Italian Sunday Dinner, Betting, and Inappropriate Dinner Conversations With Cousin Sal

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dave makes an Italian Sunday dinner of braciola and red sauce for "Cousin Sal" Iacono, sports gambling enthusiast and prankster. Dave also surprises Sal with two dishes that Dave didn't make, including his favorite sandwich in Los Angeles. The duo discusses a buffet's worth of topics, from GLP-1s to sandwiches, sports betting to why Vegas is struggling, and hot dog–eating contests. They finish with a game of Inappropriate Dinner Conversations, which gets a little NSFW and a lot character-revealing. Learn more about The Masters: https://www.masters.com/index.html Learn more about Dave and Buster's: https://www.daveandbusters.com Learn more about The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller: https://amzn.to/4aRjBMr Learn more about White House Subs: https://www.whitehousesubshop.net/ Learn more about Bianco: https://www.pizzeriabianco.com/ Host: Dave Chang Guest: "Cousin Sal" Iacono Majordomo Media Producer: David Meyer Spotify Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Additional Crew: Jake Loskutoff, Dionte Mercado, Dan McCoy, Michael Delgado, Abby Zidonis Editor: Jake Loskutoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join me today as I make some Italian-American classics that I think C-Salle actually liked.
0:11.4	Yeah.
0:12.4	Not too bad.
0:13.4	C-plus.
0:14.4	C-plus.
0:15.4	Hey, not bad.
0:16.4	That's an A-plus for a Korean guy.
0:18.7	I make some brajol.
0:20.1	I make some big ricketone.
0:22.0	We have what I'm trying to get as a thing here in Los Angeles in America is the Chris Bianca
0:29.3	Italian sandwich.
0:30.1	I think here is the best sandwich in Los Angeles.
0:33.3	No mustard.
0:34.3	Thank God.
0:35.2	And we're going to talk some betting, a little bit of how to bet, what to bet, and how to get me to become a real degenerate sports betting, gambling person.
0:45.9	And we do a little inappropriate dinner conversation, and that's about it.
0:51.0	Stay tuned.
0:52.2	Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer podcast network, presented by Major Duma Media.
0:56.8	We are on Spotify and also Netflix.
1:00.3	For those that don't know, we're joined with Cousin Sal.
1:02.5	I don't know exactly when this is going to come out, but the night of the Super Bowl, what's today's date then?
1:08.2	It's the February 8th episode of Bill Simmons.
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