Birth date: Jun 14, 1972 Death date: Jun 30, 2021
Our beloved brother, uncle, son, partner, nephew, and dear friend to hundreds passed away unexpectedly on June 30, 2021—just a few weeks after his 49th birthday. Brad was born on the afternoon of June 14, 1972, to David and Mary Read Obituary
Cuzzin Brad I grew up Down the street from him in Spokane Washington! Him and I would play 007 golden eye on Nintendo 64! I would call into his station every morning and request the same song and he would always tell me have a great day at school! He was the best! Going to be missed for sure
"Cuzzin Brad" going to miss your radio personality, have been an avid fan seems like forever. Little late in my tribute but I was wondering what happen to "Radio From Hell" so I decided to google your name and saw your obituary. Now I know, well "Cuzzin Brad" I won't be sad but rejoice in your legacy, a lasting impression in my life. Rest In Peace...
Today we said our farewells to Cuzzin Brad also known as Brad Mullen, I met Brad in 2016 when I moved to Utah, Not only did Brad host for the wave radio station but he raised my husband Dimitrii Arthur Andrew Poundstone since he was 4 years old with Shauna Nanell Mullen, when I met Brad he loved my accent so much he said he wanted to have me come on the station. He was a fun, bubbly, witty and funny person, my fondest memory was sitting at our neighbors house with Tammy and Drew Trepp Winn we played music all night and I felt we bonded over some classic 80s and some new music I showed him. He always cared so much about everyone around him and he even helped me set up my record player and gave me a Audio receiver. We will miss you so much Brad I wish we could of all gathered one last time.
I have known Brad since elementary school. The family across the street from where he grew up in Roy used to babysit me. We would spend time running back and forth between their house and Brad's while growing up. I remember he would always put on his Bee Gees Greatest Hits album when I was at his house and we would sit and listen to it over and over. When we got back in touch a while ago on FB I asked him if the Bee Gees are part of why he is a DJ. He laughed and sad "of course". He was always a sweetheart!!
In 5th grade we had an overnight school trip to the "Environmental Center" up near Eden. After dinner, but before the evening movie (Run, Appaloosa, Run) we had some free time so we sat on our bunks and made up the following song to the tune of "Old MacDonald."
"Young Space Casey had a ship.
Awesome bro-lee-o
And on that ship he had some....
Awesome bro-lee-o "
Honestly, I don't remember the rest. We had a really hard time coming up with things in the ship. And Brad came up with most of it. I think "Casey" is a reference to Casey Stimpson that lived in his neighborhood, and of course it had to be about sci-fi/star wars stuff.
When we watched an action movie, the movie itself was only 1/10 of the fun. The other 9/10th was re-enacting the movie afterward with toy guns or swords or whatever.
After we saw "For Your Eyes Only" in 1982 on VHS, I remember spending the next several hours pretending the stairs going to the basement in my house was that mountain at the end of the movie that they had to climb. After we saw Midway, we played in my living room for hours that we were the machine gunners in the rear of the torpedo bombers that tried to shoot down the Zero's that came up behind. In the movie (and real life) they were all shot down, but in our version we got 'em! We named one guy in the movie, "Lipstick" because when he got shot it looked like he had lipstick smeared all over his mouth.
We never just played one person. We always had what we called "runts." These were characters who would get killed due to foolish decisions or to dramatize the fact the "good guys" were losing sometimes. Then we'd become our main character and win the day!
The sound effects that came with the guns were lame. They were just some clicking or rattling mechanical thing that would sound when pulling the trigger, or even if they had batteries the sound was lame. We could make much better sounds with our mouths. That's why our guns could be broken or missing parts and still work fine for us. At my house one of Brad's favorite guns to play with was a squirt gun riffle, but we never put water in it. Water and batteries and the like made the gun too heavy and didn't work nearly as good as our imagination.
I met Brad in 1995 when he was 23 and I was 28. I knew that I loved him 2 nights later when during his radio shift, I heard him talking down a caller, a destressed young man, from suicide on one of the off-air phone lines. He, along with his beautiful family welcomed me and my son, Andrew Poundstone, 4 years old at the time, into his amazing family. I have never known any family like the Mullens. He loved them the most and they loved him too. He and his sister Amy where like twins with their own secret language. He had that kind of connections with his brothers too. They all loved each other so very much! Brad loved his friends too, he respected and admired them. He would do anything for them. He brought laughter and intelligence to every situation. Brad was a light in this world, kind and loving, funny and quick witted. I nursed him back to health when he almost died from gallbladder surgery, then he returned the favor a few years later when I almost died from a ruptured appendix. We had many great years together and I cherish my life with him. I cherish my dearest friends that I would not have met if not for him. I am so happy he had such a beautiful, loving woman in his life in Lisa. I will always love and miss him.
Dilly Dallys circa 2000
I think it was in the third grade when Brad and his buddies would call up a little Caesars and order a bunch of pizzas and not pick them up. Then they would go retrieve them out of the dumpster as no one was there to pick them up. I can recall having cold pizza in the morning before going to school from those dumpster pizzas 🍕 me and Andy were for bidden to enter his room when he wasn’t home but he had a new Nintendo NES and it was our dream to get to play it. I remember super Mario brothers 2 and playing uncle fester‘s quest but we had to put everything away just as he had left it. Dumpster diving days didn’t end with little Caesars we had a plethora of clover club chips and movie posters picked clean from video express dumpster.
Gone to soon and will never be forgotten. It has to be such a joyous reunion with Dad and Evan and our grand ma’s & pa’s. Love you Brad-e-Boy!
The Roy Theater in....Roy, was a staple for Brad and I. Every week they would put out a new (old) movie which was well worth the dollar admission cost. Almost every movie we saw as a kid was at this theater. And the $1.50 bucket of popcorn, with free refill, was a deal too good to pass up. We usually sat in those two seats all alone in the very back assuming we got there early enough (so we could quickly get out to the concessions area for that refill without missing too much of the movie).
One movie we highly anticipated (they always had 3 previews before each show. No more, no less.) In 1984 was Red Dawn only to find out it would come with the new PG-13 rating. We had just turned 12. We hoped that by the time it came to a "dollar theater" it would be close to our 13th birthday. It did take many, many months before coming to that theater and I do remember we saw it right around our 13th birthday. I can't remember the exact details but we were so relieved that we weren't only 9 or 10 years old when this rating came out as so many of our favorite movies would have this rating.
Since our parents had to take turns taking us and picking us up, we often had 10-30 minutes of waiting outside in front of the First Security bank next door after calling home using a payphone. (I think that was the name of the bank) Anyway, they had a structure out front that was kind-of a brick fountain type of arrangement but no water, and there was a little statue of mom and girl or something on it. That's where would wait and re-enact whatever movie we just saw (if it was an action movie.) A lot of other kids would wait around this area as well. You should have seen this place after Karate Kid let out late summer 1984. Every kid under the age of 13 was suddenly a blackbelt doing the crane technique on that fountain thing and talking trash to one another. While no blows were actually landed, Brad and I took on attacker after attacker, each more skilled than their predecessor. These were how kids in the suburbs did Kara-teh.
