- In this video, we walk the beautiful beaches
on the Oregon coast.
Touch trees in the Redwood forest.
Stand on a prehistoric salt flat with a 30 piece orchestra
in 50 mile per hour Winds, take a helicopter
to the top of a stunning mountain top and
hang out with a one eyed horse in
a tiny town called Brookings, Oregon.
Where do we start?
♪I just want to have fun and have a good laugh ♪
- little blip of California.
We're just pulling up to our Airbnb here.
It's like this farmhouse right on the Oregon coast.
(roosters crowing)
(children laughing)
- They had a hard life before.
So when they got here and we took care of them.
- How come one has an eye missing?
- I think he does have one eye missing.
(upbeat music)
All right, I love you guys so much
- All right daddy.
- Goodnight daddy.
- Don't let the roosters wake you up.
(roosters crowing)
- I'm trying to go somewhere where I can talk,
but these animals keep following me everywhere.
So what are we doing in Brookings, Oregon?
It started back when the pandemic started,
when we were trying to decide if
we should homeschool our kids or not.
And ultimately we decided to homeschool the kids.
Through that process, Ashley found a program
called the Good and the Beautiful.
And she used it over this whole last year
to homeschool the kids and she loved it.
She thought it was like a fantastic curriculum,
great methodology.
(rooster crowing)
She made an Instagram post just saying,
"Hey, thanks, Good and Beautiful
for creating a great curriculum for our kids."
Then they got in touch with us,
and then they told us that they had this project
that they were making about America,
about patriotism, about just our country.
And so, as part of that curriculum,
they wanted us to make a music video.
So ultimately we decided to make a music video for America,
the beautiful. And as part of the music video,
we're going to a bunch of different,
beautiful places within the United States
to shoot this.
So the first location we're at today is on the Oregon coast.
And I have to say too, that this music video,
it's probably my favorite recording
that I've ever done with Claire.
It like, it gave me a moment where I was like,
I just like had to stop recording
and be like, holy cow this girl is just awesome.
I'm so lucky to be your dad.
I can't sing with her anymore because she's too good for me.
So I'm really excited for you guys
to hear her vocals on this music video.
This house is gorgeous.
So pretty. Tonight. We're shooting our very first scene
here on the beautiful Oregon coast. So pretty.
Looks like you can just curl up with
a good book, Watch the Oregon, sunset.
- Follow me.
- Everyone follow June. June Where are you taking everyone?
- To the water.
- Down to the water?
- Yeah.
- All right. Whoa lets see it .
- That's cool.
You made it to the sand, woo hoo!
♪ Two worlds collide, with our hearts on the line ♪
♪ We were young and naive , we were wild.. ♪
( inaudible singing)
- You see those little crickets everywhere?
- They're weird, they acting like they don't have brains.
I don't think they do, I think I'm squashing
a million a minute that's why they panicking.
♪ Our time has come, every song has been sung. ♪
♪ When the fire is burning low... ♪
- [Mother] Do you hear? That's the ocean.
(baby gasping)
(mother laughing)
- You see the ocean today?
- Oh no , the oceans gone now.
- Today we're on our way to the Redwood forest
to shoot the next part of this music video.
(upbeat music)
Welcome to the Redwood forest, Crosby family.
- Whoa look at that tree.
- Look at the spider web, its like double spider web.
( inaudible singing)
- Look at that big old tree that fell down.
- Its got all those roots, its cool.
- Big tree ,it looks like its been hit by lightning.
( inaudible singing)
- Watch your back.
(inaudible singing)
Trees are like hundreds of years old I think.
- Its at least a thousand years old
- A thousand years you think?
- Yeah, this one's like a billion years old.
- So this one's a thousand and that one's a billion.
- No, that one's younger than this one.
( inaudible singing)
- All right. We are done shooting for today.
Now they're just going to play in the water for a bit.
- Is the water warm?
- Here she goes.
( wind blowing)
- All right.
(dad laughing)
(Claire laughing)
- She did it.
- I soaked my dress in.
- You are crazy.
- Yeah, this was crazy.
- Oh my goodness.
- (Claire) I dunked my head in the water.
- I was going to say did you dump your whole body in there.
- She ran into the river. Are you cold?
- No. I don't feel cold,I feel accomplished.
- [ Mother ] are you going to lose those teeth pretty soon?
- So your teeth look so much looser right now.
- Ouch!
- Let's go back to the farm house and pull them out
then we'll feed them to the ducks.
- No.
- This is our last night of the farmhouse.
So we are going to spend some time
roasting some marshmallows. Right, You ready to go?
- Uh huh.
- And we're going to try to do it
without the chickens coming to steal our marshmallows.
And I guarantee they going to show up any second.
♪ I get to feeling sad when I miss my mom and dad ♪
♪ Why is it so hard to tell them that ♪
♪ When you get to a certain age ♪
- Wait till its done so you don't rub it on the wood.
- Is that yummy?
- Uh huh.
- Marshmallow perfection right there.
(whistling)
Yes. I'm aware There's marshmallow all over my face.
A s'more party was just overrun by chickens.
Time to take this party inside. There's
too many dang chickens trying to steal our marshmallows.
- Dad, can you help me get out of this circle of chickens.
- Yeah, come take my hand I'll help you.
Walk straight ahead.
- [Baby Girl] And this one too.
- [Claire] Good job.
- Since these chickens want to eat so bad
now we're bringing out the food.
We're definitely going to feed
these chickens what they want.
They're all coming now.
- Good carrot.
- She ate that one.
(uplifting music)
You still feed the chickens over here, Cars?
- Yeah.
- We're headed to the next location in Utah.
We have like this 30 piece orchestra on the salt flats,
man, It's going to be pretty epic.
(uplifting music)
- So Claire and I are on our way to ride
a helicopter to the top of the mountain.
(uplifting music)
(helicopter rotor blades noise)
(uplifting music)
( indistinct singing)
- Reach out, reach out touch the sky.
spin back towards us.
(uplifting music)
- All right you ready to take a helicopter back to mom?
- Yeah.
- Mom's going to be super happy to see you.
Mom's freaking out about the helicopter.
- How come?
- Because she's worried we're
going to crash into a mountain.
- That was the greatest thing.
- All right, captain. We're ready for takeoff. Here we go.
(uplifting music)
Hey everyone. We're pulling up
to the big night of our shoot.
- Looks like there's water.
( indistinct children chatter)
this is the night where we have all
these orchestra players showing up.
There's like 30 orchestra players.
( indistinct children chatter)
Everyone's going to be here tonight
and we're shooting it at the Bonneville salt flats.
Check it out. This is such a cool place.
- It looks like water, I was watching a video
of somebody singing in this place.
I said "no, are they standing in the water."
- Kind of looks like it huh?
- Oh, there's a piano right there.
- Is it a piano? So back like thousands
and thousands of years ago, like prehistoric time.
I believe this was all like a lake
and all that's left is like the salt.
It's really windy, what do you think Lillie?
- Climb in.
- Okay , Since we're in such a unique place
in the world with no traffic laws,
guess who's going to drive the car?
- Claire.
(car door closing)
( Dad screaming)
- I don't think its quite that dramatic.
- Just kidding. Claire's driving like a mad woman.
- I'm not doing it mad, I'm just driving.
- The winds been blowing us all day.
- There is nothing out here, nothing.
You couldn't crash. If you tried.
(mom laughing)
it feels like we're driving on the bottom of an ocean.
to a mountain on a helicopter
(baby gasping)
I know right
- Indistinct baby mumbling
- Not a riders helicopter, a real helicopter.
I know right that's crazy.
Hopefully the wind dies down
a little bit so that we can shoot this video.
The wind didn't die down, it was pretty crazy.
And since all the audio from my camera sounds like this.
( wind blowing)
I'll just take a second to introduce and thank all the many
people involved with this project.
This is Jenny Phillips, the founder and author
of the Good and the Beautiful, also
a great singer and musician. She was amazing,
And so great to work with.
This is Lowell Oswald from Strilogy Films,
He filmed the entire video. He was super professional.
Did a fantastic job. Also a shout out
to Brent Roland who ran the second camera
and shot a lot of the video as well.
This is Kurt Bestor the brilliant musician
who arranged the track. He's a legend.
I've been listening to his music since I was a kid.
And this is Tyler Castleton who produced this whole thing.
There's lots more amazing people that worked on this
project, including the orchestra the marketing team
at the Good and the Beautiful and much, much more.
(wind swooshing)
So windy. The drone flying.
The good news is you don't have to wait
to see this music video. You can watch it right now.
Head over to the YouTube channel of the Good
and the Beautiful to check it out.
- That's a wrap.
- Thank you so much to Jenny Phillips,
to all the crew at the Good and the Beautiful,
thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed
as much as we enjoyed making it. See ya
- Bye.
- See you on the next adventure.
- See you on the next adventure. Bye.
- Bye