http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-aras-baskauskas-talks-survivor-blood-vs-water-%28part-1%29-15592.php

Nothing surprises me with my brother. ..

I just got blindsided pretty bad ..

There were a lot of signs, and my biggest fear was being paranoid. And so rather than just listen to my intuition, which was telling me, "Hey, you're doing something wrong," I didn't, and I just sat there and took it. ..

Gervase started being short with me, Tyson spent a long time talking to Ciera on the beach. She was supposed to be toxic.

http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-aras-baskauskas-talks-survivor-blood-vs-water-%28part-2%29-15602.php

I wanted to go with Gervase and Tyson and Vytas to the Final 4. Vytas wanted to go with Katie and Tina and me to the Final 4. So that was something we kept kind of arguing about ..

Gervase is a really good friend of mine outside of the show before the season started. So Gervase, that was probably my biggest downfall, that I was never going to turn on Gervase and I assumed the same back from him ..

I assumed if Tyson was saying anything bad about me, Gervase would let me know. Obviously, I was wrong. ..

the new players, there's a lot of mistakes they make that an older player would never make or a returning player wouldn't make. ..

Tyson did this really good job of painting Aras as the "bad guy," and so it bought him some time with the rest of the tribe as the savior. And the tribe was kind of blinded by it. .. Tyson is doing exactly what Aras is doing, just better. ..

I wasn't exactly a very beloved character nor was I very hated. I was kind of in the middle of the road, and so I just assumed I wasn't going to get another chance to play again. So it was great to get that call. .. I think they were stoked to get Vytas just because, look at the guy, he's great TV.