- Last week, we met a woman in our audience
who was really excited to smell me.
[cheers and laughter]
Take a look.
- Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
My mom wants to know what you smell like.
- How do I smell? - You smell so good.
- Oh, okay. - Mom, she smells so good.
- Yeah. - She smells so good.
[laughter] Oh, my God!
- Cards, the deck of cards. - They have to--
What they do in between the games.
- Shuffle. - Yes!
Oh, you got it! Okay.
She's gonna have a really, really good one.
- Bachelorette party! Wedding!
A wedding. - No--yes, yes, yes!
Yes!
- You're gonna go to Vegas!
[cheers and applause]
Yes!
- [squeals] - Playing slots, yes!
- Ellen! - [imitates Lori screaming]
[laughter] Lori, where are you?
Come on down!
So--and you-- you teach second grade?
- I teach second grade.
My town of Lacombe is about 10,000 people or so.
We have a really small school,
and I've taught there for eight years.
So I had all these kids coming up to me from K to 9
and just so incredibly happy for me.
And they know, like, I'm--I'm your girl, Ellen!
[laughter] They know that about me!
[laughter and applause]
So they were so happy-- - You're my girl.
- That I got to meet you-- they got to see me meet you,
and that is a lesson that--
- Well, it's--what's wonderful, and we didn't even know this,
you incorporate my show into your classes.
- All the time. I have--
I--to trick them into getting back to class fast after recess,
to put shoes on, get in, I'll show an Ellen video.
So they know that I'm going to show a video.
They don't want to miss it, so it gets them--
[snaps fingers] in the class in a hurry.
- And then you have Pay It Forward Wednesday.
- I do, I have the "Be kind to one another"
right outside my classroom.
We hang it in our home, and then
my daughter and son and my other daughter,
we started doing Pay It Forward Wednesdays,
just totally-- [starting to cry]
totally based on what you've taught me.
- Aw. - And yeah--
- You're so sweet. - We just buy a coffee,
and bring it to somebody, or we--
see--see somebody gardening, and--
and often my daughter doesn't say, like,
"Mommy taught me that," she says "Ellen taught me that."
- Aw. - I know!
- That's so sweet. - And you get all the credit.
I'm okay with that. [laughter]
It's okay.
Well, it's--it's really sweet that you do that,
and that you encourage kids especially,
'cause that's when you need to start, is,
teaching them random acts of kindness and pay it forward,
and since today is Pay It Forward Wednesday,
I'm going to start doing that myself.
So it is Wednesday today,
and I'm going to pay it forward with you,
and you're--what I'm going to give you--
- Oh, don't. I don't know if we can do this.
[laughter]
I don't know if I can do this.
[audience screams loudly]
[funky music] [audience cheers]
[exclaiming indistinctly]
Oh, my gosh!
- Look at this!
- Oh, my God, Ellen!
- So... - Oh, my God--
- Here's--here's the thing.
- Can I sit in it? - Yeah, you can sit in it.
- [squeals]
[laughter]
- So...
my friends at Ford heard about you, and, uh,
they love that you teach, and that you want to--
your kids to pay it forward, and you want--
They want you to make a difference in the world,
and they want to give you-- and help you go further
with a brand new Ford Flex, which is what this car is.
It's a-- [cheers and applause]
- Oh, my gosh, it's beautiful! I love it!
- I know!
- It doesn't smell funny, like my van!
- No, it doesn't. I know.
We'll talk about your car when we come back.
We'll be back.
[funky music] [cheers and applause]
I didn't want you to think that we were doing anything,
but tell everybody about your car--what do you drive now?
- Well, we just--we have a van, and we're frugal people,
and we just--
We have a van and it's great and it fits our kids,
and it's good but, it just never felt like ours.
It's kind of smelly? - Mm-hmm.
- Now I feel like I'm all about smells.
That one smells good, like-- - Yeah.
- It just feels like it's not ours, and it--
- Lots of miles on it. - It has lots of miles,
- Lots, lots of miles. - Yeah, we--
And we work really hard to make those choices
for our family and our kids and, that vehicle will just--
- That's gonna be great. - Make such a difference
in our lives.
- It's gonna be great. - It will.
- And what I love about you also, your family is adorable.
And you know what they do, when they sit down and watch
The 12 Days of Giveaways--
This is what they do, I have a copy of it.
- You don't. - You--you actually--
write down what we're giving away,
and you fantasize about who you would give these things to.
You write down who you'd give something to.
That's how much you pay it forward.
You actually would give those things to somebody else,
and again, that's just so amazing.
So we want to give you everything we've given away
on all of our 12 Days last-- - Oh, my God.
- Last--last Christmas, okay?
["It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays]
[cheers and applause]
- [screams]
Oh, my God!
You are crazy!
Oh, my God, you are crazy!
Oh, my God!