Welcome to the first of what I hope many Robert Hester Entertainment Podcast episodes in 2026!

In this first episode of 2026, I look back on the last half, and most of 2025 in terms of further celebrating my mother's life, reflecting on the USL Championship season for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, the AFC North Championship win for the Pittsburgh Steelers (and the personal drama I endured during the game!), spending time in Ocean City, Maryland, shooting a concert headlined by country music legend Sara Evans—and her opening acts, photographing (and attending) my first-ever Pittsburgh Marathon, purchasing a new Canon T5 camera after the previous one suddenly stopped working at a full-circle moment in my photography career, and reading an encouraging and inspiring letter from 1979 by the late, great Lou Adler of WCBS Radio in New York City to an Upstate New York college student by the name of Keith Olbermann.

No words. No script. Just sharing my thoughts and feelings in the aftermath of suddenly losing my mother after a brief illness.

In this “Here’s The Thing About Me" episode of the Robert Hester Entertainment Podcast, I mention why I’m personally celebrating Autism Awareness Month by taking a Pause from my usual, monthly photography pursuits by having April of 2025 also serve as Pause-Tism Awareness Month. For me, April of 2025, Pause-Tism Awareness Month, will give me a chance to practice the three “R’s” Reevaluate, Reassess, and Recharge myself in an effort to find and share with you multiple ways I’m positively moving on from a very BRUTAL photography month of March. These three “R’s” will also give me an opportunity to share and celebrate the exciting things to come beginning in May, as well as other potentially exciting things to come for my photography career, and other things besides photography, throughout the rest of 2025!

I also mention some other exciting things to come from Pittverse Community to the More Than Pink Walk, and all other exciting things related to Robert Hester Entertainment/Beaux Cliché Photography throughout the rest of 2025!

This is an episode of the Robert Hester Entertainment Podcast HAD to be made after hearing about the potential closure of the Monroeville Convention Center in June of 2024 after its ownership, Oxford Development, agreed to a multiyear lease/deal with Hobby Lobby to redevelop the property of the convention center. I explain from a human, spiritual, and heartfelt standpoint on the reason(s) that an opportunity like this from a big name like Hobby Lobby is so wrong and devastating to a community like Monroeville, a community that needs a place like its convention center to maintain its status as the East Hills' Mecca of shopping, dining, entertainment, lodging, and living! I also read excerpts from an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in which I verbally celebrate and give kudos to the mayor of Monroeville, Nick Gresock, on his and others' efforts to do whatever it takes to come with a plan, any plan, to fight against this lease that will eliminate one of Monroeville's top destinations, the Monroeville Convention Center. #SaveTheMonroevilleConventionCenter

This Summer was, utterly, the best one I ever had! And in this episode, in which the audio was recorded off of Robert Hester Entertainment's Facebook page due to issues with my regular recording software on my laptop, I explain what I learned through the many moments that happened during the Summer of 2023!

From my photos being displayed at a show at a coffee/arts and crafts shop in Murrysville, PA to finding a new–and familiar–home at Monroeville Mall! Speaking of which... I talk about finding a new calling as a motivational speaker during Progress City's Summer Camp at their new space inside Monroeville Mall. And, being a part of the 2023 Monroeville 4th of July Parade to help celebrate the reboot of the SpectroDolce experience in Monroeville Mall after Labor Day!

Also, I verbally celebrate a few personalities from WTAE-TV who graced Robert Hester Photography's lenses this Summer. Kasey Reigner for Pittverse Magazine; Kelly Sasso, along with her husband Nic, and their son Ayven for one of their first "Family Portraits"; and Emily Giangreco, who I finally met and photographed at Pittsburgh's Little Italy Days. Plus... I play a few of Emily's TikTok's that are as comical and inspirational because that's who Emily is on her TikTok!

And I verbally celebrate a lot more people and events that occurred this Summer that made it such a very special one!

I've been so busy with a lot of things over the last couple of months, that I haven't made an RHE Podcast... UNTIL NOW! In this episode, I'll let you in on the top five things that have happened to Yours Truly since Yours Truly made its last podcast in early April: Throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Pittsburgh Pirates game at PNC Park; Travel to Atlanta for a wedding, and seeing the fabulous Biltmore Hotel–whose the inspiration behind Biltmore Radio, proudly played at SpectroDolce; Travel back home to Pittsburgh only to be stuck in Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport for 10 hours! Speaking of SpectroDolce, I reveal when the "Full Spectro Experience" will return to Monroeville; my YINZER celeb photo shoot for Pittverse with Kasey Reigner of WTAE-TV; And briefly celebrate the life and career of another YINZER celeb, Stan Savran.