[PHONE RINGING]

Is that my phone?

Where Andy?

Hello?

Hi, is this Ellen?

Yeah, it's Ellen.

Who's this?

My name is Kelly Austin.

I'm the principal at Robinson Elementary

in Fresno, California.

Hi, principal Austin.

I'm in the middle of a show right now.

What can I help you with?

Well, two of my teachers called in sick today

and I heard a rumor that they might be in your audience.

What are their names?

Terron and Kristina Nolan.

Well, there's two people being very embarrassed right now,

so Terron and Kristina, is that y'all?

Yeah, they're here.

Come down here both of you.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

I love you, oh!

Hi.

Have a seat.

I have them down here.

Do you want me to say something to them?

I sure do.

I just want them both to know that I think

they're absolutely amazing.

Thank you both so much for going above and beyond

for our kiddos.

You guys enjoy your sick day, and remember the Robinson Road

Runners love you.

Aw, thanks for calling.

Wow.

Oh my goodness.

Hi.

So it's Terron.

Yes.

And Kristina.

Yes.

OK.

We know a little bit about you, actually.

Thanks for being here on your sick day.

Yes, we would be anywhere else.

Yeah, well--

We're so excited to be here.

Oh, I can hear them though, but I

guess you want other people to hear them, Mary.

All right, so you both work at a school.

Tell us about the school you work for?

Yes, so we work for Robinson Elementary.

It's a Title I school, free and reduced lunch for everyone.

It's-- you know the kids are amazing.

There's a lot of brokenness.

The staff just loves kids.

And that's why I'm happy to be there.

I'm a sixth grade teacher.

And I'm a resource counseling assistant,

pretty much a mom to 500 kids.

All day.

And you have kids also, right?

Yes.

You have three kids.

Yes.

Where are they?

Somewhere in the back.

We aren't sure.

Well then come on out.

They should be here.

Right.

[APPLAUSE]

Hi.

Hi.

How's it going?

OK.

Who are you?

Brixton.

And you are?

Kennedy.

Kennedy.

Maddox.

Hi, Maddox.

So isn't this cool?

I mean, how about your dad?

How about this, Kennedy?

I can't believe that he is going more viral than me.

I just, I can't believe it.

But I'm so proud of him.

And just the impact that he has on not only us and his kids,

but like everybody that watches his videos.

They have an impact on their life, too.

So it's just crazy.

So you started doing something really cool

to help kids with their fears.

Yes.

Yes.

So many of my students struggle with fear.

It's just they live in environments

where they're scared, they're scared about the future.

So I told them, you guys write down all your fears,

and I will conquer all of mine.

And I put it on YouTube and they love

watching their teacher just freak out over fear.

So what are some of the fears that they've

gotten over, what are some of the fears you've gotten over?

So I climbed a 45 foot pole, jumped off.

My wife and I ran a 5K.

Which he thought was 106 miles.

Yes.

My whole left side is hurting still.

The last one is, I did stand up comedy for a retirement home.

Oh.

How'd that go?

Horrible.

Well, well I'm going to I'm going

to help you with one more fear that I know that you have

when we come back, all right?

Will you?

Yes.

We'll be back.

You have conquered some of your fears.

You have other fears I know.

What are they?

Yes, Yes.

Clowns and cotton balls.

OK, I'm with you on the cotton balls.

Thank you.

I don't know--

I don't know-- I don't know how people touch them.

And don't know--

It's the noise.

Oh, don't even talk about the noise.

I get it, we are here.

Yeah, but clowns, I don't really understand.

It just, do you think they're creepy or--

Yeah, all clowns are creepy.

I had a horrible experience when I

was young at a circus that scarred me for life.

What did the clown do?

It just was dancing but it was scary.

Well, I think the thing about clowns--

Yah!

[LAUGHTER]

I was trying to protect you, baby.

I was trying to protect you.

Wow.

You almost killed your whole family.

Yeah.

Sorry, sorry, guys, Daddy got scared.

That's why we send the little one away.

We thought he was going to get.

You would have been in the air.

Yeah.

Oh, that was very satisfying.

Wow.

All right.

Let's take a look at how you protected your family here.

I think the thing about clowns--

Yah!

I'm never gonna live that down.

Oh, no.

Good job.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Oh, well my cards are gone, everything is kind of--

There anything else?

There's nothing else in there.

No.

That's it.

All right, I want, because I want to talk about you two.

Because you met volunteering and even

though you both work around the, clock

you still find time to get back to your community.

You bring pizza to your students on the weekends.

You go to their games and are always there

to support them, even though you both have

student loans to pay off.

You're struggling yourselves.

You always pay out of your pocket for your students.

So you're just basically an incredible family.

And since you go above and beyond to do good,

my friends at Honey Nut Cheerios say when you do good,

you feel good.

And so they want to give Robinson Elementary School

$25,000.00.

Oh!

My goodness.

And they also want to give $25,000.00.

What?

Oh my God!

Are you serious?

Yep.

Oh my God.

Thank you so.

Oh, I love you.

I want to thank Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Be kind to one another.

Bye-bye.