What a great story. It is? I put it in the book, so I hope this. Yeah. Welcome back to where everybody knows your name. Today I'm talking to an acting legend whose talent and effortless charisma spans generations.

I mean who else could have worked with May West and starred on Blue Bloods?

I'm talking about the great Tom Selick,

and I'm honored to call him my friend.

This was his first ever podcast recording,

and I'm so tickled that it was on this show.

We got into a lot, working on Magnum P.I.

His experience with May West,

even our time together on the three men and a baby movies.

We also talked about the process of writing his new memoir, which came out

after we recorded this. It's called You Never Know, and I can't wait to dig into it.

Anyway, here's somebody we've all loved watching forever, one of the great gentlemen in this business, Tom Selick.

I can't tell you how excited I am I get to sit with you for an hour and chew the fat.

Yeah, well we used to do there not not for a full hour. No I mean and not for a long time. Yeah, it's so funny that I have moments with you that kind of marked maybe your career a little bit too but definitely my career

with Magnum and three men and abated. I know them well. Yeah. You remember your Magnum

episode? Yes, completely, literally I do. It was it was monumental for us. I remember

first off was also the day you got picked up for season two. That's exactly right because we had done

13 in our first season and we were doing pretty good but you never know. Right.

And that was the day we found out, but it was also monumental because I could kind of spot you because you were smart enough you're playing the bad guy right who wasn't

supposed to be the bad guy but I'm a whimpy a whimpy husband let's tell the

truth off murderous wimpy husband.

But often at episodic TV level, you got an actor and just, they have to prove they're going

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