Last week, I kicked off a Starbucks challenge
where I asked my viewers to use their rewards
to pay for someone's order.
And I've received some amazing submissions so far.
This one, I showed yesterday-- from a 16-year-old who
just had her wisdom teeth removed, is on another level.
In case you didn't see it, here it is.
[GASPS] Mom, can we go to Starbucks
and pay for the people behind us?
Cause Ellen said, if I pay for someone behind me,
and I send her a video on Ellentube, then I can--
then I can--
I forgot.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm here for Ellen.
Ellen?
Yeah.
Thank you, Ellen.
[LAUGHS]
We good?
Have a great day.
How much was it?
I don't know.
Are we supposed to know how much I just spent?
It's somewhere around $4.
Holy smokes.
[LAUGHTER]
Did they say, thank you?
[LAUGHTER]
Well, I hope they like it.
Do you think Ellen's going to be proud of you?
Yeah, I just payed it backwards.
[LAUGHTER]
Spreading kindness.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, I just spread kindness, just like Ellen does.
That's so nice of me.
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
Ah.
[MUSIC - PHARRELL WILLIAMS, "HAPPY"]
Hi.
[APPLAUSE, CHEERING]
[SQUEALS] Oh, my gosh.
So nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Oh, my gosh.
Hey, Brynn.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Oh, my God.
Congratulations on your Golden Globe.
Oh thanks.
Thanks so much, Brynn.
Oh, my God, I love you.
Oh, thank you.
Well, thanks for being here.
First of all, I wanted to tell you, I am proud of you.
Thank you.
[LAUGHS]
So you're from Illinois.
And we got you here in a hurry.
We actually called you--
Last night.
Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
And said, get on a plane.
Yeah, no school today.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for having me.
Yeah.
So now, do you remember when--
This is crazy.
--you were recording that, when you looked at it back,
did you remember it?
No, not at all.
I literally went out on anesthesia.
The next morning, my sister showed me it.
And I freaked out, cause I saw it on Instagram a few days ago.
I saw what was going on and that you had a challenge going on.
So I think it was just in the back of my brain.
Right.
And then, boom, I'm here.
Yeah.
And I freaked out.
Yeah, you payed it backwards.
I-- [LAUGHS]
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
New challenge.
Yeah.
So [LAUGHS] it comes full circle.
When you pay it backwards, you go all the way around.
So this was bucket list that you wanted-- to come to the show,
right?
This is it.
This is like--
I mean, this is like, peaked.
I don't need to do anything.
[LAUGHTER]
You need to do nothing else in life?
Yeah, I just go home after this.
All right.
[LAUGHS] This is the best day of my life.
I love you so much.
This is crazy.
That's so sweet.
Well, I love that you saw that on Instagram,
and that you thought about that, and you were so out of it
that it just still was in the forefront of your mind.
Right.
So you got your wisdom teeth out-- literally,
this happened the other day, right?
Yeah, Friday.
How are you feeling?
[LAUGHTER]
I'm feeling-- [LAUGHS] oh, God.
I'm feeling OK.
I'm still a little swollen, but I'm smiling just constantly
here.
So I'm just like, it's like this weird push-pull.
I'm like, um, I'm just hurt, but I'm smiling cause I'm here.
Yeah.
It's the best thing ever.
It's probably not the best thing to bring someone right
after they had their wisdom teeth--
Probably not.
Yeah, I'm so sorry.
Things happen.
All right.
[LAUGHS]
Well, so I want to pay-- it was $4, right?
Yeah.
OK, let me see if I have--
[LAUGHS] Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah, I have-- that's so weird-- just exactly $4.
Just $4, right, on the dot.
All right, so there's your $4.
So I'm paying you back.
Well, thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome.
You just payed it backwards.
Yeah, yeah, I payed it backwards.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
All right, we'll be right back.
So in the video, do you remember what the prize
was for when I like the video?
Do you remember what it was?
Not really.
[LAUGHS]
OK.
Well, the prize is you get to come back
and sit in that Starbucks Starbox for my birthday show.
So you're here today, but--
[APPLAUSE, CHEERING]
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh, thank you.
So then you'll come back again in a couple
of weeks for my birthday show.
It'll be fun.
Oh, my gosh, thank you so much.
Yeah, right.
[APPLAUSE, CHEERING]
Oh, my gosh.
This is great.
Yeah.
I don't think we can fly you, because we already flew you.
So you'll drive.
But--
[LAUGHTER]
I would run here.
I would.
[LAUGHS]
Starbucks also wants you to keep spreading kindness,
so they're going to load you with 10,000
stars on your rewards account, and also reward you
with a check for $10,000.
[APPLAUSE, CHEERING]
Oh, my God.
This is crazy.
Isn't that crazy?
It is so crazy.
It's crazy.
Send in your videos of paying it forward or backwards
at Starbucks, and you can end up sitting in my Starbox, too.
I want to thank Coldplay, Aubrey Plaza, and Jamie Foxx.
Oh, my gosh.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Be kind to one another.
Bye.