The Tony Michaels Podcast

Some Stories Are Made to Be Carried | Building Five Minutes in America

Some stories are not made to disappear after they are told. They are made to be carried. In this next chapter of the journey toward Five Minutes in America, I share the story of an old pocket watch that stopped keeping time—but never stopped carrying the memories of the people who held it. That story helped me understand what I have really been trying to build. Not another podcast. Not another YouTube channel. A living library of American stories—stories about our people, our history, our character, our failures, and our responsibilities to one another. Stories that can be heard on the radio, watched online, shared around a dinner table, and passed from one generation to the next. And now, Five Minutes in America is beginning to leave the porch. We have reached an agreement to begin taking these stories to radio, including a two-minute edition designed to travel through broadcast and across the internet. The complete five-minute story will remain the heart of everything we build. Become a paid member of The Coffman Chronicle and take a front-row seat to the journey. Paid members will hear every new complete story before it airs anywhere else while helping make the next story possible. Choose the Founding Member option if you want to be recognized as one of the people who helped launch Five Minutes in America from the beginning. TAKE A FRONT-ROW SEAT: https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/subscribe WATCH THE FIRST CHAPTER — “THIS ISN’T GOODBYE. IT’S DAY ONE”: https://youtu.be/H-M3mZUpyIQ What is one story somebody handed to you that you still carry today? Tell me in the comments. I’m Tony Michaels. Stay free.