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Probst is still going on like Michael on sugar. “Penner, you had a chance at this! You had an offer for a final four and you’re over there sitting so smug saying ‘I don’t know, I’ll get back to you’”. Penner, with his hairpiece, says he didn’t feel smug but he had always been scrambling. He adds that the reason Lisa trusted him was that he had never lied to him, and he wanted to maintain that and didn’t realize that the game had already switched to the part where you had to start lying to people.

“What was the deal with you and Jeff Kent?” “Ask Jeff,” says Jonathan. “But I never wrote your name down, buddy,” says Jeff Kent. He goes on to talk about how he wanted to deflect attention away from him, so he dumped it all on Jonathan. Jeff Kent goes on to talk about a move he was going to make with him, Carter, Jonathan and Denise at some point, but Denise was the problem and she wouldn’t commit. I think he must be talking about the vote immediately after the merge, when he and Carter went with the Tandang four plus Malcolm and Denise to split the vote between RC and Jonathan.

And why did Jonathan vote for Abi, which led to Jeff Kent’s exit? Jeff Kent thinks that even Jonathan doesn’t know why he made that vote. He then spouts a load of bull about how if the vote hadn’t gone that way, he and Jonathan would still be on that island together. I’m sure the production crew wouldn’t have left them behind. Would they?

“Michael, surprised that you didn’t get more votes?” Michael goes on about how when you play as hard as he does, you kind of expect to get all of them. “Because you know what you personally did... and I clawed and fought the whole game.” He doesn’t think that Lisa or Denise did the same? All confidence, no objectivity. Probst wants to mock, I mean, clarify: “Sitting there, at the last Tribal Council... you fully expect that you deserve to win?” “You just go on with that mind-set. You go in, you played hard, I just think I...” Probst cuts him off.

“How about you, Lisa?” “I’m pretty realistic about the game I played,” implying that Michael isn't – heh. “And as much as she would have loved to have won the million dollars – or the six hundred thousand...” she says the experience itself has been worth the million dollars. She even brings up the Facts of Life theme song. I wonder if she ever reminisces about when George Clooney was on the show?

The reference to Jeff Kent’s exit speech is like a worm on a hook for Probst. “Your $600,000 comment...” “Could be less now,” Jeff Kent chirps. Probst thinks his exit speech is the best ever. What about Christy from Survivor Amazon and her “evil step-sisters”? But why does multi-millionaire Jeff Kent care so much? “This is a very competitive game. Baseball’s a game of anticipation, and I think this game’s the same.” He goes on about how the anticipation at Tribal Council increases your adrenalin drive and that “draws you in to compete.” Fair enough.

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