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Sebastian Bails Talks Mental Health, Conspiracies, Botched on E!, and His Big Comeback
Sebastian Bails is on this week's entry of The Dry Diaries! After taking a little break from social media, he’s stepping back into the spotlight with E!’s new series, Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind, dropping July 9th. He popped onto The Dry Diaries to catch up with me while I was at Stagecoach, and we talked about literally everything—what he’s been up to in Palm Springs, his mental health journey, and what it’s really like being back in the public eye. Plus, he gave me a sneak peek at what’s coming on Botched and, let’s just say, you’re gonna want to watch.
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Seriously, nothing's been done like this on TV before.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:So it's super nerve-wracking for the entire network, the whole cast, myself. We don't know how it's going to do. I hope it does well. Everybody hopes it does well.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But like are people really going to want to see the real raw lives of everybody?
Speaker 2:This is the Dry Diaries's, your author, alex giant. I am back with another entry of the dry diaries today. I honestly have one of my longest friends in LA. I met you probably like eight years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you're like one of the first people to get me like hooked up with like an app or something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was working for Flipagram and met Sebastian.
Speaker 1:Sebastian Bales. Sebastian Bales.
Speaker 2:I was getting to the intro and, yeah, we just hit it off and became good friends. Oh, the marks are here bartender our bartender. We're at stagecoach, so when?
Speaker 1:you met me.
Speaker 2:I couldn't even drink legally literally that's crazy crazy, yeah, and we went to VidCon yeah, remember years ago so funny and I stayed at your place yeah, it was like the sponsored.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it's the Flipagram house, but it was like a sponsored house, I believe yeah, and I stayed at the house, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sebastian Bales. He's a OG content creator on TikTok YouTube. You are coming out with a reality show which we can't really talk about all the details, but it will be on Peacock.
Speaker 1:Yes, it will be on Peacock streaming and, I believe, e-network, but that's not confirmed, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think it is yeah, and you dabble in the real estate industry.
Speaker 1:Yes, I actually do mortgage lending and real estate. So I'm duly licensed and I kind of do everything. I'm working on getting my brokers in the future too.
Speaker 2:Amazing, you're like a jack of all trades.
Speaker 1:I know it's really weird coming from what I started with versus what I'm doing today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's such a proud moment for me seeing Sebastian's career grow, because whenever you started, I remember we were talking and you're young, you're like 18.
Speaker 1:I think I was 17. Or, yeah, I was 17. I was 17 and then turned 18.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he told me when he was 17 like all of his goals and you're like I'm gonna become the biggest YouTuber.
Speaker 1:I want to do this.
Speaker 2:I still never did that, but, but no, you like, had all these goals and you're like, I am manifesting it. And honestly, to see you from then to now. It's like a proud moment for me because you just like have come so far.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I honestly like looking back at, to like going to my previous self versus who I am today. It's just such a weird feeling because it is truly like my entire life I've manifested.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so I'm living my manifestation that I wanted when I was a kid.
Speaker 2:That's so cool. I love the power of like manifestation and affirmations.
Speaker 1:I know I was like when I first got into that, everyone thought it was like cuckoo, crazy rah, rah, like not even legit Everyone thought it was like cuckoo, crazy rah rah, like not even legit. And when I was telling people about it, like 10 years ago, they're like what? And now everybody's into manifestation. I've been doing it for like a decade.
Speaker 2:Yeah, forever. I know everyone thinks it's so woo, woo, but I'm like no, I will get my stage.
Speaker 1:I will manifest.
Speaker 2:I write down affirmations, everything, vision boards, even like frequency healing. I love that.
Speaker 1:It's so amazing. Yes, oh my gosh, we can go on and on, on and on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you've been on a health journey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been on a huge health journey. I really talked about this. I kind of stepped away from social media. A couple of years ago, lauren and I we created like a big you know content. I don't know. I guess we would see each other as teams and we really pushed each other's content and went back and forth.
Speaker 2:We had a prank thing going on, where we pranked each other.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, long story short, we ended up splitting up, separating, and I then, like, bought my first house, got really involved into real estate and within that whole journey I got a little depressed because I was like it was COVID and I had like nobody around me, none of my friends, and it was just a place for me to go in a dark hole and I gained a bunch of weight and that's why I did not post, like everyone's wondering like where did you go? I haven't posted in a couple of years and that's kind of a little bit with the TV show. It's like kind of my comeback. But um, anyhow, I'm going on a little tangent. So back to my health journey. I gained 40 pounds and became the heaviest that I ever was. I never was like a really big person but for me it was pretty heavy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, and so I've taken kind of like my life back in the last six months and you can see that even on the show, Like when I first started filming I was the heaviest I was, and then at the end of the show I was like this weight pretty much now. So you can really see it in my face.
Speaker 2:The transformation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't know. It really made me feel really insecure though.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I didn't feel confident, I didn't want to take pictures, I didn't want to film um so it was really hard, and so I'm really into holistic health yeah, um, my mom is actually a holistic doctor. Oh, no way, and my, we own our entire practice like my family owns. Um, it's been in our family for generations and and so with that I just you know I'm really into supplements and, yes, all types of herbs, and so I just have been working out, drinking lots of water and taking my health super seriously.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love natural healing and remedies and homeopathic ways. Because, I feel like, also like when it comes to medicine. Back then they didn't have the prescriptions and everything we have now, like they literally healed themselves through natural things. So why can we not do that today in this world, and you can?
Speaker 1:And I really think that like this is really bad and I shouldn't even go into this whole hole. But one thing I'd like to touch on is it really goes into like big pharma and the whole big cycle of just. It comes down to money.
Speaker 2:I mean that's just keep everybody sick yeah, keep it in the loop, so it's like a constant cycle. If you're not healing the root issue, then it's just gonna cause another issue and then all the chemicals and the food, like food diets are now being banned, thank god, I know it's amazing, um.
Speaker 1:I don't see how anyone could be against that yeah um, it's causing so many issues, from autism to cancer.
Speaker 2:So many things, so many things. Yeah, that's so crazy. So what kind of natural healing do they do with the homeopathic?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I can't say it cures cancer, because like literally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ivermectin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent Also cheers.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Cheers, yeah, Little marks it yeah cheers, yeah little marks. It's stagecoach, stagecoach A little celebration.
Speaker 1:I'm not dressed at all for stagecoach.
Speaker 2:No, I'm obsessed with your outfit. It's like so Palm Springs.
Speaker 1:Thank you. It's giving preppy vibes, so my family practice. They heal everything from like dementia. Oh wow, like when people's memory they can repair, that they do muscle testing so you can figure out what's going on in your gut A lot of things are linked to your gut.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's where my health journey came into play was it was fixing my gut, which also entailed kind of fixing my brain health as well, because it's like all connected to your brain and your stomach or something. It's so weird Um and so I was having lots of skin issues um, hair issues, vision issues, all from my gut, and so I started taking a bunch of different supplements that my grandfather and mother um recommended. And I've just been doing that and, like six months later I mean it's crazy and my skin has been clearing up.
Speaker 2:I've lost 40 pounds in six months later. I mean it's crazy. My skin has been clearing up.
Speaker 1:I've lost 40 pounds in six months yeah um, and I've always really been into like holistic health um my entire life because I grew up on it but, I think just as I got older you're like oh, and then I'm not with my family, I stopped like taking it. So seriously.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what happened to me. I did a parasite cleanse like over, like on and off for like four months and I literally like, even without trying, drop five pounds.
Speaker 1:Wow, which like for me, like did you see any parasites?
Speaker 2:Um, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's so scary.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Big, small, I mean it's like it's like small.
Speaker 2:I mean like I didn't do the crazy cleanses that people do where they're like, literally pulling them out. I thought so I can't do that people do where they're like literally pulling them out.
Speaker 1:I can't do that Little side note like literally a decade ago, nobody did parasite cleanses, People didn't even know what that was, my mother was giving patients parasites cleanse, like years ago, and so she had this one patient where she brought her like tapeworm or parasite I don't even know what it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She did the parasite cleanse and it was as long as a football field. It was literally folded up in a giant gallon bag and she like brought it and she goes. I don't know, I just kept pulling it out and my mom is telling me this story when I'm like 10 years old. I'm traumatized. Oh my God, so I've always been so scared of parasites.
Speaker 2:Yeah, place that you eat sushi. No, oh, why I love sushi. Well, I'm allergic to fish. One, but then two. After seeing all of the stuff with the parasites, you know, like you see on tiktok, whenever they like, cut the salmon and it's like crawling out, yeah.
Speaker 1:Or like they pour, like vinegar on a pork chop, yeah yeah, no, the parasites are crazy and just like so gross.
Speaker 2:But anyways, let's get into the reality show.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What you can talk about.
Speaker 1:Yes, I know, I signed some crazy contracts.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you I don't want to get sued by NBC Right To say the least.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, what I can talk about is it's extremely raw, okay, and so what I mean by that is everybody's exposed. The people that are on the show are, you know, celebrities. I'm like the only influencer really on this show. Wow, so it felt like a fish out of water. It was so strange for me to fit in with people that are in a different world, but yet we're so similar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so hearing everybody's journeys and what people are struggling with. It was just eye-opening to feel so connected, like everybody's, just a human. I think people think, oh, we're watching somebody online and they're not a real human, or they're just, they don't have feelings or emotions but at the end of the day, all of us have a heart and we're all.
Speaker 1:We all bleed. Red, so, or blue. I guess we should say um, but we're all human, and there's just so many similarities to people that I didn't think I would ever relate to, or even people that I would ever even think I would like.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:I guess I can say there's like some housewives Love. There's people from different types of just all walks of life. From reality TV though.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I can't wait. I love the housewives. I'm like an OG avid housewives watcher.
Speaker 1:Did you watch OC like the original?
Speaker 2:I mean, I've watched like the past couple years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm sure I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been watching it since day one. It's crazy, I was like watching Housewives when I was like eight years old Same Love it?
Speaker 2:Was it a show that was very therapeutic. Like did they mean, if you can speak? Like did they put you through a process. I went through.
Speaker 1:Like all these different. We had, like a doctor on site, multiple different doctors that help us through certain journeys and whatever we're struggling with. So basically it's a a healing show and for people to like kind of pull people are getting to see behind the curtains of, like, what's going on with these celebrities? Lives, um, without being so curated, um and staged or presenting yourself in a certain light?
Speaker 1:yeah, I should say, because a lot of these housewives, even though they're on reality tv, they're like purposely putting stuff out what they want the world to see, right or what they don't want the world to see. It's very, very, you know, trying to picture it.
Speaker 2:They picture-esque it and make it how they want it to be. How'd you get on the show?
Speaker 1:I actually got an email from a casting director.
Speaker 2:I'm a big advocate for speaking out about body images or body image and like dysmorphia, like Facetune I used to be like because you got so much hate back in the day for like the orange guy.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I had some crazy. I'll admit I've had some crazy facetuning edits. Looking back Now I just laugh at it. I think it's funny who cares? I got attention for it and it was super fun and whatever.
Speaker 1:But at the time it really comes stems down from insecurities and so, anyway, I've been just person that's been open about that, I talked about it on several articles and interviews, and so I think that caught the casting director's eye, um, and thought, oh, like he seems like a perfect fit for this new show that we're coming up with. Like, seriously, nothing's been done like this on tv before I love that. So it's super nerve-wracking for the entire network, the whole cast, myself. We don't know how it's gonna do. I hope it does well.
Speaker 1:Everybody hopes it does well yeah but like are people really going to want to see the real raw lives of everybody?
Speaker 2:I mean, I think so I think so, and also it normalizes things for people and put things in perspective. Yeah, because again, you, like you said, you only put out what you want. And if you're not feeling your best self even me, like if I'm not feeling my best that day, or I don't want to put on makeup and I'm like you know my skin's, whatever, I'm like I don't even want to post today and it's like, no, you should post because everyone's going through it, everyone has issues.
Speaker 1:It's normal You'll feel so much more like satisfied and just I don't know. You'll feel better doing it than not doing it and you're going to have regrets if you don't just put yourself out there and like do what you want to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think for me like if I kept letting my insecurities get in the way, I would like not even be here today. Like I wouldn't be who I am. I honestly have no idea where I would be, because I was not good at school, um.
Speaker 2:So I mean, I don't know yeah, no, I think school's a waste of time you do yeah. I do think.
Speaker 1:I think college at least I do no. I think college um can be great for certain avenues that you're getting into, whether that's being a doctor or a lawyer that's 100% like you need school. Um, when it comes to people like getting a degree in art, like if you're an artist, you're an artist, but you're out there and like you don't need someone to teach you art. I don't know, that's just my take on it.
Speaker 2:I agree, that's always been my take. Unless you're going into like a certified practice of some sort, then of course you need to go to college, med school and all of that. But besides that, I mean, it's really just more so a learning experience of living on your own, you know, going through like the life stages, but yeah, and learning to socialize and network and leveraging that for sure, okay, so when does your show come out?
Speaker 1:It's not confirmed, but I believe it's supposed to be in July, early July, oh soon yeah, in a couple months.
Speaker 2:So I don't know when this is going to air but very, very soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's really scary because, as everybody knows me, on TikTok and YouTube and all the platforms I've really worked on presenting myself a certain way I would edit all my own videos.
Speaker 1:I did have an editing team at one point, but for the most part I would say 80% of my career I was the one behind the scenes, being everything from, like the casting of people, my videos and my skits and stuff to the production to post all of it. It was all me, a one person show, and I really was able to control the narrative, the storyline and do it how I wanted to do it.
Speaker 1:This is the first time ever where I have my control issues, where I'm a little freaked out because I have no idea how these editors are going to present to me, because a lot of times people think, well, you think you're going to be presented a certain way, and then the show airs and you're like that's not at all what I was trying to be, or act like, yeah, um, I've heard that with other housewives, cast mates where, um, they did the show organically and authentically to themselves and then the show aired and they looked like a monster and they're like that's not who I was, and they gave you all the bad edits and they piecemeal things and they make their own storylines of what they think is going to do good.
Speaker 1:So it's really scary, scary to leave that in the hands of NBC. Oh my gosh. I don't know it was really nice to the crew, so hopefully they can be good at it.
Speaker 2:Do you get to review it before it comes out? No, wow.
Speaker 1:Uh-uh, it's not like the Kardashians. They're also part of Post too because, they're directors as well, their own show, or producers, um, and so they're able to really go into you know, the editing bay and say, no, I don't like this, cut this out, and they can really control it, control it if I say, hey, can I see it? They'd be like no like I don't even think they would respond if I was just like can I see the edit before?
Speaker 2:oh my, gosh, I'm so excited to watch it. I can't wait. I'm like really, yeah, it's gonna be amazing and I feel like maybe, if you want to jump back into social media, it will be like your little kickstart.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm a hundred percent going to jump back into social media. I'm already like kind of working on a plan of getting back in, because I truly miss it. I miss all my followers and I miss just being in front of the camera. Now I feel confident. Yeah being in front of the camera.
Speaker 2:Now I feel confident. Yeah, like it's. I don't know, it's been time, it's too much time has passed. That's so exciting, okay, so what is your favorite conspiracy theory? Because we're all about conspiracy theories on here.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, okay, I have so many. I'm actually like a crazy conspiracy conspiracy theorist, literally same um, okay, number one for me would probably be like the MK ultra and the lizard people that rule the world.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh my gosh. Yeah, and how?
Speaker 1:they morph into like certain people and they can control the world and they like morph into the president or like Justin Bieber have you seen that one picture or that video of? Justin Bieber's eyes changing and morphing. Yes, I don't know. I'm a huge firm believer. And then I was a flat earther for a minute really I know that's so. It's so embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, I was a flat earther for like a hot, like six months yeah and then I realized, no, that's really bad I know it kind of made me question it a little bit, because the whole conspiracy around antarctica, you know past the ice wall I think my personal take is that there's another sort of dimension past that and they're testing and doing experience, maybe with like aliens or whatever it is because anybody that flies past it. They are met with like the military or plane and told to turn right back around you know what's really scary so is on that same topic.
Speaker 1:First of all, have you heard of like the center of the earth, like in and and?
Speaker 1:in antarctica, the hole, yes, the hole, and it goes and they say it's like goes into a different dimension it's supposed to be like euphoric over there and like beautiful from what I've heard, and there was like this guy, there was this book who, like, traveled across the entire world and then went to the center of the earth and he apparently died and they killed him. The way he died was that they said he was crazy and he was not mentally stable and they put him into a mental facility and then they ended up killing him off. But I honestly believe the story. They wanted him.
Speaker 1:They want the world to think that he's crazy, because why would they want anyone to believe that? Like that's going to expose everything. And then it goes into like the nazi times and like germany, and they were bringing in, they were making deals with the aliens.
Speaker 2:This is so oh, I've heard this yes, and they were bringing.
Speaker 1:There was like things, I don't remember what, but I read this article or book, can't remember, and they said the said the UFO and these like Nazi military vessels were in Antarctica.
Speaker 2:Why can't I say Antarctica? No, yeah, there's a military base there and it's a proven fact. Like the military base was there.
Speaker 1:And then apparently they were making like NATO deals. So it was like Germany and all these different countries were meeting there and trying to make like peace treaty deals and all sorts of things, and then so they had.
Speaker 1:I know this is really crazy no, I got so much technology from the aliens, like nazi germany did, so we apparently made a deal with them and they gave off some of the technology that they gained from the aliens to the US, and that's why our technology advanced so quickly from there to now, in like a matter of 50 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:No, I believe it, people are going to think I'm literally insane now.
Speaker 2:No, I mean I talk about conspiracies all the time, but I truly believe it. And then even someone brought to my attention if you watch Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1:I've never seen it, but I heard it's amazing.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen it either, but they were telling me the concept around the show is very similar to Antarctica, so there's like a wall that blocks off and it takes you into like something else. I need to watch it so I have more context, because I also think that a lot of shows or media that's put out is shows that are programmed to train our brains to make it normal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so whenever it does, conditioning the brain.
Speaker 2:So when it happens, it doesn't seem too crazy to us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just like how the Jetson were literally doing FaceTime, yeah, and now that's like such a normal.
Speaker 2:Flying cars.
Speaker 1:I mean that's about to happen too yeah. I mean, we're going to the moon now. It's like just insane. Oh, do you think?
Speaker 2:Katy Perry went to the moon. Oh, that whole, I actually think they did. I don't think they did.
Speaker 1:Really no.
Speaker 2:Because the reason I say this is our technology. Why are they sending like katie I, I get it, I'm all for females like empowering females. I'm all for that. But whenever they were like doing the photo shoot and all that, like they didn't even have on the full gear, and then someone put the photo into ai and asked how ai is this photo? And it came back and said it was 83 percent ai. I believe, believe, oh wow.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, but I don't know about all the whole AI scanner thing, because I've written out like a property description and I'm like writing my property description, I'm like how much of AI do you think this was? And they'd be like 70% and I'm like I literally wrote this myself. So I don't know, maybe not.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I get what you're saying. Yeah, for sure. Also, you just go up for 15 minutes and come back down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I just I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Do we really need Katy Perry in space, like it's kind of just like I don't know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I kind of believed it, though. Do you think she's a reptilian?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:You know why? Have you seen the eye glitch?
Speaker 1:With her. Yeah, really. Oh, I don't know, well, maybe Because they say they clone them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a whole other conspiracy, that's a whole other story, but they take the major celebrities like they're real celebrities.
Speaker 1:They actually become big stars and then they realize how powerful they are. So the government, or whoever takes them, clones them and then freezes them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then puts the clone out, and then they can like really control them. That's why they have like their handlers and like. Mkultra.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh, that's getting scary. You want to hear my latest conspiracy? It's about Justin Bieber. Okay, so you know, everyone's freaking out because Justin was at Coachella and he was like going crazy and like doing whatever and looks bad. Maybe on some like substances whatever and looks bad whatever like substances. It's so like with justin, I think, that he wanted out of everything that maybe he was involved with in the past and so since he wants out of it now, the media is like trying to paint him in a horrible way as a repercussion of like oh, you went out, well, we're gonna try to ruin your career possibly.
Speaker 1:I mean that really does happen. I mean, there's some crazy stuff yeah um, to control people. Um, at least, just like going into the P Diddy topic, I just knew some like insider information just about, like how he would fall on allegedly yeah, would like off people, yeah oh wow, just to shut people up through pneumonia to not let things get exposed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how true, that is.
Speaker 1:I mean, I can't speak, but yeah, so what I heard it gets really scary oh my god sometimes I think I'm like am I gonna get?
Speaker 2:better. And like are they watching me? Like no, there's so many people that talk about so many things. Like also, these are just our thoughts.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, it's just an opinion our theories, which whatever it could be real because yeah, but I love that. You love conspiracies I'm okay, that's bad, don't? That's what something like a producer on a show could totally do, that they'd be like, oh, take that line, I'm crazy. Um no, but I am seriously cuckoo for conspiracy theories and I believe them, sam, like I'm pretty easily convinced sam, I mean if it looks like a duck, talks like a duck.
Speaker 2:I believe it's a duck and then you just go down the rabbit hole and you keep and it takes you into another one and another one.
Speaker 1:Then you link them together have you gotten into like the tiktok? What's it called parts, where it'd be like part? One and it's like my conspiracy theory, and then you get looped and then you get to part 400 or something and then you're on some other conspiracy theory that's like on the other whole other side of the previous topic I don't know really, that's how I get into it.
Speaker 2:I love it. What is something that people don't know about you?
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, this is like a hard question, but I would have to say, going back into like the school thing that we were talking about, I actually had the worst attendance in the entire history of my high school. Like they gave me an award for the worst attendance because it was just that bad.
Speaker 2:How'd you graduate?
Speaker 1:I barely graduated, but I somehow graduated with a 3.8 GPA believe it or not. No, this is actually really bad. I would pay people to do my school. I would work smarter, not harder, so I did not attend school because I was so busy with my social media career. So I'd be out in LA and my parents would not let me do online school or homeschooling.
Speaker 2:I fake them.
Speaker 1:They're like no normal high school life and I just would not show up yeah so I'd be like working and I would take all my social media money and I would pay my friends and like people at the school yeah, to like do my homework and stuff for me. So then I would turn it in at the like end of the week and I would have like a deal with the teachers because they were like just turn in your homework, like we just need something we just need something so we can pass you through.
Speaker 1:Yes, and the principal was like, brought me in one time when I was actually at school, because I showed up maybe once a week and she was begging me. She's like what can I do to get you to come to school? Can I bring you starbucks every morning, like all these things? What a nice principal yeah, she was really nice. She really wanted me to attend, I mean because it was a charter school, but I think they get paid on attendance, so they really needed to be there makes sense, and they just would not show up and I like made up the lie that, um, I had like a stomach bug, and so I'd be like, yeah, I have stomach issues because it's undetectable yeah, so funny story.
Speaker 1:I pretty much lied and said I had like chronic diarrhea so I could not get to school. And they're like she's like why can't you get to school?
Speaker 1:and I'm like I literally am just like stuck to the toilet like I can't and so, um, it got so bad to the point they brought in like the police and brought my parents in because they thought like I was doing drugs or doing crazy things and I had to show up with my tax returns, showing that like I'm actually a productive person in society and I'm not just screwing off and doing drugs wow and that was the only way my parents didn't get arrested because they're like you're, because your parents, your guard yeah, your guardian supposed to make sure that your child goes to school and, like my parents, begged me to go to school, but I just wouldn't.
Speaker 2:I would sneak out and go to LA and work because I lived, I grew up in Ventura, yeah, I went to a small little beach town like an hour out from LA Wait. I love that Like entrepreneur from a young age. Yeah, literally.
Speaker 1:A hundred percent, and so, anywho, when it was graduation day, they presented me with this worst attendance, and then, on top of it, I missed so much school that I didn't even get my like photos or senior photos, which is kind of sad Now looking back yeah.
Speaker 1:I wish I had that to look back on, but at the time I was so busy that, um, anytime they would stop me to like take a picture for the thing I'm like I literally look awful, like no, I'm not taking this picture right now, and they're like we just need the picture. So I said, go find a picture from Instagram.
Speaker 2:I'm crying.
Speaker 1:They end up picking this picture that I. It was like a goofy photo of me like with my eyes crossed and my tongue out. That's what they used for my senior photo, because it was like payback, because I was like not showing up to picture day oh my god, so it showed me with my cross-eyed at the graduation and then here's your worst attendance.
Speaker 1:And then they were like kind of passive, aggressive, like oh, you're gonna not be successful, like you're gonna be a loser, like no one believed me that I was gonna be successful. They thought because this is like right before I blew up but I was like still successful like doing good, but they didn't think that was gonna be a thing, like longevity wise, they didn't think it was gonna continue does that motivate you, or did that motivate you?
Speaker 1:that 100% motivated me. I mean, I think, not to prove everybody wrong, but to just prove that you don't have to fit into this box that society is making you fit into. So that really pushed me to like want to be successful.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's funny now because the school now has a I don't know. Someone told me, someone DM'd me. I haven't been at school.
Speaker 2:I should probably be at my school. Yeah, you should go, and they'll probably ask you to give a speech.
Speaker 1:Probably where my school. Yeah, you should go and they'll probably ask you to give a speech probably. There's apparently a case and it's like an award, being like Sebastian Bale has, like, attended our school and he's you know they really pushed because it was a technology-based charter school, so they're really pushing. Like you know, he learned all of his editing skills at this school and I'm like I was self-taught. I taught everything before high school like babe.
Speaker 2:I attended once a week, yeah.
Speaker 1:I literally learned editing when I was in middle school. I had taught myself um, and when I had my like video class or like I don't know, it was like a cinematography class.
Speaker 2:I already.
Speaker 1:I got like an a-plus because I didn't even have to try, because it was. They were like oh, do this. I'm like this is so basic yeah, I knew this when I was like 10, so they just really tried to push that I'm only successful in social media and like everything I learned was from the technology school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:It's so funny.
Speaker 2:I'm like, you're like but, you didn't believe in me and I proved you wrong. I'm like. I should get some royalties on that or something.
Speaker 1:your photos, yeah you're like advertising something that like.
Speaker 1:It's not true yeah, you need to pay me for my likeness oh, and then, speaking of that sorry little slide track too, I really want to say this my best friend, sam, um, we both went to the same high school. Everybody like not bullied us, but they just didn't think that we were going to be successful. They literally like would make fun of us and say that we're going to be homeless all the time, like you're gonna be a homeless loser like blah, blah, blah. And so Sam was a makeup artist and he really wanted to be like really big in that and he was great at what he did in his, I think, um, sophomore I don't even know, is it sophomore junior, second year of high school, I don't know. Sophomore see, this is so bad. Yeah, this is me one day, one day a week. Um, so his sophomore year he ended up getting picked up by the kardashians and so because of that, that opened up a ton of doors, but he worked for them full-time. He couldn't go to school anymore.
Speaker 1:So he dropped out of high school, like we were both in high school at the same time yeah and he actually ended up dropping out. Getting his ged long story short, fast forward. He ended up being the youngest celebrity makeup artist. That was super successful. He did ariana grande's thank. You next I mean so many different things. I mean he's the face of ysl now.
Speaker 1:He was the face of dior, not too long ago, that's great but so funny because we both grew up with the manifestation we're trying to like, manifest our careers and our lives and our futures, and everything that we wanted to be when we were kids came true.
Speaker 2:Wow, so I totally believe, totally believe in the law of attraction. I love that.
Speaker 1:And yeah, just because you're not going to school or not going go to school, kids Go to school kids. But just because you're not going to college or following like a route that the world believes that you should follow doesn't mean that you're not going to make it in the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's so many different avenues and most of the billionaires of the world like don't Never went to college, right? Also, like you don't need to fit into a certain mold of what people think.
Speaker 2:In order to be successful, or if you feel like you're a little bit of an outsider, then it's okay. Like you have your lean and that's why you always need I always say like stick to your passion and your purpose, because it's going to take you much farther than doing what you think society wants you to do, and even if it pushes you to like be in some really hard situations.
Speaker 1:I always say go after your dreams, like when I met you or not when I met you but, like shortly after, when I finally moved to LA, I was like living, I was a roommate with another content creator, which you know of, and I was like their video editor and I like did that in exchange for rent and it was like a really actually awful situation.
Speaker 1:Like so I was living in like this small little Harry Potter like dungeon room, but I didn't care because I was in LA where I needed to be to succeed and I took every single day so hard pushed my career. I mean I would do all of my that content, creator's videos and all day long, from filming to editing, and then I would go out at night and create my own TikToks, my own videos and my own live streams.
Speaker 1:And I would like edit all night, like I literally got me before I was asleep. It was really hard for me, but it shaped me to be who I am and why I'm such a hard worker today. But if I did not do that, I don't know where I'd be, because that eight months, like I got my own apartment, like I was fully on my own and I never had anybody ever help me. And so I guess what I'm getting at is, even if it seems scary to take a risk or be in some tough situations, if you're, if you believe in yourself and you know that you can do it, I truly believe that it's meant for you.
Speaker 1:Then You're supposed to struggle in those certain situations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I fully believe that, and also I mean being friends with you for so long. I admire and have always admired your motivation and determination and how you just go after what you want and you're very dedicated and it just proves that also I mean hard work, but also consistency. You were always so consistent when it came to not anymore. Well, not anymore, but like that's how you grew at the beginning, like you were always so consistent with your stuff. So, I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm so proud of you. Thank you, I appreciate it, it's so weird too, because I feel like I've had so many different lives since knowing you I mean, when I met, you was literally a teenager. Now I'm in my mid twenties. That's so scary. You're such a baby I'm closer to 40 than I am to my birthday.
Speaker 2:Babes, I'm older way older than you, I feel like you're.
Speaker 1:I always think that you're you don't age, though I know I feel like you're. I always think you're you don't age though.
Speaker 2:I know I feel like you've been the same.
Speaker 1:I feel like you've been 21. I don't know how old you were I'm 32. Really, yeah, oh, I feel like you're just like 21 forever.
Speaker 2:Thank you, babe, love that. Okay, well, thank you for coming.
Speaker 1:Thank you for having me. This is super fun.
Speaker 2:I love to watch your show.
Speaker 1:I know you guys have to go watch your show.
Speaker 2:We'll let you know when it's coming out. We'll keep you in the loop and I'll invite you to the premiere screening. Oh my gosh love.
Speaker 1:Yes, Super exciting Such a weird like from reality TV to social media to now real estate. It's like insane what my life is now. Yeah, I love it right, guys.
Speaker 2:well, thank you for tuning in to another entry of the dry diaries. I will link all sebastian stuff below. Go follow him and let you know when his show's coming out. We'll see you next week.
