- Here is a free piece of advice,

listen to a guy who knowshow to use a shotgun.

And now Phil Robertson isn't just

blasting the feathersof anything that quacks,

he's blasting the secular ideas

that he thinks are ruining America.

(logo whooshes)

- [Narrator] In 1966, Time Magazine asked,

Is God dead?

Since then, basic beliefs inmarriage, gender identity,

and the value of life havebeen shaken to the core.

Phil Robertson is a best-selling author

and the founder of theDuck Commander company.

He says the bad news inour country is really bad.

But in his book, TheTheft of America's Soul,

Phil says the good news is really good.

He blows the lid off the liesthat are destroying America,

and offers 10 truths thatcould turn our nation around.

- Well the show was called Duck Dynasty.

It had a huge audience.

And the family of peoplewith beards and ducks

and everything down inLouisiana's back on the air.

And Phil Robertson, who'sthe patriarch of that clan,

and his lovely wife Kay are with us now.

I'm so glad to see you both.

I'm honored you're here.- Glad to be here.

- Hey Phil, let me ask, youlived a pretty rough life.

You played for LSU,

You were halfback--

- Louisiana Tech

- Yep

Louisiana Tech.- Louisiana Tech.

- Oh not LSU, Louisiana Tech.

You played halfback, you were good.

- [Kay] Quarterback.

- [Pat] You were quarterback?

- [Phil] I was the quarterback

right ahead of Terry Bradshaw.

- [Pat] Oh, okay.

- He was second string,and I told him, I said,

"I think I'm going to go chase ducks

"instead of play football."

I said, "Bradshaw, I just really don't see

"a good ending with a livelihood

"that involves largeviolent men chasing you."

(laughter)

- Large violent men chasing...

- So Bradshaw went on to theprofessional football world,

and I went after the ducks.

- Well you have a duck call,

how'd you come up with that thing?

- It's like playing music by ear.

- [Pat] Yeah?

- You hear these birds, andGod made an array of ducks.

- [Pat] Okay.

- Where they all have different sounds.

- [Pat] Alright.

- Some of 'em just peepand some of 'em quack.

- [Pat] Alright.

- So I figured out, listening to 'em,

how to build devices thatsounded like each species.

So, once I got thatgoing and on the market.

It didn't start out fast.

My first year sales, Pat,were eight thousand dollars.

We sold eight thousand dollars worth.

I said, "Miss Kay, we are rolling."

(Pat laughs)

- And tell him what I said.

- She said, "We're gonna starve to death."

(Pat chuckles)

- I did.

- You lived a pretty rough life.

You were a bouncer, youbeat somebody up in a bar.

What'd you do?

- [Kay] Yeah, I lived through that too.

- I was a heathen.

- [Pat] You were?

- And I didn't find outabout Jesus, investigate Him.

I do have two degrees from Louisiana Tech.

But Pat, in an eight yearperiod, earning those degrees,

I never heard anyone sayone kind word about Jesus.

- [Pat] Hmmm.

- Not one.

- [Pat] Yeah.

- So I guess I came out of there,

at best, an agnostic.

- [Pat] Umhmm.

- But I don't even thinkI was a believer at all.

I investigated Jesus at 28 years old,

and I thought, wait a minute here.

We're talking life and immortality here.

- [Pat] That's right.

- So that's what got my attention.

- [Kay] Now who found Him first?

- Huh?

- Who found Jesus?

- Miss Kay found Jesus first.- [Pat] Oh, you found Him.

- A year ahead of him.

- [Pat] How come you found him?

- Well I was at that placewhere there was no hope

with the marriage.

I just thought, what can I do?

I'm trying to be the bestwife, be the best mother.

I tried to make everything right

and he just kept messing it all up.

- What'd he do?

- Well he got drunk and, you know,

just lived like a heathen.

So I mean, I guess,one night I came in and

I was just at the bottom.

I mean I really wanted to just go to sleep

and not wake up.

- [Pat] Mmm.

- And, what saved me, you'll love this,

is my oldest son was about eight or nine,

I can't remember, andhim and the other boys

were outside the bathroom when

I was crying in the bathroom.

- [Pat] Mmhmmm.

Thinking I just don't know what to do,

I don't have any hope.

- [Pat] Yeah.

And that's all I wanted,

was to be a good wife and mother.

That was my goal in life.

And I felt like I just failed.

So Alan said, "Mama, don't cry anymore.

"God's gonna help us."

- [Pat] Yeah.

- I mean he's a little child from the,

can you believe that?

And he said, now, since hewas a preacher for 25 years,

he said, "That was my first sermon

"and my mom responded."

(Pat laughs)

- So he's still preachin'.

- Pat, my woman tells me now, she says,

"Phil," and I mentioned this early

when we were on Facebook, she said,

"I've been poor withyou, and you were mean."

She said, "Now, I'm rich with you,

"and you're very kind.I'm not going anywhere."

(Pat laughs)

- So he's kind now, he's changed.

- He's very kind.

He waits on me when I got sick,

he took care of me.

I mean, he didn't even bat an eye.

He brought me a tray of food every day.

I mean, he took care ofme for the whole time,

like three months that I was sick.

- [Pat] Isn't that beautiful?

- I learned it all from the Almighty.

- Yes you did.

Well, you know, you all had

a tremendous experience though.

This TV show, how did that come about?

It was so popular, it just exploded

all across America.

- They came down from New York

and someone come up with a wild idea.

Somebody stood up in the back

at one of those skullsessions they were having,

those producers for A&E,

and someone said,

"I know this is a farfetched idea,

"but, why don't we maybe

"have a functional family on television?"

- [Pat] Oh yeah.

- [Kay] Not pregnant.- And someone else said,

"You know Dave, that's a wild idea,

"but where would you find one?"

- [Pat] (laughing) Yes.

- So they came all the down to Louisiana,

down on the riverbank.

For a Godly group, family group,

and they said, "Let's give it a try."

After they pitched the idea and left,

my sons, four sons, and their wives,

they said, "Dad, what do you think?"

I said, "A bunch ofrednecks shootin' ducks."

I said, "I just don't think

"that's going to work in America."

I said, "However,"

I said, "What if God's behind it?"

I said, "It'll go ballistic."

- [Pat] Yeah.

- Well, at it turned out...

- [Pat] It went--

- I said, "Why don't we just see?"

So we started the show,and from that, Pat,

oh, thousands and thousandshave been converted

to Christ via that TV show.

- It's been so wonderful

and people just lived with your family,

they loved you both,

all your children and it was amazing.

- People are still comingdown and visiting us.

- [Pat] Yeah.

- We give 'em The Gospel.

Jesus dies--

- [Kay] And a lot of good food.

- [Phil] Yep.

- [Pat] Yeah, what kind of food

do you concentrate on these days?

- Well, I do two or three types.

I do the country meals,

which is like chicken and dumplins'

or fried chicken orthings that you associate

with The South.

- [Pat] Uh-huh.

- And I do a lot of those meals.

Or sometimes they want cajun food.

- [Pat] Uh-huh.

- So we get it all from The Gulf,

I've got somebody thatgoes down and gets it

at a market there.

And we cook shrimp andcrawfish and all that.

We make that really good.

He makes gumbos and we make all that.

And then the next choicewould be just steak.

And sometimes he cooks a whole

rib-eye on a grill so we have that.

So we have three different choices.

- And you have, the family's all together.

I mean it's really nice of the people

to all eat together, that's...

- That's right.

- And for all the naysayers who say,

"Oh, you shouldn't eat meat."

I'm like, "I have Acts, Chapter 10,

"where the big sheet was let down

"out of Heaven for Peter to see."

- [Pat] (chuckling) That's right, it did.

- Let's see, four-footed animal,

that'd be a deer, a moose, elk, buffalo,

and it also contained birds of the air,

which are your ducks,

and then the creaturesthat move along the ground.

And the voice from Headquarters says,

"Arise Peter, kill and eat."

So Pat, we got orders from Headquarters,

(Pat laughs)

if it walks, crawls, flies, or swims,

whack 'em and stack 'em.

(Pat laughs)

- Let me talk about this book.

This, Phil, your knowledge of The Bible,

I must say, is encyclopediad.

This is The Theft of America's Soul.

How'd you learn The Bible.

I mean, you've gotscripture from The Psalms

in here that's unbelievable.

- He's memorized so much,you wouldn't believe.

- [Pat] Have you really?

- I looked at the text.

- Yeah, he has, he won't admit it.

- And, as I read them,one thing stood out.

It was what the Hebrew writer said

in Hebrews 5.

- [Pat] Umhmm.

- He said, "Solid food, these scriptures,

"we ingest 'em through our ears."

- [Pat] Yeah.

- It goes into our heart.

Solid food is for the mature.

Who, by constant use,

constant use,

have trained themselves todistinguish good from evil.

- [Pat] Right.

- Well, really, that'sthe basis of my life

when I read up on Jesus,

I just couldn't get enough of it

because I was thinking,

"How in the world did I miss this?"

And I need to be more productive

in sharing my faith and reaching out

to my fellow man.

So that's what the book's all about.

- You said the theft of America's soul.

What do you think's happened to America?

- I would simply look back at

what the apostle Paultold the church at Rome.

Roman Empire at its heyday, avast superpower of that day.

The apostle Paul said,

"Since they did not think it worthwhile

"to retain the knowledge of God,

"God gave them over to a depraved mind

"to do what ought not to be done."

- [Pat] Right.

- Then he has this list.

They become filled withevery kind of wickedness,

evil, greed, depravity.

They're full of envy.

Listen to this, murder.

You're like, "The RomanEmpire was full of murder."

Well, if you look at what the Roman Empire

were doing, and you fastforward two thousand years,

there are gossips, slanderers, God haters,

insolent, arrogant,boastful, I'm quoting here.

And he says, "They inventways of doing evil."

They're senseless, faithless, heartless,

and ruthless.

They'll rip their childrenout of their wombs

and sell their body parts.

You're like, "What inthe world are you doing?"

- [Pat] Yeah.

- That's your son, your daughter.

So reading those texts, I said,

"I at least need to remind America,

"none of those sins has changed

"in the last two thousand years."

- [Pat] It really hasn't

- Since Paul addressed the Roman Empire.

They're all the same, Pat.

They're still the same.

So, unless America repents of this evil

that they are involved in right now,

you're not gonna believe what this thing

is gonna look like inanother 20, 30 years.

- What do you think's coming?

- I think the wrath of God is coming.

That's what I think.

- [Pat] You do?

Do you go along withthat too, you believe it?

- Yeah, I think it's so sad.

See, I was raised by my grandmother,

I lived with her half the time.

And she was always teaching me

in just a simple common way, you know.

I mean, we'd be shelling peas

and she would just be talking to me

about the bible and about being good.

It is far more important the inside of you

than the outside.

And all those lessons, shejust did it day by day by day.

I had such a rock there.

Now my mother was an alcoholic,

and they worked all thetime, my mom and dad.

They had a grocery store.

But I just saw such goodness in her

and she didn't just say it, she did it.

She took food to people.

She took flowers to people, you know.

She was always serving too.

She put it in action and yet,

she only went to school until she was 13.

But she was, I learned that

and that's why I never had any trouble

because she taught to love all people,

no matter what coloror anything like that.

So I was so differentfrom a lot of the people

back in the 40s, 50s, you know,

when I was being raised.

I think that I just see such,

they just don't wanna talk about God.

They wanna live their own life

and just so selfish and self-centered.

- We've aborted about sixtymillion unborn babies.

You're exactly right talkingabout selling body parts

and, you know, thatgovernor of Virginia said,

"Well, if a little child is born

"a little bit deformed,we'll keep him comfortable

"till we decide how to kill him."

I mean, that was pretty shocking stuff.

- Yeah.

Their feet are swiftto shed innocent blood.

- [Pat] That's right.

Swift to shed innocent blood.

- And there is no fearof God in their eyes.

They say we've done nothing wrong.

Listen to this Pat.

- [Pat] Go ahead.

- Here's a scary read.

Mark this, Paul is talking to Timothy.

Mark this down.

- [Pat] Yeah.

- "There'll be terribletimes in the last days.

"People will be lovers of themselves,

"lovers of money,boastful, proud, abusive,

"disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,

"unholy, without love."

If you kill your own offspring Pat,

that's not an ounce of love in you.

- [Pat] There's something wrong, isn't it?

- "Without love, unforgiving"

I mean, we don't even give,they came to Jesus and said,

"How many times do weforgive somebody Lord,

"when they sin against us, seven?"

He said, "70 times seven."

- [Pat] That's right.

- We won't even forgive anyone once.

- [Pat] That's right.

- "Unforgiving, slanderous,without self control."

All the drug...

Our own nephew, mynephew, my sister's boy,

Pat, got hooked up on these opioids.

- [Pat] Right.

- My nephew hangedhimself in his jail cell.

- [Pat] Oh, Phil.

- [Kay] 52 years old.

- My own nephew.

College graduate, LSU,CPA, had a wonderful job.

Lost it all, including his laugh,

and hanged himself with his own shirt,

in a jail cell.

So when you read about this,

"Lovers of pleasure, conceited, rash,

"treacherous, not lovers of the good

"and not lovers of God."

So you read that text,2nd Timothy, Chapter 3,

that's where the book came from.

I was just reading these texts,

and I said, "You know,I at least need to help

"my fellow man and remind'em of these things."

- It's magnificent.

It's called The Theft ofAmerica's Soul, Phil Robertson

and it's availablewherever books are sold.

And it's blowing the lid off the lies

that are destroying our country.

And it's available and Ihope it's a bestseller.

I'm sure it will be.

- You know what his, tell'em what your goal is.

Tell 'em to love God, youknow, the one you say.

This is his goal.

- I always remind them.

Hey America, what's the downside,

what is the downside of loving God

and loving each other?

I just, for the life of me,

do not see the downside Pat.

- There is none.

- How hard could it be?

(Pat laughs)

- That's his motto- There's plenty of downside

on the other though, Phil.

- I guarantee you it is.

- God bless you both.

You all are terrific.

Folks, you know, appreciate these people

and, if you ever watch Duck Dynasty,

it was a smashing show

and won the awards time after time.

This family down inLouisiana, Duck Dynasty.