Rich Kaplowitz

Richard Evan Kaplowitz (born August 5, 1951), also known as Uncle Ricky K., is an Australian-based American radio talk-show host, disc jockey and political commentator, and formerly the P.R. director of Libertarians Overseas Australasia. Rich previously presented a late-night phone-in show he hosted on.

Broadcasting career
Rich was a disc jockey for in  from 1977-1979 as "Uncle Ricky K". In 1980, Rich moved to to DJ for the longwave radio station Asia 1. Asia 1 broadcast from a studio in with content relayed via microwave to transmitters on the coast of the  region. After leaving Asia 1 in 1990 he went to host the breakfast show at in. In 1998 he moved to, to host a weekend afternoon show on , until his departure in November 2003. For a time, he broadcast on both Radio Hauraki and, flying from Auckland to Sydney and back on. He was also a stand-in presenter on, and hosted a weekend evening program on.

Since leaving Radio National, Rich has worked mainly as a radio and television pundit and commentator, mainly debating or speaking on American politics and news stories for a variety of Australasian broadcasters including the ABC,, , and.

On October 8, 2020, he appeared on Pinoy World's Asia Right Now, debating on LGBTQ+ rights in Asia (specifically, ) with Singaporean Justice. Rich claimed to have won the debate with his counter-argument to Oon's claims with statements such as "Maybe if the Singaporean people rose up against the and got rid of Section 377, there would be justice for LGBT victims of the Singaporean nanny state policies."

Personal life
Rich married -based writer & journalist Cyndi Breznay in September 2002. They have a son, Louis, born on 9th July 2004.

Rich was raised Jewish, joking that his family were "the only serious Jewish family in all of south-central ." While working at Asia 1 he informed colleagues that he was a member of and tried out to be a cantor.