Freakshow (2013–…): Season 2, Episode 12 - Freaks Hanging by a Wire - full transcript
This week, the Freakshow is holding an exciting suspension event. But first, Phoenix needs to find a date! He brings Zoe, a girl he met at a tattoo event, to his house and tries to impress her with his family's collection of oddities. Todd is surprised that Phoenix is turning into such a "ladies man" but Danielle has concerns. She prefers that Phoenix get together with Ruby, the girl who works next door to the Freakshow. At the Ray household, Jelly Boy the Clown, Matterz Squidling Andrew Stanton, and Kelvita the Blade stop by for dinner. They discuss the upcoming suspension event and Todd explains the history of suspension, which involves hanging bodies from meat hooks strung through the skin. Later, Phoenix follows his mom's advice and takes Ruby on a date. She is taken by his "goofball charm" and says that he is "winning her over". The next day, Asia offers Phoenix some advice on his love life. She tells him that he should make his own choices and go with his heart. Phoenix decides to bring Ruby to the suspension event, much to Danielle's delight. At the Freakshow, Andrew shows off the hooks that he'll use during Jelly Boy and Matterz's suspension stunt. Todd hopes the audience can handle this extreme stunt. It's show time! Jelly Boy gets four large hooks inserted into his back as the Freakshow gang looks on. The stunt begins as Matterz lies down in a coffin and gets completely covered with broken glass. Then, Jelly Boy gets attached to suspension cables through the hooks inserted into his back and is lifted high into the air. While suspended, he swallows a flaming sword above Matterz's coffin, symbolizing their triumph over death. Todd notes that the Freakshow witnessed two rites of passage this week - Jelly Boy and Matterz rising above death and Phoenix entering manhood.
Right now on "Freakshow".
I got a dilemma.
So, I went on a date with Ruby.
Your radiating beauty
is making me speechless.
Then, I went on a date with Zoe.
This is my house.
I'm not sure if I wanna
go with Ruby or Zoe.
Phoenix brought her here today.
No, did you tell him it was okay?
No.
This weekend, we're having
a big, suspension event.
- Here comes the hooks.
- Oh, I would never.
Look at the skin!
- Oh, my gosh!
- Ah!
Folks, today, you will witness
the strangest creatures on earth,
the living wonders of the world,
and the most amazing people on the planet.
They're all inside.
What you thought was a myth,
you will see with your own eyes.
Welcome to "The Freakshow."
♪
- Hey.
- Hey, how's it going?
Good... how are you?
Pretty good... about to do a show here.
It's been a long time
since we've seen each other.
Yeah, since the tattoo event.
- I know.
- Yeah.
Zoe is a girl that I met
at the tattoo event
we had a while back.
- How long did that one take?
- He held my arm.
- It took me three sessions.
- How many hours?
Two to three hours each time.
We became friends.
I invited her to come
down to "The Freakshow."
Do you like this kinda stuff?
- Yeah.
- You should see our house.
- It's crazy.
- Really?
We have banners on the walls.
We have just, like,
jars with, like, babies.
You know, two-headed babies and stuff.
Two-headed babies?
Yeah, you should come over later.
Right now, I'm single, so I am looking
to maybe find someone
or something like that.
Maybe become more than
friends, maybe, like,
a thing, then maybe more.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
I don't normally ask
girls over to my house,
but I really like Zoe, and I'm really glad
she said, "yes."
Oh, yeah, I am so down to go and see it.
- That'd be cool.
- Yeah.
♪
One is up... chaining this up, right now.
Yeah, I think they're almost
going into hibernation.
They are... they're so cute.
Look, they're, like, holding hands.
- Hey, guys.
- Hey.
Are we doing, uh, any
shows or anything today?
- Yeah, in just a minute.
- All right, cool.
Wow, it's nice to see you.
I haven't seen you in a few days.
- Where have you been?
- I've just been hanging out.
Hanging out with who, all day and night?
Just this girl... why?
- Uh-oh.
- Oh.
Hey, what... why?
- Girl or girls?
- Why does it matter?
Well, 'cause I wanna make sure
it's my girl next door, Ruby.
- It's not, though.
- It's not?
- No.
- Why?
I've asked her out in
the past, and she says, "no."
So, ask her, again.
Ever since Phoenix was a little boy
and ever since Ruby was a little girl,
they've worked side by side,
'cause we work right
next door to each other,
and Danielle has always had this fantasy
of them getting together,
her little boy and
the sweet girl next door.
I guarantee you, if you ask her out,
I think she'll say, "yes."
I mean, I... I'll ask her, again,
but I can't make any promises.
I think Ruby's really cool,
but I'm not sure
she's into me, and I'm 18.
I'm just trying to have fun and date.
I'm not ready for my mom
to plan out my wedding
with the girl next door yet.
I'm making you a promise.
That's the girl you're gonna marry.
- Oh, yeah?
- Mm-Hmm.
Let... let him make his decision, okay?
- [Laughter]
- She's giving you her advice.
- Oh, yeah.
- Now, she's gonna set up.
- Let's go... all right?
- Okay, I'll see you guys outside.
- No, but, Todd, really.
- I know, but you're too much.
- Why?
- Let the boy grow up already.
Okay, you guys, dinner is ready.
- Uh-oh, uh-oh.
- All right!
Ooh, it looks good.
Jellyboy, it's really
nice that you came out.
I'm really excited.
Uh, and, Matterz, same with you, brother.
And, um, Andrew and Kel,
I'm really excited,
especially as beautiful
as you have been looking.
- [Laughter]
- Stunning...
I can't help myself.
Andrew Stanton and Kelvikta
the blade are experts
at piercing and suspension,
and they are incredible
performers in their own right.
They're here this week to assist
Jellyboy The Clown and
his brother, Matterz Squidling,
two world famous performers
from the east coast,
who do everything from sword swallowing
to suspension.
Now, I could not be more
excited that these people
are here to perform at "The Freakshow."
Why did you start doing suspension?
I'd been around it just because, uh,
a lot of my friends were... were doing it.
And, uh, I said, "well,
put some hooks in me."
"I-I-I wanna do it."
Yeah, and so, they-they put me up, and I...
And I went right up,
and it was like I was...
A fish swimming in water, you know?
I was just swinging around,
having a great time, laughing.
How is suspension?
Like, what do you... like, what do you do?
Take clean hooks, and it's
freshly pierced every time.
It's through the skin, and
whether it's on the back,
or the chest, or the legs, or the knees,
just about anywhere you can pinch skin.
Suspension goes back thousands of years
to many cultures.
Now, suspension is
a death defying process,
where people hang their
entire bodies from meat hooks
in their skin.
The native Americans used it to transform
a young boy into a man.
And even today, people
use it to experience
altered states of mind.
When y'all suspend,
does it give you some kind
- of clarity or something?
- Oh, it makes you feel amazing.
It's... the gravity, it
feels like you're flying.
The release you get
from it is just amazing.
How about you, Jellyboy?
'Cause you really did face death.
You should tell the kids.
I don't think they know
what happened to you.
I was trapped inside of
a burning, uh, apartment.
So, I saw, literally,
my life flash before my eyes.
The fire started to fall
from the ceiling on-on to me.
And then, um, at that very moment of my...
What I thought was my death,
the door broke down,
and the firefighters came in.
- Wow!
- And scooped me up
and carried me out.
So, as a performer, did that experience,
like, scare you?
Or, were you okay to go back
to performing or...
The experience didn't
frighten me as-as a performer.
It made me want to go back
to performing that much more.
Yeah.
Well, Jellyboy, I'm glad
you're here and alive.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hallelujah.
Jellyboy is performing
a suspension stunt
this week that honors
his life altering experience
in that fire.
That fire has become
the inspiration for him
to do bigger and better stunts.
We're gonna do a combination of things
that we've never done before.
Right on... I can't... I wanna see that.
♪
This is my house.
♪
Wow, it's amazing.
How do you guys eat with that there?
This is here every day.
There's two-headed babies,
right there, that you...
I have bowls of cereal
in front of every morning.
- The one right here?
- Uh-huh.
- What's this?
- That?
I'm pretty sure it's a puppy.
- A puppy... what?
- Uh-huh.
So as co-owner of "The Freakshow,"
all this stuff, one day,
is gonna be in my house.
- Is it, really?
- Mm-Hmm.
- Gonna be passed down to you?
- All down to me, yeah.
I'm pretty excited about it.
- Mm-Hmm.
- Hey, Phoenix.
Hey.
You guys remember Zoe
from the tattoo event.
- Hey, how are you?
- Hi.
- Good to see you.
- Good to see you, too.
- How do you like the house?
- I love it.
Are you ready to run away...
Run to the hills?
Oh, no-no-no,
everything's so interesting.
- Well, y'all have fun.
- All right.
I had no idea that
Phoenix was bringing a girl
over to the house tonight.
It was a little shocking, to be honest,
because this is the kid
that normally only wants
to play video games all night...
Go skateboarding during the day.
He used to not even think about girls.
But now, he's becoming a ladies man.
Do you like video games?
- Yes, I actually do.
- Really?
- I just got the new Xbox.
- You got the new Xbox?
- Wanna go play?
- Yeah.
Oh, sweet.
Could you believe, uh, Phoenix brought
her here today?
No, did you tell him it was okay?
- No... no.
- Oh, you didn't?
He turned 18... he thinks
he can just do whatever he wants.
- Oh, no, God... ah.
- That scares me.
Are they in there?
Phoenix?
Oh... oh, no-no-no.
They... if they're upstairs,
that's not okay.
Not only did Phoenix bring a girl home
without telling us...
They're upstairs, right now,
in his room, with the door shut.
God knows what they're up to.
I am not okay with that.
- They're all taken.
- Hey, what are you guys doing?
Talking about, uh, 12th grade, apparently.
So, y'all just gonna hang out?
Yeah, uh, she's gonna leave soon,
so I'm gonna work her out to her car.
- All right.
- Oh, yeah?
- It's... it's hot in here.
- I know.
So, I'm gonna leave the door open.
- I'll just... I'll just open a window.
- Okay, good to see you too.
Like, let's think about that, like...
We'll leave the door open.
Like, I'll leave the door
open, but think about that.
Why would you open a door, if it was hot?
- You'd open a window.
- Let the air flow.
- Bye.
- Bye.
Well, at least your mom likes me.
Right... yeah, hey.
- And your dog.
- Um, he likes you too much.
[Laughter] Yep.
♪
- Hey, y'all.
- Hey.
Good to see ya... you got
your makeup on today.
That's right... I'm ready to go.
All right, good to see ya... hey.
Y'all come on over here,
so you can see everybody.
Jellyboy, what are you
and Matterz gonna do?
We're gonna do something, um, symbolic
of the struggle that we went through.
Doing something with suspension
and sword swallowing.
- Yeah.
- But-but, I'd-I'd like
to do it over something dangerous.
So Matterz is gonna be
buried in, uh, broken glass.
- Yeah.
- Oh, wow!
That's gonna be awesome.
Let's see one of the hooks.
Have you got one with you?
I got... I got a few different types.
Yeah, let's see them.
Here comes the hooks.
So these are regular
shark hooks, right here.
And they're not the strongest.
They're just meant for fishing.
That's the hook you would
use you catch a shark?
Yeah.
I'm very interested in suspension.
I think it's a wonderful art form.
I'm quite sure it is painful,
but I'm quite sure that,
you know, no pain, no gain.
These are a little bit larger.
- Oh, my God!
- Wow!
- And that's a whale one.
- That's a whale's hook.
These hooks are huge.
And when we've done events
in the past that had
blood in it, people have
literally just passed out.
So I'm hoping our
audience can handle this.
Well, I would never... oh, my gosh!
Swallowing swords is dangerous
and what I'm gonna be trying, right now,
is to be able to get this all the way
inside and then all
the way completely out,
without using my hands
or any other assistance.
[Cheers and applause]
♪
Whoa!
[Applause]
♪
Watch folks ... watch.
No hands.
Yeah!
[Cheers and applause]
Yeah!
Give it up... make some noise!
[Cheering]
♪
Where do you wanna put our boards?
Um, here, I'll put it against this pillar.
Okay.
Zoe and I aren't official or anything.
So I mean, I'm always open
to dating other girls.
So I decided to take my mom's advice
and ask Ruby out, and she said, "yes,"
and it's awesome, but
when it comes to Ruby,
it's been, like, nine years in the making.
So I'm a little bit nervous, now.
I mean, we'll just see how it goes.
- Oh, look, nachos.
- Ooh.
- Chicken quesadilla, nachos.
- Thank you very much.
The top plate can be
a little hot... thank you.
- I'm more of a finger, hand...
- Kind of person?
- Yeah.
- That's why I got nachos.
I hate using forks and stuff.
♪
You know, this is, like,
my first, like, date.
You've never been out to
dinner with a guy before?
I... well, I've been to the movies.
The movies don't really count.
That's just, like, sitting there.
I'm... I'm speechless,
right now... you're just...
Your radiating beauty
is making me speechless.
[Laughter]
What... has no one ever said that to you?
- No.
- First for everything.
Do you know what this means?
Oh, it means, uh,
beautiful in sign language.
Mmm-ah.
Phoenix is a goofball
but such a big charmer.
He's winning me over tonight.
So are you ready to head out?
- Yeah, let's go.
- All right.
Here's your skateboard.
- Thank you.
- There you go.
- So that wasn't awkward.
- No.
- That was a pretty-pretty
good first date for us... yeah?
- Yeah.
♪
So, Asia, I've got a dilemma.
There's this girl... you know
Zoe from the tattoo event?
Yeah.
So I went on a date with her,
and everything went amazing.
And then, I went on a date with Ruby.
And I mean, it went good.
So I'm not sure if I wanna go with Ruby,
who I've known for, like, nine years now
and who I know really well,
or Zoe, who I haven't known very long,
and it's like a fresh slate, so...
Mom and dad can tell
you one person they like.
I can tell you who I like.
Your fr... anybody can
tell you who they like.
But you know, it's... it's
a relationship for you.
- Yeah.
- So you need
to make the decision for yourself.
- Yeah.
- Always go for it.
- Yeah?
- Always go for it
and do things for yourself...
Make your own choices.
- You got this, brotha.
- Thanks, it act...
It actually means
a lot, talking like this,
- 'cause I can't really...
- Aw.
Like, I can't be open with mom and dad.
- Like, I mean, I can...
- Less weird.
- But it's... it's not... yeah.
- It's not weird with me?
Talking to you isn't weird, no.
- Thanks.
- So, thank you.
- Well, I'm glad... yeah, of course.
- Let's go get ready.
- All right.
- Thanks, though.
- Good talk... no problem.
♪
Come on... you got it.
♪
All right, Jells, we're ready.
Today is the day of
our big suspension event.
We've never done this
here at "The Freakshow."
These metal hooks are going
deep into their skin,
all the way to the bottom
of their skin, really...
Right before it hits the muscle.
I gotta see this... I wanna see the hook.
♪
We're gonna have you
take a deep breath in
and then exhale.
♪
- There it is.
- Oh, God bless you.
I'm really enjoying watching
this piercing process.
I mean, I... I pierce myself all the time.
I know what they're going through,
and it is a very intense experience.
And, you know, I'm all about that.
Don't block out the pain... that's boring.
You're getting pierced...
You should feel the pain.
- Wow, that seems like it would just pop.
♪
I wanna see the hook.
You're free to move about the cabin, sir.
- All right.
♪
Folks, welcome to
the world famous Venice Beach Freakshow.
Today, we have special guests that you are
gonna talk about until the day you die.
So, um, I'm glad you
came to the show, though.
Yeah, me, too, this is...
- This is awesome... amazing.
- Yeah, isn't this crazy?
Yeah, you'll never
see this anywhere else.
Right?
I decided to bring Ruby
to this event, 'cause
after speaking with Asia,
I mean, I can just see myself
being with Ruby more and
spending more time with her.
So um, what are you doing after the show?
- Hmm, I don't know yet.
Uh, do you wanna go to
the skate park with me?
Okay, so you can see
my radiating beauty, again?
- Pssh, duh.
- Okay.
I am so excited that Phoenix picked Ruby
to come to this suspension event.
I am in my glory...
I hope they date forever.
Hell, I hope they get married!
Folks, give it up for Jellyboy
and his brother, Matterz!
[Cheers and applause]
They have created for themselves
a true right of passage.
We're about to start
putting glass on Matterz.
He's gotta put this mask on,
so he doesn't breathe
in glass dust.
He's gonna get into
position in this coffin.
- God dang!
- Jellyboy, with the hooks
in his back, will be lifted
30 feet above the crowd.
Then he's gonna swallow a sword
and pull the trigger on the handle
that will shoot flames out
of the end of the sword.
At that moment, his brother,
Matterz, will rise
out of a coffin of broken glass,
and it all symbolizes their struggle
and brush with death.
Finally, they will have
defeated death itself.
He's stepping onto
his brother's body, now.
Make some noise like you
never have in your life!
[Cheers and applause]
Here he goes... look at the skin!
Look what's starting to happen!
- Oh, my God!
- Ah!
Into the sky he goes.
All right... he's lit the flame.
He's swallowing the sword.
Watch... there he goes.
Look!
[Cheers and applause]
Yeah, look at that, folks!
Make some noise!
Give him a round of applause!
Folks, make some noise!
Wow!
Jellyboy is doing it, right there!
[Cheers and applause]
Wow, give it up for Jellyboy The Clown!
Right there he is!
Holy moly... make some noise, folks.
- [Cheers and applause]
- Come on!
Folks, he's gonna raise his brother
from the grave.
Here comes Matterz!
Give him a big round of applause.
He's rising up.
[Cheers and applause]
Here he comes, folks.
There he is.
Give it up for Jellyboy and Matterz!
There they are.
[Cheers and applause]
Wow, that was incredible.
This week has been incredible.
We got to witness two rites of passage...
The journey of my son into
manhood, as he began to date,
and Jellyboy's amazing tribute
to the ancient rites
of passage, suspension.
You killed it.
- You okay?
- Oh, yeah.
- Are you sure... you're shivering.
I'm shivering... it's cold out here, man.
Dude, the...the view of you
with the sun setting
behind you and the flames
shooting out was sick.
Rising above the boardwalk
from hooks in his back,
Jellyboy gave the audience a memory
they will never forget,
something they can only see here
at "The Venice Beach Freakshow."
I've loved you guys from afar,
and now I love ya up close.
♪
We're both gonna be
swallowing these light swords,
and you're gonna be able to see us glow
from the inside out.
And lights on.
- Oh, my God, you guys.
- Look at their throats.
Look at their throats!
[Cheers and applause]
I got a dilemma.
So, I went on a date with Ruby.
Your radiating beauty
is making me speechless.
Then, I went on a date with Zoe.
This is my house.
I'm not sure if I wanna
go with Ruby or Zoe.
Phoenix brought her here today.
No, did you tell him it was okay?
No.
This weekend, we're having
a big, suspension event.
- Here comes the hooks.
- Oh, I would never.
Look at the skin!
- Oh, my gosh!
- Ah!
Folks, today, you will witness
the strangest creatures on earth,
the living wonders of the world,
and the most amazing people on the planet.
They're all inside.
What you thought was a myth,
you will see with your own eyes.
Welcome to "The Freakshow."
♪
- Hey.
- Hey, how's it going?
Good... how are you?
Pretty good... about to do a show here.
It's been a long time
since we've seen each other.
Yeah, since the tattoo event.
- I know.
- Yeah.
Zoe is a girl that I met
at the tattoo event
we had a while back.
- How long did that one take?
- He held my arm.
- It took me three sessions.
- How many hours?
Two to three hours each time.
We became friends.
I invited her to come
down to "The Freakshow."
Do you like this kinda stuff?
- Yeah.
- You should see our house.
- It's crazy.
- Really?
We have banners on the walls.
We have just, like,
jars with, like, babies.
You know, two-headed babies and stuff.
Two-headed babies?
Yeah, you should come over later.
Right now, I'm single, so I am looking
to maybe find someone
or something like that.
Maybe become more than
friends, maybe, like,
a thing, then maybe more.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
I don't normally ask
girls over to my house,
but I really like Zoe, and I'm really glad
she said, "yes."
Oh, yeah, I am so down to go and see it.
- That'd be cool.
- Yeah.
♪
One is up... chaining this up, right now.
Yeah, I think they're almost
going into hibernation.
They are... they're so cute.
Look, they're, like, holding hands.
- Hey, guys.
- Hey.
Are we doing, uh, any
shows or anything today?
- Yeah, in just a minute.
- All right, cool.
Wow, it's nice to see you.
I haven't seen you in a few days.
- Where have you been?
- I've just been hanging out.
Hanging out with who, all day and night?
Just this girl... why?
- Uh-oh.
- Oh.
Hey, what... why?
- Girl or girls?
- Why does it matter?
Well, 'cause I wanna make sure
it's my girl next door, Ruby.
- It's not, though.
- It's not?
- No.
- Why?
I've asked her out in
the past, and she says, "no."
So, ask her, again.
Ever since Phoenix was a little boy
and ever since Ruby was a little girl,
they've worked side by side,
'cause we work right
next door to each other,
and Danielle has always had this fantasy
of them getting together,
her little boy and
the sweet girl next door.
I guarantee you, if you ask her out,
I think she'll say, "yes."
I mean, I... I'll ask her, again,
but I can't make any promises.
I think Ruby's really cool,
but I'm not sure
she's into me, and I'm 18.
I'm just trying to have fun and date.
I'm not ready for my mom
to plan out my wedding
with the girl next door yet.
I'm making you a promise.
That's the girl you're gonna marry.
- Oh, yeah?
- Mm-Hmm.
Let... let him make his decision, okay?
- [Laughter]
- She's giving you her advice.
- Oh, yeah.
- Now, she's gonna set up.
- Let's go... all right?
- Okay, I'll see you guys outside.
- No, but, Todd, really.
- I know, but you're too much.
- Why?
- Let the boy grow up already.
Okay, you guys, dinner is ready.
- Uh-oh, uh-oh.
- All right!
Ooh, it looks good.
Jellyboy, it's really
nice that you came out.
I'm really excited.
Uh, and, Matterz, same with you, brother.
And, um, Andrew and Kel,
I'm really excited,
especially as beautiful
as you have been looking.
- [Laughter]
- Stunning...
I can't help myself.
Andrew Stanton and Kelvikta
the blade are experts
at piercing and suspension,
and they are incredible
performers in their own right.
They're here this week to assist
Jellyboy The Clown and
his brother, Matterz Squidling,
two world famous performers
from the east coast,
who do everything from sword swallowing
to suspension.
Now, I could not be more
excited that these people
are here to perform at "The Freakshow."
Why did you start doing suspension?
I'd been around it just because, uh,
a lot of my friends were... were doing it.
And, uh, I said, "well,
put some hooks in me."
"I-I-I wanna do it."
Yeah, and so, they-they put me up, and I...
And I went right up,
and it was like I was...
A fish swimming in water, you know?
I was just swinging around,
having a great time, laughing.
How is suspension?
Like, what do you... like, what do you do?
Take clean hooks, and it's
freshly pierced every time.
It's through the skin, and
whether it's on the back,
or the chest, or the legs, or the knees,
just about anywhere you can pinch skin.
Suspension goes back thousands of years
to many cultures.
Now, suspension is
a death defying process,
where people hang their
entire bodies from meat hooks
in their skin.
The native Americans used it to transform
a young boy into a man.
And even today, people
use it to experience
altered states of mind.
When y'all suspend,
does it give you some kind
- of clarity or something?
- Oh, it makes you feel amazing.
It's... the gravity, it
feels like you're flying.
The release you get
from it is just amazing.
How about you, Jellyboy?
'Cause you really did face death.
You should tell the kids.
I don't think they know
what happened to you.
I was trapped inside of
a burning, uh, apartment.
So, I saw, literally,
my life flash before my eyes.
The fire started to fall
from the ceiling on-on to me.
And then, um, at that very moment of my...
What I thought was my death,
the door broke down,
and the firefighters came in.
- Wow!
- And scooped me up
and carried me out.
So, as a performer, did that experience,
like, scare you?
Or, were you okay to go back
to performing or...
The experience didn't
frighten me as-as a performer.
It made me want to go back
to performing that much more.
Yeah.
Well, Jellyboy, I'm glad
you're here and alive.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hallelujah.
Jellyboy is performing
a suspension stunt
this week that honors
his life altering experience
in that fire.
That fire has become
the inspiration for him
to do bigger and better stunts.
We're gonna do a combination of things
that we've never done before.
Right on... I can't... I wanna see that.
♪
This is my house.
♪
Wow, it's amazing.
How do you guys eat with that there?
This is here every day.
There's two-headed babies,
right there, that you...
I have bowls of cereal
in front of every morning.
- The one right here?
- Uh-huh.
- What's this?
- That?
I'm pretty sure it's a puppy.
- A puppy... what?
- Uh-huh.
So as co-owner of "The Freakshow,"
all this stuff, one day,
is gonna be in my house.
- Is it, really?
- Mm-Hmm.
- Gonna be passed down to you?
- All down to me, yeah.
I'm pretty excited about it.
- Mm-Hmm.
- Hey, Phoenix.
Hey.
You guys remember Zoe
from the tattoo event.
- Hey, how are you?
- Hi.
- Good to see you.
- Good to see you, too.
- How do you like the house?
- I love it.
Are you ready to run away...
Run to the hills?
Oh, no-no-no,
everything's so interesting.
- Well, y'all have fun.
- All right.
I had no idea that
Phoenix was bringing a girl
over to the house tonight.
It was a little shocking, to be honest,
because this is the kid
that normally only wants
to play video games all night...
Go skateboarding during the day.
He used to not even think about girls.
But now, he's becoming a ladies man.
Do you like video games?
- Yes, I actually do.
- Really?
- I just got the new Xbox.
- You got the new Xbox?
- Wanna go play?
- Yeah.
Oh, sweet.
Could you believe, uh, Phoenix brought
her here today?
No, did you tell him it was okay?
- No... no.
- Oh, you didn't?
He turned 18... he thinks
he can just do whatever he wants.
- Oh, no, God... ah.
- That scares me.
Are they in there?
Phoenix?
Oh... oh, no-no-no.
They... if they're upstairs,
that's not okay.
Not only did Phoenix bring a girl home
without telling us...
They're upstairs, right now,
in his room, with the door shut.
God knows what they're up to.
I am not okay with that.
- They're all taken.
- Hey, what are you guys doing?
Talking about, uh, 12th grade, apparently.
So, y'all just gonna hang out?
Yeah, uh, she's gonna leave soon,
so I'm gonna work her out to her car.
- All right.
- Oh, yeah?
- It's... it's hot in here.
- I know.
So, I'm gonna leave the door open.
- I'll just... I'll just open a window.
- Okay, good to see you too.
Like, let's think about that, like...
We'll leave the door open.
Like, I'll leave the door
open, but think about that.
Why would you open a door, if it was hot?
- You'd open a window.
- Let the air flow.
- Bye.
- Bye.
Well, at least your mom likes me.
Right... yeah, hey.
- And your dog.
- Um, he likes you too much.
[Laughter] Yep.
♪
- Hey, y'all.
- Hey.
Good to see ya... you got
your makeup on today.
That's right... I'm ready to go.
All right, good to see ya... hey.
Y'all come on over here,
so you can see everybody.
Jellyboy, what are you
and Matterz gonna do?
We're gonna do something, um, symbolic
of the struggle that we went through.
Doing something with suspension
and sword swallowing.
- Yeah.
- But-but, I'd-I'd like
to do it over something dangerous.
So Matterz is gonna be
buried in, uh, broken glass.
- Yeah.
- Oh, wow!
That's gonna be awesome.
Let's see one of the hooks.
Have you got one with you?
I got... I got a few different types.
Yeah, let's see them.
Here comes the hooks.
So these are regular
shark hooks, right here.
And they're not the strongest.
They're just meant for fishing.
That's the hook you would
use you catch a shark?
Yeah.
I'm very interested in suspension.
I think it's a wonderful art form.
I'm quite sure it is painful,
but I'm quite sure that,
you know, no pain, no gain.
These are a little bit larger.
- Oh, my God!
- Wow!
- And that's a whale one.
- That's a whale's hook.
These hooks are huge.
And when we've done events
in the past that had
blood in it, people have
literally just passed out.
So I'm hoping our
audience can handle this.
Well, I would never... oh, my gosh!
Swallowing swords is dangerous
and what I'm gonna be trying, right now,
is to be able to get this all the way
inside and then all
the way completely out,
without using my hands
or any other assistance.
[Cheers and applause]
♪
Whoa!
[Applause]
♪
Watch folks ... watch.
No hands.
Yeah!
[Cheers and applause]
Yeah!
Give it up... make some noise!
[Cheering]
♪
Where do you wanna put our boards?
Um, here, I'll put it against this pillar.
Okay.
Zoe and I aren't official or anything.
So I mean, I'm always open
to dating other girls.
So I decided to take my mom's advice
and ask Ruby out, and she said, "yes,"
and it's awesome, but
when it comes to Ruby,
it's been, like, nine years in the making.
So I'm a little bit nervous, now.
I mean, we'll just see how it goes.
- Oh, look, nachos.
- Ooh.
- Chicken quesadilla, nachos.
- Thank you very much.
The top plate can be
a little hot... thank you.
- I'm more of a finger, hand...
- Kind of person?
- Yeah.
- That's why I got nachos.
I hate using forks and stuff.
♪
You know, this is, like,
my first, like, date.
You've never been out to
dinner with a guy before?
I... well, I've been to the movies.
The movies don't really count.
That's just, like, sitting there.
I'm... I'm speechless,
right now... you're just...
Your radiating beauty
is making me speechless.
[Laughter]
What... has no one ever said that to you?
- No.
- First for everything.
Do you know what this means?
Oh, it means, uh,
beautiful in sign language.
Mmm-ah.
Phoenix is a goofball
but such a big charmer.
He's winning me over tonight.
So are you ready to head out?
- Yeah, let's go.
- All right.
Here's your skateboard.
- Thank you.
- There you go.
- So that wasn't awkward.
- No.
- That was a pretty-pretty
good first date for us... yeah?
- Yeah.
♪
So, Asia, I've got a dilemma.
There's this girl... you know
Zoe from the tattoo event?
Yeah.
So I went on a date with her,
and everything went amazing.
And then, I went on a date with Ruby.
And I mean, it went good.
So I'm not sure if I wanna go with Ruby,
who I've known for, like, nine years now
and who I know really well,
or Zoe, who I haven't known very long,
and it's like a fresh slate, so...
Mom and dad can tell
you one person they like.
I can tell you who I like.
Your fr... anybody can
tell you who they like.
But you know, it's... it's
a relationship for you.
- Yeah.
- So you need
to make the decision for yourself.
- Yeah.
- Always go for it.
- Yeah?
- Always go for it
and do things for yourself...
Make your own choices.
- You got this, brotha.
- Thanks, it act...
It actually means
a lot, talking like this,
- 'cause I can't really...
- Aw.
Like, I can't be open with mom and dad.
- Like, I mean, I can...
- Less weird.
- But it's... it's not... yeah.
- It's not weird with me?
Talking to you isn't weird, no.
- Thanks.
- So, thank you.
- Well, I'm glad... yeah, of course.
- Let's go get ready.
- All right.
- Thanks, though.
- Good talk... no problem.
♪
Come on... you got it.
♪
All right, Jells, we're ready.
Today is the day of
our big suspension event.
We've never done this
here at "The Freakshow."
These metal hooks are going
deep into their skin,
all the way to the bottom
of their skin, really...
Right before it hits the muscle.
I gotta see this... I wanna see the hook.
♪
We're gonna have you
take a deep breath in
and then exhale.
♪
- There it is.
- Oh, God bless you.
I'm really enjoying watching
this piercing process.
I mean, I... I pierce myself all the time.
I know what they're going through,
and it is a very intense experience.
And, you know, I'm all about that.
Don't block out the pain... that's boring.
You're getting pierced...
You should feel the pain.
- Wow, that seems like it would just pop.
♪
I wanna see the hook.
You're free to move about the cabin, sir.
- All right.
♪
Folks, welcome to
the world famous Venice Beach Freakshow.
Today, we have special guests that you are
gonna talk about until the day you die.
So, um, I'm glad you
came to the show, though.
Yeah, me, too, this is...
- This is awesome... amazing.
- Yeah, isn't this crazy?
Yeah, you'll never
see this anywhere else.
Right?
I decided to bring Ruby
to this event, 'cause
after speaking with Asia,
I mean, I can just see myself
being with Ruby more and
spending more time with her.
So um, what are you doing after the show?
- Hmm, I don't know yet.
Uh, do you wanna go to
the skate park with me?
Okay, so you can see
my radiating beauty, again?
- Pssh, duh.
- Okay.
I am so excited that Phoenix picked Ruby
to come to this suspension event.
I am in my glory...
I hope they date forever.
Hell, I hope they get married!
Folks, give it up for Jellyboy
and his brother, Matterz!
[Cheers and applause]
They have created for themselves
a true right of passage.
We're about to start
putting glass on Matterz.
He's gotta put this mask on,
so he doesn't breathe
in glass dust.
He's gonna get into
position in this coffin.
- God dang!
- Jellyboy, with the hooks
in his back, will be lifted
30 feet above the crowd.
Then he's gonna swallow a sword
and pull the trigger on the handle
that will shoot flames out
of the end of the sword.
At that moment, his brother,
Matterz, will rise
out of a coffin of broken glass,
and it all symbolizes their struggle
and brush with death.
Finally, they will have
defeated death itself.
He's stepping onto
his brother's body, now.
Make some noise like you
never have in your life!
[Cheers and applause]
Here he goes... look at the skin!
Look what's starting to happen!
- Oh, my God!
- Ah!
Into the sky he goes.
All right... he's lit the flame.
He's swallowing the sword.
Watch... there he goes.
Look!
[Cheers and applause]
Yeah, look at that, folks!
Make some noise!
Give him a round of applause!
Folks, make some noise!
Wow!
Jellyboy is doing it, right there!
[Cheers and applause]
Wow, give it up for Jellyboy The Clown!
Right there he is!
Holy moly... make some noise, folks.
- [Cheers and applause]
- Come on!
Folks, he's gonna raise his brother
from the grave.
Here comes Matterz!
Give him a big round of applause.
He's rising up.
[Cheers and applause]
Here he comes, folks.
There he is.
Give it up for Jellyboy and Matterz!
There they are.
[Cheers and applause]
Wow, that was incredible.
This week has been incredible.
We got to witness two rites of passage...
The journey of my son into
manhood, as he began to date,
and Jellyboy's amazing tribute
to the ancient rites
of passage, suspension.
You killed it.
- You okay?
- Oh, yeah.
- Are you sure... you're shivering.
I'm shivering... it's cold out here, man.
Dude, the...the view of you
with the sun setting
behind you and the flames
shooting out was sick.
Rising above the boardwalk
from hooks in his back,
Jellyboy gave the audience a memory
they will never forget,
something they can only see here
at "The Venice Beach Freakshow."
I've loved you guys from afar,
and now I love ya up close.
♪
We're both gonna be
swallowing these light swords,
and you're gonna be able to see us glow
from the inside out.
And lights on.
- Oh, my God, you guys.
- Look at their throats.
Look at their throats!
[Cheers and applause]