- All right, Freddie, it is almost the end of the year.
- It's wild.
- Yeah, I can not believe it.
- I'm stressed.
(upbeat guitar music)
- We released a lot of videos in 2019,
and we kinda realized, there's a lot that goes
on behind cameras that y'all don't see.
So, Freddie and I sat down and we looked at all the videos
we released in the past year.
- Yeah.
- And we chose our five favorite behind the scenes stories
or factoids.
(Freddie laughs)
And we are going to share them with you.
- I'm so ready. (air whooshes quickly)
- They're gonna increasingly get silly or weird or funny.
- Okay so are we going from, is it a count down?
Five to one?
- Oh! - Or one to five?
- I think it's five to one. - Okay cool.
Okay let's start with number five.
- Number five.
So a few months ago, Chantel and I released a video where
we raised egg babies for a day.
And we raised eggs, we decorate them,
we, you know, took them out, we vlogged with them.
- And the point of it was to just not to break your egg.
- Yeah, which we successfully made it through the video
without breaking our final eggs.
I broke probably eight or nine eggs.
Before we even got through that video.
I was in charge of getting the props that day
- Uh huh.
- So I picked up the eggs.
And I was leaving my apartment holding this carton
and I like stumbled a little bit
and the carton spilled out of my hands
onto my driveway and like nine out of like 12 just broke
(Freddie laughs) - 12?
- But the thing about that though is as I was cleaning it up
I realized, I was like...
Why did I get white eggs?
And breaking all those eggs
is what made me realize
I should get the brown eggs for me and Chantel
- Do brown eggs not, oh because you're brown.
- Yeah. Eggs don't have a race,
so like it really didn't matter what colored eggs I got.
They're chickens.
But when I bought, went to the next store,
and they only had brown eggs,
I was like you know what?
This works, this makes sense.
- [Freddie] It makes sense
- [Jen] Yeah.
- [Freddie] It was meant to be.
- So yeah that's number, that's the fifth most
silly BTS story.
- Moment number four.
- Okay so, do you guys remember that booty shorts video
that Kristin and I did, we went to Universal
and like shook our butts everywhere?
- [Jen] I remember. - [Freddie] Yeah.
- I was a big fan.
- That was fun.
Basically, Kristin put in our group chat like
hey, who wants to be in this booty shorts video,
and I responded, 'cause I love a booty short.
- You do.
- And Devon also responded, but then didn't end up
working out with her schedule.
Meanwhile in the group chat like,
whoever doesn't wanna do it, you could just stay silent.
Jen stays silent.
- Yeah, crickets.
(crickets chirping) - Chantel crickets
Like that's just how it goes.
- I was like yeah I don't wanna do that one.
- And so we're still like working out the
sort of order of operations of what this video will be.
I feel like the main concern that Kristin had going into it
was just like, wearing them out and about in public
with strangers that she didn't know.
We know pretty much everyone at BuzzFeed
so I was like okay why don't we like
go to like a neighborhood pool?
Or like what about Universal?
And then all of a sudden Crickets McCrickets
(Jen laughs)
Jen and Chantel pop in like oh, Universal?
- Universal Studios Hollywood?
- Is thar a part of the shoot now?
( Freddie and Jen laugh)
- All right the crickets started chripin'
(crickets chirping)
- Yes. Chantel ended up saying like
I mean well if you guys are going to Universal.
And I'm like Chantel you haven't even been
a part of this conversation and all of a sudden
you wanna like, talk about Universal.
So then, Universal ended up working out
because Kristin is a bad (beep)
and then Chantel's like okay I'll come shoot with you guys,
if you need a camera person.
So that's why Chantel was --
(Freddie laughs)
The booty shorts.
- If it hadn't been Chantel doing that, it would've been me.
- Yeah.
- Because really what happened is Chantel and I were like
you're going to Universal?
We wanna go to Universal!
(Freddie and Jen laugh)
She ended up doing a great job, shooting, helpful.
- She did great.
- And that's the thing like, we jump on each others shoots
to help each other out all the time.
- Yeah.
- But sometimes, we'll jump on even faster
if you guys are going to Universal.
- Exactly!
- Number three. Our third silliest, weirdest BTS story.
So Kristin has a show called Empty Suitcase,
earlier this year we posted an episode of Empty Suitcase
where Kristin, Mike, Kaitlin and I traveled to Hawaii.
It was a trip that happened
scheduling-wise, a little bit, you know, nuts.
We had a date planned for Hawaii,
and they kind of were getting moved around
I had already bought tickets to go to a music festival
called Coachella, which if you don't know
is a very intense
- Oh yeah. - music festival.
I was like, you know what, it'll be fine
I'm gonna go to Coachella, and I'm gonna fly to Hawaii
the next day, it's gonna be totally chill!
(Freddie laughs)
- You do this to yourself often.
- I really do. Yeah.
I have a lot of faith that my body will not give up on me.
And she does.
And, she did because what ended up happening was
I went to Coachella, then the next day
I had an early flight to Hawaii.
I woke up that morning and it was like
I had been hit by a truck of illness.
And so I was like,
well, it's the empty suitcase show, we're goin' to Hawaii!
And we get on the plane, it's like a six hour plane ride
from Los Angeles to Hawaii
and I fell asleep on the plane before we like
were boarded, before we had left.
I woke up when we were landing.
I was so sick, they had to write me
out of the episode that day 'cause we were supposed
to film at dinner, and so Kristin, Mike, and Kaitlin
were like Jen, you just, go to bed.
And so I go up to my hotel room,
get into bed, and I pass out, and I wake up
and I'm hungry so I DoorDashed, and I was like
I wanna get, like, Hawaiian food 'cause I'm in
Hawaii. - [Freddie] Hawaii.
- Of course right? So I got this like big barbecue plate.
And of course like, it gets delivered to the hotel,
I don't know why I did this, but I was sick and I just like
didn't, I like threw off my clothes,
and I was sitting on the hotel bed, naked, eating barbecue,
and like, just like, my nose was running
and at one point food fell off my fork
and landed on my stomach.
So I'm just like naked in this hotel bed
with barbecue on my stomach.
(Freddie laughs loudly)
And I'm like I'm in Hawaii!
This is so beautiful!
And like, I'm just this like disgusting, sick, naked,
barbecue-covered person.
People were like texting me being like
I'm so jealous you're in Hawaii.
And then I was there eating my like DoorDash
like Hawaii food, naked and crying,
like I was like I'm so lucky!
- I know I'm so happy to be here!
- I'm so happy to be here!
So yeah what is our number two funny silly BTS story Fred?
Hit me!
- Child...
(Freddie and Jen laugh)
We did a video a little bit ago
where we aged ourselves 40 to 50 years.
This was during the time that the filter that aged you
was really popular on Instagram.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We were like, okay so why don't we just like have
a makeup artist come in and do prosthetics
and age us for a video.
- Yeah, make the app real life.
- Exactly.
I feel like maybe we came up with
this idea maybe on a Monday?
- Yeah.
- And shot on like a Wednesday or Thursday.
- Which is a fast turnaround for a video
that has a lot of moving parts.
Because you need to hire makeup artists,
you need to buy the props, you need to make sure
that they can match skin tone, skin type, all of that stuff.
Did you feel like that was enough time?
- Should we cut to the video?
(Freddie and Jen laugh)
- Roll the tape!
This was a video that like required more time
and a bigger budget than what we were able to give it.
- Yes.
- So what ended up happeneing was our makeup artist were
under a lot of pressure because we were only,
we could only give them one day.
- [Freddie] Yeah.
- [Jen] And usually this thing takes several hours.
- [Freddie] Yeah.
- And then, because budget was low,
we couldn't afford to buy
- Like the good prosthetics. - The good prosthetics.
So our makeup artists were under a time constraint
and they were working with products
that were just not up to the task.
- So like, they started applying my prosthetics first
and it wasn't adhering to my skin.
Especially like around my mouth and stuff
- [Jen] Totally.
- And so there's just a lot of like
jimmying and rigging and trying to figure out
how we can make this work and look believable for you guys.
All in all, Kristin and I, we pretty much got
all of our prosthetics.
She was in the chair for six hours.
- Yeah.
- I was in the chair for like four and a half.
And then Chantel and Jen were supposed to have
the second leg, but we ran out of time.
- Yeah I walking into that room and they were like,
look at them.
And I was like,
oh! (Freddie laughing)
But it is a funny story now, just 'cause like, now we know.
- Yeah.
- And honestly the response to the video
was positive like people --
- Generally, yeah.
- There were people who were like...
(Jen hums)
Like some people were in the comments were like
that wasn't really, I'm not sure
what you were going for there.
But generally people were nice about it.
- Yeah.
- Um, but it is a funny, its funny.
- Yeah.
- So Freddie, what was our number one
silliest, funniest, BTS story from 2019?
And its funny because...
(Freddie laughs)
- Okay so we can't really tell you which video this is.
But we worked with external talent.
We had been working with this external talent
for weeks leading up to the video.
There were conference calls, there were FaceTimes,
there were e-mails, there was a lot happening, lots of prep.
- Talk about what, you know, this is a Ladylike episode
- Yes.
- These are the members of Ladylike, you know we are, yeah.
- We do the shoot, and you know
how at the end of every shoot, we do like a little sign off,
you know, lady tested, lady blank?
Honestly we don't come up with our sign off beforehand,
we usually do it in the moment,
and we kind of like bounce ideas between each other,
and then decide on one and shoot it.
- Yeah, so if there was an external talent here,
the talent might be like, like Freddie might say
telling behind the scenes stories,
then the external talent might say lady tested!
And then we would all say
lady told, lady approved yeah. - Lady approved or lady, yeah.
- So when we were coming up with ideas,
they were like, wait what is this?
And we were like, oh it's our sign off.
We explained it to that person the way
we just explained it to you.
And they were like, Ladylike?
We were like, yeah.
Or they were like, well what's lady tested?
We were like, well 'cause we're called Ladylike,
we kind of just like do like a thing,
that like goes off of that, bounces off of that,
it sort of all comes full circle at the end, you know.
And they were like, Ladylike?
And we were like,
yes.
They were like, what the (beep) is Ladylike?
(Freddie and Jen laugh loudly)
We all just...
Well, we thought they were kidding.
They were not kidding.
- You'd shot with this person all day.
- And been in contact with them for what felt like months.
- Yeah.
(clinking)
- And we were like oh, that's the name of our show.
- They were like, I thought this was BuzzFeed.
(Jen laughs)
- We were like, it is BuzzFeed, Ladylike is a show
underneath the umbrella of other BuzzFeed content.
They were like
weird, okay.
(Freddie and Jen laugh)
- And the funny thing was, is that you guys were filming
- We were filming!
- So like, you have the footage of that happeneing.
- We have the footage of it happening.
And it will forever live in the archives of our hearts.
- Yeah.
Like we don't wanna put this person on blast,
you know they were great to work with.
It was, it's honestly it'll keep you humble.
- It will.
There you have it folks.
- Yeah.
- That's um
- That's number one!
- Number one most outrageous moment from 2019.
- Yeah.
So, I hope you guys enjoyed hearing some
of these little behind the scenes factoids, fun stories.
It's honestly fun to revisit and talk about them.
- Yeah, yeah.
- If there are any other like videos that you would love
some behind the scenes stories from, or if you wanna see
other members of Ladylike go through and talk about
their experiences, let us know in the comments.
And otherwise, you know, have a safe happy new year,
we'll see you all in 2020.
- Love you guys!
- Love you!
(beeps)
- Okay, so BTS.
- BTS.
- So what should our sign off be?
- Telling behind the scenes stories from 2019.
- Lady tested,
- Lady...
- [Together] What the (beep) is Ladylike?
(Freddie and Jen laugh)
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(air whooshing)
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