Do You Like It Or Not: October 28, 2026

You can join him in the Zoom room, scan that QR code, check it out, and please come back here tomorrow. We'll be on Fox 5 tomorrow no matter what because it's an off day for the World Series if Tampa wins it tonight. All right, we'll see you. Bye-bye. It's 7.30 on this Wednesday night, and that means it's time to find out if you like it or not. Thank you so much to everyone out there streaming with us here on Fox Local and Fox 5 DC's YouTube page. We appreciate you joining us tonight. Coming up, we are talking about Rolling Stone's list of the top 200, excuse me, top 200 rock songs of the 21st century. We're going to break down the top 10 and find out whether you like this list or not. Plus, the growing baby boy backlash, why some restaurants don't want you to have it your way. Then later, the breakfast cereal game changer. And my question is, what the hell took so long? So those are just some of the stories we're going to talk about over the next 30 minutes. 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We're also streaming on YouTube, like I mentioned. The comments section there open as well. and we're streaming on Fox 5 DC's TikTok page. The comment section is open there as well, so you can always join the conversation that way. We'll check it throughout the course of the show. We'll say hello to everyone in the Zoom room coming up here in just a little bit. We'll also say hello to our in-studio guest host. We're talking about the JohnCast host, Intern John. He's making his way here when he's done with the 7 o'clock show. In the meantime, though, we're going to dive right in and this one may be right up intern john's alley because we're talking music tonight and we are talking about Rolling Stone because they love they absolutely love rage baiting social media users readers their followers with these greatest lists and this new one is no exception we are talking about the 200 greatest rock songs of the 21st century so far. The magazine makes the case that rock is thriving, but it's also mutating, it's diversifying, and it is evolving. So even if this was the only topic we talked about for the next 30 minutes, we could never fit it all in. So we're going to share the top 10, and we're going to debate the top five. So strap in, ladies and gentlemen. Number 10, Wilco's Impossible Germany. That's from the year 2007. Number nine from 2005, Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor. Number eight, Jay-Z's 2003 hit, 99 Problems. Number seven, The Strokes' 2001 single, Last Night. And number six from 2020, Phoebe Bridgers' I Know the End. Coming in at number five, we've got National Anthem from Radiohead. That came right at the turn of the century in the year 2000. number four from 2021 Olivia Rodrigo's good for you just a reminder the top rock songs of the 21st century Olivia Rodrigo good for you coming in at number three from my heyday The Killers Mr Brightside that's the year 2004 i was a junior in college at that point number two Seven Nation Army from the White Stripes that came out in 2003 and you have heard it at every sporting event ever since which means coming in in the top spot the number one rock song of the 21st century so far intern john take a listen all right so that's Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs which came out in the year 2003 the article says the song has become the inspiration for other artists over the years so intern john is joining us here live congratulations on a million streams by the way thank you so much My friend, yeah, it's been a big couple months for you. So these Rolling Stone lists, I preface this by saying they love rage-baiting people. Yes, I mean, a little bit of Rico is... Okay, so that top five, how do you feel about it? Do you like it or not? I mean, as far as, like, stadium songs, I think that's kind of, like, what rock is, so I would have thought White Stripes would be number one. I mean, that's kind of... Everybody knows that... It used to be, like, the rock band test. It was on Rock Band. That was big back in the day. That's a good one. But now, like, stadium anthems, everybody knows White Stripes. Yeah, and look, this is 24 first century so from the year 2000 on so if you're thinking some of those bigger rock songs from back in the day that's why and you can check out the full list over on Rolling Stone's social media on their website but Melissa joining us live in the Zoom room on this Wednesday night Melissa this top five this top 10 Rolling Stone lists in general do you like them or not me personally i haven't heard uh well i probably heard of them but i don't know what their names are the titles of the songs but i happen to look through the list and my question is where is 50 Cent just a little bit because that's considered a rock slash country song why didn't it make the the list that's what i want to know all right so it could be on the list just not necessarily the top 10 because that was the only i only had time to kind of take a casual glance at this but you bring up a great point and that is the inclusion of some of these other you know when i first saw 99 problems on the top 10 i was a little bit surprised Amari Stone made an excellent case for why this could be should be included on it including the fact that i believe it was produced by Rick Rubin it was definitely one of the biggest names in rock production so this this really speaks to what Rolling Stone said about rock evolving you know and a lot of people make the case that rock is dead and then you know you've got Neil Young who says rock can never die the pinky ring king is in the zoom room pinky ring king do you like this list of the 200 greatest rock songs i don't like the list i'm here at 2p having this phenomenal goodbye how about you i would like to put Lynyrd Skynyrd on the number one or Free Bird as the number one all right but you are going back prior to the 21st century you got to follow the rules pinky ring king i love you i don't know but that's number one baby we're always and forever number one in pinky ring king's heart i understand i appreciate it listen allison she's a musician i know she has strong feelings about music how do you feel about this list and is there a song in your head that should have been number one well first i really don't listen to a lot of the today rock music it was more of the 90s when i listened to it and i'm like melissa i know i've probably heard some of these songs i'm not familiar with it i was also you know curious about the 99 problems because i would have never considered that in the rock genre but i would like to see like some blink 182 like i like them where are they on the list they've got to be somewhere near the top you were off by about 160 182 but yeah there's i mean look they're still going strong and i think that speaks to kind of like the 90s revival and like the punk rock revival that we're seeing right now too Angie made a good point too Rock covers a lot of bases You've got yacht rock You've got soft rock You've got what's rock Yeah you know There are so many Different types I Look I don't consider myself A music expert By any way I like what I like I like a lot of Different things I had not heard This map song I truly And even Marina Morocco Who doesn't know Anything Like you ask her About a TV show You ask her about a movie She doesn't know You ask her about music She can talk Celine Dion until your ears bleed but she was like oh you don't know this one she pulled it right up and she was like yeah Billy the yeah yeah yeah it's Maps the number one greatest rock song of the 21st century so far do you like it or not oh i don't have a problem with it you know those are some pretty good songs on the top 10 you know but i think uh 99 problems shouldn't even be in the top 10 because i don't really consider that a rock song at all would you put it on a top 10 of all music of the 21st century okay there you go yes yeah it's definitely evolving i will just say that you know keep sounding off in the comments well in defense of 99 problems if i may though like Beastie Boys were kind of rock sounding to now Run DMC when they first came out was more rock sounding collaboration with Run DMC that was one of the first big ones which is also Rick Rubin on both of those so that's i think that's kind of sign of the times yeah no question at all Next up, the baby boy backlash. GQ examined this issue recently. They say while baby boys have historically been prized, recent findings show a shift in attitudes with parents in mostly higher income countries. They now value daughters more than sons. Some say this is a result of progress. Others say in certain corners of modern parenthood, having a son has become unfashionable. You can check out the full story on GQ's website. But, John, the idea of a boy backlash, do you like – I mean, obviously, we're both sons of someone. Yes. Do you like this or not? I prefer to have a son because I know how to raise a son because I don't have sisters and didn't have many female cousins. So, for me, a boy, like I know, belt to ass is how I was raised. And with a daughter, I know I'm going to go broke because I can't – I mean, how do you say that, dude? It's so fascinating that you say that because I inherently would have thought the same thing. I secretly wanted a girl. I said I wouldn't. mind and that is the honest to God truth. But I was, I was rooting for a baby girl and I had, it has been said to me before, and I have heard other people say this, that having a daughter is closer to having no kids than it is to having a son. So basically having, having males is way harder basically is what I get. But I imagine, and I don't know if this is true and I know it's a case by case and it's a family by family basis. I imagine it's going to be easier in the beginning. I mean, boys have a lot of energy when they're young. They can be a little rough when they're young. But I imagine that's going to change for me when she hits those teenage years. And then it's going to be a hell of a lot harder. Ease me on the air 24 hours a day, doing every single show to pay for it. I coach high school boys. I've always heard that girls are easier to coach because they listen. And men don't listen at any age. We just don't. In one ear and right out the other. Allison is a mother to both sons and daughters. Allison, the idea of this baby boy backlash recently, do you like this or not? I think it's kind of crazy. They need to break it down a little bit more. I will say shopping is more difficult for baby boys. When I had sons in the 90s, I could go to Burlington and find them good dress clothes. By the time I had my son that was born in 2011, I could never find clothes. It was so difficult. I'm like, why did they stop making nice clothes for boys? But you go to the girls section, there's aisles and aisles of beautiful pants and dresses and so forth. So boys, to me, are harder to shop for. Girls, it's more difficult to deal with their personality. Once they get about 11 or 12, they turn into someone else. The moms usually have a hard time dealing with them. The dads, the dads can wrap them around the finger. It can work out really good. But I don't know. I'm on the fence with this, Chris. Okay. And I completely understand that. And I completely understand people having very conflicted feelings about this. Billy's in the Zoom room. Billy, you know, one of the things that gets talked about a lot in these sort of circles is how attitudes towards masculinity have changed, attitudes towards how to raise sons has changed, attitudes towards like the male loneliness crisis, you know, these corners of the internet that are like, you know, the toxic male this and that that it has made it more difficult to raise a son as a result so that is one of the elements playing into this baby boy backlash do you like this or not first of all shout out to my man Sean I ain't talking to him but as far as this baby boy I got all boys so I'm like my guy I'd rather raise boys than girls because girls is gonna get you can't say no to him a boy you can spank that butt go over there sit down give him the man voice and they're gonna obey but a little girl they're going to give you that sweet little innocent look daddy please and you'll be broke all right I'm getting a glimpse into my future here Melissa Melissa's in the zoom room Melissa the idea of this baby boy backlash whether it's what we talked about whether it's what Allison talked about do you like this or not the oldest um of brothers and I raised adopted um boys and I girls are very difficult they change they go their puberty stages are different um yeah no I'd rather raise boys than girls I'm sorry I raised beautiful girls but I'd rather raise boys than girls girls are much more difficult than than boys are I'm sorry yeah like I said keep the comments coming let us know what you think speaking of things that have faded in popularity over time though let's talk about guest rooms in your house if you have a house you're already a step above but many homeowners are giving that space new purpose According to a 2026 TaskRabbit Trend report, people are increasingly turning their spare rooms into personal spaces instead of keeping them for overnight guests. Requests for home gyms up 59%. Home saunas jumped 35%. Craft rooms up 33%. But, John, the biggest growth was podcast studios. Requests surging 90%. So no more guest rooms. Turning it into something that's more for yourself. Do you like this or not? I mean, my guest room is a podcast room. But I think when you're a kid, you think, like, I'm going to have company over. I'm going to have dinner parties. And you're an adult, and you're like, I don't want anybody at my house ever. Like, I make my other guest room as, like, uncomfortable as possible. So it's like if you come in, one day tops, and you want to get an actual bed. It's an inhospitable atmosphere. Yeah. But I think this is great, though. You're making your own space, a craft space, a game room, whatever you want. It's yours. You're paying for it. Might as well get used to it. Because nobody has company over as much as we thought we would. I agree with that 100%. but having lived in studio and one bedroom apartments for the majority of my adult life so far, the idea of having a space where like my family could come visit, my parents could come visit, my siblings could come visit. I have always kind of looked forward to that. Fortunately, we have a guest room and another additional room for a nursery. And my wife has her own office, you know, so we mentioned, I know Chris mansion, come on now. It's a rental. I don't know. Don't worry uh but that room sits unoccupied yeah i mean when we had a baby it got some more use because both of our parents were coming and staying with us for like longer stretches of time but we've got like a tv in there that sits unused we've got like a bedspread that has you know my cat my cat has her own room basically at this point because she knows she can go in there and escape from everyone else the spare bedroom becomes you throw the clothes out there we get my full laundry and you we don't put things away there's a dresser in a closet in there and that's where i put all of my seasonal clothes and now that we have swapped into like the fall wardrobe all of my spring shirts are in there which people may laugh at because i wear the same thing every day so it's hard to tell pinky ring king no more guest rooms do you like it i mean you're always in these vegas penthouse suites i mean i like the guest room so that that means you have to get you know your guests their own suite whenever people come visit don't stay at the crib we get you another we get you another suite and i'll stay i'll stay in the same hotel so uh i have a number one rule when i stay at my house in Vegas uh make sure you always have a guest bathroom so they they don't come into your bathroom so always have two bathrooms at least but yeah i would if you have visitors i would definitely get them a hotel suite there you feel more comfortable you don't need any more you know i 100% endorse the idea of a second bathroom because the last thing you want when you have family members visiting is everyone having to share the same bathroom that is just but on the flip side when you have two bathrooms and there's only two people in the house then you have to clean two bathrooms and that can be a major bummer as well i've seen some apartment complexes now will rent out an apartment for a day so if you have family coming in i'm like that's kind of genius like 200 bucks and the empty units are used my girlfriend's place you can rent it out for a day so family can stay in their own space own bathroom own kitchen i'm like that's kind of brilliant it's a great idea allison the idea of giving up on the guest room do you like this or not yeah i have a room it's like a multi-purpose room and i wanted to get rid of the bed and courtland was like mom what about when the grandkids come because they're probably the only ones who would spend the night here so it's like the room i'm in now this is like my podcast space i mean i can show you but it's messy i have the bed on one side i've got my nail area where i do nails on this side behind me it's my desk where i work all day so this is that room and i also have a um a treadmill it's a walking pad so that goes on the floor yeah you know when i'm trying to work i put it on um and work while i'm walking so yeah i think a multi-purpose room is a good room allison is absolutely i used to say you you know when i would stay home on a Friday night I'm just enjoying my rent for sure Allison is making the most of her mortgage over there Melissa the idea of giving up on the guest room do you like it or not absolutely not do not give up on it if I had the privilege I used to have a in-law suite in the basement um but no do not give it up and if you don't use it for guests and you don't have guests all the time use it like Allison does you know it has a multi-purpose for everything and no don't get rid of it because you never know what can happen and I'm like Allison I'm still waiting for grandkids I may probably never have none but I need space for my grand dogs okay the grand dogs exactly the fur babies out there Freddie giving up on the guest space do you like it or not happy Wednesday intern John and you can hear me okay we can hear you yeah so guest rooms let me let me turn this way so okay I'm not so I'm not I'm using my phone for this meeting so what I was gonna say is like guest room it's hard for if I live in an apartment right now so if I have like two or three rooms available I would have at least tried to get to get one of my friends to sleep in yeah like if I wouldn't have my friend to come over here like it'd be like oh hey you want to use my other room you can go ahead and use it nobody's gonna nobody's using it so I'll let them have it I would already hit the nail on the head but for so many people the idea of even having an extra room is a pipe dream because we're all living in these shared spaces now all right we're going to take a quick break when we come back we are going to talk about the game changer in the breakfast cereal space and I still wonder why it took so long come back to do you like it or not on this Wednesday night alongside intern John if you don't know intern John also in the restaurant industry yes high social over in Clarendon yes indeed right so that's what we're going to talk about next. And so much for having it your own way, to borrow a phrase from the 1980s. Some restaurants are saying enough is enough when it comes to food and menu substitutions. A Thai restaurant in Phoenix recently reminded customers that it will not change traditional recipes just to make their dishes, quote, more familiar. Some chefs say too many special requests can slow down the kitchen and completely change the flavors they work to create. Now, they're not talking about food allergies or dietary restrictions, but etiquette experts say there's a difference between asking someone to leave a tomato off of a sandwich versus basically creating your own dish. So John, in a restaurant setting, when paying for a meal, should you get to make it a customizable thing or should you pretty much just order off menu? I think order off the menu, unless again, dietary or something like that. But if it's just like my mom makes it this way, this is not the spot for it. Don't go out to dinner. Yeah. And it does slow down the kitchen. everything else too is i think yeah especially restaurants like they want things done a certain way so all the reviews are the same so why would you throw a wrench in that plan and if it's busy especially that's the worst that's the worst when it's busy or if you're at the table and like your friends ordering stuff like please god don't don't ask for anything special just get the pizza a lot of people obviously you know dietary restrictions there are whole menus dedicated to like the GLP-1 and people want things without this or they want it without that they're going without bread they're going without so it can get extremely complicated and i imagine insanely frustrating i'm not sorry i'm not a food server anymore it is one it is one of the most fun experiences i ever had working in the hospitality and restaurant industry but it's also the most i i would still wake up and have like nightmares about it decades after i stopped pinky rain king asking for it your way is it too much you never you never ask to change anything on the menu when i go out say for example i'm here at 2B i ask the chef i ask the creator to make me whatever their heart desires because i don't ask a surgeon i don't i don't tell a surgeon what to do i'm not going to tell a chef what to do i'm not going to tell a creator what to create i'm not going to fix anything on the menu it's not my job baby i'm here to enjoy and spend money baby i love that approach and that attitude they have worked hard to create something for you to enjoy i want to experience it the way that you made it i you know i'm I've joked before, I'm a huge fan of hot sauce, I have like three bottles under my desk right now. Rarely when I go out, do I even like ask for anything extra? Like, I want to enjoy it the way that they made it. Melissa, oh no, Allison, the idea of asking for it, this, that, the other customizable... Do you like it or not? Yeah, I agree with the pinky ring king on this. It's like the chefs, this is their craft this is what they do. It's offensive to ask them to do something else and again, it would take longer if you got a whole group of chefs back there, more like boom boom boom, here we go, here's your meal but we have to stop for Mr. Entitlement who wants this on this and add this and make it cute. You're slowing up process just because you're feeling entitled today. So I do not like it. Cook it and eat it the way it's made to be eaten. I have I've been out to eat with people who were like that before, and I suffer from extreme secondhand embarrassment. I'd rather walk away. I just, I end up tipping entirely too much, almost as like an apology for them. But what's worse, that person or the group that splits it 20 ways, and it's like, I didn't have a side Caesar salad. It's $3, Karen. I have gone broke paying the entire tab rather than ever coming close to having to deal with that sort of situation. No, thank you. Say goodbye to stale Cheerios. I'm not sure if that's what Melissa is eating out of that bowl right now, but if she is, this is the best news ever. The makers of the breakfast cereal have teamed up with Ziploc for the first ever resealable cereal bag. The new packaging will feature that resealable bag inside the traditional box, helping preserve its freshness. This is in response to literally hundreds of thousands of consumer requests, comments, and reactions received annually about cereal resealability, the new collab is now available exclusively at Walmart on their website but John do you like this or not and why do you think it took so long to do this i didn't realize this is a big thing because i usually eat my cereal right away so i didn't but are you like a one box at a time and when you finish that box yeah yeah i've been doing like the protein cereal recently which is like that's like nine dollars a box so i make sure to use it all but i know 100,000 complaints is crazy i want chips to don't break and dip like that's my big thing yeah it's like please because i want to reach in the jar myself and then here's the deal though and i will say this i have gotten to the point before where i've like gone to tear open the inside bag and again you know i don't know my own strength but like you tear it and it just entirely down and then it's like split all the way down and they're all falling out they're all exactly so like i i do question why it took someone so long to come up with the idea like even like you know your processed cheese that you buy has like a ziploc seal on it so why couldn't i can't but all right so apparently it's fruity pebbles not cheerios but if those fruity pebbles had a resealable bag on the inside would that make the experience more pleasurable for you no no because these things have uh preservatives and additives that help preserve the shelf life um it wouldn't make it any easier i'm the type of person that i don't really eat cereal like that but i kind of got the munchies right now and um yeah it wouldn't make no difference to me because you can take something to cover you know uh close or seal the bag i I usually take a ponytail holder to close the bag if I break it. But, yeah, no, it wouldn't make any difference to me because of all the ingredients that it has in there. And I'm not a sponsor, and I don't agree with a lot of the ingredients that are going on in here. I only eat it once in a while. So I can't afford, you know, a $9 box of cereal like John does. It's every once in a while. I neglected to do my due diligence, and I should have looked up how much these Cheerios cost on Walmart.com compared to a regular box of Cheerios. to see if they're trying to offset the cost of production and passing it along to you, the consumer. I hope not. I love that little honeybee, and I do love my Honey Nut Cheerios. But here's the deal, though. I will say they're more of like a snack to me than an actual breakfast, which is why a box in my house generally does last a little longer than the average because I'm not having it. Add more milk. You'll be fine. Yeah, I agree with that as well. If it gets stale, exactly. Just soften it up. Leave it in the milk. Pinky Ring King, adding the Ziploc seal. Do you like this or not? I mean, for everybody that's not a certified eater, that's great. you could reuse it many times but i'm a certified eater i'm always eating more and uh maybe it just takes me and shorty one time and we're done with the box so for me i wouldn't even need to reseal because everything's gone baby big boy season that's right protein cereal there it is the goal is swole thank you to everybody who joined us in the zoom room tonight thank you to everybody watching on fox local streaming with us here on Fox Five DC's youtube page thank you intern john if people want to follow you for more if they want to listen to the John Cast how do they do it Follow me, Intern John Ray, on everything. John Cast every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, every recent podcast. Search right there. All right, Fox 5 News at 8.