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Events That Changed Australia - Season 1 Episode 4 -
The Birth Of The Bogan
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00:04The Aussie Bogan is the most unlikely cultural icon you can imagine.
00:11Probably not very sophisticated.
00:14The only Jim I go to is Jim Beam, that's about it.
00:17They are a little bit wild.
00:18Go Sydney, Sydney!
00:20One lunar ticket at a time, thank you.
00:22And yet, Bogan sits at the heart of our Australian identity.
00:26I mean, how did that happen?
00:28Yeah, mate.
00:31For much of Australia's history, we struggled with an identity crisis.
00:35My family came from Britain many moons ago, you know.
00:39There was a cultural cringe.
00:41And so you really wanted to be seen to be more British than not.
00:45Because that's how it ought to sound.
00:47Aussie Bogan's have helped us dismantle our cultural insecurity.
00:53So many Bogan's crossed the journey of Australia.
00:56I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you.
00:58Paul Hogan was the original Bogan.
01:01G'day, Paul.
01:02G'day, love.
01:03Shane Warne.
01:04It's beautiful, mate.
01:06Steve Irwin.
01:07G'day!
01:08Bob Hawke.
01:09I've made no attempt to hide my character.
01:14The story of the Bogan.
01:15Have you ruined your shoes?
01:16Oh, yeah.
01:18Is about Australia, excepting.
01:20You look a little dodgy.
01:21You think so?
01:23Who we are.
01:24Australians are fairly, which is a great Aussie word.
01:27There's a little bit of Bogan-ness in all of us.
01:31No one hurt him!
01:33No one hurt him!
01:50Today, the modern city of Sydney has risen from their first miserable penal colony.
01:57There was an enormous amount of shame and embarrassment of our convict roots.
02:03If you had convicts in your background, you didn't talk about it.
02:07It wasn't, you know, it wasn't a fun thing to do on Ancestry.com.
02:10Oh, I've got a convict.
02:12Nobody wanted associations with that.
02:14Pop-out trade.
02:15And so you really wanted to be seen to be more British than not.
02:19My family came from Britain many moons ago, you know.
02:22I proposed to deliver it to you in the Latin, because that's how it ought to sound.
02:27But at the heart of all this, it felt like we were living a lie.
02:34Because simmering below the surface was this raw and rich Australian culture and identity.
02:43So what we were waiting for, or who we were waiting for,
02:47was someone to stand up and speak and be who we really were.
02:53G'day.
02:54My name's Paul Hogan.
02:56And don't get between me and the viewers, Buffett.
02:58Fair go.
03:00Paul Hogan was the original Bogan.
03:08Paul Hogan, to me, is pretty much an Australian icon.
03:11You know, he worked on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
03:13He's a hard-working, like, salt-of-the-earth Australian.
03:18In 1971, he went on a TV talent show called New Faces.
03:25And he won.
03:26And from that point on, this character called Hoax just burst onto our screens.
03:32Well, I said, you better start her up, son. You're the mechanic.
03:35No, I can't start her up. It's not my job. I'm on the drive.
03:37A bit of hard work. It doesn't scare me, mate.
03:39That's the boy.
03:42The Paul Hogan show was just huge, phenomenal in Australia.
03:48People loved him.
03:50They saw themselves reflected in his antics.
03:54See this shirt? This shirt used to be white.
03:56I wear this all the time. It'd be bright open.
03:58I was little when Paul Hogan was on TV,
04:00but I do remember it was a big event, you know.
04:03He's an incredibly screened, charismatic guy.
04:06By the way, George and I are doing this without make-up.
04:09And that's sort of like working without a net, isn't it?
04:12Which one's the prettiest, me or George?
04:14Look at his Ben Hooter.
04:16And his sketches often featured characters,
04:19the kind of blokes that you'd bump into at the pub.
04:21And I've been on compo since 1967.
04:26Crooked back, um, migraine of piles.
04:30What Hogan's did was hold up a mirror to Australia
04:33without the cultural cringe,
04:35and Australians liked what they saw.
04:38Hogan's a 1975 builder's labour Australian,
04:41and a bit of a character.
04:42I'm not saying that every Australian's like that,
04:45or even that every Australian's got a bit of Hogan in them,
04:46but there's plenty of Hogan's out there in the pubs.
04:49And I tell you what, they're all right.
04:51My dad's just like Paul Hogan.
04:54Like, for real.
04:56G'day, Dad, how are you?
04:58Yeah, he's very good now.
04:59He has something that he wants to say.
05:00I just can't believe how big Alison's shoulders are getting,
05:03but I guess it had to happen from Carrie and Carl this one.
05:06Boo!
05:09Like, you know, we've all got a hoax in our life.
05:16Golly, there's so many people to thank.
05:18Mr. Whippy for a lend of the coat.
05:24Every Aussie factor that he portrayed on TV, he is like that.
05:28He was magic enough to sort of somehow be himself on TV,
05:31and be funny.
05:32I thought I was getting the gold one.
05:36Paul Hogan revealed a side of our identity
05:39that we'd been hiding.
05:43And it sparked something of a chain reaction.
05:50Australia, what's your favourite sport?
05:52Football.
05:53Snack.
05:53Pies.
05:54Animal.
05:54Kangaroos.
05:55And what's your favourite car, Australia?
05:57Holden.
05:57Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, I think, was Australia.
06:02We love football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars.
06:06The Bogan culture kind of relies on most of those listed in that TV commercial.
06:12Football and meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars.
06:16Makes sense to me!
06:17In the 70s, we really embraced Bogan in our popular culture.
06:24Cock that, you rotten pommy bastards.
06:26I was pretty little when it came out, but I do remember Barry McKenzie.
06:29He was played by Barry Crocker.
06:30You can't stick your head up a dead bear's bum.
06:32No, he was kind of always pissed and really inappropriate.
06:35Hey, what a colossal bit of skirt.
06:37Pretty funny, actually.
06:38I thought it was pretty funny.
06:39It was dry as a dead dingo's donger.
06:41So, pioneering comedians like Paul Hogan or Barry Crocker
06:45playing the character of Bazza McKenzie.
06:47Geez, no share a doubt.
06:49Gave us this template for the crass, unsophisticated Aussie bloke.
06:54But we had never seen a Bogan in a position of power.
07:01Until Bob Hawke came along.
07:03If they are going to withhold supply,
07:06they should take notice of the fact
07:08that the Australian Trade Union movement
07:10may very well think about withholding supplies.
07:14Bob Hawke came from the union movement.
07:16It's been a difficult and at times complex week
07:19for the ACTU Congress.
07:21He was a household name
07:22even when he was ACTU president.
07:25Mr Hawke, how much credence
07:26do you place in public opinion polls?
07:29I don't think they can ever be absolutely accurate,
07:31but you can't discard them.
07:33And he read the fact that this morning
07:34indicates that your popularity has risen
07:37beyond all expectations.
07:39That's not a bad public opinion poll.
07:41Bob Hawke was actually
07:43an incredibly sophisticated, educated man.
07:47But he was a Bogan.
07:48As head of the trade union movement...
07:50And we'd never seen a bloke like Bob Hawke before.
07:53...with a recklessness just about unprecedented.
07:57He was a huge contrast to Malcolm Fraser,
08:00who's kind of this genteel squatocracy.
08:03There's been a pretty severe drought
08:06in many parts of the country
08:07and having that in mind,
08:08I think prices have held up very well indeed.
08:12Possibly what Malcolm Fraser was not anticipating
08:15was just how popular a bloke like Bob Hawke was.
08:20Voters seemed keener than usual today
08:22to get their votes in.
08:23And come the 1983 election,
08:26Hawke had a landslide victory.
08:29When the result became obvious,
08:30just before midnight,
08:31Bob Hawke, the new Prime Minister,
08:33emerged at the national telly room with wife Hazel.
08:36He greeted the thousands who cheered him with these words.
08:39I want to thank all the people of Australia
08:41who voted for us,
08:42and I want to tell all the people of Australia,
08:44however they voted,
08:45that it's a government for all the people.
08:47Bob Hawke, in that kind of roustabout, blokey way,
08:52he tapped into a certain kind of nationalist pride
08:55that we want to have in our leaders.
09:00When victory finally came,
09:02it was pandemonium,
09:04as Australia too crossed the line.
09:07Prime Minister Bob Hawke turned up
09:09to join in the celebrations
09:10and was quickly swept away in the elation of the moment.
09:14It's just indescribable.
09:16I'm grounded champagne.
09:18And the absolute euphoria
09:21that Hawke showed
09:22when Australia won the America's Cup.
09:24It felt like we were all in this together.
09:26I tell you what,
09:27any boss who sacks anyone
09:29for not turning up the day is a bum.
09:32We ate that up.
09:34I think you've got consensus on that,
09:37Mr Prime Minister.
09:42Bob Hawke really owned who he was.
09:45I'm going to really let my hair down
09:47and have a, as I say,
09:49a double dash of lime in the mineral water.
09:51And that gave permission to everybody else
09:53to be who we are.
09:55If we're going to be a nation of zombies,
09:57we may as well declare it a national holiday anyway.
10:02The 1980s was an explosion of Australian culture.
10:09We discovered the magic of Men At Work,
10:12an incredible band featuring the wonderful Colin Haye
10:15and their smash hit, Down Under.
10:19It was a great band.
10:20Lots of fun,
10:20had that reggae influence,
10:22incredibly well played by a great band.
10:27It's still an awesome tune decades later
10:30and it makes me proud to be Australian.
10:40Suddenly, we started to see Australian culture
10:44reach out more into the world.
10:50It started to become like possible
10:52that we could be this independent country,
10:55proud of who we were.
10:59Instead of our country being this place
11:02at the other end of the earth,
11:04it showed we were our own nation.
11:06So here we are, this little nation.
11:08We want the whole world to pay attention
11:10and to come and visit us.
11:11And so, who do we throw out to represent us?
11:15America?
11:16You look like you need a holiday.
11:18A fair dinkum holiday.
11:19In the land of wonder.
11:21The land down under.
11:35By the 80s, the cultural cringe faded.
11:40It was a turning towards things
11:43that previously we'd been a bit embarrassed about.
11:46Being unsophisticated, being ochre
11:48and suddenly feeling like that's quite a good thing.
11:51Finally, we were comfortable enough
11:53to reveal our true selves to the rest of the world.
11:56Shuttle control.
11:58This is a rural tracking station, Australia.
12:00But, how would the rest of the world
12:02see the real Australia?
12:04Australia offers a zoo full of the world's
12:06more colourful creatures.
12:07The kangaroo, the wombat and the koala.
12:10Now consider Australia's latest exotic export.
12:14America?
12:15You look like you need a holiday.
12:17A fair dinkum holiday.
12:19In the land of wonder.
12:21The land down under.
12:23Who do we throw out to represent us?
12:26Hoag's in his little shorts and his little tank top
12:29and on the barbie.
12:31Come on.
12:32Come and say g'day.
12:33I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you.
12:36Throw another shrimp on the barbie
12:38was really that trigger moment
12:40for Australia announcing itself brashly
12:43with that broad accent, no apologies.
12:45Here we are.
12:46Get used to us.
12:47Now there's a few things I've got to warn you about.
12:49Firstly, you're going to get wet.
12:52Because the place is surrounded by water.
12:54Oh.
12:55And you're going to have to learn to say g'day.
12:58Because every day is a good day in Australia.
13:00G'day Paul.
13:01G'day love.
13:02And I love the way they thought,
13:04what is it that makes Australia unique
13:09and somewhere where people would want to visit?
13:11Morning's quiet. G'day Hobbs.
13:12And it was the people.
13:13Of course, you'll have to get used to some of the local customs,
13:16like get a suntan at a restaurant,
13:19going football without a helmet,
13:20and calling everyone mate.
13:22Thanks, mate.
13:23She's right, mate.
13:24I think the Paul Hogan ad was huge for Australia
13:27because it showed we were different from the Brits.
13:29We were not as uptight,
13:30and it showed we had a great sense of humour.
13:34Apart from that, no worries.
13:36You'll have the time of your life in Australia.
13:38Of course, we talk the same language.
13:40Although you lot do have a funny accent.
13:42The Paul Hogan ad embraced the Bogan,
13:46and he said to the world,
13:48we're here and we want you to come and hang out with us.
13:52Come on.
13:52Come and say g'day.
13:54I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you.
13:56Come and say g'day.
13:57Come and say g'day.
14:02I think the Paul Hogan ad changed everything,
14:06and it was incredibly brave
14:07because we had never shown ourselves to the world like that before.
14:13I don't think anybody expected the world to love Hoag's the way that we did.
14:28Campaigns being hailed by the ad gurus of Madison Avenue
14:31as the most successful travel promotion ever anywhere.
14:36Phone inquiries from instant Hogan fans from LA to New York
14:40are already running at around 3,000 a day.
14:43When the ad ran in America, it was a phenomenal success.
14:47I see a lot of Americans missing around this country.
14:50They must be flocking down there.
14:52They're down there in their millions.
14:54We weren't invited to the world party.
14:56We gatecrashed the world party,
14:57and we've been hanging out on their couch ever since.
15:00You recognise this guy?
15:01Ain't that the dude on the commercial web?
15:04They'll be saying, hey, mate.
15:05Hey, mate.
15:06That's it. You've got it.
15:07We love it when we get attention from countries
15:10that we think are better than us.
15:12And at that stage, we thought America was better than us.
15:15It's like being the quiet kid in the class
15:19and suddenly the cool kid wants you to sit and have lunch with them.
15:22Like, that's what it was like.
15:23He doesn't look, um...
15:25What is that, an Aborigine?
15:27No, he's not an Aborigine.
15:28That's true.
15:33That shrimp on the barbie ad was a game-changer for Australian tourism.
15:37Americans love him.
15:39But Hoag's was just getting started.
15:41And the next thing you know, we heard word of a movie.
15:54Last night in Los Angeles, this group saw a sneak preview of the movie
15:57and all that talk about Americans not getting the jokes,
16:01not understanding the accents, was wrong.
16:03It's a tremendous picture.
16:04The script, the story, it was really very nice.
16:07I thoroughly enjoyed it.
16:09I reckon it says a lot that Crocodile Dundee is still the most successful Australian film ever made.
16:15And that people are still watching it today.
16:17Hoag's himself couldn't have scripted a more fitting world launch.
16:20Hoag's was talented, absolutely talented,
16:24but that was just the right role for him at the perfect time.
16:33Crocodile Dundee lit the fuse for the Australian film industry.
16:37And then that started something.
16:39Then all of a sudden we're sending out Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,
16:43strictly ballroom, dead calm.
16:47These movies held up a mirror to who we are.
16:50And we could see ourselves just common people with big hearts.
16:56Muriel's Wedding is a great film because there's a real depth to it.
17:01There's tragedy, there's heart.
17:03I'm married! I'm beautiful!
17:06My favourite scene in Muriel's Wedding is something that I actually quote quite a lot,
17:10especially when I need to get out of somewhere real quick.
17:13See you, Mum.
17:15And she gets in the car saying goodbye to everyone
17:17and she just hangs out the window.
17:19Goodbye, love it too!
17:21Even when I'm at the Macca's drive-through,
17:22they're like, have a nice day.
17:23I'm like, goodbye! Goodbye, Macca's at Yaguna, goodbye!
17:26Love it.
17:29Why they were so extraordinary is that we loved them,
17:32but the world loved them.
17:33And that doesn't always happen.
17:35We're English!
17:39The whole thing was this cultural arrival for Australia.
17:44Say yes!
17:45I think the term bogans used to be a source of shame,
17:49but that started to change, and we started to say,
17:53well, this is who we are.
17:55How many times do I have to tell you green is not your colour?
18:00We'd arrived at this place of cultural confidence through comedy.
18:04That's the worst act I've ever seen in me life!
18:07He's a dorgan!
18:08He's a bloody magic!
18:10Entertainment.
18:12Ta-da!
18:13Through politics.
18:15Hey, look at this guy.
18:17How about that?
18:19And that set things up perfectly
18:22in the world of sport
18:24for one of our greatest bogans.
18:29Oh, that!
18:32It's beautiful, mate.
18:38Oh, that!
18:46I think Shane Warne, Love Him, of course,
18:49was the ultimate Aussie bogan.
18:52No airs or graces.
18:53He was just unashamedly himself.
18:57It's beautiful, mate.
18:59So Warne was this poster bogan, this pin-up bogan.
19:03He's got the bleached blonde hair,
19:05he's got the swagger, he's got the diamond earring,
19:08loves a drink.
19:09I mean, he's the bogan from Central Casting.
19:12When he first made it into the Australian Test side,
19:15there were plenty of knockers.
19:17Those who thought Shane's love of a good lark
19:20meant he wasn't made of the right stuff.
19:23I was a bit of a lad, I suppose, yeah.
19:25I used to like the good times
19:27and a bit of the nightlife and all that sort of stuff.
19:29He really is the people's hero.
19:31At the ripe old age of 23,
19:34Shane Warne has now been a match winner for Australia
19:37against Sri Lanka, New Zealand, the West Indies and England.
19:42But one thing about Shane, though,
19:43he did push the limits of what was acceptable.
19:49Shane Warne's career can be broken into three categories,
19:53wickets, weight and controversy.
19:56What he was doing behind the scenes was shocking.
20:01It made us question, how much would we tolerate?
20:06Dodgy texts and late night parties and big boozy sessions.
20:11Look, Warne, I don't know if we want to be talking about this
20:13before breakfast because it's just slightly disturbing,
20:15but he's been caught out in another sex scandal, unfortunately.
20:18Shane Warne, he had a lot of drama.
20:20A lot of things happened with him.
20:24I'd like to say that I'm absolutely devastated.
20:31Shane Warne, you know, had his scandals.
20:34He also had his problematic behaviour.
20:37Shane, do you have anything to say at all?
20:39But we loved him for it
20:41because he embodied that imperfect hero idea,
20:45which, again, is quintessential to the Australian Bogan concept.
20:50I want to try to find out what triggered a chubby,
20:53red-headed, cheese-sandwich-eating youngster
20:56to take up leg-spinning.
20:58Well, now I'm toned and an elite athlete.
21:01I still like cheese sandwiches.
21:03I've got blonde hair.
21:04We ignored his flaws
21:05and we focused on the good knock about Bogan that Warne was.
21:10You know, the guy could get around in a diamond earring,
21:14drinking Midori and lemonade,
21:16and we still thought he was cool Bogan, right?
21:21We all loved him.
21:23Then I'll sit back and have a few quiet beers
21:25and try and weigh it all up and work out what the future holds.
21:30Australians show a lot of tolerance for sometimes poor behaviour.
21:34They see themselves in these characters.
21:36They're very relatable
21:37and they come with pluses and minuses as well, like all of us do.
21:42I'm thankful for the people who have helped me through all this.
21:45It's been amazing.
21:52As we celebrate the Bogan, we also ask the question about
21:56where is the line?
21:58What's acceptable and what's not on?
22:06Corey, thanks for joining us.
22:07The only question that I can think to ask is what were you thinking?
22:12Corey Worthington will haunt me till the day I die.
22:17Um, I wasn't really.
22:22Did your parents say you could have a party?
22:25Um, no.
22:27On the day of the party, it was big news in Melbourne
22:32because it was completely out of control.
22:35500 people turned up, the air wing of the police force, the dog squad.
22:41They were climbing over people's cars.
22:43They were urinating into people's gardens.
22:47People said their children were terrified.
22:50What have your parents had to say, Corey?
22:53Um, I haven't really talked to them
22:54because every time they call I don't answer
22:56because, yeah, they probably tried to kill me.
22:58Corey was a Bogan who'd just taken it too far
23:01and I just went for it.
23:04Why don't you take your glasses off so we can see you?
23:06And then apologise to your neighbours for frightening them.
23:10Nah, I'll say sorry but I'm not taking off my glasses.
23:12Why not?
23:14Because they're famous.
23:17Because your glasses are famous.
23:19Yeah.
23:23When the journalist told them to take your sunglasses off
23:25he told them to go and f*** yourself in his way.
23:28People loved it.
23:29And he became, like, really popular and he went viral.
23:36If you do claim any kind of Bogan sensibility
23:38you must have a healthy, disrespectful authority.
23:42That's a classic Australian thing.
23:44OK, Corey, we've got to wrap this up
23:45but what would you say to other kids
23:47who were thinking of partying
23:48when their parents are out of town?
23:51Get me to do it for you.
23:53That's the day I got old.
23:55Get you to do it for you.
23:57Not don't do it.
23:59Nah, get me to do it for you.
24:02Best party ever so far.
24:03That's what everyone's been saying, so...
24:04I've interviewed Beyonce and Prince William
24:07and seven Australian Prime Ministers
24:09but Corey Worthington is the one that will be in my obituary.
24:14Well, we've got to go
24:15but I suggest you go away
24:16and take a good, long, hard look at yourself.
24:19I have.
24:20Everyone has. They love it.
24:32What's the parent status of your driver's licence?
24:35Aussie bogans have a notoriety for being risk-taken.
24:44That's the smell of it.
24:51And a lot of it is hilarious.
24:57But there is a limit to what the public is prepared to accept.
25:05And one of our greatest bogans found out the hard way
25:08that some kind of behaviour just won't fly.
25:14Right, you'd have no idea of knowing where he is.
25:17In fact, where is he?
25:19Like a... Oh, there he is!
25:22You're either sitting in your chair like this going,
25:24my, my goodness,
25:26or you're on, you know, going like this, watching the telly.
25:28There's nothing more Aussie than Steve Irwin
25:31and his khaki shorts and his outfit there
25:33mucking around with a crocodile.
25:39Ticking all the kind of expectations of other countries
25:41about Australia.
25:42Like Crocodile Dundee.
25:44Erwin was the real Dundee.
25:45You know what? I'm really lucky.
25:47All I've got to do is be me.
25:48I don't have to act.
25:49I don't have to bung anything on.
25:51I've just got to be me.
25:52And just, and people love it, you know?
25:54Like they're really being educated about wildlife
25:56and yet they're scratching their head going,
25:58is that guy crazy?
25:59I think Steve Irwin was such a legend here
26:02and internationally because he had such a passion for life
26:06and for like, you know, wildlife as well.
26:08I've been put on this planet to protect wildlife
26:11and wilderness areas,
26:13which in essence is going to help humanity.
26:15G'day!
26:16That's you going...
26:18It shows you it's pink!
26:19When Steve played cat and mouse with these big crocs...
26:22Next one, next one, we're going.
26:24We loved it.
26:26Because he understood the risks about his own safety.
26:30Can I give Monty a big kiss?
26:32No, you can't. I'd love to.
26:34I'd like to kiss him right on the lips.
26:37But then in 2004,
26:39he did something that it was almost hard to believe.
26:46Steve Irwin is the consummate publicity hunter,
26:49but he never in his wildest dreams
26:51thought that this stunt with his month old son
26:53would come back to bite him.
26:55Watch him! Watch him!
26:57And look!
26:59Good boy!
27:00When Steve Irwin dangled the kid with the crocodile...
27:05I mean, look, you really want to get that close
27:07or get your kids close to him?
27:08I don't know.
27:09His actions prompted howls of outrage.
27:12It shows that sometimes things could go too far,
27:15that there were limits to how far Australians
27:17would embrace that bogan characteristic.
27:20It provoked worldwide condemnation,
27:23tarnishing his star power in America.
27:25It seems in the name of entertainment,
27:27to put your child at risk
27:28was a fairly foolish thing to do.
27:33And at the same time,
27:34around this backlash,
27:36Irwin was in the running for Australian of the Year.
27:39And Steve was so loved,
27:41he could still have won it,
27:42but he withdrew from contention.
27:47The Australian of the Year for 2004 is Steve Waugh.
27:54And that was such a controversy,
27:55they gave it to Steve Waugh.
27:58I mean, I think maybe we should have given it to Steve Irwin anyway,
28:01because he was a real cultural ambassador.
28:04From Canada, Steve.
28:05Everybody loves you back there.
28:07They do? They do. In Canada?
28:10People overseas would know Australian stuff
28:13because of Steve Irwin.
28:14Now that you've got that goanna on your shoulder,
28:17you'll be a goanna lover for the rest of your life.
28:19Right on, look.
28:20Steve was so loved.
28:22That's the ticket, mate.
28:23Yeah.
28:24And the Australian Council were determined
28:27to give him the award the following year.
28:30Here.
28:30Look, look, look.
28:31But, tragically, that wasn't to be.
28:36Good evening.
28:37The controversial but much-loved crocodile hunter,
28:40Steve Irwin, has been killed
28:42in a freak accident off far north Queensland.
28:45It was the hug.
28:46The entire nation has felt like giving the Irwin family.
28:50And the courage and poise of a little girl
28:52stopped us in our tracks.
28:55My daddy was my hero.
28:58He was always there for me when I needed him.
29:02The outpouring of grief was really profound.
29:06We lost someone who, for many of us, was an absolute hero.
29:105,000 people packed the crocoseum.
29:13Many had never even met Steve, but everyone felt like a friend.
29:18Steve's send off could not have been more appropriate.
29:21Steve's ute was loaded up for its final journey,
29:24the last thing on his beloved surfboard.
29:27There were swags, there were surfboards.
29:31It was like the bloke was off to Bogan Valhalla.
29:34A simple Aussie boy who dreamed of changing the world,
29:37and in his own special way, he did.
29:40Irwin stayed authentic, Bogan, right until the end.
29:44We're blue.
30:05Australians love authenticity.
30:08What you see is what you get.
30:10And that's part of the charm of Bogan's.
30:12You look like you've got reasonable guns.
30:14You've been working out in the gym.
30:15You look reasonable, buddy.
30:17Mate, I don't go to the gym.
30:18I haven't been to the gym in years.
30:19The only gym I go to is Jim Beam.
30:21That's about it.
30:24Australians are looking for what's true blue,
30:26what's authentic, what's the real deal.
30:28Oh, we celebrate you.
30:33And the moment something smells fake,
30:37we turn on that in a heartbeat.
30:42From Paul Hogan and shrimps,
30:45to Delta Goodrum and Richie Benno,
30:47we've tried almost everything to encourage tourists.
30:51They tried to kind of recreate the shrimp on the barbie
30:54kind of ad with Lara Bingle.
30:56We've saved you a spot on the beach.
30:58And we've got the sharks out of the pool.
31:00This latest $180 million campaign features the blunt approach.
31:05The very blunt approach.
31:08So where the bloody hell are you?
31:12Where the bloody hell are you?
31:15It didn't quite work.
31:18You can't just put a chick in a bikini
31:20and think people are going to come to Australia.
31:24She doesn't look like the sort of person who would say,
31:26we're the bloody hell.
31:27She doesn't look like anything that she's ever said in her life.
31:30It's a very common word and I think it's fine.
31:35So I don't know, it didn't feel very genuine.
31:37Whereas the shrimp on the barbie thing, you know,
31:40it did feel like the real thing, you know.
31:42I think that's why it was more successful, you know.
31:44We got the ruse off the green.
31:46I think the number one part of being an Australian
31:49and particularly in the Bogan context is to be authentic.
31:54That's the lesson from that ad.
31:57We poured you a beer.
31:59Australians are really good at keeping each other honest
32:01and making sure that we're not fake.
32:04And if somebody does try that on,
32:07we all notice it straight away.
32:09So where the bloody hell are you?
32:12But there was one bloke
32:14who thought that the whole campaign was a shoo-in.
32:17When we've invited people around to our place
32:19and we've been waiting for them to come
32:21and they haven't shown up yet,
32:22we usually get on the phone and say,
32:23so where the bloody hell are you?
32:25And hence the nickname, Scotty from Marketing.
32:28It totally conveys the message with where the hell are you
32:30or where the bloody hell are you?
32:32And so we're just celebrating the fact
32:34that the campaign's got off to a great start.
32:37Funnily enough, he didn't last that long in the job
32:40after that campaign.
32:49Have a beer while we're going, Tim.
32:51Great to have you back, old friend.
32:55Once upon a time, I think Bogan was an Anglo term exclusively.
33:02But what's taken place over the last 15, 20 years
33:09is that Bogan is something that can be embraced
33:13no matter what your culture.
33:20If we strip the idea of the Bogan back to its core values,
33:25it's actually quite an inclusive concept.
33:29And I love the idea that there are elements of our migrant populations
33:33that are flying that Bogan flag so hard.
33:38What am I supposed to be?
33:40The Wobboy movie was very timely, you know?
33:49What it did culturally was great.
33:50It acknowledged Greeks and Italians and all those migrants that had come
33:53and, you know, I'm one of them.
33:54Well, if that's what they were going to call me,
33:58that's what I was going to be.
34:00In the early 2000s, they were becoming more multicultural
34:03and there was a lot more room for different kinds of people
34:07to represent the things that once upon a time
34:09only Paul Hogan represented.
34:11I think every show that I've done, I try and show what I see of Australia.
34:17And so when we did Fat Pizza, it was a mix of different people.
34:20It was Bogans and this person from Asia.
34:23That's the Australia that I saw.
34:25That's where them young chicks stooged me, man.
34:27Fat Pizza is another example of the multicultural Bogan.
34:31Most of Paul Fenwick's characters were unemployed, anti-authoritarian.
34:37What? Is it illegal to have a rocket in your backyard?
34:40Irreverent.
34:42Has anyone ever told you you're quite tall?
34:46Another one would be Super Wog.
34:48Happy Australia Day!
34:52Through his sketches on YouTube and stuff that he does,
34:54I think that's like a more modern version of a Bogan.
34:56I feel Australian today.
35:00More Australian than I have ever been.
35:02Yes, I'm Australian included.
35:04And the way that multicultural Australia has embraced Bogan,
35:09it shows that it's become a real part of Australia's modern identity.
35:14Now you've got, you know, all my gronks in my area,
35:16we're all on jet skis, bro.
35:18We're all fishing, doing all of that stuff.
35:20And these days, bro, we're all Bogans.
35:25Paul, who doesn't love a good mullet?
35:27That's the question we posed you in our very exclusive Today Show poll.
35:32Are mullets sexy?
35:38I think being called a Bogan now, it's definitely a positive.
35:43You know, as we've seen lots of football players embracing the mullet.
35:47They don't love his hair.
35:48I just want to clarify that on the record.
35:50It's almost like hipster, which was very cool.
35:54Now it's cooler to be a Bogan.
35:57First 10 subscribers, get to rub sunscreen.
36:00Up my arse crack.
36:02What is a Bogan?
36:06Well, you're bloody looking at two.
36:09Hey, it's bloody Bawley.
36:11How are you, mate?
36:12What's up?
36:13Mate, you bang like a bloody dunny door in a hurricane.
36:35One of the biggest threats that's facing the Bogan today is just how we are saturated with content from the
36:43US, from the UK.
36:44I am in complete command of the cockpit.
36:47Are you ready for the screaming fans?
36:49Oh yeah, it'll be fun.
36:50We've never done a video live like this.
36:53It risks diluting what it is to be Australian.
36:59But ironically, you only need to look at some Aussie creators on social media.
37:07To know just how cherished it remains to be Australian.
37:12Hey, it's bloody Bawley.
37:14How are you, mate?
37:15What's up?
37:15Social media is a blessing and a curse for lots of reasons.
37:18But in terms of showing real Aussie Bogan, the Bogan flavour is still alive thanks to social media.
37:25That was quick.
37:26Yeah, mate.
37:27Naughty to spiders.
37:29There's definitely people that we know that are more Bogan than us.
37:32Yeah, for sure.
37:33But I think, you know, we rock the mullets.
37:34Like, normally I'm just wearing socks because it's bloody cold.
37:36But normally I'm wearing no shoes or thongs.
37:38We both are.
37:39Neither of us are wearing undies.
37:40Yeah, no undies actually.
37:41Yeah, not wearing undies right now.
37:42They charge like a bull in a china shop.
37:45Fair dinkum.
37:47How's the bloody day on it?
37:48The culture of Boganism is kind of slipping in the country, right?
37:52As creators, we're like trying to be the modern-day Paul Hogan.
37:55We're trying to promote Australia.
37:56And by being a Bogan is the best way to do it.
37:59Oh, are you guys British?
38:00No, we're Australian.
38:02Oh, good eye, mate.
38:04Let's put another shrimp on the barbie then, yeah?
38:06His accent's shit.
38:07We don't sound like that.
38:07I kind of do sound like that, mate.
38:09Sorry.
38:09Are you Australian?
38:10Hey, right I am, bro.
38:12Let's get some shrimp on the barbie.
38:13Hey, that's what I said here.
38:15Over and hard.
38:16Over and hard.
38:17Over and hard.
38:17Let's go.
38:18Yeah, alright.
38:19Kangaroos are weird.
38:19We now have our own image internationally after Paul Hogan's work and a lot of other
38:24people's work, so now we can be who we are as Australians.
38:28Do you reckon that was racist?
38:30Yeah, I don't know, mate.
38:31Hey, are you guys British?
38:38Celeste Barber is another modern-day bogan on social media.
38:45The majority of her stuff was taking the piss out of herself, really.
38:55There's nothing more Aussie than that.
38:59My daughter bought you home for dinner.
39:01I'm spitting you, man.
39:02Now get in the f***ing bike lane.
39:04I am in the bike lane.
39:05Where social media is kind of a plus, at least for Aussie culture, is there's some real
39:10stuff out there like the inspired unemployed.
39:12Mate, you really know how to piss me off.
39:14What?
39:15I haven't done anything.
39:16That's the f***ing problem.
39:17It's just the flavour of Australia that you don't see on TV very often.
39:23Holy s***!
39:35Australian identity has come a long way in the last 50 years or so.
39:43I think young people would be shocked today to think that we ever were embarrassed to
39:48be Australian.
39:49It is the most beautiful piece of sculpture and lovely artwork, and I like to get down
39:52to the nitty gritty of it.
39:54It may be embarrassed's too strong a word, but there was a cultural cringe.
39:58And of course, if it's night time, we would have to have a luminous dial.
40:03But in the 21st century, people know Australia now.
40:08You can be proud that you're Australian or that your Australian-ness shines through.
40:13I'm a proud bogan.
40:15I grew up in Logan City.
40:16I love the mullet.
40:19I think the term bogan today is part of who we are.
40:24It's almost like if you don't have a little bit of bogan in you, you're a tosser.
40:29You need to have some bogan.
40:31Or otherwise, who are you?
40:34America, you look like you need a holiday.
40:37And if we look back, it was the Paul Hogan ad that changed everything.
40:42It really gave us permission to be ourselves and lean into it and become proud of it.
40:49We grew in confidence in the 80s, and we never stopped growing in confidence.
40:58Now, we can be sophisticated.
41:02We can make great movies.
41:04We can export incredible creative people to the world.
41:08I mean, this self-confessed bogan from Australia on the bestseller list in New York.
41:14How good.
41:15Thank you, Carl.
41:16Thank you so much.
41:17But we love the fact that deep down, we have bogan qualities to us.
41:23You had a bit of a good time, mate.
41:25Yeah, that's what life's about, isn't it?
41:26That's what life's about, mate.
41:28Just getting out there, having fun.
41:30If you want to experience what real Aussie culture is like, you have to meet a bogan at least once.
41:36They are genuinely the nicest and most honest and genuine people.
41:41It's kind of like a silly salmon.
41:43Cross for your mullet.
41:44Cross for the worm.
41:45Australians should definitely be proud of their culture.
41:47We're just so different from other cultures around.
41:50You easily meet someone on the street and they become your friend.
41:52You get their number, you know, you probably go have a beer with them that afternoon.
41:57You're just stoked to have someone that's actual genuine and, you know, just real.
42:02What you see is what you get.
42:03We're laid back, easy going, friendly, meet anybody and be their best mate.
42:07Take your neighbour's bins out when he's away, all those kind of things.
42:10You look after your mates and your mates will always look after you.
42:13There you go. Good attitude. There you go, guys.
42:16Australians are unique.
42:18I think they're one of the great peoples on the face of the earth.
42:21I really do believe that beneath the rough and near they're friendly and they're helpful.
42:27And they're fair dinkum, which is a great Aussie word.
42:29And we would be lying if we said come down to Australia and meet Olivia and Mel Gibson.
42:33Because they're not, they're going to meet roughheads like you and me, George, when they get down there.
42:37Thanks, sir.
42:37Tell them the truth.
42:40Nice!
42:55Let's go.
42:59We've come here to nachos.
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