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My Dad Got Shot Trying To Stop a Robber & Other Thanksgiving Memories! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday, Thanksgiving morning to everybody.
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  Got the Macy's Day Parade on in the background.
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  It's raining in New York. Al Roker interviewing somebody.
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  All right, we're going to go outside.
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  I'm thankful for the old crooked gutter.
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  Let's go see the gutter. That gutter gave us so much.
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  Look at that. That gutter gave us so much
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  comedy relief. So let's talk about the gutter
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  for a minute. It, it did not start like that.
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  I think when the house got built, something from here on
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  out settled a little bit. So myself and my dear friend
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  Trevor Atwell, Atwell Exterior Services down there in North
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  Carolina, We, we said, let's, let's fix it.
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  I said, Trevor, he go, He goes, you're right.
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  Let's not fix it. We cannot fix it, gutter.
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  If we fixed it, then you all would have nothing to talk
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  about. All right, Breaking news in the
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  garage area. Macy's, Macy's, you know, up
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  there in New York. Crazy story over the week,
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  Macy's came out and said for this holiday season, we're not
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  going to dress our storefront windows.
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  You know, if you go up to New York, Kim and I have been there
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  a lot for all the banquets and we love New York City.
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  It's a lot of fun. Manhattan.
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  So if you went around Macy's department store, you would see
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  them dress up the department windows.
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  Really good looking stuff in there.
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  Come to find out, it must take a lot of money to whoa, it's cold
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  out here, damn it. Cold out here, Herman.
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  But Macy's says we're not going to do that this year.
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  We've lost so much money. It's like, damn, you lost a lot
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  of money, did you? So that was kind of a bummer.
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  Well, then they let a whole week go by and this big article comes
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  out and it says that one person, one Uno, one person hid Macy's
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  lost $154 million. Now on Herman Schrader, myself
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  and Kenny Schrader, we talked about this.
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  I said, Schrader, how does one person in the accounting
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  department hide that you lost $154,000,000?
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  Schrader says, well, you just you got all these zeros and you
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  just take him, move a decimal point.
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  But I mean, come on, think about it.
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  Is it that easy? Respond right here.
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  Is it that easy to hide that a company lost $154,000,000?
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  Can you do that? I just can't get over that.
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  So the Macy's Day Parade is still going on, even though
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  they've had a horrible last so many years and they've lost
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  $154,000,000. They're not going to dress those
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  windows up, but they're going to carry on with the Macy's Day
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  Parade. Feel kind of bad for them up
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  there. It's raining kind of Drew, We'll
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  make it a happy day. It's all right.
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  As as they say, this is the day. This is the day that the Lord
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  has made, that the Lord has made.
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  We will be glad. We will be glad and rejoice in
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  it. This is the day that the Lord
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  has made. Sing it with me.
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  Everybody, I see you. I saw you start going, didn't
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  you? OK, I thought long and hard.
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  What we're going to talk about on coffee with King this
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  morning. I want to tell you about my
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  holiday memories. I want to tell you about my
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  worst one first that I was not involved in.
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  But when I was growing up as a child, I noticed on my dad's
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  thigh, on his outside leg, right out here, right here, right
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  there, there was a mark, like a round mark.
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  And I said to my dad, I said, dad, what is that?
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  Well, one Christmas Day downtown, you know, down in the
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  city, dad saw a man stealing presents out of somebody's car.
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  And dad went to, you know, be a Good Samaritan, be a good guy.
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  Nowadays, you would say, oh, just don't get involved.
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  Nowadays, you would say, don't get involved.
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  Well, back in the day, people tried to do the right things.
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  And my dad said, hey, buddy, quit stealing presents out of
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  the car. And the guy shot my dad in the
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  lake. Didn't see that story going
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  there, did you? So I'm very thankful that my dad
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  had a lot of years left on earth and I was born and, you know,
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  very thankful. But that was down around Tower
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  Grove, my my grandma Marie. So you know that that's where
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  that happened down there off of Grand Grand Ave. in Saint Louis.
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  Another great Thanksgiving memory.
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  I have it and I understand things change because we all
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  grow up and some people pass away.
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  My dad's gone. Dad died October 30th, 2011.
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  But I'm very thankful Dad lived and that bullet did not hit him
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  anywhere else and we got a lot of years left with Dad until Dad
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  died of a heart attack. My Uncle Gary, Uncle Gary, he's
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  still alive. Him and Aunt Jane love them very
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  much. Don't see them very much.
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  Those were my greatest Thanksgiving memories.
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  As a child, I would go over to Aunt Gary, Uncle Jane's, and a
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  couple things would happen that I remember to this day.
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  We'd all gather around and Uncle Gary can cut a mean Turkey.
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  Uncle Gary, he would be the guy. You know, nowadays we try taking
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  all these shortcuts, right? You know, the electric knife,
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  just all these things. Well, Uncle Gary, we'd watch him
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  cut the Turkey up, carve it up. We would watch Uncle Gary carve
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  that Turkey up, and that was a big highlight into this day.
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  I still have that in my memory. What a great memory as a kid,
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  you know, our Wallace family, Dad Russ, mom Judy, brothers
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  Rusty and Mike. We would go over to Uncle Gary's
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  and it was a big time. But it just didn't stop there.
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  My mom worked at Swank, Swank Motion Pictures and my job or my
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  my mother's job, she inspected major motion films.
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  So back in the day, you had, you know, the film.
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  It was film. So, you know, damn, I'm cold.
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  Herman, finish your story. When a film would go bad, When a
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  major motion film would go bad, Mom would repair those films and
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  then they'd go back to the movie theater.
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  And once again, that was swipe motion pictures.
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  So mom, that company would allow mom to to take a major motion
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  film, bring it home. And after Uncle Gary got done
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  cutting that Turkey and we would have Thanksgiving dinner, you
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  know what we did? Mom had a screen and we would
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  take it over there to Uncle Gary at Jane's cousin Timmy and and
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  and Kelly and we would watch that major motion picture.
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  All right, everybody, I hope you enjoyed my stories this morning.
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  We talked about Macy's. We talked about dad getting shot
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  down around Tower Grove down off grand.
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  We talked about Uncle Gary carving that Turkey up and my
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  dad and mom bringing that major motion picture home.
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  So tell me your tell me your Thanksgiving memories.
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  Let's make them happy. Hey, my dad lived.
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  That was a happy story. close one.
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  Happy Thanksgiving everyone.