Listen to Five Minutes in America with Tony Michaels.
Each weekday episode is a complete, five-minute American story—with a narrator’s hook, a human place, a turn, a lesson, and a clean close.
Latest episodes
New episodes of Five Minutes in America will appear here automatically as they are published. The weekday series launches September 7, 2026; until then, listen to the complete launch sample below.
- Four motorcycles arrive at Cecil’s. Everybody has something to say.
- Good sandwiches, famous potato salad, and directions whether you asked for them or not.
- Two wrenches, one loose muffler, and one hand too few.
- Cecil Boone has reopened his barbershop. His opinions were never closed.
- T.C. Redford needs a small part. Warren Pike has a few observations to go with it.
- Motorcycles arrive on Main Street, and Cecil Boone finally settles the cousin’s bicycle story.
- A drainage ditch gives the boys a place to ride—until Mitchell aims a little too high.
- Mitchell wins on pavement. Dudley chooses gravel. Then a flat tire ends the argument.
- The boys try to lift a front tire—and discover something else that needs fixing.
- Two bicycles, one steep hill, and a cousin’s story that may be taller than either boy.
Featured launch story
The Fence
Somewhere in your memory, there is a fence. Maybe it was painted white. Maybe it was barbed wire. Maybe it stood behind a Little League field or along the gravel road that led home.
Listen to the complete five-minute launch sample.
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- Five-minute broadcast window
- Clean language
- Story-driven writing and sound dressing
- A finished close
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- Scripts, intro language, and episode notes for affiliates
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