- Our first guest defines the word "bravery."
He is a 6-year-old boy
who's facing his brain cancer treatment
the best way he knows how, by dancing.
From North Carolina, please welcome Braylon Beam
and his parents Meredith and Jesse.
[cheers and applause] ["Uptown Funk" plays]
Braylon, those were some fancy moves you got there.
I think I noticed some twerking going on.
[audience laughter] - Yeah, [giggles].
- Was that twerking?
- Yes. [audience laughter]
- Who taught you how to twerk? - My daddy.
- Really? [audience laughter]
- Didn't come from me.
- I'm an elementary teacher,
so you have to have a range of dance skills.
- I see. - Enough to entertain kids.
- I see--was it your idea to start the dancing?
How did it start? - It did.
Braylon and I were driving to school one day,
and we started thinking about "What can we do
to make our treatment just amazing?"
And to bring a new perspective of pediatric cancer,
where it's just not negative?
- Uh huh. - And we said, "Let's dance.
"And let's put it on our 'Bring It To Braylon' website,
and let everybody see it," and...it's worked.
- It makes everything better, doesn't it?
Dancing is so freeing.
I think people come here more to dance than to see me.
I think it's really-- [audience laughter]
It's just about dancing. [applause]
[cheers and applause]
So I love-- obviously it caught our eye
that you were dancing like that, so it was a whole lot of fun.
And it does make you feel better, doesn't it?
- Yep. - Yep.
So Meredith, how did you find out--
and when did you find out-- that Braylon had cancer?
- Well, it started-- at the end of last year,
his teacher noticed that he was having some trouble
seeing the whiteboards, so,
knowing that me and my husband both wear glasses,
I'm just thinking that, "Well, he might need them too,"
so on February 10th, we went and he was having
some problems with showing
inappropriate reactions to the light
when they shine the light in there?
And so the next week, we were having an MRI under anesthesia,
and that's the day that we found out.
And that's the day I'll never forget, and, uh...
it's heart-wrenching when they tell you
that your child has the word "cancer."
- Yeah. - And, uh--
But we've gotten through it. It's just been amazing.
- And we--and you found out some good news recently.
- We did, his MRI showed that the tumor has not spread
on his optic nerve, and that his spine is clean of tumors,
so we are safe! [cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
That is great news, right? [applause]
- Right. [applause]
Well, I'll tell you something, Braylon,
you're an amazing young man,
and to--and it's really tough to be that strong,
to be that brave when you're facing something like that,
and a lot of kids wouldn't be as happy
and handle it the way you are,
so you should be really proud of yourself.
What do you want to do when you grow up?
- Be a head Panther coach.
- Oh, you want to be the coach for the Panthers?
- Yep. - I see.
So that's your favorite team,
'cause you're wearing a jersey,
and we found that out, so we have a little surprise.
Somebody wants to say hi to you.
- Hi, I'm Ron Rivera, coach of the Carolina Panthers,
and a big Braylon Beam fan.
I admire your positive attitude and energy.
You're exactly the type of person we need
to help motivate our football team.
So we want to invite you
to be our ceremonial "Keep Pounding" drummer,
before an upcoming Carolina Panthers home game.
Braylon, thank you for being an inspiration for so many.
We're so proud that you are one of our big fans,
and I will be in touch soon, so keep pounding, kiddo.
- All right, and another dream you have:
you want to be a guest DJ, is that right?
- Yes. - Head over there,
and you are going to be a guest DJ for the show with tWitch.
- [gasps] - What?
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo! [cheers and applause]
["Ellen" theme music plays]
- I wanted to talk to you about the Panthers again
'cause your favorite player is who?
- Cam Newton. - Cam Newton.
He's the quarterback, right?
Okay, well, he sent this for you, and, uh--
We have something--and--
- [gasps] Oh, my gosh!
- We'll have to put it on the floor over there, but--
Yeah. - Oh, my gosh!
[cheers and applause]
- He signed the-- he signed the helmet for you.
- That is amazing. - Look at that, right?
- Look at that. - [groans]
[audience laughter] - Oh, look whose name
is on the back of it.
- I know, I know. - Isn't that amazing?
- This foam--yeah.
This is good if you need a back scratch or something like that.
[audience laughter]
- Oh, my gosh! - We'll give that--
We'll give that to Randy. - All right, good.
So listen, on top of everything else that you've got going on,
I know that you were driving the other day,
and you--a deer jumped out in front of you
and you tried to avoid hitting it,
and went off the road, right?
- I did--I did not touch the deer, thank God.
- The deer's okay, yes.
- 'Cause you like animals.
- Yeah, I love animals. I sure do, so it's good to hear
that the deer is okay.
- Yeah, so I ran into the ditch, and--
- So you--but the car is not okay.
- The car's not okay. The deer is fine, though.
- Okay, well-- [audience laughter]
I love that you tried to avoid hurting an animal,
and that you--but I hate that you hurt your car,
so we want you to have a safe car,
because you're driving Braylon around,
so we want to give you this 2015 Ford Fusion Hybrid.
- Oh, my God! [cheers and applause]
[music plays] [cheers and applause]
Oh, my God! [cheers and applause]
[music plays] [cheers and applause]
Oh, my God!
- Get in it! Get in there, get in there!
- Oh, thank you!
- [talking indistinctly]
[cheers and applause]
- [indistinct] - Whoo!
- [squeals excitedly] [cheers and applause]
- All right. [cheers and applause]
- Thank you so much. - So listen to this.
So it's the stylish and efficient Ford Fusion Hybrid.
It's great at multi-tasking, while using both a gas engine
and a hybrid electric motor, allowing you to go further.
And this'll make it very safe for you, and we'll be back.
More after this.
We want you to remember this experience,
so we got you this.
(audience) Aw!
- [laughs]
- All right, so it's a picture of you and tWitch--
[cheers and applause]
And-- [cheers and applause]
- Thank you, Ellen. - Thank you.
- You're welcome, and also you've got so much going on,
and with a new car, you're gonna need gas money
and stuff like that, so our friends at Shutterfly
were so inspired by your story,
they want to give you $10,000.
- Oh, my-- [cheers and applause]
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