Maccabeats on The Couch CBS New York

it's only 29 in Huntington only 19 in quag so get ready it's going to be cold but then it's going to warm up nights for you it'll be 50 I say 50 not 43 like yeah we really rehearsed that um that was actually my debut with the maab Beats on CBS 2 earlier this morning they have inspired and entertained Millions around the world using nothing more than their beautiful voices and a little humor and today The Talented singers are here so welcome in all you guys are great by the way Julian Horowitz horz Horowitz ah one vowel away tell us about uh your your first big hit that put you on the map um well a few years ago we were looking to release a little bit of Jewish music in a season that's sort of saturated with non-jewish music sorry about that oh no no no um so we we came up with the idea of putting out a little Hanukkah video we thought we'd send it to our friends and family and then um you know we next week we turned on our computers and had a million hits 2 million hits so now you're like International Stars has it changed all your lives I mean are you just traveling the world or are you still able to keep down gigs in school well we we like to think we're the same as we were two years ago um but it is tough juggling the schedules and getting everything in um we have traveled a lot but you know our bosses and our teachers and our professors are always very forgiving now real quickly I want to hear the story behind shine your newest hit very sweet message behind the story yes uh we actually partnered with the gift of Life bone marrow Foundation who fine matches for people with leukemia other forms of blood disease blood cancer um and in order to become a match all you need to do is put a swab in your mouth uh and then the problem is they need money to process those swabs so last year we raised over $100,000 for Gift of Life this year we're hoping to do it again well let's do it again and let's inspire people with that beautiful song that you shared a little bit of just a second ago let's let you guys shine thanks so much [Music] John I see refraction is it nothing more than a chemical reaction it flickers and grows nobody knows how much we feel how quickly it goes turn off the dark and Vanquish the night show the whole world for8 days at Twilight then and now they fought and we fight fight for the right to live by our own light let me see the light give me something to live by let me see the light I need something to [Music] help me see myself in my [Music] reflection let sh the light in each Direction shining bright I want to see the light a million times sound to go around the world that we live sh [Music] sh [Music] bright everything let the colors burn in [Music] the help me see myself in my reflection shine tonight let me shed the light in each Direction shining bright sh [Music] I to see the wow awesome wow man it is too early for anybody to sound that good okay the maab Beats uh you can catch their next performance at B Kings jazz club in Times Square on December 25th way to go you guys thanks so much and have a great Hanukkah and the rest of the holiday season okay guess who's over here yes there he is chopped host Ted Allen oh putting us through our own holiday cooking challenge is it the next big thing Pepsi and chicken flavored chips we're going to tell you about that and just have more fun with food coming up