There's an amazing family in Rowlett, Texas, who
are heroes in their community.
Twitch, what can you tell us about the Johnson's?
Well, Courtney is an emergency nurse
working the front lines of the pandemic and her husband Eric
volunteers daily helping kids in need.
They have two adorable children and they watch
the show every day together.
Wow, you know that's just off the top of your head?
Off the top of my head, I do.
Wow.
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All right.
We're going to surprise them right now.
Let's go.
Hello Johnson family, surprise.
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Hi.
Oh, my god.
Hi.
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Hi, you guys.
Hello.
It's Ellen and Twitch.
Hi, you all.
What's up.
Surprise.
First of all your family is incredible.
Thank you for all you're doing to help the community,
especially during this time.
You're all heroes.
Introduce yourselves, who's who?
My name is Eva and I'm 6 and 1/2 years old.
Hi, Eva.
My name's Eric the second, and I'm 10 years old.
Hi.
And I'm Courtney.
Hi.
And I'm Eric.
So nice to meet you.
Courtney, you're an emergency nurse,
you've been working around the clock treating COVID patients
since the pandemic began, how are you holding up?
You know what, it's been hard.
Sometimes you come into work and it's like a war zone.
You're running nonstop and don't sit down
to eat or drink anything.
Sometimes I cry my whole way home,
but I have an amazing support system.
I make sure that I am there for my patients
because their families can't be there, and it's hard.
But I love my job and I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
That's amazing Courtney.
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Courtney, so here's the funny thing, you wrote in to the show
to nominate your husband as a hero
but what you didn't know is he actually wrote in for you
to nominate you as a hero.
So Eric what did you say about your wife?
I did.
I just wanted to let her know that we're super proud of her.
She's an amazing person, such a selfless person,
and I've always known that about her,
but it's been full on display throughout
this entire pandemic.
She's been amazing.
When the world pretty much started to shut down
she was the first person to put her scrubs on, lace up
her tennis shoes, and hit it head on.
And I see that on a day in and day out and I'm just--
I'm so proud of her.
Words can't express how great of a mom she's been.
Great of a wife as well.
And I just want her to know and get her recognition
that we love her and she's doing such a fantastic job,
and keep up the good work.
Wow.
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And Courtney, what did you tell us about Eric?
So Eric has been coaching youth sports almost seven years
straight.
He works a full time job, and over 40 hours
a week he spends on coaching, planning practices.
He's the first person there, last person to leave.
He will buy anybody that needs anything, cleats,
we have a garage full of sporting equipment.
He doesn't hesitate to help these kids
and they look up to him.
He's a super hero to them, and he's
a hero in our community for it.
Awesome.
And Eric Junior, we heard that you like helping
your dad out too, is that true?
I do.
So like sometimes I'll like set up the field for him,
[INAUDIBLE] because he's always doing stuff for other people.
And he's an amazing dad, and I wouldn't imagine a life
without him.
What a sweet family.
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And Eva, this-- I love this so much.
You know I have a niece named Eva also.
But Eva, you love helping gorillas like I do.
Tell everybody what you've been doing for the Ellen Fund,
I love this.
What I have been doing for the Ellen Fund is I got my birthday
money, I made--
I started to make bracelets, and I sold them.
And I got that money, and my birthday money
to add them together, and then I donated to the Ellen Fund.
And then I-- because I love gorillas.
They're beautiful animals, and I wanted to donate like you do.
That's so great Eva.
I hope one day you get to go and see them
because they are magnificent.
Look what I did for you.
I want to say thank you.
So you're now an Ellen Fund ambassador.
You're my first ambassador and I made a t-shirt
that I'm going to send you, and this is yours,
so everyone knows you're an Ellen Fund ambassador.
All right.
We're going to send you this.
Were going to send a whole bunch of really cool stuff
from the Ellen Fund to you and the family.
And--
Thank you so much.
Kids, I know you love dancing along
to tWitch so maybe you can dance to break with him right now.
Let's do it.
Oh, good.
All right.
More with the Johnson family after this.
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Oh, no.
See you walking around like it's a funeral.
So serious girl, why are those feet cold.
We just getting started don't you tip toe.
Tip toe.
Waste time with a master piece.
Don't waste time with a masterpiece.
You should be rolling me.
Ah.
You are a real-life fantasy.
But you move so carefully lets start living dangerously.
Talk to me baby.
I'm going blind from this sweet-sweet craving, whoa-ah.
Let's loose our minds and go crazy.
Ah, ya ya ya ya.
I keep hoping we'll eat cake by the ocean.
Walk for me baby.
I'll be Diddy, you'll be Naomi, whoa-ah.
Let's loose our minds and go crazy.
Ah ya ya ya ya.
I keep hoping we'll be eating cake by the ocean.
Eric, why is it that--
you're so amazing.
Why is helping kids so important for you
to do in your community?
Well, I love my community.
And I learned at a young age doing youth sports is amazing.
There's people that were very influential in my life,
and I still keep in touch with them to this day.
And I just want to give back to the kids.
Watching these kids grow and develop, and watching them
smile and do things that they thought they couldn't do.
And just to know that I have a part of that,
and I could impact their lives in a positive way.
Being a mentor, being a father type figure,
being a coach, somebody positive to look up to,
that's what keeps you going while I continue to do it.
You're making such a big difference in their lives.
That's so cool you're doing that.
Eric Junior and Eva you must be so proud.
Do you understand how cool your parents are?
Yeah.
I understand very much.
Good.
Me too.
Good.
And they obviously-- has rub-- it rubbed off
that you're both wanting to give back,
that's so important to learn at a young age.
You're all such selfless people.
You're heroes in your community.
And today is actually our heroes show.
We gave away some amazing gifts to heroes in our audience,
including a $300 Sprout's gift card,
Beats headphones, $500 Apple gift cards.
So we sent everything to your home.
If you go to your front door and bring back what's inside.
Bring it back so we can see it on camera.
You got it.
You got everything?
Wow.
Mine.
You got the baby gorilla?
Yeah, she did.
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All right.
Oh, my God.
So there's a bunch of stuff and also--
yeah, if you spin that around.
We know you've been working around the clock
to provide for your family and you
want to help your community.
We also know it's been very difficult, and we want to help.
So Courtney grab the Shutterfly box in the center.
It's in there.
Shutterfly loves helping heroes, so they want
to give your family $20,000.
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I want to thank--
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You-- we were just all talking during the commercial break
how much we love this family.
You're just beautiful people.
Thank you so much for everything you do.
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Hi, I'm Andy.
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[BLEEP]
God [BLEEP].