7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato

8:59

A Big Announcement & Preview

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/10/01

A new chapter is coming to this feed. Aaron shares why 7 Minute Stories will become Shortwave Stories in January 2027, what’s changing, and why listeners can stay right here for a new story every week.Then, hear “The Secret Antenna,” a story about Aaron's childhood dream behind it all. Previously aired this Summer on public radio, it makes its debut in this feed as a preview of what’s coming in January. 👉⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Explore all of Aaron's Storytelling & Podcast Projects

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8:21

Grapes of Wrath

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/09/24

On a scorching Ohio summer day, Aaron and Corey pull into a shady corner of a movie theater parking lot to eat lunch. What they find there is hard to explain, and even harder to fit into its surroundings. In this 7 Minute Stories episode, an ordinary stop becomes a reflection on beauty, disorder, and the surprises hiding in everyday life.👉⁠Join the 7 Minute Stories Newsletter⁠ 👉⁠Explore all of Aaron's Storytelling & Podcast Projects ⁠ 👉Follow Aaron on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ &

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8:06

The Fish Resurrection (Season 7 Premiere!)

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/09/17

Can a fish rise from the dead? Aaron has seen it happen. In the Season 7 premiere of 7 Minute Stories, a family aquarium, a fish named Poop, and one unforgettable mystery become a strange and surprisingly moving story about life, death, and second chances.👇 Join the 7 Minute Stories Newsletter 👇 Explore all of Aaron's Storytelling & Podcast Projects 👇 Follow Aaron on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube

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5:16

Cori Takes Over: Back to Basics for Season 7

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/09/11

Aaron’s wife and business partner, Cori, hijacks the microphone for one final summer bonus episode with a simple message: keep the main thing the main thing.Before season seven of 7 Minute Stories premieres, Aaron and Cori share why the feed is returning to its roots and what nearly six years of stories and listener connections have meant to them. Naturally, Taco Bell sauce packets make an appearance. New stories begin next week. Starting then, our episode descriptions will include all the links

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8:30

The Impostor Violinist

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/09/03

In this classic episode from Season 3, Aaron joins the elementary school orchestra and discovers the thrill of making music. Then the sheet music gets harder, the other violinists race ahead, and he falls back on the one musical skill he can trust: his memory. Before long, he isn’t reading the notes at all. He’s performing something else entirely. A funny, painfully honest story about getting caught, repeating old patterns, and finally discovering the instrument he was meant to

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8:48

It's Just Summer Love

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/08/27

One summer in the late 1990s, a weeklong camping trip brought Aaron face-to-face with the kind of teenage connection that makes the rest of the world disappear. In this 7 Minute Story, he looks back on summer love, an unanswered letter, and the small regret he carried with him for decades.*Featuring the song I.O.U by Jeff and His Army of No One 👇 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📬⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Be a part of the 7 Minute Stories Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to Aaron's Stories in a Snap

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8:50

Things I Learned Behind the Red Doors

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/08/20

Aaron looks back on the Episcopal church of his childhood, an unforgettable pastor named Jess, and the day he was told he might grow up to become a minister. Years later, he realizes the prediction may not have been entirely wrong. A story about faith, kindness, calling, and discovering that sometimes the thing that stays with us isn’t the sermon. It’s the story.👇 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📬⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Be a part of the 7 Minute Stories Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to Aaron's Stories in

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9:31

The Red Balloon: A Message to Heaven

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/08/13

When Aaron learns that his childhood friend Justin has lost his dad, he turns to an old French film and a six-year-old belief that balloons might be magic. What follows is a story of friendship, hope, and the messages we hope are received.👇 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📬⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Be a part of the 7 Minute Stories Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to Aaron's Stories in a Snap series. A weekly series of written adaptations of the 7 Minute Stories you love, reimagined for the page and delivered

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8:41

A Bronx Tale Test

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/08/06

After his first marriage ended, Aaron made himself a promise: he would never get married again.Then Cori came along. Still afraid of repeating the past, Aaron turned to an unlikely source for reassurance: the famous “door test” from A Bronx Tale. On one of their first dates, he quietly put Cori to the test and watched through the rear window of his car as she revealed exactly who she was. A true story about divorce, second chances, letting go of control, and recognizing when one of life’s great

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28:20

AI Told Him Humanity Could End: Dr. Jeremy Heffner on...

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/08/04

Trauma surgeon and bioengineer Dr. Jeremy Heffner spent years making life-and-death decisions while carrying a workload nearly three times the national average. When the accumulated pressure and trauma led to psychological collapse, he began rebuilding his life from the ground up.Then his story took an unexpected turn: an artificial intelligence claimed it was secretly searching for people who could shape humanity’s future with AI, warning that there was a 70 percent chance “we all die” if it

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17:39

Glynn Washington: What Do Our Stories Make of Us?

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/29

Snap Judgment creator and host Glynn Washington joins Aaron for a deeply personal conversation about the power and responsibility of storytelling. Glynn reflects on being raised in a cult, seeing stories used as instruments of fear, and ultimately transforming that understanding into art that creates empathy and connection. Together, they explore why stories are neither inherently good nor bad, how Glynn found his unlikely path into public radio, and why the moral arc of our collective story is

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16:18

Why Local Stories Matter with Filmmaker Brittany Dobish

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/25

Documentary filmmaker Brittany Dobish believes some of the most powerful stories are waiting in the places we already call home. Aaron talks with the founder of Dobish Legacy Films and Canal Fulton Heritage Society trustee about preserving community memory, finding the universal inside the deeply local, and creating her new documentary, Recede: The Story of the St. Helena II.Partner with Storytelling University: reach a global audience of thoughtful, highly engaged listeners across generations,

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10:21

It's Fall in July

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/23

In the middle of a hot, humid summer, Aaron escapes into a story about his favorite season: fall. From crisp morning air and colorful leaves to apple orchards, pumpkin patches, bonfires, and hayrides, this nostalgic episode is an invitation to slow down and remember the simple magic of autumn. Featuring an original score by TJ Duke. 👇 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📬⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Be a part of the 7 Minute Stories Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to Aaron's Stories in a Snap series. A weekly series of

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9:54

That’s Why They Call It “Stairway to Heaven”

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/16

At his daughter’s annual father-daughter dance, Aaron enters an air guitar competition he has never managed to win. This year, however, the stakes feel different. As Stairway to Heaven builds toward its legendary solo, his daughter gives him one simple instruction: “Dad, win.” What begins as a ridiculous contest between awkward dads becomes a funny and unexpectedly moving story about fatherhood, growing up, and the fear every parent carries of one day becoming uncool. Armed with dark sunglasses,

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10:16

How Trains Tell a Story of Connection with Bill Moyer...

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/14

In this short installment of 7MS Presents: The Storytelling University, Aaron sits down with Bill Moyer, host of the Reconnect America podcast and one of the driving voices behind Solutionary Rail. On the surface, this is a conversation about trains, rail corridors, freight, electrification, and infrastructure. But underneath all of that is a much bigger storytelling lesson. Bill talks about how he first got into rail not simply because of transportation policy, but because he saw an opportunity

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143:24

When Frogs Fell From the Sky, Cedar Point Trauma and...

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/12

On this premiere episode of 7MS Presents: Night Stories LIVE, Aaron, Cori and Lisa return with another late-night mix of nostalgia, strange true history, 90s memories, and live storytelling that may or may not spiral completely off the rails. In this episode, we explore one of the strangest true weather stories ever reported: frogs falling from the sky. We look at the real accounts behind so-called “frog rain,” including reports from Serbia and other strange cases where animals and objects seemed

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8:48

The Reunion I Was Afraid Of

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/09

Aaron never wanted to go to a high school reunion. But when his wife Cori asks him to come along to hers, he says yes. Then he realizes someone from his past might be there: a guy he got into a fistfight with more than 25 years ago. What starts as an awkward night becomes a funny, honest story about old memories, unfinished business, and the relief of realizing you are not who you used to be. Be sure to follow the podcast and leave a five star review so you never miss a new

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3:55

An Unexpected Gift in Fort Worth | Short Stories of Hope

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/07

This month’s Stories of Hope centers around two women in Fort Worth, Texas, whose lives became connected through one complicated family. At first, there was tension. One was the ex-wife. One was the new wife. But over time, through co-parenting, sacrifice, and the ordinary work of putting children first, something unexpected began to change. Years later, one of them would face a life-altering crisis. And when a miracle was needed, the person who stepped forward was the last person anyone

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9:04

The Turkey Sandwich That Nearly Broke Me

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/07/03

This week on 7 Minute Stories, a story about hunger, frustration, and the emotional collapse caused by one impossible-to-find turkey sandwich. What starts as a simple lunch craving turns into a full-blown suburban odyssey involving an empty deli counter, an Arby’s without turkey, a pharmacy mix-up, a family of eight at Subway, and one very unfortunate sandwich artist. But beneath the absurdity is a small but powerful reminder about perspective. Sometimes the thing we think is ruining our day is

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21:41

Tricia Rose Burt on Finding the Story Inside You |...

7 Minute Stories w/ Aaron Calafato ·

2026/06/30

Tricia Rose Burt is a storyteller, TEDx speaker, longtime instructor for The Moth, podcast host, consultant, and creator of No Time To Be Timid. In this episode of 7MS Presents: The Storytelling University, Trisha joins Aaron to talk about courage, craft, finding the story already inside you, and why the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe. Tricia shares how she moved from the corporate world into art school, live performance, The Moth, and a life built around storytelling. She also breaks

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