Jared Poland Frone Knows Photo.com and welcome to Rawl Talk episode number 186.

Today is Thursday, February 12th, 2026.

The time 1129 in the a.m.

Exactly 79% left on my watch and my heart rate three days ago read 69 beats per minute. I'll know what I was doing, but nice. It's currently 33 degrees here in Philly. Stephen's not back yet. He will be back next week. Now, that doesn't mean we'll be fully up and running on the podcast, but we'll have to see because I'm about to talk about where I'll be next week,

because I won't be in the studio here. I will be on the road doing something else, which I'll

talk about in just a second. So we'll have to see, as Stephen gets back into the swing of things,

if we're able to pull it off the way that we want to pull it off, which is, you know, me doing

it with Stephen. And we can do it over the

interwebs because we use Riverside as a way to connect over the inner webs, but we also can record,

well, we record natively into audition so that we both have our native good audio, which is better

than what Riverside offers. And then I send Stephen the wave file and then he puts it all together.

That's why we clap at the beginning of these things, which you don't get to hear. But yeah, Stephen's paternity leave, I guess, is coming to an end. And there is a lot for him to catch up on. Of course, because he literally went out right at the end of the month of the first month. And there's so much to do at the beginning of the year and throw into that, adding a new employee in the way of Austin and getting Austin caught up on

all the procedures, even though I took Austin to Paris. And Austin's working on a Paris vlog. He's

working on a review that we did of the Lyca M11 monochrome versus the Lyca M-E-V-1. So he's working on a lot. We've got the 7 to 14

Canon Fish Eye to do a review of and the 1414 to do a review of. The photos are done. The notes are

written. And it's just a matter of Stephen getting back in on Monday and we will be filming Monday when he comes in to get those things in the can.

And then Stephen also can catch up on the edits that Dan's been finishing to polish off.

I think we have a comparison of the A7-5 versus the A-7-4, I believe we have that. We also have a user guide for the A7.5. So all of these things

take time. And we appreciate your guys' patience and everything that we do. It's an ongoing

process. And of course, I do want to make my video guide. So yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot going on.

There's always a lot going on. And it never ends. Is it, is it, is it, and this is part of my,

my personal rub. Like, does it end? Does it need to? Not that does it end, but do I need to

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