Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Aras Baskauskas and Danielle DiLorenzo
Segment 1 Transcript

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Segment 1

DR:  There he is, a million dollars richer.  Aras, congratulations.

Aras:  Thanks very much.

DR:  It's weird because it's the most subdued winning moment I have ever seen in my life.  Is that pure relief?

Aras:  Yeah, you kind of think you could win it but you never know for sure.  You're nervous up there for sure.  You get used to the cameras after day three.  From day 3 to 39 you don't mind the cameras and then five months later you go back in front of the cameras again.  And I'm definitely not an actor.

DR:  You don't quite have the resume that Shane has in that department.  Take us through what the day as been like, especially for the winner.

Aras:  We woke up super early today.  Yesterday was a long day.

Danielle:  It's all one day.

Aras:  Yesterday our call time was 12:30 in the afternoon.  We get to the show about 9:30 to get set up for the reading of the votes.  And then after that it's kind of a blur.  Today has just been crazy. 

JM:  Answering the same questions.

Danielle:  Over and over and over.

DR:  Danielle, obviously a roller coaster ride, the past 24 hours.  You do great.  You come up short.  You can't help but be disappointed.  Have you had time yet to put it into perspective.  "Like, I did great, I came in second."

Danielle:  Regardless, I'm so happy that I made it to the two.  Even though I didn't win the million I still did well.  It's a huge accomplishment for me to make it as far as I did. 

JM:  You won that last challenge.

Danielle:  That was huge.  I beat the two best competitors on the island.  For me to beat both of them and be able to chose which one to take was pretty cool. 

DR:  Terry thought he was going to do well because he had done some surfing.  You're a yogi you probably thought you would do pretty well at this.

Aras:  I'm not a yogi.  I'm a yoga instructor.  I'm learning.  It'll be a couple of lifetimes before we get to that. 

DR:  You had to think you had an advantage.

Aras:  I remember the night before, we were watching the sunset and I was massaging Danielle's back and I was just telling her, "I think you're going to win this one."  I just had a strange suspicion that she was going to get it.

JM:  Women have a tendency to win the endurance more than men.

Aras:  You had to figure we had a strength thing going in.

Danielle:  Yeah, you knew something different was coming.  I said that to Terry, too.  There's going to be one of these challenges that you're just not going to be able to win.  I had gymnastics so that definitely helped.

JM:  You were strong for awhile.  Terry was just...

Danielle:  Terry was all over the place.  He was off, he was on.

DR:  Take us through exactly what was happening on there with the head nod.

JM:  I saw you nod like this, a couple times.

DR:  What preceded the nod?

Danielle:  We made an agreement.  He told me if he jumped would I take him.

DR:  Before the challenge started?

Danielle:  Before the challenge started.  Regardless I would have kicked his bum anyway.  I also told Terry I would take him, too.  I was kind of telling them both I would take them then I would decide which would be the best way to go.  That's why I did that little head nod even though you were pretty much already falling over.  That was our little agreement before the challenge even started, so.

Caller:  I wanted to say to Aras, congratulations.  I think you did well representing the yoga community.  And especially Lithuanians, we're really proud of you.  Where can we find you now.  What are you doing? What are you working on? What if we want to take yoga with you.

DR:  Aras' brother Vytas just lapping that up there.  

Aras:  That's my brother.

DR:  It's so funny because you're at the finale and everyone's got their pockets of family but Aras' were so easy to pick out because they were all 8 feet tall and have like Lithuanian tie dye t-shirts on.  They were a posse roaming around in there.

JM:  What was really cool was walking out of the theater, the show's over and there are literally roped off fans just waiting for you guys.  You guys walk out and they're screaming your name and it's gotta be crazy.

Danielle:  It was just awesome.  It was a great feeling to know that there was people out there that were rooting for you and that are on your side regardless of the results.  They still like you and they still want your autograph.  You feel like a celebrity for that.

Aras:  I've been recognized on the street three times so far going up to the Finale.  It's a trip.

Caller:  Danielle, I think you played awesome.  You definitely made an amazing run there towards the end.  Do you think you would have had a better chance with Terry?

Danielle:  No, I do not think I would have had a better chance with Terry.  I feel like a lot of the jury members gained respect for Terry towards the end and Terry didn't have to vote out anybody.  As you guys know, when people get voted out they get very bitter.  Aras and I felt like we were in the same boat as to where we both burned some bridges and killed some alliances.  I figured I had a better shot with Aras and that's why I took Aras.  Although it was a very risky choice because both of them are super competitive and powerful.  And plus I stuck with my alliance. I stuck with my Casaya alliance until the end.

DR:  Were there any votes in that Final Two that surprised you?  Like the one vote, I got this vote, no problem. 

Danielle:  No because in the beginning, right when I got off the island I was feeling good.  Then as I started to watch the show I started to realize that I didn't think that I won anymore.  So it really wasn't a surprise to me.  It was better that way, I think.  Instead of thinking that I won and then get out there and be totally shocked.  At least you're able to prepare yourself before you get there.  Second place is still fabulous. 

JM:  It's only been rare times when we've had real jury surprise votes. I don't know if you can remember any.  I can't, offhand.

Danielle:  Usually you can figure it out. 

Danielle's Time Capsule:  Hey, as long as I gave it my all and gave it 110% and put my heart and soul into it, I did the best I could.  That's all I can ask for.  I'm happy wherever I end up as long as I know that I gave my best. 

Aras' Time Capsule:  Aras if you're listening to this and you got voted off first, don't ever talk to me again.  No.  No, no, it's okay if you got voted off first, man.  In fact if you did get voted off first, whatever you did, just enjoy that experience.  I hope I did well or you did well.  Just enjoy it man, and you'll be fine either way.

DR:  Aras you played a really good game.  Bob Dog said you were the most versatile player.  So good in so many aspects.  You weren't the complete challenge hog or the complete social strategizer. You were good at everything.  Except those first three days, your camp was a freaking mess.

Aras:  I think all of us expected to have Terry Deitz on our team.  There was only four people and so much work that had to be done.  No one wanted to step up because all young men know they are targets.  I didn't want to step up and be a target right away.  So you're really careful.  With no one willing to step up and no one knowing there's magnesium on the backside of the flint, we were in big trouble.  That's why I did this.  [hand gestures]  The third night when Tina got voted off it started to pour real bad and I was leaning against Austin.  There was nowhere to go.  We were soaking wet for hours at a time and I was ready to quit.  I was like, get me out of here.

JM:  Rain drives people insane. 

Danielle:  It kills the wood.  If the wood gets wet you can't start a fire, you can't eat.  Your clothes are soaked.  On Exile Island for 48 hours especially.

DR:  Danielle you weren't doing so hot those first three days either on the young women's tribe.  You were only three people.  You didn't have Misty there.  You're probably thinking there's going to be a Terry Deitz around to carry all the lumber. 

Danielle:  We definitely thought that.  We thought there was going to be a Terry and when there wasn't we tried to make do.  We got some sort of a shelter put together.  Courtney had this contraption going with the bamboo. 

JM:  One thing about Courtney.  I don't know if you knew but when you watched it back and you saw her making those faces on the jury...

Danielle:  Some of that was an editing job I think.

JM:  Sticking out her tongue.

Danielle:  I expected it, yeah. 

Aras:  We saw that when we were going in and Courtney had been voted off.  Courtney would give us all pretty evil looks.  Except for Shane.  She was really bummed when Shane got voted off.  You could tell that her heart was broken there. 

JM:  She has a crush on him. 

Danielle:  It's like a love/hate relationship between the two of them.  They either like loved either other or hated each other.  It was the strangest thing.

DR:  Your whole alliance seemed to have a love/hate relationship.  You were so dysfunctional yet so successful.  It was just bizarre. 

Aras:  We had so many different personalities but we also had great athletes.  Danielle, Courtney is a great athlete.  I'm not a bad athlete, Bob Dog is not a bad athlete.  The Factor.

Danielle:  His spirit alone just helped us out a lot. 

Aras:  I just didn't know how to get along really well.  Maybe that was good for us. 

JM:  Maybe you should have sat on the thinking seat.

Aras:  I didn't know it was there.  I had no idea it existed.  I wasn't there.

Aras:  It would have been really interesting to see what happened if he'd left.  I don't know if the four of us would have stayed together. 

Caller: When it was down to the final nine if you had joined Austin and Terry on La Mina do you think you would have ended up in the Final Two?

Danielle:  Absolutely not.  I stuck with my Casaya members because I trusted them.  I didn't know Terry from a hole in the wall and I knew he was going to do whatever he possibly could to get me to switch.  I felt like I could get further in the game with people I trusted.  I didn't trust Terry because I didn't really know him. 

JM:  In that last...the fire making challenge...you were trying to convince Terry to give you the idol.  If he would have given it to you would you have went back to everyone else before Tribal Council and said, he's [not] got the idol, let's get him out of here?

Danielle:  That's exactly what I was gonna do.  But I knew he wasn't going to give it to me.  He knew, too, that would have been really stupid at that point in the game and ruin his chances of even making it to the three.

DR:  Take a break...

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