CHRISTORY with Chris Manzo
CHRISTORY, hosted by Chris Manzo, explores the most interesting and obscure moments in history, and connects them to the hottest topics of today. With equal parts history lesson and current events conversation, Christory is sure to leave you laughing, and maybe even learning something new?
Episodes
October 13, 2023 • 58 mins
We're bringing it back! Chris, Caroline, and Albie discuss Selena Gomez, the dark sides of manifestation, their personal failures, and Caroline's old cubicle.
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September 6, 2023 • 29 mins
Chris is coming off a very... weird week, and talks about the future of Christory. Plus, a random Tom Colicchio story!
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August 10, 2023 • 40 mins
Chris hosts the first ever CHRISTORY Brainstorm, where we vet topics for future episodes. And then the first topic -- Son of Sam -- takes up most of the show. Chris, Carolin, and Nando get into that summer (Caroline lived through it and shares some of her experiences), before we switch gears to the brainstorming of Gary Hart, Clinton vs. Watergate, the Pepsi Army, money popping out of Pepsi cans, and more
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August 3, 2023 • 36 mins
Chris went to see Oppenheimer in IMAX -- with his cousin Joe -- and these are his takeaways. Plus, do you read the letter your debit card comes with, we have a new sponsor (shoutout Factor!), and more!
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July 27, 2023 • 54 mins
Chris has opened up a pizzeria and the crushing hours are why we weren't able to record last week. But we're back with tales of cupped pepperoni, assigning points to garage sale buys, opening two boxes of ripoff "historical" cards, and more.
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July 10, 2023 • 57 mins
Who would you put on a second Mount Rushmore? We welcome Big Al Manzo to the show to help us sort out which U.S. historical figures are the "next four" to be immortalized in the side of a mountain (in either Syracuse, NY, or Paterson, NJ). We whittle a field of 30-ish finalists down -- and have some strong opinions along the way
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June 29, 2023 • 66 mins
We've been teasing it for a month — here it is: a super-sized Sherlock Holmes manuscript curse episode! Plus "tsundoku," female Ghostbusters, Chris gets a call mid-show and is very upset about it, does getting a publicist make you unable to act like a misanthropic hermit?, Is Hermione Granger divorced now?, did Nikki Haley ever say anything bad about the Manzos??!! and more.
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June 22, 2023 • 61 mins
In this episode: donating books, periscopes, peeing on stone beds, Chris leaves Google reviews as himself, "Don't look in the back of an ambulance," John André's multiverse presidency, a secret Disney club,
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June 8, 2023 • 51 mins
Chris has a theory that ties in the Canadian wildfires, aliens, "six days of darkness" in 1966...and more. Orange skies and the small of campfires bring out the best in a man. We go back to 1966, 1953, and even the start of this podcast series in the latest CHRISTORY.
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May 31, 2023 • 69 mins
Okay, so it's not TOTALLY about the 90s -- we get into some other stuff and lead with America's first female serial killer -- but it's all related!! You'll see! Come join the fun!
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May 18, 2023 • 56 mins
After reading The Wager, and learning about the Kawesqar Tribe, Chris thinks about adapting to problems. Later, he is joined by his parents to discuss adapting to situations, Diet Dr. Pepper, and Megan Markle
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April 27, 2023 • 41 mins
Chris and his dad, Albert, discuss history's 'dumbest' battles — and why they aren't so dumb. Later, they discuss what it takes for them to lose their temper. And what does a flipped table on a Bravo show have to do with it all?
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April 24, 2023 • 55 mins
What you do in life doesn't always amount to what you are known for. Featuring John Palumbo.
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April 20, 2023 • 20 mins
Chris discusses Alfred Nobel, and how the merchant of death became the symbol for peace.
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April 13, 2023 • 45 mins
Chris, Albie, Caroline and Albert talk about Succession (major spoilers), Alexander Hamilton's hair, and Albie considers stealing the episode for his own podcast.
For those wondering, the intro song is called "Mambon Flaco" by the Flaco Collective. You're welcome.
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April 7, 2023 • 51 mins
Come take a trip to early 2023, when a young, naive Chris Manzo did a pilot episode of CHRISTORY and kept it hidden from the world... until now. The topic: method actors.
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March 31, 2023 • 71 mins
John Palumbo, inventor of the pop-up shop, among other things, and Chris talk about idea stealing: When it's OK, when it's not, the pressure of ad reads, and John shares his...strong...feelings on free samples.
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March 30, 2023 • 36 mins
Pass Go -- Collect $200. Or nothing.
Chris tells the story of Lizzie Maggie, the lady who *kind of* created Monopoly and got pretty screwed in the process.
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March 16, 2023 • 58 mins
Chris, Caroline, and Albie discuss Selena Gomez, the dark sides of manifestation, their personal failures, and Caroline's old cubicle.
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March 16, 2023 • 28 mins
Today's topic: Manifestation. Chris talks about Cassius Clay's live poetry reading that changed sports, and the world, as we know it.
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