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All right, we are live, Tom. Tell us who you
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are and what you do?
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Man.
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Well, great to be here, man. So oh my god.
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First of all, let me assure everybody I'm not crazy.
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And it's such a loaded question.
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So granted you've known me for like ten seconds, but
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I do promise you I'm not crazy, aside from what
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I'm about to tell you. So I long story short,
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I did like twenty five years in hospitality, working in
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big fancy hotels, looking after lots of rich people and
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nice people and horrible people, and lots of service and
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all that sort of stuff as sort of mid level management.
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I've also worked for like Bentley the car company, and
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I've had all sorts of crazy little jobs. I worked
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for games workshop, making space marines and and all this
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kind of stuff. But I was pretty set on the
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hospitality ladder, if you like, if it is a ladder.
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I got to the level where I was kind of
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second in charge of big, big fancy hotels, and then
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I had a weird encounter and it just jumped me
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off the rails and put me on a whole different
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set and yeah, yeah, exactly, and yeah, just like the
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fresh Princess, my life got flipped turned upside down and
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now I'm now I'm a little weirdo that makes videos
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about weird stuff, so in a nutshell, Yeah, So, I
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mean I've always had a huge interest. I've always I
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was always that kid that was like obsessed by whatever
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he was into. So initially it was like fighter play
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and I could I could name all the US fighter
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planes and all this, and then and it was like
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dinosaurs before that. So I think that helped or made
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me weirder, because as soon as things did start getting
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interesting for me, I was just like, I need to
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know everything about this field because I'd never really had
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much of an interest in it previously. I was very
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boots on the ground. Science is king, and so the
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space shuttle take off when I was little, that was amazing.
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But then when things start getting weird and you're you
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have to go through that ontological shock they call it,
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where your worldview changes. Then you've got a lot of
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self discovery to do first before you even start thinking
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about what's going on outside you you know and stuff.
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So it's it's been a hell of a ride over
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the last couple of years.
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Yeah, So what so tell us what you like your
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you have a show. Yeah I do, Yeah, tell us,
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tell us where we can find you. I like to
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do that at the beginning and at the end.
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Okay, so I ride two horses. So I will get
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into kind of how I got there, because it's part
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of the weird story, is is how I came to
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be making videos. But I've got my own YouTube channel,
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tom Byrne and UAP and on that I make just
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documentaries and sort of deep dives into anything to do
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with consciousness and UAP and UFOs and history in particular cases,
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and basically I just wing it and I make I
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figured that since I was so obsessed by this stuff,
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there's a lot of people out there. I'm no special
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little flower that's unique. There must be other people that
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are interested in it too, and a lot of people
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just haven't got the free time to go digging through
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the CIA reading room and stuff like that. So I thought,
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if I am researching a particular thing, I may as
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well make a little video about it and put it
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out there. So so that's what I do. But I'm
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also co host on the UAP Files podcast, which is
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again like that's that's what I'll kind of get round
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to tell him because that's that's how I ended up
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doing my own stuff. It was after I'd had so
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I may as well just start from the beginning.
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So absolutely, go go there.
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Yeah man, So so I had a perfectly normal childhood
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and yeah, well I did have a weird thing happened
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when I was a little kid. I saw a ghost.
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But that's that's another story that really it really stuck
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with me. Like you know how most memories kind of
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fade or whatever with time, Like that's I can still
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remember that crystal clear now as if it was yesterday.
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And then, god, what's probably like twenty five years ago.
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My mom had a shared death experience with her As
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her parents died, she saw people in the room and
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she was describing that she'd always had like this anti
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that everyone was like, oh, she'll she can she can
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stop your headaches, and she can tell your future and
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all this kind of stuff. But then she had this
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experience where her dad was passing on my granddad and
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she was like, I think I'm having a mental break
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because there's a little dog sat on the end of
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the bed, and like she would she described this little dog,
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and one of her sisters pulled out this old black
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and white photograph and was like, does it look like
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she'd described it perfectly? And she's like that's his dog,
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Like that's his old dog from when he was young
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and stuff. And then and then these people were coming
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in the room, and she was like obviously freaked out.
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It's incredible, highest stress you can be under when you're
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losing a parent. But she was describing perfectly these relatives
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that she'd never met, and the older family in the
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room would going like Jesus Christ, that's old uncle Peter
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and you know, and all this kind of stuff. Oh
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that hicked the door open is the only way I
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can describe it for her. And she's now a very
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successful psychic medium. She's worked with the police and identified
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suicide victims that have no idea or nothing on them
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and wild stuff like that. And I was very skeptical
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at first, but like, I mean, oh, this was that
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was probably twenty five years ago, so I was about
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twenty when, so.
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You know, relatively you know, grown. So yeah, well yeah,
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that's a shock in itself.
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You're telling me to yes, I mean.
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Like talking about world exploding a little.
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Bit massively, yeah, so, I I mean we could go
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for ages about the whole psychic thing, honestly, because I
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started from a point of extreme skepticism. And obviously you
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know it's somebody that you love him intensely, your mum.
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But I was like, is there more going on here
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than you know what you think? Like, are you under
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some sort of impression of people? Are you incredibly good
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at reading the room? Or you know what's going on?
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But I will give you I'll give you a quick example.
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Why not? Because this I had two absolute breakthrough moments
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for me, and I challenge anybody to not at least
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think that that's gives you more reason to Okay, awesome,
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all right, well well well well okay, So working in
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the hotels there, the first hotel I worked in, a
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really good friend of mine, Steve, used to work with me.
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We were both middle management and we were working in
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this old like Georgian hotel. So it's like two three
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hundred year old building, crazy old old building, black and
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white place. There isn't a straight floor in the whole place.
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And we used to do weddings there and he and
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I used to run the weddings and basically a long
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story short, like our staff would go and pour the
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drinks and clear the glasses and stuff like that. We'd
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make sure everything's going good and you know, run the day.
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And then during the speeches, our team would get out
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of there and just leave the room nice and quiet
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for people to talk. And we were kind of we
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didn't have a door behind the bar, so we would
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just have to stand with their hands behind their back
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behind the bar, like you know, shop mannekins and just
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look look polite whilst these people are doing these speeches.
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And that's all well and good, but when you're doing
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like two weddings a week every week, you hear the
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same speeches and the same jokes and it becomes so dull.
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So we I don't know why, but we started doing
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this stupid game where you know, like behind the bar
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you chop all the fruit, and we got all this
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chopped lemon. Well facing us was this glass fronted wine fridge,
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and so what we used to do whilst the speeches
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were on and our staff weren't around, is we would
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get these slices of lemon and just like in Wayne's world,
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we'd throw them at the fridge and try and stick
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them on the front of the fridge, okay, and then
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try and not laugh and you know, it was the
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whole kind of stupid stuff you do it like as
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a kid. So we would do that, and obviously we
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never told our staff because we don't want them doing
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that as well, and we never told our boss because
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why on earth would you do that, you know what
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I mean. So it was literally only he and I
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on the planet knew that. Then things took a turn
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and he died. Steve had a heart attack and died
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at like twenty three absolute legend. But probably a year later,
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I was at my mum's and she's at the point
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where she doing readings for people now, just having a
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cup of tea and chilling, and she goes, oh, your
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friend Steve's here, and so I was like, just tread
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softly here because this is this.
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Is you know, this is a little rough.
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Just tread stuff for yeah, like, you know, this hit
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me hard. And she was like, he says, stop being
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a wuss. You should just believe in this. And I
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was like, yeah, well, it's you know, it's not that
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I don't believe in stuff. She's like, he says, to
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tell you about when you guys used to throw lemons
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at the front of a fridge, And I was just like,
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oh damn, Wow, Oh damn. And I was trying to think, like,
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oh my god, have I ever mentioned this? And I
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was like no, Like you know, like why would you
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wouldn't ever at any point tell your mom like, oh,
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by the way, I stuck some lemon to a fridge
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today or anything like that. I had never told another
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soul that story. And then she continued on and like
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we used to call each other stupid names on the
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walkie talkies and stuff, and She's like, and she was
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calling me the names that he used to call me
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through the walkie talk It worked, so I was just
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like wow. So that was a massive moment for me.
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And then as if that wasn't enough, I had another one.
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So I restore guitars just for fun every now and then,
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like I'll buy one that's beat up, redo it, repaint
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it if I need to, and then and then sell
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it on when I finished playing with it. And so
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my mom lives in Spain and I was living on
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my own in this house in England, hadn't spoken to
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her for a few days, and I was at the
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stage where I'd got this guitar that I'd refinished, and
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it looked beautiful, and I'd put all new electrical components
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in it and it just wouldn't work. So it was
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driving me crazy. And it was at the point where
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I'd kind of test it and try it and try
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the wiring, and then I'd get annoyed and just stand
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it up in a corner and leave it for a week,
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you know, and then I could take another run at
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it when I'd got the patients. And I was sat
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in my living room on my own, no telephones on, nothing,
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with this thing on my knee, and I just tested
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it again and it didn't work. And I was like going, like,
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you know, calling it plenty of spicy names. And she
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sent me a message on Facebook message and she says,
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what the hell is it was going on with you
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and this guitar? And I was like what uh. She says,
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there's a guy here that says you're about ready to
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smash this guitar up, Like what's what's the score? And
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I was like okay. So I said like, yeah, I
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can't get it to work. And I didn't even say
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it's the wiring that's wrong. So then she says, well, well,
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this fella says if you turn, if you turn, it
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over and look at where the wires go. There's a
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thing that looks like you've got like three things that
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look like a silver coin. And then there's one of
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them that looks like a silver coin with a little
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bean bag stuck to it. And and if you like,
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if if you look at the wiring of a guitar,
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the back of the knobs, you know, the adjust the
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volume in the tone knobs, well, the volume ones just
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look like a silver coin. The tone one has this
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little extra resistor on that looks like a little bean bag.
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So I was like, yes, yes there is. And she
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was like and he says that that's faulty, so you
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need to take it out. And I was like, well,
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it isn't because they're all brand new components out of
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a packet, so it can't be. And she was just like,
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he says, don't waste my time. Take the new one out,
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stick the old one in, and just test it. So
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I was like, okay, whatever, sold it out, put the