Brad Blanks

My first big interview is with Bob Baffert.

You know, he's like the star of Churchill Downs.

He's won a few Kentucky Derbies.

And I remember I played that interview on Kevin Bartlett's show on RSN.

I brought two legends together.

It was a great moment as an up-and-comer in the world of sports reporting.

And I've never looked back.

This will be my 19th Kentucky Derby coming up this Saturday.

I grew up loving Derby Day and the Melbourne Cup and attending those as a young fella.

And I wanted to get here and experience Kentucky.

I've got to say that people are more on top of you here.

You're more squashed in, which leads to more banter, more laughter, I would think, in some areas.

Yeah, there is segregated from the millionaire's row.

Uh, but once you get in there into Millionaire's Row, it's, you know, women are throwing their hats in the air and guys are hanging off the rafters.

Um, but that's where you get your celebrity sightings, which adds another thing, you know, the likes of, I was there one year, uh, Tom Brady, you know, comes quite a bit actually.

And, uh, he was in there with, and he brought like the whole of his, uh, offensive line from the New England Patriots at the time.

And, uh,

And they didn't like the finer food there in Millionaire's Row, so they ordered like 20 pizzas.

They were just massive, you know, 150-kilogram men.

And Brady was around there having pizza slices and that.