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  • [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • Hello.

  • Hey, how are you doing?

  • How are you doing?

  • I'm doing fine.

  • Good.

  • All right, who's who?

  • Which one are you?

  • Kristopher.

  • Kristopher.

  • Micheal Todd.

  • Micheal.

  • Antwain

  • Antwain.

  • OK, so whose idea was this?

  • It was my idea.

  • Your idea.

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • OK.

  • So you saw that--

  • this is obviously the beginning of the school year.

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • Just started.

  • Did you know Micheal?

  • No, ma'am.

  • I didn't know nothing of Mike.

  • No.

  • You just-- had you seen him getting bullied,

  • or did you hear about it?

  • So what happened was, we was in the same class.

  • When school had first started, the first week,

  • I was still on a temporary schedule.

  • And they were making jokes of him.

  • And I was also laughing along.

  • And then, once I used to just go home and think about it,

  • I wanted to apologize to Mike.

  • But I wanted to give him something in an apology.

  • Right.

  • OK, so then you talked to Antwain about this.

  • And Antwain said, I want in.

  • I want to help, right?

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • OK.

  • And how do you all know each other?

  • We play football together.

  • Play football together, OK.

  • So y'all are popular.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Not really.

  • Well.

  • You play football.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • All right.

  • And so Micheal, all of a sudden, these two guys

  • that you don't know walk up and decide

  • to give you brand new clothes.

  • How did that feel?

  • I was surprised, shocked, happy, trying to keep a straight face

  • instead of showing my smile.

  • It was the best day in my life, because I was bullied.

  • Yeah.

  • I was bullied my entire life.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • 00:01:39,410 --> 00:01:41,600 So you were bullied your whole life, and suddenly,

  • out of nowhere, the kindness of these guys--

  • and you didn't really want to film it.

  • But somebody, just because you didn't

  • do this to get attention, who filmed this?

  • Well, some-- well, we have a friend.

  • He always is having his phone, walking round and recording

  • stuff around the school.

  • He's seen us walking to Micheal third period of class.

  • And he started-- he was, like, what are you all doing?

  • And we was like, we're--

  • we ain't saying nothing.

  • We just pulled Micheal out of class.

  • Then people started coming out of class.

  • And 30 minutes later, we received the video.

  • I had posted it to Facebook.

  • I wasn't expecting it to go viral.

  • I wanted it to make a difference,

  • to make people stop bullying.

  • Right, right.

  • And it did, because it was viewed so many times

  • by so many people, and that's why you're here.

  • Because not only did I respond, a lot of celebrities

  • looked at this and said, this is amazing.

  • We want to reward these guys and point this out,

  • shine a light on you.

  • So umm Will Smith, come on out.

  • [CHEERING AND MUSIC PLAYING]

  • 00:03:08,428 --> 00:03:10,918 [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • 00:03:14,404 --> 00:03:17,392 Hey!

  • Oh, hello.

  • [CHEERING]

  • What is up.

  • Hey, Will.

  • Ellen.

  • Hi, Will.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • 00:03:29,411 --> 00:03:32,213 [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • 00:03:33,147 --> 00:03:34,081 All right, Will.

  • [LAUGHING]

  • Can't wait to watch the new movie.

  • Oh, thank you, yes, yes.

  • Gemini Man-- thank you.

  • It's very cool.

  • [HUMMING]

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • This is awesome.

  • I'm trying to keep it normal voice.

  • I saw the video.

  • And me and Jada were sitting around.

  • It was like, that, that is fantastic.

  • And there is no way that I'm letting

  • this pass without making contact with these kids.

  • And what you did felt small to you.

  • But I promise you that is exactly how human beings are

  • supposed to interact with one another.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]

  • 00:04:20,970 --> 00:04:23,520 And it's not, it's not more complicated than that.

  • Somebody is having a hard time, and you help them.

  • It's that simple.

  • Yep, doesn't matter if you know them or not.

  • Doesn't matter if you know them.

  • People-- Everybody is suffering.

  • You won't walk past a single person

  • that's not having a hard time.

  • And you guys saw that, and you decided to help.

  • And what was really big also was the self-correct.

  • You saw that you were laughing and you were part of it,

  • and you stopped and self-corrected.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • You guys--

  • That's big.

  • --know everything.

  • That's big, yes, yeah.

  • It is so huge.

  • All right.

  • We're going to take a break.

  • More after this.

  • Kris is playing it so cool.

  • He's like, this happens all the time.

  • Yeah.

  • This is nothing big for me.

  • I can't wait to get back to Memphis.

  • I can't wait--

  • That's right, yeah.

  • --as soon as I get home.

  • All right.

  • So Will and I loved what you did, obviously.

  • I can't thank you enough for being

  • an example to all the kids out there,

  • all the adults out there--

  • Yes.

  • -- who need to pay attention to helping others.

  • And Will has something for you.

  • Yeah, just because it was around clothes,

  • and I thought it was cool.

  • So I just want you all to have some gear.

  • I got a little of some stuff out here.

  • What have we got?

  • We got it back there.

  • Bring it out.

  • I got you some gear.

  • I got you a couple of things.

  • I got you all a couple of things, yeah.

  • [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • That's some cool stuff.

  • It's a--

  • [CHEERING]

  • 00:05:51,310 --> 00:05:56,480 This is some special state-of-the-art stuff.

  • It's not even out yet.

  • So this is a merch line I'm doing.

  • I'm doing a secret drop.

  • Well, it's not secret anymore.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • I just announced it.

  • But I'm doing a drop.

  • So it's some special stuff.

  • And also, I talked to the people at New Balance,

  • and this is an act of kindness that I just don't want

  • to soon be forgotten, right?

  • So everybody at New Balance has agreed

  • that we're going to get gear for everybody

  • in your school, all 600 kids in your school.

  • [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • 00:06:43,614 --> 00:06:44,606 All right.

  • 00:06:46,152 --> 00:06:46,693 I know, yeah.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • I also want to help.

  • And you know I've had a relationship for a long time

  • with Shutterfly.

  • Shutterfly loves what you did.

  • So each of you is getting a check for $10,000.

  • Yeah.

  • [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:03,600 [LAUGHTER]

  • Here you go, guys.

  • There you go.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

  • 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,000 I want to thank Wanda Sykes and Will Smith.

  • Have a wonderful weekend.

  • Be kind to one another.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

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