But I was like, I'm showing this. This is my he-man from when I was a kid. And I graciously took it. She's the brightest Bob Sager, and I'm like, what? Massachusetts State Police. Wow. Right now, we're going to play Rock and Tell. It's like show and tell, but with Rock memorabilia. Brad, I have a feeling you have some wicked cool stuff. I do. I have a couple of cool things. I'm going to start, I have to reach over here and get it inside the mirror. At least you're wearing pants. This is pretty cool. And it has a cool story behind it, too. It's I'm ashamed about best ideas, but it's been sitting at the best studio. But this is a guitar sign for me by Mr. Bob Sager. Bob was in the studio with us when we recorded 17 days. And he was in just a mutual studio across the way. He and I played pool together for like three or four days, I guess. And I honestly, you know, I remember like the old pictures of Bob Sager. And I didn't, you know, I didn't really honestly realize it was him for like three days. But it didn't. It didn't matter. It's just like this man I was talking to in the studio. I never had. He said his name was Bob. He didn't say his name was Bob Sager. And I just said my name was Brad. No, I know. I'm not, you know what I'm saying? It's what we played. But the lady that read in the studio there, she was, she said, I see you and Mr. Bob getting old and I'd forgotten his name at the moment. And she said, I said that is his name, right? She said, Brad is Bob Sager. And I'm like, what? It was, I, so I tried to play it all. And so I wound up asking him to sing on a song. And well, first I asked him, we kind of had to, I had to like build up. I asked him to come, I said, nearly come listen to a couple of our songs. He said, yeah. And he came and said, he's like, that's good. I said, well, he came out with a single one. And he said, let me, let me hear the song. And he let me, I played him landing and landing. And he said, let me take a home with me tonight. And he took a home with him that night and, and he came back the next day and I was waiting in the party line. He said, I said, do you think you want to sing on that song? He said, it's me, Brad. Hey, Bob. Yeah, exactly. Literally. I was in the party line. Yeah. Yeah. And he said, you know what, son, I will sing on that song. And he wound up singing on that song. And I got into, of course, I'm a guitar. How often does that happen? Because I hear these stories all the time of, oh, I was recording the album and so and so was next door and in the studio at the same time. I mean, listen, there's a lot of recordings to yours in the world. How is it that someone's always in the studio at the same time as Mick Jagger or someone? Like, I like this. Yeah, for real. For real. You know, that was, that was kind of back in the day. Now we just record up at a little studio that we own. And there's no danger of seeing anybody like that in there. Another time when we were mixing, it was when he was mixing our first record too. I mean, I was, I was green his grass. And I was walking down the hallway at the studio in LA. And I can't remember, you know what, when it was, but Don Hiddling walked by me and I was like, holy, whoa, hey. And I was like, because that was something. All right. So I had a soldier give me his purple heart full in time also. And I tried to not take it. And he just was not having me not take it. And I graciously took it. I didn't. Was it because he was just so touched by a particular song or what was the story? Well, we have a, we have a pretty long history with the military. And, you know, and so the song went on, going kind of got us really affiliated with the military back in 2002. We played on the deck of the USS George Washington and went over to, to a Bahrainian played in the Persian Gulf. And, and that kind of sparked our relationship with the military. And, and those guys always, I've heard so many soldiers, so many stories from so many soldiers that had our music over there during their deployments in the Persian Gulf and in the Middle East. And I, I mean, it's astounding to me how many of those guys listened to us over there. And I mean, I, I cannot tell you how many times I've heard the stories from those guys. And it means the absolute world to me. So from around different bases, we've played a lot of military shows. This is a pretty cool one of the more like unusual, talents coins that I've got. And this is from over in Japan. Oh, cool. And we do a lot of stuff with the, with the police officers to this one. My buddy's in the LAPD sent me this one. And we have our own three doors down challenge coin that we, that we trade. So all these guys that give me these coins, I trade them. They're the Massachusetts state police. Wow. And this is a good friend of mine from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Yeah, me that one. I have, I have probably between police officers and military. I probably have a hundred and maybe a hundred and twenty challenges coins. But, do you just keep them in a jar and a bag? No, no, I have, I have big displays. If I, the reason I'm not doing this interview in my office is because my wife, I won't reach that far. But I've got office is so much cooler than this. I was trying to get just, I have so much stuff in there. We could spend three hours just doing the show in Dale. But I have to, I was like, I'm showing this. This is my he-man when I was a kid. I like it. And so this one, I remember he has like the little, sometimes it'll hang on sometimes it won't, but it was made to like, that was when he's like, before and you know, you can hit him once and like a little bit came in. Yeah. And like another bit came in. Oh, I lost him, he-man and some sugar as well. Yeah, that's right. It props to Shira. That's right. And my good friend of mine gave me this several years ago too. It's like a stage book from Johnny Cash and it's signed. And that's pretty cool. That's right. Yeah. What, what kind of music did you listen to growing up? You know, what did Kid Brad Arnold listen to? Is it Johnny Cash? You know what I really, I didn't. I listened to Johnny Cash when I got older, but I honestly know when I was a kid, I was in the youngest of seven kids. So I listened pretty much whatever my brothers had just listened to. And I grew up in the 80s. So I listened to a ton of, I listened to a ton of like, Bon Jovi, and Poison, and Death Leopard. And the Death Leopard for some sugar on me video, The Live, was what made me want to do this for a living. Like I want to be, I want to be a rock star. And so exactly. So growing up in the 80s MTV and getting to see a Death Leopard music video or Bon Jovi, how did those front men form you as a front man? Oh, so much, so much. I can stand on stage sometimes. And R.B., I still reference in my mind sometimes, but Bon Jovi wanted better live video. You know? And all those guys, and then you learn later, he's like, that wasn't real, that wasn't their jet. And that was like in the sound check that they thought that stuff. And he's like, man, but it looked so big. And but it made me, it really, it's like, I want to do that. And it was, it was weird. I could see, I could see myself on the stage from the time I was a little kid. I mean, it was, it was weird that, I mean, we never tried to get signed or anything. We just got signed from our son being big. So it happened to us, like it happens on TV. And it happens to nobody like that. It just, it just did. And Kryptonite started, you know, they started playing on our local radio station in our little hometown down South Mississippi. And, and like, can't become a scientist. And it's just, Hey, we've got this paper signed right here, son. I'll make your fitness. Exactly. You know, and, but, and at the same time, didn't have like, some, like a hoard, a hoard deal or something. We're always on universal records. We were just fulfilled our contract with them. They are like, we don't, we've had, I mean, we've had our ups and downs as a band, but we've always had like, really good, like, we've never had like that horror, horrible like behind the music moment. Like they were found out or undercooked and he was like some crazy crap, you know? Tell me about the first time you actually heard your song on the radio. And then part two of this question is, the family hearing your song on the radio. Because being one of seven kids, I'm sure it was like, you couldn't get, pick up the phone probably fast enough because the next brother, sister was calling. Well, the first time I ever heard my song on the radio was, was awesome. I was, it was late at night. They were playing this on the home, going show in our local radio station. And I remember screaming. I was running in my house screaming at my mom and dad. And they were in the bed. And I think I probably scared in the day. And that day, they probably almost shot me. But, and I was the first time my dad heard me sing. He asked, he said, is that she only drunk? It's not used to be our drummer in our singer. But, but my dad asked me, he said, well, that's you playing drums, but who's that thing? And I said, that's me, he said, no, I ain't. He said that's not you. I said, well, it is. And he didn't believe me that it was me singing there for a while. But the first time when we as a band heard ourselves on the radio, we were on a way to play a show in Albany, Georgia. And we played it. We heard it on a local radio station there. And pretty sure we almost wrecked the van. And everybody, I mean, that was something, you know, 20 years later, you can still remember where you were when you heard it. It's, I mean, it's such an important milestone. It's a, you know, that's the starting point, right? It's almost like chapter one. It really is. That's right. Awesome. It was so nice chatting with you. Thank you. Good tent with you too. Hey there. Thanks for watching Access TV. Subscribe, follow, like, and do all the good stuff. And make sure you leave a comment below. I don't know. Just let us know what your favorite Access TV show is or who your favorite bands are and what artists you're into. Or just say hi, man. I'd like to be told, hi. We love hearing from you. That's the point, all right? Keep it coming.