- Our next guest caught the attention of 90 million people
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- All the way from Keady, Ireland,
please welcome Jessie Jane McParland.
Hey, it's nice to meet you, and how impressive is that.
When did you get into martial arts and how?
- Well, I got into martial arts when I was three years old
because I used to do other sports, and--
- What did you do before that? - Ballet and Irish dancing,
but I never liked 'em,
so, Mummy--or Mummy and Daddy
wanted me to get into a sport,
and they maybe were thinking basketball,
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- That's my little sister, Sugar Rae.
- That's your little sister? - Yeah.
- So, she's getting into it too? - Yeah.
- Wow. So, they wanted you to do maybe basketball,
but you fell into this? - Yeah.
- How?
- Because--it's just--
they wanted me to get into basketball,
so I find these people in white gis doing different moves,
and I was just like, "Daddy, Daddy, look at this,"
and he was like, "No, karate's too dangerous."
So, he brought me down to basketball,
and I just couldn't stop thinking about karate,
so after that, for about 30 minutes,
we sat and we watched karate.
We went home and my Mummy said,
"Why? Why do you not like ballet and Irish dancing?"
And I said, "Mummy, not every girl dreams
"of being a little princess."
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So, the following Saturday, Daddy brought me in
and I started and I-- - The following Saturday--
they listened to you. - Yeah.
- You know, that is a really clever
and smart, and advanced thing to say...
- Thank you. - Because I think people--you
just kind of follow what everybody else does,
but you're just marching to your own drum
which is what you should be doing.
That's great. - Thank you.
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- All right, so...
I wanna see you--if you don't mind,
I really wanna see you perform.
Will you do that for us right now?
- Yeah, sure. - Okay, good.
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Wow!
That is so impressive,
and then you use all that noise as energy, right?
- Yes, energy. - That is re--and then you
talk like this afterwards, that's amazing.
- [laughs] - That's so incredible.
That--and that's a sword? - Yeah.
- I was told to not run with scissors
and you're dancing with a sword like that.
- [laughs] - It seems very difficult.
Let me--I wanna give you a gift, okay?
It's a very special sword,
and this one is
the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" sword.
We're gonna start selling them in the riffraff.
And then, this outfit for you.
That is gonna be yours which I hope you like.
Thank you so much for being here.
- That's--thank you. - All right.