Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP22: George Washington was Born on Two Different Days If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know George Washington was born on February 11, 1732, and February 22, 1732?It's true.The first solar calendar, the Julian calendar which commenced in 45 B.C.,
BP Podcast S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham Revisited
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham RevisitedIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!There's more to “Green Eggs and Ham” than is dreamt of in your philosophy.Nearly everyone has read that lovable children's classic and nearly everyone thinks they know the message and the
BP Podcast S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP20: Thank You for Your ServiceIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!The Federal Government reinstated its draft lottery during my senior year in college. It was based on the birth dates of young men born before 1950. And since the ping pong ball with my
BP Podcast S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead Man
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead ManIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!How do you lose an election to a dead man?Did you know that the longest-serving member in the U.S. House of Representatives Donald Young of Alaska lost a congressional election to a
BP Podcast S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen Base
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen BaseIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know the stolen base originated because someone questioned authority?It’s true, and that leads to a second, deeper and more important revelation: Our social and cultural
BP Podcast S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpaws
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpawsIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know baseball stadiums used to be constructed so that the pitcher was pitching from east to west.This was why, in the olden days when baseball was played during the daylight
BP Podcast S02 EP16: A Sin Against the Baseball Gods
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP16: A Sin Against the Baseball Gods If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know the first time Major League Baseball committed the unforgivable sin of starting a baseball season in March (instead of April, as the baseball gods had always decreed it)
BP Podcast S02 EP15: The priest’s hole
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP15: The priest’s holeIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know there was a “priest’s hole” in many an old English manor house so that outlaw priests could escape undetected when the authorities came in search of them?The priest’s hole would be
BP Podcast S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part twoIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!After college, I was drafted into the U.S. Army. This was during the Vietnam War.Instead of being sent to Vietnam, however, I ended up in Germany as an army
BP Podcast S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part oneIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!I went to a Catholic seminary for high school. It was a boarding school, and there were only three times each year that we could go home -- Christmas, spring
BP Podcast S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose image
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose imageIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did God create man in God’s image?Or did man create his gods in man’s image?The oldest books in the Bible were apparently written before The Iliad, the oldest Greek
BP Podcast S02 EP11: The Bat in the House
Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP11: The Bat in the HouseIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!It is humbling when a man cannot protect his wife and home from an invading menace that’s smaller than a poodle.It was a hot August night when I learned I did not measure up to my “manly” gender