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Howdy! While I am a newbie at KWCK 99-9, some of you already know me. (Thanks for showing up at the last fan club meeting in the phone booth...) I'm a 23 year radio veteran who comes to KWCK 99-9 with the ringing endorsement from WWE Hall of Famer and former AWA World Champion Jerry "The King" Lawler, who proclaimed that I "have the perfect face for radio."
Mom and Dad named me after the Lee Majors character from the TV show The Big Valley, Heath Barkley. I grew up being called "Heath Barkley" or "Heath Bar" - after the candy bar, which I think are disgusting incidentally. I go by plain ole "Heath" most of the time. "Heath", "Heath Barkley", "Heath Bar"...call me what you want, just don't call me late for supper!
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I come from a place you will never find on any map - Pennington, which is what I call a "suburb" of Grubbs, Arkansas, where my dad has been the town barber for over 40 years now. Speaking of Dad, he and Mom are both so proud that I have found a career that allows me to get paid to sit on my rump, play music and talk all day...
When I am not sitting on my rump, playing music and talking all day, I am usually spending time with my family, which consists of my daughter Caitlynn and my son Collin. Yeah, I get to pay for my raising AND my wife's raising. Oh, my wife is Jennifer, and she is the perfect country girl...she drives like Daisy Duke and cooks like Ellie May Clampett. We also have a Boston Terrier named Boofford, a Boston Terrier named Chewbacca - Chewie for short, several freshwater fish and an ornate bichir named Mooch. (Go ahead, and look up that last one...)
In whatever passes for free time, I love to read. I am a total geek, and have collected comic books for over 30 years. I also have one of the top comic book review sites on the internet. My comic book geekdom has allowed me to meet such geek icons as the "real" Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach), as well as Erin Gray (Wilma Deering from Buck Rodgers), Rob Van Dam and Lou Ferrigno (TV's Hulk). It has also given me the distinct and weird opportunity to interact with some big name writers and has actually placed me and members of my family in fictional works. For instance, author Steve Alten made my son an assassin in his novel Resurrection. And if you look at Chapter 6 in Alten's novel Meg: Primal Waters, you will get to read of my untimely demise to the teeth of a monster shark. The latter has been optioned as a motion picture, so some time in the future you may be able to see me as chum on the big screen.
Sadly, I am also a diehard San Francisco 49ers fan. Such a fan that my son is named after the greatest quarterback in history, Joe Montana. It is a rare sight to see me without a 49er ball cap on my head. Almost as rare as a 49er victory these days...
I am thrilled to be at KWCK 99-9 and am looking forward to meeting all of our listeners out and about and talking to you on the KWCK listener line when you call and tell me what you want to hear on KWCK 99-9!
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