This is an I-Heart podcast.

And we continue with our American stories and with the story of a large and extraordinary family.

Kemmins Wilson Jr. is one of the second generation leaders of their third generation

family investment company with the first generation being his dad, the founder of Holiday Inn.

Here's Kempins on their whole family story.

One of the hallmarks I think of our family and our closeness

is the fact that my mother hosted Sunday night dinners for all the family.

And every Sunday night for as long as I can ever remember, we went over to my parents' house.

And my mother, I think she had a rotation of spaghetti, ham, and hamburgers, you know,

but we knew exactly what we were getting.

That bonded the siblings, but it also bonded our spouses.

And my father absolutely loved Jen Rummy.

And he'd been known to be in a Jen Rummy game and an airplane on the losing side,

and he'd tell the pilot just keep flying around to like when and then you can land.

And so he would spend all the time playing Jim Rummy with my two brother-in-laws.

It was that staple that, I mean, nothing got in the way of Sunday night dinner.

I mean, you know, your friends might say, hey, you know, we, no, we got,

and after a while, people didn't even

ask you because they knew we had Sunday night dinner.

You know, you look back and you treasure those times.

So I literally credit my mother with that exercise that she would do.

And, you know, it's a lot of work I mean

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