Proper True Yarn
by Proper True Yarn: Comedy, Storytelling, Adventure
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About this podcast
Welcome to "Proper True Yarn," the podcast that takes you on a rollicking journey through the wildest, funniest, and most extraordinary stories from around the globe. Join your host, the one and only Knuckles from Country Trucker Caps, as he sits down with an eclectic array of captivating individuals, each armed with a remarkable tale to share. Buckle up for a whirlwind adventure as we dive headfirst into the rich tapestry of human experiences. With a mix of humor, heart, and sheer audacity, our guests regale us with their most unforgettable yarns. From heartwarming anecdotes that tug at your emotions to sidesplitting tales that leave you doubled over in laughter, "Proper True Yarn" promises an electrifying blend of storytelling unlike any other.Whether it's a daring escapade across far-flung lands, an encounter with the supernatural that defies explanation, or simply a slice of life that resonates with the universal human spirit, our podcast uncovers the gems that make our world a truly captivating place.So, grab your favorite pair of Country Trucker Caps and prepare to be enthralled. Tune in to "Proper True Yarn" as Knuckles and his spirited guests weave a tapestry of the extraordinary, reminding us all that life's most incredible moments are often just a story away. Remember, it's not just a tale – it's a proper true yarn!#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- Five Blokes, $4,000 Each and a Rail Strike Built a Trucking Giant | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 12 minPart 1 with Mark Tobin, managing director of Followmont Transport and one of Knuckles' best mates. The two of them have built a charity together and travelled the world, and Mark…
- Bogged on Ballina Beach on His 19th, Towed Past the Flags for $150 | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4) · 13 minPart 4 with Clancy Sinnamon (CC Donut). His 19th birthday fell on Easter weekend while he was at uni on the Gold Coast, so he and a few mates loaded swags and beers into his 2006…
- Scientology Told Him He Was Unstable After He Bubbled In ACDC | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 3) · 13 minPart 3 with Clancy Sinnamon (CC Donut), back to his first overseas trip at 19. First arvo in New York, overwhelmed in Times Square, an old lady offers him and his then missus a…
- His Video of Bangladesh Beating Australia Ended Up in the Papers | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2) · 9 minPart 2 with Clancy Sinnamon (CC Donut) and more from his years on the road with the Australian cricket team. In 2021, right in the middle of COVID, the squad flew a charter to…
- Locked on a Thames Jetty, Then Grilled About London Prostitutes | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 10 minPart 1 with Clancy Sinnamon, better known online as CC Donut. Born in Miles and raised in Jackson, a town between Miles and Roma on the Warrego with no pub, no store and nothing…
- Knuckles Pissed on His Own Bed, Then Slept in It | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 5) · 15 minPart 5 and Buster Kirby flips the show, taking the host chair to drag a few untold yarns out of Knuckles, with producer Zak there as the witness. Knuckles is the bloke who can go…
- His Uber Driver Pulled a .44 Magnum and Drove Him Into the Desert | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4) · 18 minPart 4 with Buster Kirby, and the second Vegas yarn is the big one. The lady at the gun range looked him up and down and said "the big boy ain't making it on foot, darling". He…
- He Watched His Cop Mate Get Shot on Body Cam, Then Fired an AR-15 | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 3) · 11 minPart 3 with Buster Kirby, and it's the first leg of his Vegas trip, the one his wife Angie literally had to drag him to the airport for. He's already rebooked: two and a half…
- He Set Up a Fake Arrest and the Rookie Cop Bashed Him for Real | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2) · 10 minPart 2 with Buster Kirby, and he's the first to say he doesn't condone drink driving. This is a yarn from his young days around Murwillumbah. His old man promised to buy him his…
- He Called Wendell Sailor His Hero, Then Introduced Someone Else | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 12 minBuster Kirby is back on the pod, and the last time he and Knuckles recorded together was in New Zealand, followed by an after party at Rock 2000 in Auckland where a mate stripped…
- Two Rival Butchers, One Go Kart Race, Loser Pays the Charity | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4) · 9 minPart 4 with Jack from Bellmere Butcher, wrapping up the series. First things first: the shop is at 65 Bellmere Road in the heart of Bellmere, near Caboolture. It's a back to…
- The Chooks That Grow Two Extra Legs Out Their Arse | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 3) · 11 minPart 3 with Jack from Bellmere Butcher. Knuckles asks why the self proclaimed sausage king has never entered the sausage awards. Jack actually signed up this year, membership and…
- He Put Hot Chips in a Sausage and Pulled 3 Million Views | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2) · 11 minPart 2 with Jack from Bellmere Butcher, and this one's all snags. Jack had Facebook for Marketplace and nothing else until Blake, a meat marketing bloke, talked him into a month…
- She Bagged the Bellmere Butcher to His Face Without Knowing It | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 9 minPart 1 with Jack from Bellmere Butcher. Two weeks out from opening his new shop, Jack had his tradie mates (mostly cousins and family) knocking off with beers at 2.30 on a…
- A Nervous Piss With Ghost Chilli on His Hands | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 5) · 10 min · Episode 528Part five with Luke Geiger is the Mount Isa Rodeo yarn, and it might be the funniest five minutes of the series. The setup: Luke and the boys land one of their biggest gigs ever…
- He Woke Up With a Stack of Love Letters for Keith Urban | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4) · 14 min · Episode 527Part four with Luke Geiger is the touring yarns, starting with a crash course in hospitality riders and the piss-takes buried in them: six mandarins, three peeled and three…
- He Wants the World Record: Five Days of Guitar, No Sleep, No Breaks | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 11 min · Episode 526Part three with Luke Geiger, and it's the big exclusive: Australia's wildest cowboy party is going after a Guinness World Record. Luke's whole thing is taking requests, not…
- He Asked the Salon for a Brazilian Wax on His Chest | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 10 min · Episode 525Part two with Luke Geiger opens with maybe the most innocent mistake ever made by a country footballer. Fresh out of Chinchilla and playing footy in Sydney, 18 year old Luke…
- He Stayed Awake Through Dental Surgery So They Couldn't Steal His Organs | Proper True Yarn Podcast · 14 min · Episode 524New guest series with one of the best blokes Knuckles knows, Queensland cowboy country singer Luke Geiger, and the pair front up fresh from trying to drink rum for Australia at…
- He Fought the Tent Champion With His Grandad in His Corner · 13 min · Episode 523The final part with John Rayner is one big love letter to the bush, and it starts in Fred Brophy's boxing tent at the Birdsville races. After days patrolling the Simpson Desert…
- The World's Deadliest Snake Had a Sniff of His Boot · 21 min · Episode 522Part four with John Rayner is the ranger years, and it opens with how he got there: taking the pay cut from mining money to a National Parks traineeship, moving down to Barmah on…
- His Driver's Licence Was a Blonde Wig · 10 min · Episode 521Part three with John Rayner opens with the maddest scheme of the series. The same cousin from part two, now unlicensed and living back at mum and dad's, loses the plot when his…
- He Woke Up With a Steak Knife in His Leg | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2) · 9 min · Episode 520Part two with John Rayner is about the cousin he idolised, the bloke he describes as Stifler: smooth as anything, great with women, would pump you up one on one and shit on you…
- The Army Knocked Him Back for Being a Psychopath · 11 min · Episode 519Fresh out of the Proper True Yarn fight camp, John Rayner sits down with Knuckles ahead of the seven man royale at Podcast Royale 3.0, and he's not there to make friends. No gym…
- Michael Crossland on the Surgery He Told His Kids Was a Work Trip · 18 min · Episode 518The final chapter with Michael Crossland, and it opens with the scan that changed everything. Three years ago, busy again and skipping his checkups, Michael lay on a table while…
- Begging God to Take Everything but My Baby Boy · 11 min · Episode 517The full circle moments in this one are hard to believe. Ten days before the birth, Michael had reluctantly done a fundraiser for the Miracle Babies Foundation, a charity he’d…
- Michael Crossland on the Four Tumours He Hid From His Mum · 10 min · Episode 516Part four with Michael Crossland starts with the promise kept. Years after losing his mum’s money in the GFC, he bought her a beautiful little home and put a pink ribbon on the…
- Michael Crossland on Losing His Mum’s Life Savings Six Weeks Before the GFC · 17 min · Episode 515Then came the part he calls one of the hardest of his story. When his parents separated, Michael invested his mum’s share of the settlement in a high risk portfolio to try and…
- "Hope you die" inside a get well card · 15 min · Episode 514Part two with Michael Crossland picks up where the trial drug left off. The doctors said he'd never go to school, never play sport, and if he reached his teenage years it'd be a…
- Surviving the Drug That Killed the Other 24 Kids With Michael Crossland · 11 min · Episode 513This week Knuckles sits down with Michael Crossland, one of Australia’s most in demand inspirational speakers, who made the trip up from Coffs Harbour to share the parts of his…
- Zak Palmas on Burning Down His Dad’s Favourite Tractor, Lawnmower DUIs & Growing Up in Ingham · 10 min · Episode 512The tables get turned this week as Knuckles puts Zak Palmas, the man behind the cam, in front of it for some proper true yarns from growing up on a cane farm outside Ingham…
- Four Hours, No Toilet, And Everyone's On The Piss | FIFO Flight Yarns · 12 min · Episode 511A 22 seater fixed wing, four hours, no toilet, and you can't stand up in it. That was the ride home every swing. So the boys would hit the bottle-o before the hangar, sink tins…
- Fake Dicks, Clean Piss And A Dealer Working Underground | Zak's Mining Yarns · 13 min · Episode 510Zak spent years underground before he got into coal, and the mine he won't name was the most eye opening job of his life. There was a bloke dealing gear out of a lunchbox in the…
- Drake Has A 37% Win Rate And Has Lost Over $100 Million · 8 min · Episode 509Drake has cycled more money through a betting account in one month than most towns are worth, and he still can't pick a winner. Zak's got Google out and we're going through the…
- Podcast Royale 3.0 · Fights 12 & 13 Super Heavyweights + Jock Boxing Vs Jimmy Judge · 12 min · Episode 508The last two fights on the card, and the main event is a bloke who fights for a living against a bloke who eats for a living. 🎟️ TICKETS → alphaevents.com.au, hit the Fight Night…
- Cowboy vs Love Islander, Liam Vs Curly & Nelson's Knockouts | Fights 9, 10 & 11 | Podcast Royale 3.0 · 14 min · Episode 507Three fights this episode, and one of them we genuinely cannot call. Fight 9: Tylen Wallace vs Josh Moss. Reef versus beef. Josh is off Love Island Australia and the No Hard…
- Fights 7 & 8: Tag Team Biff + The Seven Man Blindfold | Podcast Royale 3.0 · 14 min · Episode 506First up the tag team, The Better Bloke Project's Matt Rogers and Rob Sutherland against Now Thats Dramas' Tommy Allen and Brody Hetherington. Except the card might not stay that…
- "Blind Benny's Fucked" Every Team's Blindfold Picks | Podcast Royale 3.0 · 11 min · Episode 505We got the two Proper True Yarn boys sorted last episode. Now we need to know what we're up against. So Knuckles got on the blower mid-shoot and rang every director on the card…
- Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Ant-Weight Bout & Rob Huston vs Justin Becker · 11 min · Episode 504The fight card breakdown rolls on. Knuckles and Zak run through fights five and six on the Podcast Royale 3.0 card. First up, the one everyone's talking about. Shauny 'The Whip'…
- Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Sit Down Show Down & Barbs Vs Beetle · 12 min · Episode 503The fight card breakdown rolls on. Knuckles and Zak run through fights three and four on the Podcast Royale 3.0 card. First up, Tom 'Barbs' Barbary from The Reggies takes on…
- Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: Gocsy vs Moose, Bluey vs The Judge · 12 min · Episode 502The fight card breakdown starts here. Over the next run of episodes Knuckles and Zak go fight by fight through Podcast Royale 3.0, two fights an episode, and it kicks off with a…
- I Blacked Out In An Onsen In Hakuba & Had My Kei Truck "Stolen" · 15 minPart 2 with Zak Palmas in the guest chair, and he's finally spilling the Japan yarns Knuckles has been making him save for the mic. The boys start with how they actually met…
- Buckeye’s First Start: Cam Hay Calls In With the Hot Scoop Before the Gold Coast · 9 min · Episode 500Knuckles and Zak get Cam Hay from Mustr Racing on the phone for a quick one ahead of Buckeye’s first race start at the Gold Coast this weekend. Cam reckons the horse is flying…
- Zak Palmas on Fighting at Podcast Royale with a corner who almost didn't show up · 7 min · Episode 499The tables turn. After years behind the camera and in the producer's chair, Zak Palmas finally sits down as the guest, and Knuckles gets the yarn out of him. Zak breaks down his…
- Deleting $100k of Footage With One Keystroke, the Tony Stark Supercar Lair Under a Melbourne House & the Prince's Albino Alligators · 12 min · Episode 498Part 9, the final one with Geordie Lillis from Creators of Awesome, and it's the guest questions round. Four days deep into podcasting and Geordie's cooked, but he still…
- Drunk Go-Karting in the Rain in Malaysia, Piss Alley in Tokyo & Stealing a Porcelain Pineapple in Austria · 13 minPart 8 with Geordie Lillis from Creators of Awesome, and it's all travel yarns. Geordie's held a camera in more countries than most people visit in a lifetime. Sitting on top of…
- Growing Up Outside Dalby & the School Principal Who Became One of Australia’s Most Notorious Killers · 8 minPart 7 with Geordie Lillis from Creators of Awesome, and it takes a heavy turn. Geordie starts light, growing up on a bit of land outside Dalby with his old man teaching at the…
- Bartering With the Indonesian Military to Fly a Drone, Vaporising a Turtle on the Highway & Losing Two Drones Up a Tree in the Outback · 17 minThen Christie’s driving on the highway west of Dalby filming a truck video. Swerves to save a turtle. Reckons she saved it. The following semi-trailer disagrees. Geordie’s got…
- Red Bull Shoots, Malaysian Princes & a Sketchy Maccas Run in South Africa · 16 minFrom filming Red Bull stunts and chasing Malaysian princes around racetracks, to landing in Johannesburg and having $40k worth of camera gear stolen before a wild midnight Maccas…
- The Viral Wheelie Bin Video That Changed Everything · 11 min · Episode 493In Part 4 of Proper True Yarn with Geordie Lillis, he shares the unbelievable story of going from having just $8 in his bank account to creating one of Australia's most viral…
