This is New Isco Weekend. I'm Lisa Hale. Jamie Lynn Fletcher spends some time on the
Mino and the Mayas show recently. This great personality shares her music and stories
about her chickens. Here's a little bit of that interview with John Mino, Jim Schmidt,
Dennis Peters. And of course, Jamie Lynn Fletcher. 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. Beautiful chickens.
Is anyone really doing the chickens? A couple times. Okay. You do have beautiful chickens.
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. I can sell you some fresh eggs. All right.
We will take them. 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 children's books. Go ahead and talk
about them please. So scooter, the matriarch of my chicken coop. She is like a miracle chicken.
So she's got more lives than a cat. And she had a really bad accident when she was young.
My chickens are there. They are free ranging. But you got to be careful because they'll get
lost in the garage. They'll get in your car. Anyway. So scooter, I've had so many people
throughout her life tell me, Oh, you got to write a scooter needs a book. And she is going
on 12 now, which is like a million years in chicken years. And she's beautiful. She's
a silver lace polish. You know what the flu fee, glamoury. 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, it's a big deal. I've been ordering from them
since I was a kid, but so like cat fans or something. Yeah, kind of. This is like for crazy
chicken people. 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 she'd 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. 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, you probably will have a weak word. 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. 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 her
shell. And then she wants more, but it's really hard to break through the shell. I love
the medical issues. Okay. I like that. And so we just finished your coloring book. That's
all hand sharpied. I had, I burned out five sharpies. Yeah, I did. All right. Great
to play Jamie. Yeah. Um, well, I, when you went for the little ad for this, um, Amanda
picked the song, uh, original. I wrote all the love that can be. So I thought, my gosh,
I played that so slow on the original recording. And, um, it's, it's a little brighter and
popier now. But I wrote this tune. Um, and this actually could be a scooter song. Um,
I, I got asked to do this when everything was just falling apart in life. And I was
contacted by, um, what would be like NPR in Japan, because they did some gigs over there.
And they were doing, um, you did gigs in Japan. I did. Yeah. And they were doing a documentary
on Hiroshima on the anniversary. Wow. 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. Um, but, and the song came out. And it was just, it's sort of a message that's
really applicable today. It's just about, you know, we're, we're so divided in society.
Oh, my gosh. 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, 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, I was 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.
Nice meeting you all today. Thank you. Thanks for coming in.
Holia, yeah
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Thank you for being a part of New Wisco weekend. Our look at daylight saving time and the benefit of a good map.
New Wisco weekend is produced and written by Terry Barr and Lisa Hale.
Our executive producer is Todd Michaels, directed by Lisa Hale.
Lead correspondent is Terry Barr with features from Conrad Krieger, Joanne Croulette and Peach Schwabba.
Commentary by Amanda Nimmer. Special appearances this week by Jim Schmidt, John Mino, Dennis Peters and Brittany Merlot.
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Lisa.Hale at civicmedia.us. I'm civic media Northeast Wisconsin bureau chief Lisa Hale for WISS and WGBW News.
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