Bayou-Picayune

He’s a writer people are already calling the next Mark Twain. Author David Pierson offers listeners a humorous glimpse into the many minds of his imaginary friends. He and they touch on everything from Shakespeare to Dr. Seuss, from education, politics, and culture to religion. Listen here to a funny, insightful original thinker.

S02 EP33: New Year's Day Used to Be March 25th 12/31/2019

S02 EP33: New Year's Day Used to Be March 25th #33: Did you know that before 1752 New Year's Day in England and its colonies was March 25th, not January 1st? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12579080

S02 EP32: Who Dat 12/19/2019

S02 EP32: Who Dat #32: Did you know the phrase “Who Dat” was first used by Herman Melville in his 1851 novel “Moby-Dick?” /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12469094

S02 EP31: I Play Center Linebacker 12/17/2019

S02 EP31: I Play Center Linebacker #31: When I was twelve, we moved from California to Louisiana. In California, I played baseball. I lived baseball. But in Louisiana there was no baseball. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12438869

S02 EP30: I step off the top of a football stadium 12/12/2019

S02 EP30: I step off the top of a football stadium #30: When I walk, my head is down, and I scour the ground for nickels, dimes and quarters. It’s a poor boy habit I developed when I was twelve, but that tendency to look down before I make a step almost resulted in my death when I took a dare and stepped off the top of a football stadium. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12379787

S02 EP29: Jesus Lied 12/10/2019

S02 EP29: Jesus Lied #29: With my title — “Jesus Lied” — many Christians will probably presume this is yet another attack on their religious beliefs, while non-Christians will think this affirms what they already believe — that Jesus, if there was such a person, was merely a man and not God. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12352343

S02 EP28: The Curse of the Frog 12/05/2019

S02 EP28: The Curse of the Frog #28: When I was in high school, I knew a boy who went by the nickname “Bwana” because he loved outdoor critters. He used to keep a pet snake, and every morning some of us boys would watch when it was feeding time. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12297605

S02 EP27: Money Games: How to Force the NFL to Play Their Stars 12/03/2019

S02 EP27: Money Games: How to Force the NFL to Play Their Stars 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 elected representatives to exert regulatory pressure on the company. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12266870

S02 EP26: A Confession: My role in last century’s tulipomania 11/28/2019

S02 EP26: A Confession: My role in last century’s tulipomania #26: This is, I guess, a confession of sorts about the role I played in last century’s video game fad. The years in question were 1978-1981. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12213338

S02 EP25: The roll of the dice 11/26/2019

S02 EP25: The roll of the dice #25: Did you know it was Galileo (1564-1642) who first figured out the percentages for each roll of the dice? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12186488

S02 EP24: The Tattle Tail Priest 11/21/2019

S02 EP24: The Tattle Tail Priest #24: Bleach. The smell of bleach and pine. A lot of what I do in the classroom, when it's not grammar, when it's not composition, is intuitive. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12127340

S02 EP23: I Have to Teach Kids How to Play 11/19/2019

S02 EP23: I Have to Teach Kids How to Play #23: People spend most of their waking moments staring at their boxes. That is, their TV's, and when they venture forth, they fixed their eyes and even smaller rectangular boxes. Their electronic devices. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12096044

S02 EP22: George Washington was Born on Two Different Days 11/15/2019

S02 EP22: George Washington was Born on Two Different Days #22: Did you know George Washington was born on February 11, 1732, and February 22, 1732? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12044609

S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham Revisited 11/12/2019

S02 EP21: Green Eggs and Ham Revisited #21: There's more to “Green Eggs and Ham” than is dreamt of in your philosophy. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/12008771

S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service 11/07/2019

S02 EP20: Thank You for Your Service #20: Thank You for Your Service. 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. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11948390

S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead Man 11/05/2019

S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead Man #19: 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 dead man? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11919893

S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen Base 10/31/2019

S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen Base #18: Did you know the stolen base originated because someone questioned authority? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11858825

S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpaws 10/29/2019

S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpaws #17: Did you know baseball stadiums used to be constructed so that the pitcher was pitching from east to west. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11828804

S02 EP16: A Sin Against the Baseball Gods 10/24/2019

S02 EP16: A Sin Against the Baseball Gods #16: 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) a home plate umpire dropped dead on the baseball field? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11770877

S02 EP15: The Priest’s Hole 10/22/2019

S02 EP15: The Priest’s Hole #15: 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? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11731631

S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two 10/17/2019

S02 EP14: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part two #14: 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 postal clerk. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11681225

S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one 10/15/2019

S02 EP13: My love for a free press and a mimeograph machine, part one #13: 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 break and summer vacation. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11651348

S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose image 10/10/2019

S02 EP12: God versus Man: Who was created in whose image #12: Did God create man in God’s image? Or did man create his gods in man’s image? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11593622

S02 EP11: The Bat in the House 10/08/2019

S02 EP11: The Bat in the House #11: It is humbling when a man cannot protect his wife and home from an invading menace that’s smaller than a poodle. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11564033

S02 EP10: Wally Zeringue and the decentralization of Congress 10/03/2019

S02 EP10: Wally Zeringue and the decentralization of Congress #10: In my novel And Lead Us Not, President Wally Zeringue proposes many provocative policies, among them, that members of Congress be housed in barracks. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11503760

S02 EP09: The Crop Circle Squirrel 10/01/2019

S02 EP09: The Crop Circle Squirrel #09: You have probably seen aerial pictures of crop circles, strange patterns in wheat fields that appear to be deliberately made. No one knows who or what made them, though many educated people, like me, have jumped to the conclusion that they may be signs of a higher intelligence, possibly graffiti from aliens hovering above in their flying saucers. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11470940

S02 EP08: The Longest Year 09/26/2019

S02 EP08: The Longest Year #08: 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! /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11409512

S02 EP07: Bayou-Picayune Reimagined 09/25/2019

S02 EP07: Bayou-Picayune Reimagined #07: Welcome to Season 2. Last season I produced a handful of podcasts (“pilot episodes,” I called them) under the name of Bayou-Picayune. With this, the start of my second season, I plan on featuring a Bayou-Picayune podcast every Tuesday and Thursday. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/11393981

S01 EP06: Coincidental Deaths 11/20/2018

S01 EP06: Coincidental Deaths #06: Horatio, I simply don’t agree with you. In this case, I happen to agree with Shakespeare when he said, “There’s more to heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/7633172

S01 EP05: The truth about the Horoscope Heist 11/18/2018

S01 EP05: The truth about the Horoscope Heist #05: I suppose I should come clean about Dan Bitterman, the main character in my novel, And Lead Us Not. /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/7600763

S01 EP04: The Cuckoo in the Cuckoo Clock 11/17/2018

S01 EP04: The Cuckoo in the Cuckoo Clock #04: Lots of people have asked me recently: What word or words would I use to describe myself? a writer? a southern writer? a humorist? a satirist? a social critic? /episode/index/show/bayou-picayune/id/7597634

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