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(00:00):
Hello, Kelly Nash, Good morning, It's Tomorrow show today. All right,
let's talk about what we're going tochat about on Wednesday morning, the
eighth of May. May eighth.All right, this, I have been
going back and forth with a fellawho you may know from from uh.
Is he a reporter I think atthe state newspaper, Chris what's Chris's last
(00:25):
name? He and I have beenkind of going back and forth this morning
over this Tom Sellick story. Buthe brought to my attention, Chris Trainor
is his name? Chris? Ibrought? I wrote the story, how
is Tom Sellick broke? Tom Selleckon Sunday was talking to a Good Morning
Sunday reporter while touring his sixty fiveacre avocado ranch, and she was talking
(00:51):
about it's the end of Blue Bloodshas been announced, and Tom Sellick basically
said he may lose his home overthere. And I was stu because Tom
Sellen's not a fancy guy. Hedoesn't like strike you as flashy. We
never hear about Tom Selleck's private jetor anything like that. We don't see
(01:11):
pictures of him on his three hundredfoot yacht. So Chris Trainor responded to
me because I mentioned, like,you know, he was a major motion
picture star with three men and ababy, mister Baseball. He was also
in sitcoms besides being the star ofMagnum p I, which was one of
the biggest shows of all time.And I didn't realize what he gets played
on Blue Bloods. Chris Trainor says, quote, he makes two hundred thousand
(01:36):
dollars per episode on Blue Bloods.There have been two hundred and seventy eight
episodes, meaning he's made at leastfifty five million dollars on that. Plus
he's the executive producer, which hegets back in on the reruns, which
basically all two hundred and seventy eightare now in rerun, so he gets
paid every day hundreds of thousands ofdollars for that. He said. I
(02:00):
raised an eyebrow during that interview aswell. I looked it up. I
mean Tom Sellick bought that house innineteen eighty eight, I think it was
those sixty five acre ranch. Hepaid yeah, five million dollars for it,
so even if he took a thirtyyear mortgage, it would have been
paid off. But six years ago, how could he possibly be in a
(02:24):
situation where if he doesn't make twohundred thousand dollars a week, he's losing
a thirty five year old home,but he's losing his avocado ranch. What
are you eating all the profits overthere? Or avocado's fattening because he hasn't
put on that much. I nowI'm speculating here. I said, I
(02:45):
know he made a lot of money, but had no idea he made that
much. So where did all themoney go? Chris? Is this because
Chris is a reporter, I wantyou to investigate. Is this the beginning
of a murdaw scandal? Does TomSellick have a massive drug problem? Brother?
That's like murder, that's a lotof drugs. What did he say
he was spending on drugs? Oh? I forgot it was like one hundred
grand a day or something. Youcan't even live but take it that much.
(03:10):
I don't. I I thought Tomsaid owned that reverse mortgage company.
I mean, what did they payhim? Just the AAG commercials? What
did he make off the Florida Orangejuice commercials? He did for years?
He was the voice of Chrysler,he was the voice of Pepsi for a
while. He's I think he's stillthe voice of nat Geo channel. He's
(03:30):
still working. He's seventy nine yearsold. The man has been a major
celebrity since what nineteen eighty one atleast, I think that's when Magnum p
I hit was that, But eventwenty years before that he was a pretty
big star. I used to seehim on Murder she wrote, and you
(03:50):
know, in the Heat of theNight and those types of shows back in
the seventies and eighties. I mean, this guy has done. He's probably
made I would if he's made fiftyfive million off Blue Bloods, he's probably
made over two hundred million dollars inhis life. Wow, I know there's
agent fees. He only got divorcedonce, and I'm sure that was expensive,
(04:12):
but he got divorced right as MagnumPI was kind of taking early on.
So whatever she got she got fromthat. I think he was making
four and a half million dollars ayear to be on Magnum PI. So
she probably got two three five milliondollars something like that to go away.
And bet he's been married to thesame woman since like eighty seven, so
(04:34):
it's not like ex wives went throughit. Sure it's not private jets.
Is there a Tom Sellick entourage?The ambling problem here? Does he rolled
deep like Snoop Dogg? I eversaw pictures of him in Vegas, but
I don't read all those magazines orI mean, it's really what I mean
when I think of I mean,he's a great voice for that reverse mortgage
(04:56):
thing, because you would think thisguy knows about money. He looks like
a guy who knows about money.Does He's not flashy. Look, it's
not about being flashy, It's aboutbeing safe. You know, I'm Tom
Selleck. I want your family.Every time I see Tom Selick's face myself
or I'm reminded of that promotion thatI know I told you about. We
did a Tom Sellick lookalike contest yeall in the Upstate, and I saw
(05:20):
the guy from like one hundred yardsaway, and I'm like, holy crap,
Tom Sellick's in town and he heardabout this and he's come to our
promotion. And I mean it waslike he was trying to battle his way
through the mall walk area because womenwere just blocking. They were all around
(05:42):
him. And the guy stepped duringa Magni p I shirt like a Hawaian.
Oh. Absolutely, he's in fullcharacter and he steps up to me
and he goes, hey, I'mKelly Nash. I'm here for the competition.
And I'm like, okay, wecan go ahead and call it now,
but we'll go through the motions.Yeah, that dude ended up divorcing
his wife. He had an averagelife, just a hard working guy,
(06:09):
just looked exactly like Tom Selleck,and women were throwing themselves at him,
and he just went off the deepend. He was living Tom Sellick's life
without the cash, you know that. And it's interesting because Tom Sellick before
magnum Pi, and this guy beforeTom Sellick getting famous, we're both clearly
good looking men. Sure, Imean they probably were big catches even when
(06:33):
they were broke, right, Butjust because this guy looks like somebody who's
now famous, that's suddenly his stockgoes off the chart and he can't handle
He couldn't handle it. Do womenhandle that better than men? Like if
women like, like, if you'rea somewhat attractive woman, like I don't
(06:55):
know that Tom Sellick, you know, pre magnum Pi, if he walked
into a room of average to goodlooking people, if women were like,
oh my god, or if itwas more like, oh, he's attractive.
I could see myself dating them.And there's there's women where sometimes a
woman walks in the room and everyguy is like, oh my gosh.
And then there's other women they're like, oh no, she's definitely attractive,
(07:15):
but they're not like lining up totry to talk to her. If she
gets herself in a position where suddenlyeverything's changed and now everybody wants to meet
her, do they go off therails too? I don't think that they
do. I think women are prettyeven I can't think of an example.
Okay, I'm still stunned over thewhole thing. Tom Sellek needs to keep
(07:39):
working. I'm hoping for an updatetoday because that story, while it came
out on CBS Sunday morning, reallyhit the internet late day yesterday. That's
when people started talking about Tom Sellingsthat he can't afford his house. TMZ
did a story on it. Imean, there's all these people talking about
it. Now, maybe Tom Selleckwill. They were too getting up for
(08:01):
the weekend that came on television thatyou would have thought that would have generated
a lot of buzz, right,and then Saturday Night Live did like a
six minute sketch about a television showcalled Good Morning Greenville based out of Greenville,
South Carolina, and they're yucking itup with fake Southern accents and stupid
(08:22):
frigging jokes and stuff. Yeah,that was not funny. I don't think
I've watched Saturday Night Live on televisionin twenty five years I have seen on
television. I'm not even of it. Oh, I'm not up after eleven
on Saturdays. I don't think I'vewatched it. By the way, We've
got two kids down in New Orleanshigh school seniors at Saint Mary's Academy.
(08:48):
There was a five hundred dollars prizeup for grabs. Now I don't know
how they did it. I don'tI remember kind of hearing about this,
and I'm gonna mispronounce it, Sogo ahead and laugh at me. Now.
Pythogaron theorem is a thing I quote, fundamental principle of geometry using trigonometry.
(09:18):
It's a two thousand year old problem. Scientists believe it to be impossible
to answer. There's a five hundreddollars prize put up if you can figure
out a problem that science has notbeen out of the biggest minds in the
(09:39):
world. I guess they were tryingto just see who got like the best
answers or whatever. Calcia Johnson andNikiah Jackson, Congratulations, According to science,
you solved it. The professors atMIT are dumbfounded. What they don't
know how they did it. Theirtheir high school teacher is Michelle is very
(10:03):
proud of them. Sure, I'mso proud. I mean, I remember
hearing that phrase again, the oneI'm mispronouncing at some point in my scholastic
career. But they these two highschool kids have solved a math problem that
nobody has saw for two thousand years, and they buck and scholarship. I
(10:28):
guess if you want to got orwherever you want to go. Absolutely,
the reaction is insane and unexpected.According to Calcia, They've been written up
in papers as far away as SouthKorea. Michelle Obama called to congratulate them.
Wow, we've got the key tothe city of New Orleans and the
governor has brought invited us to themansion. But that's I mean, that's
(10:52):
just one of those things where you'relike, wait minute, what happened to
high school kids? Do you haveanything from your high school memories? Where
we did something special. I don'tremember anything special for my high school.
I can take you to the pondwhere I throw my Rubi's cube like this
frustration is enough, this is good. Yeah. So not only did did
(11:13):
you not do anything special? Butyou don't even remember anybody? Nor do
I. I don't remember anybody doinganything special. I don't even remember any
stories of people doing special things inthat era. Maybe it didn't make it
because of the Internet. Maybe somebody, some kid in high school did something
special, but I don't remember it. So I think we've all been on
well I shouldn't say that most peoplehave been on Facebook marketplace to buy or
(11:37):
sell something. It's like today's versionof Craigslist, which is the late nineties
version of a yard sale, oras we would say up north, does
it the same way you can youuse PayPal and all that stuff pay for
it. You know, Well,here we go. I am new to
buying things on Facebook. I boughta series of shelves and they wanted me
(12:01):
to do a porch pickup and theysaid, okay, we're going to set
this outside and you leave the moneyin the mailbox, which I did,
and now they're contacting me saying you'rea thief. We never got our money.
Oh, now what do I do? Uh huh? I don't have
(12:26):
any proof that I paid them otherthan my own good word. Yeah,
well that is tomorrow's challenge. Soyou have tonight to think about that.
If you've ever maybe somebody's listening hasbeen in this type of situation. Apparently,
I'm guessing there's not a ring doorbellinvolved, because otherwise you look at
the video, so there's no videoproof. It's just my good one word.
(12:50):
But I put the eighty bucks inyour mailbox or whatever. I think
I clicked on that thing one timebecause we were talking about in a marketplace
have become what happened, but somethingelse had happened one of our listeners.
But I have never actually been onthe marketplace. I need to click on
that. You know. It's interestingthat you can get stuff for free.
People are just oh that's why Iwent on it. Yeah, there was
like cars that people will giveaway.I don't want it. Can you you
(13:13):
know the motorcac look or whatever?You want to work on a seventy eight
plymouth? Hey, what's going onin your neighborhood we should be talking about
or did you get wrong? Youdon't take matters into your own hands.
You take it to the Morning Rush. You get email us at Rush at
ninety seven five WCS dot com orNash at ninety seven five to b CS
dot com. We started talking tomorrow, You start talking tonight seven eight nine,
(13:35):
twenty six seven in the Morning Rush.
Hello, Kelly Nash, Good morning, It's Tomorrow show today. All right,
let's talk about what we're going tochat about on Wednesday morning, the
eighth of May. May eighth.All right, this, I have been
going back and forth with a fellawho you may know from from uh.
Is he a reporter I think atthe state newspaper, Chris what's Chris's last
(00:25):
name? He and I have beenkind of going back and forth this morning
over this Tom Sellick story. Buthe brought to my attention, Chris Trainor
is his name? Chris? Ibrought? I wrote the story, how
is Tom Sellick broke? Tom Selleckon Sunday was talking to a Good Morning
Sunday reporter while touring his sixty fiveacre avocado ranch, and she was talking
(00:51):
about it's the end of Blue Bloodshas been announced, and Tom Sellick basically
said he may lose his home overthere. And I was stu because Tom
Sellen's not a fancy guy. Hedoesn't like strike you as flashy. We
never hear about Tom Selleck's private jetor anything like that. We don't see
(01:11):
pictures of him on his three hundredfoot yacht. So Chris Trainor responded to
me because I mentioned, like,you know, he was a major motion
picture star with three men and ababy, mister Baseball. He was also
in sitcoms besides being the star ofMagnum p I, which was one of
the biggest shows of all time.And I didn't realize what he gets played
on Blue Bloods. Chris Trainor says, quote, he makes two hundred thousand
(01:36):
dollars per episode on Blue Bloods.There have been two hundred and seventy eight
episodes, meaning he's made at leastfifty five million dollars on that. Plus
he's the executive producer, which hegets back in on the reruns, which
basically all two hundred and seventy eightare now in rerun, so he gets
paid every day hundreds of thousands ofdollars for that. He said. I
(02:00):
raised an eyebrow during that interview aswell. I looked it up. I
mean Tom Sellick bought that house innineteen eighty eight, I think it was
those sixty five acre ranch. Hepaid yeah, five million dollars for it,
so even if he took a thirtyyear mortgage, it would have been
paid off. But six years ago, how could he possibly be in a
(02:24):
situation where if he doesn't make twohundred thousand dollars a week, he's losing
a thirty five year old home,but he's losing his avocado ranch. What
are you eating all the profits overthere? Or avocado's fattening because he hasn't
put on that much. I nowI'm speculating here. I said, I
(02:45):
know he made a lot of money, but had no idea he made that
much. So where did all themoney go? Chris? Is this because
Chris is a reporter, I wantyou to investigate. Is this the beginning
of a murdaw scandal? Does TomSellick have a massive drug problem? Brother?
That's like murder, that's a lotof drugs. What did he say
he was spending on drugs? Oh? I forgot it was like one hundred
grand a day or something. Youcan't even live but take it that much.
(03:10):
I don't. I I thought Tomsaid owned that reverse mortgage company.
I mean, what did they payhim? Just the AAG commercials? What
did he make off the Florida Orangejuice commercials? He did for years?
He was the voice of Chrysler,he was the voice of Pepsi for a
while. He's I think he's stillthe voice of nat Geo channel. He's
(03:30):
still working. He's seventy nine yearsold. The man has been a major
celebrity since what nineteen eighty one atleast, I think that's when Magnum p
I hit was that, But eventwenty years before that he was a pretty
big star. I used to seehim on Murder she wrote, and you
(03:50):
know, in the Heat of theNight and those types of shows back in
the seventies and eighties. I mean, this guy has done. He's probably
made I would if he's made fiftyfive million off Blue Bloods, he's probably
made over two hundred million dollars inhis life. Wow, I know there's
agent fees. He only got divorcedonce, and I'm sure that was expensive,
(04:12):
but he got divorced right as MagnumPI was kind of taking early on.
So whatever she got she got fromthat. I think he was making
four and a half million dollars ayear to be on Magnum PI. So
she probably got two three five milliondollars something like that to go away.
And bet he's been married to thesame woman since like eighty seven, so
(04:34):
it's not like ex wives went throughit. Sure it's not private jets.
Is there a Tom Sellick entourage?The ambling problem here? Does he rolled
deep like Snoop Dogg? I eversaw pictures of him in Vegas, but
I don't read all those magazines orI mean, it's really what I mean
when I think of I mean,he's a great voice for that reverse mortgage
(04:56):
thing, because you would think thisguy knows about money. He looks like
a guy who knows about money.Does He's not flashy. Look, it's
not about being flashy, It's aboutbeing safe. You know, I'm Tom
Selleck. I want your family.Every time I see Tom Selick's face myself
or I'm reminded of that promotion thatI know I told you about. We
did a Tom Sellick lookalike contest yeall in the Upstate, and I saw
(05:20):
the guy from like one hundred yardsaway, and I'm like, holy crap,
Tom Sellick's in town and he heardabout this and he's come to our
promotion. And I mean it waslike he was trying to battle his way
through the mall walk area because womenwere just blocking. They were all around
(05:42):
him. And the guy stepped duringa Magni p I shirt like a Hawaian.
Oh. Absolutely, he's in fullcharacter and he steps up to me
and he goes, hey, I'mKelly Nash. I'm here for the competition.
And I'm like, okay, wecan go ahead and call it now,
but we'll go through the motions.Yeah, that dude ended up divorcing
his wife. He had an averagelife, just a hard working guy,
(06:09):
just looked exactly like Tom Selleck,and women were throwing themselves at him,
and he just went off the deepend. He was living Tom Sellick's life
without the cash, you know that. And it's interesting because Tom Sellick before
magnum Pi, and this guy beforeTom Sellick getting famous, we're both clearly
good looking men. Sure, Imean they probably were big catches even when
(06:33):
they were broke, right, Butjust because this guy looks like somebody who's
now famous, that's suddenly his stockgoes off the chart and he can't handle
He couldn't handle it. Do womenhandle that better than men? Like if
women like, like, if you'rea somewhat attractive woman, like I don't
(06:55):
know that Tom Sellick, you know, pre magnum Pi, if he walked
into a room of average to goodlooking people, if women were like,
oh my god, or if itwas more like, oh, he's attractive.
I could see myself dating them.And there's there's women where sometimes a
woman walks in the room and everyguy is like, oh my gosh.
And then there's other women they're like, oh no, she's definitely attractive,
(07:15):
but they're not like lining up totry to talk to her. If she
gets herself in a position where suddenlyeverything's changed and now everybody wants to meet
her, do they go off therails too? I don't think that they
do. I think women are prettyeven I can't think of an example.
Okay, I'm still stunned over thewhole thing. Tom Sellek needs to keep
(07:39):
working. I'm hoping for an updatetoday because that story, while it came
out on CBS Sunday morning, reallyhit the internet late day yesterday. That's
when people started talking about Tom Sellingsthat he can't afford his house. TMZ
did a story on it. Imean, there's all these people talking about
it. Now, maybe Tom Selleckwill. They were too getting up for
(08:01):
the weekend that came on television thatyou would have thought that would have generated
a lot of buzz, right,and then Saturday Night Live did like a
six minute sketch about a television showcalled Good Morning Greenville based out of Greenville,
South Carolina, and they're yucking itup with fake Southern accents and stupid
(08:22):
frigging jokes and stuff. Yeah,that was not funny. I don't think
I've watched Saturday Night Live on televisionin twenty five years I have seen on
television. I'm not even of it. Oh, I'm not up after eleven
on Saturdays. I don't think I'vewatched it. By the way, We've
got two kids down in New Orleanshigh school seniors at Saint Mary's Academy.
(08:48):
There was a five hundred dollars prizeup for grabs. Now I don't know
how they did it. I don'tI remember kind of hearing about this,
and I'm gonna mispronounce it, Sogo ahead and laugh at me. Now.
Pythogaron theorem is a thing I quote, fundamental principle of geometry using trigonometry.
(09:18):
It's a two thousand year old problem. Scientists believe it to be impossible
to answer. There's a five hundreddollars prize put up if you can figure
out a problem that science has notbeen out of the biggest minds in the
(09:39):
world. I guess they were tryingto just see who got like the best
answers or whatever. Calcia Johnson andNikiah Jackson, Congratulations, According to science,
you solved it. The professors atMIT are dumbfounded. What they don't
know how they did it. Theirtheir high school teacher is Michelle is very
(10:03):
proud of them. Sure, I'mso proud. I mean, I remember
hearing that phrase again, the oneI'm mispronouncing at some point in my scholastic
career. But they these two highschool kids have solved a math problem that
nobody has saw for two thousand years, and they buck and scholarship. I
(10:28):
guess if you want to got orwherever you want to go. Absolutely,
the reaction is insane and unexpected.According to Calcia, They've been written up
in papers as far away as SouthKorea. Michelle Obama called to congratulate them.
Wow, we've got the key tothe city of New Orleans and the
governor has brought invited us to themansion. But that's I mean, that's
(10:52):
just one of those things where you'relike, wait minute, what happened to
high school kids? Do you haveanything from your high school memories? Where
we did something special. I don'tremember anything special for my high school.
I can take you to the pondwhere I throw my Rubi's cube like this
frustration is enough, this is good. Yeah. So not only did did
(11:13):
you not do anything special? Butyou don't even remember anybody? Nor do
I. I don't remember anybody doinganything special. I don't even remember any
stories of people doing special things inthat era. Maybe it didn't make it
because of the Internet. Maybe somebody, some kid in high school did something
special, but I don't remember it. So I think we've all been on
well I shouldn't say that most peoplehave been on Facebook marketplace to buy or
(11:37):
sell something. It's like today's versionof Craigslist, which is the late nineties
version of a yard sale, oras we would say up north, does
it the same way you can youuse PayPal and all that stuff pay for
it. You know, Well,here we go. I am new to
buying things on Facebook. I boughta series of shelves and they wanted me
(12:01):
to do a porch pickup and theysaid, okay, we're going to set
this outside and you leave the moneyin the mailbox, which I did,
and now they're contacting me saying you'rea thief. We never got our money.
Oh, now what do I do? Uh huh? I don't have
(12:26):
any proof that I paid them otherthan my own good word. Yeah,
well that is tomorrow's challenge. Soyou have tonight to think about that.
If you've ever maybe somebody's listening hasbeen in this type of situation. Apparently,
I'm guessing there's not a ring doorbellinvolved, because otherwise you look at
the video, so there's no videoproof. It's just my good one word.
(12:50):
But I put the eighty bucks inyour mailbox or whatever. I think
I clicked on that thing one timebecause we were talking about in a marketplace
have become what happened, but somethingelse had happened one of our listeners.
But I have never actually been onthe marketplace. I need to click on
that. You know. It's interestingthat you can get stuff for free.
People are just oh that's why Iwent on it. Yeah, there was
like cars that people will giveaway.I don't want it. Can you you
(13:13):
know the motorcac look or whatever?You want to work on a seventy eight
plymouth? Hey, what's going onin your neighborhood we should be talking about
or did you get wrong? Youdon't take matters into your own hands.
You take it to the Morning Rush. You get email us at Rush at
ninety seven five WCS dot com orNash at ninety seven five to b CS
dot com. We started talking tomorrow, You start talking tonight seven eight nine,
(13:35):
twenty six seven in the Morning Rush.
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