Do You Like It Or Not: October 29, 2026

Are you on the air tomorrow? I am going. Okay, you guys, I'm going to Massanut in Virginia. I didn't even know it was a real place. I didn't know it was a thing. But it is, and I'm happy to drive out there. Me and my girls are doing something fun. All right, well, you can listen to 10 to 3 on WHUR any other time. Well, not tomorrow. Not tomorrow, but any other time. Monday. Angie and I are back tonight at 10 o'clock. Marina's back tomorrow for the Take a Two, and I'll see you later on. Have a great night. Bye, y'all. Bye. Bye. I mean, you can still listen, but I won't be there. Thanks, John. Good show. Did they quote you for the best? It's 730. It's Thursday, and that means it's time to find out if you like it or not. Thank you so much to everyone out there joining us, whether you're streaming here on Fox Local or whether you're streaming with us here on Fox 5 DC's YouTube page. I'm producer Chris. Coming up tonight, we're talking about whether the era of the alpha male. Is over. I mean, I hope not, obviously. No, proof the nation's capital is occupied by night owls, whether or not it is too early to decorate for Halloween and then later the everyday office behaviors that apparently Gen Z finds weird. Those are just some of the stories we're going to talk about here tonight, and we want you to sound off on them as well. So let's talk about how you can join us live in our Zoom room tonight. Obviously, the best, easiest way to do it is just to scan the QR code. You can do either one of them. The one in the bottom left-hand corner, that'll stay up for the full half hour. So you can scan it at any time. You can join us at any time. If you're watching on your handheld device, Your device, your phone, your tablet, and you can't scan the QR code? You can just go over to Zoom the old-fashioned way, punch in that meeting ID, 89209824674. Or you can go to my Instagram page, Fox 5 Producer Chris. I have a link to the Zoom Room pinned to my bio. It's right at the top. You can go to Fox 5 DC's Instagram page. We have a broadcast channel called Do You Like It or Not? And there is a link to the Zoom Room there as well. You can leave comments if you're watching on YouTube in our comments section. Or you can go over to Fox 5 DC's TikTok page. We're streaming there live as well. And the comments section there is open as well. We'll check them throughout the course of the next 30 minutes. We'll say hello to everyone in the Zoom room coming up here in just a moment. First, though, we want to say hello to our in-studio guest host, making her Do You Like It or Not debut. Please welcome media personality actress Jazzy Mango joining us live. Jazzy, thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm super excited. First time doing Do You Like It or Not. For anyone out there who is unfamiliar with you, has never met you before, tell them a little bit about yourself. Yes, so I am a serial entrepreneur. My name is Jazzy Mingo. I have a production company called Mingo Mania LLC, and we are based in the D.C., Maryland area and also in New York. And if people want to follow you for more, why don't you drop the handles as well? Yes, they can follow me at J-A-S-Z-Y, Mingo Like Your Favorite Fruit, on all of my platforms. All right. Sounds good. Are you ready to dive right in? I am. All right. Let's do it. And we are starting off tonight with that story I teased just a moment ago. Are the days of the alpha male now over on the dating scene? That's the question. New research from dating app Shipra found 63% of women prefer supportive, emotionally available partners over men with the quote unquote traditional alpha male traits. 44% say they would not actively seek out an alpha male, but that's still less than 50% if you are doing the math. The study suggests women are prioritizing communication, trust, and mutual respect. But despite women turning their backs on alphas, men still feel pressure to live up to what was once viewed as the masculine ideal. About a third of the men surveyed admitted facing ridicule from male friends and social media if they don't take on. an alpha role. So Jazzy, the idea of ditching the alpha male, do you like this or not? And do you think there's a disconnect between men and women when it comes to kind of the role of men in the relationship? I definitely think there's a disconnect. I don't think we should ditch it. I think we should meet in the middle. I think that we should have a little bit of beta in there. You know, we need that emotional connection, but we don't need. the whole thing, you know, there needs to be some compromising. There needs to be, you know, if I'm going through something, I need my man to show that emotional support. I don't want to be talking to a brick wall. Yeah, I agree with that entirely. I think it's all about redefining what those alpha traits are. Alpha traits can include listening, being a good partner, being supportive, all of those different things. So I think it's, and you know, listen, I kind of make fun of Gen Z But sometimes I think they have the right ideas. It's the execution and sort of like the branding that gets them in trouble. Allison's in the Zoom room on this Thursday night. Allison, thanks so much for joining us. As always, the idea of ditching the alpha males, do you like this or not? Um, definitely ditch it. Uh, Jazzy, you said it's so classy the way you just said that I'm just going to be a little bit more blunt. Um, guys, stop trying to control women because of your insecurities or things that the men in your life have taught you incorrectly. A lot of men are trying to control, trying to be little women, trying to make it look like you have things that someone else can't do, or women can't be independent or self-sufficient. So the alpha male thing has got to go. And, you know, I have to add a. Zodiac sign, Leo's calm down, and that's it. Okay, Leo's calm down. Allison, I think you're spot on, too, because we have done several stories about how more women have higher education. So they have, you know, gotten their bachelor's degrees, gotten their master's degrees, gotten their doctorate degrees, and more and more women are becoming breadwinners. And so I think for some men, they find that intimidating, and as a result, they have to project these sort of alpha tendencies because they feel maybe emasculated In other ways, and I do think that kind of speaks to how we need to change the definition a little bit. Billy's in the Zoom room on this Thursday night as well. Billy, the idea of ditching the alpha males, do you like this or not? Yes, I agree. Even though, you know, I'm a male, but cause you know, back in the days you could smack a woman. You could tell a woman, go sit down and tell her to stay in the kitchen and blah, blah, blah. But now time has changed. Women are coming more independent, self-sufficient. So this, the alpha male, like I say, like she said, meet in the middle. Meet in the middle. I think that's good advice. And just because that used to happen, it was never okay. It was just more society looked the other way on it. Wesley in the zoom room on this Thursday night, Wesley, the idea of ditching. The alpha male, the traits that are traditionally associated with it, do you like it or not? It's lame. Alpha male is lame. Just be human. Treat people with respect and dignity, and you'll get pretty far. If women are into the alpha males, then they can have them, but it should be dying out like the dodo and the dinosaurs, and leos get control. Leo's got control. Always with these zodiac signs. I still haven't figured out what any of them mean except for my own. All right, we're going to move on. Next up, the nation's capital apparently may need a little more sleep. I want to know what time you guys go to bed, because according to the new data, we are staying up later than any other state in our union. Analysis of Apple Watch data found that the average American goes to bed at 11.37 p.m. Washington, D.C., we topped the list with an average bedtime of 11.56 p.m., followed by New York, which is allegedly the city that never sleeps, at 11.53, and Kentucky at 11.50. On the flip side, Hawaii residents turn in the 11.06 p.m. on average. The study looked at nearly 17 million sleep records from more than 61,000 adults and found people averaged just six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night, short of the recommended seven to nine hours. So Jazzy, we get personal on this show. What time do you usually go to bed and do you need more sleep? I absolutely probably only get four hours of sleep. Four hours, okay. Yeah, and I also am a late sleeper, but I wake up early. So I will say I'm between that 11.56 and 2.45 a.m. Okay. And then I wake up every day at 5 a.m. Yeah. I do too, but I don't, I'm not starting my day at five. I might, you know, meditate and things like that, but I'm getting, I got it. I have a cat and the cat can't tell time. Okay. The cat just knows when it's hungry. And so every morning at 5.00 AM she'll, you know, gently kind of nudge me. And then when I ignore that, she has learned that if she scratches the headboard that instantly She instantly gets our attention and she goes right. Downstairs. I have to give her a treat. Anyway, that's my long story. I also have a 10 month old at home. So I have been waking up almost every two hours for probably the last, you know, she started to sleep. Anyway, you don't care about me, Alison. Are you chronically tired? What time do you go to bed and how much sleep do you usually get? Definitely chronically tired. Sometimes I get in the bed around 1130. But the thing is, at my age, you know, with menopause and all that stuff, I'm waking up like every two hours on fire every now and then. And I also work a lot. I get up probably around, you know, every other day I'll get up at 530. Other than that, it'll be 7 a.m. even on the weekends when I don't have to work sometimes. Um, just cause I'm always hustling. If I'm not hustling, I'm thinking of the next hustle. So I don't sleep a lot. And I think in the nation's capital, there's so many jobs where, you know, super decisions have to be made. Um, people work hard in this area. I've been Like, no slide to the south, but I have family that are down south. I'm not going to be shady. I'm about to say something real shady. They don't get as much work in as we do. I'll say that. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, I do think some of these East Coast cities, not a huge shock that they're kind of burning the midnight oil as well. Let's see. Ryan is in the Zoom room. Ryan's in the Zoom room on this Thursday night. And Ryan is live on location right now. Ryan, where the heck are you? You look like you're having a good time. Hey Chris, I'm over here at Markov. It's Haunted Forest in Dickerson, Maryland. Check it out, man. Look, I mean, we are just a few days away from Halloween. I imagine this is their peak season for this kind of action. Ryan, how much sleep are you getting a night? What time are you going to bed? I go to bed anywhere from 10 to 1 a.m., and then I am up like you guys. I'm part of the 5 o'clock club, so I'm up at 5. Got to get moving, but I like to take a nap during the day. Do you guys take a nap? I wish. In the car. It sounds tremendous, and I'm honestly extremely jealous. Ryan's also constantly on the go, traveling to all the different amusement parks, and he's actually going to join us live tomorrow night for our special Halloween Live Zone Primetime Edition, where he's going to talk about some of those local haunts. That you can hit up before Halloween. All right. Wesley in the Zoom room. Wesley, what time are you going to bed? Are you a night owl like the rest of D.C. apparently? I'm up at 5. So no matter what time I go to bed, I'm going to be up at 5. It don't matter. So I'll probably get like maybe four hours of sleep or maybe no hours of sleep sometimes. Thank But, yeah, I don't sleep well. I'm a night shifter, a night owl, a night person. I am insanely guilty of what you may have heard you to referred as revenge bedtime procrastination, very which is basically like I'm desperate for like just a little bit of like downtime. And so as a much. result, I don't go to sleep even though I know I should. And I waste that time just randomly scrolling on my phone just because I'm craving just like, you know, a little bit of that. Yeah. Away from work, not having to deal with, you know, all that fun stuff. Absolutely. All right, next up, the everyday office behavior that Gen Z apparently finds weird. This is according to Yahoo Life, which recently took a closer look at some of this. They say it's the latest chapter in an ongoing debate about how Zoomers are challenging the ideas of professionalism in the workplace and often clashing with the more traditional ideals. And you know. If you are a regular viewer of this show, this is a topic we freak in all the time, whether it's wardrobe, whether it's whatever. Gen Z apparently thinks it's weird that we are checking our emails so often. They apparently wear crop tops to the office. We talked about that recently. They don't understand or just refuse to learn corporate jargon. They think it's weird their millennial co-workers need constant approval or validation. They think Think it's weird to eat lunch at your desk or skip lunch altogether? One person says they are still getting used to messages with proper punctuation. That one's interesting. Experts say Gen Z's relationship to work is more detached because they have entered a corporate world that doesn't always seem to value its employees. As a result, their job is not always the center of their world, and they often treat it as a means to an end. Many Gen Z employees who spoke to Yahoo Life say they maintain a work persona and rarely talk about their interests, hobbies, political views, or friends. And try to reveal as little about themselves as possible. Instead, they say mystery and a true separation of work and life is the new sign of a true professional. So Jazzy, the idea of Gen Z and this changing idea of professionalism, do you like this or not? I'm in the middle with that because I do feel like you do need to have some sort of balance where you know how to separate work from your personal life. I am still trying that because our jobs are basically our whole entire life, but I will say that it can give you anxiety and a lot of stress and can cause some medical issues down the line. So I think they're on point with that. Now the crop tops and eating at your desk and a little bit of, I heard. Some people were saying that, um, in the interviews, um, they were going back and forth with a battle between the, the, um, the Starbucks slushies and bringing the iced coffee to a job interview. If that's unprofessional as well, that's unprofessional. So some of the things they have to stick, that's just what it is. And the punctuations, I mean, how are you even applying for a job? I had this conversation recently though, and we were talking about emails and like, I'm kind of over having to use like sentence case and proper punctuation in emails. I want to treat it like a text message at this point. It's just this, it just, I, I, it depends on who the email is going to, but if I'm emailing just like a frequent colleague or collaborator, I don't got time for that kind of thing. And, you know, I, I do think there is an element of millennials or any generation that has come above that wants everyone else to kind of have to go about it the same way. Right. Gen Z seems to have said, no, no, we're not down for that sort of thing. And that's good and it's bad because. At the end of the day, somebody still needs to cover that shift, even if you don't necessarily want to or think you have to. Allison, the way Gen Z is trying to change professionalism, office behaviors, do you like this or not? No, I don't like it, Chris. Professionalism is already going down. Like one of the things I do as an analyst is correct behavior of new employees and other staff as well. And again, the punctuation and spelling and all that, sometimes we do things that go to litigation. So everything has to be efficient and effective. And with all the tools we have today, why would you have any type of grammar that's not correct? Like back in the olden days, We had to write. Or type on a typewriter and, you know, use the little whiteout stuff. You know, it's like you have everything to keep you perfect. Why are you messing up? So I think it's falling behind and people don't know how to be professional. Like me, if I hear somebody say, yeah, it irks my spirit. I'm like, what is wrong with you guys? Like, get it together. Get it together. Allison, my mom, who may or may not be watching right now. ...is immediately a kindred spirit with you. I love this Jackie. That's my girl. I'd hate it if I said yeah to anything. Yeah. And whenever I said hey instead of hello, I would get hey as for horses. So, yeah. Anyway, Wesley, the way Gen Z is trying to change office behavior or the rules of professionalism. Do you like this or not? I don't like it. I'm with Allison. When does it stop? Like how much closer to idiocracy do we get? I just, I need, I need the professionalism to come back up. Like I, I correct people's grammar. I'll, I type, I mean, I text the way that I do the way that I talk. So it's hard for me to unplug that way of thinking. And I'll honestly, like, if you guys want to be unprofessional, that's fine. Cause I'm going to get out of the workforce anyway, and you can just let it all crumble cause it's not going to affect me at all. You know, just make sure that you do your work and. And do it right, I guess, in an ideal world and all that. What's that? No, I was going to say, but like, is it weird to like not know anything? It feels cold to me that my Gen Z, I'm just using this in a hypothetical situation, that my Gen Z co-workers don't want to even bond in any way, shape or form by letting me know what they're interested in, asking them what they did that weekend. They're just going to stare at you like you're a weirdo. So do you think that is off-putting or do you think that's a good thing? I think it's off-putting, but at the same time, I think that it's good for them to kind of protect that, you know, come to work, make your money and leave, make money, not friends. So maybe they're doing it just to get in there and get out. Um, or maybe it's just, that's just who they are with the blank stares and the, uh, I don't know. Um, I'm, I'm of the science of your, I'm with you where I like to, you know, get in and learn about people. But at the same time, I'm learning that that that's not always the best case. So at this point. Make my money and leave eight at the gate, you know, go in and do what I got to do and get out. I do respect the approach. And I will say if Billy, Billy, did we lose you? Did we lose Billy? We lost Billy. Oh, Billy's still there. All right, good. Because Billy, what's weird. And I will, you know, we've talked about this before. I do inevitably spend more time with my coworkers than I do my family, my friends. So it feels a little strange if I know nothing about them. Well, I'm here with my boss right now. So I gotta be professional when I'm right here around here. So professionalism is definitely needed. And if you're not professional, you don't need to be having a job. OK, that's fair. But that's also remember Billy talking when his boss is right next to him. All right. Let's go to our resident Gen Zer. Freddie is in the Zoom room as well. Freddie is our resident Gen Zer. Everyone else. We've got baby boomers. We've got millennial, not baby boomers. We got Gen X and millennial. Freddie, Freddie, you're our Gen Zer. Are you changing the rules of professionalism? Yes, absolutely. It's better to keep it professional, just like Billy said, and Allison said. And how are you, Jazzy? Nice to meet you. Welcome to the Black Cat or Not show. And also, I am so... I want it to become more professional than that, just when you work at the office. All right, Freddie bucking the Gen Z trend. He wants to make sure it stays professional. Speaking of generational divides, though, let's talk formal titles now. We're talking things like yes, ma'am and no, sir. Those phrases have long been a Southern staple, but they could become a thing of the past. An essay in Southern Living sparking a conversation about whether parents should still teach their kids to address adults this way. In places like Memphis, Birmingham, Nashville, it's still a common sign of respect, but some parents in cities like D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans say it's not a priority and believe kids can be polite without using those formal titles. And some people even feel that being called ma'am or sir makes them feel old. So Jazzy, teaching kids to say ma'am or sir, do you still like this? So I'm a millennial. I don't like ma'am. And I'm from New York. So I don't know if that's That's how you said like the up north and the southern thing. My family is from the South, from South Carolina, and that's how they were raised. So I teach my son to use yes ma'am, no sir, and stuff like that. But me personally, I feel old when people call me that. I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not a man, I'm not a man. I got brutally called out for calling someone ma'am before, and they were like, absolutely not. Do not ever call me that again. And ever since then, I have stopped referring to anyone by those titles. Allison, do you think these formal titles should still be taught, or do you think they are a little old-fashioned? I think they should be taught. As a matter of fact, Chris, your mother just sent me a message. And I actually, I refer to her as Miss Jackie. Every time we speak, I call her Miss Jackie, because that's out of respect. That's how I was taught. If you know, someone is of a certain amount of years older than you, you should respect them in that way. Like I have co workers that, you know, we started working together when they were like in their 20s. And they're in their 30s. Now they still call me Miss Allison. It makes me feel a little bit old, but I'm like, you know what? They look at me as a respectable figure. So I received that. So I just think it's a good thing. And I always tell children, do not ever call me by my first name. Like if you are young enough to be my child, I am Miss Allison. Do not call me Allison. Yeah, I like Miss. I just don't like man. And I understand that entirely. And I Allison is spot on because I. It was such a strange, even when I would meet my friend's parents and they would say to call them by their first name, it wasn't how I was raised. They were Mr. or Mrs. last name, not even first name. All right. Keep the comments coming on all the stories we've talked about so far. Coming up next, we're going to talk about holiday decorations and some new vacation trends. We'll be right back. Back to do you, like it or not, on this Thursday night alongside Jazzy Mango. How's it going so far? It has been wonderful. I'm having a ball on him. She was just busting my chops a little bit because we were taking a live look at the Capitol Wheel out at National Harbor, which had a Commander's W on it. If you're not familiar, the Commanders are playing the Eagles this coming weekend, and the Eagles aren't doing so great. It's team guys. Nice. Gotta rep the hometown. All right. In the meantime, if past is precedent, not president. Precedent. That's what I meant to say. The Christmas Queen will make her first appearance come late Saturday night, early Sunday morning. And by Christmas Queen, of course, we were talking about the one and only Mariah Carey, because she has graced our timeline with her signature, It's Time. For the last few years, the day after Halloween. But is she right? That is the question. Or is it too early to put up your holiday decorations and begin to celebrate this season? According to experts, the old rule about waiting until the day after Thanksgiving is officially a thing of the past. Etsy trend expert Dana Issam Johnson notes that people are getting excited earlier and earlier, with some shoppers starting as early as August. And the stores are more than happy to help out because we have seen those decorations going out. As early as August. Plus, science backs up the festive spirit. A study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology found that homes decked out with Christmas decorations are perceived as more friendly, welcoming, and open to neighbors. So. Experts say you can go ahead and deck those halls whenever you feel like it. But Jazzy, getting a jump start on the holiday season, do you like this or not? No, I think it's a lot to do with capitalism, but, you know, we won't go there. I absolutely... You're 100% right. I would say, you know, after Thanksgiving, if you want to start November 15th, we'll give you that grace. But, you know, right... You go in the stores right now, they have Christmas stuff. Oh, I'm like, oh, it's not even Halloween. I'm like, are we already skipping over Halloween already? And we did the story about Spotify. There were already millions of people out there who have started listening to Christmas music. And again, I'm not here to yuck anybody's yum, but come on, one thing at a time. And look, for me growing up, like the Christmas season technically started with Advent. And so like that's when, you know, it was, and that always coincided with right around, right after Thanksgiving. So that's kind of when I do it now. And also, when I buy that live tree, that thing is not going to survive if I get it too early. No, we've got to give it, you know, the 23rd, 25th of November. I do have an artificial tree up all year round. Oh, man. Well, you know. Wesley, is it too soon? Is it too soon? When Mariah says it's time, is it actually time or is she lying? I'm sorry, you said you have your tree up now? I have an artificial tree in the basement, but it is lit up as a Halloween tree currently. It has orange lights on it. I try to customize it. My grandmother used to do that, leave it up and do Easter. And then I get a real tree, like a Frasier fir or whatever, for the living room, the main floor. I'm down for that. I'm not hating on that. I like that idea, the holiday tree. I don't like it. Not after Halloween. Halloween, like, um... There's got to can we separate stuff like everything's just kind of meshing together. And, you know, I always talk about the exclusivity and like just kind of like keeping things like in their box. Like we could wait until after Thanksgiving, like you said, Jazzy, like the 15th of November, if you want to be gracious about it. But like, let's just kind of give some gaps and spaces in there. I don't want to start talking about Christmas right after. Halloween? Like, what is this even about? No, you're already stressed. Oh, thank you. Exactly. Exactly. And Chris, I don't know if you remember, but I think I sent you a picture from Costco a few months ago of Halloween or Christmas stuff already up and ready to roll. Walmart, Target, yeah. All of them getting a jump start on it. Even the family dollar. And I will also just say, like, again, it was like a little bit of a tradition that, you know, Santa arrives during the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not to give a shout out to NBC or anything, but that was like a thing. That was like a thing. That's when Santa, you know. All right, let's talk travel now. And you can forget crowded sightseeing tours and packed schedules because apparently a growing number of travelers are embracing a more relaxing escape. A new survey by IHG Hotels and Resorts finds, and again, consider the source, quiet questing is now the top travel trend for 2027. The idea is simple. Vacation centered on peace, quiet, and unplugging from notifications, crowds. And daily obligations. Researchers say many Americans spend their lives in host mode, organizing plans, taking care of everyone else. But travelers are increasingly looking for getaways that let them step out of that role, leave the decision-making behind, and focus on rest and recharging. Jazzy, does that sound like something you'd be into or not? Love it. Love it. Love it. You know what I mean? Because you're go, go, go all the time. Yeah, yeah. I would love to just get away. No internet, no phone. I'm just always nervous that somebody's calling me and it's important and I'm missing something. I'm never worried about that, to be honest. Not worried about your job. Well, that's very new for me. Okay, yeah. But, you know, I would just love to unplug everything. Just peaceful, spa, just relaxing, out with nature. That's my thing. Yeah, for sure. And there are so many vacations out there that you feel like you need a vacation from once you are. finished because you just were traveling or whatever it is you were, you know, bouncing all around sightseeing, all those sorts of things. Allison, the idea of this quiet vacation, do you like this or not? I love it, Chris, because I'm constantly doing a lot, constantly planning and being everybody's everything just to have some time with not being needed or not making a decision or not. It's the best feeling ever just to. To have nothing but quiet. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah. And I think this will be a main reason that like travel planners will become a thing again so that people can.