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Proper True Yarn

Proper True Yarn: Comedy, Storytelling, Adventure

300 episodes · Explicit

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

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  1. He Watched His Cop Mate Get Shot on Body Cam, Then Fired an AR-15 | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 3)

    · 11 min · Explicit

    Part 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 weeks next year, flying into Dallas, then a…

  2. He Set Up a Fake Arrest and the Rookie Cop Bashed Him for Real | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2)

    · 9:52 · Explicit

    Part 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 first car, then just pulled his gear out…

  3. He Called Wendell Sailor His Hero, Then Introduced Someone Else | Proper True Yarn Podcast

    · 12 min · Explicit

    Buster 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 off to reveal a tribal tramp stamp on…

  4. Two Rival Butchers, One Go Kart Race, Loser Pays the Charity | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4)

    · 8:59 · Explicit

    Part 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 front shopping centre, so Jack is working on…

  5. The Chooks That Grow Two Extra Legs Out Their Arse | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 3)

    · 11 min · Explicit

    Part 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 all, then the reminder email landed and…

  6. He Put Hot Chips in a Sausage and Pulled 3 Million Views | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2)

    · 11 min · Explicit

    Part 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 of videos. The first few were average.…

  7. She Bagged the Bellmere Butcher to His Face Without Knowing It | Proper True Yarn Podcast

    · 9:22 · Explicit

    Part 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 Friday, trying to come up with a yarn he could…

  8. A Nervous Piss With Ghost Chilli on His Hands | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 5)

    · 9:54 · Episode 528 · Explicit

    Part 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, playing the Isa Rodeo alongside O'Shea,…

  9. He Woke Up With a Stack of Love Letters for Keith Urban | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4)

    · 14 min · Episode 527 · Explicit

    Part 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 unpeeled, green M&Ms picked out of the bowl,…

  10. He Wants the World Record: Five Days of Guitar, No Sleep, No Breaks | Proper True Yarn Podcast

    · 11 min · Episode 526 · Explicit

    Part 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 breaks. He plays six and seven hour sets…

  11. He Asked the Salon for a Brazilian Wax on His Chest | Proper True Yarn Podcast

    · 9:38 · Episode 525 · Explicit

    Part 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 discovers the whole squad shaves, and the…

  12. He Stayed Awake Through Dental Surgery So They Couldn't Steal His Organs | Proper True Yarn Podcast

    · 14 min · Episode 524 · Explicit

    New 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 the 16th It's a Bloke Thing prostate…

  13. He Fought the Tent Champion With His Grandad in His Corner

    · 13 min · Episode 523 · Explicit

    The 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, Johnny fronted up to the tent chasing…

  14. The World's Deadliest Snake Had a Sniff of His Boot

    · 21 min · Episode 522 · Explicit

    Part 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 the Murray with his now fiancee Jessie…

  15. His Driver's Licence Was a Blonde Wig

    · 9:56 · Episode 521

    Part 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 mum vacuums a blonde wig out from under…

  16. He Woke Up With a Steak Knife in His Leg | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2)

    · 8:40 · Episode 520 · Explicit

    Part 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 second there was an audience. The…

  17. The Army Knocked Him Back for Being a Psychopath

    · 11 min · Episode 519 · Explicit

    Fresh 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, no weight set, no boxing gloves.…

  18. Michael Crossland on the Surgery He Told His Kids Was a Work Trip

    · 18 min · Episode 518 · Explicit

    The 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 a trainee sonographer casually counted…

  19. Begging God to Take Everything but My Baby Boy

    · 11 min · Episode 517

    The 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 never heard of. When he collapsed on the…

  20. Michael Crossland on the Four Tumours He Hid From His Mum

    · 10 min · Episode 516

    Part 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 door, told her he’d rented it for 12…

  21. Michael Crossland on Losing His Mum’s Life Savings Six Weeks Before the GFC

    · 17 min · Episode 515

    Then 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 buy her a home. Six weeks later the global…

  22. "Hope you die" inside a get well card

    · 15 min · Episode 514

    Part 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 miracle. His mum told him everything was…

  23. Surviving the Drug That Killed the Other 24 Kids With Michael Crossland

    · 11 min · Episode 513 · Explicit

    This 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 story he never tells on stage. Fair…

  24. Zak Palmas on Burning Down His Dad’s Favourite Tractor, Lawnmower DUIs & Growing Up in Ingham

    · 9:37 · Episode 512 · Explicit

    The 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, North Queensland. First up, the story of…

  25. Four Hours, No Toilet, And Everyone's On The Piss | FIFO Flight Yarns

    · 12 min · Episode 511 · Explicit

    A 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 waiting for the plane, keep going once…

  26. Fake Dicks, Clean Piss And A Dealer Working Underground | Zak's Mining Yarns

    · 13 min · Episode 510 · Explicit

    Zak 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 workshop. There was a group of them at…

  27. Drake Has A 37% Win Rate And Has Lost Over $100 Million

    · 7:41 · Episode 509 · Explicit

    Drake 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 whole lot. A 37% strike rate. $770k on…

  28. Podcast Royale 3.0 · Fights 12 & 13 Super Heavyweights + Jock Boxing Vs Jimmy Judge

    · 12 min · Episode 508 · Explicit

    The 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 button. Fight 12: Zayden Bryant (Dead…

  29. Cowboy vs Love Islander, Liam Vs Curly & Nelson's Knockouts | Fights 9, 10 & 11 | Podcast Royale 3.0

    · 14 min · Episode 507 · Explicit

    Three 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 Feelings podcast, all his photos are at the…

  30. Fights 7 & 8: Tag Team Biff + The Seven Man Blindfold | Podcast Royale 3.0

    · 14 min · Episode 506

    First 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 way. If Matt's out and Big Kyle steps…

  31. "Blind Benny's Fucked" Every Team's Blindfold Picks | Podcast Royale 3.0

    · 11 min · Episode 505 · Explicit

    We 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 to find out who they've thrown into the…

  32. Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Ant-Weight Bout & Rob Huston vs Justin Becker

    · 11 min · Episode 504 · Explicit

    The 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' takes on Micah from the Alpha Blokes…

  33. Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Sit Down Show Down & Barbs Vs Beetle

    · 12 min · Episode 503 · Explicit

    The 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 Beetle from the Two Flogs Podcast. Two big…

  34. Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: Gocsy vs Moose, Bluey vs The Judge

    · 12 min · Episode 502 · Explicit

    The 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 couple of rippers. First up, Josh…

  35. I Blacked Out In An Onsen In Hakuba & Had My Kei Truck "Stolen"

    · 15 min

    Part 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, working side by side in the mines, ripping…

  36. Buckeye’s First Start: Cam Hay Calls In With the Hot Scoop Before the Gold Coast

    · 9:06 · Episode 500

    Knuckles 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. Two trials, two wins, and he still hasn’t…

  37. Zak Palmas on Fighting at Podcast Royale with a corner who almost didn't show up

    · 6:34 · Episode 499

    The 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 Podcast Royale fight against Matty Brown…

  38. Deleting $100k of Footage With One Keystroke, the Tony Stark Supercar Lair Under a Melbourne House & the Prince's Albino Alligators

    · 12 min · Episode 498

    Part 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 delivers. He doesn't want anyone's autograph…

  39. Drunk Go-Karting in the Rain in Malaysia, Piss Alley in Tokyo & Stealing a Porcelain Pineapple in Austria

    · 13 min

    Part 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 Table Mountain in Cape Town, which he…

  40. Growing Up Outside Dalby & the School Principal Who Became One of Australia’s Most Notorious Killers

    · 7:58

    Part 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 local state school, and reckons Progress…

  41. 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 min

    Then 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 the GoPro strapped to the truck wheel and…

  42. Red Bull Shoots, Malaysian Princes & a Sketchy Maccas Run in South Africa

    · 16 min

    From 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 run. Geordie Lillis is back with…

  43. The Viral Wheelie Bin Video That Changed Everything

    · 11 min · Episode 493

    In 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 videos during COVID. Geordie opens up about…

  44. Geordie Lillis on Getting Struck by Lightning at 14, Breaking His Neck at 21 & Running Cables for the Hulk on ThorPart 3 with Geordie Lillis

    · 16 min

    Part 3 with Geordie Lillis from Creators of Awesome, and this one goes off. Geordie kicks off with a proper true yarn. At 14, riding his motorbike on the family farm, he got struck by lightning. The bolt hit the power…

  45. From Thor: Ragnarok to Breaking His Neck | Geordie Lillis

    · 12 min · Episode 491

    In Part 2 of Knuckles' conversation with Geordie Lillis, the journey takes an unexpected turn. After turning a passion for filming into work on blockbuster productions like Thor: Ragnarok, Pacific Rim: Uprising and…

  46. How a GoPro Started a Career in Hollywood | Geordie Lillis

    · 12 min · Episode 490

    Geordie Lillis joins Knuckles on the Proper True Yarn Podcast to share the incredible story of how a kid growing up on a farm near Dalby turned a love of making videos into an international career. From filming mates…

  47. I Blew $500 on Khe Sanh and Went Bankrupt Anyway

    · 18 min · Episode 489 · Explicit

    In Part 4 of the Adam Boredale series, the boys rip through the famous guest questions and the yarns get loose. Adam talks about the one autograph he'd love to get, why he's a massive fan of Broncos legend Adam…

  48. Luck Has Nothing To Do With It W Poo Bandit

    · 20 min · Episode 488

    This week on the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Knuckles and Big Shitty yarn about loyalty, hard work, apprenticeships, business, success, and why luck has very little to do with getting ahead in life. From Quinn's…

  49. From Mining Life to Podcast Fame, Fight Night Chaos & Raw Life Lessons

    · 24 min · Episode 487

    In Episode 487 of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Knuckles sits down with the one and only Poo Bandit for a hilarious, unfiltered, and surprisingly heartfelt yarn about life, fame, friendship, and finding purpose.Poo…

  50. The Poo Bandit: I Met My Biological Father in a Police Cell

    · 7:50 · Episode 486

    In this episode of Proper True Yarn, Knuckles sits down with Adam "The Poo Bandit" Boradale for a hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt yarn. Adam shares the unforgettable story of a primary school excursion to the…

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