The Real Chopper Read: Part 1 - Man or Myth

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  • The notorious Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is a name we associate with crime and violence in Australian society. While Chopper himself has confessed to a number of horrific crimes, how much of it was true?
    In this two-part Crime Insiders special, we meet his first manager, Andrew Roper, who explains the beginning of Chopper's rise to fame.
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    00:00 - Intro
    00:53 - Aaron Jeffrey on portraying Chopper Read
    03:57 - Chopper Read gets a manager
    11:01 - Branding Chopper Read
    17:25 - Problems at home
    24:15 - Outro
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  • @surechautauqua1296
    @surechautauqua1296 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    Prefer Chopper to Roger Rogerson any day. Listening to Rogerson in those Pub tours would’ve just shit me. At least Chopper was making the best of his abilities and hand that was dealt him in life. Rogerson was a disgrace.

  • @JamesDio-yu5yd
    @JamesDio-yu5yd 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    How did he punk us he said, "Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story "

  • @rumplestiltzkin5451
    @rumplestiltzkin5451 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Havin a beer with chopper & a mate - I didn't hardly utter a word. His reputation preceded him. He was really a character with the gift of the gob. I was shittin meself for no reason! Power perceived is power achieved

  • @steviejhall8721
    @steviejhall8721 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Legend

  • @paddyc9653
    @paddyc9653 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    From Scotland. Chopper, Ned and then whoever. Only Aussie crims most of us know off.
    Well done mark,, you’re on the list ya mad bstrd yea.

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    i'm from Liverpool UK so i'm hardly gonna be impressed by Chopper when i grew up knowing blokes like this

    • @Trailhiker1
      @Trailhiker1 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yep. You's have Purple Aki instead

  • @dollyG1968
    @dollyG1968 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Chopper was an absolute legend- he was a beauty

    • @jase4270
      @jase4270 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      He was also Australia's biggest nark

    • @stoneworx09
      @stoneworx09 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@jase4270and big on telling his cell mates stories as his own

  • @willmoore7582
    @willmoore7582 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    What a guy. Of all the criminals in the world, I would love to have met and bought this guy a beer (VB probably) 😉

    • @Dan_themaestro
      @Dan_themaestro 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I did meet him and did in fact buy him a VB 😂
      Funny guy for sure

    • @popcornshiner3937
      @popcornshiner3937 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah the brain washed

  • @FeralVG
    @FeralVG 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Heath Franklin packed Bendigo’s Capital Theatre in April 2012 with his Chopper show but Chopper Reid’s show was refused at a Bendigo pub because of the potential backlash. Chopper wasn’t pleased.

    • @cameronheidelauf9623
      @cameronheidelauf9623 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I am glad that I have met the real mark chopper read himself and I gotten a picture taken with me and himself standing together it was at sexpo in Melbourne

    • @paddyc9653
      @paddyc9653 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What was he like proper. Av seen his books and few others, seems a decent guy just lost looking for a pal.

    • @geoffhipwell2198
      @geoffhipwell2198 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@paddyc9653
      In those books he mentions being mates some 'heavy' people. Most were buddies of mine here in Sydney. Chopper was a Melbourne boy. Most of them say that they've never met him!! Make your own conclusion.

    • @user-pq2no9uh8d
      @user-pq2no9uh8d 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Heavies..? My ass.. My uncle..(My mum's middle brother).. 2 tours of duty in Vietnam '66..'67.. A true fucking mad man in his day,even approached by Dennis Allen to be one of soldiers.. Gave Fuckwit Flannery a warning he would never forget either..

  • @jamesmoran5192
    @jamesmoran5192 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Chopper Read is a hero to millions of people.

    • @mikeoz4803
      @mikeoz4803 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thats because millions of people are dumb! Read was a psychotic liar & thug! end of story!

  • @shawn93564
    @shawn93564 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    He Survived and had a giggle of a shit life and made the best of it , as you do if you want to live 😂😂👍🇦🇺🤘🏼🤘🏼🍺🍺🍺💯

    • @vinrin9735
      @vinrin9735 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes Wright ON

  • @ChucklesMcGurk
    @ChucklesMcGurk 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    A violent father and a strict schizophrenic mother, what do you expect is going to turn out?

  • @user-vg5rv5xf4u
    @user-vg5rv5xf4u 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Do one on Dennis Allen mate!

  • @Evileyeboris
    @Evileyeboris 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I did some tine with chopper back in pentridge in the 80s..not much but some. Lets just say that he was different, had a few links missing. He only targeted the ones who highlighted themselves..

  • @Nugzz187
    @Nugzz187 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The russian roulette with the reporter was classic TV through

  • @Phillip-tw8qe
    @Phillip-tw8qe 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Chopper," bigger than Ned Kelly"? Seriously??

    • @willmachado1
      @willmachado1 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ned was only 71kgs, Chopper was 100kg +

  • @mickeysmiths
    @mickeysmiths 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Chopper.. a jewel amongst gravel 👍

  • @jasonstewart6192
    @jasonstewart6192 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    He's no where near as big as Ned Kelly, about a %

  • @Nugzz187
    @Nugzz187 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn 😂😂😂

  • @cjod33
    @cjod33 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Chopper never persuaded the nation that he was a criminal genius, he was always straight up about his history.
    "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story " M B Reid.
    Fact is , some of it was true, some not, some exaggerated. He was a character with knack for spining a yarn.
    Do you honestly believe that all underbelly series are 100% accurate? Hope not.

  • @michaelwaters69
    @michaelwaters69 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    He never let the truth get in the way of a good story,….

  • @robertbenz2581
    @robertbenz2581 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Maybe he knew Wolfe Blass… or something 😮

  • @undefinedfirstnameundefine7820
    @undefinedfirstnameundefine7820 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved shand's book!

    • @LiSTNRCrime
      @LiSTNRCrime  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So did we!

    • @undefinedfirstnameundefine7820
      @undefinedfirstnameundefine7820 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LiSTNRCrime He kinda ruined the Chopper myth for me which was a bit sad but I still loved it! lol

  • @vinrin9735
    @vinrin9735 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If your looking for chopper only tape of him talking it all been said before from the loneRanger bang bang

  • @billyshane3804
    @billyshane3804 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Copper Read

  • @MediaMAC871
    @MediaMAC871 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Always the story teller . . .
    Maybe that’s better ?

  • @leedsutd-pq6kh
    @leedsutd-pq6kh 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    His dogs call Ron and Reg.

  • @luanzeka9846
    @luanzeka9846 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I knew Mark he was 1 of many guys in the old Nik in Coburg I nor liked, or disliked, I treat ppl how they treat me the guy if you knew Prison Culture in the 90s or earlier he was just another bloke indeed. I met alot ego Binse, Maladanich, even phat Carl Williams, Mark was no different, infact took the idea of the English Crooks have been writing Biography for decades & Mark took Aussie Based approach, before his book I didn't no who he was. Someone had his book in Torana YTC that's it.

  • @davechristian7543
    @davechristian7543 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    R u sure about that 'that hes more famous than Ned kelly n just so u no he didnt even write the book lol but he did tell on ppl we all no that one my friend #pmsl. ( him or wat he portrays in his book isnt anything like a modern day ned kelly, u might think so but no one els does lol

  • @Aussie-des420
    @Aussie-des420 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    True 😂

  • @broderickwallis25
    @broderickwallis25 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    'ear taday, the uva one hone tomorrow

  • @roycooper8735
    @roycooper8735 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Of course he was a fake

    • @Sloppyjoe7390
      @Sloppyjoe7390 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Pfft get real buddy about as fake as you

  • @Auty1973
    @Auty1973 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Wot about Neville Facking Bartoss

  • @popcornshiner3937
    @popcornshiner3937 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    He is nothing more than a showman, He just thought he would make a persosona of a crazy guy, He was just full of himself and that is all that mattered to him, he never killed anyone and is all a show. but He did make me laugh

  • @David-xx4xq
    @David-xx4xq 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I've knocked more than 40 why ain't I famous 🤔

  • @David-xx4xq
    @David-xx4xq 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Man or myth 🤣😂 more like, Muppet or Puppet 🤣😂

  • @chrisclark010266
    @chrisclark010266 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You milked Uncle Chop Chop and drank waine

  • @broderickwallis25
    @broderickwallis25 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    .

  • @anthonysinclair154
    @anthonysinclair154 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Funny how nobody talked smack about him when he was still alive hey. And the so called gangsters he talked smack about just smiled and hid under their rocks until they got put under granite headstones. The Chopper I met on a few occasions was a great bloke and a gentleman to my mother. God bless him I say.

    • @baabaabaa-yp2jh
      @baabaabaa-yp2jh 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's not 100% true mate, there's a few gd reasons why he got outa Dodge (Melb) and went to Tassie...
      They just didn't write it down and whack it in a book.

    • @s.morrison2126
      @s.morrison2126 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Reid was given evening therapy on a daily basis...kick ups, doors banging, screaming. Along with Mr Stinky, Paul Haigh and Peter Allan Reid, Mark Reid got revved up more often than not. He sided with the enemy and was called out for it. Oh and hid in the laundry!

  • @Sloppyjoe7390
    @Sloppyjoe7390 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    How fucking dare you talk down on uncle chop chop!

  • @pkune5158
    @pkune5158 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Chopper was a absolute clown, Nothing more then that.

  • @666dualsport
    @666dualsport 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    how boring

  • @grahamchilds821
    @grahamchilds821 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    A fake

  • @Take_NotesSuperHooverweight
    @Take_NotesSuperHooverweight 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Of course he wasn't a fake!!!! Who's speaking this rubbish??

    • @dds94
      @dds94 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      He was

    • @geoffhipwell2198
      @geoffhipwell2198 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He was 'full of it'.

    • @user-lu6kw5bb6z
      @user-lu6kw5bb6z 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And an extra shovel full beyond that....

  • @user-ee7fi7pv5t
    @user-ee7fi7pv5t 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Come From Possilpark Glasgow, If CHOPPER Went There, He, Would Be A Minnow, Amongst Sharks, They Pushed People Like CHOPPER Out Of The Way, To Get Into The Fight.❤😂

  • @SHEEPFETTISH
    @SHEEPFETTISH 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    www.youtube.com/@JamesDio-yu5yd
    Was that Mark Twain?