Like It Or Not: October 22, 2026

Okay, always prepared. Welcome to Like It or Not. We're live here from Markov's Haunted Forest in Dickerson, Maryland on this Thursday. Just see me. It might be preferable, but we're here live alongside Chad Ricardo, Marina Morocco, and Angie. And I know if you were home taking bets and wondering who was going to wear a costume tonight, you're right. It's Marina. Okay, I'm going to explain what you're wearing here. ugly and you guys left me hanging so i thought we never agreed to dress up i made the decision for you i got no appropriate costumes okay good let's start with chad you're always the best dressed you remind me sir oh yeah you got a chip on my shoulder chip on your shoulder come on now no deja is uh is just looking at her that's lovely throw it out the rundown as we go hey guys she's taking halloween parties to a whole new level her spooky dinner on her instagram story celebrities are just like us the menu included pasta with teeth and eyeballs soup with floating eyeballs and platters of bloody jaws even the place settings were covered in fake blood with plates reading no one leaves and the scares didn't stop at dinner duff shared a photo of a zombie grabbing her face sending her into a full-on scream chad a spooky dinner party like it or not not at all Jim Lokey not at all not for me whatsoever i think that that is just a waste of a ton of good resources out there and you're going way too far you want a good dinner party you need food you need drinks people you don't need all the rest of that get out of here yeah yeah i mean look at it that's right why don't you lean into it too mexican thank you so she can wear that a little later i think that halloween is one of the times that you can just let loose and go crazy with a theme i personally don't want to eat anything that looks like it's it's a part of crime scene but i love it for them okay do you want my chili no i'm okay thank you thank you very much okay uh let's move on to a recent post on reddit trunk or treats have ruined the fun of trick-or-treat is that true or not the poster says they enjoy giving out candy halloween but as soon as the trunk or treat started gaining popularity the number of kids dropping by their home has dropped by about half they go on to say if you live in a rural area it makes sense to trunk or treats but if you're in the suburbs of a small city nothing beats the thrill of knocking on a stranger's house for candy others say trunk or treating cuts down on community connection uh and it's usually during the weeks before halloween diminishing the actual holiday people who like it say it's safe and convenient or treating like it or not abolish trunk or treat let's get rid of it no i mean it's fair i understand why people like it and want to come to a parking lot and it makes it easy it is certainly safer but it does i mean nobody's trick-or-treating anymore it's all a bunch of lies like bring back trick-or-treating wow let's get to it i think a lot of it is this this this era in which you're in like are you comfortable letting total strangers into your house and vice versa if you're a parent do you want your kids going up to a total stranger's house absolutely i think that's part of it it's like going to the spooky house i like it when the lights are off and you don't know what you're gonna get um to me i think that that's your classic trick-or-treating experience but a A trunk-or-treat serves a purpose. There's some years where you're just too darn tired and you want to put it on autopilot. You've got easy mode Halloween with a trunk-or-treat. So if it's an option and you're short on time, you're short on money or where to go, it's a great opportunity. It's a great alternative. My question is why is it an either-or type of thing? Can't we do both? I'm cool with tired Angela going out with the kids. She's like, I'm not going trick-or-treating anymore. I got you. I can't do this, y'all. I need to go. My time is up, y'all. Okay, guys, guys, trunk-or-treating, if you, okay, trunk-or-treating or trick-or-treating, if you like trunk-or-treating, let me hear it. Trick-or-treating. Yeah, exactly. What a smoke. About trunk-or-treating over trick-or-treating. Do you like it or not? Go to slash lion or scan the QR code to vote, and we'll check those results later on in the show if we all make it back alive. Chris and Marilyn along with the lion, the pimp, and the pepper coming this fall. On the show, we want to start with costumes here and talk about an annual costume trend report. some of the biggest sellers this year include characters from k-pop demon hunters toy story and the romance series off campus i wow are you are you familiar at all with that i have no idea what you just said okay romance thanks for paying attention superheroes like spider-man and the power rangers are still popular along with video game favorites from fortnite and halo and if you want something a little more dramatic and who doesn't greek gods dragon riders and classic horror villains are also trending so chad yeah what's the costume in your household here this year And Jim, okay, I've never heard of off-campus. I know you guys, you've heard of off-campus? Love off-campus. Personally, we are a Pokemon household. We are going as the Squirtle Squad this year. Pokemon down a giant squirtle. Let's do it. What is it? You don't want to know. It's like a turtle. You don't want to know. You don't want to know. A turtle Squirtle. It's a Pokemon turtle. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. You can see what I just saw. HR is here, too. Has become Comic-Con with candy. I feel like... That's a really good point. when i look at comic-con because i've always wanted to go to comic-con but i feel like it's always replicated it's like what you you know the big movie of the summer what you see in july that's hot you know you're going to see a ton of about time i'm done with the sexy nurses are you are they see chad is the question i have well i have a wife who's watching at home right now so i'm not going to answer but when i was in college 10 years i love the sexy you can never have enough sexy nurse looks sexy but some okay good point good point good point the visuals of you looking at the camera going with the cigar i love the sexy nurses i'm anti now yeah uh what what are we dressing up as for halloween back here i was a cowboy player the person will look at you you know i did her about my mitzvah and it makes sense okay it's on candy now as you stock up on your candy to pass out or eat yourself we have some of the popular candies this year taking the number one spot in America including in Virginia, M&M's topping that, Sour Patch Kids. Do we like Sour Patch Kids? Number three, number four, Reese's Cups. Yeah, five Nerds Gummy Clusters. Yes. Number six, Hot Tamales. Absolutely not. Number seven, Starburst. No. Number eight, Candy Corn. No. No. Oh, stop it. Terrible. Number nine, Hershey's Minis. Number ten, Butterfingers. So, Marina, what's your favorite? Where's Twix? Where's Kit Kat? What state that is, but it's all the way. You can see that, boy. That's pretty. That's North Dakota, I believe. Okay. Got you. Well, that's not the land of Kristi Noem. That would be the south, but close enough. Correct. Okay. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Well, what's your favorite candy? Well, I did read this story because I wanted to see because I always get such crap for liking the bit of honey. That doesn't even exist anymore. Yeah, it does. You know what I love, though? Guess number one candy in Montana was? Wow. Hi-Chew. And if that ain't the most Asian thing you heard for a terrible start. What are Hi-Chews? Hi-Chews are amazing. They originated in Japan. They're big in Japan, big in Korea. Now they've made their way over here into mainstream. Montana, nothing more Americana than that. Hi-Chew move up in the ranking so i don't know that's that's the only thing i took away from that story wow great represent i jim i looked at this and i was i was very surprised that candy corn although a staple that it made it all the way in the top 10 candy corn is an absolutely horrible candy and anybody that likes it should be ashamed of themselves well shame me chad ricardo number one but i i enjoy i this uh you're a Reese's guy one of our colleagues I left out candy corn in the newsroom yesterday. Really? I ate six pieces of candy corn, and people look like I just ate a baby. Oh, God. Here we go again. What in the world is happening now? Oh, look. It's the ghost of Christie Gnomes dog Cricket. Almond Joys. I mean, those are all good. Okay, let's not judge here. No, we're judging. What's wrong with chocolate and coconut? Anything with chocolate is a win. You like Almond Joy? I like it better than the rest of those candies that are out there. That's the thing. I like Three Musketeers. And the Mounds are good, too. That's just a filler. What's your favorite candy back there? I like the wing. Oh, you like Three Musketeers? Oh, God, we have to shame that. There you go. By the way, all these kids have mouths full of cotton candy, but they're able to look in there. $100,000 is good, too. You guys are not... They're so cute. Parents, too. All right. Turtles? Okay, you're fancy. Now, if we're talking Turtles... Turtles are fancy? Turtles are... A little chocolate and caramel. A little Ferrero. Chocolate and caramel. Yeah. Shall we move on? Yeah. Okay. you've probably been diving into your favorite Halloween movies lately if you need up the scare level there's a new study that may help you pick up the scariest Halloween movies of them all researchers with the science of Scare project strapped heart rate monitors to people while they watch popular horror movies out of 250 different English language horror films researchers compiled a list of the top 50 scariest based on physical reactions taking the top spot is Sinister Heart rate spiked to 131 beats a minute while watching that one. Skinamarink, Host, Insidious, and The Conjuring were also in the top five. I feel like these are not scary movies. These are movies designed to scare the hell out of you. Wow. Yeah, I don't watch them. I mean, Harry Potter scares me. Halloween, Blood seeping through the bottom door, I'm like, I don't need the book. Everybody sees you. Somebody had to say, I'm watching this replay on Fox Local. I haven't seen any of these. I haven't seen a scary movie in a long time. It's still Friday the 13th for me, it's still a Nightmare on Elm Street and it's a great one it is the original one, yeah, the original one that's a clown one, I've not seen that one either but remember when that movie so much, yeah because they tried to tell you that this is, sure, sure well when I saw the Blair Witch Project, we still, I sat in the front row of a movie theater to see it, see, it was just so jerky so like you're just sitting up there like this, I was told that they're making a Blair Witch 2 which I said makes no sense because if you know that it's not real, there's nothing good about it The jig is up Yeah. Yeah. Nothing now Our lives every day, trying to avoid danger and cardiac arrest and then you're going to go and put yourself in a position in the line of fire for something like this Like, it didn't make much sense to me I'm a woman of data That data does not add up. She doesn't know either. That's the beauty of it Yes, Angie If you follow what Angie just said, tag us on social media. I'm talking about going to scale me. That's right. Chad, we're going to send you out in the crowd We come back here on the show Some people love scary. Some people love being scared. Those people are not Marina. We're back after this Oh, hey, we're back here unlike it or not, live from Marc Cross on the Force Got a lot of people showing up here tonight saying hello, stopping by here at our Fox 5 booth as we hang out and enjoy Halloween, enjoy the season. It's not as cold as it was last year. Mark House is always so great. Yep Village, starting in mid-November. See, you're breaking some news here. I didn't know that. Well, breaking news. That's what we do at Fox 5. Yeah. Where'd Chad go? What? Uh-huh. You might be wondering where Chad went. We'll get to him in a moment. First, we're going to talk about... There he is. So, Chad, here's the thing. Psychiatrists say when you're scared, the heart pounding makes you feel alive, awake, and focused. So, we want to see what people think. Do they like being scared, like it or not? What you got, Chad? And we are now here with our fans, with the people. Guys, are you enjoying Marcos? We're talking about the desire to be scared, which is why we all came out here today. We like to be scared. I got to tell you, you are a man of the people as well, like myself. What brought you here? What leads you to want to be afraid? You know, I never wanted to be afraid when I was a kid, and it's a lot more exciting now as an adult. And, you know, my wife and kids, they love it. So we're out here having fun. and uh yeah really excited the atmosphere is great we're actually not even doing the path but you know like it's so much fun to do that too when we got just adults here all right so so there we go we're getting a little fun that's afraid here and to you ladies that scary man just walked by as well what brings you all here why do you like to be afraid in here at Markoff um i like the feeling of being scared like it gives me it makes you feel happy makes you feel happy it doesn't make me feel what about you it's fun it's fun it's fun you all enjoy it i tell you what there we are we are hearing from the people here they love to be afraid it's fun it makes them feel good and my dear friend Jason brings his entire family out here to all fill in the screams and the scares and that's all that's going down here at Markoff so one more time guys, wave to the camera, wave to the camera guys, it's absolutely phenomenal Jim, I'm gonna throw it back to you, they're all having a good time out there, look at them enjoy, what are you a fairy, uh, what else we have dressed up out there, some people wearing their costumes, Chad we got a chip on his shoulder, yeah, do you like, do you I mean obviously we know the answer from Marina do you like being scared? absolutely not, I mean that was the whole point, I was trying to make before we're discussing like all these different scary movies, yeah, I don't understand, I really do not understand how they break the box office when we come back we'll take one more look at our poll question we actually think about trick-or-treating over trick-or-treating fox5dc.com slash line come back please fresh on campus it's the bird man jr money too long teach put away the grueless things here mark osama for us for our second live lion on scene yeah look at the app though he put in the work, we have to think about trick-or-treating over trick or treating, 38 percent of you like it, told you 62 percent of you don't, yeah, I mean again this was such a COVID, I feel like this is such a COVID relic that sticks around, oh you make a good point, yeah I mean it works, yeah, but you can't have one without the other, like you need the trick-or-treating yeah, trick-or-treating is fun, going from house to house that's a fun time the thing is again it just goes back to knowing your neighbors because i grew up in a neighborhood where like I knew everybody, so it wasn't really that strange to go to other people's houses. Yeah, you knew where the big candy bars were. Well, there was that, too. There was usually that, too. And more importantly, you knew where the crappy candy was. Yeah, the razors. The pennies. The toothbrushes. Oh, yeah, there were those.