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In this time of high inflation and recession fears the country continues to add more jobs driven by gains in the travel and hospitality industries.  Restaurants, bars and hotels keep hiring people, but they still don’t have enough as pent-up demand for those services remains high. Allison Pohle, reporter at the WSJ, joins us for how many of these industries have recovered almost all of their pre-pandemic jobs.

Next, Amazon recently held an event where they debuted some improvements in their text-to-speech technology and had and AI mimic the voice of someone’s dead grandmother.  What’s amazing is that it’s becoming easier to create these artificially generated voices to sound like anyone and in this case, they only needed about 60 seconds of audio rather than 60 hours.  Adam Bluestein, contributor to Fast Company, joins us for how this is just the beginning for voice cloning.

Finally, craft beer lovers beware!  Brewers are facing a shortage of carbon dioxide and it could cause delays in production.  Breweries rely on CO2 for putting bubbles in the beer itself, but also along the production process to move the beer through lines and purge oxygen from tanks.  Emily Heil, food reporter at the Washington Post, joins us for the latest challenge for craft brewers.

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