Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. I am hosted today by. I'll say i'm being hosted, i'm lucky enough to have mr. Brad j on the show with me today.  Very exciting to have you, of course, because not only are we a bit one of the same, in the sense of what we do for a living.  We utilize our personalities. We utilize our voices to express what is happening in the world of sports. Specifically action sports. You, by far, have had a longer career in this than most of us, collectively.  Thank you. When, brad, did announcing start for you? Here we are in a current world situation where you took announcing from an "ah ha" moment in your life to 2020 and all of a sudden you have about as much announcing career as I do right now.  That means nothing right now. Well, I don't know. I mean, geez. Do I go by where I started or where do you want me to go? Your name is brad j. You live in california. Where you at? I'm brady j. I live right on santa barbara and ventura county line in california. Right down on the ocean.  - action sports announcer - radio deejay since 1994 / 95 - something like that was when I first got into it. Doing surf reports. Doing radio. I worked at a skate company back in the late '80s / early '90s called peralta skateboards - bones wheels that kind of got me into action sports.  I wasn't announcing yet, but then that kind of made me think about that career. And then I kind of moved into doing a skateboarding role and skateboarding, led to snowboarding and led to djing events. Then I got the job - radio kept leading to other radio events. Meanwhile, i'm traveling the world doing all these huge events, but i'm also holding down a radio show too, as well. It all just came up and just went crazy from 1994 to basically 'til... 2000 was a big turning point with getting x games.