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« on: Aug 24th, 2004, 3:23pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
From The Johnson City Press on August 24, 2004:
 
Some seeking a spot on the reality series “Survivor” hired professional video production companies to make an audition tape. Big Tom Buchanan’s wife borrowed a camcorder and taped him feeding his goats.  
He thought someone was playing a joke on him when they called and said he would be part of “Survivor Africa.” “I never watched the show,” he said. He was later invited back for “Survivor All- Stars” in Panama.  
 
Big Tom was at Boones Creek Middle School Monday talking first with Mike Edmonds’ fifth-grade science class, and then with the entire school.  
 
Edmonds met Buchanan during one of his appearances in the area and invited him to come to the class. It worked out during the first week of school when he also agreed to make an appearance at the Barnes Exterminating Booth at the Appalachian Fair with school chum Scott Barnes.  
 
Edmonds is using a Survivor theme in his class this year and reworked the show’s logo with the words, “Outwork, Outstudy, Outperform,” so the class could aspire to be the top fifth grade in the county.  
 
The project will involve dividing the class into teams so they learn the value of teamwork.
 
“One day I was sitting in school wondering what I was going to do with myself, and the next thing I knew I was chosen from 70,000 entries and 23 hours later I was in Africa,” Buchanan said. “They gave us a map and said they’d see us in 39 days. We slept on the ground, in our clothes and after two-to-three days without toilet paper it would be rough on anybody.”  
 
They were told to keep two fires each night where they camped and to have someone stand guard. Buchanan volunteered and slept through his watch. He did the same thing the second night. The third night a lion came around and roared. “I told everybody CBS wasn’t going to put us in no situation where we’d get hurt, but I could hear that lion breathing and I saw the camera crew was afraid.”
 
He said some of his fellow contestants were like animals. “Some people would lie, cheat and steal for $1 million, but I wasn’t raised that way,” he said.  
 
He said he knew about drugs when he was in school. “My mama drug me to school, she drug me to church on Sunday and when I did wrong she drug me to the woodshed.”  
 
A football player at East Tennessee State University, he didn’t finish college because he couldn’t write a paper. “There were 20 million people watching “Survivor” when I couldn’t spell ‘Clarence,’ ” he said. Ever since he has taken a personal interest in education.  
 
“I’ll check on your progress later in the year,” he said to Edmonds’ class. “Whichever team works hardest, and whichever one works best, I’ll do something for you.”  
 
Buchanan said he believes that the reason people from this region keep getting cast on “Survivor” is because Southerners are more friendly and easy going. “Personality has a lot to do with it,” he said. “You wave at someone going down the road here and they wave back. Try that once in New York.”  
 
That reaction might have something to do with what he’s driving. On the tailgate of his pickup are the words, “You’re behind Big Tom’s truck.”  
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
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« Reply #1 on: Aug 24th, 2004, 6:27pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Good article!   Cool Cool Cool for Big Tom!
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 25th, 2004, 7:32pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
One assumes the author of that article never saw Big Tom's truck and only paraphrased something he was told.  The actual label on the back of his truck:
 
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« Reply #3 on: Aug 26th, 2004, 7:39am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
James Brooks was the author of the article.  It wouldn't be the first time to be confused.
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