La Bare (2014) - full transcript

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You know,
you have two extremes.

You've got your women
that are just doin' it
for somethin' real quick

and, you know,
you gotta get them loosened up.

Then you got the other half
of them that you do,

that, uh, they're in
their own private home

and they think
it's a free-for-all.

Bachelorettes often come up
to me and try to get my number.

I'm like,
"Listen, that's a little weird.

"There's a line that
I don't really want to cross.

It's bad karma--
let's not do that."



Boyfriends, you know,
I'll get their number

'cause that's not
as like, huge.

Like, leading them on
or treating them like shit
is just--

Women talk.

And they talk in the club
to people they don't know.

So, it's better
to just kind of...like,

keep the little flirtation
goin',

but never really cross that line
where you're gonna hurt 'em.

So, I've got speakers
for people that don't have, uh,

home theater systems
to plug into,

business cards to pass out
so they remember me,

my cop gun.

Open everything.

[knocking]



Hi.Hello.

You all ready?

[The Flaming Lips performing
"Free Radicals"]

♪ You think you're so radical
so radical ♪

♪ I think you ought to stop

♪ Say what

♪ But you're going
international ♪

♪ They're gonna call the cops

♪ You think you're radical
but you're not ♪

♪ So radical inside

♪ So radical

♪ Fanatical ♪

[female]
I work with 25 Adonises.

If you were to pick the hottest,
sexiest men in Texas

or Dallas or Fort Worth
or whatever, in the South,

I work with them.

[male]
You're an oddity.

- "Hey what do you do?"
- I'm a businessman.

I'm a, you know, a lawyer.

- I'm a male dancer.
- "What?"

"Hold on, wait a minute."

[male #2] When I first
started working there

they were finding out like,
they would come in and like,

"Cole, oh my God, you know,

like, I can't believe that
you're doing this."

[male #3] I never seen women
throwin' money,

you know, on stage,
stick it in your underwear,

grabbin' your butt,
just doing everything.

And I'm like,
"Man, this is fun."

[male #4] The money was good,
the women...

awesome.

[announcer] All right now,
on the count of three,

if you like sex, you girls
better scream together.

Here we go--
one, two, three, scream!

[cheering]

♪ You think you're radical

You've got a thousand women,
it's just like, wahhh!

I've worked with the best
of the best-- I've toured
with Chippendales,

and our show smokes any show
in the world right now.

[male #5] Just everywhere,
they come from.

Just to see who's the best
at getting undressed.

♪ You think you're radical
but you're not ♪

This is the top male dance club
in the world.

♪ You're fanatical

♪ Ooh!

♪ Fanatical

[male]
The people who opened La Bare

was original company
called MJR.

They were a huge
night club conglomerate.

They had tried
a male dance contest

and best chest contest
at a club called PT's.

And then had subsequently
done it in different places

and it had just packed out
like this.

They went to their least
producing club,

which was this club,
which was a topless club

called La Bare, which means,
"nude" in French or whatever.

They go, "Okay, we're gonna try this male dance concept here.

So, they stuck it in there and
it just blew up off the planet.

[male] It was big stuff
in the 70s.

I'm in the vending business,
really.

I've a pool table
and jukebox business.

That's what I really do.

And La Bare started out,
you know, as a sideline.

You know, we're gonna build
a bigger, better La Bare
in Dallas.

But when we opened
the new La Bare

with, you know,
a big beautiful building

in a new location,
and it was almost like

restarting the whole thing.

And it did gangbusters.

It's back and it's like it was
in the 70s again.

Girls were just
rollin' in there.

And, uh, eventually,

I guess in 2001 was 9/11.

And from the moment
that 9/11 happened,

you know,
La Bare went to hell.

I think for a while, La Bare
just became cliché-ish,

it had been around
for so long.

And your mom went to La Bare,
you know?

And it wasn't cool,
it was, uh, you know,

something that was old,
old hash.

Joe is a vending guy,
like he told you, you know?

And he didn't have time
to really sit here

and run the business.

Alex got involved heavily.

And, uh, ever since
he got involved,

you know, there was
a turnaround happening.

I came here and I saw
a big opportunity.

He's like, "Uh, man, I'm about
to buy this big route.

"I'm not going to even have a minute or anything, you know.

I'm like,
"I don't know, I guess."

I've seen
that good looking guys

making good money
and throwing that away

on stupid things.

If it's not a car that
they can't afford or drinking,

whatever they're doing
after club.

He really revamped the show
and updated things.

Brought in, um,
a Las Vegas choreographer.

[Alex] I start thinking that,
you know,

I don't need
those kind of guys.

I wanted guys that come in here,
be businessmen,

treat girls right,
save their money,

put the foundation for their
future, and do something with.

You know, I think everything's
happening in a good way.

It's accepted well again.

Um, it's cool.

La Bare's cool again.

Um, so, you know, I see more
stores in the future probably.

[door squeaking]

[male #1] I'm good? [male#2] Yeah, looks good.

Hair looks amazing.

Is that a lie?

No, it looks good.Okay.

Your hair looks
real good, man.Oh, thanks.

Spent like
ten seconds on it.

Well, in high school I, uh,
started dancing my senior year.

I decided to do musical
at our high school,

which was The Music Man.

And so, I ended up being like,
one of the lead dancers in that.

In high school we called him
the shirtless wonder

because he always walks
around with his shirt off.

I love attention,
I do.

I absorb it.

I try not
to get caught up in it,

but it'll happen sometimes.

[male] I saw this young man
walking down the street

about six years ago.

And I knew when I saw him, I
just knew I had to bring him in.

Bring him in
and have his talents

be shown to the universe.[cheering]

[Channing] You know,
Magic Mike, I saw it.

And, you know, it just looked
like so much fun.

When we went and saw it,
like, immediately he was like,

"I have to do this.
I want to do it so bad."

[Randy] He this
all-American kid, man.

Many, many guys I've worked with
and taken them from, uh--

What's the right way
to put this?

From a newbie,
from being a new person,

uh, to being a quote,
superstar in this business.

He's tall and slender.

I saw he had nice abs
and they can get better.

So I saw, I said, you know,

"What's the most popular movie
in the world right now?

Why don't you just
go by Channing?"

And he's like,
"Really, think I could?"

[announcer] Give it up
for Channing, center stage.

In one of the skits that I do,
it's a nerd skit.

I start doing
the most spastic movements.

Then he finally just
kicks me offstage.

[announcer] I'll tell you what, go get a gym membership,

gain 30 pounds,
come back here amateur night.

Man, get this dude offstage.

And so, I go into the back.

He's, "All right,
who wants me to transform

this guy
into a real entertainer?

[announcer]
Somebody scream. [cheering]

And I'm looking all good again.

And so, then everyone screams
and then I go

into my entire
actual sexy part of the skit,

even though the nerd part
is more me.

I'm more acting during
that actual sexy part.

♪ Say take it off

Take if off!

♪ Say take it off

Take it off!

♪ Somebody anybody
everybody scream ♪

[cheering]

[male] Basically,
you're training a kid.

So, you tell them
the same things

that your parents told you.

Do, uh-- do unto others
like they do unto you.

Be respectful for everybody.

You know, open your eyes and
don't just worry about yourself.

Be cognizant of your--

And teach them the team concept
that the guys--

Overall, the club sees
all the guys as a team.

It's a project for him.

It's something for him to do.

He sees this kid who--
with potential,

but he wants--
it's his baby, basically.

You know, he doesn't have kids
of his own,

but he has those 20 kids, his
20 sons that work at the club.

And so, he's gonna
basically be raising me,

make me the best entertainer
I can be.

te-te-te-te-te

Master Blaster's home gym.

The creators
of all male dancers.

[Black Strobe performs
"I'm A Man"]

♪ Now when I was a little boy

♪ At the age of five

♪ I had something
in my pocket ♪

♪ Keeps a lot of folks alive

Randy is...He's everyone's dad.

I've been called-- He's told
so many people I'm his son.

I still think I'm still
his son and like--

You probably are,
he's fucked a lot of girls.Yeah, prob-- might be.

I probably need
to ask my mom.

[Randy]
I have one family

I'm five generations down
from the beginning.

It's the great-grandma,
the grandma, the mom,

her daughter and her daughter
now come see me.

And when they come in
as a group they fight.

Like, they come all tippy
at the same time.

And one of them
will get jealous

if one of them is gettin'
too much attention.

This is the story that
they compare me to Nolan Ryan,

Tiger Woods, and people
of that stature.

I've been doin' my business
so well for so long.

♪

World Book of Guinness'longest
living successful male dancer

in his 34 years straight.

Two hundred and five pounds
of twisted steel and sex appeal.

Great American Strip-Off winner
finalist 1986, 1996, 2001.

Playgirlcenterfold
'91, '93, '96, '97.

Playgirlman of the decade.

Playgirlcenterfold
2000, 2001, 2003,

and the front cover.

Uh, 2004 I'm the back cover
for the whole year

'cause I started hosting
on Playgirl TVa little bit.

Master Blaster.

Big Daddy.

He's number one.

Gettin' smellin' pretty
for the girls.

Gotta be a lean,
mean dancing machine.

Boom, boom, boom.

Oh, by the way,
very humble too.

I'm Randy's Mom.

And I'm his biggest fan
and cheerleader.

And I take credit for his body--
I'm his nutritionist.

[female] Well, one night
went to La Bare.

Eighteenth birthday
Mom took me in there.

He was like, "You look like you work out, do you play a sport?"

And I told him
I play volleyball.

And he was like,
"I can see it in your legs."

And I was like, "Yep."

And so he had me come over
for a workout.

And then he became
my family after that.

He told me like,
"You know, you can do it."

He gave me the courage
and he helped me

through the whole prep,
got my diet goin'.

And then I got first
in my first competition.

Ready for my next one
September!

[cheering]

[male] He's all about
helping out everyone.

You know, if you need
a workout plan

or you need just to workout,
learn how to workout,

Randy's all
about helping you.

[Randy] Come on, girls,
I'll count, let's go.

Like he said, we're all
independent contractors.

So, you're pretty much
your own business.

You're as good
as you want to be.

[female]
...33, 34, 35, 36.

[male] We have gotten
such a big push now

to really get in like,
fantasy-man shape.

We train like-- like athletes,
you know?

I'm gettin' ready
for a photo shoot right now

and I-- you know,
it's like 45 minutes a day

of cardio on top
of your workout,

but you better be wearin'
your sweat suit

so you're losin' all your water weight and stuff.

Fifty bro, come on.

[Chase] It's intense,
and there's no off-season.

You wanna have a off-season,
your not gonna get paid.

This is a manual that you give
your entertainers

on how for them
to make money

from exclusively as chewing gum
to your hygiene.

But this about bein'
a businessman

or woman
in this business.

And I actually drafted this
for the dancers at La Bare.

We have Master Blaster
Strip-o-grams.

We opened it in '89.

We send entertainers out,
male or female, to do parties.

Bachelor parties,
birthday parties, clubs.

We have contracts with clubs
and stuff.

And I answer the phone.

Ten to six.

Six days a week.

And I'm 78.

[female] He even knows
my 16-year-old now.

She even calls him
Big Daddy.

[Randy] Well, first,
I mentor their bodies.

So, I get their bodies in shape
so they make money in La Bare.

Then as I'm mentoring
their body,

I start mentoring
their mind.

I tell 'em don't drink,
don't do drugs.

Don't excessively make this
a party-- be a businessman.

I can teach you how to make
$100,000 a year.

Do you want to do that?

[female] I knew that Randy
would do good in anything

'cause he doesn't drink
or do drugs.

So, my friend said, "I wouldn't
have a son that did that."

And I said,
"I wouldn't have a son

that didn't know how
to take care of himself."

So, I raised my boys
with lots of balls.

My name's Jeremiah Goud.

I go by Austin at the club.

Um, my routines are
a vampire act,

a bondage act,
and a surfer act.

I think acro would help.

For acrobat, you know?

I grew up very conservatively.

Boys couldn't swim with girls.

Boys had to swim with shirts on,
et cetera.

We didn't really listen
to music.

Uh, we didn't, I mean--

I was homeschooled
till the seventh grade.

[announcer] Come on, ladies,
who wants to see that man
totally nude tonight?

[crowd clamoring]

[Austin] And I didn't hardly
have any interaction

with other girls or guys
for that matter,

um, outside of church.

Having never listened
to music as a kid, really,

I never picked up on beats.
[fingers snapping]

Just merely hearin'
a beat to music.

And so, at the club,
it was really,

really awkward
when I first started.

Nobody ever explained it to me.

And it like, it's unbelievable
that I missed this

part of my education somehow.

I think I'm a decently
intelligent person, you know?

But I totally missed it.

So, I-- I went out
on main stage one night

and, you know, other guys,
they clap to the music

with the songs and everything.

Get the crowd
pumped up and goin'.

And I start clappin'
and everything.

And I get offstage
and the guys are just like,

"What are you doing?"

Because the beat's doing this

and I'm over here be like.

And so,
for the first two months,

uh, when I would go up onstage
and it was really crowded

and everything, there were some
guys that'd be on backstages.

And they'd start clappin'
the beat of the song

and I'd watch their hands
to start clappin' to it.

That was pretty funny.

My big money-maker is the fact
that I do aerial silks.

It's two silks that hang
from the ceiling,

uh, that hang
from a rescue 8.

And just do all sorts of really
cool stuff with them.

I basically do really simple
stuff at the club actually.

But even the basic stuff for
somebody that's never seen it,

it's pretty impressive.

Then again,
seeing a 230 pound guy

doing the splits in them
is pretty impressive too.

So...

♪

♪

[male] Men want
to see naked women.

Men are visual.

So, they just wanna see
naked women.

What women want is the show.

They want the cabaret.

They want open arms.

They want to be romanced.

They want to see the act.

They want to know that you spent
a fortune on your costume.

And they love that.

And then they want to be
a part of your adventure.

[female]
Girls don't do routines.

But the guys, all of them--
all of them have to do

an actual act and put on
the show and stuff, and with--

I don't ever go on stage.

I'm all about VIP upstairs.

My personal clients,
talking,

having conversation,
having dinner.

[male] There's actually no
skill involved

in being a female stripper.

You just get some big titties
and look decent.

Whereas, we actually
put work into it.

♪

[female] Their job is completely different from ours.

Everything about it
is different.

Everything how we handle
the customers,

how we get the money,
how much money we make.

Like, with them, it really
encompasses their entire life.

I mean,
from beginning to end.

I mean,
if they're not training,

they're eating because they're
supposed to be training.

You know, they have to look
a certain way all the time.

They have to go to promotions
all the time.

They have to go do parties
all the time.

They have to do fliers,
they have to model,

they have to, you know,
constantly talk to customers.

[both] Promote, promote,
promote, promote.

♪

♪

[female] Men are more
like a microwave.

And women are more
like a oven.

We need like a--
a turn on period.A preheat.

We want the show,
we want to be romanced.

We want to be led in.

♪

[male]
Sometimes in a relationship
they feel kind of jaded.

Either the husband doesn't
listen to them enough

or, you know, the kids are
on top of them all the time.

They just kinda want a break.

Think La Bare is kinda
their escape there.

They get an escape,
they get to relax.

I got good fortune to talk
to this one girl,

that she said-- and I asked her
"Why is it you come here?"

She said,
"I come here because

every time I come here
I feel pretty."

I was like,
"Okay, that makes sense."

Girls come here because
they want to feel pretty.

They want to feel wanted.

They want to feel that--
that feeling of importance.

♪ I'll take your heart

♪ I'll take your pain

The big customers are
businesswomen.

They're always tough,
you know?

They're tough women
in the business world.

But when they come to La Bare,
they're like,

"Whew, here's--
I can put that away.

"I can be myself,
I can be a girl.

Give me a cocktail,
get me relaxed."

And they can open themselves.

And I'm not judging anybody,
one that's there.

You know, they can be
as vulnerable as they want.

And there's also the other
aspects that's, you know,

some girls are
just plain horny.

And they don't get enough
at home

and they just want you
to rub on them

and then after that they go home
and take care of themselves

or go to their husbands
or whatever.

♪ I'll bring you tonight

[Alex] That's the most
common things, oh, my God.

It's not what we thought
it would be, you know.

We thought there would be like,
strippers from 80s

doin' drugs, you know,

with long greasy hair,
sweaty, you know, all drunk.

They always
complement you like,

"Oh, baby you look
pretty tonight."

And they just give you
this like ,confidence.

And respect.For everyone--
for everyone in that club.

I'm building up
more professional

uh, dancers, more to be polite,
nice to girls,

respect them as they would want
to be respected.

[chattering]

When I get drunk, I end up
buyin' everybody shots,

spending more money
than I make.

I have more fun backstage
than I do out front.

'Cause like, out front
you have to pay attention

to what you're saying.

I mean, you're trying
to make money.

You gotta be nice
to all the girls,

which is really hard
sometimes.

[chattering]

A lot of the hazing's
been cut out

compared to what
it used to be.

'Cause they want
the new guys

to actually have a chance
at making it.

I've been slapped on stage,

had dildos thrown
at me on stage.

Uh, little things like that.

I've had, like, all of my stuff
like, hidden.

We know.

Hey did you guys
use my pants?

Yeah, they're in the locker.God damn it.

Where's your fuckin' pants,
dog?

[chattering]

Hey, this guy ain't fuckin'
teaching me shit.

[chattering]

I can't dance at all.

I can fuck,
but I can't dance, you know.

Everybody thinks if you can
dance, you can fuck,

but, I mean, if you can't dance,
you can still fuck.

So, that's where I thrive.

See, when you're
a terrible dancer,

you have to do the same act
over and over.

Do what works for ya'.

[intercom chatter]

I'm ready.

[siren sounding]
[police radio chatter]

Ladies, may I have
your attention.

Ladies, please quiet down.

I need your attention
at this time.

It seems Miss Walker here

has violated penal code 69 69.

Mam, I'm gonna have
to ask you

to stand and assume
the position.

The cop is the best because
you have to get 'em to stand

and bend over
and stay that way

for a pretty good amount
of time.

And she could be a prude
and just like, just hate it

and "No, I'm not gonna do that,
I'm about to get married."

Ladies, we call this,
"assuming the position,"

because I'm assuming she's been
in this position before.

Or she could be crazy.

They're like, bouncin' it
and like,

doin' their own show
pretty much and just like,

"Whoo, like, I'm so happy
to be onstage

"'cause I'm used
to being onstage.

Here's my titties,
like, I mean--"

Ladies, it looks like I found
what I've been looking for.

It seems as if she has
a little crack...back here.

There is no better stage act
with a hot seat than Cop.

You know, the guy touches you.

It's one
of the longest lasting--

You get your picture taken.

I mean, the girl
should love it.

Looks like I'm gonna have
to go downtown...

with you.
[motorcycle revving]

I mean, I basically pick them up
and I just pound 'em.

You know, you just
dry fuck 'em.

That's the whole act.

[pounding]

If I had my pants off,
they'd have to watch out

'cause it'd probably get in.

[siren]
[police radio chatter]

I used to own a restaurant.

I owned a restaurant
out in Fort Worth.

I'm a military brat,
so I've always moved around

like, opening up
different little things.

I came here from Egypt.

Got into the restaurant
business,

opened up my own restaurant.

Lost a shit-ton of money
and I was like,

"Damn, that sucks."

I mean, most of the guys, like,
we all like to have a good time.

But everybody's got dreams
of doing something better.

Like certain guys
are doing something

to make that happen
in the future,

and certain guys aren't.

I want to get back
into the restaurant business,

so, like,
I write business plans,

researching all the time.

Like, I've already got
the business concept written.

I'm in the process of writing
some operational manuals

that I can take to somebody.

Here in a year or two,
I'm gonna start lookin'

for investors
and things like that.

I've already got the burgers.

I cook 'em at the club on
Sundays every once in a while

so that everybody
can taste 'em.

And, you know, maybe one day
some lady tries it.

She says, "Hey, instead
of paying your truck payment

here's a restaurant, so...

It has happened,
I've heard of it, so...

♪

One sixty-two,
one hour of work.

Pump it, pump it!

You see them abs?

Fuckin' abs,
out of this world.

Mind your business.

Have you all met Pablo yet?

[male]
All right, I'm ready.

You're gonna check it out?

Out in a few minutes?

I have to wait with this guy
takin' off the clothes?

I pick it up and I fix it up.

Got that right.

These are good people
right there.

[Latino music playing]

[JD]
Pablo's pretty cool.

Pablo's probably like, uh, the
coolest guy that I've ever met.

Like, like, his helpings,
you know, kind of like,

like and hourly worker
or whatever.

So, we have to go back.

[JD] He knows more
about all the shows

going on than anybody--
probably more than Alex.

Like, on point
every single time

when this act
is gonna be done.

He knows how to get a girl,
which girl should be

brought up for--
on stage.

Some time when I have time,
I go check the girls,

say hello,
couple friends I have.

For Cop, I don't need a chick
that I can't hold up.

So, he knows that, he knows
to pick up a good girl

with a group that will bring
her whole group to stay.

So, know you're already
creating energy right there.

[announcer] Put those hands
together right there.

Thanks to the ladies
for their able assistance.

[JD] He knows in the back
whose locker's whose,

whose shirt is whose.

He knows everybody's shoes,
their pants, everything.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go.

I'll be back in a second.

He's probably the most cutthroat
person on getting his money too.

Like, if I make
$5.00 in a night,

'cause some nights
it's really slow,

he gets his tip bucks.

No matter what.

He goes,
"Hey, bring money with you."

[Latino percussion]

[laughing]

♪

[male]
My name's Cesar.

That's, uh, my real name
and my stage name.

Always gotta have
a stage name.

What was gonna be
a stage name?

So, I was thinking maybe
something along the lines
of Papa Sausage.

'Course, soon as I said that,
everyone kinda gave me

that little, like, stare,
"Are you really serious?"

I'm like, "Guess I'm goin'
with Cesar."

[Cesar] I was a Boy Scout
for the last two years.

So, 16, 17 I was a Boy Scout.

Which is a little weird,
most people go in young,

but I went in late.

It turns out my scoutmaster,
he was a ranger medic.

Like, I used to draw a lot
when I was a kid.

I was going through
my drawing binders

and I was like,
"Mom, there's nothing in here

"but tanks jeeps
and helicopters.

Like, really, how did you guys
not see this happening?"

I was always gonna join
the military.

There was no question
about it.

So, I was like,
"I'm gonna go be a SEAL."

And I guess, you know,
one night he heard that

and he was like,
"Hey, come over here.

Let me talk to you about these
guys I used to be with."

And he told me about rangers
and I was sold.

I was like,
"That's what I want to be."

We actually have a squad that's
just the three machine guns.

You know, where we'll set up
positions and just lay hate.

And as our guys
are moving forward,

we're shifting fire
to kinda keep the enemy at bay.

You know, it's kinda like
a wall of lead, essentially.

[machine gun firing]

Then Afghanistan kicked off.

I think the general story was
that we were the first ones in.

Which is awesome.

Um, in truth, I don't know
how much you can believe that.

'Cause you know how it is--
there's recon units,

there's spies,
there's all kinds of stuff.

So, yeah, we could be like,
"Yeah, we were the first in."

But, I mean, who knows,
there were probably guys there

months before--
or not, I don't know.

That's way above my pay grade,
so...

But one of the jobs
of the ranger battalion

is to airfield seizure.

They'll pick an airfield.

They're like, "Hey, that place
is on the border.

"We can land our C-17s
and C-130s on it.

We need you to make it ours."

"Roger that."

We make a plan,
we fly in at night,

we jump in
and we secure the airfield.

We eradicate anything
that's on it.

We make sure no one else
can take it back.

And we're like, "All right,
bring in the heavy guns."

I actually jumped
into Afghanistan and into Iraq.

So, I have what they call,
uh, snake eyes.

When you're airborne
you have an identifier,

which is a little parachute.

And sometimes when
you get X amount of jumps,

they upgrade,
it's like a star wreath.

But when you do combat jumps,

then you-- you get
a bronze star as identifier.

And then so, you know,
a lot of people can get one.

It's rare for some people
to get two.

I mean, that's the one thing.

When you're in infantry like,
you're a badass,

you're in the army
and everything's cool,

but when you get out,
you pretty much can be

a bouncer, cop,
or a body guard.

So, I started working at UPS.

And believe it or not,
I was actually picking up

dog shit for a while too.

My roommate's total alpha male.

He's like,
"Dude, you look great.

You could probably do better if
you honestly started stripping."

I'm like, "Dude,
I'm way too shy to strip."

♪

I'm extremely old fashioned.

I like-- I have one girl
and this is my girl

and I'll treat her like a queen
and like, that's it.

I mean, I'll be honest
with you--

I've slept with five women
in my whole life.

And I'm 31, you know,
which I think is funny,

considering some
of the conversations

that go on in the back.

And that's one of the things
that costs money.

You know, the girls are
sitting there looking for even

not a relationship,
but something intimate.

I'm like, "Look mama,
it's not gonna happen.

"Sorry, I'm not
gonna lead you on.

"If you want to support me
for being an entertainer

"or give you this and that,
that's cool.

"But if that's what
you're looking for,

"I'd rather you go find it--

you know, someone
that will do that for you."

I usually come
and hang out with Cesar.

He's my favorite person here.

I adore him.

His eyes, his smile,
I mean, he just--

He has this smile that just
lights up and glows at you.

And it's awesome,
it's just awesome.

Been dancing
for about eight months now.

Still get all nervous
as all backstage.

I'm pacing back and forth
trying to ground myself,

getting nervous as soon as
I pass through those curtains.

♪

I'm not gonna lie,
I have caught my hair on fire.

Didn't even notice,
just kept on doin' it.

Like I said,
I'm complete nervous.

Let me show you how nervous
I am about tension.

I haven't gotten to the point
that I'm half-naked onstage.

Like, that is not even
an issue for me.

As soon as I walk out, I'm like,
"Everybody is looking at me."

Guys are looking at me, girls,
guys at the bar.

Oh, God, I'm sure the people
in the bathroom

are somehow lookin' at me.

You know, everyone thinks
we have huge egos,

but, I mean, for every one girl
that thinks the world of you,

there's gonna be
two or three that think

like, you know, they'd rather
go step in dog crap.

You know what I mean?
And they'll let you know.

I had a girl straight up
throw up when she saw me.

You know, she looked at me
and was like [gagging].

And I was like, "Oh, man,
did you have a bad drink
or something?

Then she looked at me again
and threw--

I was like,
"Oh, wow, it's me."

She literally like, looked back,
tapped her friend,

pointed at me
and was like, "Uh!"

I was like,
"Eh, have a nice night, thanks."

Feeling really good
about myself right now.

[female] I feel like
they're my friends.

I mean, even though
every time I give 'em--

I get a hug,
I give 'em a dollar,

I still feel like
they're my friends.

So, I mean, and that could
just be, you know,

way wishful thinking
on my part.

Yeah, Margaret, uh,
she's inked up, right?

Beautiful mermaid ta--
oh, yeah,

she has some fantastic ink.

She has a tiger
across her chest.

I was like, uh, actually,
believe it or not,

looks got her off the bat.

You know, she's all tatted up
and I kind of play that roll.

You know, as you could tell,
between the hair, piercings,

everything else, and the ink,
I'm kind of like

the wild child guy
in the club.

You know, obviously,
if you talk to me,

you're like,
"Dude, this guy's a goober."

Like, you know,
some people were like,

"Oh, man, gangbanger, like, oh,
dude, it's nowhere near that."

[female] But you know, several
of them are on my Facebook.

And, you know, it's just--
it's--

It really is--
it's camaraderie, you know?

I-- When I'm lonely
or when I'm havin' a bad day,

I can come here and I can,
you know, say hi to the guys

and I smile and I'm happy.

And it, you know, cheers me up,
makes me feel better, so...

[Cesar]
Somebody's gotta like you.

I know some nights
it doesn't feel that way.

But, you know it happens
to the best of us.

You know, I can't tell you
how long I've been on side stage

for 30 minutes like,
"Dude, really?"

Like, I might not be
the best lookin' dude,

maybe I'm a little short,
I don't know.

I had too much salt
this morning.

I don't know, but like,
"Damn, there's like, 400 of you.

One of you's gotta think
I'm decent lookin'."

But, you know,
it is what it is.

So, that's how I got started.

Not very ecstatic, I guess,
but that's my life.

Pretty simple
and to the point.

[male] What's up, fellas?
Come on in.

Welcome to my casa.

I need to start fucking
gettin' cardio, man.

I can barely jerk off.

Fuck me and fuckin' have
a heart attack, bro.

I'm just lazy as fuck, dude.

I ain't doin' shit, man,
I barely work out.

The only reason I work out
is because I want to get laid.

And I don't even get laid
that much no more.

[chuckles]
You know what I mean?

Quit dancin', fuckin' stock went
fuckin' to the ground.

Like, I'll pound a chick
for about two minutes, man.

I'm like--
[wheezing]

Be like,
"Hey, go get me some water.

Go get me a cup of water,
hey, put some ice in it."

I'm on film, right now? [male] What's that?

Are you all recordin' already? Yes.

Oh, shit.

Okay, go ahead.

Whoops-a-daisy.

[Nick] Aw, yeah, check it out,
we got beautiful Kristin

celebrating her bachelorette
party out there.

Where's Kristin's
bachelorette party?

Make a little noise over there.

Randy's actually how
I got in the business, you know?

I used to be a personal trainer
at this gym.

And I'd always see this dude
workin' out, man.

He used to trip me out,
you know?

He'd be in there workin' out,
wearin' t-shirts

with his picture
on there and stuff.

And he'd always come up to me
and he's like,

"Man, you're a handsome man.

You ever thought about doin'
any male dancin'?"

"Fuck are you
talking about, man?"

He's like, "Yeah, you know,
I own a club, La Bare."

I'm like, "What?"

You know, I'm thinkin'
like, a bear,

like a fucking God damn
grizzly bear and shit.

Girl, I heard this is your last
fling before the ring, girl.

You know what happens when the
mare stays in La Bare, right?

Dude, I made like,
300 bucks in ones, you know?

I'm like,
"Okay, I can do this."

And then one year
turned into like, twelve years.

You know what I mean?
Just flies like that.

We got her a shy guy, ladies.

It's his second week
in La Bare, ladies.

Somebody scream!

[cheering]

Biggest thing when
you go on stage

is to try not
to look awkward.

You know, you just gotta relax.

Every movement you make

just gotta be confident
in what you're doing.

The moment you start
to think and feel awkward,

that's when you look awkward,
you know what I mean?

And girls just sense that.

Playboyreleased
a magazine that says,

"Playboy'stop 100 vixens."

I looked at the back,
I'm like,

"I wonder if I banged
any of these girls?"

Because, you know, I banged
a lot of Playboymodels.

And then I look at the back
and I was countin' through there

and had little pictures
of their faces.

I counted seven girls
from the "Playboy'stop 100"

that I fucked, from different
cities and shit.

I'm like, "Fuck yeah."

Bought the magazine
and I was like, "It's awesome."

Want to see a man taking it half
way off or all the way off?

So, even
the simplest movements,

whether you're
takin' off your shirt--

You know what I mean, it's just
gyrating a little bit,

just-- just relaxing,
being confident,

making eye contact
with the girls,

That's what you gotta do
to get these girls,

you know,
to get their attention.

If not, then you're
just another dude.

This is where I spend
a lot of my time back here.

This is my man cave.

Play these video games

and have all these old-school
Nintendo games.

So, I've been collecting these
since I was a little kid.

So, my off days, I spend a lot
of time in here.

And this little guy
right here,

this is Tucker, man,
this is my little dog.

Little Ewok.

He's part of the wolf pack, man,
he's cool.

Whole trash can full
of beer cans I ought to pick up.

Pretty crazy party night for,
uh, the La Bare boys last night.

This is my dining room,
this is where I eat.

So, that's it.
[chuckles]

It's my house.

I went through like,
a phase

where I was a little
promiscuous, you know?

Back when I what used
to actually get laid.

For whatever reason, dude,
I fuckin' downloaded

some fart noises.

I don't know--
I don't know why I did that.

But it was like,
five minutes of it, dude.

Of different types
of fart noises.

So, I'm hooked with one
of the hottest chicks

I've ever hooked up with, dude.

She's a Kansas City Chiefs
cheerleader.

This chick was hot, dude.

So, we got the mood goin', man,
fucking got the hotel.

I got my laptop on.
We're fuckin' gettin' down.

Out of all the God damn songs it
could have fuckin' shuffled to,

third fuckin' song lands
right on that five minute--

five-minute-long song
of all those fart noises.

She's like, "Why would you have
that on your downloaded?

What the fuck was that?"

I'm like, "I don't know"
I blamed it on Trent.

[Nick]
We met here at La Bare.

He first started
and I didn't really like him

a whole lot
because he was new.

What did I say?Yeah.

Yeah, he asked me how long
I plan on working here.

He's like, "How long do you
think you're gonna work here?"

I was like, "Man, I don't know,
hopefully a while."

And he just walked off.

I had a group of guys come and
try to start a fight with us.

And, uh, this fuckin' idiot come
to the rescue over there

and kind of backed us up.Yeah.

So, I kind of had a new respect
for him after that.

♪

[Nick] Dude, he has pretty
horrible taste, in my opinion.

I don't really have taste.

And I don't really have
a particular kind of girl

I go for, man, um...He goes for anything
with big tits.

Pretty much, man, so, I mean.
You know what I mean?

[Nick] I don't really just so much like wing manning for him.

Because usually the chicks
he tries to hook me up with

are horrendous.Oh, come on, man.

Their butt
is pretty good, bro.

He's jumped on a few grenades
for me though,

which I appreciate.

We do, I mean--

And that-- the thing is now
like, if we met,

it's like, we'll have
a girl that we want,

but if they want to switch
and they decide to change,

we really don't give a shit.

We're like,
"That's cool too."

Like, you know what I mean?

So, the older we've gotten,

the more we've adapted to it,
I would say.

You know what I mean?

So, we got that goin'
for us now, I guess.

♪

[Nick] When you get out
in the real world

and you do real work,
you're like, "This sucks."

You know what I mean?

[Trent] Yeah, I did it for four and a half years, man.

So, he decides he wants
to be an electrician and--

Went to school,
did the school.

Moved up to Tennessee.

Got my journeyman card.

Yeah, in the real world
it's a little different, man.

You're not that cool dude
onstage no more.

You know what I'm sayin'?

One time a friend of mine
was doing a promo

for, uh, like, Trojan condoms
or something, right?

And they came by and dropped off
this box of condoms

that probably had about--

Probably had about
a thousand condoms in it.

A friend, she happened to be
in my laundry room

when I was doing
a laundry load.

She looked down and the box
was towards the bottom.

She's like, "Oh, my God."Only been like,
three months, man.

[Nick] Everybody starts out
at the bottom

and ends up on the top--
it's just a cycle.

So, like, when we were like,
the main guys--

you know, we're seeing like,
the guys now

that are like, the top dogs,
they were like,

the new guys that we used
to fuck with and haze.

And now these guys are like,
the top money-makers.

And it's just like,
"fuck," you know?

Man, that was me three,
four years ago.

So, it's kind of funny,
you know?

[Nick] He's got a problem
interacting with the crowd.

So, let's see if we can get some
girls up there to help him out.

Come in to Father Free
if you're good in bed

and you can ride that shit
till four AM in the morning.

I want to see a show of hands.

I need that whole party
with their hands up.

I need you to the front
of the stage right now.

I got one, that's not enough.
I want all three of you.

Bring your dollars
with you, baby.

No, no, I want
that girl sittin' down too.

There you go.

There we go.

You gotta adapt to the crowd.

You gotta know what kind
of music to play,

what's out there, you know?

Some days, you know, we might
have 200 women

and they're all wearing
cowboy hats.

We gotta gear it towards more
the country crowd.

You know, country music.

So, it's a lot more involved
than just going out there

and takin' your clothes off,
you know?

[Randy] New guys over here
in line, please.

Every Thursday night, ladies,
for the last 33 years

is La Bare's
best-dressed amateur contest.

If you have somebody you know
that takes to be part

of our dance and dream team,

get 'em to come on up
to La Bare's house.

We'll find out
if they have what it takes

to be part of the team.

All right, gentlemen,
how are you doin' tonight?

[all] Good.I understand all you gentlemen
are here for the contest?

Yes, sir.Okay, I need to meet every one
of you and find out your name.

What's your name, sir?Joshua.

Knew some freak people
that'd done this before.

And they said you could make
some money.

They said I had good looks.

I said, "Okay, let's
try it out."

I jump out of planes,
so, I mean, not a problem.

No, just for fun.

Twice.

[Randy]
Joshua, nice to meet you.

Rafael-- Rafael.Pardon me?

Rafael, Randy,
nice to meet you.

I'm a third generation.

My grandfather was
a stripper at La Bare.

My stepdad was a stripper
at La Bare

and Houston, 22 years ago.

I'm a third generation.

George, my pleasure.

Troy.Pardon me?

Troy.Troy the terrific,
nice to meet you.

Brandon.

I came here
for a friends birthday.

So, I'm here
on a business trip right now

and I got roped in on this,

so, I'm just gonna give it
all I got.

Brandon, looks like
you're a construction worker.

And you are, sir?Tyson.

I go by K-O,
you know what I'm sayin'?

'Cause I knock it out.

All day, anything,
gotta knock it out, get it done.

If you're not first,
you're last.

So, that's just how
I do my little swag about it.

Can you scoot in
a little bit, sir?

All right, just 'cause I don't
want to repeat this.

Can everybody be quiet
for a second and listen to me?

This is an amateur contest.

This is where you actually
are to work here.

Every gentleman here--
Are you late, sir?

Yeah.Are you in the contest?

Mm-hmm.Okay, can you please set
your stuff down

on this table over here?Yeah.

It's redundantly frustrating

to go over this stuff
several times,

so let's please pay attention.

What's your name, sir?Cameron.

Cameron, Cameron?

Camron.Ron, like Ron, Camron.

Camron, nice to meet you, sir.

I'm Randy, my pleasure.

My name is Camron.

Um, I've been in the industry
probably three years.

Many real dancer knows how
to always separate theirself

from the competition,
if they're a real dancer.

And I'm just in here
to clean up.

And, uh, get some more money,
pay my car loan.

This is the rules for everybody.

They pertain to you specifically
because you don't work here.

You're not insurance here.

You can't show your penis,
your anus, your testicles.

You can't simulate sexual act.

None of you will go down
to the floor

on your hands and knees
or on your back.

You take tips on the floor,
you take 'em between the sides

from the front to the back.

Do not let girls put their hands
on the front of your package

or the back where your crack is.

All that's illegal,
you can get arrested.

You can't have a fly
in the front

where your penis can come out,

can't be hangin' down.

See what this is, guys?

No disrespect,
that's called a fly.

If you have a fly in your
underwear, you cannot wear it

'cause your penis can come out.

It's just plain and simple.

This is an applause-oriented
contest.

And you can come up
and feed the animals.

So, yes, that means
you can tip the amateurs.

Everybody understand?Yes, sir.

Okay, now I need to go
and get everybody's name

that you're dancing by.

What name are
you using tonight?

Just whatever name
you pick, okay?

Mr. Shiny Shoes.Pardon me?

Shiny Shoes.Okay, suggestion guys.

You need to pick a name
that's simple

and easy to understand
and pronounce.

What's your real name?Joshua.

Use Joshua.
Keep it simple, guys.

You don't want to use
Mr. Penetration

or Chocolate Boom Boom
or-- your name?

Uh, George.George, perfect.

Thing of Shades.Shades?

Shades.

[Randy] Are you all ready
to see some amateur beasts?

Say, "Hell, yeah!"

[crowd]
Hell, yeah!

Hell, yeah! Hell, yeah!

Say, "Let's get naked!"

Come on with the beasts.

Let's go!

One, two, three, four.

♪

Oh, yeah, man,
oh, yeah.

We got TI,
TI over here, TI.

That kid's not 18.
There's no way, bro.

That fucker's not even
16 years old.

Is he doing the robot?

Oh, my God.

Oh, here we go.

[Chase]
It takes a whole lot

to really make it
in this business.

It's not just like,

"Oh, I'm a good looking guy,
I can do this."

Uh, like, that's not--
you know?

Because look at me,
I'm not really

that great looking
of a dude.

But, you know,
I love the show aspect

in entertainment
and do okay.

Like, it's-- it's more of a--
you have to have a mix.

[announcer] All right, girls,
let me hear you screaming!

Hell yeah.

[chattering]

Fucking Larry Byrd, bro.

[Cole] Amateur night
is crazy, man.

Like, I've seen some stuff
over the years.

I mean, dicks come out
and I mean,

these guys are just
a different breed for sure.

I believe Chase
did amateur night, I think.

You know, Cesar also was a, uh--
I think he did amateur night.

[Cesar] You know, I did
the typical amateur thing.

Like sitting there
with my socks on,

trying to freaking take
my pants off.

[chattering]

[Chase] There is nothing
quite so bad as, uh,

dancing around
in your underwear

in front of a bunch
of women

with no one coming
to your stage.

You know, just like,
hanging out like,

[snaps fingers]
"How you guys doing," you know?

"Everybody cool tonight?
All right."

God, he's got one move.
That's his move.

[chattering]

You never know
what to do up there.

[Cole] I feel blessed to be able to do what we do at night.

Because so many guys
come every week

and like,
they want a job bad.

Like, they would do anything.

The routine,
wake up at four o'clock,

eat four egg whites,
go to work out right after that.

Do an hour and a half
of running.

Do legs, everything else,
sauna.

Get through with that.

Eat tilapia
and a cup of broccoli.

Get through with that,
come straight to workout

ready to compete.

[men]
Yeah.

Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah!

[Troy] I don't tell.
I show.

You don't let the competition
know your moves.

[Cole]
They combed the Marine.

He was like, saying he was
the champ and this and that.

He won like,
two back-to-back weeks.

He did so many fucking
cartwheels in a row.

I mean, all the guys were
really yelling for him.

Yeah, I mean, that kid is,
he's a hoot, man.

♪

♪

[Troy] Just years of practice.
That's all it is.

Become a pro--
practice, practice, practice.

Get up on that level--
practice.

[men cheering]

[male] They just either don't
have it like,

as far as body or--
I'm like, man,

you could never work here,
dude, because no woman

wants to be talked to crazy
and this and that.

Man, the energy around here's
pretty good, you know?

And everybody's pretty chill,
you know?

Like, we don't need
any bad apples in here.

♪

♪

[Chase] You know, everybody
is replaceable.

The club has definitely
taught me that.

♪

♪

[JD] Part of it is just,
I mean, who's better looking.

I mean, honestly.
You just gotta get lucky.

Last but definitely not least,
ladies, welcome up Chaz!

[screaming]

Tonight's winner is Chaz!

Ladies, let me hear
you screaming!

Chaz was our winner tonight.

He actually is already
hired now.

He's currently got a job
at La Bare Dallas.

You guys did a fantastic job.

And, uh,
want to congratulate you.

Uh, I want to talk to you about
being one of our shot guys.

Because you actually definitely
have the body for it.

You're handsome enough.

Troy, still got to keep your
diet and work out a little bit.

You're very energetic
and charismatic-- keep that.

You're going to need to work
a little bit on your body.

You know that.
We've have several discussions.

You know I have
a personal trainer gym.

Master Blaster Fitness.

So, told you to come over
and work out.

You know, I'll write
a diet for you.

You can only get the results
on how serious you're gonna be.

[Cole] Angelo was
the alpha male.

He made the most money,
had the best body.

Overall, like, everything
that had the total package,

Angelo was the best
I've ever seen.

When Angelo came onstage,
I said these girls forgot

about whoever
they liked before then.

[Brett] He never had to do
anything but step out

on that stage,
throw his hands up in the air.

And girls would just "whoo",
you know, rush that stage.

Frankly, I've never seen
anybody else

ever make that impact,
you know, on the stage-- ever.

[female] The latest show,
it was in the shower.

And I remember sitting
in the back.

Um, it was Alex the owner.

And he said,
"What do you think?"

I said, "I can't think."

I was like, I was gone.

I was screaming
just like everybody else.

I mean, girls--I didn't see
the shower thing.

Oh, you missed out.
You missed out.

What was it about?Woo!

Uh, well--She's getting like,
hot flashes now.

[Cole] You know,
he's 6'3", 6'4",

you know,
230 pounds, shredded.

You know,
and always smiling.

I would just walk next to him
and just watch even guys,

you know, just like,
staring at him like,

"Damn, who's this guy?"

[David] He was good
at everything, it was nuts.

He was a baseball player.

He was a runner.

He was like, a football player.

He was a skateboarder, surfer.

You know, he was a entertainer, a drummer.

He was a swimmer.

He dove like, 20 feet
and he looked up at you.

You're, and you're like this.

And he's like "whoo",
like this, all having fun.

Just in, you know,
just in the ocean with a mask.

And he comes back up,
take a piece of air,

and comes right back down.

It's like, it--
he was incredible.

I never seen a man
that was able to have

four or five girls
that he's sleeping with

in the same room, get along,
it's-- it's insane.

We'd gone to pool parties
and there's five girls there.

And he's like,
he's with all of them.

And he's drinking, all partying,
they're all high fives.

It's like, never seen it before
until I met Angelo.

If anybody else did that,
you would lose all of them,

you know, for sure.

And he made them all like, kind
of coexist with each other.

And I'm just like, "I don't know
what you got, man,

but if I could just have it
for one day, wow."

He was the real Magic Mike.

Like Elvis Presley
of La Bare.

I don't know how else
to put it.

Uh, the best I ever seen,
uh, was Angelo.

Yeah, for sure.

Um, you know,

I never seen anybody like him
before or after.

Family and friends tonight are
remembering the father

of a six-year-old boy
killed last night

outside a Dallas nightclub.

[Alex] He was like,
you know, Elvis Presley.

He's like Wayne Gretzky
in hockey.

He was, you know,
Michael Jordan.

He was of this business,
in the world.

Dozens of family and friends
are gathered here

where Ruben Riguero worked.

A father of a six-year-old son
was shot and killed

in what the family says was
a case of mistaken identity.

♪ I came home

♪ In the morning
just a little bit ago ♪

[Cole] I woke up at like,
9:30 in the morning,

uh, with like, 50 missed calls
and like, 70 text messages.

And my phone was on silent.

So when I woke up like,
it was still dark in the room.

And my eyes were just like,
still trying to register,

going through these texts.

And I was like, what the fuck
is going on, you know?

And I just like,
dropped my phone

and, um [sighs]

I tried to calm
everybody down.

"You know, hey, it's okay,
you know.

"It's just a shot.

"I've seen a lot of people
got shot in Russia,

"here, everywhere,
you know.

"Don't-- don't worry about,
you know, Angelo's strong.

You know,
he's going to make it."

When the doctor asked
for the-- the family members,

that it was us that showed up
at the hospital.

And then I told doctor
I got to go see him.

You know,
I just don't believe it.

I got to go see it.

And, uh, and, uh,
they let me.

They let me come in and, uh,
look at his body.

Man, I just couldn't
believe it.

Dallas police continue
their investigation.

The family has created
a fund to help out with...

[JD] I was with him
that night.

It was just a good night.

We all went VIP,
got in the place for free.

There was-- we had bunch
of girls with us.

"Come with us, come with us."

"No, no, no, no."
I didn't want to go.

I said, "You guys be careful,
I'm going home."

[Cole] He was like,
"Hey, Jerry," he was like,

"All the guys
from Miami are in town."

He was like, "Let's go, let's
go to afterhours tonight."

I was like,
"Hell no, man.

Uh, I can't
stay out all night."

I was like, "I got Tristan,
you know, my little boy."

And he was like,
"All right, Jerry."

He was like,
"I'll holler at you later."

I brought everybody
a big handle of tequila.

We were passing it around,
having a good time.

[Wesley] They had all gotten
together for a group picture.

Shortly after that there was
a scuffle that ensued.

Some guy walked up
and grabbed

one of the guys'
girlfriend's butts.

He grabbed me.

Like held onto my arm,
wouldn't let me go.

And so Elvin walked up
and like,

yanked us apart
and pushed me away.

The other guy came up to me
and got in my face.

I was like, dude, chill.

I recognized his face, okay?

This was a guy that used
to come into the fair room
when I was there.

He was one of those guys that
we knew was a pimp.

You know, like he had girls
working the club.

And he was known
to be a drug dealer.

He say something like, you know,
you know, some bad word,

"Fuck you, asshole."

I don't even know
what he said.

I said, you know,
"Fuck you too," whatever.

You know, just going
to go there.

Grabbed the girls,
I went there.

Branagan came in
the dance floor

and starts talking
to Elvin again.

And before you know it he--

The guy just
fucking punched me.

The bouncers came in the club.

They came in,
they separated everybody.

They was talking
to everybody.

All of a sudden Branagan
came across, ran,

and hit Angelo in the face.

And then the-- that's when the
bouncers, they went out on him.

The bouncers threw him
in the ground, kicked him.

They-they-they hit him.

At one point they grabbed him
and threw him so hard,

he landed-- his neck landed
like, in a chair, in a rail.

I asked Angelo,
"Are you okay?"

Because he got hit
in the face.

He did his little thing
like that that he does,

his little shake, handshake.

He goes, "psh,"
that's nothing, Johnny.

We stayed there
about 30 minutes.

When they went outside, this guy
had been sittin' in his car

for 20, 30 minutes with-- just
waitin' for them to come out.

So Elvin's walking,
looking for his car.

And this guy's stalking Elvin.

I kind of look at him
and he's like,

"Come on, come on,"
or something like that.

I'm like, "What, what?"

And so he kind of sees me
and he goes back to his car.

And then he turns around and he
says, "Y'all want some of this?"

It's presumed that the shooter
in this case, Mr. Hopkins,

was acting reasonably if he is
in his car or his home

and someone is either trying
to get him out of his car

by using force

or trying to break into his car
by using force.

I see three of the guys
at the car are La Bare guys

with their hands on the car,
shaking the car.

Angelo approached the car
where Branagan was sitting.

Uh, flicked him off.

Because obviously he got punched
in the face.

And he-- and he slapped
the mirror off.

And then the guy
rolled down his window

and said something like,
"I got something for you."

And Branagan took out the gun
and shot him in the chest.

I was right there
when it happened.

Like, directly behind him--
caught him and everything.

They drive off.

We get up
and I look at Angelo.

I'm like, "Angelo, are you okay,
are you okay?"

Because when he got hit,
he just kind of did that.

So I didn't know.

So I said, "Are you okay,
are you okay?"

And he just turns around
and gives us the biggest smile.

And starts to go the ground.

I just don't get how
you can have, uh, two assaults

on a family member
on a record.

You know, domestic violence
against your own
family members.

Uh, have a possession
of a switchblade, a DWI,

and be able to drive around
with a gun in your car.

I just-- I don't get that.

It was a stupid move for the
guys to start hitting his car.

But he could've driven off
at any time.

He drove off immediately
when he-- when he shot.

Talking to like,
the police people,

they said that the guy's car
wouldn't turn over.

It wouldn't start.

And I just have
to call BS on that.

Yeah, it's--

'Cause, I mean, he was never
trying to start the car.

Car was on.

I told this to the DA
and the DA don't--

Dallas DA, uh,
has been in the paper

for being investigated
for corruption.

I don't know,
I heard from other lawyers

that, um, this guy was probably,
uh, an informer

or some shit for drugs--
I really don't know.

The first thing
they were asking me--

They asked me
so many drug questions.

Does Angelo sell drugs,
does he, does he do drugs?

I mean, it was like drugs
after drugs after--

I said "No, this is not
drug related at all.

No, they don't know
each other."

Whatever happened,
it was bullshit.

The next day
he was bailed out.

Couple of months later,
he's free.

Done-- nothing-- case dropped.

It didn't even make it
to the juror.

In fact, the DA told me
that the evidence that he had

could not-- he wouldn't be able
to convict him.

Who knows?

Maybe because
we're dancers, strippers.

Nobody cares about a stripper.

Me and David were trying
to organize a protest,

you know,
to the city of Dallas.

This guy,
this Branagan Hopkins guy

that murdered Angelo,
he wrote me on Facebook.

Like, I had to make
a police report about it.

He was just like,
"You're, uh, funny.

Your protest wasn't much
of a protest, now was it?"

And he was like, he goes, "Oh,
you're so tough," this and that.

He was like,
"You're a character, girl."

Man, I was so mad.

Like, I was shaking at my desk
like, at my day job,

looking at this fucking message
on my phone.

But you have to some sort
of remorse

that you killed somebody.

Even if there's
no criminal liability.

There should be some remorse.

Just so sad.

I believe he-- he was gonna be
something big.

He made this video on YouTube.

It's called Ruben's Message.

It was like, you know, sittin'
like, how I'm sittin'.

And he was like,
just tell people,

you know,
what you want them to hear.

You know,
like a quick somethin'.

And he says, uh--

[Angelo]
My name is Angelo Riguero.

I'm from Venezuela,
27 years old.

He was like, "You know,
every day I wake up

and I give thanks to God,
you know, for everything"

and I'm always grateful
to have friends, you know.

I'm always grateful
to have people to help me.

Always grateful to have
a good family in Venezuela

that I love to help.

He kind of stumbles
across his words a little bit.

And, you know,
he said, uh,

you know, if anybody ever
wants to talk to me--

If we ever, I ever get
to meet anybody out there,

please come and ask me
about anything.

I love to talk.

He, uh, was a great guy.

In my opinion, he was, uh,
the best male dancer

in the world
at the time what happened.

[clears throat]
If I had a son,

I'd be proud for him
to be my son, um...

So, basically,
he's one of my mentor.

Like, you know, he gave me
a drive to like,

get up in the morning,
like go do stuff.

What the hell
are you doing, dude?

You don't ever do this.

This guy.

he was going to,
uh, let me be

one of his,
you know, partners.

Like, you know, make money.

And, um, yeah, he was just--
Ah!, man.

[Cole] That's why I have
the broken heart.

You know, he was always like,
"Man, you know,

"I've never really been
in love with a woman.

"So, I don't know
what that feels like

to be heart--
broken hearted."

You know, but my best friend
being murdered

like, really killed me.

[Angelo] I love life
in every way possible, okay?

I love life
in every way possible.

Just be happy in life, man.

Just be happy in life and be
grateful about everything.

You never know when
it's going to end.

If you put a smile
on your face,

you put a smile
on everybody's face, you know?

So, just keep it positive.

Shit.

[JD] I think
we're the cowboys today.

Take Channing,
show him how to do these.

And, uh, you know, we go in.

We got a little skit
that we do.

Um, unless it's at a restaurant.

Then we just kind of go in
and start dancing real quick.

But if it's, uh, somebody's
house, we go in kind of--

They're kind of cheesy skits,
but it gets the girls involved.

Dance for about 30 minutes,
take some pictures,

you know, get paid
and come back to work.

[Channing]
I've done two.

It was like a bachelorette
and bachelor party all in one,

so, it was really awkward.

Because like the husband was
like right next to me

while I was dancing on his,
well, to-be wife.

I was dancing on her
and he was like right there.

I'm like,
"This is really awkward."

I didn't really know what to do.

[JD] You got
some swingers?

No, they weren't even swingers.

It was just really awkward,
they were kind of ghetto.

And I didn't--
didn't really know what to do.

[JD]
I absolutely love swingers.

I make the--
so much money off swingers.

Like, you come in.

Alex told me how to do it.

Like, you come in and everybody
wants to stay away

because there's a guy.

I'm like screw it.

So, I go up, I introduce myself
to the husband

or boyfriend or pimp,
whatever he is.

And then after that,
I'll always dance

on the stage
right in front of him.

And then from there,
they'll come up and get a dance.

I charge both of them.

You know, they always want VIP
so he can watch,

and I charge both of them.

Like, if a dude wants to watch,
he's paying.

So, take care of that.

I gotta find somebody's pants
to wear.

Laurie, we're gone.

Hi.Hello.

[cheering]

[clamoring]

How are y'all doing?

Want some? Woo-hoo!

Cowboy you're looking for--
your name is Bronco Billy.

I'm looking
for a little filly.

Well, like I said,
my name's Bronco Billy.

And I'm here looking
for a little filly.

I need somebody to come
and work the ranch with me.

Who'd like to work
on the ranch?

And you're a ranch foreman
and you go in there

and you're looking for somebody
to work the ranch.

And you got to make sure
they can ride a horse.

What about you?
You like to work outdoors?

Sure.Who's Tiffany?

Tiffany's right here.Hi.

Shit.

[laughing]
[cheering]

Happy birthday
to fucking you.

Ow.Are you okay, sweetie?

Yeah.
[laughing]

Let's get you up.

Yeah, I'm okay.

[JD] Let's give her
another drink.

Anybody know how to ride
hard and fast?

You teach them how to ride
one soft and slow,

hard and fast, and then both.

[JD] Channing's gonna
demonstrate hard and fast.

You get the arms out wide.
Get your arms out wide.

Oh, that's not fast.

[clamoring]

[JD] The other way
is soft and slow.

Who thinks they like
soft and slow?

[female]
Everybody likes it.

Yeah.We're ladies.

It's so sweet.
Why wouldn't you like it?

I can do this.You like that?

Yeah.Like that?

Yeah.You all right?

[JD] I just kind of go
with the flow.

This is how I started
making my money.

Because I was real nervous
onstage in the beginning.

But the strip-o-grams
I was pretty good at.

So I kept building those up.

And then that'd kind of help me
relax when I came in the club.

Plus when people come to see
you after the strip-o-grams,

they're going to tip you more.

So, I get probably 90 percent
of my parties coming back.

You know, the main goal is
to get them back in the club.

You do that and then
they just keep coming.

[JD] You're just acting,
you know?

Just having a good time
with it.

They have a good time too.

[female]
So tonight, La Bare?

[clamoring]

[Bo] You know, it's funny.

Alex, like, he'll always say
girls are a dancer's worst enemy

because, you know,
it always happens.

You know, girls come,
they talk to the dancers,

they fall in love,
whatever, they leave.

So, I mean that's kind of--

I guess that's kind
of the truth, you know?

I mean it-- and it's--
I'm a big family man.

So, having a baby, that was
the big push to kind of,

you know, could I be a dancer
and have a family?

I think so, I definitely
know that could happen.

I mean, hormonally at the time,

I think she was totally opposed
to that idea.

I mean, I don't know
if she still is or not.

But, I mean, it's--
it's kind of at the time

that's what kind of had
to be done.

I just needed to kind of
back out and take care of this.

So...

♪

God bless a man.

[cheering]

[female] You know, you--
you go home to--

to Mr. "You Think It's Right."

And then you go out to the club and you find 25 of--

man, I've never seen any
of your kind here

ever in my life,
except for TV.

And then, well, I guess
you change your mind.

I don't know.

These girls are used
to the picket fence

with their 8s
and 7s and 6 1/2s.

So, when you have 10s
in front of you

and you have a bunch
of rumple and stuff,

I mean, what do you want me
to say?

I was okay with it
for a while.

And then once I got
pregnant with her,

I tried to be
okay with it.

But hormones.

I was like just,
I wasn't having it anymore.

It was late hours and I was
at home all night by myself.

And he was at the club and I
was kind of jealous, I guess.

It just-- it definitely changed
when I couldn't go up there

and like, hang out with him
and party with them after.

Like it just
kind of changed.

[crying]

Addie.I know, right?
It's terrible.

Can I go?Let her check.

One, two and three.
[cheering]

[JD] I mean, that's normally
when I'll pitch like,

bringing them back to the club.

And free bottle
of champagne tonight.

[cheering]

Does this job ever get old?
No, it don't get old.

Only 401[K] we got is pussy.
[laughs]

That's it.

[Wesley] I think that saying
that I said was,

uh, "Nothing is right or wrong, only thought makes it so."

As a young man,
you're out testing the world.

You're-- It's like a buffet
and you're trying,

you're sampling everything.

There comes a time
where we shift.

Life becomes more subjective
rather than objective.

If you think about an infant,

everything is an object
and they always want to know

what it is and they only know it
by putting it in their mouth.

And they view themselves
as the center of the universe,

which is kind of the ultimate
selfishness stand

or selfish stand.

It's-- it's all about me.

And then there comes that point where you have a reckoning.

Because you know.

And then your life shifts
and you become subjective,

where you say, "I'm not going
to touch that burner

"because I already know
what happens when I do.

"It burns me.
It's hot.

I feel pain from it."

For me, that moment came.

I had a child
and I realized in a moment

that I had gotten so good
at my act

that I believed
that I was really that person.

I had a tipper
that used to come in.

We used to sell a stack
of $100 just in singles.

And it'd have that ribbon
wrapped around it.

So, she'd get like,
five or seven of those.

And when I'd be up onstage,
she'd come up

and slap 'em down
right on stage.

And it was like she was telling
every girl in there,

"He's mine."

You know, what are
you gonna do?

Somebody lays that money
at your feet, this is it.

So, I finally one day
said to her,

I wanted a Harley.

And I said,
"You're gonna buy me a Harley."

I said I've been saving
everything

that you've ever given me.

And she says, "Well,
how much have I given you?"

I said, "I've got six grand."

And she was completely
taken back

because she didn't realize
she had given me that much.

So, soon as she realized that
she was gonna buy that Harley,

and that I was saving
that money,

she started bringing more in.

She was bringing in
thousand a week.

And every week she'd be,
"How much do you got now?

How much you got now?"

And I got up to 12 grand.

It was 12,700 for the bike
when I bought it.

And, uh, that's how
I got the bike.

[Randy] The ladies who'd been
my clients or my fans,

psychologically speaking, what
they think they are to you,

what society thinks
they are to you,

and what they really are to you is such a wide range.

But one lady tipped me
a $75,000 cashier's check.

And then I made $10,000
in cash that night.

[JD] I was brought up, you know,
military like family.

Very much like,
"Yes, sir, no sir."

This is how you treat
a woman and everything.

And you kind of have
to throw that out the window

and realize that it's like,
fantasy land.

And so, it's okay.

I mean, you're not-- you're not
supposed to lie to 'em

or anything like that
or act like you're dating.

That's when you're
kind of crossing the line.

Some guys do it,
some guys don't.

But to get used
to a girl like,

asking to pay your car payment
or pay your bills,

that's kind of like,
it's kind of weird.

But I haven't said no yet.

It's just this big game.

It's a big game
that you make money off of.

[Koven performs
"Wake you Up"]

♪ Before I know

♪ I'm falling down

♪ I wanna wake you up

♪ At the end of the night

[JD] You don't fuck
your money.

It's the saying, "You don't shit where you eat."

Once you like, hook up
with a girl,

she's already got everything.

The fantasy
has been fulfilled.

Now why would she ever
come back and tip you?

So, that's why you only
do it to girls

that you know
aren't coming back.

Hey!

[female] It's got
to be hard for a man.

I mean, it's like
you have a sweet tooth

and you get stuck in a candy
store every day, you know?

[laughs] Eventually
you're going to try

one of the pieces of candy.

[JD] Three girls in a night,
four girls in a week.

Whatever
you really want to do.

Then you can start forgetting
about the money.

So, you kind of have
to refrain and realize

that, "Hey, I need to not sleep with every girl."

[Brett] My money went down
because when a girl would buy,

want to buy you a shot
because, you know,

"Hey, take a shot,
take a shot, you know."

And I like, "No, I'm--
sweetie, I'm dieting.

"I can't take
a shot right now.

I got this big competition
coming up."

They're like "Oh, okay.

I'll go give it
to somebody else."

And then they take a shot
and they'll get lap dances

and stuff because they're all having fun, partying and stuff.

And I'm sitting here serious
and, you know,

I got a goal and a dream
and stuff like that.

So, it was hard
to juggle the two.

I didn't want to be
an alcoholic.

I didn't want
to drink every night.

You know what I mean?

I didn't want to be
a old cowboy.

[Randy] My knees and my hips
and my ankles,

even down to the bones
of my feet

get-- tend to get the tendinitis
and inflamed so much

that sometimes I need
to come over here

and cryo three times a week.

It's taking his core temperature
down to 300 below.

It makes his body believe
that he's dying.

So all the cold sensors go off.

So, when he's gets out
and the body's not dying,

it sends all of the oxygenated
brain chemical blood

out to save his life.

It's to heal any injuries
that he has.

[Randy] La Bare Dallas opened,
November 1, 1978.

My first day of dance
was February 12, 1979.

Have you ever seen the movie
Gremlinsafter they get wet?

You open, you just open the door
and they're, you look in

and they're,
they've all drank water

or got water dripped on them,
fluid, whatever.

And there's one in a blender
upside down, turning.

You look up here and one--
three are on the ceiling fan.

You look over there.

One-- another one's swinging
another one by its butt.

I mean, that's what it was like.

Fun stuff, good-looking guys
and built guys.

Ex-athletes,
football players,

track guys trying to make
a little extra money.

My second step in the door,
I just stopped.

I'm a fairly
physically big presence.

And so, I just stopped there
like this and I'm looking.

And a girl walks up and goes
"Are you dancing tonight?"

Mmmm!
Like that.

And I went, "Yeah."

Girls feeling
more independent,

feeling a little more
independent

and, uh, just feeling like,
uh, you know,

they had their rights and it was
their time to come party.

They wanted equal rights
and equal-- equal naked asses.

[female] We're gonna put
filler in Randy.

So as we-- as we age or work out
or diet really heavy,

we get really hollow.

So, it's kind of like
a build-a-bear.

We're just fluffing
everything back up.

Like artificial fat would be.

Fluff me.

[Randy] Being able
to lean down like I do.

You know,
I know it pretty well.

I get pretty lean.

And the lines in my face
would just get too,

in my opinion, too deep.

And, you know,
this is just healthy.

Uh, you know,
if you can afford it,

which it's not that expensive.

I want to spend money
and reinvest money into myself.

I feel, make yourself
feel better.

[female] People come in and they
like to look a little younger,

maybe a little fresher.

And so it kind of changes
their life.

And of course, I can't stand
aging myself, so...

[Randy] Now Master Blaster,
being it's since 1979,

it can only come
from one place.

Because Stevie Wonder hadn't
written a song yet.

I don't even know
if he was singing

or probably
just barely started.

I was in competitive
bodybuilding as a kid.

I started reading the muscle
mags in third and fourth grade.

So, I knew Arnold Schwarzenegger
was the guy,

you know, you wanted
to emulate yourself.

And his trainer was, the guy who
put him together was Joe Weider.

And his nickname was
the Master Blaster.

[announcer] Here he is, ladies, The Master Blaster.

Somebody scream!

♪

My very first time
I was 18 years old.

And we went
for a bachelorette party.

And I went in
with my friends

and there was
Randy Master Blaster.

[laughs]

So, I went and did a contest and
I got third instead of first.

So I was really depressed.

So, some of my football buddies
from high school

got me a nice t-shirt.

It had a Superman emblem
on front like,

"We think you're great."

And my nickname on the back.

My real name and my nickname,
which was Randy Master Blaster.

So, I was wearing
that shirt that night.

Just so happens
that's the one I'm wearing.

The manager
from La Bare goes,

"Hey, we're doing the amateur
contest, you going to do it?"

I'm like, "Well, no,
I wanted to be a waiter."

He goes, "No, we don't need
any waiters or bartenders."

He goes, "If you want
to work here,

only job you have is dancer."

♪

So, as soon as I walk out,
for whatever reason,

you know, the cowboy hat,
muscular guy, whatever,

they just went "waahh."

Like a yell,
screaming so loud.

"Ladies, how do you like
this guy?"

It was just like the whole place
just went "waahh."

It's surreal.

You just get-- It'd be like
Emmitt Smith feels

when he was running for
a touchdown in the Super Bowl.

You just feel like
you're unbeatable.

Of course,
I smoked everybody.

I made $283 in six minutes.

So, I didn't even know
what all I had.

Like, other guys were making
five, ten bucks.

And then girls just were
throwing money

and sticking it on me
like bum rush stage.

They were climbing up
on stage

and the floor guys were
pulling them down.

It was basically like a movie.
I thought I was in a movie.

When that adulation
is given to you

as an individual,
it feels so good.

It's almost like a--
it's an aphrodisiac,

almost like a drug--
you want that.

You get it.
You feel it.

And, I mean,
that was my buzz.

My grandfather said,
"Go out and sweep the yard.

I want you to rake up
all the leaves."

So, I go out there
and rake the leaves.

When I was a young guy,
I raked them all up

and they were in piles.

I said, "Grandpa, I'm finished,
can I go play?"

He looks outside and goes,
"Did you bag the leaves?""Oh no."

Went back outside
and bagged the leaves.

So, they're all
over the yard in bags.

"Grandpa, I bagged the leaves,
can I go play now?"

He goes, "Did you stack
the leaves on the street

so the trash
can pick them up?"

I took my family ethics
and put them to business

that I had passion for,
that I loved,

that I love to this day.

And I put
that package together.

I wasn't the best looking.

I wasn't the best built.

And God knows,
I'm not the best dancer.

So what he teach me?

He said, "Don't do anything
half-assed.

"If you're going to do
something,

"be the best
you can personally be at it,

if not the best in the world."

I think that's it.

You were such a good boy.

Thank you, thank you.

Woo!

205 pounds of twisted steel
and sex appeal.

33 years strong, thank you.

[whistling]

[male]
Who got burgers?

[JD] Lettuce, tomato--
this is a regular one also.

Who had a regular?Me.

Did you have a regular? [male] That's a regular.

This regular?Yeah.

Is it good?
I haven't tried one yet.

I haven't got
to try the meat.

It's greasy.

♪

♪

I just found myself like, damn,
you know, I'm a dad.

You know, like, it's--
it's crazy.

You know, like, but it's the
best feeling in the world, man.

Like, you come home stressed
the fuck out.

And I would just put my hands
like, in my face.

And Tristan come put his arm
around me.

He's like, "It's okay, daddy,"
you know, this and that.

And, you know, just makes
everything, you know, worth it.

It's the best feeling
in the world.

He's like, the only person
I like all the time.

You know?
So...

[Ace]
That's life.

Life is a bitch with a
pretty-ass face, you know?

You could let life fuck you
or you can say stop.

I'm a fuck you back, life,
you know?

We're boxing.
We're doing this shit.

You ain't going to get
the best of me.

[Nick] We come to work
and that's like,

the highlight of our night,
just coming to work

and just fucking cutting up,
man, you know?

Just making each other
laugh and shit.

So, that's what's cool
about having a job

that you can just go to
every day and just laugh.

You know what I mean?

And just have
a relaxed atmosphere

and so, it's pretty great.

It's the best job
in the world, man.

I'm cooking
for Randy the Master Blaster.

We got pork chops, rib eyes,
tilapia, and pork loins.

I'm, uh, yes.

She's the lean,
mean cooking machine.

We're his, uh, six pack.

That's right.

[laughs] Yes, we are.

He wants to be a lean,
mean dancing machine.

That's the main ingredient.

I told them what
the most important thing was.What?

Is to remember
that you want to be

the lean,
mean dancing machine.

That's right.

So now they're ready to eat.33 years of being the champ.

Yeah, longest dancing
male entertainer.

Yeah!
Master Blaster.

Yeah, that's it.

♪

So, are you hungry?

Okay, let's go.

I get her done, Joe.

♪

Okay.You can see the garden.

I'm sitting there?You're sitting there.

All right.Master Blaster's sitting here.

Okay.All the heads?

All right.Yeah, y'all are the heads.

Okay.The whole thing.

All right.Y'all deserve it.

♪

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