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Bet You Will
Weekend
August 4/5, 2001
So you're in Times Square and you come across this bizarre scene: someone fills a shot glass with vinegar and a volunteer wolfs it down, followed by a chaser of soy sauce followed by a shot of clam juice.
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Bystanders are feeling as queasy as the volunteer looks, as she continues with corn oil, pink bismuth, lemon juice, hot sauce and cold chicken broth, and to settle her stomach, finishes up with cod liver oil.
As one disbelieving tourist from Montana says, “They don't do this back home where I’m from."
Well, they might soon, if this guy's idea takes off. Morgan Spurlock is the brains behind a webcast and would-be TV show called "I Bet You Will," which revolves around the idea that “people will do anything for money.”
Spurlock paid our friend $450 for those nine shots, and he has gone as high as $740 for one challenge. But most man-on-the-street stunts cost a lot less. He says, “I thought it was gonna be a little tougher, especially here in New York, to get people to do things. But no, people are cheap and easy."
“Extra” found that out when we went out with Spurlock and his camera crew. It took just $235 to get one guy to wolf down a jumbo-size jar of mustard. Or a mere $100 to empty a jar of molasses down a guy's pants. And just $300 to get a guy to eat an ice-cream cone made of vegetable shortening.
That highest-ever payoff of $740 was to a woman who shaved off her eyebrows. Morgan Spurlock says his show is being developed into a primetime series for fall.
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