#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. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-my-love-for-a-free-press-and-a-mimeograph-machine-part-one/

#12: Did God create man in God’s image? Or did man create his gods in man’s image? Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-god-versus-man-who-was-created-in-whose-image

#11: It is humbling when a man cannot protect his wife and home from an invading menace that’s smaller than a poodle. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-the-bat-in-the-house/

#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. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-wally-zeringue-and-the-decentralization-of-congress/

#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.

#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! Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-the-longest-year/

#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. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-bayou-picayune-reimagined/

#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.” Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-coincidental-deaths/

#05: I suppose I should come clean about Dan Bitterman, the main character in my novel, And Lead Us Not. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-the-truth-about-the-horoscope-heist/

#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? Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-the-cuckoo-in-the-cuckoo-clock/