La Bare

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.

Hi.Hello.

You all ready?

[The Flaming Lips performing "Free Radicals"]

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.

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."

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."

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."

The money was good, the women...

awesome.

All right now, on the count of three,

if you like sex, you girls better scream together.

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

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.

Just everywhere, they come from.

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

This is the top male dance club in the world.

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.

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.

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.

I'm good? 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.

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.

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."

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?"

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.

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?

Somebody scream.

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.

Take if off!

Take it off!

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"]