Kangaroos, Arenas, And A 22‑Hour Flight Pod Swap :: Ep 99 Try That in a Small Town Podcast

Try That in a Small Town Podcast · Mar 9, 2026 · 55m

A tour can change your clock, your appetite, and your sense of scale. Ours did all three. We flew across the Pacific in those elusive lie-flat pods, learned how to live inside a tiny sky room, then stepped into cities that start the party early and shut it down by midnight. Auckland turned into a nightly blackjack table with our road crew. Sydney strapped us to the top of the Harbour Bridge where the wind reminds you that steel has a heartbeat. We almost did the shark “dive” until we realized it was an aquarium nurse-shark swim—so we’re saving the real cage for Perth.

Onstage, Australia sang…