[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing?
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
Good.
All right, who's who?
Which one are you?
Kristopher.
Micheal Todd.
Micheal.
Antwain
Antwain.
OK, so whose idea was this?
It was my idea.
Your idea.
Yes, ma'am.
OK.
So you saw that--
this is obviously the beginning of the school year.
Yes, ma'am.
Just started.
Did you know Micheal?
No, ma'am.
I didn't know nothing of Mike.
No.
You just-- had you seen him getting bullied,
or did you hear about it?
So what happened was, we was in the same class.
When school had first started, the first week,
I was still on a temporary schedule.
And they were making jokes of him.
And I was also laughing along.
And then, once I used to just go home and think about it,
I wanted to apologize to Mike.
But I wanted to give him something in an apology.
Right.
OK, so then you talked to Antwain about this.
And Antwain said, I want in.
I want to help, right?
Yes, ma'am.
OK.
And how do you all know each other?
We play football together.
Play football together, OK.
So y'all are popular.
[LAUGHTER]
Not really.
Well.
You play football.
[LAUGHTER]
All right.
And so Micheal, all of a sudden, these two guys
that you don't know walk up and decide
to give you brand new clothes.
How did that feel?
I was surprised, shocked, happy, trying to keep a straight face
instead of showing my smile.
It was the best day in my life, because I was bullied.
Yeah.
I was bullied my entire life.
[APPLAUSE]
So you were bullied your whole life, and suddenly,
out of nowhere, the kindness of these guys--
and you didn't really want to film it.
But somebody, just because you didn't
do this to get attention, who filmed this?
Well, some-- well, we have a friend.
He always is having his phone, walking round and recording
stuff around the school.
He's seen us walking to Micheal third period of class.
And he started-- he was, like, what are you all doing?
And we was like, we're--
we ain't saying nothing.
We just pulled Micheal out of class.
Then people started coming out of class.
And 30 minutes later, we received the video.
I had posted it to Facebook.
I wasn't expecting it to go viral.
I wanted it to make a difference,
to make people stop bullying.
Right, right.
And it did, because it was viewed so many times
by so many people, and that's why you're here.
Because not only did I respond, a lot of celebrities
looked at this and said, this is amazing.
We want to reward these guys and point this out,
shine a light on you.
So umm Will Smith, come on out.
[CHEERING AND MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Hey!
Oh, hello.
[CHEERING]
What is up.
Hey, Will.
Ellen.
Hi, Will.
Thank you.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
All right, Will.
[LAUGHING]
Can't wait to watch the new movie.
Oh, thank you, yes, yes.
Gemini Man-- thank you.
It's very cool.
[HUMMING]
[LAUGHTER]
This is awesome.
I'm trying to keep it normal voice.
I saw the video.
And me and Jada were sitting around.
It was like, that, that is fantastic.
And there is no way that I'm letting
this pass without making contact with these kids.
And what you did felt small to you.
But I promise you that is exactly how human beings are
supposed to interact with one another.
[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
And it's not, it's not more complicated than that.
Somebody is having a hard time, and you help them.
It's that simple.
Yep, doesn't matter if you know them or not.
Doesn't matter if you know them.
People-- Everybody is suffering.
You won't walk past a single person
that's not having a hard time.
And you guys saw that, and you decided to help.
And what was really big also was the self-correct.
You saw that you were laughing and you were part of it,
and you stopped and self-corrected.
[LAUGHTER]
You guys--
That's big.
--know everything.
That's big, yes, yeah.
It is so huge.
All right.
We're going to take a break.
More after this.
Kris is playing it so cool.
He's like, this happens all the time.
Yeah.
This is nothing big for me.
I can't wait to get back to Memphis.
I can't wait--
That's right, yeah.
--as soon as I get home.
All right.
So Will and I loved what you did, obviously.
I can't thank you enough for being
an example to all the kids out there,
all the adults out there--
Yes.
-- who need to pay attention to helping others.
And Will has something for you.
Yeah, just because it was around clothes,
and I thought it was cool.
So I just want you all to have some gear.
I got a little of some stuff out here.
What have we got?
We got it back there.
Bring it out.
I got you some gear.
I got you a couple of things.
I got you all a couple of things, yeah.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
That's some cool stuff.
It's a--
[CHEERING]
This is some special state-of-the-art stuff.
It's not even out yet.
So this is a merch line I'm doing.
I'm doing a secret drop.
Well, it's not secret anymore.
[LAUGHTER]
I just announced it.
But I'm doing a drop.
So it's some special stuff.
And also, I talked to the people at New Balance,
and this is an act of kindness that I just don't want
to soon be forgotten, right?
So everybody at New Balance has agreed
that we're going to get gear for everybody
in your school, all 600 kids in your school.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
All right.
I know, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
I also want to help.
And you know I've had a relationship for a long time
with Shutterfly.
Shutterfly loves what you did.
So each of you is getting a check for $10,000.
Yeah.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[LAUGHTER]
Here you go, guys.
There you go.
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
I want to thank Wanda Sykes and Will Smith.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Be kind to one another.