Introducing Five Minutes in America | Follow the New Show
Send us Fan Mail Five Minutes in America is a new weekday audio series written and told by Tony Michaels. Each five-minute episode tells a complete American story about ordinary people, shared respons...
26 Aug 1min
The Busyness of It All
Send us Fan Mail Perfectionism does not always look like fear. Sometimes it shows up early, carries a clipboard, and points toward one more little thing a responsible person ought to fix. In this ep...
22 Aug 6min
It Is Impossible to Fail
Send us Fan Mail Success isn’t a spotless notebook. Success is refusing to surrender authorship. Help put Five Minutes in America on the radio—and hear the stories first as a paid member of The Coffm...
15 Aug 6min
The Chicken Story That Sold Bathrooms
Send us Fan Mail I loved butchering chickens. My mother hated it. And believe it or not, that story helped me sell more than one bathroom. During my years in bathroom-remodeling sales, I learned th...
8 Aug 6min
Find Your If: The Greatest Advice My Art Teacher Ever Gave Me
Send us Fan Mail My high school art teacher gave me one of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever received. The funny thing is—she first gave it to me twenty-five years ago. This week on Along the ...
2 Aug 7min
The Story That Made Me a Storyteller
Send us Fan Mail Some stories entertain us. Some stories stay with us. This is the story that stayed with me. When I was a teenager on a family vacation to Colorado, I heard a storyteller named Sco...
27 Juli 8min
This Isn’t Goodbye. It’s Day One. | A Letter from Tony
Send us Fan Mail For years, I thought I was building a podcast. I was wrong. I was building a body of work. A community. A place where we could tell the truth, challenge power, laugh together, and t...
14 Juli 5min
The Republic Doesn’t Need Fans
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest lesson a boy learned at a Little League game had nothing to do with baseball? In today's Opening Argument, Tony Michaels tells the story of one father, one umpire,...
10 Juli 5min
