Proper True Yarn

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...