John Thompson was scheduled to be on American Airlines Flight 77 to Los Angeles on 9/11/2001 until a producer for @jimrome& #39;s TV show asked him to push his flight back a day. Big John didn& #39;t like the change, but the producer persuaded him. It saved his life.

A decade later, after John Thompson revealed that story on Rome& #39;s radio show, Rome surprised him by putting the producer, Danny Schwartz, on the air with him. I& #39;ll never forget what Big John said to him.

"Let me tell you something," Thompson said to Schwartz. "If you’re ever in Washington, D.C., you look me up. I was antagonistic in those days, and how you handled it saved my life, and I appreciate that.”