New Survivors to Compete By Race.. And Leo's Not Gonna Stand For It - 12:56 p.m.

Not sure how many of you watch Survivor. I've been a fan of it for a long time, mostly because I ran an office pool. That's past tense, because the last two seasons were pretty much too boring to watch and we were too busy surviving for our jobs to care. This season may be a whole new story. The show's creator, Mark Burnett will be splitting up the contestants into tribes by race: the Hispanics, the whites, the Asians and the blacks.

Burnett said they decided to do it because people complained about the show not being racially diverse. That's complete crap. It's obvious it was done to get ratings, and if I'm planning to watch after not doing so for 3 seasons then guess what? It worked. The host Jeff Probst was a little more forthcoming, "It's very risky because you're bringing up a topic that is a hot button," Probst said. "There's a history of segregation you can't ignore. It is part of our history. For that, it's much safer to say, 'No, let's just stick with things the way they are. Let's don't be the network to rock the boat. Let's not have 'Survivor' try something new.' But the biases from home can't affect you. This is an equal-opportunity game."

A history of segregation?.. I don't know why he made it that deep. Again.. If you've watched the show before, you know the tribes have been split up into young vs. old and men vs. women. As the losing tribes begin eliminating their own (because that's how it works) all the tribes are merged into one. The separation of tribes only happens at the beginning to make it interesting or to see how.. an all female tribe does against the men or if old school farts knows more than the new school brats. It's a harmless thing

Cutting anything along someone's skin color is going to get people talking, and in this case some people are 'very upset.' Take this guy Leo Terrell. Some radio show host I've never heard of. He was on Scarborough Country last night losing his mind about this. You want to talk race? He was the epitome of the stereotypical Angry Black Man. The show's producers booked him because they knew he was gonna be against it.. nothing wrong with that, he's that guy for the panel. I wonder if they expected him to be this heated though, because everyone on that panel, including Joe Scarborough, were damn near speechless.

Why you so mad Leo? I'll tell you why I'm mad..

"This makes me sick. This is the race card being played to increase ratings. 12 years ago he didn't care if blacks or Hispanics were not on that program. I find this offensive. He's trying to squeeze a couple of years out of this program. And I want to look him straight in the face and say don't tell me after 12 years you're racially sensitive to the lack of blacks or browns on this show. I hate this whole concept. This civil rights attorney is going to do everything possible to make sure that doesn't go on!"

We talked the ratings thing. Honestly is that really a problem. It's not affecting people's civil rights, they aren't giving the black tribe watermelon slices and chicken, Hispanics arroz con pollo, and the whites and Asians whatever they think is a good ethnic look. He also said black people don't watch the show. If this gets 1/10th of a percent of them watching is that a bad thing?

Obviously he was speaking for himself, doesn't watch at all.. If he did he'd know there's always at least one black, Hispanic or an Asian. And the fourth season's winner was a black woman. One black woman in the mix with everyone else won the million through the votes of the other tribe members. There are no dirty tricks being played here.

What's going to be interesting is if the alliances take place along racial lines. Say no matter what, I'm not gonna vote you off. Which is what people say to whoever they click with in the beginning and think will help them. That's where the social experiment in this really is.

Do you stick with someone, even if they are a losing/negative influence, because you could be blood ten generations down the line?

I'll tell you this.. my man Leo would be voted off first chance, no problem, looking like Beetlejuice. You got to go. .. Survivor premieres September 14th.

Had a flash clip but the encoder's ating up. Here's the real video.