I saw a video of our next guest performing online
and I couldn't wait to meet them take a look.
[MUSIC - "YOU CAN CALL ME AL"]
(SINGING) If you be my bodyguard,
I can be your long lost pal.
I can call you Betty.
Betty, when you call me you can call me Al.
Call me Al.
So cute.
From Tampa, Florida, please welcome Colt, his wife Aubrey,
and their three kids.
[APPLAUSE]
Hey, Ellen.
This is so exciting.
I'm so happy to meet you all.
Colt, introduce everybody, and what instrument they play.
Well, my name's Colt?
I'm the dad, and I play guitar.
This is Aubrey, my wife, their momma.
And she's the producer.
She's behind the camera pressing start and stop.
This is Cash, he plays the guitar,
sometimes he'll play the bass.
Sometimes he'll play percussion.
He's kind of a utility guy.
This is Beckett.
Hi.
Beckett plays the drum set.
He plays a couple other things too.
And this is Bellamy.
Hi, Ellen.
She's our hype girl.
Hi, Bellamy.
She's our egg shaker, our morocco shaker,
our booty shaker.
That's fantastic.
So how did you decide to start this family band?
Because you really started it in quarantine, right?
Yes, ma'am we did.
So about two weeks after shelter in place started,
I really had the urge to play, because I play
every day at different gigs.
And so I really wanted to play with them.
And we already started playing together before this.
Just playing around.
But Aubrey had the idea to start filming them, and putting them
on Facebook, just to show our family and some friends
from church.
And we're missing--
Yeah, they're missing everybody that we usually
get to see on a regular basis, our family, our friends,
our grandparents, our church family.
So we thought why not do it for fun, and then this record it
and show everybody?
So great that you did that.
Beckett, Cash, Bellamy, what is it like being in a band?
Do you love it?
Yes, we really like it.
It's very fun because we spend time as a family every day.
And yeah, we're just having fun.
What about you?
Yeah, same.
And I like playing songs for family.
I like learning dancing because my dad always
teaches me new dances, and comes up with new dances.
What's your favorite dance?
Mick Jagger.
Can she show you a dance?
Yes, please.
Oh, this is her rooster Mick Jagger.
OK.
Oh, goodness.
That was good, the rooster Mick Jagger.
I like it.
So you've done almost 50 videos.
More than 20 million people have watched it .
I mean, obviously you couldn't have
imagined that this would have reached 20 million people when
you thought you were just going to share it with your friends.
Not at all.
We weren't expecting that at all.
The first time we posted, we posted
the video thinking to our family would see it, and said,
let's just go take a drive around our neighborhood,
and around the community.
We drove around and came back, and it was up to,
I think, 10,000 views by the time we came back.
And then the next morning, it was at a million.
We had no idea how it even happened.
No idea.
So many people shared it.
It's like everybody love it, and gave us so much views.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's so true.
I mean, the amount of people who have shared this video with me,
and like at a time where the internet can
have a lot of not great stuff, and bad news all around,
these are just pure joy.
They're like getting pictures of kittens.
Yeah, they are like getting pictures of kittens.
So Colt, you've been out of work for two months now.
And that's got to be tough.
How have you been handling all that in quarantine?
Thank you, it's been hard.
But we kind of just made this distraction
to keep our kids focused on something exciting, and happy,
and learning something new every day.
I mean, Aubrey and I had money in savings for something
like this that might happen.
And we didn't think we were going to have to use it,
but it's fine.
We'll build that back up.
But we, you know, smoke and mirrors.
We kind of keep them distracted, and make sure they don't know.
Not so much a bubble.
But just keep it happy.
Keep exciting.
Distracting, having something fun
to look forward to every day.
And we had no idea that other people would
have fun watching it, too.
Yeah, well you are bringing a lot of joy to a lot of people.
And you can see how much you're enjoying it, too.
And we are back with Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids.
Are you all ready?
We're ready.
You're ready, guys?
Let's do it.
Right.
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4.
[MUSIC - "COME TOGETHER"]
(SINGING) He come all flat top, he come grooving up slowly.
He got juju eyeball.
He want holy roller.
He got hair down to his knees.
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please.
He wear no shoe shine.
He got toe jam football.
He got monkey finger.
He shoot Coca-Cola.
He said I know you, you know me.
One thing I can tell you is you you got to be free.
Come together, right now, over me.
Come together.
Come together, yeah.
Come together.
Bye, bye, bye.
Thank you, guys.
Yay.
Awesome, thank you.
Like a little Kate Hudson.
That was so good.
That makes me so happy watching that.
Aubrey, I sent something to the family in the mail,
could you grab that, please?
Sure, let me grab it.
And before you open it, I just want
to say I know that Colt is looking for work.
So if someone out there has a job for Colt,
where do you live?
What area, Colt?
We're in Tampa, Florida.
All right, so if anybody has a job for Colt,
I want you to write into the show
because, I want to help Colt find a job.
Thank you.
I'm going to try to think of something myself.
All right, you can open it now.
OK, cool.
Thank you.
It's not going to pop out and scare us, is it?
I wish I could.
I can't scare people in quarantine.
I know.
Oh.
They did a good packaging job.
You have to lay it down.
No way.
You may have to lay it down.
Whoa.
Oh my goodness.
It's a-- It's art.
All right.
Open up the case.
Oh, yeah.
It's a new guitar.
Whoa.
Oh my goodness.
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You guys are fantastic.
I hope to see you soon, and when we do the show again
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Oh, thank you so much, Ellen.
All right.
Oh my goodness.
Thank you
You're welcome.
Sending you all love.
Thank you.
You too.
We'll be back.