It's hard to find the first time.

First time when I got there, I couldn't even speak.

The Atlas Obscura Podcast, an audio tour of the World's Hidden Wonders.

Here, Flowers, Loom Forever. It's hidden wonders. Here, flowers, loom forever.

It's about people, places, and their stories.

A new wonder every day.

It's wonderful to feel that connection.

The Alice Obscura podcast, your daily dose of surprise and wonder.

Listen to Alice Obscura wherever you get your podcast, and don't forget to follow the show so you never miss an

episode. From PRX, this is The Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host Jay Allison, producer of this radio show, and this is an hour about rules.

When my oldest daughter was small, we were sitting at the dining table and I felt a sharp pain

in my leg.

I said, yow.

My daughter asked what happened and her mother said, oh, I kicked daddy under the

table without meaning to. My daughter's face lit up and she asked, can I kick daddy under the table without meaning to?

There are lots of ways to bend the rules.

In this hour our storytellers will be questioning

the guidelines, official and self-imposed, the rules worth

following, and the ones made to be broken.

We'll start in childhood, work our way through the hard to abide by rules of teenage hood and end with the rules

we full-grown adults follow or don't.

Our first teller, Stephen Michael Carr, found a creative way to free himself from his school's restrictive reading system.

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