Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Hi there, it's Alan Cross, and for the next few weeks of the ongoing history of new music podcast,

we're going back to revisit a series we did a little while ago called 100 Weird Things

About New Rock. This is a 10-part series,

and it explored a lot of topics with each episode dealing with a particular brand of

weirdness, sex, the law, drugs, strange recordings, excess, road stories, bad behavior,

and more. There's a lot that goes into the music that we don't

always hear about, despite what you may hear on the internet. So it's kind of like my job to fill you in.

You ready for some weirdness? Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you. It's a fact of human nature

that those given the power to make rules that govern the behavior of the rest of us

will devote their lives to making and enforcing those rules.

And most of the time, this is a good thing.

If you murder someone in cold blood and you're caught, you'll face justice.

Robbery is illegal.

And so is owning a pig in France and calling it Napoleon.

Now, you know, I was serious about that.

It's against the law to name your pig, Napoleon, if you live in France.

In California, women may not operate an automobile while wearing a housecoat.

And in Canada, it's apparently illegal to remove a bandage in public.

I mean, who knew? Then there are all the

weird lawsuits, like the dry cleaners who were sued for $54 million for losing a pair of pants

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