- We're ready to do it.
We're gonna go through security.
- Yup, and we're gonna go surprise the
hell out of this little girl.
It's happening.
- [Mike] I'm nervous
- [Devin] I'm nervous.
- I wanna get it right.
- I'm like, four heartbeats away from crying.
I'm gonna blow this surprise.
- Now?
(soft country music)
- We leave for our trip to Pendleton, South Carolina.
I can't stop saying it that way.
And Mike and I are getting ready.
- [Mike] We're packed up.
- [Devin] We got all of this equipment.
We have an early flight tomorrow morning.
- I've never been to the South before, so
- [Devin] (gasp) That's right.
Well you've been to New Orleans.
- [Mike] I've never been to south south.
- So we have a two hour drive from the
Atlanta airport to Pendleton, South Carolina.
That means I'm gonna need to get him some
boiled peanuts, some peaches, get him
(phone alarm)
Oh wait, that's my alarm (Mike laughs).
I was like, 'Someone's alarm is going off
and I'm vlogging.'
Who dare they?
We're gonna eat our way from Atlanta to
Pendleton, South Carolina.
So we're at the airport, we're doing it.
One of my favorite things about traveling
with Mike, is your airport dad look (laughter).
And I see you looking over your shoulder at me
a couple times (Mike laughs).
Okay, I gotta keep an eye on Devin, where is she?
- I just can't lose my kids, okay?
And this is not the earliest that we've been
at the airport together.
- Oh, no, no this is actually very casual, very nice.
- New Orleans was like, ass crack of dawn.
- Yeah, we're gonna go surprise the hell out
of this little girl (laughter).
(soft country music)
We made it.
- We're in Atlanta.
- I told Mike when I stepped off the plane,
I felt the humidity, and I smelled fried food,
and I was like, I'm home.
- The southern girl is back in the South.
I have no idea what to expect in Pendleton.
- Pendleton.
- Pendleton, South Carolina.
- I wanna blend right in.
- You will.
- That's the goal.
- Here we go.
(country rock music)
Mike, do you think we should get people on
the team some souvenirs while we're here?
- Depends what the souvenir is, maybe.
- What do you think about this humidity, Mike?
- It's not my favorite, but it is what we have.
- [Devin] Here we are at this antique store,
and it comes full circle.
We found this little magnet.
Wow, Mystere.
Been there, done that.
I'm gonna get Freddie this mug, so she can
stop complaining about her missing mug.
This one will not go missing.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
Everyone will want this (laughs).
- I'm home!
Little bonnet.
I'm in the South, I'm home.
Wow, this is some surround sound (laughter)
in here with this bonnet.
Get in here, Mike.
- Am I wearing it right?
- No, the bill is for the front.
Look at you.
- Wow, almost like a chef's hat.
- [Devin] Almost.
- I'm in Ratatouille.
- [Devin] You're in Southern Ratatouille.
Mike and I are having this quaint lunch outside
in this beautiful area, and what makes this lunch even
more beautiful, is look how expensive my lunch was.
Nine dollars.
- Delicious.
- After lunch, we really had nothing to do other
than to just kind of wait till surprise time.
So we're using the town square of Pendleton,
South Carolina.
Pendleton!
To set up our camera, and our equipment.
Mike is over there in the shade.
Just wave, Mike (Devin hums).
Trying to maintain the surprise here.
Like, we don't want Morgan to have the foggiest
clue that we're here.
That would be hysterical though if she was in one
of these cars just driving by.
- Is that Buzzfeed?
- Yeah, now that I said that, oh my god.
So here's the thing, Morgan, she just didn't
wanna meet Ladylike, she wanted to become
a member on Ladylike.
So Morgan, you see what Mike's doing?
Setting up sound, putting H6 and lavs into the sling.
You will be learning about this soon (evil laughter).
- So glamorous, you see?
- (laughs) We're a scrappy crew.
Oh my god, I left the car door open.
(Mike laughs) Be right back, guys.
I'm so excited about surprising Morgan,
that I've been so forgetful this trip.
I forgot the cameras at security.
Almost lost my ID, I've almost lost the camera
on which we're shooting right now.
It's just been a mess, I'm just so excited about
seeing Morgan's face, that I'm loosing it.
We're driving to Morgan's house now.
We're gonna meet our Make-A-Wish in about 15 minutes.
I'm Crystal Alifanow, I'm the director of
communications at Make-A-Wish South Carolina.
This is a special day for me because the
South Carolina staff doesn't get to see Wish reveals
as often as you'd think, because we have a
wonderful volunteer base that helps us execute
all of our wishes.
- [Devin] Typically, like, walk us through
the process of how a child applies.
- A child can be referred either by their parents,
a guardian, or a medical professional,
or even themselves if they are old enough to do so.
The application process for a Wish is online-based,
then someone from Make-A-Wish will contact the refer
and follow up with some questions.
The most common misconception for Make-A-Wish is
that children must be terminal to receive a Wish,
and that's actually very incorrect.
Children just have to have a critical illness.
There are a lot of children who go on to live
healthy and fulfilling lives, and we believe
that the Wish was part of that impact.
Morgan is so fun, her wish to meet Ladylike is
going to be life changing for her, and for
the cast of Ladylike.
- It's happening.
- I'm nervous.
- I wanna get it right.
- We are absolutely crying by the end of this.
- Yeah, especially since Devin just has a little wine.
- We don't need to tell the audience that, we had
time to kill so I got a white wine, you did too.
- [Devin] So I think we're rolling up to it.
(brakes slamming)
We were wrong, but now we're right.
- We're right now.
- We're right now, and now Mike is driving us
down this beautiful tree-led long driveway.
- This is stunning, can I live here?
- I know, I feel like I'm about to be surprised
weirdly enough, even though we're doing the surprising.
- [Mike] Look at all this greenery,
they're not in a drought.
- [Devin] Seriously, can you guys funnel
some water our way?
Time is of the essence though because we have
less than 30 minutes at this point
to surprise baby Morgan.
- [Devin] How long has Morgan been watching
Ladylike, y'all?
- She watches them every week, and I don't know
how long it's been, but it's been a while.
- Probably a year and a half.
- Some weeks, we'll spend five hours sitting there
just binge watching all of the episodes of it.
- [Devin] Tell me a little bit about Morgan,
what she's like.
- Morgan is outgoing, she is a joy to be around.
- Really cares about animals, she's loving,
and she always puts her family first
before anything else.
- Very independent, she loves makeup, she loves
fancy clothes, she loves Ladylike because they
have all these little things that's going on
and she says, Grandma you gotta see this.
- Very strong-minded, sometimes her way or the highway.
- She's spicy.
- Yeah, she's spicy.
- She don't hide anything, like this one's a
quiet one, but she tells you what's going on.
- [Devin] Do you think that's right Dawson,
are you the quiet one?
- Yeah, most of the time Morgan's louder.
- Very very smart.
- Very smart, she just blows me away.
From the stuff that she does in school
and her grades, and just to listen to her talk publicly.
- She's a Goodwill ambassador for the MDA
in South Carolina.
- [Devin] What?
- She'll tell you all about that, it's pretty cool.
She's inspirational for sure.
- Yeah.
- I think Morgan chose this as her Make-A-Wish
because she kinda is inspired by y'all,
how y'all really are caring towards each other,
and she really wants to be kinda like a
YouTube star kinda (laughs).
- Morgan gravitates to your show because you're
depicting every woman, not a specific woman.
And I starting watching it, and I thought,
Morgan now I know why you're doing this,
because it's about body image, but not about
what America thinks she should be.
It's what every woman thinks she should be.
And so I think that Morgan relates to all of
those things because she's
very different from other people as well,
and she can see herself in every one of you.
Don't cry (laughs)
- I know, I'm gonna be a train wreck.
- It's so true.
- You know, for her to find an outlet, you know,
to get that connection that, it's special for me,
because I want nothing but happiness for her all the time.
- But she looks up to you guys, the funny thing was
when we first went to Make-A-Wish, and she said
Now, I want Ladylike but is it okay if
they cuss a little (laughs)?
- [Devin] What kind of video do you think that
Morgan's gonna make?
- She like for people to know what's going on
with her life, sometimes she'll have some of
her friends to get in the wheelchair and ride around
just to see what it's like to be in a wheelchair,
and share those kind of experiences,
so I wouldn't be surprised if she don't
share something like that.
- Morgan's probably gonna make a makeup video
cause she spends a lot of time doing her makeup
in her room, it's her favorite part
of her day and morning.
- [Devin] Y'all were the masterminds, really,
behind this surprise.
- Yes.
- [Devin] How did you keep it a surprise
for so long?
- Morgan's been busy with school, and we're
going to a fishing tournament tomorrow,
so we've got a lot of things going on,
but with being busy it's been easier.
But I just told Morgan last weekend I was
trying to clean the house to get ready for y'all,
and I just told her that people are coming
to interview you and if you don't start cleaning up
they're not gonna like you, that's kinda
how that happened.
I had to get her motivated, and then I said well
they may come a little early, do you wanna
change your shirt, nah I'm good.
Morgan, you wanna put some lip gloss on?
No, I'm eating some Skittles (laughs).
So she was completely calm, and didn't
really tell a whole lot of people because
she didn't know how big of a deal it was.
- [Devin] We're here in Morgan's beautiful home,
with a lot of her friends and family.
We're waiting to surprise her, so exciting.
I'm like, four heartbeats away from crying.
I'm gonna blow the surprise.
- The doctor told me about Make-A-Wish for Morgan
about six or eight months after Dawson was
diagnosed, and I was very angry.
I didn't want my kid to be a Make-A-Wish kid.
I just kinda wrote them off.
Six years until we went back and revisited
Make-A-Wish, and that's when Dawson's teachers
mentioned it last year, and they actually
nominated us for Make-A-Wish and I think
Make-A-Wish is gonna give Morgan a platform where
she can tell people and advocate for people with
disabilities otherwise she would not have.
And I think that's what she's looking for is an
avenue to tell people about her life and
how great it is despite her disability.
Like Morgan says, people shouldn't doubt me.
- It's happening.
- I'm so nervous, I'm so excited.
- I just heard the door open.
- Just me.
- [Devin] Hi, Morgan!
(group cheers)
Hi, girl.
Yeah, you're joining Ladylike with us next week.
(group laughs)
You're gonna join us on the team, and become a
full member and make your own Ladylike video.
- Really, oh my god.
- Are you excited?
- Yes.
- Because I'm excited too, we all are.
Wow, thank you everyone.
- My name is Morgan Swaney, and I am
13 years old in 7th grade.
And I found out today that I'm flying out to
Las Angeles on Tuesday.
- [Devin] Did you have any idea that
this might happen?
- I had no idea that this was gonna happen.
I wished for it, and they said it may or
may not happen, so I was completely surprised
when I found out I was gonna go to LA and
be on Ladylike.
- [Devin] Why do you like our channel so much?
- Unlike most YouTubers, you're more down to earth.
The whole team is hilarious and I just
love watching your videos.
- [Devin] What's a day to day life for you?
- [Morgan] Everything is kinda difficult for me,
but because I have Friedreich's ataxia,
which is a type of muscular dystrophy.
And even though it's more difficult, I make
everything suitable and adjustable for me.
And I can do anything I put my mind to.
I wake up in the morning, get ready, I go
to school every day.
I go to crossfit in the afternoon, and I do that
as an adaptive therapy.
I love makeup, I have a lot, a lot, a lot.
And some other hobbies I like to do,
I like to hunt, I love horses, I used to
ride horses all the time.
I have a service dog Piper.
She as a year old and I love her too.
- [Devin] If you give any piece of advice for
someone else who may be in a wheelchair.
- I would say that anything is possible,
and if I'm having a bad day, I'll go watch one of the
videos and it just kinda cheers me up.
Well, I'm the MDA ambassador, or the
Muscular Dystrophy Association, for 2019.
And I go to various events and speak, and I
also speak about the signs, a big part of
my disease, to high school students.
- [Devin] What are you expecting of the next week?
- I'm so excited, and to see all of you,
Freddie, Jen, Kristen, and Chantel.
- [Devin] How do you think this experience
will change you?
- I think I will feel, like,
better and, I feel like I'm a
part of something, and I'm really excited.
I'm going to be flying out to LA,
and I'm going to become one of the Ladylike members.
I cannot wait, and I'm going to be spending
six days out there, and I'm super excited.
(beep)
- [Devin] What's your favorite Ladylike Video?
- I like the series, Kristen goes to different
places with no clothes.
- [Danita] The Mother's Routine, I thought it was
hilarious because I think about my mom and
Noxzema and all that stuff.
I thought it was great.
Oh, did you? (laughs)
- I think the one with you guys were doing the
movie star makeup, where you laid your head
in the other person's lap and did it upside down
or something like that, that was pretty funny.
(laughter)
- My favorite Ladylike episode was the one where
y'all were laying down, and y'all did
each other's makeup.
- [Devin] That is so funny, that's Mike's video again.
Oh, he's just getting a little ego boost.
- Apparently
(soft rock music)