May 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Globetrotting sports feature reporter Brad Blanks is back in Louisville to meet and greet fans at the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby. The affable Aussie first connected with radio legend Scott Shannon on WPLJ-FM in New York, offering updates on Olympics games, Super Bowls, and other high profile events.
One of Brad Blanks' viral social media posts involves a humorous exchange with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler. Brad makes everyone laugh.
Enjoy this latest chat on WHAS live from Churchill Downs.
Brad and Terry have connected on the air for the past 24 years.
One of Brad Blanks' viral social media posts involves a humorous exchange with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler. Brad makes everyone laugh.
Enjoy this latest chat on WHAS live from Churchill Downs.
Brad and Terry have connected on the air for the past 24 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
W h and.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'll tell you who it can be now everybody's favorite
Australian roving reporter, Brad Blanks.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome back, Brad H. Terry, thanks my gifts. I'm back
in your beautiful state, your beautiful city. I love Louisville.
I've been coming here for twenty four years. This incredible town.
Thanks vil. I remember I first met you twenty four
years ago, and you'd gone from hanging out with Rick
Patino at the airport and then an now later you're
(00:37):
hanging out with me. So I was in esteemed company.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You are the smarter of those two interview subjects. I
can assure you he's just a basketball coach. Yes, that's okay.
You and I spoke a year ago. Where have you
been since we last spoke, because did you like, did
you wind up at the super Bowl? The Olympics? What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, yeah, yep, I've had a great run. Go to
the Olympics last year. This time I didn't go as
a worker, you know. In the last yeah, seven Olympics,
I've covered them. I covered them a lot for your
good friend Scott Shannon that you know WPLJ, ABC Radio.
And then I went on and did see the SFM
for the Olympics, and I did NBC a couple of times,
(01:18):
which was good fun. And and you to remember, I'm
not a serious reporter. All my reports are a little
bit off tilt. But last year I just decided to
take my wife and three children at the Paris Olympics
and not work. We just went as fans of the Olympics.
So you must have a lot of swimming. You must
have felt.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Against though, right, I mean, just because there you are,
and whenever a celebrity sees you, they laid up. I
remember you with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler and they
thought you were hilarious.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's right. Yes, that video just keeps going viral now
every three or four weeks. It's like people rip it.
I've entered some sort of matrix on the internet. And
it's I love that they a reporter. They called me
a reporter, and yes, I report on things, but I'm
by no means a serious man.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But you make friends everywhere, all right, So have you
spoken to any trainers this time? Did you talk to
Bob Bafford he's back. I know he's an old friend
of you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I ran into him last night
at Jeff Ruby's. He's kids, He's kids, They're like twenty
eight year old kids, and they brought me over to
the table. They said, Bob wants to see this. It's
like it was like meeting the mob boss. And I
paid homage, paid homage to the great man, and he
was fantastic. He was one of them. We exchanged a
few old stories and he even brought up the Jennifer
(02:39):
Aison Adam Sandler video. He goes, I'm just sitting there
at home by myself watching YouTube and somehow there's a
video of you scaring the heck out of Jennifer Andison
and Adam Sandler. But I had a good time last
night chatting the Bob again, and then this morning I
did an interview with him that I'm going to post
on my Instagram which is at Brad Blank's so you'll
(02:59):
see a a fun chat about more about Bob's life.
And this is a nice story for him coming back
into Churchill Downs and and being here at the end
of the day. He's a legend, you know, he's what.
He's six Kentucky Derby's and and he loves it. It's
a shame that he was pushed away for three years.
I know they you know he did the took his
(03:21):
punishment and he's back and hopefully there's some redemption there
for Welcho, Bob Baffett.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Check the back of your pants if you walked up
to his table, Jeff Ruys, he may have rubbed some
garlic butter on your behind and that's not legal either.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's right. I don't need any gallic but but I
near my butt happen my wife. My wife will think
I'll beating some exotic locations in Louisville to go home,
and you know, when I get back, I sort of
had a good trip as I'm coming down from mad
gambling and you know, doing crazy stuff here. But but
(03:55):
it was good to see Bob and the other one
Terry to the other trainer that you know, I think
is just a wonderful guy if you ever can get
him on your show, is Brian Lynch. He's he's based
out here on the back side. He's got his stables
here full time, year round, and he's Australian. He's from
a town called Waggle Wogger. It's an Aboriginal name. I
(04:16):
don't know what it means I should just make it
up and say it means you should fish or something. Yes,
we would all get it up.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Do you do so the two of you don't speak
some secret Australian language like twins or anything.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
We did. We had a really good yarn and we're
chatting away and at the end of it he has
a big party. If anyone wants to go to the
Brian Lynch party, just rock up Eddie Stables after the
Kentucky Derby tomorrow. And he said he's got a stable
hand there that I think her name's Teresa, and she
cooks them. He said, the cooks the best tacos this
side of Tijuana. It was just good to hear that
(04:51):
in an Australian accent. You bet.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And what horse does he have?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He has Owen almighty number twenty down the bottom of
the grace.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, he's got one outside of him now because they
added one and we've had two scratches. But anyway, that well,
good for him. We'll keep an eye on it. What
is on your calendar for the rest of the year
once you leave Louisville.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, this is good. You've got me excited. I'll definitely
be at the Belmont Steaks, which are up at Saratoga,
So that's in early June. And then I'm this is
a little bit different. I'm gonna go I love crickets.
I know that means nothing here in you in a
famous baseball town of Louisville. But I'm going to the
cricket in Barbados in late June, and then it'll be
(05:34):
a little bit quieter. But of course, as you know,
I love NFL, I love college football, so everything will
start firing up then and lead straight into the super Bowl.
But this becoming a sports reporter's kind of worked out
for me, which is which is fascinating in itself. I'm
getting to go to some even cooler events.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh, people love your posts online at Brad Blanks is
an Instagram only your YouTube too, right.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, your YouTube and Twitter as well. I'm every I'm
very easy to find. Yeah, come and say hello, and
I'll come and have a drink with you next year.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
On back we'll do that. And then in this cricket thing,
and that's not one of the ones where you have
to be quiet, right, I mean, aren't they swinging like
a boat or or something.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, yeah, yes, that's kind of like that's yes, that's funny.
It does look like a boat or yes, that's exactly
what it is. And that'll be in Barbados, so yeah,
that'll be pretty wild to fit down there, and by Baitos,
so the West Indians get a little bit sloppy, so
that'll be good fun. But yeah, you're dressed in white
and it's meant to be a gentleman's game. But in
(06:35):
the stands everyone's going to be off their heads drinking
rum and rum and pineapple juice.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I think so they're now being gentlemen. And well, listen,
it is great to reconnect with you, Brad. Sorry I
didn't see in person today. Maybe we'll bump in tomorrow.
But good to hear your voice again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Thanks Terry. Well, it's a beautiful day here. I don't
know if there's weathers planning up or off, but it's
a great crowd. Everyone looks beautiful. He'd ress in pink
at the Kentucky Oaks Social Dance today, said thanks for
having me all night.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Exactly right. I always tell people when they asked me
where's my pink, I say, check the back of my neck.
That's what it's that's what color. That is when the
sun gets me.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's right. I just SiGe away from that gallic bata. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Brad Blanks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Good to talk to you, brother. See you Harry by make.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Brad Blanks on social media. He is an Australian who
made friends with a radio personality in New York and
then his career has been hilarious and that's what he does.
He globed trots and throws reports at stations. He's worked
for all the different networks at one time or another.
Right back in a minute on news Radio eight forty
wh
W h and.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'll tell you who it can be now everybody's favorite
Australian roving reporter, Brad Blanks.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome back, Brad H. Terry, thanks my gifts. I'm back
in your beautiful state, your beautiful city. I love Louisville.
I've been coming here for twenty four years. This incredible town.
Thanks vil. I remember I first met you twenty four
years ago, and you'd gone from hanging out with Rick
Patino at the airport and then an now later you're
(00:37):
hanging out with me. So I was in esteemed company.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You are the smarter of those two interview subjects. I
can assure you he's just a basketball coach. Yes, that's okay.
You and I spoke a year ago. Where have you
been since we last spoke, because did you like, did
you wind up at the super Bowl? The Olympics? What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, yeah, yep, I've had a great run. Go to
the Olympics last year. This time I didn't go as
a worker, you know. In the last yeah, seven Olympics,
I've covered them. I covered them a lot for your
good friend Scott Shannon that you know WPLJ, ABC Radio.
And then I went on and did see the SFM
for the Olympics, and I did NBC a couple of times,
(01:18):
which was good fun. And and you to remember, I'm
not a serious reporter. All my reports are a little
bit off tilt. But last year I just decided to
take my wife and three children at the Paris Olympics
and not work. We just went as fans of the Olympics.
So you must have a lot of swimming. You must
have felt.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Against though, right, I mean, just because there you are,
and whenever a celebrity sees you, they laid up. I
remember you with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler and they
thought you were hilarious.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's right. Yes, that video just keeps going viral now
every three or four weeks. It's like people rip it.
I've entered some sort of matrix on the internet. And
it's I love that they a reporter. They called me
a reporter, and yes, I report on things, but I'm
by no means a serious man.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But you make friends everywhere, all right, So have you
spoken to any trainers this time? Did you talk to
Bob Bafford he's back. I know he's an old friend
of you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I ran into him last night
at Jeff Ruby's. He's kids, He's kids, They're like twenty
eight year old kids, and they brought me over to
the table. They said, Bob wants to see this. It's
like it was like meeting the mob boss. And I
paid homage, paid homage to the great man, and he
was fantastic. He was one of them. We exchanged a
few old stories and he even brought up the Jennifer
(02:39):
Aison Adam Sandler video. He goes, I'm just sitting there
at home by myself watching YouTube and somehow there's a
video of you scaring the heck out of Jennifer Andison
and Adam Sandler. But I had a good time last
night chatting the Bob again, and then this morning I
did an interview with him that I'm going to post
on my Instagram which is at Brad Blank's so you'll
(02:59):
see a a fun chat about more about Bob's life.
And this is a nice story for him coming back
into Churchill Downs and and being here at the end
of the day. He's a legend, you know, he's what.
He's six Kentucky Derby's and and he loves it. It's
a shame that he was pushed away for three years.
I know they you know he did the took his
(03:21):
punishment and he's back and hopefully there's some redemption there
for Welcho, Bob Baffett.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Check the back of your pants if you walked up
to his table, Jeff Ruys, he may have rubbed some
garlic butter on your behind and that's not legal either.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's right. I don't need any gallic but but I
near my butt happen my wife. My wife will think
I'll beating some exotic locations in Louisville to go home,
and you know, when I get back, I sort of
had a good trip as I'm coming down from mad
gambling and you know, doing crazy stuff here. But but
(03:55):
it was good to see Bob and the other one
Terry to the other trainer that you know, I think
is just a wonderful guy if you ever can get
him on your show, is Brian Lynch. He's he's based
out here on the back side. He's got his stables
here full time, year round, and he's Australian. He's from
a town called Waggle Wogger. It's an Aboriginal name. I
(04:16):
don't know what it means I should just make it
up and say it means you should fish or something. Yes,
we would all get it up.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Do you do so the two of you don't speak
some secret Australian language like twins or anything.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
We did. We had a really good yarn and we're
chatting away and at the end of it he has
a big party. If anyone wants to go to the
Brian Lynch party, just rock up Eddie Stables after the
Kentucky Derby tomorrow. And he said he's got a stable
hand there that I think her name's Teresa, and she
cooks them. He said, the cooks the best tacos this
side of Tijuana. It was just good to hear that
(04:51):
in an Australian accent. You bet.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And what horse does he have?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He has Owen almighty number twenty down the bottom of
the grace.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, he's got one outside of him now because they
added one and we've had two scratches. But anyway, that well,
good for him. We'll keep an eye on it. What
is on your calendar for the rest of the year
once you leave Louisville.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, this is good. You've got me excited. I'll definitely
be at the Belmont Steaks, which are up at Saratoga,
So that's in early June. And then I'm this is
a little bit different. I'm gonna go I love crickets.
I know that means nothing here in you in a
famous baseball town of Louisville. But I'm going to the
cricket in Barbados in late June, and then it'll be
(05:34):
a little bit quieter. But of course, as you know,
I love NFL, I love college football, so everything will
start firing up then and lead straight into the super Bowl.
But this becoming a sports reporter's kind of worked out
for me, which is which is fascinating in itself. I'm
getting to go to some even cooler events.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh, people love your posts online at Brad Blanks is
an Instagram only your YouTube too, right.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, your YouTube and Twitter as well. I'm every I'm
very easy to find. Yeah, come and say hello, and
I'll come and have a drink with you next year.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
On back we'll do that. And then in this cricket thing,
and that's not one of the ones where you have
to be quiet, right, I mean, aren't they swinging like
a boat or or something.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, yeah, yes, that's kind of like that's yes, that's funny.
It does look like a boat or yes, that's exactly
what it is. And that'll be in Barbados, so yeah,
that'll be pretty wild to fit down there, and by Baitos,
so the West Indians get a little bit sloppy, so
that'll be good fun. But yeah, you're dressed in white
and it's meant to be a gentleman's game. But in
(06:35):
the stands everyone's going to be off their heads drinking
rum and rum and pineapple juice.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I think so they're now being gentlemen. And well, listen,
it is great to reconnect with you, Brad. Sorry I
didn't see in person today. Maybe we'll bump in tomorrow.
But good to hear your voice again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Thanks Terry. Well, it's a beautiful day here. I don't
know if there's weathers planning up or off, but it's
a great crowd. Everyone looks beautiful. He'd ress in pink
at the Kentucky Oaks Social Dance today, said thanks for
having me all night.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Exactly right. I always tell people when they asked me
where's my pink, I say, check the back of my neck.
That's what it's that's what color. That is when the
sun gets me.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's right. I just SiGe away from that gallic bata. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Brad Blanks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Good to talk to you, brother. See you Harry by make.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Brad Blanks on social media. He is an Australian who
made friends with a radio personality in New York and
then his career has been hilarious and that's what he does.
He globed trots and throws reports at stations. He's worked
for all the different networks at one time or another.
Right back in a minute on news Radio eight forty
wh
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