So There We Were..

Walking through Universal Studios, when we hear a casting call for a live Fear Factor show. My insane husband looks at me with a face that I knew meant trouble. So we go to the casting call. My husband really wanted me to do it along with him, but I am not interested in eating bugs, he went alone while I lurked outside peering into the windows. He was chosen to do the show and we were told to come back at a certain time.

Flash forward

I am sitting in the auditorium and The Husband runs out on stage wearing this spandex outfit, a harness, knee pads, etc. See the photo below.

When they ask him where he is from, he responds "The United States of America."

The first task was to climb up to a platform 25 feet in the air and hold onto this bar thing. The platform then drops out from under the contestants and they have to hold on as long as they can. He made it through this round easily. (no photos because the stage light was right behind him)

The second task required that the contestants pull flags out of a tank full of eels, run back, dodging obstacles, to pin their flags onto a pole. The Husband was the first to get this task accomplished while the other contestants got their butts whipped by the obstacles. Two of the contestants were knocked completely over, with their faces smashing on the ground and their feet up in the air.

After all the flags were retrieved, the Husband had to drink an 8 oz cup full of a blended smoothie made up of fish guts and juice, various pig parts including eye balls, an array of different bugs, all blended together with soured curdled milk. It was so disgusting that I could smell it from my seat. The husband chugged it down, but spilt some on the floor and down his shirt, so they made him drink a SECOND 8 oz cup of the disgusting goo. (see photo below)

THEN, there were only two contestants left. The husband and a chick. The final part was this wheel that electrocuted the contestant as they turned it. They did a little test shock and the chick pulled her hand back and screamed, the crazy husband just stood there like nothing happened. The announcers declared that the Husband was weird and then started the competition. The Husband easily won because the chick kept taking her hand off the wheel at each shock.

So there he was - THE WINNER!

He won a few prizes, his favorite was a shirt that declared him champion of Fear Factor. He immediately put it on and wore it around the park. It was hilarious.

He smelled like fish guts and sour milk for the rest of the day. I was so proud.