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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. From Charleville to the NRL w/ Kurt Capewell

    · 7:28 · Episode 381 · Explicit

    NRL gun Kurt Capewell drops in for a cracking yarn - packing premiership stories, Origin pressure, and one of the funniest on-field disasters you’ll ever hear. From the Roosters and Sharks to the Panthers dynasty,…

  2. Gocsy’s Quick-Fire Confessional: Signatures, Scrap Heaps & Capybaras

    · 15 min · Episode 380 · Explicit

    Go to https://surfshark.com/yarn or use code YARN at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN!In this Proper True Yarn quick-fire session, Gocsy sits down for a loose Q&A that bounces from dream autographs and…

  3. Silly Saturday #2 – Absolute Degeneracy & Phone-In Chaos

    · 14 min · Episode 379 · Explicit

    Silly Saturday is back and it’s pure chaos. Wild phone-in yarns, outrageous overseas stories, scams exposed, dodgy decisions, and zero filters. Listener calls, questionable life choices, and proper loose banter from…

  4. Gocsy's Podcast Royale Journey

    · 15 min · Episode 378 · Explicit

    In this episode, Aaron “Gocsy” Gocs takes us inside his debut scrap on the Podcast Royale fight card - from getting the call-up, juggling training around real life, and learning how to talk shit for promotion, all the…

  5. Saints Tragic Gocsy, St Kilda & the Art of Backing Battlers

    · 12 min · Episode 377 · Explicit

    Aaron “Gocsy” Gocs is back on the couch to unpack his love affair with one of footy’s great battler clubs: the St Kilda Saints. From growing up a Broncos and NRL kid in Brisbane to falling in love with Melbourne’s AFL…

  6. Gocsy’s Year From Hell: Bikies, Bashings & 1 Stolen Washing Machine

    · 19 min · Episode 376 · Explicit

    Go to https://surfshark.com/yarn or use code YARN at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN!Aussie comedian Aaron “Gocsy” Gocs drops a dark but bloody funny “year from hell” yarn. From taking in a young family…

  7. 16K to $4M! Bucked Up’s Biggest Gamble

    · 8:11 · Episode 375 · Explicit

    Go to https://surfshark.com/yarn or use code YARN at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN!Pat Brennan from Bucked Up joins the pod with a belter of a yarn about how a $16,000 gamble on a trademark turned…

  8. Bucked Up, Moose Dreams & Billion-Dollar What-Ifs

    · 13 min · Episode 374 · Explicit

    Pat Brennan from Bucked Up Australia jumps on the mic for a wild mix of yarns—from chasing big-name ambassadors like Bryson DeChambeau and Rhea Ripley, to what he’d do if a billion dollars dropped in his lap tomorrow.…

  9. From Tom Hanks to Dust-Ups & Wolf Pets

    · 12 min · Episode 383 · Explicit

    French weapon Corey Collombet is back for a loose guest Q&A. We yarn about whose autograph he’d chase (hint: old-school French chaos), blowing six figures trading in a single day, losing his virginity on a Corsican…

  10. Backpacker to Silicon Valley w Corey Collombet

    · 11 min · Episode 382

    In this wild yarn, Cory Collombet breaks down how he went from backpacking around Australia to pitching his startup in the heart of Silicon Valley. From landing a spot in a global accelerator, to walking the same…

  11. Green Dildos & Prediction Markets

    · 16 min · Episode 381 · Explicit

    French wild card Corey Colombet jumps on the couch to explain how he went from backpacker gigs to launching Bodega, a web3 prediction market where you can punt on everything from elections and Bitcoin prices to green…

  12. Trev on Tiger Woods, Wild Parties & Tiger King

    · 13 min · Episode 380 · Explicit

    Trev’s back on Proper True Yarn and Knuckles comes straight in with the short jokes – if Luke Combs and Garth Brooks had a baby, Trev reckons he’d be the garden gnome version.The boys yarn about: • Trev’s dream…

  13. Born to Ride… and Bucked to the Shithouse | Proper True Yarn w/ Trev

    · 10 min · Episode 379 · Explicit

    Trev’s back with a chaos-filled yarn straight out of the yards. What starts as a simple horse-riding chat turns into a full-blown rodeo of bucking young colts, show-dogs that can’t handle cattle, and a saddle that ends…

  14. Don’t Call Trev for Your Shed Slab

    · 8:30 · Episode 379 · Explicit

    Knuckles sits down with Trev for the yarn that finally ended his concreting career — a 49-degree Longreach slab, a useless operator, and a boot full of wet concrete. Trev recounts the job from hell: taped-up work…

  15. Silly Saturday #1: Shit Pants, Tinder Stepkids & Bush Medicine

    · 13 min · S1 E377 · Explicit

    Knuckles and Zak launch Silly Saturday – a new Proper True Yarn spin-off where they dive blind into the wildest listener call-ins from a “lost” folder full of filthy, unfiltered chaos.This first Silly Saturday’s got it…

  16. Trev Vs Gravity - The Day the Postmaster Fell

    · 10 min · Episode 378 · Explicit

    Knuckles is back with Charleville’s finest, Trev 966, and this time the big banger yarns take a detour into posties, planks and pure fear of heights.It starts light – Knuckles giving a shoutout to his gun postie Jeffro…

  17. Trev's Origin Story - Bogged, Dry-Bogged & Truck-Dogged

    · 9:52 · Episode 375 · Explicit

    Knuckles is back with Charleville’s own Trev 966, unpacking how he went from a kid out Quilpie way to one of the best big-banger drivers in the country. From learning the Roadranger with zero experience to seismic…

  18. Trev's Back! Pigging PTSD to Big Bangers in Toowoomba

    · 12 min · Episode 374 · Explicit

    Knuckles welcomes Trev 966 back to the Proper True Yarn Podcast after the last appearance literally melted the camera. Fresh off the Get Yourself Checked gala, Trev rolls in from Charleville with a new batch of…

  19. Worst Workday Ever: Salmon Milked… Into My Mouth

    · 10 min · Episode 373 · Explicit

    Knuckles welcomes Dunc Heyde (The Rock FM / Not For Radio) for a tour of bizarre jobs before radio-culminating in his worst day on the tools. Sixth-form work experience lands Dunc at a salmon hatchery during spawning,…

  20. Chookzilla : The Juiced Up Factory Chook

    · 8:31 · Episode 372 · Explicit

    Knuckles sits down with Dunc Heyde (The Rock FM / Not For Radio) for the most out-of-control farmyard yarn you’ll ever hear. Teenage Dunc splits shifts between peeling spuds and “catching chickens,” stumbles into the…

  21. Unhinged Calls: Hatfishing & The Granny Parachute Heist

    · 7:41 · Episode 371 · Explicit

    Knuckles is back with radio legend Dunc Heyde from The Rock FM and Not For Radio — this time diving into the most unhinged calls, yarns, and sky-high stories from his broadcasting career.They kick off comparing notes…

  22. The Rock 2000 with Dunc Heyde

    · 7:38 · Episode 370 · Explicit

    This week, Knuckles sits down with Dunc Heyde—afternoons on The Rock FM and co-host of Not For Radio—smack in the middle of The Rock 2000 mayhem. Dunc traces the countdown’s glow-up: from wrecked-office afterparties…

  23. Arrested, Trespassed then partied with Stinky Fingers

    · 17 min · Episode 368 · Explicit

    Back for round two, Caamzie drops a chaotic Mardi Gras yarn from Aotearoa: pre-drinks with the crew, an ill-timed bathroom stop, a stall-surfing staffer, and suddenly he’s face-to-face with cops, cuff-adjacent, and…

  24. Rolled Truck, Close Shave, Closer Calls

    · 13 min · Episode 369 · Explicit

    We kick off with a quick bit of admin: NZ Mardi Gras ≠ Sydney’s Mardi Gras — this one’s the mountain music blowout at Ruapehu. Then it’s straight into Caamzie’s guest questions: ball-grooming misadventures (the…

  25. I Snuck Into Street League Skateboarding In Tokyo 2025!

    · 20 min · Episode 367 · Explicit

    Kambo/“Caamzie” swings by with a ridiculous travel-skate yarn: starting in a Thai hostel, sees Street League is in Tokyo tomorrow, books a flight on impulse, and proceeds to confidence-speedrun his way into the…

  26. Triumph, Tragedy & a Spare Bike: The Rees Racing Story

    · 8:37 · Episode 366

    Mel Kerr shares an intimate family epic: nephew Damo Rees—a rising superbike star sponsored by Carl Cox—marries in a sun-kissed NZ ceremony she officiates… then, six months later, dies suddenly in the UK after a…

  27. Open Mic at a Funeral: Secrets, Swears & Celebrant Chaos (with Mel Kerr)

    · 9:44 · Episode 365 · Explicit

    Mel Kerr—NZ’s busiest celebrant—drops her wildest funeral yarns: the memorial where a speaker unveiled a secret 15-year-old son mid-service, the tradie send-off fueled by bourbon & cola where a eulogist declared the…

  28. Popes, Paydays & “Husband and Wife”: Melanie Kerr’s Wildest Broadcast + Celebrant Yarn

    · 9:08 · Episode 364

    Mel Kerr returns with peak chaos: a perfectly innocent (but very wrong) theory about the Vatican’s smoke signals, the fickle end of Good Morning, and the glamorous gigs that followed… Canesten Fungal Toenail and Depend…

  29. Push-Ups, Bublé & a Jungle-Gym First Time

    · 12 min · Episode 363 · Explicit

    We split the guest questions because the yarns wouldn’t stop. James Johnston gets spicy and funny: losing it at 16 to a statuesque first love (“bit of a jungle gym”), the most famous person who genuinely floored him…

  30. Garth, Good Merch & Going Phone-Free

    · 14 min · Episode 362 · Explicit

    James Johnston swings by to plug the album (jamesjohnston.com), cop a well-earned black hat W, and field guest questions: the autograph he’d chase (hello, Garth Brooks), why phone-free shows feel magic in a noisy…

  31. Tequila, Taxis & Tin Roof Repairs

    · 13 min · Episode 361 · Explicit

    Global wanderer James Johnston parks the music chat and unloads travel mayhem and magic: a Barcelona blackout (five tequilas → beach wake-up → taxi sprint → passport rescue → somehow Thailand), a 2000km scooter run…

  32. From Bowling Alleys to 20,000 at CMC Rocks - James Johnston

    · 14 min · Episode 360 · Explicit

    Australia’s country rocket James Johnston unloads his wildest gig yarns: a DIY “50 gigs in 50 days” van tour (including a bowling-alley Tuesday and a campsite show for one bloke’s dog), then the leap to CMC Rocks main…

  33. Cape Town Choir & Springbok Poo — James Johnston in Africa

    · 17 min · Episode 359 · Explicit

    Australia’s hottest country act James Johnston drops a bucket-list yarn from South Africa—from armed escorts and stadium shows to a spur-of-the-moment duet sung in English and Afrikaans. We trace the weird radio magic…

  34. One More Song, One Big Crowd - James Johnston at Strumming Bird

    · 13 min · Episode 358 · Explicit

    Aussie country star James Johnston rolls in hot the week his new album Where You’ll Find Me drops. We talk going “all in” during COVID, buying the farm (literally), and writing in the now. James breaks down lead single…

  35. From Gold Mines to Good Mornings — Melanie Kerr’s Wild Path into TV (and the Wonder Whisk)

    · 12 min · Episode 357

    From a WA cattle station and gold mine to live radio in Whakatāne and seven years inside TVNZ’s Good Morning—Melanie Kerr unpacks how she “just had a go” and became a familiar Kiwi face. We cover advertorial hosting,…

  36. Crate Day Gone Sideways — Melanie Kerr’s Dunedin King-Hit, Gangs & Grace Under Fire

    · 12 min · Episode 356

    On NZ’s infamous Crate Day, a routine sober-driver night flips fast. Broadcaster/funeral celebrant Melanie Kerr recounts how a friendly lift request turned into a mongrel mob confrontation, a king-hit that knocked her…

  37. Behind the Confiscation Line — Melanie Kerr on Growing Up Tūhoe-Side, Gangs & Getting Out

    · 12 min · Episode 355

    TV/radio fave Melanie Kerr returns with a raw origin story: growing up Pākehā on the Māori side of the 1860s confiscation line in Ruatoki/Tāneatua (Tūhoe country). We unpack what that line actually was, how colors…

  38. Rugby, Rum & Anzac Day in NZ

    · 8:57 · Episode 350 · Explicit

    On this episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Tooney takes us across the ditch for one of the wildest trips of his Army rugby career. From smashing the Navy at Sydney Football Ground to representing the Australian…

  39. Dogs, Science & Saving Lives — with Melanie Kerr

    · 20 min · Episode 354

    Ambassador Melanie Kerr joins us fresh from Dunedin’s K9MD lab, where specially trained dogs are being used in research to detect cancer via urine samples. We swap the “fluffy mic” mix-up story for a deep dive on how…

  40. Porn on the Projector

    · 13 min · Episode 353 · Explicit

    This proper true yarn special with Heath “Tierney” Tierney is full of wild laughs and loose yarns. From shaving mishaps in the Army to the fantasy of billion-dollar boats, Tierney opens up about virginity in a granny…

  41. Moist Hole & Broken Boats

    · 12 min · Episode 352 · Explicit

    In this ripper episode of Proper True Yarn Podcast, Knuckles sits down with Team Tooney Fishing to swap stories of being “professional amateurs.” From snapping rods and cooking engines mid-comp, to sinking tins while…

  42. Hanging by a Harness at 13,000 Feet

    · 12 min · Episode 349 · Explicit

    In this wild episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Tony takes us from army shenanigans to life-threatening moments on a C-130 Hercules. From dangling on a harness at 13,000 feet while filming freefall jumps, to…

  43. Shell Shock & Betrayal

    · 12 min · Episode 351 · Explicit

    In this gripping Proper True Yarn Podcast episode, we dive deep into the raw realities of service life with Team Tuning. From a Chinook nearly torn apart by a rogue artillery shell that left a soldier with a permanent…

  44. Kapooka Chaos

    · 13 min · Episode 348 · Explicit

    Heath from Team Tooney takes us straight into recruit life — brutal drill sergeants, bent bedframes and hot-box humiliation at Kapooka, plus wild tales from job-specific training (including the maddening rules around…

  45. Bears, Beers & Bar Fights

    · 14 min · Episode 347 · Explicit

    From smooth sacks to Silverado dreams, Connor from Pub Cats brings a mix of pub wisdom and wild yarns to the Patreon pod. He talks manscaping mishaps, billion-dollar truck fantasies, and why he’s more at home in a…

  46. The Shamrock Break-In

    · 16 min · Episode 346 · Explicit

    Connor from Pub Cats is back with one of his wildest yarns yet — the infamous Toowoomba night out that spiralled from pokies wins and stein sculls to a spew in the Bavarian and an accidental break-in at the Shamrock…

  47. From Pub Cats to The Laneway

    · 16 min · Episode 345

    Connor from Pub Cats is back on the Patreon pod with a yarn that runs deep into the roots of mateship, pubs, and chasing ideas that matter. From those first chaotic pub crawls in $20 Vinnie’s outfits, to starting a…

  48. Cast, Carnies & Chaos

    · 15 min · Episode 344 · Explicit

    Guest Q’s go fully off-road with Johnny: a Veet-on-the-ballbag disaster, losing it at 13, a “sandwich bag” condom at a house party, and a car-park punch-on with fairground gypsies—plus the footy brawl so wild the cops…

  49. Boilers & Blow-Up Dolls

    · 15 min · Episode 343 · Explicit

    From working in the London Bomber’s house to stumbling over boxes of dildos, Johnny Raithby’s years as a British Gas fitter gave him front-row seats to the strangest things behind closed doors. Naked portraits,…

  50. Locked Up in Cape Town

    · 15 min · Episode 342 · Explicit

    On a rugby league tour to South Africa, Jonny Raithby thought the biggest danger was sharks in the harbour—until unmarked cops threw him and his mates into the back of a van. With bloodied legs, a drunken swim, and a…

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