Proper True Yarn
Proper True Yarn is a storytelling podcast hosted by Knuckles from Country Trucker Caps. Each episode features guests sharing wild, funny, and extraordinary stories from around the world. The show blends humor, heart, and adventure, covering everything from daring escapades to supernatural encounters. It aims to entertain and captivate listeners with a diverse range of human experiences.
Episodes
She Bagged the Bellmere Butcher to His Face Without Knowing It | Proper True Yarn Podcast
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 actually tell on this show. Then a little Kia pulls up in the middle of six blokes and a lady in her 80s gets out, looks at the sign and goes, "not the Bellmere Butcher", sh
A Nervous Piss With Ghost Chilli on His Hands | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 5)
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, the Screaming Jets and Aussie rock royalty The Angels. After the Friday crowd thinned out on the Jets, the promoters flipped the Saturday order, so The Angels went on first and
He Woke Up With a Stack of Love Letters for Keith Urban | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 4)
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, and one bloke whose rider ends with a framed picture of Trace Adkins. Luke's had his own rider rinsed by another artist who shall remain nameless but absolutely knows who he
He Wants the World Record: Five Days of Guitar, No Sleep, No Breaks | Proper True Yarn Podcast
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 without stopping, and Knuckles has watched him do eight and a half hours straight at the Gympie Muster's Lights on the Hill bar with three trips to the dunny, after alrea
He Asked the Salon for a Brazilian Wax on His Chest | Proper True Yarn Podcast
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 trainers won't rub you down before a game if you're hairy. After a leg waxing attempt back in Toowoomba ended at one leg, two girls and a lot of swearing, he spots a sign under
He Stayed Awake Through Dental Surgery So They Couldn't Steal His Organs | Proper True Yarn Podcast
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 cancer luncheon, hosted by their good mate Jack Wagner at Wellcamp Airport. The lunch raised $39,000, and the cause is a beauty: a testing truck partnered with Heart of Australia tha
He Fought the Tent Champion With His Grandad in His Corner
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 the family legacy, his grandfather was a tent fighter back in the day. Jessie got caught in the crush at the front, and when the RFDS bloke helping Fred asked if there was anything
The World's Deadliest Snake Had a Sniff of His Boot
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 after four months together, and walking into an Echuca bottle shop to tell the manager he'd work that night for free and be given a job by close. Advice to the young fellas, that
His Driver's Licence Was a Blonde Wig
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 his bed and wants to wear it to a 70s party. His explanation: that's me licence. When he drives with the wig on, the cops think he's a woman. Her reply, God bless her, is
He Woke Up With a Steak Knife in His Leg | Proper True Yarn Podcast (Part 2)
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 same bloke who once woke a sleeping Johnny up by putting a steak knife in his leg.The yarns get wilder from there. The tin dropped in the car park on the way to the Mudgee food festival
The Army Knocked Him Back for Being a Psychopath
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. Johnny's training farm strong, throwing 44 gallon drums and tyres around and belting the bag in riggers, and reckons the city pricks on the card are in for a rude shock. There'
Michael Crossland on the Surgery He Told His Kids Was a Work Trip
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 out loud: there's one there, another one, two more down there. He hadn't been told about any of them. Six more tumours in his throat, on top of the one from 2016, and a doctor
Begging God to Take Everything but My Baby Boy
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 floor of level three, the woman who picked him up was the foundation’s CEO, and she told him everything was going to be okay. Then the man who spent four years of his childhood at Ron
Michael Crossland on the Four Tumours He Hid From His Mum
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 months, then told her the truth: it was hers. No, he wasn’t rich. The bank lent him the money and he pays the mortgage every week.Four weeks before he finally got his scans done, a surge
Michael Crossland on Losing His Mum’s Life Savings Six Weeks Before the GFC
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 financial crisis hit and he lost everything she had, the money of the one person who’d sacrificed her whole life for his. What followed was rock bottom at a caravan park, bacterial
"Hope you die" inside a get well card
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 going to be okay and sent him to school anyway.School turned out harder than hospital. No hair, no eyelashes, bandages over the burns, a nebuliser at every recess, and not a
Surviving the Drug That Killed the Other 24 Kids With Michael Crossland
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 warning, Knuckles was in tears two minutes in, and this is only part one.Diagnosed at 11 months old with stage four neuroblastoma and sent home with a 96 per cent death rate, Michael’s li
Zak Palmas on Burning Down His Dad’s Favourite Tractor, Lawnmower DUIs & Growing Up in Ingham
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 two 16 year old mates who couldn’t find a car to get from a bush doof into town, so they took a lawnmower instead. Twenty minutes of road, a pair of L plates, and a phone call to the cop
Four Hours, No Toilet, And Everyone's On The Piss | FIFO Flight Yarns
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 they were on it, and bring an empty Gatorade bottle for the obvious reason. One bloke had about six beers after a ten hour shift, filled his bottle, and kept going. The plane sits o
Fake Dicks, Clean Piss And A Dealer Working Underground | Zak's Mining Yarns
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 it, and they never got caught, because between them they had fake dicks and bottles of clean piss ready to go. Right up until the day the site tested everyone in the morning, broug
Drake Has A 37% Win Rate And Has Lost Over $100 Million
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 Canada. $1.5 million on Argentina to beat Spain, and Spain get up 1-0 in extra time. A million dollars on Argentina to beat France in 2022. Argentina win, and he still loses
Podcast Royale 3.0 · Fights 12 & 13 Super Heavyweights + Jock Boxing Vs Jimmy Judge
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 Arse) vs BJ Wallace (Into The Green). Not heavyweights. Super heavyweights. Zayden got the call and went straight into gorilla mode, heavy bench, heavy squats, heavy deadies — and had t
Cowboy vs Love Islander, Liam Vs Curly & Nelson's Knockouts | Fights 9, 10 & 11 | Podcast Royale 3.0
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 ocean, and right now he's training somewhere between Japan and Barcelona. Tylen's in a paddock. Tylen took last year's fight on a four week call-up straight off the farm,
Fights 7 & 8: Tag Team Biff + The Seven Man Blindfold | Podcast Royale 3.0
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 in, everything flips. Kyle got fed to Latsy last year and got well and truly smoked, but twelve months training out of Undisputed Boxing is a long time. There's also a
"Blind Benny's Fucked" Every Team's Blindfold Picks | Podcast Royale 3.0
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 Seven Man Blindfold : and why.Buster's crew have gone with Welchie, a Cargill farmer who was told 75 to 95 kilos, turned up at 105, and is now sitting at 94. He's also
Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Ant-Weight Bout & Rob Huston vs Justin Becker
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 Podcast in the Ant-Weight Bout, and the boys break down what makes this one must-watch.Then Rob Huston from the Hard Yards Podcast squares off against Justin Becker from Reub
Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Sit Down Show Down & Barbs Vs Beetle
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 units who'll bring the crowd, and the boys break down who's got the edge when they finally square off in the ring.Then the one billed as the Sit-Down Showdown, Clancy B
Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: Gocsy vs Moose, Bluey vs The Judge
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 'Bluey' Neilson from Daily Blue Weekly takes on Jared 'The Judge' Purcell from the Broken Fathers Podcast. Bluey went 1-0 at the first Podcast Royale and the boys have train
I Blacked Out In An Onsen In Hakuba & Had My Kei Truck "Stolen"
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 on people and talking about starting a podcast years before it happened. Zak reckons watching Knuckles network his way through life is what finally taught him it's not what y
Buckeye’s First Start: Cam Hay Calls In With the Hot Scoop Before the Gold Coast
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 been out of second gear. First trial he jumped, went to the front and stuck it in first the whole way. Second trial they went quicker, he had to absorb pressure, they clicked him up
Zak Palmas on Fighting at Podcast Royale with a corner who almost didn't show up
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 from the inside. His wife was pregnant and stuck at home with morning sickness. His trainer bailed to chase a world title. One of Australia's best boxers was meant to be in
Deleting $100k of Footage With One Keystroke, the Tony Stark Supercar Lair Under a Melbourne House & the Prince's Albino Alligators
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 because he walks away from every shoot with a video of that person instead, which he reckons is worth more. No idols either, just running his own race, and the novelty o
Drunk Go-Karting in the Rain in Malaysia, Piss Alley in Tokyo & Stealing a Porcelain Pineapple in Austria
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 points out is a fair way from Dalby. Nights out in Piss Alley in Shinjuku, where three streets are packed with about 150 tiny family-run bars that fit three patrons each and so
Growing Up Outside Dalby & the School Principal Who Became One of Australia’s Most Notorious Killers
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 Street in Kwinalei has seen the least progress of any street in the country. The pub’s shut down too, so it’s Kaimkillenbun for a feed these days.Then he tells the yarn about his hig
Bartering With the Indonesian Military to Fly a Drone, Vaporising a Turtle on the Highway & Losing Two Drones Up a Tree in the Outback
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 gets the close-up. Just a pink mist. Then Broome to Darwin. Beautiful bridge, gorgeous shot, “let’s do one more,” drone straight into the tallest tree in the outback. Then the backup
Red Bull Shoots, Malaysian Princes & a Sketchy Maccas Run in South Africa
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 another proper true yarn, and this one gets loose quick. 🎙️🔥 #ProperTrueYarn #GeordieLillis #AustralianPodcast #RedBull #Motorsport #Filmmaking #ProperTrueYarnPodcast📞 Get involved🎤 Send a
The Viral Wheelie Bin Video That Changed Everything
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 recovering from life-changing injuries, travelling to Europe just before the world shut down, returning home as COVID hit, and finding himself completely broke. Then came the no
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
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 line above him and arced through the ground into his bike. Rubber wheels, rubber gloves, rubber boots. That's the only reason he's here to tell it. Mum watched him vanish in
From Thor: Ragnarok to Breaking His Neck | Geordie Lillis
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 Love and Monsters, Geordie seemed to be living the dream. But one accident at the beach changed everything. Geordie opens up about the serious neck injury that nearly cost him his l
How a GoPro Started a Career in Hollywood | Geordie Lillis
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 on dirt bikes with a GoPro to working on Hollywood productions, creating content for brands like Red Bull, Harley-Davidson, Ford and Mack Trucks, Geordie explains why consistency beat
I Blew $500 on Khe Sanh and Went Bankrupt Anyway
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 Reynolds, blowing $500 just to hear Khe Sanh at a pub, going bankrupt despite earning nearly $200k a year, the wildest parties he's ever seen, brutal punch-ons, losing his virgi
Luck Has Nothing To Do With It W Poo Bandit
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 legendary editing skills and a disastrous camping trip to lessons learned on farms, mine sites, and in business, this episode is packed with laughs, life advice, and proper true yarns fro
From Mining Life to Podcast Fame, Fight Night Chaos & Raw Life Lessons
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 Bandit shares the outrageous story behind his nickname, the journey from working in the mines to becoming a full-time co-host of Australia's biggest podcast, and the wild behind-the
The Poo Bandit: I Met My Biological Father in a Police Cell
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 local police station that took an unexpected turn when he discovered his biological father sitting in the watch house. The conversation dives into family, growing up around chaos
A Tree Fell on Adam Borradale... and His Grandma Had to Prove It
Did that really happen?In this hilarious episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Adam Borradale shares the unbelievable story of the day a massive pepper tree fell on him as a kid, leaving him unconscious and in intensive care. The yarn sounds so outrageous that Knuckles doesn't believe a word of it... until Adam calls his grandma live on the podcast to confirm every detail.From being acciden
Highway Shockers, Cancer Survival & A Cheese Grater Disaster
Welcome back to Proper True Yarn! Recorded LIVE at AlphaFest, this episode is packed with wild, hilarious and unbelievable crowd yarns. First up, Zak meets a drummer with one of the most cooked highway stories you’ll ever hear, involving a dodgy Honda Accord and a very questionable driver. Then Chris shares an incredible survival story after being diagnosed with stage four Burkitt’s lymphoma at ju
Closing Bribie Bridge & Surviving 11,000 Volts live at AlphaFest
Welcome back to Proper True Yarn! Recorded LIVE at AlphaFest, this episode delivers two unforgettable stories from the crowd. First, Rusty shares how a drunken weekend on Bribie Island somehow led to a homemade traffic detour, the unofficial closure of Bribie Bridge, and the mysterious theft and sale of a giant pelican statue. Then "Fingers the Firebug" tells the incredible story of surviv
The Tractor Disaster & Tiny's Flying LandCruiser Live at AlphaFest
Recorded live at AlphaFest, this episode delivers some of the wildest yarns from the crowd and from Proper True Yarn regular, Tiny. First up, Casey recounts the time she accidentally found herself behind the wheel of a massive tractor at a country pub near Roma. What started as trying to impress a few old cowboys quickly turned into sprinklers exploding, sheep running through the car park, and eno
The Dementia Bluff & Two Kebabs, One Seccy : AlphaFest Live
Recorded live at AlphaFest, this episode delivers a mix of heartwarming, hilarious and downright unbelievable yarns. First, district nurse Sam shares the story of a dementia patient who left her questioning who was actually confused. She then dives into some of the wildest things she's witnessed on the job, from awkward home visits to a bathroom situation that can never be unseen. Sam also ope
The Christmas Foursome & The Vasectomy That Made a Baby Live at AlphaFest
Recorded live at AlphaFest, this episode delivers two absolutely unbelievable yarns from the crowd. First up, Dylan shares the Christmas Day adventure that started with a quiet drink after the kids left and somehow escalated into a spontaneous foursome he never saw coming. Then things take an even stranger turn when Casey from CJ Electrical tells the incredible story of how a vasectomy—meant to st
Bizza’s Story Stepping Back From the Ledge Live At AlphaFest
Recorded live at AlphaFest, this powerful and emotional episode features Bizza from Newcastle sharing his personal battle with mental health, anxiety, online criticism, and suicidal thoughts. After being publicly targeted and falling into a dark place, Bizza opens up about how community, mateship, podcasts, and seeking help changed the direction of his life. This raw conversation highlights the im
Fake Cops, Crack Dens & Getting Naked at Deni | Live at Alpha Fest
Welcome back to Proper True Yarn! This episode was recorded LIVE at Alpha Fest, where Knuckles handed the mic to festival-goers and let them loose with some absolute belters. First up, Jimmy shares the unbelievable story of buying his first home, only to discover it had previously been used as a drug house. Things took a terrifying turn when three men posing as police stormed the property looking
Chad Collins on Losing It at 13, Fighting at Maccas & Why Jim Morrison Plays Him in the Movie
Part 6 with Chad Collins, guest questions round and it gets unhinged.Chad takes the rapid-fire guest questions and the answers are gold. He’d grab Mr. Beast’s autograph (met him at UFC 299 next to Logan Paul), reckons Muhammad Ali would’ve been the proper sit-down yarn, and breaks down the biggest fuck-up of his life, not moving to Thailand at 17 instead of 21, all because of puppy love. The boys
Thailand Fight Camps, Rabid Dogs & The Brutal Truth About Muay Thai
Part 5 of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, world-class Muay Thai fighter Chad Collins shares wild stories from Thailand fight camps, surviving COVID chaos overseas, getting chased by rabid dogs during training runs, dengue fever before a world title fight, and the harsh reality of making money in combat sports. Chad opens up about life fighting in Thailand and Japan, the struggle of Australian fighte
Belts Belong in the Gym, Inspiring the Next Generation & Why Muay Thai Beats MMA
Part 4 with world champion Chad Collins — this one's all heart. Chad gets passionate about why every belt he's won (17-19 of them and counting) lives at his gym instead of collecting dust at home. He breaks down the kid-walking-into-Urban-Fight-Gym moment as a young Tucker, seeing Nathan Corbett's WMC world titles on the wall, and realising that's the dream — and how he's now p
Chad Collins on the 15-Fight Win Streak, Getting Knocked Down for the First Time & Riding the Black Patch
Part 3 with world champion fighter Chad Collins — and it's the rawest one yet. Chad walks through his 15-fight winning streak, the WBC world title defence where he split his shin open, and the four-week turnaround for the brutal Petch Panomarung fight in Japan where he won with blood and piss pouring out of his leg. Then the high comes crashing down. Chad gets honest about Miguel Trinidad — th
Silly Saturday #23 Dubbo Mayhem, Welding Slag Wars & Hitting a Horse on the Highway
Knuckles and Zak are live from Launceston, Tasmania for Silly Saturday #23 — drinking Boag's Draught 3.5 (Knuckles' new favourite) and rolling through another round of unhinged listener yarns. Charlie Maybury carries the whole episode with three rippers — a metals class welding slag incident that coated the teacher, and two Dubbo nights out involving a gorilla-on-steroids bouncer, a hammer
Cam Hay Got Bucked Off a Pony in Front of Gai Waterhouse
Part 3 with Cam Hay from Mustr Racing — and this one's all yarns. Fresh out of school with zero horse experience, Cam talked his way into a job at Gai Waterhouse's Randwick stable. He breaks down the journey from picking up shit for six months to begging Gai for a ride on the lead pony — and the absolute disaster that followed when a 25-year-old half-asleep ex-racehorse decided he'd ha
Picking Buckeye, Vetting Race Horses & the Half Yours Melbourne Cup Miss
Part 2 with Cam Hay from Mustr Racing — and this one's a ripper. Cam breaks down exactly how he picks the horses he syndicates, why his data analyst (allegedly living in a dark room under a house) is the secret weapon, and the heartbreaking yarn about the horse he was this close to buying — that went on to win a Caulfield Cup, then a Melbourne Cup. Yeah. Half Yours. Plus the boys get into why
Mustr Racing, Race Horse Syndication & How to Own a Horse for $255
Knuckles sits down in Launceston, Tasmania with Cam Hay from Mustr Racing for the first ever Proper True Yarn pod recorded in Tassie. Cam runs Mustr Racing with his two brothers Michael and Tom — a micro-share syndication business making race horse ownership accessible to everyday Aussies. The boys yarn about Cam's failed-professional-punter grandfather, his dad's first horse share bought
Silly Saturday #22 — AlphaFest, Tully Brothers Court Yarn, Pig vs 44 Drum & Shitty Pizza
Knuckles and Zak are back for Silly Saturday #22 with cold beers and another round of unhinged listener yarns. The boys kick off with details on AlphaFest — Sandstone Point Hotel, last weekend in May, $99 tickets, with Bliss N Eso, Shannon Noll, The Wolfe Brothers, Buster, Danny Grant, Benny Penningill and more. Best yarn on the day wins a one-of-one custom stonker hat. Listener yarns this week:Bo
Winning a World Title, Manifestation & a Father's Goodbye
7x Muay Thai & kickboxing world champion Chad Collins returns to the Proper True Yarn Podcast to tell the full story behind his first world title win — and the emotional moment with his father that changed why he fights forever. From bawling in the change room while getting his hands wrapped, to facing Thai superstar Yod IQ in Melbourne on Rebellion, Chad opens up about manifestation, mindset,
Chad Collins: Robbed in Thailand, Fight Camp Hell & Becoming a 7x World Champion
Australian Muay Thai superstar Chad Collins joins the Proper True Yarn Podcast to tell the full story behind becoming a 7-time world champion. From brutal fight camps, savage weight cuts, and training through injuries, to getting robbed on the scorecards in Thailand and fighting across the world — Chad opens up about the sacrifices, politics, and mindset behind elite combat sports. He shares stori
Silly Saturday #21 — Flood Relief Tour, Lee Kernaghan, Broken Dicks & Truckie Appreciation
Knuckles and Zak are back for Silly Saturday #21 with cold beers and the best listener yarns of the week. Fresh off the Flood Relief Tour with Lee Kernaghan, Luke Geiger and Jared Wrigley, Knuckles shares the road stories — including how the boys threw a free pub night for the flooded-in locals at Eulo. Plus listener yarns from Nathan, The Semen Eater, Judy the Horny Cougar, The Broken Foreskin, a
Jordan Abbey Young & Beau Jones on Thor, Aquaman & Aussies in Hollywood
Aussie actors Jordan Abbey Young and Beau Jones crack a cold one with Knuckles for a no-holds-barred yarn about life on and off screen. From working alongside Chris Hemsworth on Thor and Jason Momoa on Aquaman, to crashing Chris Pine's LA house party with a carton of beer and a bottle of JD these blokes have stories. In this episode the boys cover:Getting bogged in the outback and the six-day,
Beau Jones Fake Brother: A Live Call to the Real One
Knuckles is back on the piss with Beau Jones and Jordan Abbey Young — and within minutes Knuckles drops a curly one. At the Childers show, a carny rocked up to his stall calling himself Jonesy, reckoning he was Beau's older brother. Helicopter yarns, court battles over Coolibah Station, a feud over the family inheritance — the bloke had detail for days. Only problem: nobody in the actual Jones
Hotmail, Hard Rock & Heartbreak: The Mining Reality Show Australia Needs
Knuckles is joined by Beau and Jordan — two mates who grew up in the bush — for a proper crack about reality TV, fake country blokes, and the next great Aussie dating show: Miner Wants a Vagina.Beau gives the inside word on growing up on Keeping Up with the Joneses, the reality series built around his family. He reckons every reality TV format hits the same four base needs — shelter, food, sex, an
Silly Saturday #20 The Rodeo, The Granny & The Op Shop Heist
It’s Silly Saturday 20 and this one is absolute chaos from start to finish.We’ve got a proper true yarn from a small-town rodeo that quickly spirals out of control, involving a pissed-up night, a run-in with an angry granny, shitting yourself mid-street, a river misadventure, and somehow ending with an op shop break-in just to get a fresh outfit.Plus, the Poddy Royale is heating up with submission
Territory Was a Wake-Up Call | Why Acting School Had It Wrong
In this episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Beau Jones and Jordan Abbey Young break down the moment acting school stopped serving a purpose and real experience finally took over.The conversation centres on Beau’s time filming Territory in the Northern Territory, and how different the environment was compared to his early work on productions like Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan. Where act
The Forsayth Turnout | Yabbie Races, Small-Town Blues & Singing You Don’t Remember
In this episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Beau Jones and Jordan Abbey Young take Knuckles back to Jordan’s hometown of Forsayth in North Queensland for what was meant to be a wholesome country weekend and quickly turned into absolute chaos.What starts as a 2000-kilometre road trip in an old 75 Series LandCruiser becomes a full-scale lesson in small-town dynamics. Yabbie races with serious m
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In this episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Beau Jones and Jordan Abbey Young break down acting school from the inside, what it actually teaches you, what it doesn’t, and why most people misunderstand how acting careers really work.The conversation centres around their time at the New York Film Academy on the Gold Coast, back when it operated out of the Movie World studios. The boys explain t
Met in a Bin, Bonded on a War Film | Beau Jones & Jordan Abbey Young
This episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast brings two absolute weapons into the studio, Beau Jones and Jordan Abbey Young, for a long-form yarn about friendship, acting, and how careers sometimes start in the strangest possible ways.Both Beau and Jordan grew up as station kids in North Queensland and the Northern Territory, chasing an acting dream that confused their families and tested their co
Silly Saturday #19 Australia Post Is Robbing Us Blind
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Magical Smoke, Steve Renoff & The TikTok Live Pressure Test
In this episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Jimmy Christmas jumps into the hot seat for a rapid-fire question session, live on TikTok.From the very first question, it’s chaos.Jimmy shares where to find his viral Christmas light displays (Jimmy_Xmas on socials) and talks about the Tongan rugby league light show that blew up online. What started as a hobby has turned into one of the most talked
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Footy Trips, Motel Chaos & Getting Hugged by Alfie Langer
In this episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast, Jimmy Christmas switches gears from farming chaos to classic footy stories that only come from road trips, rep sides, and too much freedom in motel rooms.Jimmy talks about growing up around footy, playing local and rep sides, and why making representative teams was often more about the away trips than the games themselves. He shares one unforgettabl
Silly Saturday #18 Spud Guns, Ring of Fire & Wild Hunting Yarns
It’s another loose Silly Saturday on the Proper True Yarn Podcast packed with outrageous listener stories, unfiltered banter, and absolute chaos. From backyard spud gun disasters to a brutal “Ring of Fire” yarn that’ll have you wincing, nothing is off limits.We dive into ridiculous would-you-rather questions, share some of the funniest (and most cooked) call-ins yet, and wrap it up with a wild New
Kelvin the Farmhand | Naked in a Cherry Picker and Other Hiring Nightmares
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Jimmy Christmas | Turning a Family Home Into Australia’s Wildest Light Show
This episode of the Proper True Yarn Podcast features a brand new guest with one of the most unexpected passions you’ll hear about all year.Knuckles sits down with Jimmy Xmas, also known as James Cortese, the bloke who turned a simple idea for his kids into a fully synchronised Christmas light display that pulls crowds from all over the region.What started as a few lights quickly turned into a ful
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