Proper True Yarn

Pat Brennan from Bucked Up joins the pod with a belter of a yarn about how a $16,000 gamble on a trademark turned into a $4 million launch in just one week. From fighting over the rights to the name LFG to building one of Australia’s most recognisable supplement brands, Pat takes us inside the wins, mistakes, and lessons of the game. This episode isn’t just about pre-workout tubs—it’s about brand battles, business hustle, and the make-or-break moments that separate the dreamers from the doers. A proper true yarn packed with laughs, grit, and straight-up business wisdom.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. We talk branding, vision, and the hustle of bringing Bucked Up down under, before diving into hard-hitting questions like shaving habits, pick-up lines, dust-ups at Coles, and why he reckons a moose would be the ultimate pet. A funny, raw, and unexpected chat with one of the hungriest young brand builders in the game.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 beach, wild wrap parties on the Elvis movie set with Tom Hanks, ski-season benders in the French Alps, nearly getting flogged for pissing in a bush, and why he’d choose a wolf as a pet. Pure rogue energy, big laughs, and a reminder that even the biggest fuck-ups are just lessons with better stories.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 streets as the world’s biggest tech giants, to fronting up to billionaire investors, this one’s a proper rollercoaster. A story about backing yourself, hustling hard, and taking your shot when it counts.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 dildos getting launched onto NFL fields.Corey breaks down how prediction markets actually work, why they can be more accurate than polls, how they raised a lazy million in VC, and how creators can become decentralised bookies – including setting up markets for things like the Podcast Royale boxing night.Crypto, politics, sports, dildos on the 50-metre line and a Frenchman having a crack in Dubai… it’s a proper true yarn about backing yourself and betting on the future.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 autograph and playing golf with Tiger Woods (and weapon young Charlie)His biggest concrete stuff-up pouring a slab in the wrong spotThe wildest bush party he’s been to – knocked out, car doing marble rings, guideposts and allLosing his virginity as a late bloomerPlaying golf with viral legend The Baron and finding out Gordon Ramsay and Peter Andre follow himWho’d play Trev in a movie (Dave Hughes copps it) and why he’s basically the Aussie Tiger KingThey wrap up plotting a stunt where Trev drops a CTC hat onto Knuckles’ head with an excavator. Proper Aussie banter, big laughs and big fuck-ups. Hit follow and send your own yarn in for a run on the pod.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 up between his legs.From being mistaken for a born-and-bred horseman to getting launched sky-high off a green horse while everyone else tries to revive a “super-trained” cattle dog, this one’s pure rural madness.Horses, dogs, cattle, dust, and a bloke who reckons he’s “no Bubba Tilley” — but still ends up in the thick of it.Proper. True. Yarn.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 boots, concrete arriving at 1pm in scorching heat, falling through mesh, and a “dehydrated” coworker rehydrating with Canadian Club. Proper chaos, proper laughs, proper true yarn.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 all: a Tinder date ambush by surprise kids, a Kiwi truckie with 30 roadside emergency bogs and a full-noise pants blowout, food-poisoning horror yarns (including Zak spewing and shitting himself after dodgy sushi), trusting a fart in Thailand, and a car getting absolutely sent until the tyres and motor give up.There’s even a rogue detour into bush “cures” and backyard medical theories – strictly yarns, not health advice – plus a bit of love for Chevs, hate for Rams, and a shoutout to the Sharp Motor Group. Raw, loose and completely un-pre-listened… welcome to Silly Saturday.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 getting CTC hats overnight – then Trev drops a proper true yarn about the local postal manager Tom, a paint job, and a fall straight out of Cliffhanger.At 14, Trev’s up on trestles helping Tom paint his house when something goes horribly wrong. One second they’re cutting in around the windows, the next Tom brushes past Trev, falls from the plank, and locks eyes with him mid-air on the way to the ground. Broken ribs, an ambulance ride, and the sound of that “oof” has stuck with Trev ever since.Asked to go back and finish the job, he climbs onto the same plank, feels it rock, climbs straight back down and quits on the spot:“You can tell Tom to paint his own fucking house. I’ve quit.”From there it’s a lifetime of being no good with heights:Boys on site stirring him up because he’s “terrible on roofs”Walking sheets on a high roof in Mackay, promising if he falls, someone’s coming with himAss cheeks “like suction caps on the roof” if he slipsJust when he thinks he’s getting better, he’s back on a school job walking trusses along a fully extended plank. The boys grab the truss out of his hands and Trev suddenly realises he’s got nothing to hang onto. Frozen in the middle of the gap, he watches a mate fall off the top plate and break his neck on the ground below. That’s it. Line in the sand.By the end of it, Trev’s made peace with his fate:“This is me. I’m a concreter now. I’ll just stick to the ground stuff.”It’s a dark, funny, very real look at how one bad moment can turn a 14-year-old Charleville kid into a lifelong ground-dweller – even if he still climbs into the big bangers for a living.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 drilling runs through QLD, VIC and SA, Trev shares yarns about bog holes, water trucks, stolen cruisers and the tough old Louisville that made him. A proper truckie origin story, raw, funny, and all bush wisdom.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 chaos.He kicks off with a “quick pigging mission” that turns into full-blown PTSD courtesy of a useless pig dog named Ernie – the only dog on earth more interested in chewing Trev than the boar. From there it’s into the truckie world: big bangers, road trains, the Toowoomba show getting held up, and Trev’s verdict on his new rig – “Fuck your 90, buy a hino.”Between sledging each other (no-neck vs no-arse), mixing up Akkos and Inters, and yard blokes who reckon “P is for Park and E is for Empty,” it’s classic Proper True Yarn gear: outback characters, dumb situations, and stories you just couldn’t make up if you tried.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, where “milking” goes wildly wrong in the first five minutes. From there, the chat shifts to 18 years at The Rock, partnership chemistry with Jay, why live radio still rules, building the Not For Radio community across 147+ countries, and choosing family time over hustle while the kids are in their golden years. Equal parts feral and wholesome—a proper true yarn.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 great hormone debate, and — purely for “science” — runs a chook through a bonus growth cycle. The result? Chookzilla: a five–six kilo, driftwood-legged unit that wouldn’t fit the crates and later jammed the processing plant’s plucker, costing the crew a few grand… and costing Dunc his job. From blacked-out sheds and handfuls of birds to the day the factory met its match, this one’s cluckin’ ridiculous — a proper true yarn.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 on “hatfishing” their wives — proving that removing a Country Trucker Cap can change a man’s fortunes fast — before Dunc recalls the most unfiltered live call ever: a Vietnam vet on-air dropping the term “pink mist” mid-broadcast.But the showstopper? A European yarn so wild it sounds fictional: two skydiving mates smuggling their dead grandma home for Christmas — tuxedos, G-Wagon, rubbish bags, and a live football crowd for landing witnesses. It’s dark, hilarious, and somehow heartwarming — the definition of a proper true yarn.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 (yes, actual fireworks and a U-shaped ceiling rail) to 6,500 punters belting choruses at Spark Arena. We get inside the machine—votes, curation, and the occasional “how did that get in?” curveball (“Love Shack,” we’re looking at you). Dunc talks band wrangling, near-misses, and this year’s live twists: Grinspoon onstage and Blindspott backed by a 30-piece philharmonic. Plus: how Not For Radio blew up, and why radio magic still hits different when a whole country’s singing along. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 shivering on a cell bench while his past record gets read out like a shopping list. A warning later, he’s booted miles from the venue… only to hitch a ride, stroll past the line with a “band” bluff, get spotted and ejected again - then somehow walk straight back in (ditch the coat, melt into the mosh, catch Shapeshifter’s last song). The night caps off with a 40-minute wander home that ends at the Airbnb door beside none other than Dylan Frost (Sticky Fingers). One thing leads to another, and Caamzie spends the sunrise next door freestyling for Dylan, Tiki Taane, and mates for two hours straight. Chaos, consequences, and confidence - in that order.#propertrueyarn #NZstories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 “nut-cutter 2000s” versus a careful no-guard trim), what he’d buy first with a billion (spoiler: box of piss, drift track, houses for the crew, and an open chequebook for mates with real business plans), and his biggest screw-up — flipping a freshly bought Surf in a park donut session with a cabin full of mates, engine screaming in a diesel runaway while he’s hanging upside down by the belt and booting at the window. Everyone walked away; the truck didn’t. We round it out with teen firsts, most-famous run-ins (Nyjah & Yelawolf), a one-punch dust-up that turned into a dance-floor melee, and the crucial closer: any animal as a pet? Give the man a dragon (or Appa). It’s rough, raw, and very, very Caamzie.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 skaters’ entrance. He helps a media crew carry gear, posts up in the Skaters’ Lounge, warms up on the comp park (until staff clock him), and still ends up beers-in with absolute killers: Nyjah Huston, Dominic Walker, Jamie Foy, Dashawn Jordan, Shane O’Neill, Ryan Decenzo and more. We get sweaty-handshake honesty, identical-looking wristbands, and a live Chloe the Flow switch-flip win that blows the roof off. The “after party” turns into a sprint for the last train, beers with legends like Chris Cole, then a bender and a doomed detour to Osaka for a car meet that… was back in Tokyo (cue: sleeping on a rolled-up carpet). Moral of the story: act like you belong — and sometimes you actually do.#propertrueyarn #skateboarding Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 catastrophic illness. What follows is raw resilience: dad Tony Rees (56) comes out of retirement to race his late son’s bike, brother Mitch fights an Aussie “bad boy” for the NZ title, and the family turns grief into grit. A powerful reminder to do the thing now.#propertrueyarn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.