For Your Consideration

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP33: New Year's Day Used to Be March 25th If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! Did you know that before 1752 New Year's Day in England and its colonies was March 25th, not January 1st? It's true. When England finally converted from

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP32: Who Dat If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! Did you know the phrase “Who Dat” was first used by Herman Melville in his 1851 novel “Moby-Dick?” It's true. The phrase became the cheer for rabid Saints fans when their beloved pro

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP27: Money Games: How to Force the NFL to Play Their Stars If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! When a company tries to sell at full price, a diluted version of its own product customers tend to react strongly. Sometimes even petitioning their

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP25: The roll of the dice If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! Did you know it was Galileo (1564-1642) who first figured out the percentages for each roll of the dice? It’s true. Even though six-sided dice go far back in human history and

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP10: Wally Zeringue and the decentralization of Congress If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! In my novel And Lead Us Not, President Wally Zeringue proposes many provocative policies, among them, that members of Congress be housed in

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP08: The Longest Year If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes! Did you know there was one year that was longer than all the others in recorded history? It’s true. The year was 46 B.C., and it was 445 days long! Prior to that year, Rome (and