Episode notes
There is a painting almost everyone has seen, and almost no one was ever told the truth about the man who painted it. Tonight we tell it anyway. A boy who grew up visiting his own name carved into a gravestone every Sunday. A failed preacher who loved too deeply for his own church. A man who painted the night sky as though it were thinking. A brother who wrote nearly nine hundred letters, and another brother who answered them with unwavering love.
We are not going to tell you his name. Not because we want to trick you, but because we want you to sit with him first. The way you'd sit beside someone in a quiet room before deciding what history has already told you to believe. We want you to meet the lonely man before the masterpiece, the suffering before the sunflowers, and the heart before the legend.
Listen closely. Follow the clues. Then tell us who you think he is in the comments. The first person to guess the full name correctly will be featured at the beginning of the next episode.