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Proper True Yarn

Proper True Yarn: Comedy, Storytelling, Adventure

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

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12:42

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

Proper True Yarn ·

2026/09/20

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 he could do, she dobbed Johnny straight in: he really wants to fight. Hand up, on the board, matched with

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20:40

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

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2026/09/17

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's how it's done. The bottle shop yarns from houseboat party season are worth the listen on their own.Then

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9:55

His Driver's Licence Was a Blonde Wig

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2026/09/16

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 the best line of the episode: mate, you've got a beard.From there it's back to the Cudgegong River, hundred pound

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8:40

He Woke Up With a Steak Knife in His Leg | Proper...

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2026/09/13

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, a carton of rum throwdowns, and the night of hazing that ended with 15 year old Johnny passed out on

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10:50

The Army Knocked Him Back for Being a Psychopath

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2026/09/08

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's respect for the legend Benny, but as Johnny says, no more sympathy votes. Whoever fights the best gets the

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18:00

Michael Crossland on the Surgery He Told His Kids Was...

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2026/09/06

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 once again telling him his tomorrows weren't guaranteed.What he did next is the hardest part of this episode

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10:48

Begging God to Take Everything but My Baby Boy

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2026/09/03

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 Ronald McDonald House found himself living there again 30 years later with his own sick little boy. When

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10:06

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

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2026/09/01

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 surgeon speaking at the same health forum pulled him aside and said something didn’t look right about his

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16:37

Michael Crossland on Losing His Mum’s Life Savings...

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2026/08/30

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 meningitis, fluid on the brain and Bell’s palsy, learning to walk and talk again, and the darkest

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15:21

"Hope you die" inside a get well card

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2026/08/28

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 single day he didn't cop it from the other kids. Then, laid up after his first heart attack at just 12 years

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11:07

Surviving the Drug That Killed the Other 24 Kids With...

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2026/08/25

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 life was shaped by his mum’s decision to see it as 4 per cent full instead of 96 per cent empty. Chemo

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9:37

Zak Palmas on Burning Down His Dad’s Favourite...

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2026/08/20

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 cops later, both of them were done for drink driving and ended up on the news.Then the big one. Zak was

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12:02

Four Hours, No Toilet, And Everyone's On The Piss |...

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2026/08/18

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 on a slight angle. Everyone's in boots so nobody notices. The admin lady up the front had her shoes

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12:33

Fake Dicks, Clean Piss And A Dealer Working...

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2026/08/16

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, brought them all back up to the surface mid shift, and tested them again.There's a fitter knocking on Zak's door

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7:40

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

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2026/08/13

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 on a technicality. And then the one that started the whole curse conversation: a million on Conor McGregor against

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11:37

Podcast Royale 3.0 · Fights 12 & 13 Super...

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2026/08/11

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 to be told he's boxing, not entering a strongman. He's got Bryce in his corner and half of Rocky behind

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13:41

Cowboy vs Love Islander, Liam Vs Curly & Nelson's...

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2026/08/09

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, copped a hiding to the neck and just kept walking forward. Both of us are backing the bloke with the mongrel.Fight

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13:30

Fights 7 & 8: Tag Team Biff + The Seven Man Blindfold...

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2026/08/06

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 rumour going round about Matt and bare knuckle. Can't confirm, can't deny.Then Fight 8, the Seven Man Blindfold, where

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11:12

"Blind Benny's Fucked" Every Team's Blindfold Picks |...

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2026/08/04

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 carrying the world's biggest testicle, which four of us have signed. One side of it. And Joey, a four-foot-eleven

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10:54

Podcast Royale 3.0 Fight Preview: The Ant-Weight Bout...

Proper True Yarn ·

2026/08/02

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 Reuben's Ranch Podcast, and the boys get into who's got the edge and why.🎟️ Tickets at alpha-events.com.au. Fight night

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