By Kimberly Hosey Darrell Ankarlo, former host of “Ankarlo Mornings” on 92.3 FM KTAR, has won numerous talk-radio awards. He’s done music radio, appeared on Emmy award-winning TV programs, worked with many notable celebrities and spearheaded community initiatives by mobilizing his large base of loyal listeners. He’s flown an F-16 fighter jet, attended a Slipknot concert, married, raised four kids, crossed the southern border to prove a point, written books, raised millions of dollars, inspired hundreds of thousands, and pissed off just as many.
Today, he would just like to write a letter. Drive. Walk. Wake up without a pounding headache.
As his listeners came to know, Ankarlo suffered a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident on April 8, 2009. In retrospect he says that ironically, it was his decision to embrace more of life’s opportunities that eventually led to the freak accident that would ultimately derail the life and career of the popular conservative radio jock.
“I’d seen the Jim Carrey movie Yes Man, and I nudged my wife, and I said, ‘That’s me,’” he said. Ankarlo said his celebrity status had caused him to trust people only reluctantly, and to decline most offers and invitations as a matter of course.Read
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