Club 520 Podcast – Thanksgiving Debates, Food Taboos & Culture

Episode: BEST THANKSGIVING FOODS, ketchup on steak, snitching vs. jail time debate
Date: November 27, 2025
Hosts: Jeff Teague (Young Nacho), DJ Wells, Bishop B Henn (Mike), Barbie

Episode Overview

This Club 520 holiday special centers around Thanksgiving—debating the best (and worst) holiday foods, sharing hilarious and sometimes heated opinions on Black family food staples, poking fun at food faux pas like “ketchup on steak,” and going off-the-cuff into culture, snitching vs. jail debates, childhood memories, college regrets, and generational wisdom. Expect plenty of jokes, viral-level storytelling, and the full range of genuine friendship energy.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving Foods: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Friendsgiving Dishes Roast

• [15:46] The crew watches and reacts to a viral video of a work Friendsgiving, with "suspect" dishes on display: "Black beans and sausage," “spaghetti and macaroni and cheese with spaghetti noodles,” green bean casserole.

  • DJ Wells: “If you say you got mac ‘n cheese and I see spaghetti noodles — I’m leaving.” (17:51)
  • Young Nacho: “Pepperoni on top is crazy. I done had it, though.” (17:30)
  • Barbie: “Call the police.” (16:25)

• On eating at other people’s houses:

  • Mike: “On the real, I ain’t eating none of that. Anybody bring it from the like… I’m not eating that.” (18:10)
  • Young Nacho counters that he grew up eating all types of food, sometimes "with dirty hands" from working on roofs—no worries.

Thanksgiving Must-Haves & Pet Peeves

• [20:01] The group drills Mike on never having yams until last year (“That’s the second most important side dish to me!” – DJ Wells, 20:11).
• Barbie’s menu: “I’m in charge of macaroni, mashed potatoes, and green beans.” (34:50)
• Hawaiian turkey, garlic parmesan turkey, debate if baked beans belong on the Thanksgiving table (38:10). Consensus: baked beans = barbecue, but exceptions are made for “special” family recipes.
• Dish Disasters: “You f*** up the mac, yams, greens, cabbage, all that - bro, the turkey is sh*tty, bro...” (34:26 – Young Nacho on “premium stocks” only being entrusted to nana, auntie, or mom).

Food Faux Pas & Hot Takes

• Ketchup or A1 on Steak?!

  • [29:02] Mike confesses, “I know how to get the flavor—put that A1 right there.” Young Nacho and Barbie are mortified (“That’s so disrespectful to steak!” – Young Nacho, 29:02).
  • Barbie: “You put ketchup on steak? …Why?” (29:24)
  • Mike: “You never put ketchup on a hamburger?”
  • “That’s not the same!” (Barbie, 29:32)

• Remixing Store-Bought Mac ‘n Cheese for the Family:

  • [31:41] The crew reacts to a viral clip of a guy buying Costco mac and cheese, dressing it up, and taking credit (with fake bacon, questionable technique).
  • DJ Wells: “For you to claim that as your own is crazy.” (32:02)
  • Mike: “If you mess up fried chicken, you weren’t supposed to be cooking.” (33:49)

• Questionable Ingredients & Regional Bias:

  • Stuffing vs. Dressing, Mac vs. Baked Spaghetti, Green Bean Casserole in a Crockpot (“Crockpot is crazy… Supposed to be in a Pyrex pan.” – Young Nacho, 17:13)
  • Chitlins…
    • [28:06] “I’m nothing on chitlins. I’m a free man.” – DJ Wells
    • Nacho: “Everybody done ate the back of that girl before, bro. The risk is the same…” (28:24, whole table cracks up)

• Mixing Sides:

  • Barbie: “I have to eat baked beans with macaroni. So like, how you eat your baked beans with your yams?...That’s a good combination” (37:50)

2. Family, College, & Generational Differences

• [42:11] The hosts touch on family secrets and learning unexpected facts about their parents (e.g., Mike’s dad lived on his own as a high schooler).
• Open discussion on college regrets and trade school vs. formal education:
  • “I wish I went to an HBCU.” (60:40, Barbie)
  • “Some of the highest paid people I know don’t have any type of formal education. They learned a trade.” (65:44 – DJ Wells)
  • “Not everybody is self-taught. Some folks need that professor in front of them.” (69:07 – Young Nacho)

3. Snitching vs. Jail Time: Morality & Survival

[42:51–46:44]

• Would you let your boy turn you in for $50 million (and break you off some)? The crew debates hypotheticals, openly admitting how loyalty fights with practicality.
  • “If we only got to do a month, I’ll hold it down. Anything over six months? Oh, hell no.” (45:58 – Mike)
  • On “snitching”: “If you do crime with your people, you gotta take the time.” (44:07 – Young Nacho)
  • The group breaks down real-life examples and media stories (the Vlad TV cartel story), with Mike quipping, “I would have told and just been looking over my shoulder the rest of my life.” (47:24)

4. Celebrating “Welcome Home” vs. Open Houses

[53:01–59:07]

• Reflecting on Mike Gibson’s viral statement questioning why communities throw big parties for people coming out of jail, but not the same for college graduates.

  • “We gotta celebrate the open houses too, not just the welcome homes.” (58:54 – Barbie)

• Discussion on generational welfare (“three generations of food stamps … that is crazy… but some people really do need help”) and how some get “comfortable” in the system (54:28).

5. Outrageous What-Ifs: Slavery, Jail, and the Afterlife

[87:00–91:44]

• The hosts riff about whether they could survive on a plantation or prefer jail (spoiler: “dead first day”), joke about how “slavery was coed,” and the “afterlife penalty” for living a hard life.
  • “If you go to hell after picking cotton your whole life, you should have never been born. That should be an automatic.” (89:04 – Young Nacho, jokes about the afterlife)
  • “Grandma shaking telling stories…” (90:56 – DJ Wells cracks up)

6. Cultural & World Experiences

• Jeff reveals he’s 50% Nigerian and discusses the look and feel of his hair (85:10).
• Great Wall of China:
  • “Walking the whole thing would take 18 months.” (82:44 – DJ Wells)
  • “That’s one of the craziest sights I’ve ever seen. How did humans build that?” (81:32 – Mike)
  • Hosts plan dream trips to Africa, Tokyo, etc.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If you say you got mac and cheese and I see spaghetti noodles, I’m leaving.” – DJ Wells, 17:51
• “That’s so disrespectful to steak!” – Young Nacho, 29:02
• “You ever had ketchup on a steak?” – Mike, 29:24
• “You f* up the mac, yams, greens… turkey’s sh*tty, bro.”** – Young Nacho, 34:26
• “If you do criminal sh*t with your people, you gotta take the time. Can’t bail out and tell.” – Young Nacho, 44:07
• “I’d rather be on a plantation than in jail.” – Young Nacho, 87:18 (leads to a wild, hilarious debate on historical suffering vs. incarceration)
• “We gotta celebrate the open houses too, not just welcome homes from jail.” – Barbie, 58:54
• “Some of the highest paid people I know don’t have any type of formal education. They learned a trade.” – DJ Wells, 65:44
• “Everybody done ate the back of that girl before, bro. The risk is the same as chitlins.” – Young Nacho, 28:24

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Best & Worst Thanksgiving Dishes: 15:46–20:15
• Chitlins, Ketchup on Steak, Food Taboos: 28:06–30:10
• Store-Bought Mac & Cheese Deception: 31:41–32:05
• What if You Hate the Food at Thanksgiving?: 33:40–34:49
• Snitching vs. Jail Time Hypotheticals: 42:51–46:44
• Celebrating Jail Releases vs. Academic Achievements: 53:01–59:03
• College vs. Trades Debate: 60:32–69:43
• Great Wall of China, Dream Travel: 81:14–84:04
• Slavery vs. Jail Outrageous Hypotheticals: 87:00–91:44

Tone & Style

• Conversational, irreverent, and joke-driven
• Candid, full of inside jokes, “family” arguments, and real barbershop-style debate
• Men and women (Barbie) perspectives, with cultural references throughout
• Centered in Indianapolis/Black midwestern culture

Summary

This Club 520 Thanksgiving episode is a riotous blend of strong food opinions, cultural commentary, and outrageous “what ifs.” From debating whether baked beans, garlic parm turkey, or chitlins belong on the table, to calling out food frauds remixing store-bought mac, nothing and no one is safe.

The cast keeps things real about generational differences—whether they’d snitch for millions, how they survived (or didn’t) family drama, and why they wish they did college differently. Riffing on family, Black culture, food, and the harsh realities of adulthood, the Club 520 crew delivers a holiday pod that’s equal parts “funny as hell” and “damn, that’s true.”

For those new to the show, it’s all family, food, and wild hypotheticals—perfect for anyone who loves honest laughs and culture around the holidays.