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NEW: 3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold reveals he has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, says it is a rare form of kidney cancer. Arnold made the sad announcement on his Instagram page. Creed singer Scott Stapp responded to the news to give Arnold some words of encouragement.... show more

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The Appalachian Podcast1 year ago

They did a ton for military and veterans over the years, and their album “Away from the Sun” still remind me of Iraq to this day. Much respect 🍻

TexasAllianceforLife1 year ago

When TAL Public Policy Analyst Deirdre Cooper learned her 8th child might have Trisomy 18, a severe chromosomal abnormality, a high-risk physician suggested they take time to "think about what to do." She shares more of her story in our latest Post-Roe Texas Video Series episode.

The Facts Dude1 year ago

If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman? 🎶 My teenage years wouldn’t be the same without them!

KryptoArt1 year ago

Tough news. Stage 4 at 46 hits hard. Hope Brad fights it with all he’s got — music’s full of comebacks, let this be one.

Masculine Based1 year ago

Scott Stapp’s words are powerful prayers up for a full recovery.

KARAN MCMXCII1 year ago

It’s very very sad to hear that

Daniel DiNoia1 year ago

Praying for him 🙏

Pregnant Redhead1 year ago

Heartbreaking news. Prayers up for Brad Arnold true American spirit, We believe in miracles, strength, and never backing down.

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Praying for this gentleman, Lord I pray for healing I pray for strength I pray for comfort. I pray that his relationship with his heavenly Father will grow stronger through this adversity.

E X X ➠A L E R T S1 year ago

This is very sad!

truth seeker 💼 🔥1 year ago

Praying 🙏🏻

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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Brad Arnold (lead singer of 3 Doors Down) announces he has stage 4 cancer and band will cancel summer tour while he battles it. Man this hits so hard, I’ve known these guys and been a fan since literally day one 25* years ago! His positive message while delivering such bad news is really inspiring and humbling

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Arnold Schwarzenegger says Stallone's paintings sell for several hundred thousand dollars, and reveals how Stallone taught him to paint bolder Host: “What do you admire about him?” Stallone: “Oh, stop. I do everything little. Like this, you know, and I make fine lines and make everything very accurate.” Arnold: “He says, 'Arnold, you got to be more daring. Got to open up a little bit.' So I go up to his house and he has this big paintbrush with 15 kind of different colors. Goes in there like this and he starts smacking it down on the canvas.” Arnold: “And I said to myself, 'Can you believe the balls this guy has? He just makes a commitment with all this paint.' And then all of a sudden in no time he creates this really colorful unbelievable kind of modern type of a painting.” Arnold: “These big paintings go like sometimes for several hundred thousand dollars.”

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3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold has sadly passed away at the age of 47 after a battle with kidney cancer. "With his beloved wife Jennifer and his family by his side, [Brad] passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, in his sleep after his courageous battle with cancer," 3 Doors Down said in a statement. "Brad's songwriting became a cultural touchstone for a generation, producing some of the most enduring hits of the 2000s, including the band's breakout hit, "Kryptonite," which he wrote in his math class when he was just 15 years old." "His music reverberated far beyond the stage, creating moments of connection, joy, faith, and shared experiences that will live on long after the stages he performed on." "Above all, he was a devoted husband to Jennifer, and his kindness, humor, and generosity touched everyone fortunate enough to know him. Those closest to him will remember not only his talent, but his warmth, humility, faith, and deep love for his family and friends." Back in May, Arnold released a video, revealing that he found out he had cancer. Rest in peace, Brad.

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1,037,114 views • 2 months ago

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Heartbreaking news of 3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold’s Stage 4 cancer diagnosis Praying for him and his family — and wishing Brad the very best in his fight Brad and 3 Doors Down have performed for our troops, given back to charity, and when other bands were afraid to perform at Trump’s inauguration — they rocked it! You’ll rock this too, Brad! And like your hit song, “It’s not your time” God bless 🙏

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Stallone says 'what doesn't kill you' is a lie, Arnold fires back that it killed his brother, then credits his brutal childhood for making him leave Austria Stallone: “I can't just blame it on them, cuz when I go back and I look at my mother's upbringing, orphanages and this and that, they were angry. And they just thought, 'That's the way I'm going to pass it on. You're not going to be happy if I'm not happy.'” Arnold: “My brother Meinhard, he died. He died because his reaction was to become an alcoholic himself. One day driving with a car and then hitting a telegraph post. And just smashed into it and got killed.” Arnold: “And on top of it, I said to myself, 'If I would have grown up like some people do with all the love in the world, I would have never left home. I would have stayed in Austria.'” Stallone: “You escaped in bodybuilding. I escaped the theater cuz I wasn't too happy with the reality. So I said, 'This is my world cuz I don't like this one.' I think that we were going to do it no matter what. It just would have been nice with a little bit more encouragement. That's all.” Hearing Arnold talk about his brother completely changes the tone of the conversation. I wasn't expecting it to get that personal. Which part of this conversation stood out to you the most?

Stallone says 'what doesn't kill you' is a lie, Arnold fires back that it killed his brother, then credits his brutal childhood for making him leave Austria Stallone: “I can't just blame it on them, cuz when I go back and I look at my mother's upbringing, orphanages and this and that, they were angry. And they just thought, 'That's the way I'm going to pass it on. You're not going to be happy if I'm not happy.'” Arnold: “My brother Meinhard, he died. He died because his reaction was to become an alcoholic himself. One day driving with a car and then hitting a telegraph post. And just smashed into it and got killed.” Arnold: “And on top of it, I said to myself, 'If I would have grown up like some people do with all the love in the world, I would have never left home. I would have stayed in Austria.'” Stallone: “You escaped in bodybuilding. I escaped the theater cuz I wasn't too happy with the reality. So I said, 'This is my world cuz I don't like this one.' I think that we were going to do it no matter what. It just would have been nice with a little bit more encouragement. That's all.” Hearing Arnold talk about his brother completely changes the tone of the conversation. I wasn't expecting it to get that personal. Which part of this conversation stood out to you the most?

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1,014,791 views • 2 months ago

Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down really fought until the end. The man who gave us the soundtrack to our worst heartbreaks just lost his battle with cancer today, February 7, 2026, at the age of 47. From writing "Kryptonite" in math class to helping us survive those lonely nights with "Here Without You," his voice was there for every heavy moment. How many of us played those records on repeat just to feel something when the world got quiet? Rest easy, legend. You weren't just a singer; you were the friend we needed when life got real.

Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down really fought until the end. The man who gave us the soundtrack to our worst heartbreaks just lost his battle with cancer today, February 7, 2026, at the age of 47. From writing "Kryptonite" in math class to helping us survive those lonely nights with "Here Without You," his voice was there for every heavy moment. How many of us played those records on repeat just to feel something when the world got quiet? Rest easy, legend. You weren't just a singer; you were the friend we needed when life got real.

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111,914 views • 7 months ago

After Enron collapsed, Ken Griffin went hunting for its best energy traders. One of Citadel’s biggest targets was John Arnold, who had reportedly made Enron ~$750 million trading natural gas the year before. “They sent a whole team down to Houston, set up offices in the hotel across the street from the Enron building and just started interviewing almost everybody on the floor.” Arnold kept saying no. Then Griffin called Arnold at the airport and asked if he could talk. Arnold told him he was headed to Colorado. “[Griffin] calls back a few minutes later and says, ‘If I come to Colorado tomorrow, will you meet with me?’” Arnold took the meeting, but ultimately decided the economics were better if he went out on his own. The rest is history: Arnold founded Centaurus Energy in 2002. Five years later, at 33 he became the youngest billionaire in America.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger really wanted to play the hero in the first Terminator movie. He thought O.J. Simpson was going to be Terminator. Then he made the mistake of explaining to director James Cameron exactly how OJ had to play the part. Cameron was amazed and asked Arnold on the spot: “Why don’t you play Terminator?!” HOWARD STERN: “You wanted to be Kyle Reese.” ARNOLD: “That’s right.” STERN: “And the director said to you, ‘Hey, man, are you crazy? The movie’s about the Terminator.’ How did you beat out those guys?” ARNOLD: “I think what happened was it was a total coincidence because I didn’t even try out for Terminator. I was trying to be Kyle Reese. “And during the lunch when I met with James Cameron, the director... I kept talking all the time about the Terminator. I said to Cameron, ‘It doesn’t matter. I know you guys have already probably hired O.J. Simpson. But whoever is playing it, I just want you to be clear. He has to train himself to dissemble weapons and to put weapons together and to shoot and to load the weapons and all of this stuff blindfolded, totally blindfolded.’” “‘Because a Terminator can never, ever look down at his hand, what he’s doing, because he’s a machine. He’s a robot. When he walks, he has to have a certain walk, meaning he scans and looks around. He has to have a certain scan. It has to be absolutely clear at all times that this is a machine with absolutely no human behavior.’” “But this went on like this for an hour, what I just did.” STERN: “You didn’t even know you were excited.” ARNOLD: “No, no, because I saw the Yul Brynner character in Westworld where he played the machine. And so I was so, you know, kind of amazed at his performance. And he was an extraordinary actor.” STERN: “Fabulous.” ARNOLD: "So I kept talking about this and talking about how he has to walk, how he has to get up and how he has to tear his flesh out and how he has to operate on his eye. And, you know, no pain and no feelings.” “And James Cameron looked at me at the end of the lunch, and he said, ‘So why don’t you play Terminator? I mean, you understand him so well, this character. This is exactly what we need.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no, Jim, please. I counted the amount of lines. This guy says it’s 27 lines. In Conan, I had 128 lines. So I’m not gonna go backwards. You can give it to someone else. But I want to talk a lot. I want to perform. I want to be the leading man.’ “He says, ‘I will make that guy the leading man. It’s called the Terminator. I will shoot it from below up. You will look heroic. And don’t worry about killing all those people, because you’re a machine. No one is going to blame Arnold. You’re a machine. You’re acting as a machine.’”

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Hundreds of people show up for the funeral of a World War II veteran with no family in Massachusetts. WWII Veteran John Bernard Arnold III, a 98-year-old living in East Bridgewater, was only 6 when his mother died. His father passed away when Arnold was in his 20s. Arnold never married and never had kids. The veteran planned his own funeral about 10 years ago, wanting people to know about his deep faith and his love for the United States. By the time of his death, Arnold had no remaining blood family, but started a "new family" with his friends at the Garrison Veterans Home. "He walked into the room and he lit up the room. No matter what you are going through, he always knew how to bring a smile, make you laugh," said caretaker, Hailey Munroe. When information about his funeral was posted online, hundreds of people in the community decided to show up and honor his life. "Nobody should have to go alone, I don’t care who you are," one attendee said. Rest in peace, John.

Hundreds of people show up for the funeral of a World War II veteran with no family in Massachusetts. WWII Veteran John Bernard Arnold III, a 98-year-old living in East Bridgewater, was only 6 when his mother died. His father passed away when Arnold was in his 20s. Arnold never married and never had kids. The veteran planned his own funeral about 10 years ago, wanting people to know about his deep faith and his love for the United States. By the time of his death, Arnold had no remaining blood family, but started a "new family" with his friends at the Garrison Veterans Home. "He walked into the room and he lit up the room. No matter what you are going through, he always knew how to bring a smile, make you laugh," said caretaker, Hailey Munroe. When information about his funeral was posted online, hundreds of people in the community decided to show up and honor his life. "Nobody should have to go alone, I don’t care who you are," one attendee said. Rest in peace, John.

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