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  • CAN THEY PLAY.

  • ♪ >> James: ALL RIGHT, LET'S

  • MEET OUR "LATE, LATE SHOW" STAFFERS.

  • HI, EVERYBODY.

  • HOW ARE YOU DOING?

  • >> HI JAMES.

  • >> James: NOW BEANIE, EACH STAFFER HERE IS HOLDING A

  • MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

  • HOWEVER THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART, ONLY THREE OF THEM CAN

  • ACTUALLY PLAY THE INSTRUMENT THEY ARE HOLDING.

  • YOUR TASK IS TO IDENTIFY WHICH THREE CAN PLAY, OKAY.

  • NOW YOU CAN ASK SOME QUESTIONS TO FIND OUT FROM EVERYBODY.

  • AND BEFORE WE START, I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS, TOM, I DON'T KNOW

  • HOW YOU ARE MANAGING TO DO THIS, BUT YOU, I SEE YOU ON A ZOOM

  • CALL EVERY DAY.

  • AND YOU ARE GETTING BETTER LOOKING WITH EVERY PASSING DAY

  • AND NOW THE ADDITION OF A GUITAR HAS TAKEN YOU TO QUITE THE HUNK.

  • WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?

  • WHAT IS YOUR REGIME AT HOME?

  • HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?

  • >> I THINK I FOUND MY LIGHTING.

  • THAT IS THE KEY.

  • YOU GET IT.

  • I WATCH YOU EVERY DAY.

  • I HAVE BEEN TAKING NOTES.

  • >> James: WOW, THAT'S-- THAT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE.

  • >> WELL, THE QUESTION IS LIKE, IF HE CAN'T PLAY THE GUITAR,

  • WHERE DOES THAT LIKE PUT HIM ON HIS HOT SCALE.

  • >> James: IN A REGULAR DAY'S WORK, TOM IS LIKE, I AM GOING TO

  • SAY TOM IS LIKE-- TOM SAY 6.5.

  • IN LOCKDOWN HE'S JUMPED TO A 7.5.

  • AND NOW WITH A GUITAR HE'S JUST A SOLID 9.

  • LIKE IF YOU AND YOUR GIRLFRIEND EVER BREAK UP, TOM, THIS SHOULD

  • BE YOUR TINDER PROFILE SHOT, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW.

  • BEANIE, HAVE YOU GOT A QUESTION FOR ANYONE THERE?

  • >> TOM, YOU DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A STRAP.

  • ARE YOU A, YOU KNOW, ROGIN IT WITHOUT A SNAP WHEN YOU PLAY OR

  • WAT IS GOING ON THERE?

  • >> YEAH, THE THING IS, BEANIE, MY LIVE PERFORMING DAYS ARE

  • BEHIND ME.

  • SO I AM JUST IN A CHAIR AROUND THE COUCH AT HOME, YOU KNOW, FOR

  • FAMILY ONLY.

  • >> OKAY.

  • >> James: GOOD QUESTION.

  • LET'S GO TO SOME OTHER PEOPLE.

  • LET'S GO TO, NOW ROSIE, YOU'VE GOT A TRUM BET THERE.

  • WHEN DID YOU LEARN THE TRUMPET, ROSIE?

  • >> IN ELEMENT REE SCHOOL, IN LIKE ORCHESTRA AND BAND.

  • >> AND ARE THERE CHAIRS FOR TRUMPET, LIKE IN AN ORCHESTRA,

  • ARE THERE-- ARE THERE CHAIRS THE WAY LIKE VIOLIN OR VIOLA.

  • >> YEAH, WOULD YOU SIT IN A CHAIR AND HAVE YOUR MUSIC IN

  • FRONT OF YOU STILL.

  • >> James: NO I DON'T THINK-- .

  • >> I DON'T THINK BEANIE WAS ASKING WHETHER YOU SIT IN CHAIRS

  • IN AN ORCHESTRA, I THINK WE'VE GOT THE ANSWER TO OUR QUESTION,

  • IN THAT VERY MOMENT.

  • >> James: LET'S GO TO ANDREW AND THE VIOLIN THERE.

  • ANDREW, WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE THE VIOLIN.

  • >> YOU KNOW, I STARTED PLAYING MIDDLE SCHOOL IN ORCHESTRA,

  • AND-- AND IT WAS JUST AN INSTRUMENT THAT ALWAYS

  • INTERESTED ME.

  • AND MY MOM WAS LIKE YEAH, LET'S GO FOR IT.

  • SO THAT.

  • >> DID YOU HAVE A VIOLIN TEACHER GROWING UP.

  • >> James: YES.

  • >> WHAT WAS HOURS HER NAME.

  • >> HIS NAME WAS MR.-- WHAT WAS HIS NAME-- .

  • >> James: MR. WHO?

  • >> LUCKENS.

  • >> James: WOW, CUZ THAT FEELS LIKE A NAME WOULD YOU REMEMBER.

  • >> WELL, I HAVE-- CUZ WE MOVED.

  • WE WERE THERE FOR TWO YEARS AND WE I HAD TO STOP AND THEN

  • CONTINUE.

  • >> James: RIGHT.

  • >> OKAY.

  • >> James: LET'S HAVE A LOOK, MELVIN S THAT ALSO A TRUMPET

  • YOU'VE GOT THERE?

  • >> YES, THIS SAY TRUMPET.

  • >> James: AND WHAT WAS ITS FIRST PIECE OF MUSIC YOU LEARNED

  • TO PLAY ON THE THRUM PET, MELVIN?

  • >> IT WAS CLASSICAL MUSIC.

  • JOE HAND IS HE BASTION BACH.

  • >> James: ITS FIRST PIECE OF MUSIC YOU LEARNED WAS A PIECE BY

  • JOHAN SEBASTIAN BACH.

  • >> I WAS 11 YEAR OLD, I WANTED TO PLAY THE DRUM, BUT THE BAND

  • TEACHER SAID NO, PLAY THE TRUMPET.

  • >> MELVIN FEELS TRUTHFUL.

  • >> James: I FEEL LIKE MELVIN IS HOLDING A TRUMPET LIKE WOULD

  • YOU IF YOU PLAYED ONE WHERE ROSIE IS HOLDING IT LIKE IT IS

  • KIND OF A SMALL PET.

  • >> A LITTLE STUFFED ANIMAL.

  • >> ST ALL IN THE GRIP.

  • >> James: BRIAN, LET'S GO TO YOU, THIS KEYBOARD, WHEN DID YOU

  • PURCHASE THIS KEYBOARD?

  • >> OH, THIS WAS A FAMILY RELIC.

  • THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME BY MY FATHER.

  • >> James: OKAY.

  • AND WHEN DID YOU GET GOOD AT PLAYING THE KEYBOARD, BRIAN?

  • >> AROUND 12, I STARTED WHEN I WAS EIGHT AND THEN PLAYED SOME

  • PIANO COMPETITIONS.

  • AND I REALLY ENJOYED IT.

  • >> James: I THINK YOU ARE SERIOUS IN A COMFORTING WAY.

  • >> James: BRIAN FEELS SO SERIOUS, I FEEL LIKE I'M

  • WATCHING A HOSTAGE VIDEO.

  • LET'S GO TO KASEY, I CALL THIS AN ACCORDION S THAT RIGHT?

  • >> THAT'S CORRECT.

  • >> James: OKAY.

  • >> HOW DID YOU PICK UP AN ACCORDION ONE DAY.

  • WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?

  • >> SO I ACTUALLY GREW UP IN A SMALL GERMAN TOWN IN SOUTH

  • CAROLINA THAT HAS AN OKTOBERFEST.

  • SO IT WAS KIND OF LIKE HEY, DISOO YOU GUYS WANT TO LEARN ANY

  • POLKA AND THEN WE WOULD PERFORM EVERY YEAR AT THE OKTOBERFEST.

  • >> FUN.

  • AND IS THERE A.

  • >> THERE ARE TWO, YOU CAN SEE THIS ONE.

  • AND THEN THERE IS ANOTHER ONE ON THIS SIDE SO IT HOLDS IT CLOSE

  • TO YOUR BODY.

  • >> I DON'T KNOW, JAMES, KASEY KNOWS HER STUFF.

  • >> James: BUT SHE ALSO KNOWS HER STUFF SO WELL IT MAKES ME

  • WONDER WHETHER IT SAY PREWORKED OUT STORY.

  • BUT HERE'S THE THING, BEANIE, IT'S NOT FOR ME TO CHOOSSMENTS

  • IT'S ALL DOWN TO YOU.

  • >> LET'S MAKE OUR FIRST PICK.

  • SO OUT OF THE SIX THAT YOU HAVE SEEN, WHICH STAFFER DO YOU THINK

  • CAN PLAY HIS OR HER INSTRUMENT?

  • WHO ARE YOU GOING TO GO FOR FIRST?

  • >> I'M GOING TO GO FOR MELVIN FIRST.

  • I THINK MELVIN REALLY KNOWS.

  • >> James: MELVIN, THE ANTICIPATION IS KILLING US.

  • CAN YOU PLAY?

  • >> LET'S FIND OUT.

  • >> OH, HAVE I BEEN-- ♪ ♪ ♪

  • ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

  • >> James: YES, MEL VIRNTION YOU EVEN GOT US WITH THE DOUBLE

  • BLUFF, I LOVE IT.

  • >> James: THAT DOUBLE TAKE WAS-- GOOD FOR YOU.

  • >> James: SO THAT'S ONE POINT, BEANIE, WELL DONE.

  • LET'S GO TO OUR SECOND STAFFER, YOUR SECOND PICK, WITHOUT DO YOU

  • THINK CAN PLAY?

  • >> I'M REALLY TORN.

  • >> James: WE'VE GOT TO NAKE A PICK HERE, BEANIE.

  • >> OKAY, I THINK IT'S KASEY.

  • >> James: ALL RIGHT, KASEY YOU KNOW WHAT I AM ABOUT TO ASK, YOU

  • CAN YOU PLAY?

  • >> NO, I CAN'T.

  • >> James: ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ENOUGH, THAT SAY DEF NO.

  • SO BEANIE, YOU GOT ONE RIGHT, ONE WRONG, IT'S TIME FOR YOUR

  • THIRD AND FINAL PICK WHO OUT OF ANDREW, TOM, ROSIE AND BRIAN DO

  • YOU THINK CAN PLAY?

  • >> OH GOD, IT'S SO HARD I'M GOING TO GO FOR BRIAN.

  • >> James: BRIAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO ASK, CAN YOU PLAY.

  • >> HI BEANIE, HI JAMES, IN FACTS I CAN.

  • BUT WAIT.

  • >> James: OH, COME ON, BRIAN, TAKE IT

  • ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

  • >> James: OH MY WORD.

  • SO WELL DONE, BRIAN, WELL DONE BEANIE SO WHO IS OUR MISSING

  • MUSICIAN THERE.

  • LET'S GO DOWN ONE BY ONE, ANDREW.

  • GIVE US A BURST ON THE VIOLIN.

  • ( PLAYING POORLY ) ANDREW CAN'T PLAY.

  • ROSIE, GIVE US A BURST ON THE TRUMPET.

  • ( PLAYING POORLY ) WHICH MEANS IT MUST BE TOM, TOM,

  • LET RIP ON THAT GUITAR.

  • ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

  • >> James: OH, LOOK AT THAT.

  • IT WAS TOM.

  • >> I'M SORRY I DOUBTED YOU.

  • >> James: IT WAS TOM ALL ALONG.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING, EVERYBODY, THAT WAS WONDERFUL.

  • ANDREW, KASEY, ROSIE, I DON'T THINK WE EVER WANT TO HEAR YOUR

  • MUSICAL GIFTSES AGAIN.

  • BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH.

  • THAT WAS CAN THEY PLAY.

  • HEY GUYS, LET'S PUT THIS TOGETHER AS A BAND.

  • CAN YOU PLAY US OUT TO BREAK WITH ONE MORE HUGE HIT.

  • >> James: WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK

  • WITH MORE OF THE "LATE, LATE SHOW," EVERYBODY.

  • ♪ ( PLAYING DISCORDANTLY ) ♪

CAN THEY PLAY.

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