Okay, so I have to ask, has there been anything that’s come through since you’ve been sitting here with me? Mm-hmm. Oh, do you want to tell me? Potentially. Do you have a pen and paper? I do. Welcome to Trevor Talks Too Much, the show where I talk and talk and talk and don’t stop. Talk, talk, talk, don’t stop. I’m your host, Trevor Evarts, Master Baker, Mythical soft boy, proud advocate for the chips and Diet Coke diet. It’s something that I created where for lunch, I have a bag of chips and a Diet Coke. So yeah, today I spoke with Tyler Henry, the Hollywood Medium or clairvoyant. And this was honestly a very different episode, I think, than what we usually do. It was really fun. Tyler is one of the sweetest and most genuine people I’ve met. But yeah, it was really fun. He talked about what he does as a medium, his readings, and he even gave me a little taste test to run medium read. I don’t know if that’s what he would refer to it as, but that’s what I’m referring to it as and it was really fun and I think you’re in for a treat today because I had a really great time. Jamie had a really good time. Oh, my God, yes. On a somewhat related note, I recently had to face my own mortality, Jamie. What happened? Yeah, so here’s the thing. I was playing pickup basketball at the LA Fitness. Okay? Local access, as we’ve learned. Local access fitness. I was there and I’m 23 years old. I’m an old man. No, I’m not that old. That’s the thing, but I ended up on a team because the way pickup basketball works, for those of you that don’t know, there’s not a lot of rules involved. I mean, you have the normal rules of basketball apply. Yes. But as far as like creating teams, you kind of just show up and you usually just get, you know, a random team together. It’s not like you have teams that are set. So I show up, I’m putting my shoes on, whatever. Kid comes up to me. He’s like, “Hey, you got next?” And I was like, “Sure, I’ll run with you.” And then I ended up playing with like, four high school kids or who I assume are high school kids. If not, they were like, freshly out of high school, but they were talking about like, practice and they didn’t look old enough to be college kids or like, yeah. So anyway, I’m on a team with four high school kids and I don’t know, I mean, I used to play basketball six days a week when I was in high school. Yeah. Yeah. And I would say I was in good shape and I would consider myself to not be in terrible shape right now, but they ran so much. Like, I don’t know. They were running up and down the court and they didn’t seem like, out of breath. I mean, I swear there was a point in one of the games. Also, if you win and pick up basketball, you stay on and a new team comes on. Whatever team wins stays, so we won three games in a row and I swear by the fourth game, I was like losing. In the middle of the third game, I was like, on my knees just like, tired! I was worn out and I was just sitting here watching these kids not freaking take it. Didn’t even seem like they were taking a breath and they were sprinting up and down the court. And I was like, am I really that old? Like, am I that much of an old man that I can’t even freaking play four games of pickup basketball in a row without just feeling like I’m about to die? Well, one, the fact that you played, to me. You played that many, to me, is already like, what? After one, I’d be like, gotta go. Yeah, it was an hour straight of basketball. That’s a lot. Yeah. Four games in a row. I remember I looked at a text that I’d sent before I started playing and so it was an hour straight of basketball, which is a lot in basketball. You know, it’s pretty demanding. But wow! I was like, these kids aren’t even tired and they are sprinting up and down the court every play. And I was like, am I really that old? Am I that much of an old fogey at 23 that I can’t hang with some punk high school kids? They’re actually very nice. They were very sweet kids and they were very encouraging on the court, which you love to see. You love to see that. Yeah, you know? If I missed a shot, you know, they were giving me high fives still and they were like, “Hey, you got the next one. It’s all good. Keep shooting.” Very nice to see in the younger generation. Old! Old! I’m referring to my generation as the younger generation. Well, I feel like because I mean, there is something to say to that because you are near the start of Gen Z. Like, I believe Gen Z starts if you were born the year 1997. Is that how it works? Yes. I believe that’s the breakdown. So you’re like, you’re what they call the cusper. I’m a cusper. And I am a Millennial, but I am also somewhat of a cusper because I was born in 1993. You were born in 1993? Yes. Hold on. Seven, 22, 29? Yes. I wouldn’t have guessed. I would’ve guessed 40. Thank you. I do have. I’m kidding! Oh, my God, I’m kidding. That’s a joke! It is very much, just wait until you hit 25. For whatever reason, everything’s downhill from there. 25 is once my brain is fully developed. What do you mean it’s down? Like once I, huh? I felt like my metabolism super slowed down. I felt like I got like, so much more tired than normal. I’m already tired all the time. Well. I can’t get more tired, Jamie. I’m not gonna make it. But I think that, no, but you know what? You will live a more. You’ve been playing basketball. I think if you keep that up, the longevity. Maintain an active lifestyle is what you’re saying. Yes. Okay. Do not unactivate yourself. Problem. I’m a degenerate gamer. You should get, you can get the desk pedals! No, I’m not gonna do that. Anyways. I did actually last night, though, when I was playing basketball and facing my own mortality. I didn’t game when I got home. Oh. Pretty crazy. That is crazy. Yeah. See, I’m an old man. An old man, but we’re gonna get into some other crazy stuff. Everybody, we have a very special guest today. Tyler Henry, the Hollywood Medium, is in the building. Welcome to the show, Tyler. Thank you so much for having me, Trevor. Very excited. So you are medium. You do readings of people, a lot of celebrities. Some really cool celebrities. I watched your reading of RuPaul the other day. That one was really fun to watch. That was cool. But yeah, I mean, do you wanna explain a little bit more about what you do? Absolutely. So as a medium, I really kind of work as an intermediary, so I’m kind of in the middle. Yeah. In theory between this realm and the next ad I really kind of simplify my job as being just one of, when I interact with people, I get impressions and I just get feelings about people. Sometimes, a very strong mental images. And when I share them, they tend to acknowledge that they’re subjectively meaningful. Yeah. And so that for me is really what it’s about. It’s not a scientific claim. It’s really kind of more akin to like art and love. Things that we can’t quite quantify, but still have a meaning. Yeah. For sure. So I’m sure that within your line of work and what you do, you come into a lot of skeptics. You deal with a lot of them. What do you, in your experience, do they tend to come around usually? Well, there’s so many nuances to skepticism. Yeah. And some people are a little easier to convert, so to speak, based on their experiences. Yeah. And others less so. But I would say that generally, the proof is kind of in the pudding. Again, it provides, you know, a meaningful sense of recognition. When I sit with people I bring forward inside jokes, people’s last words, kind of things that- Yeah. Are recognizable and for me, that’s really what I aim for. But I sometimes find that skeptics actually have a bar set very low in their expectations and that can actually be easier to exceed So sometimes, I’ll have people who are like, super fans. They’ve seen every reading and they’re expecting a 10 outta 10 reading. Yeah. And I’m like, oh, shoot. You know, pressure’s on. If someone comes in expecting it to be a bunch of mumbo jumbo, they’re actually easier to impress. That makes sense. I feel that way with my cooking. Right, set the bar low. Yeah. Set the bar real low. When people see the food I cook for the internet, they’re like, oh, you just make like nasty. You took beef tongue and covered it in blood and shoved it up a pigs butt? There you go. I’m like, well, actually, I know how to make pasta, too. Right. And it beats tofurkey, so there you go. Tofurkey. Oh, no. So, have you ever done like, I don’t know. I’m curious because I would consider myself probably on the fence skeptically. I mean, I was raised in a Christian home and so I definitely believe, or in the past. I don’t know where I’m at right now, but in the past, I would say that I believe in life after death. I don’t think when we die, it all just goes dark. But has there ever been like, a really crazy reading? Like, what’s the craziest reading that you’ve ever done? Well, you know, they’re all kind of surreal and if I think about any of them too much, it’s kind of mind bending. Yeah. So when I go home at the end of the day, I have to kind of put it on a shelf. But I would say my reading with Alan Thicke was one of the most interesting. I sat with Alan. He was a really nice guy with his wife. I met with him on my show, “Hollywood Medium.” Yeah. And he was a total skeptic. He went into it and I connected with him and brought through a loved one of his who had died of a heart condition. Okay. And this loved one came through and said, “Alan, you need to get your heart checked. You need to keep this in mind for yourself. You run the risk of the same issue.” Yeah. And he laughed and he said, “Oh, thanks, Dr. Tyler.” Yeah. And his wife was kind of hitting him. Yeah. And then tragically, three months later, he dropped dead of a heart attack of the exact heart condition this loved one had. Oh, my God. And that for me was kind of full circle because I got to meet with his widow who had met in our initial session and got to connect with her and connect her then to her husband. That’s crazy. Wow. Pretty intense. That’s really intense. Oh, my gosh. That scares me. Yeah. I mean, it doesn’t scare me, but it is. That is very… There’s prevention. Yeah. And I always try to frame it that way, right? It does sound scary and you have like, the stereotypes of like, a tarot card reader bringing out the death card. And it doesn’t work that way as much as for me, it’s more about trying to get people to the doctor. Yeah. And you know, at the very least, it doesn’t hurt to go get a checkup, right? So I don’t really feel like it’s a… Is there anything that I need to go to the doctor for? You’re good. I think you’re good. Good, good, good. It’s the raging hemorrhoids and IBS. No, I’m just kidding. I mean. Wait, I actually do have hemorrhoids. Oh, well, you know what? You nailed me! Uh-oh, I don’t wanna nail you. This is might make it worse, but I’ll give you cream. I don’t have IBS, though. All right. All right. We’ll see. Your thirties are coming up. Yeah. As a 23 year old, it’s hard to have hemorrhoids. Right. Well. It’s a hard problem to deal with. Indeed. I think at any age, it might be not the best. Right. Yeah. Well, you can do like, the cream. People put on their faces. Well, I mean, I don’t do anything for my hemorrhoid. I kind of just ignore them. Yeah. It’s a good approach. It’s usually what I do. My dad. I mean, my dad has them, too. Is it a genetic thing? I don’t know. Should I be talking about my dad’s hemorrhoids on the show, Jamie? You know, awareness. Genetic predispositions are good to bring awareness to. That is actually true. If you swing it that way, maybe just don’t go into detail. So when you do your readings and things, does it take? I mean, you mentioned that, you know, you go home at the end of the day and you kind of like, put it on a shelf. Does it take a toll on you when you do it? I would say so. You know, there’s any exchange where you’re having a meeting of minds, right? Yeah. Whether you’re interviewing somebody, doing a reading, or just dealing with the public in any capacity. Yeah. There’s an exchange that happens and that can be very draining when you’re focusing on people’s kind of lowest moments of their life. Yeah. So as long as I allocate time to focus on myself and be able to kind of veg out and kind of distract myself. Yeah. It helps me kind of bifurcate my time, but it’s good advice for everybody to take, right? Making the you time. People always say they don’t have time to meditate. And I always say, “Well, if you make meditation a lifestyle and part of your kind of daily practice, then it’s not a chore.” Yeah. And I mean, you’re also like, while you’re a medium, you’re also a performer. Like, you’re on camera and you are being entertaining to some degree and I know that even just doing that on our silly YouTube channels, like it takes a toll, like energy wise. When you’re on camera, you are giving more of yourself and so I can imagine that that would definitely be something that like, at the end of the day, you just gotta. There are times when I need to go home and just stare at a wall. Have you ever like, felt like, threatened ever, like, during a reading or have you ever felt like there was anything like, kind of like bad or malicious energy? You know, you would think that would be the case. Yeah. Being that, you know, in life, there’s such a spectrum of personalities, good, bad otherwise. But I find that my work, I really just set the intention to try to get information that’s gonna be applicable to the person’s life in a way that’s gonna be practical and helpful. Yeah. So by setting that intent alone, kind of setting that prayer. You know, I kind of do a bit of a meditation before. It does help me kind of filter out, I think, some of the heavier things. Yeah. But with that said, sometimes I do have to assert difficult things, like telling Alan think about a heart thing or- Yeah. Sometimes, you know, people will come forward and acknowledge addictions or acknowledge, you know, chains of behavior that they broke. Yeah. And that can be very heavy but necessary. So you have had this gift from a very young age, correct? I consider it like an ability. Yeah. You know, I think it’s like a capability. Yeah. Something I’ve been able to do. It started when I was 10 years old. Okay. I had a premonition of my grandmother’s death. Okay. And I basically just woke up one night and had what could only be described as like, a knowingness. Yeah. That she was going to pass away and at the time, it felt kind of like a memory that hadn’t happened yet. It was really confusing and as I explained this to my mom, we received the call that my grandmother had died. Yeah. So that was really the catalyst, but at 10 years old, you don’t really recognize that as an ability. Yeah. It’s more just something that happened and they continued to happen and then before I knew it, it was happening to the point where it couldn’t be ignored. Yeah. Was your family like. receptive to that or were they kind of like, what do you mean? That’s weird, don’t do that? Well, it was a little unsettling for my mom. She was the first person I told of that initial premonition and she didn’t share that with my dad. Both my parents were pretty conservative Christians. Came from a Presbyterian background and so it took six years for me to tell my dad. When I was 16, I graduated high school early to try to become a hospice nurse. Okay. And I was still doing readings through word of mouth and I had to kind of come out of that closet to my dad and say, “Hey Dad, you know, I’m talking to people about their dead loved ones while I’m going to college to try to be a hospice nurse.” So he was ultimately very receptive, but it required kind of a lot of proof. I had to really show them how it worked. Yeah. There’s so many stereotypes that hurt the cause and affect how people think of mediums and so it was kind of a lot of just explaining it in a way that he would understand. Yeah. How do you feel about like TV shows, for example shows like “The Mentalist” or “Psych”? Yeah. What do you? Because I love “Psych”. It’s one of my favorite shows of all time. Totally. But do you think that those are kind of like, insulting at all or? No. Okay. I will say this, I think that it’s great to have conversations around cold reading, which is reading body language typically. Yeah. And often revolves around something called Barnum statements, which are vague things that could apply to anyone. Yeah. And you have hot reading, which is typically more oriented around people doing research beforehand. Yeah. And so both those things are from a mentalist perspective, what is often accused towards mediums. Yeah. My take is it’s important to acknowledge that, that is an entertaining facet of mentalism. Yeah. That people perform and do, but equally, you know, when you look at the kind of ins and outs of medium reading, it’s those things that can’t be Googled, can’t be researched, can’t be guessed, can’t be generic. Yeah. That substantiate the reading. So for me, it’s less about even a name being impressive because in this day and age, everybody can Google people. Yeah. It’s more like, oh you know, your girlfriend’s grandmother passed away and it’s a situation with the her mother and the house. Yeah. Stuff like that, you know, substantiates. Yeah. Do you think that? Do you feel like it happens or you can, you know when it’s happening or you have some degree of control over when it’s happening? Or are you ever just like sitting at home watching TV and all of a sudden, you just get like, a thing popping in your head? Happens all the time. I kind of viewed as like an active daydream. Carl Jung, one of the forefathers of psychotherapy, talked about active daydreaming when we just kinda let our minds go. Yeah. You’d be surprised. There’s a lot of fodder for creativity and kind of getting a better sense of self, if we just let our minds wander. So I’ve kind of trained myself to get into that zone and then kind of reel it in when I need to. Yeah. What’s the second biggest thing about you other than being a medium? Because I’m curious. I feel like a lot of your life is this, but do you have any other interests? Well, I think my fat- The second thing. I could twerk for you if you would like. It’s really, my reputation precedes me when I back it up. Yeah. Other interests, probably stained glass. I make stained glass windows for fun, which is like a very old timey, archaic hobby. No, I love that. No, that’s so cool. Thank you. You know the reason you never hear about like, famous stained glass artists is because stained glass originally got commissioned only by churches. Okay. And they gave all the credit to God. So that’s why you hear famous painters, right? You can recognize that, but not famous stained glass artists. Interesting. I love that. I think I did a stained glass thing one time as a project in school. I made a Christmas ornament. Right on. It was a little. No, wait, actually, I didn’t. No? You just gave yourself a false memory? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I specifically remember because I was sick the day that we made this stained glass ornaments. Someone in my class, like a teacher or something or another student, made one for me. This is like, the third grade and they made one for me and then I got it and now, my parents hang it on the Christmas tree every year and my brother made one. And so his hangs up and mine is way prettier than his, but I also didn’t even make it. There you go. I just like, completely forgot that I never actually made it. A man of many strings. Yeah. I’m very talented, though. I do take credit for it at Christmas. I’m like, I made that. It was a commission. Yeah. Exactly. Where do you like, source the glass for that? Well, they have these like, stores around. There’s only a couple, but they sell like, sheets of glass and then you basically take the glass and you cut it out and you assemble it into a design that you kind of pre-create. Okay. And it’s just kinda a lot of like, hot, you know, soldering irons and chemicals. Oh, wow. It’s a really sexy hobby. It’s pretty cool. Yeah. No, it’s intense. Stained glass is pretty cool. I was gonna say, it definitely probably feels like a situation where you would want to take your shirt off because you’re sweaty but you probably shouldn’t because you’ll burn yourself. Exactly! And it pops. That’s how I feel with cooking. Yes. There you go. I wanna take my shirt off every time. Right. But I can’t because that’s not kitchen safe. You could lose a nipple. You could very easily. The number one thing that I’m afraid of in the kitchen. Well, no, the two number one things because there’s two of them. Hot oil, like popping oil. Yes. Like in a deep fryer because Nicole literally, my coworker literally burned herself like, a couple months ago with popping oil and like, had burns all over her arm. Oh, no. And sugar burns. Sugar burns? Sugar. Oh, my God. It is like the number one thing because I went to culinary school for pastry and baking and so we did a lot of work with sugar and when sugar’s boiling, if you get it on you, there’s just nothing you can do. Really? Yeah because you can’t rinse it off. Like, it’s very sticky because it’s sugar and it’s just molten sugar and you can’t like, rinse it off because if you put water on it, it’ll harden. Then it’ll hard into your skin and it’s just the worst thing ever. It’s like cauterization. Yeah. It’s terrible. Ow. Anyway, what were we talking about? I love candy but I’m gonna let you make it. Yeah. Yeah, all those lollipops that you’re sucking on out there. Right. Actually, they’re probably made in a factory so there’s no danger to. So when you do readings, generally, you ask for an item from the person’s life, right? Sometimes. Sometimes. Okay. So are there times when you do readings that don’t involve that or does it make it easier or is it just something that you like to do for that person or kinda what’s the deal behind that? So in psychic history, the process of holding onto an object and trying to intuit some information from is called psychometry. Yeah. And so it has a very old history and for me, if anything, it was really just more of a way in the beginning to center my focus. Okay. When you sit with a person, there’s a lot that can come through, ranging from an argument they got into earlier in the day to what they have going on. An object kind of just helps us focus and almost acts as a reminder of the person of who they want to hear from. Okay. What they’re there for, so it’s almost more symbolic than anything and we really find in readings and prayer and really all those subjective things, intention is a very powerful tool. Yeah. Okay, so I have to ask. Has there been anything that’s come through since you’ve been sitting here with me? Mm-hmm. Do you wanna tell me? Potentially. I like career stuff. There’s some good stuff there, as well. But are you in a relationship currently? Yes. Okay. Do you have a pen and paper? I do. Yeah. I’m excited. Let’s see here. Let me just do a little scribble, scribble. I don’t need an object or anything, but let me just see if I can connect in that department. Okay. Mom’s side of family, dad’s side of family. J. And then we have this other side, as well. I kind of suspect I’m connecting to like, if we talk about a relationship, like a girlfriend’s side of family. So it’s kind of weird. I don’t know. They all look. I have to talk about somebody else. How strange. Person you’re in a relationship right now with, if we go to their mom’s side of family, do you know if grandma’s passed on that side? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So I have to highlight like, some connection with that. I have to bring up that individual. I don’t feel like you got the chance to meet this lady. No. So that would be correct, but I have to highlight something about a couple things. Sorry, I have to highlight reference to two sisters. So that could indicate that your girlfriend’s mother has a sister, do you know? Yes. Yeah. They’re having me talk about having to make a decision around girlfriend’s grandmother’s like, wellbeing, health in the long run towards the end. They’re having me talk about a residence, like a place of where somebody was at staying with somebody, that kind of thing, and I keep getting, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” So it’s good to keep in mind, it wouldn’t surprise me if one of your girlfriend’s, like either her mother or her aunt, like stayed with grandma or something or like was the one to take the initiative around the housing situation of like, where residential she would be. Yeah. That’s good to keep in mind and then just check and see if like, a sea turtle has any significance. I know that’s a weird thing to say. These things are so off the wall, but good to write down. And then one thing you keep in mind from a career perspective for you. Also, somebody in your family might be turning 50 or there will be somebody turning kind of close to like a big date. Like, we think like big 40, big 50. Think like, 5-0, 4-zero, that kind of thing. My mom is turning 51 this year, which means my dad is turning 50 next April. Sweet. Okay. So he would be the one that would be seen in that direction. And then there’s like, interesting things there. This kind of career thing, this is gonna keep in mind. Look I don’t believe the future’s set in stone, but I think that we have trajectories we go down based on the present moment. Yeah. I feel so good for you in like, four separate areas, all kind of within what you’re doing. But you’re gonna have all these different things that culminate into kind of this one larger brand, which I love. There might end up being some form of an opportunity of something cooking related and then I keep seeing some weird indication of something musical and it could be silly and ridiculous in the way that this is coming across, but just good keep that in mind. Any opportunities we see cross over there. Okay. Like a funny musical kind of element. Okay. Strange might be one of the four, but it looks. Interesting. Four different avenues. I have been a musical theater kid in the past and I do have a passion. God, I feel bad because I have a terrible memory. I wrote it all down. Oh, good. No, no, no, no, no. I mean like, I have a terrible memory in relation to all the stuff that was going on with my girlfriend’s family because I remember it all happening or I remember like, the vague details, but I also have a hard time remembering specific details. Well, I wrote it down, so if you wanna tell her. Totally, yeah. And see if that comes up. Yeah. Yeah, there’s a lot of gratitude around her mother for some reason. Also, you mentioned a J. My dad’s name is Josh. Oh, cool. Yeah. Amazing. So that makes sense. That’s actually the first time I’ve learned your dad name. How funny. You talk about your dad all the time, but you’ve never said his first name. You know, I call him Dad. I don’t call him Josh. Well, obviously, but. Yeah, that’s really cool. Wow. Thank you for that. Of course. And you know, that’s just like a little sample, but when I sit down for an hour with people, it’s interesting. We kind get into a flow of things. I’d love to follow up. I’ll give you my email, as well. You can reach out after. So with the pen and paper, is that just something that kinda helps you channel the things that are going on in your head in a way that makes it easier to discern? Pretty much. Yeah. It’s almost like, you know when you’re doodling when you’re on the phone with somebody? It’s just kinda like, hand wanders. Kind of essentially what happened, how I started doing this when I was a teenager. I was on the phone with a girlfriend just kinda scribbling and I started kind of finding I had a hard time concentrating on what she was saying and instead was kind of focusing what was going on. Yeah. So I thought I’ll implement it into readings. Yeah. Thank you. So you have a Netflix show. I do. “Life After Death”. That’s right. That’s awesome. So you have, in that show, you started to uncover some things about your family, right? That’s right. And their past. What was that like? Like, kind of ever uncovering some of the more secretive things that you didn’t know about? Sure. Well, this show was a very intimate look at my personal life, whereas “Hollywood Medium” was more oriented around readings with celebrities. Yeah. This one kind of turned the tables on me as I traveled across the country, shared readings with people who really genuinely needed them. But simultaneously, I was also exploring a family mystery that had kind of came to a head. Yeah. I discovered that the person or the people I was told were my maternal grandparents were indeed not. Oh, wow. And that my mother was actually stolen as a child from a sociopath who went on to murder multiple people. Oh, my God. And this all only came out, you know, recently. We knew about the crimes that she had committed, but my mom had a whole biological family that was looking for her and my mom was basically just captured as a child and not given back and- Oh, my God. Yeah, it was a really crazy story of family and identity and my mom got to a place of, you know, in the show where she didn’t even know if the name on her birth certificate was her given name. She didn’t know if her actual birthdate was her birthdate. So it really brought into questions of like, who are we when all of what we identify as is stripped away. Yeah. What was, I mean, that like for her personally to kind of discover that? Like was it, I’m sure it was difficult, but I assume there’s also like a sense of closure? Sure, it definitely opened up a lot of new wounds, but put a lot of rest in previous manners. I think it kind of brought up the question of like, you know, the sins of our parents and my mom for so long felt so much shame. Yeah. Connected to this woman that she thought was her mother who spent 30 years in prison with the Manson family, had a feud with them. I mean, this woman was crazy. She’s still alive, by the way. Yeah. And yeah, that really affected my mom. But to know we weren’t related to that individual biologically kind of was freeing. Yeah. To know I come from just really sweet Italian people. I can imagine. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, my goodness. Wow. I wonder if my dad has any dark secrets. Oh, all families have things, right? Everyone, some more than others, but everybody has stuff. My dad’s secrets are probably pretty stupid. It’s the hemorrhoids. Yeah, it’s the hemorrhoids. That’s the secret and I know it now. Oh, so does the airwaves. Yeah. That’s crazy. Wow. I really liked how supportive like, your mom’s, I guess, I don’t wanna say adoptive because that’s not, I guess, the right word, but adoptive siblings were. Yeah. Throughout and still are. I really enjoyed like, watching that part and seeing that, you know? Yeah. It really brings into question, what is family? And I really think it’s obviously transcends blood. I know it’s a platitude that we hear about, you know, but it really put that to the test. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever gotten? So sometimes, occasionally you’ll ask people for objects. Has anyone ever handed you like, a really weird object? Yeah. People have handed me up panties. I’ve held panties. People have brought me their loved one’s actual ashes. Oh, wow. And wanted me to hold onto the ashes and I said, “No, you can keep in the container. That’s fine.” Oh, they like, wanted you to palm it? Yeah. I’m like, we’re not doing like, the Catholic moment. Yeah, no. That stayed in the little vessel. Someone’s giving me socks before. Mostly undergarments. I don’t know why people would bring an undergarment, but I guess it’s, you know, the intimates. Yeah. As long as it’s not a dildo. We’re not there yet, but my thirties are coming. They’re approaching, so there’s still a lot of time. Oh, my goodness. So Jamie had mentioned bringing an item and I realized I didn’t have anything that I could think of, but except there’s one thing, but it’s in Idaho and I don’t have it with me. I feel weird asking you to guess something. I mean, I’m not. I would consider myself very open minded. Like, I promise I’m not doing this to try and be like, all right, prove it! Prove it. Like, I don’t want to come across that way at all. It was a bowling ball, by the way. Oh, how fun! It was my grandpa and my grandma and my parents both, too. They were in bowling leagues when I was a kid and they like, always bowled and my grandpa bowled up until like, he couldn’t bowl any longer. And that’s the one thing of his that I like, asked for. And when he died, I remember I was like, can I have his bowling ball? Because I love bowling so I have his gigantic big like, you know, the big bowling ball purses. I’ve got his big bowling ball purses, bowling ball. But it’s obviously annoying to travel with, so I didn’t bring it down to LA with me when I moved down here. Right. Your FedEx shipping is gonna be quiet a bit. Yeah, but I wish I had it so I could just be like, here you go. Just roll it on the table. Here’s this 16 pound bowling ball. It’s a strike. Yeah. Oh, 16 pounds I feel like is heavy. I wouldn’t be able to do it. Well, it’s amazing how when people pass away, those things they leave behind take on such more value than they did when they were here, right? It’s like, those little things become the big things. Yeah. My grandma, also. Nana, she made me this past year for Christmas, she gave it to me as a Christmas gift, but she made a scrapbook. That was the only other thing, but like obviously, she made it after he died, but it was really special. She just made me this scrapbook that like, had photos from like when he was a kid. Wow. Like, these really old pictures just like, all throughout his life and what he did and who he was and it was really cool because he passed away when I was God, like, probably like 13 or 14. Wow. I think and so I didn’t, I mean, obviously, I knew him but I didn’t know him super well and I never got old enough to the point where I was like, you know, interested in like a lot of his past and his life. And so to have this scrapbook, I like, went through it after I’d gotten it and I was like alone. And I went through the scrapbook with my girlfriend and we like, read through it all and I was just a mess afterwards, but it was really special and I definitely cherish that scrapbook. Yes. And to share that with your girlfriend. It’s such a kind of introducing the past into the present. Yeah. It is really nice that my grandma and my mom were both like, really into scrapbooking. I remember they would go on like scrapbooking weekend trips, which I didn’t know was a thing. That sounds fun. They were like, all right, we’re going on a weekend trip to do scrapbooking. Heck yeah. But like, it’s great because like now I just have, I mean, go to my parents’ house. They just have a whole bookshelf of scrapbooks and it’s just all memories and pictures from like all throughout everyone in our family’s lives, which is really cool. Yeah, I feel like that’s a lost art, too, because we have phones now. Yeah. Big time. So I feel like physical scrapbooks or photo albums, you don’t see a lot and I love physically holding like, memories in that way. Yeah. So true. It’s all digital now. Yeah. Those were like, the one thing I asked for because my parents, one, they joke about dying a lot. Like, they’re very lighthearted about it and my parents are always like, oh, yeah, you know, once we get past 50, that’s bonus years. Like we made it to 50, we did it. Anything past that is bonus years. But I think my parents were out at their friends one night and they’re like, you should ask each of your kids what they want when you die and see what they say. So I just get this text from my mom outta the blue like, hey, when dad and I die, what do you want? And I was like, well, ideally you wouldn’t die for a long time and I wouldn’t have to worry about that. I was like, but I guess, I don’t know, like having the scrapbooks or some of the scrapbook would be really nice so that I could have those memories and stuff. And then my mom was like, I knew that’s what you would say. She was like, I knew it. And I was like, well what did Matt say? And she was like, well, he mostly wanted like, you know, the alcohol and like some of the guns and stuff. Like life insurance. Yeah. I was like, Matt would say that. He would go for the material things, but. Have like either of your parents come to you at any point with like their “death binder”? They’re like- Death binder. My parents sat me and my brother down one day and were like, look, there’s no good time to do this ever. Right now. But we had like, such a nice dinner and then all of a sudden, they’re like, so this is where this binder lives. This is everything you need to know in the case we die. Like, here’s where everything goes to, here’s all the stuff. And I was like, I don’t wanna talk about this. And she’s like, but it’s never gonna be a good time. But it’s good to know. Yeah. So I don’t know if any you guys have not experienced. No. My mom would’ve dropped that on me in like, third grade. I’m pretty confident. Yeah. Tyler, it’s time. You’re 10, you know. Death binder. Yeah. No, I don’t know. I mean, my parents, like yours, have a sense of humor around it, but we don’t sit down and we’re like, you know, this is the plan. But you know, I feel like I’d be so lost without my parents. I want them to create like, an elaborate master note. Oh, yeah. Of like, where do all my keys go? How does insurance work? 100%, I’m the same way. Like my dad, he has like, you know, he built a life for himself and he is a wealthy man and he has a ton of like assets and stuff. And when he got cancer, my dad was diagnosed with cancer around a year ago now. It was from Zantac. So he was taking this medication for heartburn and acid reflux that then got discontinued because they found out that after you stop taking it, like sometimes like a month after you stop taking Zantac, you develop a very rare type of pancreatic cancer. And that’s what happened to my dad. He was like doing fine, you know, he is a super healthy guy. And then like, he just started having these problems in his pancreas and he was going to urgent care and they were like, it’s probably some form of pancreatitis. Take these medications, whatever. It’ll pass. Right. And then it didn’t pass and so he ended up getting an MRI or CAT scan and all that stuff and they were like, oh, you have cancer in your pancreas. Thankfully, the rare type of pancreatic cancer that it was is very treatable so he’s doing better now. He’s healthy. Dad’s not dead, but it was hard in those moments when it was like, we have to look at the reality that if he does pass away, what happens? And yeah, those were some hard conversations to have about like, what do we do? Do I move home to help my mom out with everything that would come out of that? Like who, yeah. What would my brother and his wife do because they live up in northern Idaho away from my parents. And yeah, it was hard and I was like, I don’t wanna have those conversations. I like my parents a lot and I’d prefer that they stay alive for a long time, even though they don’t think they’re gonna. They made it to 50. You’re on your own. Yeah. Like what the heck, man? Come on, you gotta stick around. I can barely function. Yeah. I don’t even know my social security number. Really? Do you know your social security number? I know mine because I’ve had to. Well, during the pandemic, I had to apply to many jobs because I decided to take a leap of faith and quit. And decided to do something else and so I had to actually put your social security on some stuff, some things, so I had to memorize it. Were you born and raised in LA? California. Or California. Central California. Okay. Near Fresno, so like the land of cows and prisons. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very rural. Kinda like Idaho. I have family in Fresno. Oh, so then yeah. Yeah. Fresno, Kentucky. That’s what it feels like. I’m like Fres-nope. So have you lived in California your whole life, then? Whole life. That makes sense then because a lot of the reason that I know my social security number is moving to a new state and then having to figure out like, getting a new driver’s license and stuff like that and you know, registering my car in a new state and yeah, I don’t know, like, renting an apartment. Do you need a social security number for that? I don’t know. Yeah, I do. But I feel like I definitely grew up when I moved to Los Angeles and had to learn it. I don’t even know where my social security card is, though. Well, me, either. I have the worst filing system ever. I think I have an envelope that lives somewhere in a closet or drawer of mine in my room that says be certificate on it because my mom gave me like, you’re gonna need your birth certificate for some stuff. And I think I put my social security card in there, but I have no clue where it is. You guys are like, gonna go home and be like, for whatever reason, I need to know. Yes. Where all this stuff is. It’s just like an Arby’s receipt. Yeah. It’s just stapled to an Arby’s receipt. The meat mountain, a secret menu item at Arby’s. You know about the meat mountain? A meat mountain? That sounds like my college years. I love that. No, there’s an item on the Arby’s. You hear about secret menu items. Little did everyone know, there is a secret menu item on the Arby’s menu called the Meat Mountain and it is one of every protein that they have available. Oh, no. It’s like roast beef, ham, turkey, sliced chicken, fried chicken and then, I don’t know, Arby’s sauce. I just got like, super bloated. It’s pretty good. It’s pretty good. Every sphincter inside my body just kind of did like the thing. You have multiple. You just kind of. Oh, there are. You do. We have many sphincters in our body. Are you aware? I thought there was just the one. There is not. There are, again, yes. You’ve got many. You’ve really more than one sphincter. There’s, I know this one very well. Well, yeah. I was gonna gonna say, is that just the butt sphincter then? No, but I feel like there’s right here is one. Yeah. Is it just like, the word for anything that like kind of closes and opens? Does the little sea anemone thing where you poke the thing and it closes. Yeah. Yeah. This is not a good hand motion to make in the. I know. It’s like, what are doing? I don’t know. I love that. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Oh, man. So you’ve read a lot of celebrities in your life. Has there been any difference between? Because I’m sure you do readings of normal people, too. Yes, of course. Has there been any like, drastic difference that you find between celebrities and “normal people”? Well, I think I just more enjoy reading regular folks. I think they come with a lot less baggage that, you know, celebrities do admittedly come with. Yeah. You know, they’re very defensive over their image, how they wanna be perceived. Oh, yeah. That’s now that people don’t think about. And on my show, one of the greatest frustrations was I would often come up with really validating personal information, but then the celebrity at the end of the reading would say, “Oh, no we can’t include that. Please cut that out. Instead, can you keep what is publicly out there about me?” Wow. So it end up looking like, you know, sometimes I’d sit there someone like, well, how did you not know Whitney Houston? Yeah. It was frustrating. I didn’t even think about that. That would be a hard thing to navigate. Yeah. But to that point, I find that, you know, there’s like, the D list and you got the A-list and I’ve read people all up and down it and the D list tend to be like, really difficult. And then the A-list people tend to be really nice. Okay. So it’s kind of interesting. Interesting. I can see why that is. What list celebrity am I? A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K? No. K List? No, I would say. I don’t want this to sound like an insult because it’s not. I just said I was a K. I was gonna say before K. I would say, what comes? E or F? You’re a star in my heart. Okay? Me and your girlfriend. In our hearts, you’re the star. All right? Oh no, I mean, everybody at this company is joked about being an internet micro celebrity. So that’s a title that I’m very proud of is being an internet micro celebrity. You know, enough people know about me that like, I probably shouldn’t do anything horrendous, but like also, like, you know, there’s not really, I’m not really that in the public eye. So is it usually, at least for your show, “the Hollywood Medium”, was it always a surprise to you who you were going to read? Every single time. I read over 200 celebrities and they genuinely, and I know it’s hard to believe, never told me who I was reading. Wow. They wanted the reactions to be authentic so that when I saw the person, if I really recognized them or not, that that was, you know, authentic. That’s crazy. It really presented some interesting positions in meeting people who assumed I would recognize them. Like Boy George. I met him. Yeah. Yeah. He assumed I recognized him and I thought he was Tiny Tim. You know, tiptoe through that tulips. I was like, I love your work! And he’s like, that’s not me- And I was like! So that presents some challenges, but then also like Bobby Brown and you know, answering the front door, he was wearing like pajamas. And so the Bobby Brown of the 80s is very different than the Bobby Brown I met. Some people are like, how do you not recognize them? When someone shakes their hand and says, “Hi, I’m Bobby,” and he’s dressed in pajamas, you’re not thinking, oh this is, you know, Bobby Brown. I saw that clip. It was very, very cute. You were like, because you played it off so well. Thank you. Yeah. It was horrendously awkward and I knew in the moment, people were gonna be like, how do you not know? But I was born in 1996. Yeah. It’s also hard when you do see someone only on a screen and then you see them in person. Yes. I’ve recognized people or seen people in person and I’m like, is that actually them or am I making that up? Like I genuinely can’t tell. Like you would think, you know, you see someone in public that is a celebrity and you’d be like, oh, my God, that’s them! But a lot of the times, it’s like, is that them? Yeah. Is that who I? What’s their name? Yes. And we’re seeing the oldest iteration of them. Exactly. And that’s the thing. A lot of these people, our idea of them was them 10 years ago. Yeah. Do you see, I mean, this is something that you’ve done or you’ve had the ability since you were 10. How long do you see yourself doing this? Is it something you hope to do until you’re a wise old man? Oh, shucks. I’m just gonna ride it until the wheels fall off. I always say I’m here for a good time. Probably not a long time. I hope I live a long life, but this work does take a lot of on me and I just hope to be able to do it, so long as I always have a platform to be able to just help create a conversation. Yeah. For me, it’s more than just belief. It’s not important to me if other people believe in it or not, but I just want people to be able to have a conversation around grief and validating people in our lives in the here and the now in a way that’s meaningful so that we can really prevent future regret. Yeah. For sure. So you mentioned going to be a hospice nurse before. Do you think that that would’ve been the career you had if you didn’t do this or would you have done something different? I definitely considered, yeah, the hospice nurse route was the route I was going. At the time. I enrolled in my little classes and then I ran to the dean of the college one day and he’d had a reading with me and he actually suggested that I focus on readings. Yeah. So I always say when the dean of the college gives you permission to leave school, you know, that’s not a bad gig. So what was the path that you took then from being in school to be a hospice nurse to now being a celebrity medium? Well, thank you for the celebrity comments. No, at 16, you know, just basically doing readings through word of mouth while I was in school and before I knew it, I had people contacting me from Southern California and I really attribute that more to the fact that people in Southern California were a little bit more open-minded than the area I was from. Very conservative. Central California is. Yeah. So celebrities, you know, kind of naturally were reaching out as the word of mouth spread. I always told people, you know, if you’re organic, if you’re legitimate, if you really can do what you say you do as a medium, you don’t have to advertise. Yeah. And so I didn’t, and before I knew it, Sarah Paulson called me up on my phone. She was my first client. I was like, 17 years old and my hand was shaking. I love her. That’s crazy. Oh, and she was the first one from there, it just kind of evolved \into one person after another. Yeah. Well, I wanna let you know that I had multiple people that I work with, coworkers, that were like, you’re having Tyler Henry on? Like, that’s so cool. You’re having the Hollywood Medium on? Say hello for me. So you’re known. That’s sweet. Thank you, thank you. You are known. You are a celebrity for sure. So one of, I feel like you’ve expressed, or you’ve expressed in the past, that one of your major goals has been to work with parents that have lost a child. Have you been able to do that and has that been what you wanted it to be? You know, it definitely is kind of a natural synergy. I find that where there’s the most need, my work tends to kind of shine the most. And so when you have situations where people go through tragic loss, you know, that’s where that can really kind of shine. Yeah. So, I find that that’s been really helpful, as well is actually meeting with a surprising amount of people who have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. Wow. A number of my clients I’ve met with over the past few years have since passed, but they reached out to me after their diagnosis. Yeah. And I was able to read them and kind of, you know, touch base with them weekly or monthly up until they’re passing, so that’s been very, very meaningful, even from a medium perspective, just a human perspective, to be able to sit with people and give some comfort. Yeah. Has there ever been any connection or have you ever done anything with someone who’s had lots of miscarriages? It happens. Sure. Yeah, there’s certainly cases where people have varying degrees of beliefs around when life starts, but certainly, yeah. Yeah, I was just curious because my girlfriend, her name is Destiny and her name is that because her parents had, I think, like, six or seven miscarriages before they had her. So then when they finally had her. Oh, wow. Destiny. It was meant to be. Yeah. And you’re going on tour, right? Mm-hmm. Tell me about that. Yeah, so about 40 to 50 different cities across the country. I do it all every year now. I’m on like, year four of touring and it’s a lot of fun. I do shows typically about 90 minutes long in front of about 2000 to 3000 people. Okay. And I basically just kind of stand up on stage, introduce myself and kind of explain how the process works. Some of the kind of most meaningful stories behind the work and then I go and do readings on the audience. Okay. You never know what to expect. It’s always very intense. I’m always very sweaty. Yeah. And it’s fun. If you wanna see the process unedited, live and in person. I always say people go into that venue kind of as strangers. Yeah. And people do leave genuinely like, hugging and laughing. They’ve gone on an experience together. That’s really cool. I understand. I mean, as someone who works in the industry, I totally understand the fact that a lot of stuff happens behind the scenes and there’s a lot of, generally, with shows, there’s a lot of pre-production, there’s a lot of post production. Things are edited and changed and so I could see how someone watching something like the “Hollywood Medium” and seeing that. They could be like, oh, well, you know, it’s a TV show. Of course. Yeah, absolutely. But even just sitting here with you today, it’s obvious to me that one, you’re very passionate about what you do and you do it genuinely in the interest of helping people, which is really awesome. Thank you, Trevor. And yeah, you just seem like a really genuinely cool, caring person and I believe that, you know, what you do is really special. Thank you, Trevor. I really appreciate it. I’m glad we were able to talk today. Yeah. And please send my love to your girlfriend. If you all ever want a reading, I’m always here. Yeah. For sure. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Of course. And please plug anything that you’d like to plug. I know we talked about your show and tour, but give it to them now. Oh, good. I probably have a plug in my butt somewhere. Charge me up like a Tesla. No, I am happy to be here. Thank you for your time today. Yeah. Everybody, that was Tyler Henry. What a fun experience, genuinely. Please go check out his show, “Life After Death”, on Netflix. Check out all this stuff he’s done. Check out his tour. I mean, what a sweet person. What a kind, caring, sweet person. I wished he could have stayed for another two hours and just hung out. Yeah, Jamie. What are your thoughts? I mean, so it’s really funny because one, my parents have been, like, love him. Yeah. So they told me about him when he was, I believe, I could be wrong, but when he started the show, he was like, barely 20 when it came out. And so, and he was obviously well-known enough to get a show. Yeah. Like before that, so he started very young doing this. And so I was just like, oh, wow. And so then when we had the opportunity, I was like, I think this will be really awesome. Yeah. Because he also, that’s the thing. He’s just like, so genuine. Yeah. He’s such a nice energy and so it’s like, regardless of what kind of conversation you guys were gonna have, it’s just like, meeting him. I was like, oh, this is gonna be great. Yeah. It’s gonna be lighthearted, it’s gonna be fun. And and he’s gonna be a fun guest. I mean, yeah, he said literally that he like, graduated high school early at 16 to go like, start going to school to be a hospice nurse. And then, I mean, that’s unreal. Like, what a cool guy. What a freaking cool guy. Jamie, do you want to hear another useless fact? I love useless. Yeah, you love useless facts? Well, get ready for this. All of you at home. Fun, useless fact. The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can. Okay. Not like a human size Pringles can. Okay, so he was like cremated. He was cremated and then his ashes were put into a Pringles can. Oh, my God. Imagine if he was in a human sized Pringles can. Yeah, they specifically like, made one for him. So that was his casket was just a Pringles can. No, in 1966, Frederick Bauer developed the ingenious idea for Proctor and Gamble to uniformly stacked chips inside a can instead of tossing them in a bag. The inventor of Pringle said, “You know what? We’re gonna stack the chips instead of bag loading them.” And if you’ve ever folded laundry, you know that stacking things is generally a better storage method than just throwing it in a pile. I’ve experienced that personally and he applied that theory to the chip, which we all know and love. But he was so proud of his invention that he wanted to take it to the grave literally. He took it to the grave and he asked his family to cremate him and put his ashes in a Pringles can. Which wow, commitment to your product. You know that’s a man that was proud of his product. The funniest part to me, though, is that his kids and his family, when he died, they went to the grocery store and had to have a debate on which flavor can to bury. To put his ashes in. What’d they ended up deciding on? They went with original. I would’ve picked sour cream and onion because I think it’s the best flavor. But I understand, you know, from perspective of like, you know, original is being kind of the most true to essence of what a Pringle is and so they went with the original. But yeah, his ashes, I don’t know if they left the chips in, though. That wasn’t made clear. I feel like it should have been empty. It should have been. Well, I don’t know. So we don’t know. But I feel like empty would be nice. Also, it makes sense to me because you know, the seal on a Pringles can’s pretty good. Pretty tight. Pretty tight. So, you know, I think that that’s… Yeah, it’s a good container. I think they should leave the chips in there and then they should market it. New Pringles flavor. Dead guy. Dead guy. Dead guy’s ashes. Delicious. That’s like so funny, too. And I do respect that because, you know, it’s your life’s work. Yeah, I’m gonna ask my family to cremate me and shove my ashes inside of a turkey’s butt hole. Because that just represents you. Yeah, I’m a chef. A gourmand. Everyone, it is the last week to register for Vote Like a Beast, so the midterm elections are next week and there are a lot of very important elections going on and vote like a beast is there to help you. So with whatever you need, if you need help registering to vote, if you just need to check whether or not you’re registered to vote, check your voter registration status. And there’s also a ton of resources and information on the website to help help you just learn more about what kind of elections are taking place and what they mean for where you are and where you live and who you’re electing. So there’s a lot of really great resources over there at votelikebeast.com. Please go check it out. Very important elections coming up and yeah, it is all right as American citizens to vote and it is our duty as American citizens over the age of 18 to vote. But seriously, go check out votelikeabeast.com. A lot of great resources over there to help you and yeah, check it out. So I guess that wraps it up for us today, everyone. I’ve been Trevor. Jamie has been Jamie. Thank you for listening this week. We got new episodes every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. We got new episodes, the video version going up the following Monday over on the YouTubes. Leave a review, leave a comment, leave me a a angry tweet, and yeah, follow us on those socials and whatnot to keep up with what we’ve got going on. Got some really fun guests coming up. Got some really fun stuff coming up. So definitely, you know, stay up to date and as always, have a lovely week and make sure I check out that chips and Diet Coke diet. I’m very, no, I can’t tell people that. I’m a bad person if I tell people to eat just chips and Diet Coke.