Brain Drain Episode Seven with Forde Brookfield and Toby Batchelor đź§
Join us for two hours and 15 minutes of skateboarding history.
In this episode we discuss gimps, starting riots, Mike V, ADHD, NBD's, magazine covers, crazy fans, unreal tours, first sponsors, drugs, alcohol & sobriety, Pritchard vs Dainton, Witchcraft, Creature, airport dramas and much more!
00:29 - Which ones Brain and which ones Drain?
00:49 - Welcome to Season Two of the Brain Drain Show with special guests...
01:11 - Dainton & Habgood and their travels upto the podcast
02:08 - Getting cancelled and seeing Daint do some crazy shit in real life + ideas too risky to film
03:30 - G97, Dainton meeting Dan Joyce for the first time ever, Habgood starting riots and Mike V
05:39 - Enter the Gimp, groping Ed Templeton and ADHD
07:30 - Dan Joyce staying at the Warner Ave house with Reynolds, the Baker crew and Shiny Bell Attire
09:02 - Birmingham arena show, pissing in your own mouth and piss shyness
10:12 - Habgood's part in Purpose Built, BS Heelflip down Lloyds in Bristol and last minute video editing in the premiere night
11:19 - When did Habgood start skateboarding?
14:30 - Who was the first person Habgood ever met skateboarding?
17:42 - What was Habgood's first proper sponsors in skateboarding?
18:54 - Habgood talks us through his first photo in a skateboarding magazine which ended up being the cover itself...
21:30 - What other covers did Habgood have? and how many did he have?
26:00 - What is Dainton's net worth? Where exactly does his source of wealth come from?
29:00 - When did Dainton start skateboarding?
32:32 - What's the wildest fan encounter Dainton has ever had?
34:57 - Dainton gives us the low down on the Pritchard vs Dainton VHS, working for footwear companies and getting up to no good...
39:58 - Why goes Habgood only use CAPITAL LETTERS when he sends messages
42:35 - ADHD talk and hinderances
44:37 - A brief history of drugs and alcohol
58:16 - One of Habgood's favourite Tom Penny stories
1:01:34 - What's going on with Kill City Skateboards?
1:07:02 - Fighting Ben Leyden, airport drama and selling the story to a newspaper
1:10:50 - The history of Dainton riding for Death Skateboards, tours, hot sauce pranks and insane popularity
1:12:52 - Dainton's Satan Sauce
1:16:52 - Was Death Squad the Movie the first video Dainton starred in and getting Pritchard to quit Rookies Skateboards to ride for Death Skateboards
1:23:01 - Habgood's history of riding for Witchcraft, getting boards from Creature, Shiner Distribution and French's artwork
1:28:25 - Pritchard & Dainton joking to one another about various sponsorships and pro shoe endorsements until they both eventually getting paid and pro shoes on Etnies & Globe footwear
1:34:04 - What's Dainton's relationship with Pritchard in 2023, future video ideas between Dirty Sanchez & Baghead Crew and 20 years of Pritchard vs Dainton
1:36:20 - Filming full length skate videos, people getting bored of waiting and the long process of making full length skateboarding videos in 2023
1:39:47 - Receiving numerous DM's about skate spots, people struggling to find links in your bio, blatantly ignoring flyers and posters and more
1:41:16 - What did Habgood do between riding for Creature, to Witchcraft and eventually Forty Skate Co?
1:46:30 - More Tom Penny stories and seeing Penny do insane things off camera
1:54:50 - What is Dainton's current camera set up?
2:04:03 - Dainton's fact about the Pritchard vs Dainton video to Habgood
2:04:52 - Habgood's 20+ years working in the skateboarding industry, being passively baked, Stu Grahams pierced nipples, tours, Rollersnakes video log's and more
2:13:46 - Sign off's, farewells and thank you's to Lee Dainton & Joe Habgood
2:14:20 - Credits
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