The Real Chopper Read: Part 1 - Man or Myth

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
  • 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.
    Crime Insiders is a LiSTNR Podcast that takes you beyond true crime. Get more of Crime Insiders: In Focus on the LiSTNR app 👉 www.listnr.com/category/crime
    LiSTNR Crime is the home of true crime podcasts.🎙️🕵🏻‍♀️ Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@LiSTNRCrime/...
    Follow us!
    🔍Instagram: listnrcrime...
    🔍Facebook: / listnrcrime
    🔍TikTok: / listnrcrimeteam
    Got a lead you've been working on? Share your thoughts on the latest episodes, breakthroughs, and theories in our Facebook group 👉 / crimeinsiders
    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
  • Розваги

КОМЕНТАРІ • 94

  • @JamesDio-yu5yd
    @JamesDio-yu5yd Місяць тому +20

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

  • @surechautauqua1296
    @surechautauqua1296 Місяць тому +23

    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.

  • @paddyc9653
    @paddyc9653 Місяць тому +4

    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.

  • @ChucklesMcGurk
    @ChucklesMcGurk Місяць тому +6

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

  • @dollyG1968
    @dollyG1968 Місяць тому +10

    Chopper was an absolute legend- he was a beauty

    • @jase4270
      @jase4270 Місяць тому +3

      He was also Australia's biggest nark

    • @stoneworx09
      @stoneworx09 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @rumplestiltzkin5451
    @rumplestiltzkin5451 Місяць тому +1

    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

  • @willmoore7582
    @willmoore7582 Місяць тому +6

    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 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @popcornshiner3937
      @popcornshiner3937 Місяць тому +1

      Yeah the brain washed

  • @FeralVG
    @FeralVG Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому

      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 Місяць тому

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

    • @geoffhipwell2198
      @geoffhipwell2198 Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому

      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..

  • @steviejhall8721
    @steviejhall8721 Місяць тому +8

    Legend

  • @shawn93564
    @shawn93564 2 місяці тому +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 😂😂👍🇦🇺🤘🏼🤘🏼🍺🍺🍺💯

  • @Phillip-tw8qe
    @Phillip-tw8qe Місяць тому +10

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

    • @willmachado1
      @willmachado1 Місяць тому +2

      Ned was only 71kgs, Chopper was 100kg +

    • @Winxodds
      @Winxodds 9 днів тому

      @@willmachado1He means reputation and place in Australian history

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 Місяць тому +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 27 днів тому +1

      Yep. You's have Purple Aki instead

    • @bazglsgw1208
      @bazglsgw1208 13 днів тому +2

      Yeah being from Glasgow with lots of family where u are I've met met lots of manics

    • @kevgorry1850
      @kevgorry1850 10 днів тому

      Am from Liverpool who ?

    • @garyrigby21
      @garyrigby21 10 днів тому

      @@kevgorry1850 ?

  • @jamesmoran5192
    @jamesmoran5192 Місяць тому +1

    Chopper Read is a hero to millions of people.

    • @mikeoz4803
      @mikeoz4803 Місяць тому

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

    • @billyshane3804
      @billyshane3804 4 дні тому

      Just shows how stupid people are. He was a nobody criminal who informed on others to police and prison warders.

  • @Evileyeboris
    @Evileyeboris Місяць тому +5

    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..

    • @user-ed6nv6ep8h
      @user-ed6nv6ep8h 26 днів тому

      Did you meet a Bikie from a well known Club.?

  • @cjod33
    @cjod33 Місяць тому +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.

  • @jasonstewart6192
    @jasonstewart6192 Місяць тому +5

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

  • @mickeysmiths
    @mickeysmiths Місяць тому +1

    Chopper.. a jewel amongst gravel 👍

  • @leedsutd-pq6kh
    @leedsutd-pq6kh Місяць тому +1

    His dogs call Ron and Reg.

  • @user-vg5rv5xf4u
    @user-vg5rv5xf4u Місяць тому +1

    Do one on Dennis Allen mate!

  • @anthonysinclair154
    @anthonysinclair154 Місяць тому +2

    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 Місяць тому +1

      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 Місяць тому

      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!

  • @Nugzz187
    @Nugzz187 Місяць тому

    The russian roulette with the reporter was classic TV through

  • @deanrobba6112
    @deanrobba6112 17 днів тому

    Don't care what anyone says, love the Man.

  • @michaelwaters69
    @michaelwaters69 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @robertbenz2581
    @robertbenz2581 Місяць тому +2

    Maybe he knew Wolfe Blass… or something 😮

  • @travismanning7413
    @travismanning7413 22 дні тому

    Only ones who grew up in that time period. Can talk about one's who grew up in that time period..
    Always remember that.

  • @undefinedfirstnameundefine7820
    @undefinedfirstnameundefine7820 4 місяці тому +1

    Loved shand's book!

  • @billyshane3804
    @billyshane3804 Місяць тому +6

    Copper Read

  • @mrtrik71
    @mrtrik71 21 день тому

    I lived in Ravenswood Tas. people there told me he was a scary man but hilarious.

  • @Nugzz187
    @Nugzz187 Місяць тому

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

  • @vinrin9735
    @vinrin9735 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @Nick-jx8in
    @Nick-jx8in 2 дні тому

    I personally think he’s at least on par with old Ned Kelly

  • @mrtrik71
    @mrtrik71 21 день тому

    He was real as a an enemy you’d be in trouble.

  • @MediaMAC871
    @MediaMAC871 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @luanzeka9846
    @luanzeka9846 Місяць тому +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.

  • @Nick-jx8in
    @Nick-jx8in 2 дні тому

    There hasn’t been a crim like him that’s for sure

  • @roycooper8735
    @roycooper8735 Місяць тому +3

    Of course he was a fake

    • @Sloppyjoe7390
      @Sloppyjoe7390 Місяць тому

      Pfft get real buddy about as fake as you

  • @davechristian7543
    @davechristian7543 29 днів тому +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

  • @broderickwallis25
    @broderickwallis25 Місяць тому

    'ear taday, the uva one hone tomorrow

  • @Aussie-des420
    @Aussie-des420 Місяць тому

    True 😂

  • @mrtrik71
    @mrtrik71 21 день тому

    The only reason this manager was sacked is because some leach probably tried to get in choppers ears to leaving him ?

  • @popcornshiner3937
    @popcornshiner3937 Місяць тому

    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

  • @Auty1973
    @Auty1973 27 днів тому

    Wot about Neville Facking Bartoss

  • @Kicking-m4c
    @Kicking-m4c Місяць тому +2

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

  • @pkune5158
    @pkune5158 Місяць тому +5

    Chopper was a absolute clown, Nothing more then that.

  • @Sloppyjoe7390
    @Sloppyjoe7390 Місяць тому +4

    How fucking dare you talk down on uncle chop chop!

  • @Kicking-m4c
    @Kicking-m4c Місяць тому +4

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

  • @chrisclark010266
    @chrisclark010266 Місяць тому

    You milked Uncle Chop Chop and drank waine

  • @broderickwallis25
    @broderickwallis25 Місяць тому

    .

  • @666dualsport
    @666dualsport Місяць тому

    how boring

  • @Take_NotesSuperHooverweight
    @Take_NotesSuperHooverweight Місяць тому +6

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

  • @grahamchilds821
    @grahamchilds821 Місяць тому +1

    A fake

  • @user-ee7fi7pv5t
    @user-ee7fi7pv5t Місяць тому +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 Місяць тому

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