Like It Or Not: October 13, 2026

Welcome into the show. We're live here on a Tuesday night, like it or not. So wait, I'm going to peel the curtain back a little bit. All the prompter says, says the hell with you guys. It's just the marina's here. Let's fire it up. You know, I'm not going to say anything. Did you take them out? No! She wrote that. Wow. I probably didn't even look at the show. And if you've watched this show over the last couple of weeks, I need to know who's on the show, even if they're sitting next to me, because I will get the names completely wrong sometimes. Wait, he called me Angie the other night. That's awesome. You should be flattered. I mean, Tisha was really excited to see an empty chair. She goes, oh, do you have a fourth chair? I think she was offering to do the show. Yeah, and she's in a sweater dress. Nobody will know. Sweater, sweater, sweater. Yeah, well. Oh, let me introduce everybody. Angie is here. Is this chartreuse? What can we call this color here? That's chartreuse. Yeah, or barf yellow. It's not my color. I know that. It looks good. Tony P is back here. I feel so welcome tonight. Beautiful. I just feel so good. I'm glad you do. You know, I feel just the warm embrace. Well, it says Marina is here. People can't see that. In her dominatrix. Yeah, baby. I know. Fire it up. Where's your whip? We have the whip sound in the system. I know. We're asking for too much. I need her to take the mask off before she puts it on her chest. I just spit. Let's fire it up. I just spit. Is that what that was in my mouth? You spit again? God. Hey, ever catch yourself staring at someone attractive? You are right now. Science says men and women might be doing it for different reasons. A study published in Evolution and Human Behavior tracked the eye movements of people as they looked at photos of attractive and less attractive men and women. Researchers found women spent more time looking at faces of both genders, regardless of their sexual orientation, but men only stared at the gender they're attracted to. Being in a committed relationship didn't change the pattern either. Researchers say women might be drawn to beauty for different reasons, including evaluating potential partners or comparing themselves to others. So, Angie, do you take a second look at beautiful women? Oh my gosh I stare especially if I can't creepily take a photo of them um and that's not in a bad way i and for me it's not like you're gawking oftentimes if i see something i like like i want it on me i'm just taking wait you're talking about clothing or no no well it could be clothing it could be that's what she does you know you know how she a body feature you know not all fun bags are created equal i mean if they have something good i want to have a reference photo to take my plastic surgeon eventually and so there are times yes i will be sitting there and staring away so i can remember every detail so i can hopefully recreate it one day okay when i have enough time to take off like a month in tv i won't be here you guys won't see it unfortunately hey follow me on ig what do you think tony you know why can't people just wave and say hi when you see people out there just be nice and be kind i mean sometimes you know gawking can be a little creepy so you know what just let's not invade people's privacy private space okay just say hi wave be nice i know people actually have their phones and taking me in a restaurant and i went over to the person today i'm not that unapproachable come up and say hi to me all right i don't really think that's a good thing they're going to their plastic surgeon and saying i need this face i mean look i mean there's a lot of imperfections here you're not gonna get much reference from me by the way let's just talk about that humble brag that tony dropped here for a second right the People were admiring you at a restaurant. I don't know if they were admiring me. I think they might have been laughing at me, ironically. But you know what? It's okay. You know what? I still made my point. It's like I'm eating dinner, okay? I'm not like, it's not National Geographic. Yeah. Okay. Wow. That took a turn. Let's go to Deja in the control room. Yeah, no, I feel like I do do this. If there's like a pretty woman, I'm like, oh, my God. It's like, oh, she probably thinks I'm like talking like stuff about her. I'm like, no, I think she's so pretty. sometimes other times me and my friends we like look look at her butt like ---- like it looks good like she looks good or i feel like one thing is women that we will do most of the time is like tell her like okay dress or like i love your shoes and stuff like that but i feel like men don't do that they're like i'm not going to tell him that so they'll just kind of see it but like i don't know I think that's weird men are mostly aloof when it comes to that stuff like I also think that women usually you can I don't know what do you think deja we usually dress for other women And men think we dress for them. No one cares what you have to say. If a straight man says something to me, I'm like, eh, whatever. But a woman says something to me, I'm like, okay, I look good. I know. You did something right. They're looking at you. Yes. Men don't notice anything. No. They just notice the primal stuff. There you go. By the way, you're talking about men not complimenting other people on their clothing. How many times have you walked into the newsroom and me and our executive producer, Jack, are talking about our Allbirds? Like, that's our conversation. We bond over Allbirds shoes. Overpriced wool shoes. I like nice suits. I'll tell guys when I see them, hey, that's a really nice suit. I like the color coordination there. I think that's a good thing. You always have a good suit on. Did you get a haircut? I did. Very nice. Thank you. Got it yesterday, but thanks for noticing yesterday. You combed it better. Okay, let me just say, I'm glad you said it because here's the thing. My barber, I have a new barber. She's great, but she cut my hair and she cut it the other way. It is an opposite. Yeah, the part's a little different. So you're welcome. We'll see. Thank you. I appreciate that. Critical eye. Women have critical eye. Men. Speaking of staring at attractive women, Shane Gillis says you can't do it no matter what they're wearing. The comments, once again, wrapping up in controversy over the week on an SNL. He used a derogatory word to describe women who wear shorts at the gym. It begins with a W and ends with ors. Actor Dan Levy was quick to push back, saying calling them that makes men misogynistic and and wondering why the joke would be allowed on TV. Former SNL cast member Ego Nwodum also weighed in, Baltimore native, by the way, posting a picture of her at the gym saying, reporting for duty, again, using that word that begins with a W. So, Marina, is this comedy or crossing a line? I mean, I've seen some of the monologue, and nothing to me is like, oh, my God. And I know it's getting like, I think because of his political line, a lot of people are just like not in vogue with that. To me, you know, comedy crosses lines, and we've heard a lot of people cross those lines. Dave Chappelle does it all the time. I, you know, I don't really know a lot of Shane Gillis material, so I couldn't really comment on it. But nothing he said really was like, oh, my God, I can't talk about this. This is so bad. It's comedy. It made me laugh. You are a Shane Gillis fan on the panel here. I would leave my husband for Shane Gillis. He knows it already. Yeah, I would. I'm kidding. I really wouldn't. But I do love Shane Gillis. And honestly, I would dress like a whatever that ends with a four. You know, if you could be in my TikTok, too. It was funny. Listen, SNL, they are probably loving this. They're loving that the controversy is bringing attention to them. And so there's I don't know. To me, like this is people getting upset over nothing. I saw the thing. I didn't think it was anything offensive. Honestly, you know, people do dress a little crazy in the gym these days. Right. And I'm talking about you men, too. Yeah. Put a shirt on it. That's exactly right. I think a lot of men dress horribly. And look, I mean, Shane Gillis has supported my work and I support his comedy. but he made a misogynistic joke. Humblebrag. No, no, he had it on the take it too once. And so this is no hate towards him. I'm grateful for the support, but he made a misogynistic joke. That word should not be used ever in any context, okay? He didn't call someone a... He's talking about women who dress at the gym. I'm sorry, I'm not somebody that thinks that's a good joke. It wasn't funny, okay? It actually bombed at the Comedy Cellar the night before, and he still went with it. It was a bad joke. He's got 300 jokes better than that. It contributes to the culture that we're seeing at Cornell. I'm sorry. It does. What? Are you insane? It does. What's interesting? Sorry. One thing is rape, and another thing is— No, but I'm— No, you have to be careful when you talk about those things. I think he did. No, you've got to be careful with that. That's a big line. When I watched that, I was a little uncomfortable with just using that term. Okay. yeah yeah yeah it's a horrible word for it like if you are a Shane Gillis fan you know i've seen him live i listen to the podcast i mean this guy actually never even got to do an episode before he was already fired from SNL they know what they're doing with him because yeah because he was making asian jokes and he's a comedian and you know what he's kind of like he makes fun of everyone and anything and so for me uh and i think that people who are fans of this kind of comedy it's not a surprise and i honestly think that comedy a lot of times these days play it too safe you know i thought cancel culture was over things are more fun now well i think i wouldn't say they're more fun now but let's uh let's move on here is your leftover dinner actually better the next day or is it all in your head food experts say spices and aromatics by the way i i'm gonna point this out on the air these lights keep going out over here i'm just gonna point it out now because it's happened the last couple of days and it's driving me nuts food experts say spices and Aromatics can mellow out overnight, making some dishes taste more balanced. And if you've been cooking and tasting the same meal for hours, taking a break can help you appreciate it more the next day. But not every dish gets better. Reheated meat can develop what's called warmed-over flavor, a stale cardboard-like taste. React, there it is. Reacted, caused by fats reacted with oxygen. Tony, leftovers, like them or not? Oh, absolutely. Anything Italian-related, it always tastes better. Okay, the sauce the next day, when you go to my house for the holidays, you always get it the second day. Even five or six hours after, it tastes a lot better. I think that's why it works. Also, Japanese food, when I go to the hibachi, the ginger sauce always just sets in a little better that next day. So I think it's totally great. They should do a restaurant concept with only leftover food. It's called Panera. No, I'm just kidding. I like Panera. That's frozen food. It's a different kind. Oh, come on. No, I think in that regard, Tisha said earlier, I will make a whole lasagna for myself and knowing that it's going to be good for the next, you know, couple of days. And better every time. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, I mean, listen, when you're a kid, you hate leftovers. And I don't know if it's because our taste buds get worse as we get older, but there's something about a leftover that just hits differently, like Thanksgiving the next day or the week after. I mean, whatever the case may be. But these things just sit and marinate in their flavors way better. Not everything. Rice, you've got to be careful. If you don't know how to make it again in the microwave with ice cube, then it can be like that crunchy stuff. Yeah. It's a rice cube. my only exception that's a funny joke a rice cube see we and we all laugh okay Tim Gillis I've got to implement that into my my asian culture i've got to find a use for rice cube i like that uh anyways uh since we're offending everybody you cannot cook rice oh i know yes i can't have my own rice cooker i do yeah i know how to wash rice that was what you know other people their chores is to you know make your bed i had to make the rice every morning I'm sorry. I know this is great. We got to move on. Stop. That's a small question. Leftovers. 90 percent of you like it. Ten percent of you don't. I'm just told we're up against the break here. South Korean over here. Welcome back. Your iPhone is getting more personal. An Australian woman says her iPhone interrupted a FaceTime call with her boyfriend after she flashed him during his lunch break. the woman says a message popped up on her boyfriend's screen asking if he wanted to stay on the call because it may have shown nudity the call paused giving him the option to end it or continue she says the speed of the detection left her questioning her privacy she later discovered it was apple's sensitive content warning feature it's designed to flag potentially nude images or content and give users a choice about whether to view it but angie is this blurring the line between protecting users and making them feel like you're being watched yeah i mean i think if you didn't know what it was and realize that it's more like a filter rather than like a camera that's recording any information you would probably think that but i actually know about this feature and i love it because i have it on all you know i use it every day no i'm kidding but no my um my kids i control their devices and it's like a full-time job and one of the things is that and it's the sensitive the sensitive content feature and it's on all of my kids devices and i control it and i to me it gives me an extra sense of security and you don't have to use it on your phone um i don't know but i can see where someone who didn't know about it would be freaked out by it thinking that their phone's watching them obviously ai powered it's under your if you have an iphone it's under your privacy and safety function in there but you can do this and you can set it up where to your to your point about for your kids you know if you get like a i guess there'll be like a a screen that you can still see it but it'll put up like a warning filter right and it'll ask you questions like do you want to you know continue watching this or whatever yeah well instagram does it too it's like you have sensitive content you kind of press view it or not it'll give you the reason why i think now with the ai images we saw with with xai and musk i think we need to have protection especially for kids on there so i think maybe you could adjust it based on your own preferences things of that nature with relationships you want to you know of course not have that type of like tracking but overall i think for for privacy it's important actually now with the ai images that we're seeing violence too yeah exactly i mean Sadly, it's a must for all the reasons that we just talked about, especially for the kids. I do think that, like, with artificial intelligence, though, you have to give up this thought that you have any privacy if you have a device like that. Like, even your remote control that you're using to watch us, that thing's listening to you, and it's, like, picking out preferences on your television. So the thought that, like, anything is anonymous, even inside your own home, good luck. All right. If you're walking around D.C. or any surrounding cities, you've definitely seen a rat or two or three. It turns out there's more of them here than you think. Pest control company Orkin ranks the district the fifth raddiest city in America, with Los Angeles taking the top spot. Chicago is number two, New York's third, San Francisco's fourth. Baltimore, number ten on the list. You're slipping, Baltimore. The rodents are why many try to stay away from big cities. Tony, I've got to tell you, I sold that for a second. I know that D.C. has a rat problem. Boston's is pretty bad, too. Oh, it's awful. Any major city, the problem is you have a lot of the leftover foods and like a lot of these garbage bins are not they're plastic they're eaten through things of that nature things aren't always sanitary on the streets for example this is a major issue i think they should hire a rat czar down here in dc like they did up in new york don't hire mckinsey to figure it out just get the people together to make this work because it is unsanitary it hurts businesses it's also kind of just weird looking they're large these are like these are monster rats so we don't want especially like the train station watch them climb up around the garbage bins it's not fun yeah that's one of the things if you walk by any garbage can in DC they're at night they're always just rattling underneath there well the problem is too alleys right i think cities that don't have alleys have a better way of abating them because you create like this environment where they thrive and they exist and no one really sees them or looking to abate them which is what happens when you don't have alleys nobody wants to be around them so it's hard it's hard when you have small businesses especially restaurants and then you've got places like New York City up until a couple years ago these people didn't even have trash cans they were just putting like trash bags outside. What do you think these rats are going to do? They're like superhuman. They're three times the size of this table. They're getting it into all the garbage bags and they're eating, you know, your three Michelin star dinner that you didn't like. They're actually capybaras. Right. They're so cute. They're trending now. I just think we're like the top five guys for something. I mean, that's kind of cool. Hey, worst drivers. Number two. Yeah. And, um, and listen, I want to take another view at this. Like it could be considered to flex because what do rats do they follow people you know they follow growth populations they follow places that have a lot of restaurants and places to eat i mean there are small towns in the usa that are probably wishing they had a rat problem uh because they can draw people like toledo for instance you know the rats there probably just read the menu and then they just keep trucking the good people of ohio what have they done to you go up to cleveland they go to cleveland um yeah so i just part of me is like when you see a rat problem at least you know that people want to live in this city are you sponsored by the rat association of america okay we're over time go go figure not in this show we talk a lot about ai especially when it comes to kids but one dad's joke is opening up a new conversation about its use in parenting the new dad's a software engineer at a san francisco ai research laboratory he posted a conversation with his wife asking can you read our baby a book he says he could just play an audio book but his wife notes it won't be in his voice the man says he can train a voice model many people didn't find it funny they started calling him a bad dad he took the post out and said he would just stick to reading to his kid himself for now but marina is this a real thing that will happen i mean it could be worse like your child's not getting read to at all by anybody by the bot or by yourself so yeah i mean listen i don't like the fact that the dad was trying to get out of like reading duties but i also think like it could be worse like i said the kids not getting any books i don't know it's not that bad i also think that he posted it like sort of in jest like people take these things so literally so seriously the fact that he had to take it down give the man a break there was there was somebody went viral a while back where he had said uh here's an idea for your ride to school use chat gpt to create a podcast put your all your kids schedules into it give him give him a couple songs and make a podcast where it'll it'll play in the car saying this is what's happening in the family today and somebody goes why don't you just talk to each other yeah that's the problem and the kids are staring at the ipads in the restaurants they're not being read to like my greatest memories of my dad is that he read to me dumpy the dump truck when i was like three and four years old the picture books we read together and his voice helped me memorize those things i think you have to read we can't this human connection stuff we have to do more in real life stuff so i don't like the content i do think it was in jess's when their net culture is wrong okay they should have shamed him for this but that's let's make sure it's a joke that's not serious here i mean i got the woman who had a cardboard cut out of herself and she put it in there to replace it so that her baby thought she was in the room was brilliant i like this idea come on half the people that are like about this probably aren't even parents and that's what ends up happening when somebody posts something like this the reality is sometimes you're tired sometimes you just don't have time and if you have this option an infant they don't know plot lines okay they just want to hear your voice this can be a substitute not a replacement but a substitute you don't need me to go in that hard on this guy he should put it back up all right dolls they're not just for kids anymore we'll talk about the adults spending thousands on them coming up next all right welcome back how old is too old to play with dolls for some american girl fans the answer is never diane mcmillan's a 45 year old mom in massachusetts she has more than 80 american girl dolls and says she spent over ten thousand dollars starting an etsy business making custom doll clothes after she couldn't find some of the original outfits from her childhood and yes, even men are getting in on the action. One guy in Chicago says he spent more than five thousand dollars on accessories and dolls for his family he says his family sometimes choose dolls over vacations. Marina, I'm sure you have nothing to say about this. I'm with her. You like this, you're spending a lot of money but you've turned it into a business, which is like, all right, we can make it work. I do think it's crazy if you're going, you're spending thousands of dollars on it if you're like a normal person, right? Like if you got a lot of money whatever, but then you've got like a room of just like dolls at your old age, like I don't know, it is the first time ever in a long time the toys are being sold mainly to people without children to adults, like more than half, 55% that's do we not think that's odd? How much time have you spent in the American Girl stores? Oh, a lot but this thing, I'm a doll collector and I go back hard. I mean, you collect everything but listen, I mean, I didn't even send them to Asia but pictures of me surrounded by all my creepy porcelain dolls and I remember I bought a Shirley Temple doll at a Goodwill recently and I posted it, and this was a couple years ago, and people were frightened, they were like that is the scariest thing I've ever seen. I think they're beautiful. This is the thing, for this woman this is a hobby, I don't see how this is any different than someone who collects you know VHS's or um Kevin McCarthy or like um you know vintage toys or has a hobby that is even more expensive in some cases like golfing like Tony P yes or horseback riding so people collect stamps i that's still i'm still like stamps you know so at least you can dress these up and have fun uh i have no problem with it you know what's interesting to me too is just how uh baseball cards once again i mean they were always making money off of these things if they're graded and they're good yeah they've always been a thing but you know they they've become big bucks not just not just how what they're selling for but what you're buying them for the buy-in to yeah start a baseball card collection these days it's just yeah what that could matter you know it was like 50 cents for a pack of baseball cards and now you know 20 bucks no i love it i love when people are passionate about something and they're eccentric about it It's great. So I'm all for it. Dive in. I have stuffed animals. Oh, well, I wish we had more time to deal with that. Well, you could have left it at that, Tony, but we're going to ask you what you think about leftovers. Kill the break. 85% of you like leftovers tasting better. 15% of you don't. Vote and come back after the break. My allergies. We only have 35 seconds left, so we still can't delve into Tony's collection, but we can delve into our.