It was a Tribal Council shocker when the "warrior" alliance was broken on last week's "Survivor: Tocantins." Now, ET talks to Tyson Apostol, a 30-year-old from Lindon, Utah, who was blindsided by the vote. It was JT and Stephen who stealthily reorganized the vote -- even openly lying -- to eliminate Tyson, who had lost the Immunity Challenge for the first time in two weeks, finally leaving him vulnerable. ET: Why do you think they voted you off? It was a total blindside. Tyson Apostol: They voted me off because I was too awesome. ET: No modesty? Tyson Apostol: There doesn't need to be. I guess I could pretend like that wasn't the reason, but I was too threatening to everyone. ET: It was the first Immunity Challenge you had lost in a couple of weeks. It may have been their only chance to vote you off. Tyson Apostol: I don't know how many challenges they were going to have on the show that didn't require any skill. It was a good play. I will give that to them. They needed to do that, because I would have owned their asses in everything else. ET: Does this mean the power in the tribe has shifted? Tyson Apostol: Definitely, I would think. Coach and myself were in charge until I got voted off. Now, it seems that Stephen and JT have more of an advantage, so Coach will have to scramble to get something going, or face his demise. ET: When you get to the finale, does the fact that this was a really smart vote, do you look at that as they really played The Game well, or do you hold a grudge? Tyson Apostol: I don't hold a grudge. It is a game. It was a great move. It is not often in someone's life that they can be better than me at something, so let them have it for a little while. ET: What's it like watching yourself on TV? Tyson Apostol [jokes]: It is like looking at myself in the mirror, but it is not a mirror image. It is a true image. I always thought everything on the right side of my face was on the left side, but it is vice versa. ET: Is Coach the way he appears on TV? Is he that strange in real life? Tyson Apostol: He said everything that was on TV, and he believed everything, so there are parts of him that are that strange, but they are showing the most outrageous parts of him. He is a dear in real life. He is a sweetheart, but there are moments like you can't believe your ears. Personally, my favorite line of his is when he was talking about his meditation techniques and he said, "Don't bother Googling it. It is only passed down verbally." I was, "Wow! I could use that for a lot of things. I could prove so many things if I said that afterwards." ET: If you had a do-over, do you think there is anything you could change that would change the outcome? Tyson Apostol: Definitely. Debbie would have given me the Immunity necklace. She was part of my alliance. I could have talked to her about it. I also could have split the votes four-four with Erinn. I think Coach, Debbie and Sierra -- had I talked to them -- would have all voted for Erinn. That would have been four votes for Erinn and four votes for me. If it had come down to building fire, or some other challenge, I am sure I would have come out victorious against Erinn. There are definitely things I could have done. In hindsight, I don't know why I didn't save myself for one vote. If you are smart enough, and personable enough, there are always ways to protect yourself in the vote. I had a moment of laziness there where I felt confident enough to not do anything. ET: Do you think if JT, Coach and Stephen had chosen to play The Game instead of eating pizza that would have changed the outcome of The Game Tyson Apostol: It could have been different. You never know. When you are blindly throwing pucks at a target, everything could have been changed, because it was a challenge based on luck. If I had gone last, that could have changed things for me. If their pucks were intermingled in the mix, that could have changed things. ET: Does it upset you that they chose to eat? Tyson Apostol: It is disappointing. I was there to win $1 million, not to eat cafeteria pizza. If I wanted to eat cafeteria pizza, I could go to the local public elementary school for pizza Thursday and chow down. ET: Coming back from Brazil, what was the biggest adjustment you had to make? Tyson Apostol: Responsibility in general. You didn't have to worry about phone calls, you didn't have to worry about e-mails, you didn't have to worry about going into work or paying bills. Coming back, it was overwhelming. When you are so popular, you get back and you have 10,000 voice messages on your phone, a bajillion e-mails. I didn't want to do any of that. When I got back, I called hardly anybody for the first two or three weeks. Things like that. ET: You got pretty thin. Did you have trouble eating again when you got back? Tyson Apostol: I was looking pretty sexy. Once I got to Ponderosa after The Game the biggest problem was that I ate so much, I felt sick. I lost almost 15 pounds out there, and almost within 10 days, I gained 25 pounds, so I gained more than that back in half the time. ET: What's next for you? Are you still riding? Tyson Apostol: I am not currently on a team. I am just doing my own thing. I would like to do something in entertainment. I am pretty entertaining to myself. I am just waiting to see what else falls in my lap. ET: If Coach makes it to the finals, do you think he can win? Tyson Apostol: I doubt it. I don't think enough people would vote for him. It depends against whom. If he and Sierra go to the finals, he could beat Sierra, I think. ET: You are down on Sierra. Tyson Apostol: No, I am just a realist. I am being real. Generally speaking, I think she got on everybody's nerves more than he did. It might be close, but I would say he would prove victorious. It might be close with him and Erinn, or him and Taj, but everybody else wouldn't have a problem. ET: Last question is about your lack of modesty. You did a lot of nudity. Tyson Apostol: In real-life, I wear Speedos to the pool because they are sexy. When it is 125 degrees out in Brazil, layering isn't something that makes sense to do, so I did the least amount of layering possible. Just my skin as the base layer. That was the most comforting and cool. "Survivor: Tocantins" airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on CBS.

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