Speaker 1: Out here to see the black Keys tonight at the
Speaker 1: Grand Theater and then.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be gambling. We got rooms. We're here all night.
Speaker 1: If you want to come hang with us. If you
Speaker 1: see us, let's party. Let's get up on a blackjack table.
Speaker 1: That's one of the funnest things about going to a
Speaker 1: casino with friends is when you can kind of take
Speaker 1: over most or all of a blackjack table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great, It's magical, dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, plus black nitros here Mike Siroy's in the house
Speaker 1: and black jack nitro. So much fun playing blackjack with
Speaker 1: that dude's in crowd.
Speaker 2: He's at the pool right now with a piniccolata, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be fun doing your taxes with that dude.
Speaker 1: Anything he does is just fun. But anyways, we're up here.
Speaker 1: We'd love to hang out with you. And then don't
Speaker 1: forget bfd is Sunday, that's our biggest event of the year.
Speaker 2: We're going to be out there. Do Ski's pavilion gates
Speaker 2: open it too. If you see us, say hello to us.
Speaker 1: So last night I got to be a part of
Speaker 1: something really special and we've saved the entire five o'clock
Speaker 1: hour for this and we're gonna get into some of
Speaker 1: the details of the story. And so I guess I
Speaker 1: would just ask like to ask you, guys, how do
Speaker 1: you want to break this up?
Speaker 2: How do you want to do it alphabetically? I don't
Speaker 2: know that Walkers Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so none of the lead up, just through
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, just so people know you got contacted.
Speaker 2: Via email to do this.
Speaker 1: Somebody reached out to me that works for the studio.
Speaker 1: I'm not still exactly sure exactly where she works, but
Speaker 1: I got sent an email to say, Hey, would you
Speaker 1: like to go see a sneak preview of the new
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie, The Final Reckoning? And so
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm scared to click this link
Speaker 1: because you had to click a link to sign up
Speaker 1: for it. So I didn't click a link. But then
Speaker 1: I thought about it for a day or two and
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, what if it's real? Yes, I
Speaker 1: want to see it early. I need to say yes
Speaker 1: to more adventures. That'd be a lot of fun. I'll
Speaker 1: go see that movie early.
Speaker 2: Hell.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've been dying to see it. So I responded
Speaker 1: to the email. I was like, Hey, I'm scared to
Speaker 1: click this link. Is this real? And they kind of
Speaker 1: were like, yes, it's real. Here's the phone number you
Speaker 1: can call it. So I call and they're like, we
Speaker 1: were told that you guys talk about Tom Cruise and
Speaker 1: his movies and stuff on your show, so we thought
Speaker 1: we'd invite you to this. We thought you guys might
Speaker 1: want to go. And I was like, oh, yes, absolute, okay, great,
Speaker 1: So anyways, I invited you guys all to go. You
Speaker 1: were unable to go. I took my son Max, so
Speaker 1: we go see this sneak preview. And while I'm there,
Speaker 1: she could tell I was a super fan, huh. And
Speaker 1: so she was like, you know, Tom Cruise is coming
Speaker 1: to Dallas to premiere this movie, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in He's gonna do pop ups in theaters all over
Speaker 1: Dallas to where right after the previews, he's just gonna
Speaker 1: pop up and say, hey, thanks for coming to the
Speaker 1: movies to see Mission Impossible to Final Reckoning, I'm Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the film that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And she said we may need extra people to
Speaker 1: do the introductions.
Speaker 2: Would you be open to that?
Speaker 1: And I was like yes, hell, yes, I'd love to
Speaker 1: do that are you kidding me? I'm in And then
Speaker 1: I didn't hear from him. Didn't hear from him. Then
Speaker 1: they responded finally and they were like, Okay, would you
Speaker 1: be available to do some work on this night, which
Speaker 1: was last night.
Speaker 2: They didn't say what it was, so I responded with strong.
Speaker 1: Cruise involved, because I mean, I you know, I live
Speaker 1: in Solina. I'd be willing to go somewhere, but not
Speaker 1: if it's like Simon peg or maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I'm just like, I don't know. If
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is there, I'll change my schedule.
Speaker 2: Simon Pegg would be a great porn start.
Speaker 1: Anyways, they didn't respond, and I was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I blew it. So then I respond back and say, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm available.
Speaker 2: I'd be willing to do it.
Speaker 1: They didn't respond, and so then I responded again and said, hey,
Speaker 1: just follow up. I am available. Then they reach out
Speaker 1: to me and say, hey, call me on this cell
Speaker 1: phone number.
Speaker 2: So I call.
Speaker 1: I talk to this lady, the same lady I've been
Speaker 1: dealing with. She goes, hey, yes, would you like to
Speaker 1: introduce Tom Cruise to a theater on Thursday night? He's
Speaker 1: going to be at the studio, and she was like,
Speaker 1: please don't share this anywhere. No one knows he's going
Speaker 1: to be at the studio studio movie Grill at six
Speaker 1: o'clock or whatever, and we need somebody to introduce him
Speaker 1: and Michael McCory. And no, it's not Michael McCory. That's
Speaker 1: my Christopher McCarey. Christopher, So I grew up with a
Speaker 1: guy named Mike Corey. So I keep struggling with that.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, Christopher McCory, I don't even
Speaker 1: care Tom Cruise. And so so anyways, I was like, hell, yes,
Speaker 1: I would like to do this. This would be an
Speaker 1: absolute blast, and so I would have to race over
Speaker 1: after the show, get to the studio movie grill, go
Speaker 1: in and introduce Tom Cruise. And so I said, hey,
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking it'd only be worth it to me
Speaker 1: if I could get a selfie with him, right, But I.
Speaker 3: Also know, maybe be worth it just to meet him
Speaker 3: if you yeah, you couldn't get a selfie, but yeah,
Speaker 3: but I don't know, man, thin think about my incredible
Speaker 3: exchange with the Leonardo DiCaprio that I have no.
Speaker 2: Proof of, right, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: But I was like, man, I was just will I
Speaker 1: get a chance, like take a selfie with him? They're
Speaker 1: like h And I was like, oh, They're like, of
Speaker 1: course it's Tom. He loves the sweetest guy ever, Like
Speaker 1: he'll be sincere and earnest and genuine. You could, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: You'll have about sixty to ninety seconds with him.
Speaker 2: Where you're just alone. Oh it's hot.
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa what Yeah, and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: talk to him about whatever you want, take pictures, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to do. And I was like, can I
Speaker 1: ask him about thetans? Can I bring someone with me?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I want someone to take a picture, right,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to miss the opportunity. And uh,
Speaker 1: And so I played it like I didn't want it
Speaker 1: to be on bringing a tourist with me, So I said,
Speaker 1: can I bring my assistant?
Speaker 2: I don't have an assistant.
Speaker 1: And then, as you guys pointed out, they would be well,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't your assistant be setting this up? But I
Speaker 1: didn't make it through a spare assistant, and so none
Speaker 1: of you guys really wanted to do it, and my son,
Speaker 1: I wanted to do it.
Speaker 2: I had an obligation. Yeah, and you would have done
Speaker 2: it for me. I would have done it, but so
Speaker 2: I asked TC to do it.
Speaker 1: TC is great if you don't know, talented guy radio host,
Speaker 1: but he's also a videographer and he's just so funny
Speaker 1: and drywitted.
Speaker 3: And he's also a big consumer of popular culture.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he loves talking about popular and.
Speaker 1: He I didn't realize he loves Mission Impossible, like he
Speaker 1: loves these movies. He's giddy about meeting Tom Cruise and
Speaker 1: so anyways, I get him on the list to be
Speaker 1: my guy who's with me. There's been no communication about
Speaker 1: what the instructions were or what I was going to
Speaker 1: do at all, and so TC and I just head
Speaker 1: over there to the studio movie Girl off Royal and
Speaker 1: seventy five.
Speaker 2: We get there about an hour early. We're like, what
Speaker 2: do you want to do?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm thinking, man, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that I have good breath. When I interacted Tom,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's I'm thinking breath mint. Yeah, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I don't have whiskey breath. I don't want to stink.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm thinking about all these what do
Speaker 1: I say? Do I pitch him an idea? Do I
Speaker 1: tell him I'm a super fan. And we're sitting here
Speaker 1: talking through all this, and we're like, well, why don't
Speaker 1: we just film each other having this conversation. So the
Speaker 1: studio movie girls nice enough to let us go upstairs
Speaker 1: to the area where I've never seen, where the projectors shine.
Speaker 3: Into all the movies. Uh huh, And they generate a
Speaker 3: ton of heat. And you got big man heat.
Speaker 1: I got big man heat, and I hate being hot.
Speaker 1: So we're sitting up there interviewing each other for the
Speaker 1: hour leading up to me meeting Tom, and we're covered
Speaker 1: in sweat.
Speaker 3: H Is there footage? And TC might be a bigger
Speaker 3: man than you? Is there footage of you and TC
Speaker 3: interviewing and sweating on each other.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna post it, Because I
Speaker 1: told TC, he goes, what do you want to get
Speaker 1: out of this? I'm like, I go, dude, I go, dude.
Speaker 1: I trust you, Like you're an artist, you are good
Speaker 1: at this. Get whatever you want and if you want
Speaker 1: to use it, great, If you don't, don't, like I
Speaker 1: trust you. Just it's the blank canvas. Get whatever you want.
Speaker 1: He was like, I appreciate that, and.
Speaker 2: Then he just did his thing, so nobody's gonna use
Speaker 2: it or not.
Speaker 3: Let's do this coming up on the other side, what
Speaker 3: did Ben do with all of his sweat before he
Speaker 3: met Tom Cruise. We're gonna do that next on The
Speaker 3: Ben and Skin Show Live from the Chalk Taw Casino
Speaker 3: and Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. All right, it's the Ben
Speaker 3: in Skin Show ninety seven point one the Eagle as
Speaker 3: we think about having KT's license to revoke and now
Speaker 3: picking up his story. When we last left off, Ben
Speaker 3: was getting ready to meet Tom Cruise at the studio
Speaker 3: movie Grill Royal in seventy five, and in preparation for it,
Speaker 3: him and our buddy TC were having an extensive role
Speaker 3: playing session where they were questioning one another if they're
Speaker 3: interviewing Tom Cruise, and they were sweating profusely by a projector.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were both sweating and we were role playing.
Speaker 1: We were because because I thought he was going to
Speaker 1: get a chance to meet Tom and I was going
Speaker 1: to get a chance to meet Tom, and so we
Speaker 1: would practice I'm Tom, You're Tom, and he was.
Speaker 2: Cracking me up. I hope he releases this video because
Speaker 2: it was insane. Go ahead, sorry, how was your Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise accident, Tom Better.
Speaker 1: He was like, I'll just give you an example. The
Speaker 1: first time we were role playing, I was like, Tom, I'm.
Speaker 2: A huge fan.
Speaker 1: And I reached out my hand to shake his hand,
Speaker 1: and he slowly reached his hand out and I just
Speaker 1: died eleven. I was like, dude, that's made me think
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to shake my hand.
Speaker 2: He's like, that's not what I was trying to project.
Speaker 2: Let's start over.
Speaker 1: So, because the thing is this, I love Tom Cruise,
Speaker 1: you know, from from the movie Be Losing It to,
Speaker 1: you know, Risky Business to you know, there's so many
Speaker 1: great movies that and then it's kind of like probably
Speaker 1: close to our age, right, how old is he like
Speaker 1: a little five years.
Speaker 2: Older, six almost a decade almost a decade older us.
Speaker 1: But his movies have been a steady part of our
Speaker 1: lives the whole way, and they've you know, they've been great,
Speaker 1: and so it.
Speaker 3: Is pretty amazing that he was able to not be
Speaker 3: considered part of the brat pack.
Speaker 2: That was huge for him.
Speaker 1: So I was like, uh, you know, we had talked
Speaker 1: about it on our show too. I'm gonna get sixty
Speaker 1: to ninety seconds with him. How do I spend that
Speaker 1: and do I, uh, do I just tell him I'm
Speaker 1: a super fan?
Speaker 2: Do I?
Speaker 1: You know, we had kind of talked about I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: TC's idea was to ask him if he was naked
Speaker 1: under his underwear and risky business, and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: that's a terrible question.
Speaker 2: There was underwear under the underwear. Yeah, the better question
Speaker 2: is were you neck it under your underwear? And Magnolia.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I was like, I thought Skins question was
Speaker 1: the best or his thing. Where So he's got this
Speaker 1: movie called The Edge of Tomorrow and that's what it's called,
Speaker 1: and it's the idea. It's like a groundhog Day and
Speaker 1: he goes through the scenario every single day and he
Speaker 1: gets to try things a million ways until he perfects it.
Speaker 1: And so the idea was, what if I edge up
Speaker 1: tomorrowed the meeting with Tom Cruise and I had so
Speaker 1: much anxiety that I go through this ninety second sequence
Speaker 1: a million times and finally found one way to turn
Speaker 1: it into another interaction and then and so the idea
Speaker 1: was to pitch this film, and so we decided that.
Speaker 1: He told me TC told me, if you just tell
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, you're a huge fan, You're gonna let down yourself, your.
Speaker 2: Listeners, your showmates.
Speaker 1: If that's what you go on the air and say tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you're gonna regret it forever.
Speaker 2: So don't do that. So I'm like, all right, So
Speaker 2: I got to try to make a play.
Speaker 1: So going into it, I'm thinking I'm gonna pitch him
Speaker 1: this movie idea, not to try to make it, but
Speaker 1: just to try to get him to laugh. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so we go downstairs. I'm burning up. I look at TC,
Speaker 1: his whole backs covered in sweat. I'm like, we were
Speaker 1: up there in that oven. You're like filming this interview.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get a chance to get a breath ment.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to like change shirts or anything.
Speaker 1: So now I'm super sweaty waiting for Tom Cruise to
Speaker 1: get there, and.
Speaker 2: I'm like, howstairs?
Speaker 1: And now, pretty soon, like the people i'd been talking
Speaker 1: to were local movie studio people, pretty soon there's some
Speaker 1: big time people from I guess LA or whatever.
Speaker 2: They're in town.
Speaker 1: And this lady comes up to me and she'd go,
Speaker 1: are you the radio guy? And I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: She goes, okay, you're introducing Tom. I'm like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give me some instruction. They're like, great,
Speaker 1: all right, he'll be here soon. He's pulling up right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we don't have a plan or anything like,
Speaker 1: you got it, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 3: And coming up next on the other side, Ben is
Speaker 3: gonna tell you the plan that he made up spur
Speaker 3: the moment for his magical introduction of Tom Cruise. That's
Speaker 3: next right here on ninety seven point one. The we're
Speaker 3: having a great time doing the show. We're gonna go
Speaker 3: see the Black Keys here at the Grand Theater.
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Speaker 2: Now here's what we're in the middle of.
Speaker 3: Ben is setting up an epic tale of being able
Speaker 3: to introduce Tom Cruise to a surprised audience last night
Speaker 3: at the studio Movie Grill at Royal in seventy five
Speaker 3: before a screening of Mission Impossible. Now he's taking us
Speaker 3: through the day and when we last left Ben, him
Speaker 3: and his buddy TC, who is a videographer who was
Speaker 3: there to record the experience. They were role playing what
Speaker 3: they were gonna do when they actually met Tom Cruise,
Speaker 3: because you know, you don't know how it's gonna go,
Speaker 3: you don't know what the scene is gonna be like.
Speaker 2: And they had time.
Speaker 3: So TC and Ben went up into the projector room
Speaker 3: where it's scorching hot, and they role played how they
Speaker 3: would introduce themselves or interact with Tom Cruise, and they
Speaker 3: it was time to go, and they left the projector
Speaker 3: room covered in sweat, maybe having bad breath, and confused
Speaker 3: about what was gonna happen next.
Speaker 1: I had a spritz of cologne, some Diodora and a
Speaker 1: new shirt and a Tic Tac waiting for me in
Speaker 1: my car. Smart So I'm like, I'm gonna sneak outside.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go refresh. Yeah, and all good. And so
Speaker 1: we get downstairs by where the theater is gonna be,
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be, and this big time Hollywood executive lady,
Speaker 1: the biggest I've seen so far. It was like, she's
Speaker 1: the one who came up. You're the radio guy kind
Speaker 1: of a large woman. No, no, no, she was just
Speaker 1: like you're the biggest in stature.
Speaker 2: Yeah. She was like you're the radio guy. And I
Speaker 2: was like yeah, yeah, yeah, she was like, Okay, great.
Speaker 1: You're gonna do the intro and still to this point,
Speaker 1: no instructions, nothing, And she was like, and I could
Speaker 1: tell everyone's starting to get tense. They're like, okay, everyone's
Speaker 1: on walkie talkies. The security had ramped up. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: the people from LA or Hollywood or whatever are now here.
Speaker 1: And they were like, Tom's here, and so we're gonna
Speaker 1: go early. And I hear him say we're gonna cut
Speaker 1: the We're not gonna air the previews because the idea
Speaker 1: was Tom Cruise was going from one theater to another,
Speaker 1: to another to another, and I think he had a
Speaker 1: police escort.
Speaker 3: And all that, and I think I saw him on
Speaker 3: the tollway when I left the station.
Speaker 1: So like our buddy JC from the Kid Crodits Show,
Speaker 1: got to introduce him at the AMC at Web Chapel
Speaker 1: in six point thirty five.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's yeah, the IMAX is there. So there's different
Speaker 2: people at different theaters all around town. He shows up.
Speaker 1: They what happens is the plan was they show all
Speaker 1: the previews for a movie. No one in the movie
Speaker 1: theater knows Tom Cruise is about to be there. Then
Speaker 1: they show a spotlight. They shine a spotlight. They don't
Speaker 1: turn all the house lights up. They just put a
Speaker 1: spotlight right down in front of the screen. And somebody
Speaker 1: like a radio person or whatever would go up there
Speaker 1: and say, hey, thanks for coming out everybody, and that
Speaker 1: person would introduce Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Increded Tom Cruise would.
Speaker 1: Say hello, thank you for coming to the movies, thank
Speaker 1: you for supporting my show or my movie. Everybody, hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy it. And then boom, he's gone to another one.
Speaker 1: Does he zip line in?
Speaker 2: Or? And the idea was.
Speaker 3: That, you know, and he was going to be with
Speaker 3: Christopher McCory, the writer director of it, the guy that
Speaker 3: wrote directed Usual Suspects, right wrote it?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh he just wrote it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, So anyways, and so he's gonna be with him.
Speaker 2: And so in my mind, I grew up with a
Speaker 2: guy named Michael Corey.
Speaker 1: So I keep thinking, like when we started working with
Speaker 1: Jeff Kavanaugh, we grew up with his uncle, Or's cousin.
Speaker 1: So I kept calling Jeff Kavanaugh Mike Cavanaugh. And so
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I don't know anything about this guy. I
Speaker 1: just found out he did Usual Suspects, which was a
Speaker 1: movie I loved but I'm like Michael.
Speaker 2: Corey and Michael oh no, Christopher McCory, Christopher McCory.
Speaker 1: And so I'm thinking about how I'm gonna interact with
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Am I going to.
Speaker 3: Pitch him this movie idea, this silly notion? Am I
Speaker 3: going to tell him he's great? And just you know,
Speaker 3: Chris Barley, I remember when you were in Top Gun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: am I gonna ask him.
Speaker 2: To have a catch?
Speaker 1: You know, bring a ball a glove and like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's any number of ways I could play it.
Speaker 2: And then I'm also I got to execute the introduction.
Speaker 1: I thought I would have time to think it out,
Speaker 1: but TC and I spent so much time in that oven,
Speaker 1: and by the time he got down there, I was
Speaker 1: covered in sweat. You know, his whole shirt was outlined
Speaker 1: in sweat. And I'm like and they're like, great, you're
Speaker 1: the radio guy. All right, we're getting ready to do it.
Speaker 1: Tom's here and I'm like, they're gonna we're gonna skip
Speaker 1: the previews at this theater to get him back on time.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: No, I can't. Like I'm stuck. I'm standing there. It's
Speaker 1: gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And then think about this too, is like we've had
Speaker 3: because of the job, we've been around some famous people.
Speaker 3: But we were talking about this earlier. This is no
Speaker 3: ordinary famous person. This is probably one of the five
Speaker 3: or six most famous actors on the planet.
Speaker 2: So the only.
Speaker 1: Instruction they gave me is when you get down there
Speaker 1: and you introduce Tom Cruise and Christopher McCrory. When you
Speaker 1: introduce him, just kind of get out of the way.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, do you want me like go
Speaker 1: over to that corner.
Speaker 3: Could you get like further back in that corner, like
Speaker 3: like could you actually just disappear?
Speaker 1: And I've got like Homer Simpson in the bush. They're
Speaker 1: like exactly. So I tell TC, TC is my videographer.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna be with me. TC is gonna be
Speaker 1: cause I'm gonna we're outside the movie theater, just a
Speaker 1: normal movie theater and this is studio movie Grill at
Speaker 1: Royal and seventy five. I'm gonna walk down the aisle
Speaker 1: to go to the front of the theater with a microphone.
Speaker 2: The spotlight's gonna come on. Thanks for being here, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm going to introduce Tom Cruise and Christopher McCory and
Speaker 1: then they're gonna walk down take the mics from me,
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to disappear. So I tell TC this
Speaker 1: is what they told me. I'm gonna introduce him and
Speaker 1: then we disappear. We can kind of just jump into
Speaker 1: that that kind of exit tunnel right there, and TC goes, well,
Speaker 1: are you sure.
Speaker 2: They want us to hide? He goes, don't you think
Speaker 2: that's gonna look weird?
Speaker 1: And we're hiding like that's like, he goes, I just
Speaker 1: come over here and film from the front.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, yeah, that makes sense. So smart. So
Speaker 2: TC is like my videographer, who's there? But they got big.
Speaker 1: Time Hollywood people there to film it, take pictures and whatever.
Speaker 1: And so we're in the back of the theater about
Speaker 1: to go in and uh and so I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 1: oh god. And then Tom Cruise gets there. They whisk
Speaker 1: him in from the back and you've seen the video.
Speaker 1: I'll release the video SEC filmed at all, But dude,
Speaker 1: he like levitates in. He just walks in. It's like Beyonce,
Speaker 1: you know, the fan blowing his hair back. He was
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden, and you guys see the video.
Speaker 1: They bring him to me, and then it's my job
Speaker 1: to just.
Speaker 2: Communicate everything now, and no one's given me a plan.
Speaker 3: I saw a picture or the picture that and you
Speaker 3: posted it, but it literally it just looks like two
Speaker 3: guys having a serious discussion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you're telling him what to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I tell him you're directing. They go, hey,
Speaker 3: this is Ben Rogers from morning radio.
Speaker 2: That's what they said.
Speaker 1: Didn't say the radio station because it was a lady
Speaker 1: that I hadn't dealt with yet, some big exec And
Speaker 1: he goes, okay, great, you're on the radio.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: He goes, you're gonna douce thanks for introducing me or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I go, all right, here's my plan. And so
Speaker 1: I pitched him the idea of I'm going to go
Speaker 1: up there. When I get on the microphone, I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell the audience thank you for being here. And
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise re recorded a video to play across theaters
Speaker 1: across America thanking people for coming to the movies. But
Speaker 1: we're having technal issues so we can't play the video.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, but how about we bring out Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: in person.
Speaker 3: I want to know when did you know that was
Speaker 3: rist Did you come up with this with TC or
Speaker 3: on your own? Or when did this? When did this
Speaker 3: idea get hatched in your bin head? So it's good,
Speaker 3: it's really good. I don't remember anything.
Speaker 1: Wow, I was blacked out, Like I don't remember how
Speaker 1: anything went. I don't remember how anything went. I just
Speaker 1: at some point it happened.
Speaker 3: I pitched him the idea, and I was overly comfortable
Speaker 3: with him. If you see in the video, I like
Speaker 3: tap him on the chest with the back of my hand, like,
Speaker 3: all right, this man.
Speaker 2: Did you tell you've been on radio for at least
Speaker 2: ten years? Listen't scout dude.
Speaker 4: His his his attitude, his attitude, his essence was sincere, genuine, authentic, loving, kind, caring.
Speaker 1: It was like he knew that has had to be
Speaker 1: a stressful for me. He was like, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to do is fine.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: I love that that's what you're projecting on him. But
Speaker 3: I got a theory in any situation, no matter what
Speaker 3: it is, if you know you only have to deal
Speaker 3: with it for five minutes, you're good. Yeah, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying for five years.
Speaker 3: If you know there's a heart out you're good, all right?
Speaker 3: Coming up next, Ben is going to talk about the
Speaker 3: moment when he was eye to eye with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3: He's gonna talk about how it went down, and he's
Speaker 3: gonna tell us the magical line that Tom Cruise delivered
Speaker 3: that is now the theme of the entire year.
Speaker 2: That's old. Next on ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Speaker 3: All right, it's the Ben and Skin Show, ninety seven
Speaker 3: point one The Eagle.
Speaker 2: We are wrapping up out.
Speaker 3: Here at the Choctaw Casino and Resort in Durant, Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: You got time to get out here. We're gonna go
Speaker 3: see the Black Keys tonight at the Grand Theater. All
Speaker 3: these shows are available at ticketmaster dot com.
Speaker 2: We're having a great time now.
Speaker 3: Ben has been taking us through his incredible in count
Speaker 3: with Tom Cruise. It happened last night at the studio
Speaker 3: movie Grill Royal in seventy five. He was staked with
Speaker 3: the task of introducing Tom Cruise to the people in
Speaker 3: the theater. They had no idea it was going to happen.
Speaker 3: An unsuspecting crowd ready to see Mission impossible.
Speaker 2: Eight.
Speaker 3: Suddenly Tom Cruise and the director walk in, so Ben
Speaker 3: hatched a plan.
Speaker 2: He had a whole way that he was gonna roll.
Speaker 3: And when we last left off, Ben, you were looking
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise dead in his eye and you're getting ready
Speaker 3: to tell him the plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I tell him the plan and he couldn't
Speaker 1: have been more nice or gracious. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like he locked eyes like with anyone he interacted with.
Speaker 1: It was authentic, he was present. It was incredibly genuine.
Speaker 1: I've never been around a superstar like that. Like it
Speaker 1: was Dirk esque. Yeah, Like he was humble and sincere.
Speaker 1: He's aware of the magnitude of his personality and his stardom,
Speaker 1: but he wanted to connect with people. He was sincerely
Speaker 1: looking to connect. And so I'm pitching this idea and
Speaker 1: I'm nervous, going, oh my god, I'm pitching Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: an idea, and the response just made me feel absolutely
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. I'm that sounds like a
Speaker 1: great idea. I don't even know what was communicated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like blacking out.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's happening. So I start walking
Speaker 1: down the path. He's like, great, let's go with this idea.
Speaker 1: So we're skipping the previews. So I walked straight down
Speaker 1: the aisle, get in the front of the theater the
Speaker 1: studio movie Girl Royal and seventy five, really small theater,
Speaker 1: and dude, part of it is those are reserve seats,
Speaker 1: and so nobody has to be early at that movie.
Speaker 1: They already have their seat reserve. So some people went
Speaker 1: to see that movie and weren't there.
Speaker 2: Yet because they were waiting for the previews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so they missed Tom Cruise being at their theater.
Speaker 1: And so I walk in and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: grabbed the mic and I'm doing my thing, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: in the dry rehearsal I did with TC, I said Michael.
Speaker 2: McCory, not Christopher McCory. So I got the name wrong.
Speaker 2: But so can you say Sam Cruise instead of telling yes, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, somebody did say did you mean to
Speaker 1: say Tim Cruise?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't even know about what
Speaker 2: I said. I whacked out. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: So so I do the introduction, you know, I get
Speaker 1: the crowd hype, and then I found out later that
Speaker 1: as TC was trying to I found out later that
Speaker 1: one of the security guys was.
Speaker 2: Like, who the F is this?
Speaker 1: Who is this guy trying to film this in TC,
Speaker 1: and so they start giving TC a lot of grief.
Speaker 1: And so basically, when I'm walking down the aisle to
Speaker 1: go introduce Tom Cruise of TC is stuck on the
Speaker 1: outside of Tom.
Speaker 2: Cruise and Christopher McCory.
Speaker 1: So he's behind them and it's go time, and his
Speaker 1: whole plan is to follow me. And so basically when
Speaker 1: I start walking down that aisle, he's got somebody trying
Speaker 1: to kick him out of the theater and he has
Speaker 1: to kind of push Tom Cruise out of the way
Speaker 1: to follow me.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. So what did he say? Did excuse me?
Speaker 2: The imagery is beautiful.
Speaker 3: I talked to him this morning on the way up
Speaker 3: here and U and he was talking and he said,
Speaker 3: Ben did an incredible job. We had rave reviews for
Speaker 3: Ben and he was so excited to be a part
Speaker 3: of it. But he was talking about like at the
Speaker 3: last and it was literally the last minute. It was
Speaker 3: while Ben was talking to Tom Cruise and he's filming it,
Speaker 3: suddenly there's a guy going, wait, who are you? And
Speaker 3: he said, and so we're all friends with TC KT.
Speaker 2: And Christina van him a long time.
Speaker 3: But I would describe TC's temperament and pacing is methodical
Speaker 3: at best, like there's no sense of urgency with TC
Speaker 3: at all. No, And as he's explained this, he goes, yeah,
Speaker 3: I had to quickly explain to this guy that the
Speaker 3: whole reason I was here was to film Ben in
Speaker 3: that moment. And I'm thinking, you did that quickly, and
Speaker 3: it's just all happening, and it's that rush in that
Speaker 3: moment where it edged go time, and so you're walking
Speaker 3: off and he's like, this is the whole reason I'm here.
Speaker 3: I can't miss this. So he said, I finally convinced
Speaker 3: that guy and realized I had to.
Speaker 2: Get through Tom Cruise, Christopher McCrory.
Speaker 3: And so he said excuse me, and pushed through. He's
Speaker 3: so good, you had to push through them. And once
Speaker 3: you guys all go and watch the video. He did
Speaker 3: get Ben walking down the tunnel, but he had to hurry,
Speaker 3: and I go, man, it is ironic that you had
Speaker 3: your own mission impossible. Yes, at the screening of mission
Speaker 3: impossible to actually put this thing.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So just before Tom Cruise got there, I had used
Speaker 1: this restroom right outside the theater. Then they put up
Speaker 1: an out of order or not in use sign on
Speaker 1: the bathroom and so it was not in use, and
Speaker 1: somebody was like, why did they do that? And they're like,
Speaker 1: in case Tom needs to use the restroom. So anyways,
Speaker 1: I go down. I introduced Tom. I'm blackout, don't even
Speaker 1: know what I said. But when he comes down to
Speaker 1: take the microphone from me again, he connects with me.
Speaker 1: He shakes my hand, looks me dead, my eyes. He
Speaker 1: could have just been give me the micy idiot, let
Speaker 1: me talk to everyone. He stopped and took time to
Speaker 1: like connect with me again, like thank you, like sincerely
Speaker 1: thanked me for like it was amazing.
Speaker 2: So anyway, you guys saw I guess I gave him
Speaker 2: we're number one.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what I did.
Speaker 5: Is all sitting there after you've done it, they're they're
Speaker 5: all cheering, but when you're all walking up the aisle
Speaker 5: and leaving, there's no standing ovation.
Speaker 2: They don't know what hit him hit him.
Speaker 5: So Ben is trailing Tom Cruise and McCrory and Ben
Speaker 5: holds up a number one sign he just won the title.
Speaker 3: It looks like he's walking down the tunnel back to
Speaker 3: the locker room after security.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know. I don't know who does that.
Speaker 1: And so so I've seen this.
Speaker 2: We're number one.
Speaker 3: So anyways, we all get out of the hallway and
Speaker 3: we're like, wow, that really happened.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I guess Tom Cruise is gone.
Speaker 1: But there's still so many security people and they're like, no,
Speaker 1: he's using the restroom and like, oh, okay. So the
Speaker 1: movie starts in there, so no one's following him out,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of dead out.
Speaker 2: But there are you know, maybe twelve fifteen people just
Speaker 2: kind of standing around and how many have walkie talkies?
Speaker 2: A lot of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so he's using the restroom and he when
Speaker 1: he comes out of the restroom, he's got a race
Speaker 1: to get to his next spot. He kind of walks out,
Speaker 1: he's assuming it's going to be empty, and he sees
Speaker 1: there's like twelve to fifteen people there, and so he
Speaker 1: stops and he's like graciously smiles.
Speaker 2: Like, oh gosh, you guys are here.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks a lot for being here, everybody, and he
Speaker 1: thanked everyone. And then if all those people, I think
Speaker 1: I was the.
Speaker 3: Only one he knew that he had a connection with
Speaker 3: because we had just worked together on a project, the
Speaker 3: Introduction Project.
Speaker 1: So he looks back and he tells everybody there. He
Speaker 1: points and he says, have a great summer. Now, when he.
Speaker 3: Pointed, if his point, if it was a bullet, it
Speaker 3: wouldn't have hit me.
Speaker 2: If from his fingertip it wouldn't have hit me. It
Speaker 2: might have been to the whole crowd, have a great summer.
Speaker 3: But if it was a football that he threw, I
Speaker 3: would have been the only one who could have caught it.
Speaker 1: Now, I wouldn't have hit me in the chest. I
Speaker 1: would have had to kind of hold my arms out
Speaker 1: and catch it. It wasn't a direct line, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he was telling me personally to have a
Speaker 1: great summer.
Speaker 3: Can I give you, guys TC's version of that, Oh yes, please, Okay,
Speaker 3: It's exactly has been described up to the part that
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise turns around. He then turns around to the
Speaker 3: entire crowd and says to everybody, have a great summer.
Speaker 2: Let's go get it. And God, that's wonderful and incredible.
Speaker 2: I think you have it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, see if you can play, because because that
Speaker 3: is like what I'm gonna say to everyone for the
Speaker 3: next three months, have a great summer.
Speaker 2: Let's go get it all right. That is my new slogan.
Speaker 2: I have some of this you, Yes, I think a
Speaker 2: lot of it. So let's just go over the scar.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that I'm gonna play video copiers
Speaker 1: plans for it, and I got a technical issue.
Speaker 5: It's why don't we just bringing this room? Not whatever
Speaker 5: you want?
Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys, Okay, pause it. I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 3: That that is Ben Rogers ten years being in the
Speaker 3: Cowboys locker room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is locker got it? It is that is
Speaker 2: Ben Rogers' locker room voice, and he's quietly telling him
Speaker 2: the bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, I will say Ben is justified because there's people
Speaker 3: that don't know that Tom.
Speaker 2: I mean, his motives are right.
Speaker 3: But I when I saw that, immediately thought that is
Speaker 3: Ben Rogers' locker room.
Speaker 2: Because we're at the entrance of the theater. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: here's a little bit longer.
Speaker 6: Hello, how's anybody doing out there?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 6: And Ben Rogers from the Ben and Skin Show, huge
Speaker 6: radio celebrity.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he recognized me.
Speaker 6: Video here right as happens at times, we were going
Speaker 6: to roll the video with Tom Cruise sending a message
Speaker 6: everyone who's seeing it the movie tonight. We're having technical
Speaker 6: issues and we cannot play the videos. So I thought,
Speaker 6: since we can't play the video, why don't we bringing.
Speaker 2: Out here in person?
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great, that's awesome.
Speaker 5: It's so perfectly set up, so I think this is
Speaker 5: the part too. There's some cheering, which I think this
Speaker 5: is where we get to have a great summer. Okay, laughing, Okay, sorry,
Speaker 5: held him?
Speaker 2: All right, enjoy the movie, hold on time, you will,
Speaker 2: all right, enjoy the movie.
Speaker 3: Double okay, stop it just so you know, you gotta
Speaker 3: go on some video. Ben is locking behind Tom Cruise,
Speaker 3: holding up a number one finger, saying.
Speaker 2: All right, enjoy the movie. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: I saw it, alright, enjoy the movie.
Speaker 2: Didn't even know what they were like, Okay, let's go
Speaker 2: get it. He says, let's go get them, let's go
Speaker 2: get him. Have a great summer. Let's go get him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, I'm pretty sure he's pointing at me
Speaker 1: or very nearby me.
Speaker 3: It's very no, it's very much. It's a game that's
Speaker 3: happening today.
Speaker 2: Let's go. We're going in the show with that.
Speaker 3: Every day is I'm ending every conversation I have for
Speaker 3: the next three months with have a great summer.
Speaker 2: Let's go get them. Man, dude, I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 3: If you could have honestly, this is I bet if
Speaker 3: he could have picked anyone in the world to do
Speaker 3: that for it would have been Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Either hurt him or Sophia Vergatta. Yeah, Texas, if.
Speaker 5: You want been to pin you down and tell you
Speaker 5: this story. At b f D on Sunday, still get
Speaker 5: your tickets. Yes, we'll be had a do seconds pavilion
Speaker 5: all day Sundays and walk up everybody, Yeah, walk up available.
Speaker 3: But I can tell you man, the reserve seating there
Speaker 3: are very few left, very very few. So if you
Speaker 3: want reserve seating in the front, go get them right now. No,
Speaker 3: get them, go get them. Let's have a great summer, everybody,
Speaker 3: Let's go get them. That's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget the time that KT was here with
Speaker 3: us at Chalktaw and we enjoyed his presence.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go see the.
Speaker 3: Black Keys and have dinner at eighteen thirty two. I
Speaker 3: hope everyone has a great weekend and we will see
Speaker 3: you at chalk Taw Casino and Resort.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We'll see it at BFD on Sunday. Let's
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: Christina is gonna stick around and play music next right
Speaker 3: here on the Eagle