part about this

831
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: whole thing is what do you think, Tom?

832
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: What do you think?

833
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 2: My favorite part is about this whole thing that we're doing,

834
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 2: that that's set.

835
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 3: Up well it might be the Chick fil A that

836
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 3: we feed you guys.

837
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: That's my favorite part.

838
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's free.

839
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 2: Event's free and we feed you boy.

840
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't tell Wayne Jensen and Ken for mess

841
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: for that because you know I might be there.

842
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 3: We got a spicy chicken sandwich for him with the special.

843
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 2: Aaron always guys, he goes, well, if they're still doing

844
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: check fil A, I'm coming there.

845
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: There you go. Hey, you can reach out to Tom

846
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: Herman and get any questions answered regarding you the apprenticeship

847
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: program and this fifth annual hiring event at March fourth

848
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: at Franklin High School. You can you can email him

849
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: t Herman at Witnell dot com. T Herman at Witnell

850
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: dot com. And I can tell you this if you

851
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: want to talk to somebody about.

852
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 2: The strength these are all. These are the best contractors,

853
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 2: even Randy Miller's groups there and.

854
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: There you guys letting Randy Miller's group in. You're still

855
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: you're fifty to fifty on that. Herman.

856
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: I gotta stay Switzerland on that one.

857
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: Yes, you know he can rib them.

858
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't ever rip well everywhere Randy every week

859
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 2: we got to bring him into Randy's name so yeah,

860
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 2: well I can tell you this.

861
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: They did a great job on my house.

862
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is he's a lot of there's a

863
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 2: lot of airy contractors. He's award winning, he's a top

864
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 2: contractors around us. If you want to get started off

865
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 2: in the right direction with good quality contractors, not when

866
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 2: he's on content. Not one of these people that get

867
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: caught in contact the blue jacket, right, yeah you can

868
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 2: blue jackets. There.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Now we're even mate, Nick, make sure

870
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Speaker 1: you pay her for being at that table. I'm sorry, guys,

871
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: we got to get.

872
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Speaker 2: To my friend name for the next as well. Yeah,

873
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: but yeah, I had to buy you lunch.

874
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: Yeah we're getting getting a little free sandwich from Chick

875
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Speaker 1: fil A. T Herman at Witnell dot com if you

876
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Speaker 1: want to know more about the Youth Apprenticeship program or

877
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: the fifth Annual Hiring event March fourth, five pm at

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Speaker 1: Franklin High School. This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home

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Speaker 1: Improvement Show on Fox Sports nine twenty and your I

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Speaker 1: Hurt Radio app. Welcome back to the Creative Construction Wisconsin

881
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: Home Improvement Show on Fox Sports night twenty and your

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00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: I Hurt Radio app. As always, coming live from the

883
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Speaker 1: Donovan and Jordanson Heating and Cooling Studios. Any issues you have,

884
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: I know they're busy, but they will take great care

885
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Speaker 1: of you. Go to on event Jurgison dot Com I

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Speaker 1: might give her alongside Bingo. M is the owner of

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Speaker 1: Creative Construction, Wisconsin. Bingo. I look, you and I have

888
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: done shows together, and I've had John even before you

889
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: sponsor the Home Improvement Show. But this part when we

890
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: talk about the youth apprenticeship program has been something you've

891
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,439
Speaker 1: talked to me about since I think the first show

892
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: we ever did together.

893
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: I've been I've been on this kick for I call

894
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: it a silver tsunami just ten years ago because everybody

895
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 2: everybody's leaving the silver tsunami. It just means everybody's just

896
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: aging out, you know. And then what happened is, you know,

897
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, it

898
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: got a little bit shorts and stuff of work. So

899
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Speaker 2: therefore a lot of people quit. So in twenty ten,

900
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, when we need workers, everybody's look around, you

901
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 2: know what, there's nobody around to do this stuff anymore.

902
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Speaker 2: So if you're if you're going into the trades, just

903
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: I mean just you ever you know, you ever see electrician, plumber,

904
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Speaker 2: anybody that's it's like, there's look like the loan money.

905
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Speaker 2: They always got the boat. The boys like four wheel

906
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Speaker 2: drive truck not broke.

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Speaker 1: Hey, miss Haley, when you buy a boat, can we

908
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: go on it? Or when you build this big beautiful

909
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: house from meer Hands, there's some cabin up in the

910
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Speaker 1: north Woods. You're gonna invite us because you'll remember how

911
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: nice we be we are we are. I will be

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Speaker 1: the designated driver. How's that? I have no issues? You're

913
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Speaker 1: not old. If drink, you stay away from them.

914
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask your wife if you were a good

915
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: designated boat driver. She you know, I wonder what she

916
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 2: would say.

917
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: She would say me rather than her. I can tell

918
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: you that my sister owns a cabin and we used

919
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 1: to drive her little boat. But I don't go fast.

920
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: I got nice and slow. I'm a little too old

921
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Speaker 1: for that. Hey Tom. On this fifth annual hiring event,

922
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Speaker 1: which happened in March fourth, five pm at Franklin High School,

923
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Speaker 1: I've already gotten two administrators, one from Milwaukee Lutheran, one

924
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: from Mesmer High School, sending me text messages going, look

925
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Speaker 1: we want to get involved in that. That doesn't surprise

926
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Speaker 1: you are private schools getting more involved in some of

927
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Speaker 1: the trade stuff.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

929
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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: The way I look at it is that all kids

931
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Speaker 3: are are all of our kids, So wherever they come from,

932
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Speaker 3: private school, public school, doesn't really matter to me. Have

933
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Speaker 3: them come and meet with these contractors. The contractors are

934
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Speaker 3: looking for some good quality help. And one of the

935
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Speaker 3: benefits of grabbing students that are in high school or

936
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Speaker 3: just out of high school is they get to coach

937
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 3: them up their own way, you know, and I tell them, hey,

938
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Speaker 3: you got to grab this talent before your competition does.

939
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Speaker 1: Hey, bingo. Do you remember a number of years ago

940
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Speaker 1: down I think it was a nary event where you

941
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Speaker 1: had you had kids from different high schools from all

942
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Speaker 1: over the state coming in to build stuff skills you'll say,

943
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Speaker 1: Skills USA. And there was a crew from Hudson or

944
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Speaker 1: something somewhere, you know, Eagle River. And these guys, I

945
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: mean at ten o'clock, they took a break, noon, they

946
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Speaker 1: took a lunch.

947
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Speaker 2: And they weren't building their first holl No, these guys

948
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Speaker 2: are These guys were all you know, because that that

949
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: shop teacher has brought or owns a construction company. These

950
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 2: guys had their heart ads on stuff, and at ten

951
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 2: o'clock they took a break. We're in competition. Everyody else

952
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 2: is running. It's okay, break time. These guys are so

953
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 2: they were so orientated, but they were done in your

954
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 2: naturally one And.

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Speaker 1: Those guys were getting offers. Hey, when when you graduate,

956
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: if you want to move down to that big city.

957
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: Those guys, their pockets were just fall up business cards.

958
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,919
Speaker 1: Tom Mainville was the guy going, look, man, I'll hire

959
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: any anybody from that crew that wants to come down

960
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: and work for our company in Wawatosa. We would make

961
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Speaker 1: them an offer today. That's how they were buttoned up

962
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: and in the look. During the summer they all worked

963
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: on cruise up there. So the idea that they had

964
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Speaker 1: their lunch pail and they had their heard head, and

965
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Speaker 1: they took a break at ten, and they took their

966
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Speaker 1: lunch at noon, and they took a coffee break at three,

967
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: and other kids are like, what are these guys doing?

968
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: And they got done way before everybody else, and that's awesome.

969
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 4: Hey.

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00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: The the idea of one last point before we get

971
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: out of here. The imports of trays and today's economy.

972
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Speaker 1: Is is something that I came upon and the essential

973
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Speaker 1: service driving innovation was the one that jumped off the

974
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Speaker 1: page for me. People like Hayley, look this the driving innovation.

975
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: Guys like me are pretty old, so we only know

976
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: one way and that's to call Bingo and Zach and

977
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 1: find out who to call to get this work done.

978
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: But for you, the things, you'll be the one driving

979
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: innovation and some of the new ways of doing things.

980
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: You know, not only how old are you, by the way,

981
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: eighteen years old? Unbelievable. And I love the fact when

982
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 1: she said, look money, I've been money motivated and that's

983
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: part of the deal and that part of it, and

984
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: along with the essential services and the silver tsunami that

985
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: Bingo talked about and driving innovation to be the one saying, hey,

986
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: look this is the way this trade's going to go,

987
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: and having people your age get involved in it. I

988
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: think the idea of the essential services driving are for

989
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: people your age definitely. Hey, I love that. Hey, Tom,

990
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: When when you get a chance to talk to some

991
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: of the administrators that may are behind the eight ball

992
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: when it comes to to being part of the youth

993
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: apprenticeship program, they can still get involved in what you do? Correct?

994
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we uh. I asked them, Hey, come on, reach

995
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 3: out to me. Let's talk about it. I've been a

996
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 3: principal before. You know, I have an idea of, you know,

997
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 3: how to get things rolling in their school most importantly,

998
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 3: you know, starting small and trying to you know, get

999
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 3: a hold of people like being go from creative.

1000
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 1: Hey if you do, if they don't have space to

1001
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: have an actual trade class, can they still get involved.

1002
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 3: Well, there's a bunch of different ways that they can

1003
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 3: do that, but they.

1004
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: Should reach out to me.

1005
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 2: Well, Cathy Memorial, right, we've been doing job shadowing in

1006
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 2: our company is one of those companies that does job shadowy.

1007
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 2: They don't have a shop program. An you got kids

1008
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 2: that are interested, so they come and we do job

1009
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 2: shouting between us and some other companies.

1010
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: From Nary t Herman at witnel dot com. T Herman

1011
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: at witnel dot com. And I can tell you this

1012
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: that having somebody like Hailey Sevastu, who is a Franklin grad.

1013
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: She is going to WCTC, but she's working as a

1014
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: carpenter three days a week. And when you talk to

1015
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: her about her day to day, and I said, what

1016
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: do you do every day? And she said, look, we

1017
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: show up early and we work until the job, that

1018
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: day's job is done. And what a valuable lesson. Look

1019
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: at time when I was eighteen, I didn't know where

1020
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: my socks were. And you know what, that was my fault.

1021
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't Mesmer High School's fault. I can tell you

1022
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: that I take personal responsibility for not knowing where my

1023
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: socks were when I was at age. But somebody like Hailey,

1024
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: if you get a chance to talk to her on

1025
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: March fourth, when she's standing at the Blue Jacket table,

1026
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: and for her to be able to say, look, this

1027
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: is what this youth apprenticeship program has done for me.

1028
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: She's a perfect ambassador for you in this program.

1029
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 3: Without a doubt, you know. And there are several students

1030
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 3: that will be there in a variety of different trades.

1031
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 3: It might be in the autos, might be in manufacturing.

1032
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 3: Definitely in the trades. Yeah, come and talk to them,

1033
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 3: find out what their experience is and what they do.

1034
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, thank you. Hailey is so good to meet you.

1035
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work you got. You're off today, right,

1036
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: I'm off.

1037
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 4: This is my day off.

1038
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: You got some homework to do.

1039
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 4: Oh, that's not what I'll be doing.

1040
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: Not good for you, Miss Haley. Good for well. Stay warm.

1041
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's another point is what I'm trying to

1042
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 2: What do you think about? Is she's up? Just people

1043
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 2: that are at eighteen that went to college, right, they're

1044
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars in debt at this point right now?

1045
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: Correct?

1046
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 2: So how much in debt are you right now?

1047
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 4: None?

1048
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: None? Zip? Can I borrow five bucks from me before

1049
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: you go?

1050
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 4: No?

1051
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: I didn't think so. Hailey is great to meet you,

1052
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: Tom Herman. So it was good to see you. You

1053
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 1: can get ahold of time again t Herman at Witnell

1054
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: dot com. He will answer any questions on the Youth

1055
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: Apprenticeship Program or the fifth Annual Hiring event, which is

1056
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: March fourth, five pm at Franklin High School. They go

1057
00:47:58,840 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: have a great weekend.

1058
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 2: To see you too, Stay warm.

1059
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: You got it, guys, Good to see you, Thanks for

1060
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: having us. Yeah you bet. Coming up next, we're talking

1061
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,280
Speaker 1: to Brookfield Central basketball coach Don coach Dan Wandry, my goodness,

1062
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: and five of his seniors will be in studio. This

1063
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: is the Creative Construction Wisconsin Home improvement show on Fox

1064
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: Sports ninet twenty in your iHeartRadio app,