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- Phill Rosen Voice Over 00:00:00 Welcome to the Living Loud and Proud Podcast, brought to you by Disability Pride Pennsylvania. If you need a link to the transcript for this episode, please visit our accessible website at www.disabilitypridepa.org/podcast. And now, here is your host, Phill Rosen 00:00:27 Welcome to the Living Loud and Proud Podcast. I'm producer Phill Rosen and on today's episode, our friends House On Edge are discussing their collective. But first I want to thank our sponsor Highmark Whole Care for making this show possible. On August 10, the first annual Disability Pride Williamsport 'CIL'ebration is happening from 10 AM to 3 PM at 24 East 3rd Street in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Join Disability Pride Pennsylvania and our friends at the Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living at an event for the entire community complete with live music from Ryan Gilfillan and Friends of Tom Band, food trucks, arts, sensory friendly spaces, fun activities, and more. We hope to see you there! Moving on to the main episode, House On Edge is an artist collective that features members of various artistic backgrounds. Four of the members sat down to record the following discussion for this podcast, take it away House On Edge! Ray Deca 00:01:44 Hi there, folks we're the House On Edge artists collective, it's an artist, it's an artist collective, known as House On Edge, we've been around for years. We are a part of Disability Pride Pennsylvania and kind of aren't. We say we are a part of it, because all four of us are part of Disability Pride, but are collective itself, it's sort of its kind of separate, you can try and figure that out. Anyway, so like I said, when artists collected the core for our Veronica Torrance, Phill Rosen... Phill Rosen 00:02:29 Forgetting my name already? Ray Deca 00:02:30 I was 'bout to call you JPEG! It was like JPEG coming in there, which is a name that Ian Fay, is our fourth member, gave you! Ian Fay 00:02:39 You really, you really put on the Radio Ray-Ray voice like immediately. Ray Deca 00:02:45 Yeah, Radio Ray-Ray, we'll talk about that in a second. Anyway, so like I said, House On Edge is a collective of well, I'm going to say, four very different artists. And our primary thing is, artists with or without disabilities that work together in a collaborative way, from different arts. Also, it's not just music, it's not just, you know, textile arts or anything like that. This core four is what we have Phill, who's an engineer, and many other things as well as a musician, Ian who's a spoken word artist, and we have Veronica, who has basically been a pose coach and model and figure model and everything. And I will probably be saying, 'and everything' a lot in this podcast. Anyway, so this is kind of like a second. What do you say second generation of what was once known as the art studio at Liberty Resources, and then after that closed up, literally, Veronica and I who were a part of it, still kept on going and there was few other people, you know, who were involved too. But then we met Phill Rosen, and then we turned around and not too long after that met Ian Fay and I'll let Ian tell you when he introduces himself the story of when he first came in, and trust me, we will be jumping in while he's trying to tell his story, anyway. Ian Fay 00:04:21 Yeah... Ray Deca 00:04:21 Well, not just yet! Anyway, so I guess that's kind of like the origin of us. So and once again, I'm gonna leave it up leave it with the ambiguous statement of saying that we are a part of Disability Pride because each one of us individually are a part of Disability Pride, doing a lot of volunteer work for them and everything. And also the collective even though we do perform for Disability Pride when needed, we still our own separate thing. You know, but don't get us wrong, Disability Pride is our number one benefactor, though. Anyway, so first let's introduce the individual core four. I guess we'll start off with Phill first. Phill Rosen 00:05:08 Okay, sure. I'm Phill. I'm the producer of The Living Loud and Proud Podcast as well as a musician, sound engineer. You know, anything that we really need from me for House On Edge? So that's a little bit me. Ray? Ray Deca 00:05:29 Ray next? No, let Ian go, yes. Phill Rosen 00:05:32 Sorry. Ian Fay 00:05:34 Hi, my name is Ian Fay. I'm a spoken word artist born and raised right here in Philly. I've been doing, God, I've been doing like, I've been doing this for like, almost 10 years now. That's insane. I just thought about that. Ray Deca 00:05:53 Tell 'em how old you are. Ian Fay 00:05:55 I'm 25. So I started off in high school after an English teacher bribed me with grades to go to a poetry slam and I fell in love with it ever since. I've done. I mean, it's true. Phill Rosen 00:06:11 Yeah. Ian Fay 00:06:11 Mr. K if you're hearing this, thank you. So yeah, I've been doing this like, for like 10 years. I started off in like my High School's poetry club then went on to feature in a student org at Temple University while I was an undergrad there called Babel Poetry Collective. I did that for a number of years. And then around like my sophomore year, end of like, junior year, I came in contac t with Ray and everyone at Disability Pride and House On Edge by extension, and we've been doing work ever since it's (crosstalk, 6:52) through there. Ray Deca 00:06:53 Can we tell 'em how we met? Can we tell, can we tell? Speaker 1 00:06:55 Sure, sure, sure. You take this away. You get way more (crosstalk, 6:59) Ray Deca 00:06:59 So all right. So anyway, so there was another spoken word artist that I had met at Art Reach's one of Art Reach's events, named Osi. We love you, Osi! Ian Fay 00:07:09 We love you Osi! Ray Deca 00:07:11 Anyway, so Osi, I was like, 'Oh my God! I've got to have them. You know, work with the project with us, and work one of the Disability Pride events.' So Osi, you know, jumped on board, was already the, Osi was telling me about their friend Ian, this amazing voice. This, this amazing spoken word artist. And it's like at that time, we're still having in person meetings. So I was like, 'Okay, bring him to the meeting.' And everything, 'I'm pretty much sure you know if you're vouching for them...' That's how good Osi was. You know? 'They gotta be you know, slightly go for you saying they're this great.' So we meet Ian you know, here goes you know, Richie Cunningham and everything. Anyway, so this guy comes in and my play niece. What's my play niece's name again? Veronica Torrance 00:07:57 Kayla, Kayla? Ray Deca 00:07:58 Huh? No, my other play niece. Ian Fay 00:08:01 Oh, Diamond? Ray Deca 00:08:02 Yeah, Diamond was sitting next to me and everything, right. So and what's the guy who? The horn player music teacher. Anyway, I can't, we can't. Phill Rosen 00:08:15 I don't remember... Ray Deca 00:08:16 Anyway, so. Anyway, so we're at this long table inside the meeting room and everything. And so like, I'm like, 'Well, let's hear what he's got.' And everything, you know, and so Ian, does a quick piece, and we were like, blown away this voice and everything. You know, and my play niece Diamond's, like 'Oh my God, you better, you better say yes.' I was like, 'He's got it. He already had it. But if he didn't, he's definitely got it now. It was so amazing, the way he delivered the spoken word.' I was like, 'Oh my God.' Anyway, so yeah, that was that, you know, so that's how Ian wound up coming. It was so crazy because he showed so much dedication that when we started to form the core members, he was there from day one, you know, and speaking of people who've been there from day one, I guess we should introduce Veronica, who has been you know, working alongside this here collective since, oh my God, our old days and original origins at the art studio that was at Liberty Resources, Veronica... Veronica Torrance 00:09:24 Hey my name's Veronica Torrance, and I've been a part of this, I've been with the art studio for a very long time. I came there to find something different with my life, and once I got there. I definitely stepped in. I had my own life where nobody can tell me what to do like this is what I want to do. So I begin to start taking pictures, helping people model, show them how to pose, I also started modeling, taking pictures, working different, working different projects with a group of people from over in Jersey that came over and seen some of my work. It was like, 'Hey, I want her, I want her to do a couple poses for this.' I worked with what was her name? Ray Deca 00:10:21 I don't remember... Veronica Torrance 00:10:21 The woman from Jer- from Je- Lee, Lee! I worked with Lee (unintelligible, 10:25) Ray Deca 00:10:25 Oh yeah! Big fashion project with them! Veronica Torrance 00:10:28 A big fashion project for Lee I went over to there on the universal, on the University City yard. It was a steampunk. It was supposed to be a...Supposed to be a steampunk fashion shoot. Ray Deca 00:10:44 It was a steampunk fashion shoot. Veronica Torrance 00:10:46 Shoot. We were supposed to end up in a magazine. We don't know what happened. So meanwhile as I went through the steampunk, everybody was just calling me, asking me, 'Hey, can you tell me how to pose? And why did you get into this modeling?' And I said, 'Because this is where, this is my thing. This is what I can come to and enjoy what I like to do. And then somebody's telling me what to do and how to do this. This is me.' So I begin posing people. Dressing them, helping them with the look. How to pose. Also worked with Ray Deca on the various projects. Ray Deca 00:11:38 Now, the thing that I want to point out is, like I said, we're people with and without disabilities Ian is autistic. Ian Fay 00:11:47 Very Ray Deca 00:11:50 Veronica has cerebral palsy if you didn't realize Veronica Torrance 00:11:54 Hey you can't tell. Ray Deca 00:11:57 Go away, girl. And also, she's...at the time when you first got involved in everything, you were already in your 30s. Veronica Torrance 00:12:06 Yes. Ray Deca 00:12:07 Yeah. And as a matter of fact, How old are you now, Veronica? Veronica Torrance 00:12:10 I'm 46 years old. I started at like 32. Ray Deca 00:12:14 And Ian? And Ian we established that you're 25? Ian Fay 00:12:18 Yeah. Ray Deca 00:12:18 And Phill... Phill Rosen 00:12:19 I'm 35. Ray Deca 00:12:21 And I'm 55. We are in each and every decade. We are, it's like, we are like, Wait, I never realized it. You said 45? Veronica Torrance 00:12:34 I'm 46 right now. Ray Deca 00:12:39 25, 35? We're all in the middle of our respective decades. Ian Fay 00:12:42 Pretty much Ray Deca 00:12:43 But you know, and it's so crazy, because you have these four vastly different age ranges. And we, we get together all the time. We love hanging out. You know, in fact, that's why we do the project. So we could have a reason to hang out and everything, and well. Oh, yeah, I guess I should introduce myself. I'm just Ray. Okay, so now that we've done that, all jokes aside, I, I guess you could say that I'm like, kind of the core to the core, you know, I don't want it that way. And everything because like, it's all about each and every individual, you know, whether they're part of the core, or even somebody who's close to the core to be a leader, take the reins, you know, because you don't know what could happen tomorrow. You know, or, like, right now, as we're doing this podcast, I have this raging headache, which with my loud voice is getting worse. And for those of you who've been at certain events, you've seen what happens when I get a head injury and still keep going. Anyway, so I, my specialty is I do photography. But I'm a musician and an artist first, you know. Actually, I have my hands, into like a few other different arts, you know, I had some formal dance training. I've done fashion modeling ever since I was like, you know, elementary age, you know? Yeah, that's basically it, you know, not gonna go into too much further because then I'd wind up rambling and just making it all long-winded. So next topic, let's see. Okay, so we've introduced ourselves as individuals and as the collective and...Oh! Let's talk about what the collective has done, you know, with Disability Pride, first and foremost, you know, forget about everything that we did before, you know, like, you know, filling in, you know, or being on the ticket for different events. I think the most important thing to talk about House On Edge is, which we were House Of Edge during this time that I'm about ready to bring up, was when COVID hit and Disability Pride came up with the brilliant idea for to still have a celebration, but do it virtually. And we were right there, the four of us. We were right there. You know, first and foremost, Phill and I co-produced about what 50, maybe 60% of the different events that were online that were (crosstalk, 15:27) Phill Rosen 00:15:27 Yeah, all the performance events for sure. Ray Deca 00:15:30 Yeah. Phill Rosen 00:15:31 And there were a couple other extra things that we did, like a artist's roundtable. Ray Deca 00:15:35 Right. Veronica Torrance 00:15:36 I remember that. We did one. Phill Rosen 00:15:37 Also, what was it The Dark Days? Or was that, was that a different year? Ray Deca 00:15:42 That was a different year. Phill Rosen 00:15:43 That was a different year? Ray Deca 00:15:43 That was the one with Seamus and Alex. Phill Rosen 00:15:44 That was the one with Seamus and Alex, yeah. Ray Deca 00:15:46 That was the following year, you know. Ian? Ian Fay 00:15:49 Oh, yeah. I, I had like a couple of my artist friends. Ray Deca 00:15:53 Couple of them? You had a few. Ian Fay 00:15:54 Yeah, it was like, it was like, four of us. I think it was, if I'm remembering it was like Ari, like my friend, Ari, Ray Deca 00:16:03 Right, Ari. Ian Fay 00:16:04 Osi, like we discussed earlier. Ray Deca 00:16:05 Right. Ian Fay 00:16:06 And a couple other of my poet friends, Dimo. And Matt, we all like... Ray Deca 00:16:11 Matt was amazing. That's the one we're always trying to remember. Ian Fay 00:16:13 Yeah, Matthew Faturoti is an absolute GOAT. He's great. Ray Deca 00:16:17 Like, oh my God! He is a GOAT! BAAHHH! Ian Fay 00:16:24 I showed my age in that sentence. We all had a, like a poetry showcase online. And it went super well. Each of them shared a piece and I shared a couple of my own. And yeah, it was great. Yeah, great experience. Ray Deca 00:16:41 And to give you an idea of like, what I said about, you know, how, like, you know, one of the main artistic goals of House On Edge is for to find ways for to have various different kinds of, you know, art/media work together. There was our segment, which was, you know, several performances, and, Ian was a part of it. Veronica was a part of it. Well, of course, you know, Phill and I were part of it. But like, you know, like with Ian, you know, now spoken word and music has been around you know, as a combined, as a combination has been around probably since the beginning of spoken word. And I'm pretty sure even the beginning of music, but Ian was never introduced to because, you know, it's it hasn't been like the super hip thing like it was in the 60s. Ian Fay 00:17:34 Well, I mean, I've been I knew was a thing. It's just something that I never really got experience with, because I feel like a lot of... Ray Deca 00:17:41 Till he met me. Ian Fay 00:17:42 Till I met Ray. A lot of like, at least like a lot of like poetry spaces I've been it's usually like acapella. Like no music and you're sort of like standing on a stage giving your like, giving your piece, your story for like, three and a half minutes. Usually, if you're doing slams if it's open mics you can go as long as you want reasonably, but... Ray Deca 00:18:02 And after that, it's like this guy has always been stuck having stuff put to music, and we're gonna talk about our favorite piece in a second, which is Perfect Pose, guys, we'll talk about that in a second. The video and the track itself. Yes. Video, we did video. That yeah. So you know, so there was Radio Ray-Ray, I bought Radio Ray-Ray back up, you know, that was me singing a bunch of different songs and a DJ. I was in the DJ type setting, you know, Vidcaster setting, but instead of spinning the records, I sang them, you know, and it was awesome. Because, you know, it was like, you know, done in my own style. You know, singing to tracks that I had, you know, created not that, not that karaoke stuff, you know, actual original instrumentals of you know, some of my favorite songs. And then as a group you know, we had songs that we did videos of, actually...Oh my God. Phill Rosen 00:19:01 Yes. Ray Deca 00:19:01 We've been saying the core four, but we do kind of have like an official fifth member of the core. Phill Rosen 00:19:07 Yeah, almost forgetting about Christina, there. Ray Deca 00:19:09 We love you, Christina! Phill Rosen 00:19:12 Yeah. Don't Stand So Close to Me. Ray Deca 00:19:15 Yeah. Phill Rosen 00:19:16 She was a huge part of that. Ray Deca 00:19:17 Yeah. Yeah, explain the video. So we needed a song that was already fully done already. And I had laying around forever, a vocal doubling track, you know, an instrumental of my cover of Don't Stand So Close to Me. So the vocal doubling layer of it is able to stand alone as the, you know, vocal there so we said let's make a video to this. And Phill and was Christina also part of the plot? Yeah, we kinda... Phill Rosen 00:19:51 Yeah, she was. She kind of played the Lolita character. Ray Deca 00:19:54 Yeah, well explain what the video was. Do it real quick. Phill Rosen 00:19:56 Yeah. So, yeah, so our video was just like Ray kind of, you know, walking around town, doing his thing. Ray Deca 00:20:05 I was a teacher or something like that. Phill Rosen 00:20:06 And you were a teacher or something. And Christina just would be like, right around the corner. And just like, Ray Deca 00:20:13 Popping up outta nowhere. Phill Rosen 00:20:13 ...popping up out of nowhere, and, and, you know, being creepy, whatever she she really did well with that. Ray Deca 00:20:19 Yeah, she did well, mmhmm. Phill Rosen 00:20:20 It was a little scary how well she did with that. Ray Deca 00:20:25 It was a fun video and everybody loved it, because I shared it on Facebook and of course, it was part of the Disability Pride Virtual Event, you know, and then, there was Perfect Pose, which was also a combination of all of us, Veronica was a big part of it. Christina again, was also part of it. Sorta it was like kinda like a sizzle reel, you know, of House On Edge. And everything, you know, Ian was the male model featured. And, and also he did spoken word to it which he wrote exclusively for the track, you know, yeah. And it was funny. Because, like, it was just a track out just had just recently been fiddling around with it was gonna be laying around and Phill was like, 'That's a banger.' And I was like, 'I banged her? What? Huh?' 'No it's a banger, man! We need to do this!' He's like, 'Yo!' And it how'd we come up with the idea that it was all about, you know, being a flirty, seduction type of thing. Whose idea was that? Phill Rosen 00:21:34 You know, I think that you kind of went with it and ran and then you just, well you brought it up to Ian... Ian Fay 00:21:40 I... Ray Deca 00:21:41 Yeah. Ian Fay 00:21:42 ...yeah, I will say the piece kind of came from like, a couple pieces that I've written before, where I was just like, I was kind of playing this idea of like, you know, autistic people not being like, like, not being very desirable and me desperately wanting to bump that trend. Because at the time I was, Ray Deca 00:22:03 Oh, he became very desirable with that track. Ian Fay 00:22:05 Yeah, at the time, I was very much feeling myself. And I was like... Ray Deca 00:22:08 Veronica was like, yeahhh... Veronica Torrance 00:22:12 Yeah, actually, when I heard that spoken poem, I was coming off it. Ray Deca 00:22:20 Yeah he came off the character. Veronica Torrance 00:22:23 I said, 'Well, hey, I can actually pose as you stating it, I become that character as you, as you've saying it, so as we did a video, I did the poses to the words you were saying. Ray Deca 00:22:38 Oh! The setting for the video was a combination of photoshoots that the five of us did, we're including Christina, and also of my favorite, my favorite shoot was the one that we did at the Philly trail, which one was it? Ian Fay 00:22:54 The Wissahickon. Phill Rosen 00:22:54 The Wissahickon, yeah. Ray Deca 00:22:57 We were at Valley on the Green. So that one yeah, yes. We were in the water shooting. And oh... Veronica Torrance 00:23:04 Yeah, that trail was a hot spot, just to hang out. Ray Deca 00:23:08 Yes. Ian Fay 00:23:09 That was a good one. Ray Deca 00:23:09 Yeah. And all that was cut into the video. And I was kind of inspired by the video. I do remember, input about the video. You know, like I said, it's kind of like sizzle reel. But also, I kind of wanted something that remind me of Herb Alpert's video for his song Rise. Anyway, you know, Biggie used the bassline for anyway, so, when I finally seen the video after, you know, like, I don't know how many decades because the song came out, like it's 78 or 80, or something like that. Phill Rosen 00:23:50 Yeah, something like that. Ray Deca 00:23:51 I've never seen the video didn't think there was one. And there it was, and it was basically just him at a photoshoot, you know, clicking away with his horn and his camera and a bunch of those, you know, disco era type models and everything, which I grew up around. Anyway, showing my age, lawd. Anyway, so anyway, so yeah, so we actually came up with, you know, our own little version of it. It's like, like I said, it's like a cross of inspiration of Herb Alpert's Rise video, a sizzle reel, and just showing who we are. Yeah, yeah. Oh, but the track, I'm telling you with his spoken word the way he did it and the music that was a wrap. And then after that, you know, we got, we got a few things, but there was a lotta stuff that we were being overwhelmed with. Veronica Torrance 00:24:41 What about, what about the one we did. The Prince, the Prince video. Phill Rosen 00:24:45 Yeah, we're actually forgetting a couple pieces here. Ray, remember? The Life On Mars cover. Ray Deca 00:24:51 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That was just a me thing. Phill Rosen 00:24:54 Yeah, it was just him and yeah. Ray Deca 00:24:56 It's all about me! Anyway, but what was the other thing? Phill Rosen 00:24:58 There was the Veronica Torrance 00:25:00 Prince. Phill Rosen 00:25:01 Prince. Ian Fay 00:25:02 Oh shoot, yeah Veronica Torrance 00:25:03 Yes. Phill Rosen 00:25:04 Veronica was dancing to Prince. I'm assuming it was your singing. It was Kiss. Ray Deca 00:25:09 How'd I forget about that? Veronica Torrance 00:25:10 We did it. We actually did that at Disability Pride one year. Ian was there the year we did that. Ray Deca 00:25:19 What else am I forgetting? Phill Rosen 00:25:22 Well, we did like five things for Virtual PA, for that performance. I can't remember what we did the next year. Veronica Torrance 00:25:30 Oh, what about the performance we did at, for kicking off Disability Pride December? The all white. Phill Rosen 00:25:39 Oh, that, that was a long time ago. Ray Deca 00:25:43 Oh yeah! That was, that, that was, you know, um, well, yeah. I mean, we were the core. But you know, that was something that Connie Vanderakis. We love you Connie! Everyone Except Ray 00:25:52 Love you Connie! Veronica Torrance 00:25:52 That's how we met JPEG. Ray Deca 00:25:54 But yeah, everybody, but everybody was involved except for Ian and Christina. And everything. Veronica Torrance 00:26:04 At that time, it was just me and JPEG. Ray Deca 00:26:07 And Ray. Veronica Torrance 00:26:08 And Ray. Ray Deca 00:26:09 Getting beat by Tom Earle. You know, the CEO, getting beat by his cane. He's a slick guy. I love you Tom! Veronica Torrance 00:26:20 Actually, Christina did come out and watch it the entire event. Ray Deca 00:26:25 Oh yeah, the second one, but I wasn't part of it. Right. Okay. Right. Right. Right here. We were even. Veronica Torrance 00:26:33 JPEG did the one down on 15th Street underground. Phill Rosen 00:26:37 Yeah, yeah, at Suburban Station. Veronica Torrance 00:26:39 Yeah, at Suburban Station Ray Deca 00:26:40 I mean, so yeah, we, we're involved. We're involved lately because of scheduling, and also technical difficulties that we have, you know, we, we don't really get a chance to get out there in front much you know, with the Disability Pride crowd. But we do have our own thing, like I said, going on, but we are working on you know, different things right now. You know, hopefully, that will be a pretty good thing. But we're not missing from Disability Pride. You know, we are right there because all four of us table at our own Disability Pride events, or at other events that Disability Pride needs such as we were right there with Philly Gay Pride. Ian and Phill 00:27:22 Yeah. Ray Deca 00:27:22 All of us were right there. We're there with Juneteenth to all of us were right there. Ian Fay 00:27:27 Yeah, that was a fun time. Phill Rosen 00:27:28 Yeah, that was fun. Ray Deca 00:27:28 Phill and I so many times have tabled events, you know, when any of the higher office management people can't make it. You know, and all we gotta do is just call Veronica or Ian and say, 'Hey, we might need a little hand with this.' You know, and unless you know, Ian is stuck with his, you know, crazy day job with the kids. He works at a, is it a kung fu daycare? Ian Fay 00:27:58 Yeah. It's... Ray Deca 00:27:59 You heard him! You heard him! He works at a kung fu daycare. Ian Fay 00:28:04 I didn't even finish! Yeah, I work at an after-school program at Martial Posture Studio out on 22nd and Walnut. Ray Deca 00:28:15 Translation: kung fu daycare. Anyway, you know, and Veronica, you know, like I said, she was she, she she's been there from day one, you know, from volunteer, so we're always right there. But it's so crazy, like people who are new to Disability Pride, and, you know, came to Disability Pride afterwards are like so shocked. You know, when they find out who and what we've done, because they've just met us as like the volunteer folks. You know, like, I'm not gonna say, you know, but somebody you know, in the upper office, you know, had no idea that I was this here, you know, performing musician, you know, and they just didn't know, you know, and they're like, 'Wait a minute, what else don't I know?" You know, and that I was actually a famous, you know, famous photographer, you know, had my 15, 20, 30 minutes of fame here and there. You know that I do actual art, key art photography. Veronica Torrance 00:29:09 And that's crazy. Because when I get to talking about the work I do, they be like 'Oh, yeah. You're the PennDOT girl, I know who you are!' Ray Deca 00:29:17 Yeah! She's, she's, she, she is Philly aesthetic all the way. Veronica Torrance 00:29:23 I'm very known! I'm very known! Ray Deca 00:29:23 Because there's always famous people in Philly who are known for just being somewhere, like the guy who was always at Vet's stadium or whatever stadium it was for all the ball games. The guy Kenny who worked in a cigar shop there at the corner of 15th and Walnut. Veronica Torrance 00:29:39 Like my bald friend at the Please Touch Museum? Ray Deca 00:29:42 Veronica is the PennDOT girl. Veronica Torrance 00:29:47 They're like, 'Oh, we know her!' Ray Deca 00:29:49 You know, but yeah, so we're was there anything else anybody wanted to bring up, because we could start wrapping up. Veronica Torrance 00:29:56 I'm working on a new project, artist project that hopefully soon I'll be out with it. Number of different projects I'm working on with art very, very different, Ray Deca 00:30:13 Basically it's portraiture photography with some heavy AI and Photoshop, influence, like coming up with some crazy, beautiful, hot dynamic images. You know, imagine if you were a makeup artist and you were doing makeup on somebody's face with industrial material, okay, you know, PC and digital. It you know, and I mean that literally not you know, using PC and digital for to make it, but actually, you know, having digital and all that other aesthetics, you know. Veronica Torrance 00:30:43 We already know I wanted to get up and put the makeup on because it's right here for me too. Ray Deca 00:30:49 And, Ian, Ian has like, led me into like such a guilt trip where we seem like we were stagnating. So one of the main things with he and I is releasing albums, which of course we will be assisted with, and hopefully making Phill do his own album also, in a spoken word album, that will definitely have dance, danceable tracks on it, you know, me just a Ray album, period. And damn, what would Phill's even be like? Phill Rosen 00:31:27 That's a good question. I can't even tell you. Ray Deca 00:31:31 Because Phill and I do already have a release that we've done where we, it's like Lo-Fi instrumentals GrimeBind9. Yeah, you know, it's in all the stores in you know, digital stores. And, and so right now we've got these here, three albums that we need to release, at the very least three singles to jump it off. But yeah, and having said that, introduced ourselves launching, no, we are an open door. It's just that the four of us have been the most dedicated, and technically five, because Christina, she comes when she's able to, you know, and everything, but we're not a closed door, if you're someone who's a good fit, in other words somebody that likes to work well with each other, you know, with others, I mean to say, because like I said, all four of us are different, all five of us are different, you know, different ages, different backgrounds, you know, different disabilities and abilities, you know, and we all come together, we love being each other, with each other, you know, we work well together, you know, I call this this group, my family now, more so than my own family, you know, and I'm there for them. They're there for me, you know, and a lot of times we're there for others, you know, and just wanna you know, don't think that you know, there's no room, there's always room for growth. And in this case, there's room for growth, you know, with you know, what we learn, what we do and also for our numbers. So, this is Ray Deca Ian Fay 00:33:25 This is Ian. Veronica Torrance 00:33:27 This Veronica. Phill Rosen 00:33:28 And I'm Phill. Ray Deca 00:33:29 And we bid ye a good adieu. Agoo, what the hell is agoo? Veronica Torrance 00:33:35 Yeah. Ray Deca 00:33:35 We bid you adieu. And a lovely good night or morning or whenever the hell it is that you're listening to this. We love you. Phill Rosen 00:33:42 Thank you to House On Edge for sitting down and having that discussion for us. Again, I'd like to thank Highmark Whole Care for sponsoring our show. If you're around the Williamsport Area, we hope to see you at the 'CIL'ebration on the 10th Thanks for listening. Phill Rosen Voice Over 00:34:02 Please visit our accessible website at www.disabilitypridepa.org. You can find us on social media @DisabilityPridePA on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.