Behind the Tap: Tales from the Set of SoleTalk’s “PJ & Rooster” Shoot

Join us in this entertaining episode as Leta and Amanda explore the creative chaos behind the latest SoleTalk video choreographed by Chloe Arnold, famously known for 'Syncopated Ladies.' Leta goes a step further and uses her imagination, turning this brief video into a full-length feature film in her head. The conversation is filled with laughter, anecdotes about being part of SoleTalk while navigating autism and ADHD, behind-the-scenes stories from the set, and wild brainstorming sessions for a movie plot involving their dancing friends. A must-watch for dance enthusiasts, creatives, and anyone who loves a good story!

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This is not my fault. We were just gonna talk behind the scenes, and now you have taken a two minute video that was choreographed by Chloe, the Crazy Dance Kids Minute tap video, the Chloe choreographed, and you're like, hi, by the way, I now have at least a 90 minute, uh, feature film out of this. Oh, so my. This is Leta and this is me and my mommy's my mommy, and there's me and I'm just talking about this stuff. And there's me tap dancing because this is the tap Dancing Autism podcast and there's bunch animals and I'll be trying to in my hair and there's bunch saying, and. Dancing. Oh, also, they're my boots. My boots are amazing. Also, dance, me trying not to have a panic attack. Also, this is a podcast that we autism and kept dancing and blah, blah, blah. I'm A DHD. This thing also. This your adorable puppy. Hey Leta. Happy tap Tuesday. How you doing? Yeah, yeah. Um, we were gonna do five costumes you love, but then Leta dropped a video without telling everyone. Leta was gonna drop a video last week, so we are gonna talk about the video. Leta dropped. You're smirking over there. Why are you smirking? Why are you chuckling? We're not just gonna like go down and break it down. We are going to talk about it from the autistic dancer's point of view and what you thought being on set. Um, and I'm just putting it out there. Should anyone from Leta that was in this video wanna come on and talk about it? What should they do? Let's see. I've been scraping this to the rooftops. Come on here. And I from Soul, listen to podcasts about dance, which seems like, like seriously, if you don't listen to. So for everyone who normally lives or who has found you from the autism PO world, uh, and kind of understands, you are autistic and you're a tap dancer, you on a international tap dance company called Leta is run by the amazing Emmy nominated Chloe Arnold, uh, the Syncopated ladies. Yes. And apparently no one from Soul to Steal about the fris. Or they just aren't listening to yours. what? What? Why? Why? Is it just about what have lives. They're all busy doing, I don't know what, y'all are teenagers and you love each other, so you like giving each other a hard time teenagers. fruit 21 year olds? and this younger ones, let, let's keep going, on one? About babies? but, but one thing you have been told over and over again and the reason we bring the autism in so much is you have been told by dance studio owners, dance studio teachers that you can never work with Chloe Arnold because you're autistic. Okay. I have fun saying, I dunno who's you're working with in this video either. I mean, I just guess it's some random off the street. I, I, will never hear everyone say bitching devil it. I, I've Hey, it. not gonna have to this do that. Oh man. No. Never. Not And you've heard a lot of times over again. as we talked about the last time, so talk dropped in Dale. You've heard numbers of times how Chloe doesn't Yeah. You're like, blah, I'm talk. That was emotions. And you don't wanna do emotions. We're not doing emotions this time. You've heard things about like how Chloe doesn't like having you in shots. I like how they're talking for someone they've never met before. But one thing I absolutely love on this is that, um, this right here, I think is proof. Not that Chloe likes you because we already knew that we, you don't need proof. Chloe Arnold likes you. You've never needed proof. Chloe Arnold, like you. I, I dunno why you have to say that. Oh, some people do wonder about that, and I'm like, yeah, I think, uh, I've got a few pic videos of her hugging you that kind of shows, uh, she likes, you know, you. Um, but this I think is proof to a lot of people out there. There are going to be people who are poo-pooing your dreams. Even when you're living them. What going to tell you that even when you're living their, your dreams, they're going to tell you you're, you're not good enough to live your dreams. Taylor Swift still gets told that, that she is not good enough to sell out stadiums. What are you looking for? I'm saying it to our audience or our people listening. But you do get told a lot because of your autism. You get told outside of Leta and outside of your mentors and everyone that you can't live your dream because Oh, you are you're autistic. Talking to the ca and to the audience. Sorry. No, you, you lead have been told by teachers and I have been told by teachers that you cannot do this even when you're doing this. Can we get through this piece real quick?'cause I'm setting up something. We're going to watch the video. We're going to watch you react to the video. You have seen this a hundred times. And then we're gonna talk about this video. And we, not about breaking down the choreo, but the behind the scenes of this video.'cause I think this was one of your favorite shoots of all times. I think it was fun for everyone there. You kind of wish some of the Letaers were here to talk about it and not your mom. and I'm pretty sure it's a boy who got basically abandoned from all the other boys. why she just, all the other boys was that, Oh, probably. you All right, so we are going to share this and we're going to get, uh, for everyone who's watching, and let's hope beyond hope. It actually doesn't, like my internet is not doing well today. And we did not get a downloaded copy because Noah had had to do a download copy of this one. Unlike, uh, you can do it. I feel myself, Andrew. Yeah, let's talk about this one.'cause this one was fun. Oh, girls. Oh, he was. All right, let's get this going. Uh, we're gonna do the, uh, two minutes of this. Uh, we'll break it down. Um, so we probably will not necessarily do the whole two minutes, but I want you as we're doing this, to kind of talk a little bit over it of what it was like shooting these things. Okay. okay. We're not doing a breakdown. We're talking about the behind the scenes. was playing with the bottle, tried to do this bottle I haven't even pressed play yet. Let's go. Okay. Let's see. Everybody was playing around with that bottle and, uh, the two that I was only to, who did drop the ball on the floor and we were all playing with the cche machine. My skin decided to be like green screen in the background and turned my skin basically pink, and I had a red skirt on. We all kept calling those skirts made mascots, and it was the. Is that Zyla up front there in that one? Yeah. Let's see. We were try to figure out why there was only half of a car. Was the only one that just went. Okay, so why half of a car, not fifties like die? And were fake records. There was a gas machine that some people decided to go. Is they actually guessing it? No. no. No. It was fake. We all played around with telephone. We got told to stop playing around with stuff. Oh, the adults that told us to not play around with the stuff started playing around with the stuff. It was about to play with fake field. Was that Nyla on the phone? Yeah. As fun. We were told to close the windows for the sake of a accidentally falling out of a window. And I, you know what? Having a fear, major fear of height makes you sing. Two dogs fall out the window and we, we would, yeah. Yeah. We were all having too much fun. Was that, and everybody kept tramping our wires because those wires were oddly placed. All right, so which part? What part? Which part? Which I wanna talk about that. Okay, let me start. I want, I was mute, muted so people didn't get why you're going, which part there were, there are wires all over the place in a shoot. I don't think people who've never been to shoot understand there are wires going everywhere. parts go? You guys are moving a little fast in these uh pieces and y'all are Tripped and I was the only one who actually tripped onto to the floor because everybody got theirselves before they went onto to the floor. And I just kept on tripping on to the floor. Lisa did go on my face. It did go on my palms though That was painful. my up. One thing I wanna talk, this is not an actual diner. This is eight stories up in a sound stage in a building. Now imagine the inside the building looking like the most creepiest, creepy apartment building you have it kinda did from a scary horror movie. Now imagine there's noise, one of those monsters from a scary all movie whack a knife okay? This was a very, very old. pretend to be a mannequin or else they whack you that knife. Over. No, let's, let's make a, a very clear point here. What you're saying is the monsters from the horror movie were going as far as you were concerned. You had walked into a horror movie. It was not that anyone from Leta told you you had to be a mannequin. No, no, no. It was what? No, okay. It is a very old building. It's one of the original buildings down in about the pe? What? No, I've never got a PE joke. Pell Girl jokes from them ever. a plus. I never got a pencil body jokes from them either. any who it was. It is an old building. You only had to take that elevator twice. I was running around looking for a broom.'cause when we got in, we needed to sweep the place. I was in that elevator a lot of times. That elevator was not very comfy. did it without her grabbing the broom. She, she, Yes, that's okay. Says when she came back. were done. Well, it's not like I found. No, I actually did I find a broom? Yes, you did. find the broom I find it. And you came back and we were done It took you six. It did not take me six hours. It took me a long time though.'cause like so behind the scenes, uh, stuff, they sent me down. So the original deal was we couldn't get ahold of the person who owned this. Set. And so Cherish sent me down to go see if the, uh, guys down at, um, the security desk knew where to find a broom. They sent me up to Janitorial closet. The janitor wasn't there. Cherish was like, Hey. So they said we could go get it at this one lo another set. So I ran to a different set and then I'm like, hi. We sh you know what? I'm not trying to be mean, but, uh, Arabian Knight or a whole new world, uh, we need to do that as a Leta just so that we can go onto that set.'cause that one walked in and it was like a perfect Arabian Knights, uh, scene. Um, ran around a lot. I know they even had like a hammock and everything. I know. And it was like fake sand and or rocks and beach and everything. I know. I came back and a few of the parrots were like, Ooh, there were places we could, you're like, I wish I had been on that set. Can we keep going? Okay. Can we little, this will be a minute. Um, but then you got, we got back up there. How, this is a question people ask me a lot because you and I film Leta quit. I get it. You were upset that you weren't on the Arabian night set, but this, you have to admit that studio that you guys were in was amazing. Was it not? Yes, I don't Can we get back to, uh, telling this story? is that hot hammock. I wanna be in hammock. Yeah. Can we get back to the story please? I wanna be in hammock. Okay. Um, but you guys. One thing everyone at Dance Studios have always said is, um, sets are fine tuned machines and they are fine tuned. Chaos, are they not? Is that fire that And chaos. Said, you said And chaos, not fine. Tune. I mean, it was running about as well as any, I've been on sets a lot of times. I have been on a lot of sets that was run about as, uh, pretty much better than a lot of sets I've been on But when you left, the fine tune went out the window Leta. some children almost going out the window. Okay. Um, no one died on the set, which is currently, again, another thing you have to question is, did anyone die? Nope. We're good. Almost Almost is not dead. And no one, actually, no one got, no one got hurt. No one got hurt. Li no one got hurt. No one went to the hospital. No one died. Everyone was still uh, there was a milk, okay. Let me rephrase it. No you didn't. No. Okay. You got sick afterwards.'cause of the curse milkshake. Um, we've told the story before, but go ahead and tell the story. The curse milkshake. Okay. So basically before we started filming, we were all playing round with field because air, we were bored. Me. They had to set up, see we were born and steal we were playing round with food. And there was this old, no, no, no. The Let me. That was probably from the 1950s. It's a long list of set because, because apparently somebody took one of the set, fake milkshakes, took out the fake milkshake and put in a real milkshake and That was the thing. It was a real milkshake. You dog is barking. Again, y'all were convinced like most of the food was a fake and then y'all found the one real milkshake with that was so old. It was definitely cursed with mold spores. Y'all had all walked into the set feeling perfectly fine. No one was sick, no one was upset, no one was complaining the next day. when one of the kids found it, put it on the counter and don't touch And then Ms. Chloe said, touch it again, because we couldn't have that curses, milkshake and video so that we, another But here's the. it again and uh, then we all left. There was probably kisses because could be all way time. we all got sick same day because we, apparently, we all got And it was all, however, I got sick, same day. And we all got and stopped being sick same day and we all went dying And we were all love Broadway. Usually one person gets everyone sick. It's like one person comes in with a sniffle. Y'all had been together for a few days leading up to this, uh, for a couple hours working, but none of y'all had been sick. Y'all had been just fine. Y'all were just fine. The day the she, none of the parents were sick. And then it was like, day later, two days later, everyone who'd been in that room was not feeling good. I thought everyone part, my group got sick because again, got abandoned. My all other boy, so at least the main group that I, at least not all the boy positive made group got sick. It was all like poor, poor, poor, poor po part. Andrew, I feel bad for Andrew, poor Andrew. He was the only one who was Okay. with the curse milkha, along with all the females. The other thing is this was a real dance music video that you guys were shooting. I mean, y'all weren't just like, DC was like, oh, look at us tap, but there's no props. There's no like attempting to bring you in to the scene. There's no setting of the scene. It was just like, Ooh, look, here's a great deal. Part of that was 'cause shoot, location got changed due to a permit being. Yanked due to them going, oh, tap dancing might be a little loud. And the permitting agency was like, yeah, Nick, this. So you guys went out on the mall instead. But, um, this shoot is set on a state sound stage. This shoot had, uh, um, movie and TV style food and stuff for you guys to be, uh, playing with. You had, it wasn't like a, milkshake. it wasn't the cursing. No, no. But there were actual props for you guys to play around with. Yes. Yes. Because it was only what odd prop and it looks, it was like a mama side milkshake. But there's, I think, and you guys brought a lot of energy to the DC one. Oh my nose. It just a lot of energy to the DC one, but I think this one had more energy coming from. I, I'm pretty sure because this one I pretty sure it was before I was gonna say one thing. Well, I was gonna say from the set, the set brought energy to this one. I think the Washington, uh, monument and the National Mall does not bring energy the same way that the set brought energy. candy pencil man. Um, but the set, I think in its own way became, its a character in this one. Um, also all the parents were like playing around on the set. It it has eyes. It has set No, but the par like we walked into that set and it set a, a scene for all of us. I mean, the parents were all like, oh my God, there's a rotary phone. You know what, it was fuzzy, the children for having to tell their parents to go outside. There were, there was the jukebox, there were the, uh, booths, there was the car. We were all taking pictures all over the place. Work. The jukebox didn't work. I know that wasn't a disco ball. disco was seventies, not a fifties. care. There was Built the balls. And let's be honest, those outfits matched a nail. Many, many ma, many ma, Those who are watch, who are listening and not watching, it's a red skirt with white polka dots. You guys were in your Chloe ma uh, shoes, which have, or black and white Oxford coloring and you had black shirts on. So, uh, yeah. Mini mouse without the ears. it? did the only boy in the room get a Mickey Mouse saved costume? Because You guys were supposed to think about it. Look at all what all you guys were wearing. It was something that a fifties girl could have worn to school. I think my grandmothers wore stuff like that to school. And then Andrew is supposed to be the soda jerk wa working behind the counter with all the girls coming to see him I'm pretty sure there was supposed to be more than one boy possibly. But that's why he also had the soda jerk hat on, which he looked so adorable. I mean, handsome man. Wait, don't she be adorable. He looked adorable. I mean, all the moms were like, no, I was trying to be nice to him because he's become, Oh, he's growing up. I'm trying to remember. The boys are growing up, but Andrew looks so cute. I mean, all the moms were like, he looked so cute. And we're, as we were, a couple of us were going down to get coffee, like go get coffee. And I was going go back to the room to get something real quick. Um. We were all like you so cute. I'm just singing to Andrew like, like Andrew, He did. I'm the only boy in the room pull off the on boys. the bartender I feel like of that. Think about it. Video kind of looked like when you are abandoned by you when lunch. Lunch rush comes around. When all go, It's true though. It's true. It does look like Andrew is by himself at lunch rush. Well, I believe he had a waitress. I believe he had a waitress in one uh part. But next thing I know, she is like sitting in the corner, just hiding in her own little corner. But you'll into him. You'll beed him too. Because I saw at one point in time you were taking everyone's orders. Where are you? I, I I, I'm, I wasn't 14 yet. I just turned 13. not even 13. You. had five. I, I, I, I, I legally I get, I was five 12. I. I didn't because, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Those too complicated. I can write. I can write. 12. Write. I'm sorry. You the dyslexic child and dyslexic. I Mys are hurting. got fired. I got fired. Okay, so you got fired from your job, obviously during this video shoot. Fired me. Fired me. That's because I can't Goodbye. Goodbye. I can't, you're still laughing over there. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. My lungs hurt. No, I think so. I think I, I mean this is why shoots are never professional. This is why when you go on shoots or you like work with people for a long time on a TV show or a movie, you good friends because crazy year things have happened. I'm sure. Oh, that so fly. Any who breathe, bring mere back into the lungs. No, but I mean, I think that's one thing that, um, dance studio owners and dance studio teachers, if they've never been on a set like that, especially with a group, you know, because you know the Letaers. You guys are friends. You are fam you have worked together since you were kids. When you guys get on a set, it's not like, oh, hi, I've never met you before. It's, oh, hi. Andrew was abandoned. I mean, he fired me so my was abandoned. Can't scratch. Okay. Sorry. I, Something else I. also, I, I, I, I, I, I kept breaking the glass bottle, so Yeah. I saw, I know I saw at least one Mosley's sister there. Um, angel I think is who I clocked 'cause I was watching that really quickly. Um, Angel talk? yes, but no, I was gonna say something else. I think any of those kids, Abby Angel, Nyla, Zah, who all else was there? Kiddo, you know, who all was there? I think in 20 years y'all could be together on whatever social media get together and whatever social media, whatever media is available in 20 years, y'all could pull, uh, what they did with, um, will Smith and his little sister from, uh, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air where he previously caught her, like they had done a scene where he catches her, uh, dancing to her Walkman and um, starts pathetically dancing behind her. And then they did a viral TikTok dance where he comes in, you know, as himself 20 plus years later and does the same thing. I think you guys are so close. saying maybe we should make sure that. If we do that, that a Andrew's a at the L No, what I'm saying is I think you guys have worked so closely for so long, you've created such great friendships that I think when you go on a, you guys could do that. And I think when you go on a set of Leta, it is a lot different than some of these dance teachers. They worked chorus, so they would come on for a day job. So they weren't necess when they're like, oh, I worked professionally, I worked Chorus. They weren't necessarily getting that very close connection that you guys have with Leta. You guys really do know each other. Hence why you can sit there and go, A, I was fired by Andrew and B, he was abandoned by everyone at lunch Rush. I have one thing to say. What? Clearly not enough, but did not abandon him at l. that rush. Well, one of the problems was, um, his other colleagues were all still in school that day. So he get abandoned at lunch He did because he was the only one. I guess it's, I guess, co wanted their, because was the only one that I, my job, I think I know at least one of his other colleagues, his mama said, you have to finish school. Uh, 'cause Thursday when you guys were filming, it was the last day of school. wait. Literally. It was the last day of school. That one. Yeah, that one it was right. Yeah. Miss oes, it was Ryland's last day of school. Wait, I was I, filmed on. to that boy, but him having that, I, no offense to that boy. I pretty rush when even No, but I mean, like, that's the, let me let, let's roll the back in for everyone who's on the whole thing theme of this video, other than, you know, a cool jazzy, um, oh, that wasn't even jazzy. That was, uh, my brain just went, you know what I'm talking about? Um, type of, uh, dance. Um, and I'm gonna think about it tonight because we're having too much fun laughing, um, Okay. Now I you know what I'm talking about? everyone at Hollywood to, lemme this on the TV in in's big, very big studio, because I don't think I, I can explain that's what it was. Dy that funny part was, but the Lindy, you guys are doing a, the Lindy ta, a Lindy style dance to tap. It's amazing. It is so fifties. You could have seen that at a sock hop, except for you were tap dancing to the whole thing. And there is poor Andrew in his, uh, soda jerk, uh, costume, uh, pretend ending, like he's alone at Ru lunch Ra. And it was hysterically funny. I mean, I mean, I mean, I I mean, if it wasn't the last, day, I'm still sure that the play, like get the I think you would've Yeah, but, well, I don't know. I mean, he would die by the, oh, wild. It was lunch time, Time I hit big. Oh wow. Maybe, I don't know. Let's, um, but it was, I, I think the fun of this, you guys ha shot way more. There is so much that is probably on the cutting room floor, isn't there from this shoot. Yes. Also, do you think I could confess my dad to let us all be at the room with the Televis shit or we borrowed the Big Rain deal with the say that they use a movie theater Okay. Show this episode to them. I think I of the podcast. Yeah. We're not showing the episode of the podcast during No, no, no, no. I'm the podcast. We not showing this on big screen. Why? Okay. Back to important stuff. Why? Why? It's all funny, why why, how about this hop bot? They just accidentally find it on, uh, YouTube and you'll be fine. Anyhow, back to discussing this. No, but one of the things that I wanted to ask you is there is so much on the cutting room floor, um, so much you guys spent six hours filming there. How much of it was sit around and wait and how much of it was Let's go, go, go, go, go, go. Uh, all, all of us was playing with fake food. So what you means around, we were all playing with fake food Y'all were like, this one was way too much fun. We were having fun. But even like DC there's, when you are going in, there's a lot. While there is some sitting around, 'cause I mean, but you found ways to entertain yourself, did you not I mean, food? just made up a story of an explanation about why he the only boy was the only boy. Oh yeah. I mean dressed your colleagues mad at you because A, his last day of skull and B, they don't want deal with Lara's last day of skull. You pretty much damned Well, what, what were all you girls doing outta school then? they dragged me. I was, I I was the only one who wanted to say it. dragged me Did they say you were playing hooky? poor Andrew because they felt bad. You, you were playing hooky and then you got goty. got jelly Um, they got jelly. They got jelly. He was in a room full of full of girls and the only boy, and he probably got a date and they rally so who's writing the entire script for this movie? I dunno. And he also probably got a phone number after we all left from Didn't had to go ask, then we did go, didn't go. Had to go ask their dad if they, he could take 'em out to the so, or to take him to the sock hop that weekend. No, no, no, no. It's, it's, It's so tough. I know. Y'all aren't dating you. He's not. Okay. So back to the whole question of the behind the scenes.'cause you, you've come up with an entire like, hi, we did this like two minute piece for Leta and, uh, I've been watching it so much recently, miss Chloe, I have created an entire movie to go with it. And so I don't know if you're aware of this, but Chloe Ahad Productions needs to do a time what movie. you think. created a tight movie, everybody else would get a phone number and I would be the only single person. I don't think Nila needs a phone number yet for any of you. To be honest. Why would Nile, none of y'all need. None of y'all need numbers. Single one of you need nine. None of y'all need phone numbers. Y'all need to stay single and kids for the rest of your life. I do not understand. I think you understand. was a, he was the only one working his job allowed in a room full of girls and when we all left, there probably was another batch of girls, but it was cold. That was only boy and it probably had call one of named, it got phone number I'm saying. So. I thought we all probably went back to school the next day and then he probably had girls like on his arm and we were all probably, we're all probably going. When left, what happened? When Go save. What happened? happened? Why, why, why all? Why all you leave him alone? I don't, I don't care. I mean, why? I'm the one who So who's the script? Write, who's writing the script?'cause you, you have the story outline. You need someone to write the script and, you know, I'm just gonna put it out there. Ms. Chloe should be perfectly fine at directing this. I mean, she can choreograph the whole musical and you're gonna need someone to write the, uh, rest of the music because you're gonna need, you know, some, um, original songs with your group. So I'm, and you have some songwriters in the group, so you're good on that. Um, so yeah, Wait, no. We need Miss Oris to write the crazy parts crazy. Um, yeah, no, I I think you have described the rest of the story and you know, Hollywood tap festivals coming up. The, what would the rest of the boys play then? I don't know, you got, maybe they run into Andrew during the evening while he is at the sock cop with the girl he met while they weren't around and they're all like jelly.'cause why'd he get the girl? And he's like, 'cause I was there and you weren't. And by Andrew's mom Okay. Writing a story where he gets a girl. I mean, obviously it wouldn't be a girl from Soul Tongue, obviously it would be a. Girl that like what? The Letaers those. Yeah, But he's just going to sock cop with the girls. So we're, we're innocent here on this one. He's not going anywhere other than sock. sit. That is usually cursed Any who are singles. Again, we need to the girl that so dark, so that is not single, but sake of Andrew's mother not killing me. It wouldn't be Andrew. It would be a character. but, oh. But I so afraid I mother might kill Let's, Lida can we get back to this? So we're gonna do this and then, um, you're, you're just gonna need Chloe, Ms. Chloe to choreograph the rest of it, obviously. And, you know, Hollywood's coming up. Oh. Ooh, ooh. Ooh. It could be the short student, short film, you guys, your group does this year we're going to expand upon the, uh, yeah, but that would have to listen to this podcast so we can skip to the where, come up. I'm gonna remember this. Oh, I'm sure you'll, anyhow. Um, yay. Where was I going? I You've, yeah, you went off on a tangent. I'm like, mm, yeah, no, this is, so that's how great art is made. Um, you are definitely level one a SDI, I think we've put this a few things at times. How do you function on like a Leta set? Everybody else obviously has a DHD. So good. Like compared to, say, recitals where people aren't letting you know, especially with your dyslexia, you've had adults tell, you just read, uh, the call times call sheet and you're like, I can't. And they're like, just do it. Yes. I've had Andrew tell me I can't help him out because I can't write. Um, in your head, he didn't really say that in real life, did he? Yes. you did say in life, but that just explains the whole I in apron ran down stuff one second and not the next second saying the car don't get up. I got, I got five. obviously got fired because, uh, obviously nobody can write. Chicken reads, chicken scratch Chef. What's bad at me? Oh, Chandra is out there pretty bad today. Um, the. was bad. Jeff was mad at you. Chef doesn't even show up in this. I mean, there is no chef. It's just Andrew is a soda jerk. Yes. Yes, He the only person there. It was and the, chef. the chef was also wanted the do that dude also, apparently they decided, oh hey, this place decided, oh hey, let's hire the teenager. And he also had last day of glasses. So So we look the soda jerk. And you have the whole, you have the whole movie here, guys. I think you have your short film for Hollywood Tap Festival, which is coming up. Oh, plug for Hollywood. Don't you think? Must plug the Hollywood 'cause plugging of the Hollywood is important. Uh, Hollywood Tap Fest is the main festival. July 25th, 26th and 27th. Yeah. You know, be on a shadow of a doubt. Let me double check on this before I say it's going to happen. I am on my, maybe if we do post a short business podcast on it, we should tag one. the bit will be Oh, I'm checking. Registration opens nine 30. I really do need to, uh, fix some stuff. But, um, at 10 o'clock is tap on film, um, in front of the camera and behind the scenes tell your story on film, learn how to write, shoot, and edit your story. Yeah, and I do indeed. And we will put that in the, uh, deal below because if, you know, we have to be a group, so, so people we don't know and like one person we do. know. I'm just saying, just a saying. I do know happen to know you were, and if you do that, the year next year's films will be on the website because 2020 fours films, uh, your film from last year is on this year. Um, so you get to actually do a film. Um, where was I going with all this? No, but like with your autism, do you feel just a couple autism questions and then we'll get back to some of the ending behind the scenes.'cause y'all like, we're crazy about that one. Which was really funny because, uh, most of the group had to get back to residencies and y'all didn't, were not keeping the dime at all. Did you? Did you notice that problem? It was lunch It was lunch Lunch rush. That's problem. and, and was the chef and, and the bar. So he, he, he. Question I often get asked.'cause you do not do well in studio settings. You get very lost in studio settings. Um, with the shoot, especially this one, since this is one we're talking about with Leta shoot like this, do you feel like you're given some accommodations even though you've never asked for them, Yes, because the old disease, you are the only one that is out there as tizzy. I don't care if I'm not a doctor. I don't care if the rest of them are diagnosed. I don't care if I'm not a doctor, So let's let us, um, ask this question.'cause this is an important question, I think. Do you feel like there is. Like when you need to be told where to go.'cause I know with dance teachers it's like she's got severe dyslexia, she can't read the call sheet. Do you feel like there's plenty of adults willing to tell you where to go with Leta Yes. I said we don't have a call sheet. Hell, we barely have to read I mean, again, I got big fired for not being able to write. So in your mind and this story you have concocted to how this goes, the video will be linked in the description for everyone who is listening and not getting to watch the insanity. if we post stuff of me making up a story for this video to make, make any fees, make sense, we're probably gonna tag Ms. Bond, miss Glowy. You can tag Miss Mad and Miss Chloe though. Uh. Andrew, make story about Andrew? What? I'm I'm making, mostly to character. Can we just tag Andrew? He's my main character. I mean, he's the, he's the only, uh, soda jerk. He's the only guy. Hey, running the counter. He is the only, Character. he has to be the main character in this, uh, mo story you have made up about this. Okay. also abandoned him. We're gonna wrap, uh, this up. Uh, what if anyone, would you like to make a plea to your Leta friends for the millionth time? Oh yeah. Hello? Yes. First off, Andrew, if any of this goes on to Instagram and my mom type you up. Yes, I am. Sorry. I have made you my main character. If you, your breath out, make sure you don't die. Also. See, eh, miss, I might need you for the because reasons. I need somebody who can do the teacher type of teacher, I say about head. Uh, yeah. Miss Oral's, please. So you need someone to also write the script and you need a director and you need cameramen, and you need, and I think you might know a few of those in Leta. You're like. a songwriter. You You just decided to write an tar. sure I have no freaking parts, you know, make sure I'm quiet girl. Right? Quiet girl. As the quiet girl. If I don't get rid, quiet girl. We actually do this. I'll show you this part of the video and go, why, girl? And I'll say, all right, no, if I do, I end up doing this. Why girl, why? So I was thinking more like, hey, so Leta is really fun and we are kind of where you can do things and um, you should come join us in Leta, Yes, because if they join us, they're gonna be part the, the movie that, so. so if you wanna be part of the movie, that's probably definitely happy in the future. Join Leta. Please, please. Okay, well, you might want to make sure people are on board with this before you, like, uh, Mr. Land, make sure anyone was on board with, oh, hey, there's gonna be a music bowl of, uh, Hamilton. think everyone left the heck outta that idea. But let, let's get back to important deals, uh, to join Leta. Do you know how they joined Leta? Uh, you go to la or DC and go to one of the fake reef. No, There's real auditions at DC and yeah, well, the people that be real auditions made in fake auditions. Dw, do you think no one okay. Leta, we're no Leta. They, they do actually make it in the real auditions too. Yes. Um, can we get back to exactly what I asked you? Oh, yes. What was that again? Here, Leta. How do they join Leta. Now you go what? They bought dishes. Ooh. Did you know there's some other ways to join Leta What? right now? you. No, right now. Right now you can audition via, um, Yeah. email, I think. Oh, so like, okay. Yeah. So you go to, uh, Leta youth.com and I believe there is an audition similar. Yeah. You click audition and it's got everything down there and you can audition via, um, video. Um huh. I'm so tired. And then everything is good. All that fun jazz. Should they join Leta? Yes. Now. So if you wanna be part of this movie, that's definitely happening because I don't care if anyone says yes or no, it's happening now. If you wanna be part of that movie, please join Leta Ask miss Ms if it's okay. podcast. Look up the episode where we saw the PJ and Rooster video and skip to Elise. Two minutes. Like yeah. Shoot. Maybe you should run this. Pay. Let Miss Cherish. Ms. Bond as the person who owns the place because she seems crazy enough to hire teenagers for every single job, including the shoe chef. So Are we doing this as like a full length feature film or is this made for TV movie or is this like a TV show you have suddenly cast all your Letaers in what? No TV movie. it's like ni Disney type TV movie or? Yes. Okay. Okay. Or we just doing a full length of putting it on YouTube. I don't know, but lead as decided y'all are doing it. So, um, I have to figure out why I cast the rest boys as, because I can't just cast them as the also working the restaurant. I have to give them some sort of character. okay. So you're going, you're gonna need to, uh, grab a few of your Leta friends and go, hi gang. Guess what? Uh, I'm going to need a songwriter. I'm going to need someone to write our music for us. I'm going to. Chloe complain to play the same adult trying to tell her sister they'll still be sister in the movie. Not too do teenagers for single job and. That's why he stopped giving Andrew the power to fire everyone because he is his manager. So all this is from a two minute, uh, video. You guys shot over six hours, uh, and you not have a 90 minute movie, uh, that we're, uh, okay. Um, cherish it is not my fault. This is somehow y'alls fault that she ended up like this. This is not my fault. She ended up like this. I am not responsible for this child. This is everyone at Leta. This is your fault. Your fault. Wait. do you mean? Everyone has to talk the. I meant the adults. This is, this is the adult's fault. You are like here. And I'm, and we'll, we'll need the, uh, sound stage again, or a better sound stage again, because we're going to be filming at a diner for part of this. And they're going to be talking, uh, and 'cause I assume this isn't a silent 90 minute silent film. This is talking and, and, and we're going to need cool dance moves. And, and it's all, is it all tap? Is it all tap in this entire thing? Like even the sock cop is gonna be tap. Yes. Yeah. Even the sock cop is tap. Okay. We're good. but, but Are we taking everyone's, do my stuff. Ms. Bond can do my dance stuff, but bad stuff. Okay, but that smart stuff. and you're going to need to remove your, uh. Taps, obviously if its that you don't run anyone's film stage the sake day, for whoever I get to write this, then you can only write me as the quiet kid, quiet kiss background kid be. of the background characters. Everybody else is souls. Gonna be one characters. And I'm gonna be a background character. I'm gonna be a background. Character Day. Madewell was it? I'm gonna be Awell background freak character. Okay. So we were gonna to talk about like behind the scenes stuff and then you went on to create an entire project for the Letaers. So I, I, I guess you're going to have to get everyone together, get uh, stuff done and, uh, Do we need a Wal scene? A a waltz. Yeah. because he is gonna be the only guy at the bar. So, um, it's definitely the perfect scene too. Oh, hey, this is your future love interest. Okay. So so, um, this is not what is my responsibility. Uh, have fun with this. Um, I, I can't wait to see who, uh oh. the, we're gonna have a video of everyone's pet. Look at this, a video. Everyone's pets being adorable because I was ing all that massive crazy's gonna something to down from the excitement crazy everybody's. That's gonna be a video of every, that's gonna be a short video of everyone's pets being adorable so everyone can calm down. So, uh, question, are we setting this in, like LA or are you setting this like in the countryside somewhere? Are we setting this in? Like, no. Okay. So, uh, at least we have, you know, alright, this should be fun. Um, yeah, you, you, oh. Wait, did I, did I unmute myself phone? You, you, I think I muted yourself. Okay. I, so there will be a scene at the ocean where you're hanging out for no reason. Will there be tap dancing on the beach? There will be tap dancing on the beach.'cause it's a whole tap dance. Uh, there's nothing but tap in this one, huh? yeah. Even the sock cop will be tap dancing. because mom's gonna do and do her, her mod class for Gloria Oliver. Afro funk. Yeah. gonna her to get me out for funk. Okay. We're, we've got this down. Um, there will be lots of singing and lots of dancing. And there will be PJ and Rooster. Oh yeah. Oh. We also need a fake school, you know, for the day after. Where, where he thought Andrew's gonna go. Like, why did you abandon me at lunch? Rush Cute girl. Photo. Don't gonna be like, sorry, we're sorry we had last day of class. We thought you were also gonna your job. And we be close. Wait minute, you got a cute girl's phone number. And then he's gonna be like, yes. Why did it take so long for your head to realize I said that and then just gonna be like, you, you got cute, cute girl number. Does she, does she have friends? Does she have friends? Does she have friends? And he's gonna be like, yeah guys, but why did you abandon me? Why, why? And then they're gonna be like, don't shut up. You cute girl. That's your gotta cute friends. We wanna get hooked up too. And then he's gonna be like, no, you're not getting hooked up. You abandoned me You abandoned me. No, you're not. We'll just leave this to. Hollywood Tap Fest. Um, any, anyways, it was a fun shoot. Yes, was fun, shoot. Also, if you wanna be part of this movie also, if you wanna do, uh, the, uh, a soul and that with me. Yeah, you should join Leta that it's for, uh, youngsters age. What? 11 Up. But they say 11. But last year there at limit to being on Leta. the, the 20-year-old was, The you can find we, we'll Link Leta's website down below. If you wanna join Leta and Friends in Leta, uh, we'll link Hollywood Taps Fest down below because people should come to Hollywood Tap Fest. This is not my fault. We were just gonna talk behind the scenes. And now you have taken a two minute video that was choreographed by Chloe the crazy dance kids two minute tap video, the Chloe choreographed, and you're like, hi, by the way, I now have at least a 90 minute, uh, feature film out of this. Oh. character is gonna still be openly freaking and autistic. I don't care about 1950s. So Friday we have Dr. Kristin and Wilson Williamson coming on again. Yay. We are talking about, uh, um. Burnout and masking. It should be fun. Uh, obviously not something you do in Leta, you do not mask in Leta, so yay, um, next week, unless someone from Leta suddenly calls up and goes, Hey, I've got weekend free. Can we, I hop on and, uh, talk to Leta about Leta, which you would be willing to talk to anyone about Leta Hollywood or uh, DC coming up, right? Yeah, Also, but assuming, you keep going. assuming no one suddenly shows up, though Sarah has said she's coming. We're just trying to get, uh, calendars to mesh right now. Sarah. board with this? Yeah, even though she wasn't in the shoot, I'm pretty sure Sarah would be totally on board with it, whether or not her mother wants to spend three months filming a video. Uh, yeah. Uh, we'll see what's going on. Um. We could all just sleep at Miss Chloe's house. Well, that we could use Donna. Just sleep at Donna because We'll, dancers, you can sleep anywhere. Dancers. Any who back to it or we could, you know, like get long-term stay facilities like. could apartment and we could all use the apartments and then when we all grow up, the ones that don't live in Hollywood, we can all just stay at the Okay. So, um, open invite to, Right. open invite to the Letaers to come on. Uh, we're also open up to have more, um. Guest on Autism neurodiversity. I'm going to also link that below if you wanna come on and talk about that. Or if you wanna come on and talk about Dance Link below to be a guest on the podcast. You look like you are creating, uh, devious plans over there. I am not responsible for any plans My child may or may not have, um, stated, uh, in no way, shape or form is she talking for Chloe and MA productions, Chloe and MA Foundation and or Leta. So her plan for a Leta, need, wait. I need to figure out which one of my mentors will, would be willing to play. Uh, the dance teacher one of the twins, it has to be one of the twins. Why? Why can't be what dog? no, no. I'm gonna have both with the twins. Wait that, wait, what? What Let, let's, okay. Put a pin in this. You can come back later when you Leta. How about this, Leta? We'll put a pin in this, uh, Friday. Join us for, uh, Dr. Kristen coming back on the program to talk about masking, uh, in no way, shape, or form was Leta talking about Hollywood Tap or how, oh, why did, can play to play. other two can play the dance teacher. Okay. so in other words, you have just committed the entirety of your friendship group to. interact with each other in the same thing. So nobody thinks we have one guy playing the principal and a dance teacher and we line and say they're not of the same person because they're not both the same person. And they would both have different costumes because no offense to them, but the the hat don't really help. I'm like, well over for an hour now. Um, we're gonna put a pin in this and come back at a different time to do more with Pin in this. Uh, you need Soul talkers to come on to talk about Leta and about your ideas because in no way, shape, or form has this been approved by Chloe Arnold or Mon Arnold, nor has anyone with Leta agreed to do this crazy thing. But knowing you guys, you're gonna be bugging everyone at Hollywood going, hi, I had a great idea. Let's do a movie. And, and I think you all need to go get the financing insight. no, no. Andrew and I pretty this because I, for me. Okay. No one has a great, um, oh, also, yeah, Dragon Crazy boy too. I'm also Dragon crazy boy 'cause here in a minute. An hour. 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