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A couple of weeks ago, I sent our receptionist Jeannie
to Queens, New York, where we had
two surprises for a viewer named Malachi and his family.
Take a look.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hello.
Excuse me?
Hi.
Anybody?
[SCREAMS]
Hi, hi.
Hi.
Is somebody at your door now?
No.
No, no, nobody's at the door.
[SCREAMS]
You call your mom a superhero, right?
She's just pushing me to get my bachelor's and just
never making me feel like not having my father in my life
was a big deal.
I'm just so blessed.
I'm so blessed to have him.
We're going to give you five plane tickets to LA and VIP
tickets to a taping of my show.
How's that sound?
[SCREAMING]
Yeah!
All right.
One more thing, during the 12 days,
we gave away over 100 gifts.
I want your family to get every single thing we gave away.
[SCREAMING]
[APPLAUSE]
So we brought them here.
Are you enjoying the show?
Yes.
Yeah.
I told you I was bringing you here.
I wasn't--
[INAUDIBLE]
Yeah.
Oh, that's great.
What's your favorite part of the show so far?
You, tWitch, this guy dancing.
[LAUGHTER]
Everything, everything.
We love everything.
It's been amazing.
Would it be your favorite part if I invited the whole family
down right now?
Oh, my god.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
Hi.
[INAUDIBLE] Hello.
Are you Cha-cha?
Anna.
Cha-cha.
Hi.
Hi, Michelle.
Oh, my god.
Ellen, I love you.
Hi.
Hey, Ellen.
All right.
I have to give everybody mics.
Pass them on down.
Pass them down, pass them down.
OK, so I heard you were very surprised
that I was in your living room.
I'm surprised right now.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm surprised right now.
But yes, it was like, amazing.
I initially thought they were going
to show clips of old episodes.
I'm like, wow, this is a nice touch.
And then you're like, hello, guys.
I'm like, did she?
And then you said it again.
I'm like, whoa, Ellen's talking to us right now.
And you're getting recognized since you've been on the show,
I understand.
You're like famous there?
Oh, man.
And you know, New York, it's hard to be famous.
Yes.
What are you getting?
What are people doing?
Oh, man.
I actually went to the Verizon store
to get a case for the phone you gave me.
That's right.
I gave you a phone.
I didn't want to crack it.
So I got a screen protector and a case.
And the guy goes, you look really familiar.
Do you act?
I'm like, no I don't.
I don't act.
He said, I seen you before on TV.
I'm like, well, I was on The Ellen Show.
He's like, that's it, that's it.
He gave me a 30% discount.
Oh wow.
[CHEERS]
On the case and the screen protector.
So thank you, Ellen.
Oh, you're welcome.
Thanks for that.
That's nice of you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
All right.
So we gave you all 12 days--
everything we did all 12 days.
What were your favorite gifts?
Honestly, mine wasn't so much a tangible gift
or a physical gift, it was more just
the experience of being on your show.
I love you.
I love you as Dory.
I love you as Ellen.
I love Portia.
And it was just amazing for me to just have that experience
and just have my family with me to receive those things.
Just that.
That's so sweet.
What about you?
For me, just hearing you say Cha-cha's name.
I'm like, the Ellen Degeneres is saying my daughter's name
on national television.
You just kept saying, Cha-cha.
I'm like, oh my god, she's saying her name.
Well, it's fun to say Cha-cha.
It was amazing.
And Anna too, it's fun to say Anna.
And Star, what about you?
What was your favorite?
I love the virtual reality glasses.
They're amazing.
It's like you're time traveling.
I was playing Jurassic Park, and it's just like, whoa,
like, I was in there.
It was so much fun.
Well, when you have a brand-new baby,
sometimes you have to time travel.
And you need an escape.
Definitely need an escape.
You need to go someplace else just for a little while.
All right.
So you have been a teacher, Michelle, for 20 years.
20 years.
And the reason we found you is Malachi
wrote this beautiful letter saying that you're his hero,
and what an amazing mom you are, and that he never
missed not having a dad because you were such a great mom.
So you had a birthday recently?
It's coming up.
Yeah, it's coming up.
OK, whenever it is, I don't care.
Our friends at Shutterfly want to help
you make another memory for your family
with a check for $20,000.
[SCREAMING]
You're amazing.
We'll be right back.
You really wrote in because your mom,
and you said you wouldn't be the man you are today without her.
And why is that?
I think a lot of people don't realize
how hard it is to raise a child with both parents,
and then to raise a man, being a woman by yourself,
is extremely difficult. And I can
remember days my mom getting on the bus and train,
and it's snowing, and we didn't have a car.
And she would take me to school, then go to Brooklyn
and go to her job.
And you know, those things just taught me perseverance
and how to be a hero.
Because she's my hero.
And I just hope that I'm able to be the same type of hero
to my daughter that she was to me.
What an amazing guy.
[APPLAUSE]
You're amazing.
You're amazing, you're amazing.
All right.
So you're a recent college graduate.
Yes, ma'am.
And you just had a baby, and how old is she, Ava?
She turned one today.
Today is her birthday.
Today is her birthday?
[APPLAUSE]
Today is her birthday.
That's got to be tough financially
though because, yeah.
Yeah, you can say that again.
Yeah, yeah.
That's got to be tough financially.
I'll say it again.
Very.
[LAUGHTER]
So, you know, we knew we wanted to help your mom because you
said that she was an amazing--
and then I called my friends at Shutterfly.
Janet answered the phone.
And I said, Janet, we can't just help Michelle.
We have to help Malachi.
Because he's an amazing guy.
So they said, what if we give Malachi a check for $20,000?
I said, OK.
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[INAUDIBLE]
All right.
We'll be back.