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Next Time On Survivor

October 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Survivor has always been pretty hokey in the way that it tries to incorporate “traditional” and “historical” elements of the area into its challenges, but I don’t think I ever appreciated just how hokey until this season.

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Jeff Probst, Welcome to the 21st Century

September 8th, 2006 | No Comments

Jeff Probst, host of CBS’s Survivor, has apparently spent most of his life living under a rock on one of those remote islands. The Washington Post reports that Probst has finally discovered the wonders of the multicultural world.

Until “Survivor” host Jeff Probst sat in on casting sessions for the CBS reality series’s new edition, in which competitors were picked and put into “tribes” based on their ethnic background, he had not realized that “Asian” includes Japanese, Koreans and Chinese and that they do not necessarily like each other as a matter of ethnic solidarity….

“When you start talking to a person from Asia, you realize — Wow! They have all different backgrounds!” gushed Probst, who described himself repeatedly as a 44-year-old white guy from Wichita.

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