![]() The only difference is I’ve sold a million duck calls. “There’s no down side to loving God and loving your neighbor.”īut even with that faith Robertson said he could have never predicted the company’s current success. ![]() “I repented at 28 and turned to God,” said Robertson, who often uses the stage of fame to profess his Christian faith. He recounted his story of redemption to fans Thursday. Robertson, the patriarch of the family made famous by the Duck Dynasty A&E TV series, said he never dreamed he’d sell a million duck calls in his lifetime, much less in one year. “God has poured out his blessing toward us.” “I’m a C-plus man, so I can’t attribute it to intellect,” he said. Phil Robertson, with his Classic Commander in one hand and the Bible, credited God for his and the family’s success. Robertson said he sold 2,000 his first year. “Who’d have thought from one duck call this empire would emerge?”ĭuck Commander call sales have surged from 60,000 in 2011 to 1 million and counting this year. “It’s a momentous occasion,” Al Robertson said while introducing his father to the crowd. Phil’s Classic Commander goes for $44.95. The Robertsons aren't revealing annual revenue generated by the company, but consider that Duck Commander calls sell from a low of $19.95 to a high of $179.95 for the Cold Blooded series calls made of acrylic that look like snakeskin. Instead of 1 million dollars worth of calls, “we literally sold 1 million in just a year.” ![]() “Little did I know 40 years later I would be erroneous,” he said. He said the family never looked up and continued the domino game. “I walked in and said we’re going to sell a million dollars worth of these before it’s over,” Phil recalled. Based on ratings alone, Duck Dynasty is still “cable’s reigning reality show,” Hollywood Reporter says - but perhaps that speaks more to the competition.Phil said he walked into the house and presented the duck call to his parents, his wife “Miss Kay” and the couple’s two young sons Al and Jase as they were playing dominoes. Jindal, who supported the family when things got messy last winter, is said to be eyeing the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election, and going on national television to pray with group of outspoken Christians presumably can’t hurt with traditional conservative voters.īut even though fewer Americans, traditional conservative voters or otherwise, watched the season premiere than in the past, the series isn’t obviously floundering. Some 4.6 million Americans tuned in to watch Wednesday night’s episode, a conspicuous low in spite of what some may see as a major gimmick: Governor Jindal showing up to commend the Robertsons for their family values. To many, Robertson’s remarks to GQ had sunk the Dynasty ship, or at least slowed it down considerably. The show’s fifth season ended in April to an audience that had shrunk by 2.4 million from the record-setting finale a year earlier. But in the end, the cutesy, simple-living ways of America’s favorite backwater millionaires just weren’t that funny anymore. There was a reaction and reactions to the reaction a media campaign condemning Robertson’s bigotry A&E’s temporary suspension of Robertson from the show and a surge in Walmart’s sales of Dynasty paraphernalia encouraged by the show’s fiercely loyal core audience. The backlash, as backlash in America is these days, was immediate and almost too loud to comprehend.
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