Topic: Bloomberg Businessweek

The hosts mock the "superfood" status of kale, citing an NPR Marketplace segment that claims kale sales are "skyrocketing." Dvorak proposes a joke book titled "The World's Greatest Kale Recipes" consisting of 200 blank pages. The discussion concludes with a recipe for making kale palatable by parboiling it and frying it in significant amounts of bacon fat.

Bloomberg Businessweek's "Global Technology" issue is criticized for featuring what appears to be native advertising for the Chinese phone maker Xiaomi. An interview on the Charlie Rose show with editor Josh Tyrangiel is identified as a potential quid pro quo arrangement to boost Bloomberg's tech profile. The segment highlights the blurring lines between journalism and product placement in modern media.