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Birds of Feathers Stick Together
Crystal Wood
July 2, 2013
English 109

I have never hunted day in my life,or even liked to watch hunting shows. But wen I saw a commercial for the television show Duck Dynasty, I had to watch just because it looked so hilarious. Now I watch the show every time its on, even the ones that I have seen over and over and still laugh just like its the first time seeing it.
Duck Dynasty is for anyone that likes duck hunting,comedy,drama,and life lessons. Duck Dynasty focuses on a reality television hit on A&E Wednesday nights at 10:00 pm. Duck Dynasty's third season 's final episode brought in a 9.6 million in viewers compared to American Idol, who had a 3.3 million in viewers in their last episode (James Hibber) . That makes Duck Dynasty the highest viewed reality television show.
Phil Robertson established the family business. He crafted the first duck call in 1973, In a small run down shed out back of his home in Louisiana. Willie, Phil s' son with his business degree took and turned the small low budgeted operation and turned it in to a multimillion-dollar business the Duck Commander. Before the guys of Robertson family starter the Duck Commander business, they filmed their own hunts and sold them on video tapes. The Robertson family was also on the outdoor channel on a show called “BENELI PRESENTS DUCK COMMANDER” back in the 80's.
Phil told ABC news ”We use to have a reality show but it was just a bunch of rednecks shooting duck”.
Patriarch Phil and Willie are only two of the Dynasty’s family members. Jase titled(Willies brother)and Jep(Willies other brother) also help with the family business. Jase is the COO of the company he he runs the manufacturing of the parts, Jase fabricates the calls making sure each one is finely hand tuned. Jase is always trying to pull some kind of shenanigan over Willies head and trying to get out of work. His motto is duck hunting,family,and god. Jep helps put the duck calls together, he is the editor and

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