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“My Yesterdays” are true stories -- my true stories. Most of them are humorous but some are deeply moving. The second category, “For Your Consideration,” will highlight interesting items that will have people at the office water cooler talking about something other than politics and football. My third category, “Ruminations,” will introduce original ideas and theories.

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BP Podcast S02 EP22: George Washington was Born on Two Different Days

BP Podcast S02 EP22: George Washington was Born on Two Different Days

November 14, 2019 By David Pierson

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

BP Podcast S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham Revisited

BP Podcast S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham Revisited

November 12, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham Revisited If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service

BP Podcast S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service

November 5, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP19: Losing the election to a dead man

BP Podcast S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead Man

November 5, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead Man If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen Base

BP Podcast S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen Base

October 31, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen Base If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpaws

BP Podcast S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpaws

October 29, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpaws If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP16: A sin against the baseball gods

BP Podcast S02 EP16: A Sin Against the Baseball Gods

October 24, 2019 By David Pierson

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

BP Podcast S02 EP15: The priest’s hole

BP Podcast S02 EP15: The priest’s hole

October 22, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP15: The priest’s hole If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two

BP Podcast S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two

October 17, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two If 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

BP Podcast S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one

BP Podcast S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one

October 15, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one If 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 --

BP Podcast S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose image

BP Podcast S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose image

October 10, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose image If 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,

BP Podcast S02 EP11: The Bat in the House

BP Podcast S02 EP11: The Bat in the House

October 7, 2019 By David Pierson

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP11: The Bat in the House If 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

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