By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

#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.By David Pierson

#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.By David Pierson

#27: 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.By David Pierson

#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.By David Pierson

#25: Did you know it was Galileo (1564-1642) who first figured out the percentages for each roll of the dice?By David Pierson

#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.By David Pierson

#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.By David Pierson

#22: Did you know George Washington was born on February 11, 1732, and February 22, 1732?By David Pierson

#21: There's more to “Green Eggs and Ham” than is dreamt of in your philosophy.By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

#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 sauce…

By David Pierson

By David Pierson

#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/By David Pierson

#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/By David Pierson

#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/By David Pierson

#03: Right now you’re probably asking yourself: “Why Bayou-Picayune? Why would David Pierson call his podcast channel Bayou-Picayune? Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-why-bayou-picayune/By David Pierson

#02: My whole writing career has been guided by a promise I made to my mother. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-bayou-picayune-my-clothesline/By David Pierson

#01: Welcome to the Bayou-Picayune Podcast. 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. Podcast show transcription available here: https://www.davidpierson.net/podcast-my-dark-w…

Welcome Michael Beinhorn to the Compared To What POdcast family. For those of you who don’t know who Michael is, here’s a brief rundown. A young boy in Queens sells ice cream from a cart, saves his money, buys a micro-moog. He then meets Bill Laswell and helps make one of the most important sampling/synth/drum programming records ever with Herbie H…

Part 2 of the Tommy LiPuma and Matt Pierson Conversation. The fellas get started RIGHT where they left off. More stories from an incredible life in music. Tommy Lipuma!By Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker

Episode 27 had Matt Pierson joining the CTWP family when he sat down with Charlie and told some incredible stories. Now we get the absolute joy of having a former guest sit down with a new member of the CTWP crew. Matt sat down with music business legend Tommy Lipuma. Tommy has produced so many artists its hard to break it down. George Benson , Dia…

Question: Who has worked with Miles Davis,Roger Troutman,Marcus Miller,Meshell NdegeocelloJesse J,Kelly Clarkson and written 12 tone music/dodecaphonic jams with disco breakdowns? Answer: The one and only David Gamson! (If you answered correctly please proceed to the bonus round!) David Gamson is a song writer/Producer who first came to fame as a m…

Johnny Vidacovich is a legend in New Orleans. Name any artist down there and he’s probably worked with them. He’s an Educator , a Poet , a philosopher and probably the only drummer we can think of that breathes like a horn player when playing through the melody. This year during some time down in New Orleans for a gig Charlie got to sit down with h…

This episode marks the very first time we’ve opened up the show to a guest host. Please welcome Bassist,Producer and good friend Greg Bryant to the CTWP family. Very happy to have him sit down with Charles “Wigg” Walker…….take it away Greg! Charles Walker is a soul singer and native of Nashville, Tennessee. He came up through the ranks and earned h…

How do you start off a new year of episodes?? With a bang so without further ado please welcome…….(Cue dramatic Las Vegas show room tympani roll)…..Marcus Miller to the Compared To What Podcast Family. Mowo! sits down with Marcus and the two cover a wide range of topics. The two have been friends since late 1986. Mowo! first reached out to Marcus a…

Your fearless leaders meet up again in Los Angeles and discuss a world of topics. A state of the union if you will. CTWP is rapidly approaching its first birthday and Charlie and Mowo! sit down to discuss what’s coming,what’s happened and government cheese. Charlie happens to be in LA playing with his good buddy, drummer Scott Amendola so why not t…

Howard Smiley……..what can we say? He was so behind the scenes in the record business that the only photo we could find of him is one in the kitchen of him making some fried matzoh! Without further ado let us introduce you to Mr. Howard Smiley the man behind the man next to the guy behind the guy…….but don’t let his anonymity fool you. Howard worked…

Joining us this week is the incredible pop songwriter and actual writer,writer Shelly Peiken.She recently had a piece on Huffington Post cause a big stir and her blog “Confessions Of Serial Songwriter” (she’s also writing a book with the same title) http://www.shellypeiken.com/confessions-of-a-serial-songwriter/ is a read you’ll always look forward…

Leo Sidran, musician, producer, and composer SORT of joins the show this week. You see, Leo is the host of an incredible podcast called “The Third Story” and he got in touch with us recently with a brilliant idea to have a conversation about our two shows and each other. Mowo! took the call and sat down in Brooklyn at Leo’s studio. Leo’s father is …

Charlie sits down with Vernon Reid in a bookstore in Staten Island or “North Shaolin” as Vernon calls it. You probably know Vernon as the driving force behind the incredible band Living Colour . Charlie and Vernon touch on a wide ranging variety of topics including Vernon having given Charlie one of his first big gigs opening up for Living Colour. …

Peter Bunetta joins “the merry mix up” this week here at Compared To What. Peter has produced many hit records from the mid 80’s on. Patti Labelle , Smokey Robinson , Kenny G. (Just remember the classic W.C. Field’s line from the mother of the little obnoxious girl in “The Bank Dick” …”I bet you’d like a nose that big full of nickels!” ) , Matthew …

Al Kooper and Charlie Hunter get together and Al makes Charlie an amazing hotdog. They chomp on chips and talk about ………..well we don’t wanna get ahead of ourselves. Let’s welcome Al Kooper to The Compared To What Podcast. For those of you who know Al Kooper no real introduction is needed. For those of you who do not you are about to hear from one …

Mtume….Musician,Producer,Composer,Political Activist,Radio Show host. Mtume is not someone that can be put in one box. That’s just not gonna happen. Mowo! had the absolute pleasure of being able to sit down with Mtume after Mtume finished his weekly radio show. 8am on a Sunday morning in NYC made MOWO! think of the famous Lenny bruce bit where Lenn…

Steve Berlin learned it the right way. Some of you may know Steve from his being a member of Los Lobos. He’s also been a member of The Blasters and Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs. He was born in Philly and subsequently moved to LA and cut his teeth working on just about every style of music you can mention. His resume as a producer and sideman is in…

Here we go again. Mowo! and Hal continue their previous conversation and cover a lot more ground. we open up on Hal doing an impersonation of Marianne Faithful. With nothing but love in his heart but its kind of stellar. The conversations settles after a couple of minutes into Hal’s long loving relationship with Lou Reed. Another great addition to …