Brain Drain Episode 15 with Toby Batchelor & Forde Brookfield 🧠 Join us for just under an hour 20 minutes of absolutely shocking, exploitive and secret insider information from one of the BBC's biggest child entertainers ever, the Art Ninja. In this episode we discuss working for the BBC, the birth of the popular kids TV show Art Ninja, skateboarding in Bristol, animation, fake adverts, tarantulas, saucy DM's, getting family and friends on his TV show much more! 00:00 - Coming up in this episode/Intro 01:00 - Toby's new vacuum cleaner 02:05 - This episodes special guest is none other than the Art Ninja himself, Ricky Martin 03:05 - The Art Ninja was once a professional skateboarder! 04:35 - Where is the Art Ninja from, growing up skating with Dibble and hitting his head at a skatepark 06:20 - Dibble stories and the character of Art Ninja... 08:25 - Toby initiating the conversation with Art Ninja & saucy DM's from random strangers on Instagram 11:35 - Starting with animation that eventually lead to skateboarding and directing 13:13 - Breaking into working for and creating media companies and eventually creating his own show which involves his family members 20:27 - The birth of Art Ninja for the BBC & budgets per episode 26:32 - Having to work with a tarantula 27:14 - The Art Ninja set, live Art Ninja & Brain Drain Podcast shows, judging art competitions and cameo appearances 30:07 - Being noticed in the streets for his Art Ninja history... 32:44 - Does Ricks partner watch Art Ninja? 34:12 - What celebrities have appeared on the Art Ninja show & who was one of the worst to work with? 36:51 - Why did Art Ninja end and has Ricky considered taking the show to another broadcasting company? 38:21 - Friends and family appearances throughout the show & being suckered in to targeted adverts. 40:40 - Does Forde know the Art Ninja theme tune? 41:27 - How can Forde and Toby get their own TV show, finding fishy emails in regards to friends being underpaid, self proclaimed nicknames and saved by the bell end... 44:17 - How long does it take to film each episode of Art Ninja 46:59 - Behind the scenes ninjas & ninjettes... 48:52 - How involved was Ricky with the editing process? 49:53 - Does Ricky have future plans of working in TV & does he have a manager? 52:48 - Rickys guests appearance on the TV show Justins House & creating fake commercials for brands... 55:22 - Has Ricky ever thought about making merchandise for Art Ninja? 1:00:15 - Who does Ricky skate with, Rex's & anonymous fan questions... 1:07:28 - Forces random experience wild swimming in Sheffield and more anonymous fan questions... 1:14:53 - Art Ninja draws Forde & Toby! 1:17:40 - Closing statements, final comments and credits... Presenters: Forde Brookfield & Toby Batchelor @tobybatchelor Edited by: Forde Brookfield @bagheadcrew Producer: Frazer Murphy @dontfollowfrazer Title animations: Mike Wright @michael_k_wright_design Theme tune: Shaun Hancock @shaunofthesad Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Youtube. https://linkin.bio/rollersnakes 🛠️ Need to BUILD a Skateboard?🛠️ Watch This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFxzawhNQv8&t=3s 💰Need to BUY Skateboards, Parts or Tools💰 Click Here: https://rollersnakes.co.uk/collections/skate?filter.v.availability=1 👀Need to WATCH more Skateboarding content?👀 Go to our Socials: TIKTOK 🎵 RollersnakesTV 🎵 https://www.tiktok.com/@rollersnakestv INSTAGRAM: 📸 Rollersnakes 📸 https://www.instagram.com/rollersnakes https://www.instagram.com/rollersnakesshopderby YOUTUBE: ▶️ RollersnakesTV▶️ https://www.youtube.com/rollersnakestv