Segment 1: Mark Hamrick, Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Economic Analyst for Bankrate.com the current state of the labor market, the importance of the job market being balanced, and inflation continuing to be sticky.

Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senior Writer, CNET, joins John Williams to talk about Elon Musk’s lawyers facing off with OpenAI in court, Musk’s power over the federal government, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issuing a ban on Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek for government-issued devices.

Segment 3: Tim Paradis, Future of Work Correspondent, Business Insider, joins John to talk about the power shift at the workplace and how bosses are back to having more power than the employees.

Segment 4: Art Velasquez, CEO, Baja Foods, joins John to talk about the launch of a new brand called Chef Gustavo and its first product, the Chicken & Cheese Enchiladas with Salsa Verde, that you can now find at Costco!