The Blood vs. Water champ says he won’t stop playing until he’s won three times.
And then, guess what?
He’s going to come back and win again!!!
Or so he says.
Look no further for proof of that fact than checking out the interview below.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What’s going on, Tyson?TYSON APOSTOL:Not much.
How you doing, Dalton?
How was the flight?
You came a long way.
I was thinking about you on the flight.Were you?
What were you thinking about?
We weren’t sitting together on the plane.
We were hanging out in the gate area, waiting for the plane.
I think we had a good chat.
Then again, I don’t really remember.
Maybe you were asking for strategy and I said to vote yourself out that season.Did you do that?
Maybe that was my fault.So itisyour fault.
Deep down inside I knew it wasn’t fully my fault.
Listen, give people the update.
It’s been a while since you’ve been on the show.
You’ve had some big changes in your life.Let’s see, Rachel and I are married.
And we moved to Arizona.
And we have two kids.
Not in that order.
I’ll put it in chronological order.
Put it in chronological order for me.Rachel and I got married, then we had a baby.
She’s now 4.
We also had another baby, who is going to be 1.
And we moved to Arizona from Utah to get out of the cold.
I firmly believe how you are as a person impacts how you are as a player.
I can only imagine that you’ve changed so much as a person being a father.
How are you different?Like, in a positive way, you think?
I would hope.I hope so, too.
I mean, being a father, there’s so many layers.
Probably when they’re teenagers they go through something else.
They go through something else.
Get ready for that.I’m an old enough dad that I might die before that happens.
But you then understand how much your own parents love you, which you probably never fully comprehended before.
And then you’re more patient.
You’re more loving.
You’re more forgiving.
And yeah, I hope those things help me in the game.
Why come back and do it again?
You’ve done it three times.
I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
And I don’t think people realize that.
And yeah, I’m here to prove something.
And not everybody goes on TV.
And this is what I do.
This is essentially my job.
Like, I am one of very few people that have become a professionalSurvivorplayer.
The hard part withSurvivoris that you don’t get to work every day on honing your skill in theSurvivorenvironment.
So, you and Boston Rob are buddies.
You do poker tournaments together and all that stuff.Sure, we do a lot.
I’ve been to his house multiple times.
I don’t believe you.100 percent.
Because I still don’t believe you.He kind of was non-responsive.
And that is the last I have heard from Rob until we got here.
Okay, I don’t believe you.
But anyway…No, it’s 100 percent.
Blink if you’re lying to me right now.
[Pause] You have your sunglasses on.
I can’t see you.
He’s not blinking.I’m not lying.
Right.Rob never once responded to that thread after we got the call.
And none of us acknowledged that we got the call.
Right.you’ve got the option to ask me about other people.
Ask me about whoever.
I’ll tell you the truth.
Who’d you talk to before you came out?Specifically about being on the show?
And it wasn’t even about strategy or anything.
It was about how do we leave these little kids at home.
And it was hard.
It was hard to leave them.
It’s even now at Ponderosa, everything I do is measured.
Everything leading up to the game is measured.
Every social media post I put up in the last couple months was measured.
I’ve been like outside walking on landscaping gravel in bare feet to toughen my feet up.
I’ve been playing all these different IQ builder puzzlers for spatial recognition.
Good.And I have been working out, but I mean, I’m a dad.
You already probably knew that.
Yeah, I heard something about that.And so I have a limited amount of time to do that stuff.
But I tried to make the most of the time I did have.
It’s interesting to hear you say that you want to be considered one of the best.
You consider yourself one of the bestSurvivorwinners ever and you want to be considered that.
Do you think you’re not?
But, I mean, you look atHeroes vs. Villains I was in a six to three alliance.
I essentially created Russell and Parvati’s legacy.
Like, that is me and they never thank me.
But now … and that’s the worst part of that is that I stole that from myself.
But me doing it to myself, it stings a little bit worse.
No.I’mone of the greatest of all-time but I handed it to you on a platter and nobody recognizes me.
I’m actually re-watching that season now with my daughter.
She’s never seen it.
We’re about to get to the episode where that happened.
What should I tell her?Tell her to give me some goddamn respect.
Is there a learning curve for you on this game?
And I think that’s why not everybody learns from playing in the past.
And I think that’s maybe why Joe can’t win.
He doesn’t learn.
That’s why Ozzy can’t win.
He doesn’t learn from his past mistakes.
He doesn’t change his game.
Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get to the end?
I don’t think they are.
Is that too hard of a swipe at those guys?
No, not at all.It’s honest.
But if somebody did that to me, how can you trust them again?
Like, they’re the next one gone in my opinion.
You have nine other players you’re here with that you know about.
Some people are from older seasons and some people from newer seasons.
InSecond Chance, there was a definitely old school players versus new school right off the bat.
Do you anticipate that happening?No, I don’t really.
I don’t see Adam or Nick stepping up to lead their side into battle, you know?
What if he tries to be in a goofy named alliance with you?
He likes to name his alliances.Yeah, get the fout, dude.
I will not be in …
I don’t even like to name alliances.
Why are we naming alliances?
Coach onTocantinsnamed an alliance and he never told me the name.
And after the game, I was like, “The Warrior alliance, bro?”
And Nick thinks he’s a master of disguise and he’s credited with being a master of disguise.
And he’s not a master of disguise.
And that’s what I will be looking for with Nick.
I mean, I’ve got long hair.
I kind of don’t give a s. And it’s true.
Do I go with Rob?
He’s a close friend.
So it’s a lot.
It’s going to be something completely different.
People who have a hard plan for day 1 are the people who get screwed on day 3.
But I will not quit.
I will not quit until I win three times.
!You’ve got to be the best.
Okay, we’ll see you in season 60!Okay.
