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Hey, thank you very much. Welcome back to our favorite part of the week. It really truly is. It's the Heights Pub and Partner Music Series.
And I am so excited about this guest entertainer, Jamie Lynn Fletcher, who I'm a huge fan of. And it turns out Jim here probably had his head and his in the clouds that day.
Tell everybody where you first met this guy at the opening of the zip and pip and I was the entertainment. We brought in the best. That's right. And why not?
Elvis is no longer here. That's right. And we had to do something. We had to do something at that level. So yes, thank you. I'm glad you came to that and.
The king is there. Maybe. So that was actually a grace land for real. Like that was his roller coaster.
Yes. And he rolled that and he would buy it out and bring his friends there. And yeah, he rolled that for hours and hours and hours.
Yeah, he took drugs on there. I mean, it was just too bad. But yeah, could you believe he fit in that cart? I hope you cleaned all the drugs out. We did. We did. We did. The only cart that's original is the first one. But anyway, then a couple things. Anyway, thank you for doing that. That's really been quite a success.
It was a fun. And we still have fun. We have Elvis night and a lot of. Do you know who goes out there and my daughter was one of them.
I'm between the and a wedding between the mass and the reception. We have a lot of bridal parties that will turn right it, which I think is like cool. You know, I mean, just like we are in Green Bay.
That's a big tradition. And we didn't cut the line. We allow that. So anyway, but thank you for doing that. I think that's the reason it's been so successful because of you there. Well, of course, you know that.
Dad, how are you doing? We love having you as part of this. You and Jamie, both two extremely popular local professional musicians. Well, she is anyway.
You know, what's the same wavelength that you guys have battled and gone through to get where you are today? Well, like we used to both have long hair.
Yeah, but now I gave that up for I noticed that you gave it up for a land. Yeah, it was getting in my way. I was yeah, you know, sometimes you just got to pull it back and be mature.
Oh, so what's my excuse? I got mine. I still haven't excused yet.
Jamie, you are your fan of his type of music, the 80s glam. I'm actually more of a 90s hip hop girl.
Well, there's no you're on there.
No, there are there are a lot of great tunes in the 80s and I need to I need to check out your band more. I'm sorry. I have chickens like I'm doing the
Okay, okay.
Beautiful chickens.
A couple times. Okay, you do have beautiful chickens. Are you really doing the farm app thing? Yeah, I tried that.
Okay. And no, I'm really are in
Stangle.
I'm bought a place out there 40 acres and I thought that would be cool to kind of live out there and
still have the amenities of the city 25 month.
No, I grew up with chickens like I was raising glamoury chickens when I was a kid. I was showing them in all the competitions training them blah, blah, blah.
I had chickens before chickens were cool. So I am a farm girl. Like, you know, I from the UP, aren't you? No, my mom is my mom is. Yeah.
So I just want to say on the farm app thing and I mean, seriously, you have a nice healthy glow about you.
I mean, really, you guys and that's something that is that it's guys who live in the hood aren't going to get. But anyway,
I got I can sell you some fresh eggs. All right.
We will take them.
I got to talk. Okay. We're going to have you perform. But we want to talk a little bit about your books.
Okay. Your children's books going in and talking about.
So scooter, the matriarch of my chicken coop, she is like a miracle chicken.
So she is, she's got more lives than a cat. And she had a really bad accident when she was young. And there was a feral cat.
Well, she drives now, but she's really good at manual transmission.
I mean, we don't we don't screw around with automatics and butcher bill. She will steal your car.
She will totally steal your car. You leave any door open. Car door she'll be in it.
You'll leave the back door open the house. She'll be in my chickens are there. They are free ranging.
Like, but you got to be careful because they'll get lost in the garage. They'll get in your car.
Anyway, so scooter. I have had so many people throughout her life tell me, oh, you got to ride a scooter needs a book.
And she is going on 12 now, which is like a million years in chicken years.
Wow.
And she's beautiful. She's a silver lace polish. You know what the fluffy glamoury here.
She's beautiful. Yeah.
So she's gotten so much attention and my chickens actually have been the some of the faces of
McMurray national hatchery magazine. And I know I know it's a big deal. I've been ordering from them since I was a kid.
But it's like cat fans a year or something. Yeah, kind of this is like for crazy chicken people.
Well, I didn't know there was such thing as crazy chicken people. They're crazy chicken people.
I know the funky chicken chicken chicken.
Don't ever do that again.
So we started last year and I was invited to go play chicken fest in Webster City, Iowa.
Rory Fick was closing. I was opening. I mean, you know, I should have been closing.
But it was it was just super fun. So I said scooter. We got to get the book out before you before we go to chicken fest and
should like town hall meetings to do and stuff because she was running for president at the time too.
She's like a whole campaign with t-shirts.
This is your chicken we're talking about.
This is my chicken.
Okay.
This is my chicken.
Incredible story.
So this is that's her first children's book and it's, um, scooter hatching and a lot of chicks don't make it.
And people don't know that it's really hard. You cannot help them hatch either.
Take up to 24 hours. They have to do it on their own.
Um, I mean, you can if it gets really struggling, but then you probably will have a week where they have to get through this.
So it's sort of the human struggle of she's trying and she, she hits so many walls literally the inside of the shell and she's,
she wants out because she wants to experience something bigger in the world than being in her safe zone in the shell.
So what is that?
Okay.
It's the hero's struggle.
Right?
She's, she's in her safe zone, but she's a really active planning plotting adventurous little being, but she gets too big for a shell.
And then she wants more, but it's really hard to break through the shell.
Love the metaphors.
Okay.
I like that.
And so we just finished your coloring book.
That's all hand sharpied.
I had, I burned out five sharpies.
Can you do all of your work?
Yeah, I did.
Because I was really too cheap to hire somebody.
And you know, it's great like that.
She looks at the chicken scene.
I can't wait to see what else I'm going to throw into.
Now and I have these big legs.
That's, that's her campaign flyer from last year.
Well, this isn't a normal looking chicken.
I mean, this is, I mean, that's exactly.
She's beautiful.
And she knows it.
That's awesome.
I saw that.
I have to throw this in there because out in the hallway when Dennis was walking in.
Mino walked up to Dennis and said, have you seen?
No, you said the Mino Dennis.
Have you seen her chicken?
And both Mino and I are like, what the heck does that mean?
No idea.
You're right.
All right.
Great to play, Jamie.
Yeah.
Well, I, when you went for the little ad for this, Amanda picked the song, an original.
I wrote all the love that can be.
So I thought, my gosh, I played that so slow on the original recording.
And it's, it's a little brighter and popier now.
But I wrote this tune.
And this actually could be a scooter song.
I got asked to do this when everything was just falling apart in life.
And I was contacted by what would be like NPR in Japan, because they did some gigs over there.
And they were doing.
You did gigs in Japan.
I did.
Yeah.
And they were doing a documentary on Hiroshima on the anniversary.
And they asked, they contacted me and said, asked if I would write a song for a world piece.
Like, you know, the last guy did that.
Wow.
Got shot.
But.
But.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We're talking about.
Yeah, I was going to say.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So, um, but I just.
But you're talking two packs.
No, I was just, I was completely broke.
And I just said, God, can you help me?
Can you just write a song?
Because I have no idea.
And the song came out.
And it was just, it's sort of a message that's really applicable today as well.
Cool.
It's just about.
Jamie Lynn Fletcher.
You know, we're, we're so divided in society.
Oh, my gosh.
And I have a degree in politics, and one, a master's broadcast journalism.
And I know how the system works, unfortunately.
And so this is.
It's going to be okay.
It's going to be okay.
It's going to be all right.
It's going to be all right.
So here we go.
This is called all the love that can be.
I know you're tired and weary.
And the world is going mad.
You scream.
What are we doing?
Is this the best that can be had?
But when I look into your eyes.
I see you.
I see me.
I see all the love that can be so.
Turn off all the chaos.
The confusion and the lies.
We're taught to judge, to run, to hate, to live in a divide.
But what's really in your heart?
Just take off that disguise.
Because I see you.
I see me.
I see all the love that can be so.
Take, take my hand.
Like a compass always pointing north.
You know just where I am.
I will be there.
So count the stars above.
And I will write a little song.
For each and every one that's your heart, my wish upon.
So go and find your dreams.
And those roads will lead us back to one.
If you and I believe in all the love that can be.
If you and I believe in all that, love that can be.
Because I see you.
I see me.
I see all the love that can be.
Jamie.
What did I tell you about her?
Todd.
What did I tell you about her voice?
How clean it was.
Or it is.
I mean, it's just pure.
It's awesome.
This is way too early in the morning for me.
That's great.
Right.
I know what I see.
I see heights in Jamie.
100%.
For sure.
Upstairs.
Upstairs or downstairs?
Doesn't matter.
Anywhere.
I got a keyboard too.
It's just you only have so much room.
He's got great little set up over there.
You'd be right in the window.
Basically, right?
You can do the window downstairs.
Yeah, be a great atmosphere.
People walk by.
They see someone in the window.
They want to invite them in.
You'd be perfect for the heights.
Absolutely.
Do you write?
Is that you?
Yeah, that was me.
Wow.
Yeah, I got a whole bunch of personal tunes.
Well, you got to hear one thing, though.
She mentioned a little bit.
Talk about your journalism background.
No.
Your education.
I mean, I was wondering if you're going to ask about that.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I don't want to get too weird.
But I undergrad.
I changed my major seven times to basically avoid all I wanted
to do was be a musician when I was a kid.
It didn't, didn't have a lot of money as a kid, you know,
growing up kind of purish, lower middle-classish kind of thing.
And so you're going to be something real, right?
So I had a scholarship to the Air Force.
So I was going to be an engineer.
And I just, I wasn't being true to my heart.
To the Air Force Academy.
Yeah.
Well, actually, too.
I was in ROTC.
I applied for the Academy.
But I blew my knees out too many times.
I had really bad knees as a kid.
So that ultimately took me out of ROTC as well.
Okay.
But it was just a struggle trying to find something
that could make an impact in the world.
So I ended up in political science and international relations
and serving all sides and running around with the theatrics in Madison
and Washington, D.C.
The stories you could tell.
Oh, the stories I could tell you have no idea.
And I literally just hated myself.
So I was going to become a journalist.
Tell us your degree from.
You don't be a Madison in the first round.
All right.
I somehow finished in four years.
And then I got a Masters of Broadcast Journalism in Northwestern.
Top school in the country for this.
Yeah.
It was actually the top journalism school at the time of Dill.
Great school.
But I, you know, had these idealistic goals.
And I ended up being a correspondent out in D.C. for five minutes.
A little more than five.
But it felt like a lifetime.
Is that amazing?
That's incredible.
I hated myself.
I really did.
And this is not.
And it's not a cut on journalists.
But I was not being truthful to.
So I'm at these diplomat parties at the National Press Club.
And all the hoidy toys and everybody's schmoozing.
It's the whole thing.
It's the game.
And in the corner was the band.
It was music to be ignored by.
Nobody at that party cared.
And they were having such a blast.
And they were the most honest people in the room.
And I just thought, my gosh, I just want to be music to be ignored by.
Such a awesome story.
That is a really good story.
And I just so honest about the seven majors and about, you know,
not being true to your heart.
And you've got it.
Yeah, I had to.
I didn't, I literally, I didn't want to be here if I couldn't do music.
And that sounds really severe, but that's how severe it was.
But I didn't have enough money to go to music school and all that stuff.
And I prayed really hard.
I got home with the masters.
And I just said, Lord, you put this thing in my heart.
And I don't want to be here if I can't do it.
But I had no outlet.
And the next morning, the phone rang with a gig on carnival cruise lines.
My name had been passed through it.
Like a million channels.
I totally stalked the billboard orchestra in Chicago.
I probably was like super creepy, but they.
They seem nice.
Thanks.
But they, they, I auditioned for Bill's band.
And basically it was kind of, it was laughable because I had no idea what I was doing on piano.
And you like Misty and sat and all.
And he said, you just need to get your, your butt kicked.
That's all.
You've got it in your heart and your ear.
It's not under your fingers.
It's not in your brain.
But we're going to do this, you know.
Dennis is very much agreeing with you right now.
Yeah.
And John yesterday, you know, you talk about growing up like it is.
Like when I was young, I was poor.
Yeah.
But after years and years of hard work, I'm no longer young.
Yeah, that's the, that's the dream even music.
But I'm happy.
But I'm happy.
I'm chicken.
Jason, that's me, please.
Jamie, Jamie Lynn Fletcher.
We're here for a Heights Pub and Part of their music series.
She is awesome.
Back right after this.
We're going to do another song for the Heights Pub and Part of their music series.
Okay.
Okay.
You just crushed Jim's hopes and dreams.
Oh, wait.
I got to hear about this.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Next time you want to go on a cruise, let me know.
I've worked, I think eight or nine lines.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Cruise line.
That is.
Just incredible.
Just incredible.
Yeah.
No, I can steer you in the right direction on what you want.
All right.
What experience you want.
Hear more about you.
Yeah.
I just want to get the point across.
I mean, you're obviously a very talented writer.
And do you write music that goes to other artists or is it?
I don't know.
Okay.
I would love that.
I have pitch tunes before.
But the thing, the record industry is so locked.
And they definitely want everything in-house with their own writing for their own artists.
So it's been a bit of a challenge, but I.
Okay.
I would go to Nashville quite a bit.
And the first time I was down there, I took the tour.
Okay.
And some of those houses are people who write music.
They're not really the musicians.
You know those.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those guys are living pretty well.
Yeah.
I mean, I'd be so talented.
The music comes to them.
But he can't find the words.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But he's got the sound he's trying to match.
He can't do it.
I think that's telling really struggles with that.
He's a really good musician we had here.
Yeah.
Wow.
Tell me one of the things that she said early on about getting the butt kicked.
Oh, yeah.
For everybody in anybody going into this kind of thing where you're going to be judged.
It's just going to happen.
It's going to happen.
How do you handle it?
Because I can crush some people.
You know who gets crushed?
When we used to have the people from the comedy start in Appleton.
And they would tell us sometimes some young comic just bond.
And they they're just like shattered.
And they want to give it up.
Yeah.
So both of you I got to imagine have been through those times, right?
Well, sure.
Continuously.
Comedians musicians are all walking the highway at the same time.
Yeah.
But you know what?
If you love it, get up and get it and do it again.
And you fall off.
Get up and do it again.
And you learn from it.
It's a better balance from it.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
With all.
That's in any industry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you're always one gig away from being replaced by someone better than you.
That's it.
That's it.
Especially when you're doing a morning show.
Competition is very good.
Competition is very good.
I think the world needs more of it and not to be afraid of it.
Because if we had more healthy competition, people really would raise themselves to a standard.
The world would be a lot better.
You know what?
I think it's cool.
You see me knowing you your back story and everything like that.
Your songs.
They're right from your heart.
You're not you're not good just to say I'm going to write a song about something something.
They're all right from a certain place.
They're in there.
They're in there.
They're in there.
I have to blame a Brazilian music for a lot of that.
I discovered Antonio Carlos Jobim on a record with Sinatra when I was 16.
Shush.
And I had no idea anything in Portuguese, but the sentiment was just so deep and beautiful
that I had to convince UW to give me a huge grant to go to Brazil and do something I didn't want to do.
So I could go to the cafe and listen to Boston Nova.
Oh my.
You got such an eye.
She was a song about it.
It's called Blame it on the Boston Nova.
The song.
Give us a shout out.
What else do you have?
J.M.
How do we get a hold of your music?
J.M.
J.M.
J.M.
Len Fletcher.
It'll take you to the same place.
And your books are there.
My books are there under the merch tab.
And I've got samples of stuff.
You need weddings, parties, funerals, divorce parties.
That's when it all flies.
I've placed some of those.
I want to get a quick, quick update from Ryan.
For example, Ryan.
Quick update.
Yeah.
I'll just place some chords behind you.
That sounds great.
Okay.
Hi, it's Pumplower 217 North Washington.
Great weekend.
Big weekend.
Come in.
Basketball tomorrow.
You do.
J.M.
J.M.
Thank you so much.
Music's great.
Let's get together.
Let's make it work.
Yeah.
It's a great weekend.
It's a regional thing.
Oh, excellent.
Yeah, we're pretty excited about that.
So we support them.
And Jim and I will be at All Star Wrestling tonight.
They've got a few weeks.
At Badger State 3.
I'm sorry.
Not All Star Wrestling.
They pulled that one back.
We're going to be there at Badger State Brewery.
J.M.
Len Fletcher.
And the weekend.
A high note for us please.
We're going to do some Portuguese.
So sing along if you want.
I'll stay sure.
Dennis.
Dennis, great seeing you.
Likewise.
Thank you.
Nice meeting you all today.
Thank you.
Thanks for coming in.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Well, sure. It's it's not something in Portuguese. It's it's really a beautiful place. Not pretentious though. Just please walk on in.
It is great.
Going to the heights beforehand.
That's really good to eat. All done.
There you go.
But I've got to say your voice sounds like waking up on the Sunday morning.
I know. That's what she's got this song about Sunday morning.
In my dreams. It's on my album. I'll be it tonight.
Your voice. It is not your good song.
Play it tonight in my dreams. That's the name of the song. Yes.
We could do both because she's right across the street from Badger State.
We could do what we could go see her. Yeah, we could.
We could do that.
And then we'll play that song if we show up for him.
I will.
I'll listen to it for another week of a until we get another artist and so on.
I'll do that. You're on tonight.
Yeah.
It's funny. I used to listen to her music on the way to work every day. I'd play your CD.
It's relaxing.
I guess where we first met would event you were.
It was a winery. We sort of did a gig together. Yeah.
You're doing your book. That's right.
He should start listening to it again if it relaxed them.
So I hear Heights Badger State Legacy.
All right. Badger State Legacy.
We're doing it. We're doing it.
We're doing it.
Jamie Lynn Fletcher is an honor to have you here.
Thank you. Thank you.
Keep it touch rate. Keep this rock.
All right. It sounds good.
Dennis, always great having you.
I'm your friend. Thank you.
Take care. We'll see you tonight.
Appreciate it.
Todd, we're doing wrestling tonight.
Hope you're taking it.
