Tom Snyder

I don't know what that means.

Um, but I, in my view, a lot of, a lot of just plain talk shows from, uh, Charlie Rose to David Susskind to Tom Snyder, I'm going back a bit, were never replaced.

And you have their choice of kind of comedy talk shows at 11:30.

There's very few outlets for a thoughtful conversation where, for the guest, it's a home game.

Now, Ross, if you don't know his story, he started calling professional baseball at the age of 14 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, small town, later worked at NBC television.

Alongside legendary broadcasters of that era, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder, covered the NFL on network TV in the early 1970s, broadcast the Rose Bowl, major golf tournaments, college basketball.

And then, after being personally hand-picked for the job by the man himself...

Ross spent 28 years alongside the great Vin Scully on Dodger broadcast.

No, it's, no, it's, it's good.

Uh, it's a marquee showcase for a sport that needs every bit of US attention it can get, and it got buried like a Tom Snyder sit down with Buddy Hackett.

Even people in Hawaii were like, "This Alcaraz Shelton match is running pretty late." This isn't a routine to celebrate.

Okay, I'm sorry.

... feel a little-

Is that Tom Snyder?

It is not.

That's Dan Aykroyd.

It was something like that, and he asked me off the comedy clubs, arbitrarily, This kid, I'm just doing an aside to set up the story for Jerry Lewis.

And he said, could you do your Tom Snyder impression interviewing me so I can get into this school? And I said, sure.

So I went to Brooklyn or something.

I know.

Back in the day.

I mean, 1978, 79, you know.

And I did the Tom Snyder interview.

And the kid got the job and he had a 30-year career.

That was an unexpected bonus that mesmerized this country in the early 1980s.

The FBI did some fine work, but it was Mel who was the reason that on February 2nd, 1980, I'll just let NBC News anchor Tom Snyder tell you.

Some big names in politics got visits today from agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The FBI agents wrapping up the undercover phase of something called Operation Abscan.