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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Mikayla Hunt is in studio for our What Matter show. Mikayla,
I can't tell you how many awesome calls we had
the last two hours. People just wanting to share stories
about their own father, whether they're touching stories, funny stories,
incredible stories, dangerous stories, anything. We want to share those today.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, yeah, And you guys have had a lot of calls.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It sounds like so six one four eight two one
nine eight eight six six one four eighty two to one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
At WTVM would love to continue that.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's a day to celebrate the men in our lives
and some of the men in our lives who've passed.
And I've had you on my mind and Randy on
my mind the last few days because you guys have
gone through so much up in Kalida.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So much in the heart of Ohio, of Putnam County,
northwest Ohio. It's such a special place. But if you
think about this, Mikayla, I thought about you as well.
Boots just left the studio. He had to hit the road,
so he left a little bit early. Boots his dad
died at fifty seven years old. My dad died several
years ago. Chris's dad died, So out of all of
us in here, you're the only one who still has
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your father, And anyone listening if you are one of
the lucky ones who still have your dad, cherish those moments,
Cherish those memories. I'm going to share a stat with
you a little bit later coming up in our hot topics,
and it's a sad stat and it's deals with the
strange dads. So if you are arguing, if you are
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in a bad place with your family, men those bridges.
We don't have our dads forever. You never ever want
to say that final goodbye? How hard is it to
for Randy and the Cordacrak's family. They just bury their
legendary dad yesterday and then today his Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, how was he doing today? I saw that you
guys were at church earlier with Cammy.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah. Cammy asked if she wanted or if we wanted
to go with her to her church of Rock City
because we usually go to Genoa.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We're like, yeah, we'll do that.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It was.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It was a great, glorious celebration. My gosh, so many
people go to Rock City.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh it's an amazing church. Yeah, she goes to the
Hilliard Branch.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
She does, but today we went to Polaris because it's
easier and closer to us in Westerville. It was a
great celebration, but just if you, if you still have
your dad, enjoy him. I miss my own dad. I
miss my father. The celebration for mister Quartercracks was exactly that.
It was a celebration. I can't tell you how many
people came through that receiving line. Two days of it
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Thursday evening and then Friday, all day from two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Until I knew you were in the thick of all
of it. So he was just line that continued and
out the door. It was two days of calling hours.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
He had such an impact, I would say, Mikayla at
the peak when the majority of people there, they literally
had to wait for an hour and a half to
two hours to come to this this receiving line. Randy's
oldest brother, Rick is the first one they see.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Because there's eight of them.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
There were eight of them, well seven eight, you're right,
they were eight all together. But then one of Randy's
brother So we have our way through and Randy and
I are next to Rick and Rick's wife. So Rick
keeps getting mad at me. He's like, Mindy, you're holding
up the line. I'm like, Rick, I'm not going to
be rude to people. I'm like, I love hearing all
of these stories. From a five overtime game that Collida
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faced Continental to the long discussions that coach had with
his players after games. I mean, we saw so many
people from coaches that were against him in the league
players long. I asked every single guy that as you
play for mister k Every single person said yes, and
it was generational. They were either young, some of them
came through as a group as the last year that
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he coached in twenty sixteen to the very early years,
and I wanted to hear all those stories.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And I can't tell you the thing that touched my
heart the most personally was how many people thanked me
for writing the King about the book I wrote about
mister Quartercracks a couple of years ago, his life, his legacy,
not just about basketball, but about family, and that mister
Kay signed every one of these books for anyone who
wanted his signature. But he didn't just sign a signature.
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So when they would come through and they're like, oh
my gosh, we got the book The King back out.
We wanted to reread what mister Kay or what Coach
wrote to us, and I said, don't tell me he
wrote a book inside the book right.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because he did.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He wouldn't just sign his name. He had to say
something specific to everybody. He cared about everyone, and he
will be missed, but his legacy lives on forever.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Keaton and Sarah, we see you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Will go to you in just a second, but I
have to ask you a question before we go to
these calls, because there is this beautiful picture on your
Facebook page looking down at these strong pallbearers and they're
all wearing these.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
White hats with the blue emblem.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I tried to zoom in and I couldn't see
what it was, but I thought, this is amazing. This
is something cohesive that they did. So tell us what
that was.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm so glad you asked that. It's a great question.
Everybody in the family. The grandkids had a role somehow.
For the grand kids sang because they have beautiful voices.
You know how hard it would be to sing at
your grandpa's funeral. And one of the songs was Ave Maria.
I mean, it was just beautiful. Others presented gifts as
Catholics do. I don't know a lot about that because
I'm not Catholic, but they present gifts. And then every
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single grandchild and great grandchildren, and I say every single
He had twenty nine grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren, and they
all carried a rose and put it in a vase
up one upon that. What do you call it a
Catholic church?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh, oh my gosh, I do. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It's a corner part of the church where you had
to walk up.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There by Mary. Yes, okay, yes, which we do that
with weddings too. Something with that.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So the hats, Mister Kay was always known for wearing
this white baseball hat that said Calleida Basketball, and he
had so many of them, and they were stark white. Well,
one of the grandsons said, you know what, all the
pall bears we should wear those hats. So the pall
bears were the first born in each of the families,
so they each wore, including Kylin, were a Kalida High
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basketball hat. Immediately Cameron sees that and she's like, well,
I want to have a hat. What if you witnessed
anything like this at any funeral? That you've been to
in the past, instead of making it so sad for everybody,
do something like that. That was memorable, That was so different,
and that was mister k would have loved seeing his
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pallbears in those white Kaleida basketball hats. And then after everything,
after the church service and after we all had the luncheon,
they opened up the gym which has his signature on it,
his gym. That's key. In their suits and dresses, shot basketballs,
shot and they shot and they shot. I'm like, he
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would so love to see all of his grandkids, his
kids and his great grand kids shooting baskets on his court.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You can't be more celebrated no after life than that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And you know he was looking down. I mean, if
you really believe in fate and you really believe in heaven,
he was looking down and he saw that. Yeah, I
love it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Thank you for sharing with us, thanks for asking thinking
about you, and it's good to know a little behind
the scenes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
A life well lived, a wife, a life well then
we'll carry on for years to come.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
We're asking you guys to call about your dad's today.
Six one four eight eight eight six Keaton, I see
you on the line.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What did you want to share today?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, hey, guys. First of all, I wanted to say
my deepest condolences to you and Randy Quartercrack for the
loss of your father. Randy. Trust me, I've been there.
I just was at my buddy's grandpa and great grandfather
suneral within the last three months. And you know it,
it was difficult because that was the guy who hired
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me on their family farm that I got to work
and help, you know, every spring, summer, fall. So my
deepest condolences to you and your family.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thank you so much. We really really appreciate that. And
people don't know what to say say sometimes it's awkward.
What you just said was beautiful. Sometimes that's just what
you need to hear.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And honestly, I'll tell you what Mindy and Randy. Funny enough,
today I'm wearing one of my buddy's grandpa's old John
Deere dealer had that he always had around, you know,
all of us and his grandchildren, you know, and he
called me one of his own grandsons. Even though I
wasn't related to their families. I was friends with them
for years since we were you know, me high to
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the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But John, Do you really like that?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And here's the one And here's the most memorable whole
thing about that is that even when he was you know,
fighting cancer or like just you know, having a bad
day or just he would come by and just watch it,
watches do whatever in the shop or work on a
truck or you know, trasing oil on semis and he
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would come in and walk in there. Even though if
he was like six, he wouldn't come into that shop
and ask us how things go? Man, I almost like
you would. I mean, he was weaken his knees from
you know, years of working and away, working away, but
he was still going. And after his motorcycle accident, we
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were down short of a truck driver during harvest a
few years ago, and this was about twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
and we were down sort of shelling corn down by
Plain City, up on carts no road over there, and
we were getting all that hauled off to Maryfield. And
he called my buddy's dad and said, hey, I hear
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you guys are down sort of a driver. Let me
hop in the old grain truck that was still around
the old c seventy of their grandfathers. That was sold
of about twenty twenty one, and he fired it up
and we didn't know what was thinking. And then he
hunk the horn of that old grain truck, just the
twenty two foot grain box on that old Chevy C
seventy pandam and he comes down the and my buddy said,
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he is the radios over to him, like, are you serious?
He's like, you guys got to keep moving. I'm all
over the BEF site over here. Do you guys keep
to send us mood with the elevator over Marthon? And
I swear to you they had a conversation for about
five minutes until I said, hey, can we just start
back to shelling corners to argue and sell us because
we didn't get this summer fort rains majorly. And I
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swear to God that was what kind of broke the
whole tension between their dad and grandpa. And I swear
to you, I know he's watching from above with my
buddy's grandma and my great aunt who passed away. My
grandma and great aunt and they were all friends back
in mouth Stroling in London, and that's where you know,
I kind of grew up outside of until I moved
to Columbus. But you know, I know him and my
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lady's great grandpa's watching down from above us. We're just
working on the firem and you know, taking care of
his equipment that he you know, purchase, knew, and you
know there's a story about the city Colida actually.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I don't know if your husband Randy notes, there's a
company called un referred many of Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
My gosh, that's one of the biggest names there under Firth.
I think about five hundred came through the line this
last couple of days.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
And the thing is my buddy's grandpa back in the
nineties with his dad, with their dad about our age
eighteen nineteen twenty, went up to Kalida and bought a
grand cart and got to.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Watch it get built off the factory line there in Kalidah.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And he bought a rent seven fifty or seven sixty
Grand car, brand new, and he pulled it behind his
junior forty nine to fifty five front will system. He
has all the picture of the trackers and grand cards
he's bought new over the years with their great grandfather.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Who awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I will tell you what he was unbelievable ninety five
and I mean he could still well.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know what, there's something about that generation. There's something
about the toughness of that generation. We are up against
a break, but I am.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Heating great stories.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Glad that you called. Keep those stories coming, Sarah. We
see you. We're gonna get your phone call on the
other side.