Host Ed Garsten retired from full time work in 2016 but has been working as a freelance senior contributor to Forbes.com for 7 years. He discusses why he loves being a journalist, meeting such celebrities as the actor who played the evil Prof. Harris on Lost in Space, Pete Rose, Mel Blanc, the voice behind your favorite Looney Tunes characters, composer Aaron Copeland, suicide Dr. Jack Kevorkian and others...all contributing to why he just can't quit the profession.

Host Ed Garsten discusses how both reporters and PR people can use gathering "string" to create complete, compelling stories and story pitches.

Longtime PR pro and agency owner Don F. McLean discusses his new book on how to succeed on Linkedin with Tales From the Beat host Ed Garsten. The book is titled, ""The In Crowd for LinkedIn Mastery: Powering Your Path to Professional Success & Thought Leadership Through a PR Mindset."

In this episode, host Ed Garsten speaks with longtime auto biz pro Randall McAdory about the hot topics in the industry right now and his provocative, insightful TaaSMaster Newsletter. Ed and Randall worked together at the former DaimlerChrysler in the early 2000's.

Elliot Katz makes a return trip to the podcast to discuss his latest venture, the first collaborative AI platform mixus.ai and it's colleague-in-the-loop AI agent creation tool that incorporates humans into the process to ensure accuracy.

Quotes are like gold. You have to handle them as the valuable thing they are. But what happens when a PR person asks you to change a quote? Or an editor changes a quote and makes it wrong? All quotable subjects host Ed Garsten tackles in this episode.

To honor this week's national elections in Canada, host Ed Garsten recalls an almost disastrous episode while covering the 1997 elections in the Great White North for CNN, thanks to a snarky CBC staffer.

Joel Feder has been an automotive journalist for almost two decades, across all media, especially online at websites that include TheCarConnection, MotorAuthority and GreenCarReports. When those three well-respected sites were suddenly shut down recently, Feder found himself searching for a new opportunity. We discuss what happened, what the public loses when experienced beat writers lose their jobs, the general state of automotive journalism and how the tariff story is being reported.