When he emerged, church bells were ringing all over Texas. The phone in his home was ringing

too. The first call to his home was from a radio station in New York. And every time he finished

an interview and he put the receiver back in the cradle, it rang again.

That night he developed a migraine.

His wife, she pulled the telephone from the plug so that he could sleep.

When he woke up the next morning, he plugged the phone back in and it began to ring immediately.

Welcome to Extraordinary Stories podcast.

Everyone happy. Everyone has a story to tell.

We all have a tale.

And I'm fascinated by yours.

I don't even know it yet, but I know I'm fascinated by it. I like people.

I like behaviour. I like choice. I like chance. But most of all, I love a real story.

Hey, how are you? Are you well? Are you good? I am.

So this is going to be a little bit of a shorter episode and I'll tell you where it comes from.

It comes from the little thing that I did at the end of the last episode in which I said I was just going to talk about extraordinary people.

Whoa. Oh fucking wow. Did you get in touch with me about extraordinary people oh my god i got so many emails i got so many

messages it just i was really overwhelmed i just could not believe the amount of people sending me

stories and oh there's oh god i've got there's, there's just, there's millions of them.

How I'll ever get through them, I don't know, but please keep sending them.

So I just thought, you know what, I've got some really brilliant stuff coming in here.

So actually what I'll do is I'll just do a little short episode where I actually just tell

some stories of really extraordinary people.

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