- William Hart. - William.

And he is in Afghanistan. - Yes.

- And when does he come back again?

- He'll be back next february.

- So you sent him the recording?

- I did. - What did he say about it?

- He was like, "that's my boy."

[laughter]

My family was like, "oh, my gosh,

"You got to send this to 'Ellen.'

You got to send this to 'Ellen.'"

I was like, "okay." [laughs]

- And I'm so glad you did send it to me,

'Cause it's exactly the kind of thing I love.

And so--and you must miss your dad too, huh?

- I miss dad a whole bunch.

I miss him infinity beyond.

- Infinity beyond? Oh.

I miss him of-- well, um,

making pizza

and sneaking chocolate from mommy.

[laughter]

and going to the gym, going to the park.

- Wow. well, you miss everything.

It's got to be very hard.

All right, well, I don't know that I can make up for all that,

But I do have a gift.

Because you came all this way,

So I wanted to give you a gift, okay?

Can you bring the gift out, please?

[Phillip Phillips' "Home]

- [singing] The trouble

it might drag you down

[cheers and applause]

If you get lost, you can always be found

just know you're not alone

- [sobbing]

- [singing] 'Cause I'm gonna make this place

your home

Aah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah, ah, ah, aah

[music continues]

Aah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah

- There's your daddy.

All right.

- How you doing? - Hi.

How are you? - Thank you so much.

- Oh. - Thank you so much.

- [singsongy] We got a present.

We got a present.

- Sit down right here.

Surprise.

- Here you go, Tre. - Surprise.

Here, you want me to get those out of your way?

- Oh.

- So you didn't expect this, did you now?

- [laughs]

- See, now aren't you really glad

you sent this to "Ellen"?

[laughter]

And look what you have there.

We know you love planets,

so we wanted to give you something very special.

And your family's gonna get a vip trip

to the Kennedy space center visitor complex in Florida.

You're gonna get to have lunch with an astronaut.

How cool is that?

- [singing] The trouble

it might drag you down

If you get lost, you can always be found

- This is gonna be for you, Tre.

All that stuff for you.

[cheers and applause]

- Well, let's check it out.

- [singing] I'm gonna make this place

your home