Ever meet someone with the most INSANE story? So ridiculous, so unbelievable, that you're sure it must be made up? These are the stories we're collecting: the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.

Cassandra Young and Munir Meghjani started this podcast when they realized that everyone they spoke to, no matter what they did in life or who they were, had at least ONE story that was so ridiculous, so unbelievable, so extraordinary...that it can't possibly be true. But it is.

We believe every person has an interesting story to tell, (after all, storytellers have been the oral history keepers of the human race for centuries), and some of those stories even evolve into life work for some of our guests, charting their future before they even knew it.

You know your story: the one you tell at parties but no one believes, the story that sounds like pure fiction, the story that you still can't quite believe happened to you. It's strife with wonder and sparks disbelief, but you love telling it every. single. time. It's an adventure in your back pocket. It's an experience that's so uniquely you - crafted from your life story - that it captivates everyone who hears it. Those are the stories we want the world to hear.

We'll uncover these stories in each episode of "Real Tall Tales" while highlighting important perspectives, ideas that challenge our everyday thinking, and stories - that in the end - make you sit back and think.

We hope you'll love listening to these life stories unfold as much as we did.

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Welcome to Real Tall Tales, the podcast that showcases the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. Ever meet someone with the most INSANE story? So ridiculous, so unbelievable, that you're sure it must be made up? Except it's not, and these are the stories we're telling.

In this episode, Munir Meghjani tells us the tale of how he and his family were held up and robbed at gunpoint on Thanksgiving Day, then left to freeze to death in an industrial freezer...but one 7-year-old boy and a single chopstick saved the lives of 12 people.

Warning: this episode contains discussion of gun violence and armed robbery.

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When Derreck Kayongo was 10, he found himself rounded up by the hands of a military firing squad with his family and was forced to watch as his neighbors were randomly selected and killed. He escaped and now? He's a CEO, non-profit founder of a humanitarian aid organization, and CNN Hero.

Derreck Kayongo is the founder of the Global Soap Project: a humanitarian aid organization that collects discarded and unused soap from thousands of hotels worldwide, reprocesses it, then distributes it to in-need populations around the world. He is also the former CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, a social entrepreneur and is the Chairman and Founder of Africa Mbele. Africa Mbele is building a global movement within the Diaspora to fight against extreme dilapidating corruption in Africa. You can learn more at www.africambele.org

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