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NICE PULL! is the ultimate nostalgia-fueled showdown where two pop culture obsessives battle it out for obscure reference supremacy.

Podcast · By Chris Alvarez and Jeff Thill · American English · Official site

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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    Hot Teachers, Trans AMs, and the Legendary Shotgun Tom Kelly (opens the original)

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    Episode 83 begins with elementary-school teacher smoke shows and Shotgun Tom Kelly and somehow crashes headfirst into Grape-Nuts, whole milk, Casey Kasem, cassette-tape piracy, beer snobbery, Vikings, and Stand By Me , Jeff defends IPAs while Chris bravely stands up for beer that doesn’t taste like somebody dissolved a pine tree in it. Then the guys conduct a long-overdue financial audit of Smokey and the Bandit and discover that transporting an 18-wheeler full of illegal Coors across state line

  2. Episode · Aug 28, 2026

    Broken Dreams, Freddy Krueger, and High Cortisol (opens the original)

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    Episode 82 begins with the innocent topic of dreams and almost immediately wanders into the weeds—which, at this point, is basically the NICE PULL! mission statement. Jeff and Chris examine the grim reality of getting together with old high-school friends and realizing the conversation has somehow shifted from reckless teenage adventures to sleep apnea, sciatica, retirement accounts, mysterious tingling, and who among the group is statistically most likely to die first. From there, they attempt

  3. Episode · Aug 15, 2026

    UFOs, Jeff’s Secret Double Life, and What the Hell is Wrong with Neil deGrasse Tyson? (opens the original)

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    Episode 81: The Truth Is Out There… and Jeff Apparently Already Knew About It After a brief hiatus caused by life, old-man responsibilities, and Chris losing a fight with some loose gravel, NICE PULL! returns with an episode that goes considerably deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone probably intended. This week, Chris and Jeff finally tackle UFOs, aliens, flying saucers, government secrecy, Area 51, Close Encounters, In Search Of, the Bermuda Triangle, extraterrestrial biological entities, a

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