Brain Drain Episode 10 with Toby Batchelor and Forde Brookfield 🧠 00:00 - Intro 01:02 - Our very special guest is Nick Zorla 01:20 - What is Zorlacs body clock, lifestyle pattern & real last name? 05:10 - What time does Toby wake up in the morning? 06:51 - How does Zorlac work around an opposite sleep pattern and has there ever been a time when Zorlac has travelled to a country with a huge time difference that his sleeping pattern has been regular? 09:45 - Zorlacs meaning of life... 12:02 - How does Zorlac work around sending out board orders for stores whilst being awake through unsociable orders? 14:54 - Where does Zorlac run the Death Skateboards operation from and the madness of the House of Doom? 21:35 - How did Zorlac meet Richie Jackson whilst on a trip to Australia and also end up sponsoring Patrick Melcher years later? 29:27 - Forde meeting Zarosh at the "Into the Void: premiere at the house of Vans, London. Zarosh screen printing his own pro boards and shipping them over from the States to the U.K., mining gold for the aliens. Forde & Toby's matching Death Skateboards tattoos. 34:30 - Death Skateboards Ordinary Madness premiere, police cars, riot vans and drunken madness. Skating full pipes and the potential to drown if the reservoir opens. Richie Jackson thanking Zorlac for finding him many years prior in Australia. 43:36 - Into the Void premiere at the House of Vans, London being the busiest U.K. skateboarding video premiere of all time. 44:50 - Illegal tricks and lines in the 90's, the brilliance of skateboard graphics, people collecting decks that don't skate, endless skateboarding variations and infinite skateboarding. 52:46 - Achieving complete euphoria when learning skateboarding tricks regardless of your age, inventing tricks you've personally never seen before. 1:01:52 - The greatness of Mark Nicolson and realising that Nicolson was one of the original kids asking for Death Skateboards to produce skateboarding decks, the first Kickflip Coffin Grind, lens hits and tapeless VX1000's, 1:07:31 - Who's been the best Death Skateboards filmer over the 25 years? 1:08:21 - How did Zorlac meet Zarosh, distributing P-Stones VHS tapes, taking P-Stone to crush English spots, eventually meeting Zarosh and reconnecting with old friends in foreign countries 20 years later. 1:16:45 - Old Death stalkers and lurkers. 1:17:52 - The legend of Matt Bain, driving 3 hours for a beer, avoiding being knocked out, meeting the singer from the Fine Young Cannibals, Matt Bain snapping his tooth, gluing it back in and getting a horrid face infection. 1:25:20 - The wide range of artists used to design skateboard decks for Death Skateboards, who made the Cates is a C**t graphic?, punching doors off its hinges. 1:30:32 - Working with Fos after meeting at Harrow Skatepark in the early 90's, distributing Heroin Skateboards, distributing Heroin Skateboards for 15 years and friendships loyalty. 1:32:20 - Forde's fake graphics for Death Skateboards, Toby's guest pro filmer wheels and more artwork submissions for future Death Skateboards graphics. 1:40:18 - Nick Zorlacs new band "Vermin Control" and band practises in Tesco carparks in Watford out the back of a transit van. 1:42:40 - Zorlacs favourite U.K. and U.S skateboarders. skateboarding, the importance of skateboarding on social media, distributing Consolidated in the U.K. and meeting John Cardiel at Harrow Skatepark. 1:58:58 - Why has Nick Zorlac never given himself a pro board on Death Skateboards? 2:06:02 - Death Skateboards is 25 years old, business issue, the impact of Covid, issues with fellow distribution companies, who's had the most pro graphics on Death? 2:16:08 - Nick Zorlacs new clothing brand "Consume" 2:22:13 - What's going to happen in the next 25 years with skateboarding and Death Skateboards, why are board prices becoming so expensive? 2:26:50 - What is Zorlacs favourite Death video? 2:38:38 - How often does Zorlac skate?