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[VINYL RECORD CRACKLES, HUMS]

[STAYIN' ALIVE BY THE BEE GEES PLAYS]

♪ Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk ♪

♪ I'm a woman's man, no time... ♪

[MAN] The difference between Travolta and me,

♪ Music loud and women warm ♪

The 'fro.

♪ Since I was born ♪

♪ Now it's alright ♪

♪ It's OK ♪

♪ You may look the other way ♪

♪ We can try to understand ♪

♪ The New York Times' effect on man ♪

♪ Whether you're a brother... ♪

Bit weird, eh?

A blackfella from Townsville working as a DJ in Melbourne.

Well, it was the '70s and everything was weird.

WOMAN: Yeah, Monty!

[MONTY] Well, that's my excuse. For a lot of things.

[GENERAL HUBBUB]

Like my modelling phase.

[SMOOTH, FUNKY MUSIC]

Yeah, and before you laugh, those clothes were all the rage.

[DA-DA-DA-DAAAA!]

[MONTY] Is it a bird?

[DA-DA-DA-DAAAA!]

Is it a plane?

It's the Black Superman riding the bumps and grooves

to make you party people move!

[AUDIENCE CHEERS, FUNKY DISCO MUSIC PLAYS]

[GENERAL HUBBUB]

Melbourne was about as far away from Townsville as you could get.

Now, the Albion Charles was the roughest pub in Melbourne.

It took all comers.

[FUNKY DISCO MUSIC CONTINUES]

They came in sober and angry.

Especially when Collingwood lost.

My job was to send them home drunk and happy.

Put your hands up if you're having a groovy time

and looking finalicious!

[ALL CHEER]

And this one goes out to all the parolees in the house!

Ironically the only bloke at the bar who's not on parole is called Con.

He's the owner.

-Salut. [ALL] -Salut.

His drinking mates all had records,

and I don't mean the kind you dance to.

Russian Roulette is game of pure skill.

Rudi was fair dinkum Russian Mafia, straight out of the joint

and stark raving mad.

You don't believe?

I demonstrate.

Hey!

First you take bullet.

Spin backwards for exactly three second.

[CYLINDER RATTLES]

[CLICK!]

[LAUGHS] See? I'm expert.

Rudi was right about one thing, timing is everything,

and tonight was definitely not the ideal time

for my brother Paulie to roll into town.

He was my best friend

and a walking, talking reminder of everything I left behind.

I thought you were up north, Yabba'ju.

Community Service is getting old, ay?

-Budda? -What?

It's not my fault. I tried doing my time.

Those coppers kept chasing me.

And we all can't blend in as well as you, bruz.

Straight into me, as always. I'll rise above it.

Well, if you want to blend in... here. Take these.

Got about a hundred of them.

-Drink cards? -Mm.

-You don't want them? -Nah, different rules for me, brother.

They don't let you drink here?

No, no, no, no, I don't let ME drink here.

Would you look at that?

Sober blackfella getting paid to make migaloos drunk.

Now, that's too deadly.

No. I just make them thirsty.

Rest is up to them.

Watch your step at the bar OK, brother?

Just roll with the punches.

My shout.

I like this man. Vodka, double.

[MONTY] That'd be right.

Paulie had chosen Melbourne's deadliest man to drink with,

and not blackfella deadly.

DEADLY deadly.

See, one more click before bang.

Salut. [GLASS CLINKS]

And for the final proof of my pudding...

[GUNSHOT] [ALL SHOUT, SQUEAL]

Ahh-ahh! Ahhh!

The police response time to the Albion Charles on a Saturday night

was famous.

They'd pin this on someone. Anyone.

[MAN IN PAIN} Ahh! Ahh!

[MONTY] And who was in the middle of it all?

Budda, Budda, you gotta get outta here

before the Bullyman comes and sees you like this.

Oh, he's got his ear blown off. I was just trying to help him.

You are a blackfella and covered in blood.

Paulie, you know how this goes. Please, doonghai.

[WHIMPERS, PANTS]

[POLICEMAN] Nobody move.

No-one's going home until someone starts talking.

[COUGHING]

You got the best view in here, mate. What happened?

[MONTY] This wasn't the first time

I'd been caught between a cop and a hard place.

I was twelve years old on Palm Island and I'd just met God.

[ALL] ♪ What a friend we have in Jesus ♪

♪ Thou wilt find a solace there. ♪

[GENERAL HUBBUB]

I suppose you think you think you're holy

now that you've been baptized, Monty?

-Yeah. -Yeah. [LAUGHS]

[MAN] Congratulations, my child.

A miraculous transformation, Monty,

to go from sinner to a child of the Lamb of God.

[MEN] Baa! Baa!

[MEN LAUGH]

How are you spending the rest of the summer?

We're all going to the bush and pray to the good Lord, Father.

But we just finished praying.

Like the good Lord says, thou must keep a good thing going.

♪ What a friend we have in Jesus ♪

♪ All our sins and griefs to bear... ♪

[MONTY] Dad, he couldn't sing to save himself.

But better that than tell the priest where we were going...

[CLAPPING STICKS CLAP RHYTHMICALLY]

Blackfella business was forbidden.

If they caught us we'd get locked up and beaten up bad.

[DAD] Hey, you fella.

You go up that tree there, keep a lookout.

[CLAPPING CONTINUES]

[WATER CRASHES]

[MAN SINGS IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE]

Good boy.

Paulie!

Get away from there, crocodiles there.

You come here.

Sit down here.

Yeah, they'll grab you and then roll you round and round and round.

They'll eat you real slow too.

Well, come on, Monts, time we give thanks to our spirits.

What for? Well, you've been baptized!

[GENTLE MUSIC]

[RHYTHMIC CLAPPING, CHANTING]

My spirit was singing, "I'm black, I'm black, I'm black."

Trouble was, the Bullymen heard.

[MAN] Bullyman! Bullyman, run, run. Bullyman!

[ALL SHOUT] [MAN] Run, brother, run.

[WOMAN SQUEALS]

[MAN] Come on. Don't let them get away.

Another bloody corroboree.

I had a choice...

[MAN] Catch them, you block them off.

Bloody savages.

[MONTY] face the cops or risk the crocs.

This way. There'll be time for this.

[DAD'S VOICE] Get away from there! Crocodile there!

[MONTY'S VOICE] They'll roll you round and round and round.

I wasn't alone.

Crocs had taken kids on this beach more times than you could count.

They could wait all night.

Dear Jesus.

Please save me from the cops and the crocs.

Dear Nunjin Mulang,

gather my old people to save me from the cops and the crocs.

Dear Jesus. Dear Nunjin Mulang.

Something was moving right towards me.

[WATER RUSTLES]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Dad!

I'm not sure which God sent him, but I sure was grateful.

Dad took the paint off gently,

but there was nothing gentle in the lesson.

[WOMAN] And...

Claire, what do you want to be when you grow up?

I would like to be a nurse.

Very good, Claire. Townsville will always need more nurses.

What about you, Randall?

What do you want to be when you grow up?

A policeman, miss.

I want to keep the streets safe and clean.

Very noble, Randall.

And what about you?

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I didn't know what my future held.

After my night in the water

I felt like I was destined to be eaten or beaten...

Maybe I was right.

[MAN] Oi, Superman!

I'm talking to you.

I'd be a dead man if I dobbed Rudi in.

Luckily, the cops asked me the wrong question.

Did you see who fired the shot?

I was putting on a record,

heard a bang, looked up and...

the bloke's ear was off.

Blind Freddy knew who did it

but technically the perfect truth.

Swear to God.

[FUNKY DISCO MUSIC]

Another night, another dodged bullet.

[RUDI] You.

You.

I knew I could count on you.

From this moment we are brothers.

Anyone messes with you... Bang! Dead. No questions.

Black Superman and White Russian.

Rudi and I were friends forever, whether I liked it or not.

[RUSSIAN MUSIC]

If he thought you had his back, he'd have yours.

Color didn't come into it.

Turns out, not everyone saw the world that way.

[RUSSIAN MUSIC SWELLS]

[DIDGERIDOO PLAYS]

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