More Money, More Inappropriate Dinner Conversation

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David Chang (0:36)

Hey, guys, we're back talking about money. One of the most taboo topics there is, we did our podcast with Cousin Sal and Joe House, where we talked about money, a little bit more about gambling, let's be honest. But today, we're going to talk about money and a lot of stories, but more importantly, we're also going to be making million-dollar BLTs. It's really probably about $8, but a few years back, we did a recipe club and Yang and I, and I think Rachel Kong had to make million-dollar bacon, and it's really just sugar. That's it. You put sugar, brown sugar on bacon, bake it off, and you got million-dollar bacon. We've never made million-dollar bacon BLTs, but here we are, and we're going to ask some strangers what's in their wallet. All coming up right now.

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Last episode, we had cousin Sal and Joe House to talk about money. And it was a little bit more about betting, being master of your domain and such. But today, we're going to get back to really talking about money again, but this time with some new friends that are not cousins Sal and Joe House. It's funny, we spoke a little bit how money in most cultures is a taboo subject.

Yet, in a lot of Asian cultures, it's celebrated.

The whole point of going to a really good college is so you can make money, right? But it's certainly, and for obvious reasons, a touchy subject. But growing up, my dad came to America in 1963 He wasn't an academic engineer. Again, I did that, Finding Your Rids with Professor Skip Gates. I always wondered why we were the only family in the DC. Virgin area that weren't, we were the only children that were not academic professors or doctors, because my dad hustled his way. And he worked in restaurants. And it was only later where, sort of, I want to say normal, but Asians that weren't of that intellectual set started to come to America. And sort of like my dad's sort of group of friends were, they were all, I won't say starving artists, but they were starving degenerates, you know, people that were trying to figure out how to sort of make ends meet. And we grew up with a real sense of deprivation. And not to go too long into the whole history of it, but it was only later that my dad sort of make some money, started a golf store, and it was all an accident, right? It all happened to do, because we moved to Tyson's Corner, it was a plot of land that nobody wanted. And it was just fucking ass-backwards luck.

But I remember those early years quite vividly, and it was not easy, you know? And a lot of arguments.

And I didn't really think about money, but I knew it was something that we had to closely monitor, always. And I always remember that because we would tie our offerings to church and all of these things. And just growing up, money was something that I never thought that we had, right?

Chris Ying (5:02)

Do you think your parents were more, your dad was more afraid about money than he had to be? Or was his financial situation like, he should be really, really scared?

David Chang (5:13)

That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, he wound up being successful, but not like, it wasn't crazy. We wound up being like upper middle class. But like, we never did anything extravagant.