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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Down two.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We were here for the first two hours. Be glad,
Mikayla you're here now, because at the top of the
Raw show, we didn't know what we were doing. We
couldn't hear, we didn't know when we were on the air.
We could have been talking and on the air. But
everything worked out. We even were able to take phone
calls or anything. But then everything got straightened out.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And now you're here and it's all good with the world.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
See, you are the guinea pigs that ever such two
hours and now we're up next neuro ow dose.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And we definitely want your phone calls at six one four, eight, two,
one nine, eight eighty six.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
A lot of things to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I felt like I was so rushed in the first
part of Raw talking about my father in law. We're
going to dive into that a little bit more, but
right now, Mikayla just got back from Kentucky. A lot
of people have bucket lists, or they have lists of
things that they want to do at some point in
your life. And one of your friends wanted to go
to Lexington, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Right Lexington, Kentucky to go to the Gorge Underground, specifically
about an hour outside Lexington?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What is the gorge underground?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So I think you and I have seen this before
and we've talked to each other about how cool it
would be to do this. It is kayaking in a cave.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The whole journey is in a cave. The whole journey
is in the cave.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Literally, you look like you're going into a mine. You
are outside this slab of rock that has been cut
into years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They cut into this.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They actually the history goes they were trying to do
something with the highway and when they got into the rock,
they hit an aquifer and the cave is there.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It filled up.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Mindy, it's crazy. You are literally in a dark cave.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Is it cool?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's very cool. It's fifty degrees the air temperature is
fifty degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So you don't want to fall out in the water.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
No, And it's happened. It's part of the safety training
they give you. They say the water is forty degrees
and they said, we know if you fall out, you're
going to be scared, but we need you to be
very calm.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So, well, how dark.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is it do they have lights throughout the cave or
you're just in a dark.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And how long does it last from beginning to end.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So the one we took was an hour, and so
it's an hour and you have a light you kind
of look like a miner too. You have like a
hard hat on. And then there's a lights you know,
on the top that you can turn on and off
or make more light. And then there are some lights
in the cave, and there are some lights dropped into
the water because if there weren't any lights in the water,
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the fish would go blind in six months from it
being completely dark.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I can't believe how much you learned.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I can't believe I've never heard of this, but I
guess I can because I don't live in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's really cool. That sounds really neat.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know, And the fact is it's less than four
hours from here, and so I don't know why more
people don't talk. It's in the Red River Gorge, which
I'm sure you're familiar with. I know you know New River,
but Red River Gorge is Kentucky, and so there's all
these you know, huge nature roll bridges and other kinds
of hiking there. I mean, maybe it was beautiful, great.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It sounds like something to really do and explore.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You did the hour route. Yes, is there another one
that I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Believe there is another one and the one that I
think you and I have discussed years ago. Do you
remember seeing kayaks with absolutely clear bottoms but lights coming
through them in a cave?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Do you remember this at all? No, it's been.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Many years since we've talked about it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Maybe someone else was co hosting, because I think I
would have remembered that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It looked so cool. So it was. We didn't get
to do the ones with the.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Glass bottomed kayaks or plastic bottom, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It was quite amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I'm glad you went. And that's neat to have
a list of to do.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so I guess I didn't say that. My friend
is turning fifty in September and she has had a
list of things that she wanted to do this year
and see and some of them are are more minor
and some of them are like a weekend bit. I mean,
nothing is like massive. She doesn't have like a massive
train planned. But she's doing things that make her happy
with the people that make her happy.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What a great idea. I think more of us should
live life like that. Really, we absolutely a great adventure.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So as Mikayla was doing that, I was home in
my husband's hometown of Putnam County, Callida, Ohio, kind of
on the edge of Lima as well, Northwest Ohio, good
old Northwest Ohio. For the last couple of weeks, my
father in law, Dick quarter Cracks Coach quarter Cracks, which
has really been in an up and down roller coaster.
And I know what this is like simply because we
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experienced it with my mom toward the end of her life.
You are on such a journey, the ups, the downs,
the ebbs.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The flows, and everything in between.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I have always said, Mikayla that I swear I think
my mom cheated death.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So many times.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I think grim Reaper was knocking on her door so
many times. But because of her strong love for family,
she fought hard and his law long as she possibly could,
almost to ninety three years old. Well, the same thing
was really happening with mister kay He has really outlived
what the medical experts anticipated for him because he's had
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a brain aneurism for years and he's been living like
this and they said at any time.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It could have exploded. That was four years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So he has continued to fight and continued to live life.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You know you were talking about that list to do things.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And I'm looking at all these different pictures that his
daughters and moms have posted, his grandchildren have posted. They
took this man everywhere. And that's what we would do
for mom. If you remember, toward the very end of
my mom's life, I took her to a very Manelo concert.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We wheeled her in there.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I'm like, you are still living. Life is for the living.
Get out as much as you can and enjoy it.
And when I'm looking back at some of these pictures
they took mister k ever Reware if it were his
family get together's, family outings, graduation parties, birthday parties.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is a big family, huge family.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And when I say huge family, as Mikayla just said,
he had him and his wife Donna, had eight children.
They lost their son Rob years ago, so these seven
children have.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Really banned together.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And then they had all these grandchildren and then great grandchildren.
And the one thing was that everybody's so grateful for.
And I look at my mom's life, I look at
mister Quartacract's life. Their minds stayed so sharp, and I
think a lot of that Mikayla has to do with
staying active.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And being around family. I'm going to add that to
the list, staying active and being around family, because we
just witnessed that with Marcus's grandfather, great step grandfather, his
grandmother's her brain from the time people arrived for his
funeral to three days later totally took a turn. Being
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surrounded by family. She was confused and having of a
tough time that first day that they all got there.
By the third day, she recognized people. She was talking
about memories very specifically. She wasn't doing that the first day.
I think family.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Helps, There's one hundred percent. I would back that up
for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I lived it, I saw it, I witnessed it in
the case of my mom and in the case of
mister k And then there's been studies done where seclusion
for those who are just kept away in a room,
either in a nursing home or in a health care facility,
or just in their own surroundings with no one coming
to visit, they.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Deteriorate so much faster.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
My son Kylin is just all in when it comes
to a big family, you know. And I only had Kai,
I only had CAMMI we had two kids. We had
kids a little bit later in life.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You have two boys.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, Kylin has taken all of this in and he
has done this for years, and he has sworn that
when he gets married, he will have a big family
because he's brought into all this. To him, there's nothing
better than being surrounded by so many loved ones.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So I'm like, just cursed to know about this. Yes,
he's good. Kylin and Kristen have been.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Dating for quite a while, and I'm sure that they
will end up together.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I would be shocked if they didn't. She's all in.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And I said that's great, Kai, because we were having
this conversation going through witnessing what mister Quardcracks was facing,
and I said, that's great because I only have you
and Cammy.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Your kids will take care of me. He's like, no,
they won't. I'm like, yes, who they like? Mom, you
should have had more kids.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He happened with his grandkids took care of him. His
great grandkids were there right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And he would see his great will Yes, oh for sure.
When he would see the great grandkids come up to
his bedside and he would high five them or he
would reach out and touch them it did so much.
And there were times where he couldn't speak because he
was losing his voice, and then the voice would come
back around and he was able to look at myself
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and Randy and all of his children and grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And say specific things to us.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And there were times right at the very end, Mikayla,
and I know how a devout Catholic you are, and
I know how strong your faith is.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And he got to the point where he said, I love.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Jesus, I want to be with Jesus. I want to
be back in Heaven. I want to go to Heaven. Well,
this family is so strong in their faith. I've never
heard the Rosary recited so much in my entire life.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I wasn't doing the right oh yeah, oh my gosh, yeah,
so many different times.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think I learned some of it just by listening
to them. So what we thought we would do within
this time is if anyone ever had the pleasure of
meeting mister Ka being one of his players. And I
know this is northwest Ohio, but a lot of people
have moved down to Columbus as well, and this station
goes throughout the entire state of Ohio. If you ever
have the pleasure to meet mister qurdocracks, coached with him,
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played with him, played against him.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Or just maybe heard of his reputation.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
We want you to call in and share stories, but
we're also opening it up to any coach or educator
that's been in your life. Mister k coached for fifty
six years. On top of that, he was an athletic director,
he was a principal, he was a bus driver, involved
with so many kids' lives. We want to hear about
the educators in your life or in your children's life
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that have really made the difference.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Can you think of anybody offhand?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Well, we started talking about doing this, you know, yesterday,
and I do. I have a couple people offhand that
I will share as we get into this today that
I wouldn't be the same person I am today without
a couple of those people. One is a coach and
one is a teacher.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So share your stories.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's in honor of my awesome, awesome father in law.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's taken a toll on so many people.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I watch my poor husband, and he, to me is
the pillar of strength. He's been my rock forever and
I see what he's going through and it's hard to
see your strong husband have those emotions, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So we want to.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Celebrate the life of Quarttercracks or any educator or coach
that's been in your life. Six one four, eight ty
one nine, eight eighty six.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
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