Rock Explainer 2
b'There\\u2019s the La Tomatina festival that happens on the last Wednesday in August in Spain...this is the largest public tomato fight in the world...first of all, why would you do this on a Wednesday?...and second, this seems like an awful waste of food...\\nNo one is really sure where this tradition began, either...we think it started in 1945 when there was a brawl in the main square and one of the few weapons available were the tomatoes on carts of the vegetable stands...\\nThey do something weird in Denmark, too...if you\\u2019re 25 years old and it\\u2019s Valentine\\u2019s Day and you\\u2019re single, your family and friends are supposed to throw cinnamon at you...no one really knows why or when this started...but it is a thing...\\nAnd how about this...there\\u2019s a temple called Sir Saneswar in India...there is a tradition whereby parents who were married at this temple throw their newborn babies from the top of the building...it\\u2019s a 50-foot drop...the baby is caught by people holding a big cloth below...I\\u2019m sure there are reasons for this, but they all escape me...\\nLet\\u2019s segue to this...rock music has been around long enough\\u2014three-quarters of a century\\u2014that some we\\u2019ve developed some weird habits and behaviors, things that we do\\xa0just because...\\nWe engage in this behavior or do these things because everyone else is doing it...and if you were to ask around a reason why, no one would have a good explanation...you just accept this thing\\u2014whatever it is\\u2014as part of the culture...\\nBut what if you really, really want to know?...what if you just can\\u2019t take someone\\u2019s word that this is what\\u2019s supposed to be done?...that\\u2019s where this program comes in...This is another edition of something I call \\u201cthe rock explainer\\u201d...\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'