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December 10, 2025 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So apparently there are rules when it comes to visiting Hooters.
Did you know there were rules?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Please tell me don't stare is not on that list,
It is not on this list.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Okay, then we're good.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Alex Stone, ABC News is joining us. Alex, you've been
to a.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Hooters before, maybe years ago.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
But I think staring would be allowed. But there are
probably other rules of what you can't well.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Of course staring.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
Look, if you go in a place like that and
you have any of the servers complaining, and I suppose
there's a limit or the type of staring, gawking, you know,
all of those things. I suppose it crosses a line
to where you you know, you're not trying to be
inconspicuous any You're just like, you know, like your eyes

(00:45):
are like like a cartoon that like roll down your
arm and like stare you know that kind.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Of machine monk.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right, that's like the one place on Earth world I
never have to hear, hey, my eyes are up here.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Right, you would And if you ever did, if she do,
it's like, well, wave by bye, hould your hand up,
wave by bye. That's your tips leaving. And I said
tips with a pee. Tips by the way, if you
buy a calendar from your server. These are some of
the rules when it comes to going to Hooters.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Do we have a thing to buy a calendar from
the Hooters servers?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, they have them in house. Now. I was in one.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
This is several years ago, maybe in twenty would have
been sixteen, maybe or eighteen, something like that. There is
a Hooters down in the Cincinnati area and we were
in there and yeah, somebody with us bought a calendar
there and turns out they always have those in stock.
You can always get a Hooters calendar there, So just

(01:46):
in case. If you're wondering maybe what to get your
wife Alex for she.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Would probably appreciate that. Yeah of it.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, she was telling me when I said what do
you want for Christmas?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
She was like, you know what, I want? A Hooters calendar.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Are there even any Hooters in California?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
And I know I'm sure there are probably down in
like San Diego and more in the party areas, But
didn't they recently have money problems and say they were
going to be more family friendly.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I saw something that I saw.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's like not good work. Well, you're you're
saving money already with what they're wearing. I mean it's
not very much clothing. I mean it's not very much fabric.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Family is going to go again, let's go have a
great night out at Hooters. He has a family with
the two kids and the wife.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I don't see that happening with my family.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, No, I just think And in a related move
in supporting the rights of poultry roosters, is changing their menu, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right, why don't we do that too, right? Yea.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
The more you compliment, the more smiles you get back.
And these are and of course this is like a
goofy list or whatever, but if you bring a dog,
you also get more attention. I had no idea you
could even bring a dog. I guess you have to
sit outside though, because you can't bring a dog inside
of food.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
That.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Right, I mean you can't.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
If I looked over at a table and I was
inside somewhere and they had it, I love dogs, but
I would be like, no, there shouldn't be any animals.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah in here. I don't even on a patio. I
don't want your doggie's hair blowing over to my you know,
my ribs, And I.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Know, well, there's there's plenty of places where you can
take them on.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I know you can.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I bet it's all over California. Isn't an alley?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
And doesn't everybody claim that it's a support animal or
a sure a dog that is allowed in?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah? I saw that the other day.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
We were at some baseball fields with my son and
that somebody got stopped with dogg He said, that is
my support animal, and the guy was like, that is
not you are not. It's you know, a little chihuahua.
And they ended up fighting it and got the dog in.
But everybody claims that it's illegally allowed animal.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's so silly when especially something like that. I don't know,
was the guy just being an ass? I mean what
was he doing? I mean, was it a restaurant or no? No,
it was some baseball field, some little league fields.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Oh yeah, I mean the rules are are no animals
except for you know, the disabled. Then they put up
quite a fight, say better, clearly it was not they
just wanted to bring their dog in.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
If you if in a situation like that, if it's posted,
you can't bring it, Okay, you can't. I mean seriously,
it's like, I don't care what you're gonna tell me.
It just says you can't, so don't you know. But
for instance, the Reds they do bark at the park
and you can bring your dogs on the and when
they're coming back from breaks, you know, going getting back
into the action, they'll show all the different you know people.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
In the park. With all it is, it is huge, man.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
I mean, like everybody brings their dogs to the like
Reds baseball. It's they probably do that with the Dodgers too.
I would bark at the park. Other servers commenting on
TikTok they said, yeah, they're boobs, don't stare at them
like a kid looking at bubbles, and don't mistake friendliness
with flirting. It'll get creepy. So there are some hard

(04:58):
fast rules if you're thinking of going to Hooters, but
good luck finding one. I don't even know where there
is a Hooters anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think they're all going from Central Ohio at least.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, I think so too. We'll have to go to
San Diego to get one.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, I don't even know there is one there. I'm
just guessing down by the beach. But I feel like
the one time I went, the server was not all
that friendly. They yes, there are there's, you know, things
to look at while you're in there, but friendliness was
not one of the attributes of the service.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, and that's the quickest way to a very small tip.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Sorry.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean, you know, in a situation like that, you
got to be comfortable like that. And if you're having
a bad day, understand, we're all human. But when you're
there and it's that's bet, maybe that's why you didn't
go back, Alex.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
That might be it, or could be other things as well,
but that might be it.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
You're like, man, she was really mean. Next time, I'm
going to Applebach.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't care anymore about We don't have.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Those anymore here either. Do you still have Applebee's? Yeah,
we have our closed and yeah they went years ago.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I will say that.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
I'll say Hooters, the food is actually really really good.
Every time I would eat there, I'm like, it's it's excellent.
I mean, there's a lot of breading on their wings
and so on. But I don't know if you can
order them naked or whatever there. I know you can
for instance at Roosters here local food. Yeah, the wings,
the wings, not the women, not the servers. You can't

(06:25):
order them naked. I don't think unless you got enough money.
But all right, anyway, right, should the US follow Australia
and banning kids from social media?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know, I know this is a big story. I
saw on.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
GMA this morning, and you know, all the all the
places are showing this, this actual story, and I think
it would be fantastic given you and you have kids
under the age of sixteen, Alex and yeah, I don't
know where you come down. There's you know a lot
of them would would fight you on this, but I
feel like I think back to before I was sixteen,
in hell, even after, there's plenty going on in your

(06:59):
life if you don't need that, And I can't understand
why these kids, I mean, they're going to do what
all their other friends are doing, and they're communicating via
social media and all of those things. But my personal
take is I feel like that can all wait.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
But I know I must. I'm probably in the moment.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
But you know, they see what mom and dad do,
and you know many moms and dads, myself included, you're
flipping through social media and you just kind of zone
it out and looking through what's on there and that
they scrolling at home and it's cool. So yeah, beginning
today in Australia, it is a law that if you're
under sixteen that you cannot access social media platforms, and

(07:40):
that's TikTok and Instagram and even YouTube. Because it's already
tomorrow in Australia, tomorrow morning. We know that a lot
of kids say that they got around it by just
changing their birth date on the app to make them
appear older. But not surprisingly Australian kids, they don't like it.
They say that this is not good.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
We will be completely silenced and cut off from our
country and the rest of the world with his bend.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
But there are a lot of American adults and doctors
who think American kids should be kept away from social
media as well, and they're calling on the US to
come up with a similar law. Sarah Gardner is the
CEO of the child safety group Heat Initiative. She says,
we got to do this too.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Australia is really.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Taking the lead and the question is what's the US
going to do?

Speaker 4 (08:23):
So She and others held a protest outside of an
Apple store yesterday demanding that Apple add protections and safeguards
to protect children from social media here in the US,
and she says keeping kids off of social media it's
something that that parents have got to do.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's not just the addiction, which is enough of a
harmon and of itself.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
It's exposure to eating disorder.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Content, to suicide content, to child sexual abuse material.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
These are real dangers that kids experience on these.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Platforms, and that's the argument.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
In Australia, they say social media use leads to serious
problems for children. Four years ago, there were internal documents
from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram that
came out that were leaked showing that those social media
platforms contributed to suicidal thought and body image problems for teenagers.
So metas as well. They've implemented safety features to address

(09:12):
some of that. But there are parents who are saying, look,
the US government, look what Australia is doing. The US
has got to do more.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
This will, on a day to day basis, protect a
lot of kids from exploitation and predators and inappropriate content
that is being pushed at them every day by these companies.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah, and other countries like Malaysia and Denmark they're looking
at bands similar to what Australia is doing, but Australia
is the first. We'll see if the US does anything.
But now there are groups saying, hey, let's do what
Australia is doing, you.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Know, the other the stuff that she's saying, like it'll
help protect her. But will it, because you just pointed
out that they're already around it, so.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
If farner around it.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
But I it just it's it can be such a
dark hole for a child, especially a teenager. And yes,
you know, like as she was talking about suicidal thoughts,
body shaming and all of that, that seems like it
would be good to keep your kid away from it.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
But if it's going to be.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
A law in the US, there's nothing moving forward toward
it yet except for these different groups calling for it.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
I mean, I feel like the only way really around
it as far as keeping your kids is they can't
have any devices, and that's the way that you do it.
And would they do that at the library, for instance,
Would they do it at a friend's house with regard
to an account or whatever. Maybe, but when they're home,

(10:32):
they're not going to So that's the only way I
feel like that you can be one hundred percent iron
cloud because guess what, none of the social media platforms.
They'll go, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're all for that. And
but truth be told, that is part of you know,
what makes them do what they do. You know, the
amount of kids that are on there, it sucks, man.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
And there are parental controls on iPhones and whatnot, so
you can say, well no TikTok no U two no, yes,
so you can block them from going there. But but
sure when they're around friends, it's like, yeah, eating candy.
If you tell them they can't have candy, they they're
gonna eat it with their friends.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I told you, it's one of those things where I
worry that we get what we wish for because this
is a more voyeuristic opportunity. This is a way to
watch what the kids are doing. Trust me, they're going
to find sneaky ways that you can't trace. Conversations they
will have that you don't know anything about if you
take away those social media interactions. I'm not saying whether

(11:28):
it's good or bad, but it's something we need to
face right now. If you're a crafty parent, you can
keep tabs on kids' activities without them even knowing, right,
but you take away that window, it not only eliminates
their access, it eliminates what you're able to see and
know about your kids.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Interesting.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Okay, like Stone, ABC News out of Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is it in the eighties today?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I want to we at today? Eighty three shut out?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now, yeahwenty degree is above normal today eighty three.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
You guys have been hovering in that for a while
about man, old man, that is uh, lucky warn lucky
you man.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
True or false? You're actually in a speedo right now.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
That is true. That is true and true.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I thought that I saw that earlier.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Look at this, Look down the line of this. Oh man,
there you go.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Oh my gosh, see that's like the anti Hooters.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Now I don't.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Terrible Alex, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I see you, man,
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