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PODCAST

Nice Pull!

Chris Alvarez and Jeff Thill

NICE PULL! is the ultimate nostalgia-fueled showdown where two pop culture obsessives battle it out for obscure reference supremacy. Each episode dives headfirst into the glittery abyss of "70s, "80s, and "90s TV, toys, music, commercials, and cereal box lore—scoring each pull by just how deep or weird the reference goes. Expect rants, retro chaos, and the occasional appearance by Danny Bonaduce (seriously). Whether you’re a trivia tyrant or just miss the smell of a freshly cracked VHS tape, this

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01:00:16

Gen X, Gen Z, and the Infamous Red Lion’s Head Heist

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2025/11/20

Episode 74 is the one where Nice Pull! accidentally becomes a three-generation support group for nostalgia, back pain, and bad life choices involving comic books. Jeff and Chris start in the smoldering ruins of Halloween, ranting about neutered “trunk-or-treat” events that feel like tailgates with training wheels, and reminiscing about when kids had to walk dark streets, risk urban legends, and deal with angry old men who now.Then the “mystery guest” steps out of the liquor cabinet: Jeff’s

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00:46:52

Tongue Slits , Midlife Terrors, and Larry Lupree in a...

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2025/10/31

Chris and Jeff sprint headlong into spooky season: sweaty plastic masks with tongue-slicer mouth slits, and the eternal question—why do fewer kids trick-or-treat now and why did our childhoods involve more eggs, fists, and questionable judgment? The lads veer gloriously off-road into “adult fear”: a 13-year-old’s drive-to-school pop quiz on mortality, Jeff’s grandma turning 104 on steak and cheesecake, and a ranked list of "Things That Shouldn’t Be Hobbies Because They Can Kill You" (hi, small

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00:55:43

Reggae, Buffets, and other Betrayals

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2025/10/20

Jeff and Chris take a hard look at how their tastes have aged—like fine wine left open in a hot car. What starts as a celebration of survival (“nobody famous died this week!”) spirals into a brutally honest confessional about everything they used to love and now can’t stand, and vice versa.Revel as they roast reggae, air travel, buffets, and humanity in general while reluctantly admitting they’ve turned into the Muppet balcony duo, Statler and Waldorf. There’s righteous outrage over McDonald’s

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00:44:49

Saluting Robert Redford, Shredding Rob Schneider, and...

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2025/09/28

This time around the guys wander into the pop-culture saloon to pour one out for Robert Redford, 89 years young and still cooler than anyone on your timeline. In a rambling tribute that starts with Redford’s Twilight Zone cameo and ends somewhere between Sundance and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the guys dissect why he was basically the Paul Newman of Paul Newmans — handsome, scandal-free, and capable of playing Death, a cowboy, a con man, and a newspaper reporter without breaking a sweat.Along

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00:42:46

Tom Hanks attacks Alex P. Keaton, the Scourge of...

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2025/09/13

Jeff and Chris celebrate the arbitrary magic of the number70, accidentally turn their “things that didn’t age well” episode into a eulogy for Very Special Episodes, and wage holy war on laugh tracks. Family Ties’Uncle Ned drinks vanilla extract, Different Strokes’ bike shop creeper ruins childhoods, MAS*H drops a helicopter, and Blossom is somehow always “very special.” It’s nostalgia, derailed—polished with a cheap wig and sold at full price. But that’s not all. As the boys are treated to a

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00:54:09

Celebrities We’ve Lost, the Mystery of Cleo Huxtable,...

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2025/09/01

Episode 69 of Nice Pull! was supposed to be the “sexy” one, but instead Jeff and Chris turned it into a cross between an obituary column and a dad-joke competition. Along the way, wrestling gets exposed as soap opera cosplay, forgotten sitcom stars get canonized, and the Oscars’ In Memoriam is reimagined as a dance party scored to “Walking on Sunshine.” Jeff provides the near-death stunt of the week, Chris provides the mockery, and somehow the show limps into episode 70 with both co-hosts

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00:47:05

Drive-in Theaters, Crying Rooms, and Chris’ Enormous...

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2025/08/18

Strap in, because Jeff and Chris are one drive-in snack bar announcement away from a full nervous breakdown. This week, the boys hit Episode 68—two away from their totally arbitrary, earth-shattering milestone of Episode 70. What dothey talk about? Well, what don’t they? We’re talking drive-in theaters (where the movie was always secondary to pajamas, brown paper bags of greasy popcorn, and sneaking in through the trunk), movie ushers wielding flashlights like Jedi knights, and the long-lost art of

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00:47:51

Big Boy Heists, Roller-skating Floats, and the...

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2025/08/02

Jeff and Chris kick things off with a sarsaparilla fueled dive into the wild world of vintage family restaurants. The guys unwrap the cringey backstory of Sambo’s, Bob’s Big Boy thefts, Howard Johnson’s over-the-freeway diners, puberty inducing mannequins in lingerie on Interstate 8, and the alleged crimesof the Frito Bandito. There’s even a heartfelt shoutout to Coco’s, Marie Callender’s, and yet another nod to the legendary local eatery Beef & Bun—which apparently only makes sense if you’ve

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00:47:48

Cortisol, Crappy Pizza, and CHiP’s on a Trailer

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2025/07/23

The boys jump helmet-first into the weird, wonderful world of buddy cop TV shows, psychotropic nostalgia, and the gloriously greasy tradition of 1970s dinner outings—where the pizza was cheap, the ambiance was ragtime theater of the absurd, and the waitstaff dressed like extras from a Prohibition musical—because nothing says 'fun for the kids' like mandatory garters and foam hats.First up: a deep dive into CHiPs, that California highway fantasy where two officers fought crime, revved

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00:46:00

Mood Rings, Psychic Fish, and Questionable TV Team-ups

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2025/07/10

Jeff, powered by three Red Bulls and a questionable sense of purpose, drags Chris into a deep dive on 70s/80s TV — an era when undercover cops thought driving a bright red muscle car or a jet-black van with a giant red stripe was the pinnacleof subtlety.They take no prisoners as they rip apart:Cracker Jack prizes devolving from actual metal toys to “here’s a paper cutout, go cry in the corner.”The psychic fish that was really just heat-sensitive plastic scamming your sweaty palm.Stretch Armstrong, a

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00:46:11

Shampoo Timestamps, The Playdate Apocalypse, and that...

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2025/06/26

This week, Jeff and Chris spiral into a summer-scorched nostalgia trip that starts with a Texas Instruments calculator the size of a brick and ends with a Cub Scout uniform that looks like it was tailor-made for the Third Reich.Somewhere in between: syrup audits, forensic shampoo tracking, and a wild rant about today’s coddled, playdate-addicted youth who wouldn’t survive five minutes in 1978 without a trauma counselor and a gluten-free snack.Chris’s dad used to label every goddamn condiment in the

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00:48:02

Best TV Dads, Worst TV Dads, and that time Billy Mumy...

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2025/06/19

In this weepy, wacky, wildly nostalgic Father’s Day edition of Nice Pull!, Jeff and Chris take a slow, emotional walk down Memory Lane—and trip face-first into the pop culture coffeetable. The episode opens with a launch into an equal-parts hilarious and heartfelt tribute to TV dads, awkward father-son ballads, and why Dick Van Patten may be the human equivalent of a mayonnaise sandwich.Along the way, they: Tearfully dissect dad-core hits like Cat’s in the Cradle, Father and Son, and The Living

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00:45:30

Jeannie’s Navel, Catwoman’s Purr, and that Damn...

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2025/06/10

The boys are older, tireder, and fully committed to squeezing every last nostalgic drop from their Gen-X brains—so naturally, this week they’re ogling their prepubescent crushes while pretending it’s an academic discussion.Jeff and Chris crack open the ol' liquor cabinet to reveal the final, bloody JAWS 50th Anniversary score (spoiler: one of them is still bitter about Star Trek trivia). Then they take a deep, reverent dive into the TV women who warped an entire generation of adolescent male

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00:45:19

50 Years of Jaws, Sir Simon Milligan’s Dire...

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2025/06/03

Jeff and Chris crack open the Nice Pull! liquor cabinet and, instead of expired Zima or a 7-inch from Loggins & Messina, they find Kids in the Hall legend Kevin McDonald inside — reprising his role as Sir Simon Milligan, emissary of darkness and Costco prophet of doom. He drops predictions about canine world leaders, facial hair extinction, and his own fear of a rescue dog named Alaska. Just another Monday in hell.But this episode doesn’t stop at absurdist Canadian prophecy — oh no. Jeff and

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00:40:01

60 Episodes, Zero Jetpacks, and a Couple of Babies

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2025/05/27

In this historic 60th episode, Jeff and Chris do what any self-respecting podcast would do to celebrate a major milestone: they use AI to de-age themselves into toddlers and open the show as actual 3-year-olds and seem shockingly composedfor children who have likely just discovered their toes.Then the episode spirals into a beautiful midlife crisis as the duo laments all the futuristic promises of their youth that never arrived: bubble cars, food pills, dome cities, clothes with built-in booties,

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00:44:43

UFO's, Flying Root Beer, and that time Malcolm...

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2025/05/20

Jeff and Chris summon the spirit of late-night paranoia, alien abduction, and 1970s cinema trauma—only to have actual cult film royalty Malcolm freaking McDowell crawl out of the Moloko Cabinet like a Droog in heat.That’s right. The Clockwork Orange legend crashes the podcast, drops Kubrick-flavored chaos, mocks Jeff’s best friend arson attempt, and gently roasts the show for being “ridiculously boring.” It's the highest honor Nice Pull! has ever received. They’ll never emotionally recover.But

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00:44:14

Molten Projectors, a “Pretty Sneaky Sis,” and the...

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2025/05/09

Episode 58 is a red-hot blast of overheated projectors, childhood propaganda films, and board games that taught us nothing but trust issues. Jeff flashes back to I Am Joe’s Heart, a short film that accidentally invented medical anxiety in children, while Chris relives the sweaty pressure of threading a film strip like a bomb tech in a polyester vest. The boys debate whether Mouse Trap was a game or just an elaborate toy-based lie, and they revisit educational films that showed real lung removals to

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00:39:42

Death Row Daiquiris, FM Braces, and that time Danny...

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2025/04/30

In a twist no one saw coming—mainly because no one thoughtto ask—Episode 57 delivers a new first in AI scoring that’s soinconceivable, Chris uses the “H” word. But that’s just the hors d'oeuvre. The real entrée? A forensic look at The Piña Colada Song, revealing a couple so emotionally constipated they need print classifieds to cheat on each other—only to accidentally fall in love again through mutual infidelity and tropical cocktails. Marriage: solved.But wait, there’s a side of Bonaduce. Yes,

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00:46:19

Suicidal Ponies, Female Vigilantes, and the 70s Song...

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2025/04/25

Brace yourselves, vinyl survivors, for a sentimental sucker punch wrapped in polyester and sealed with a tear-stained K-Tel sticker. This week, Jeff and Chris go deep into a genre of music best described as “AM Gold Meltdown”: overwrought epics where ghost horses roam the plains of confusion, dads are emotionally unavailable and terrible at parenting, and Southern justice is dealt out by corrupt judges and armed siblings with boundary issues. These are the songs your parents slow-danced to while

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00:45:05

Metric Mayhem, Big League Trauma, and Jeff's Secret...

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2025/04/15

This week on Nice Pull!, Jeff and Chris stumble on a metric system PSA that begged America to take 10 minutes and just learn what a goddamn gram is. From there, it’s a chaotic spiral into shredded gum-based nightmares and the slow, sad death of Encyclopedia Britannica as it got body-slammed by the Internet.Along the way, you’ll learn how Jeff lost his heart in a library, why candy manufacturers were hellbent on turning kids into tiny tobacco addicts, and which forgotten teen idol accidentally handed

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