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 house like he was building an evidence locker. Chris’s onlyjob was to shut up and observe the sacred math ritual known as "How Many Eggs Did We Eat This Month?"—performed by candlelight and calculator with cult-like reverence.

From there, it’s a hard pivot into the unhinged beauty of unsupervised summer vacations, back when kids were basically feral and the only rule was: “Don’t die before dinner.” They rail against playdates, helicopter parenting, and any summer schedule that doesn’t include whiffle ball, or starting small fires with stolen Bic lighters.

Also: sixth-grade camp as a proto-prisoner-of-war fantasy, the very real joy of impersonating a better version of yourself to a summer crush at Jack in the Box.

If you’re looking for life lessons, look elsewhere. If you want to hear two dads unravel like lawn chairs in the July sun while confessing their childhood crimes against structure and order—welcome aboard.

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 Years, while questioning if any mom songs are depressing (spoiler: no).

Debate the merits of sitcom patriarchs like MikeBrady, Archie Bunker, and the forbidden one-who-must-not-be-sweater-named.Roast Michael Landon, Tom Bradford, and cartoondad Harry Boyle like they’re at a very specific Father’s Day Friars Club.Take an impromptu trip to Britain to marvel at idioms like “a spot of bother” then instantly get lost in a swirl of Benny Hilland verbal Anglophile nonsense.

But the crown jewel? A surprise musical appearance by Lost in Space legend Billy Mumy, who resurrects a campfire moment from the show by singing Sloop John B, then blesses us with an acoustic rendition of the Lost in Space theme—played on a Martin D-45 that's never space-jammed before.

Highlights include:A eulogy for the actor who played Veruca Salt’sdad. (Yes, that guy.)

A confessional about inheriting our dads’ worsthabits—including “yelling tone,” dreaminess, and maybe...morphine? (Just listen.)

Bottom line: Bring tissues. Bring bourbon. Bring an architect’s blueprint with more than one goddamn bathroom!

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 brains:

•Julie Newmar’s Catwoman, who somehow out-acted Batman in his own show and probably deserved a solo series.

•Yvonne Craig’s Batgirl, kicking ass in purple spandex and demanding equal pay while Batman and Robin sweated next to a bomb.

•Tina Louise as Ginger Grant—a character so iconic they tried (and failed) to replace her with a younger model. #NotMyGinger

•Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore, whose actual behind-the-scenes influences would shock and amaze you.

•And of course, Barbara Eden’s I Dream of Jeannie—a show built entirely on the male fantasy of having a hot, subservient genie.

PLUS!!!!

The Batgirl PSA that explained equal pay to very confused kids.

Julie Newmar being cooler than the entire Batman cast combined.

The real-life Comic Con encounters where Jeff stood in awe of Yvonne Craig and Julie Newmar being awesome grandmas.

The shocking Coachella lineup featuring "Eve Plum’s Veto" and "Not My Ginger."

Plus: a full-throated defense of why Gilligan’s Island should’ve been a professor and two women trapped on their own island.

By the end, the boys admit they probably could’ve done an entire 10-part miniseries on this topic alone. And yes, they know they’ll be getting angry texts about all of the other actresses they left out.

Come for the scores, stay for the belly button censorship discourse.

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 Chris take a deep, fin-first dive into the 50th anniversary of Jaws and relive every trauma, trivia bit, and pop culture ripple that movie unleashed in the summer of 1975.

Highlights include:

· Jeff’s Ocean Terror Origin Story™: He recently swam in the open ocean. Voluntarily. We’ll wait while you gasp.

· Chris’s Book-Fueled Trauma: He read the Jawsnovel before puberty and can’t unsee the crabs crawling on Chrissy Watkins.

· Spielberg at 27: The man directed a culture-shifting horror movie before he could rent a car.

· The Mythbusters Ruin Everything Corner™: That exploding air tank ending? Total nonsense. But we still cheer every time.

· Jaws vs. Star Wars: Chris throws down the cultural gauntlet, declaring Jaws the true OG blockbuster. Come at him, nerds.

· A Parade of Ripoffs: Grizzly, Orca, Piranha,and Tentacles — the Dollar Store cinematic universe Jaws accidentally created.

· Rodney Allen Rippey returns: This time, not just as a Pull — but as the focus of a verified 1970s photographworth 100,000 points. Eat your heart out, Bigfoot.

Also discussed: food replicators that don’t exist, Violet Beauregarde’s gum-based doom, Merv Griffin’s sexy little “ooh,” and why Emmett Kelly might be the most problematic clown since John Wayne Gacy.

This one’s got The Kids in the Hall royalty, killer sharks, childhood trauma, and the single greatest novelty song about a talking shark in broadcasting history. (Yes, Mr. Jaws gets airtime. You’re welcome.)

NOTE: If you don’t walk away from this episode with a primal fear of both ocean water and polyester leisure suits, you weren’t listening.

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, and the long-overdue extinction of crappy asphalt. Jeff mourns the death of Jetsons-style travel; Chris weeps forthe loss of meal replacement pills—then immediately retracts it because pills that taste like hot dogs are a war crime. They recall Willy Wonka's gum-based dinners, rip on Charlton Heston's dystopia trilogy, and give a heartfelt Zardoz shout out to Sean Connery in a red Speedo.

And then there's Dirk Pearson. Remember him? No? Good. Because that long-haired supplement-peddling life-extension prophet lied to everyone. Chris calls him out for saying we’d live to 800 while Jeff’s is just hoping to make it to the next Target run without groaning.

Closing Thought:
The roads are still garbage, the replicators never arrived, and you’re still eating nachos like a caveman. But at least you’ve got Nice Pull!—now with baby filters and 740 episodes to go.

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 wait, the vortex gets deeper.

From there, it’s a warp-speed detour through UFO coverups, government conspiracies, and trauma-induced memory blackouts.

Chris chimes in with tales of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and Jimmy Carter’s extraterrestrial truth bomb, while Jeff remembers the time a glass of root beer launched itself across the room without being touched. (Yes, it was witnessed. Yes, it left a puddle.)

Also mentioned:
🌀The Bermuda Triangle
👽Close Encounters of the Third Kind
🧠Cognitive dissonance vs. the human soul

Come for the “Horror Show”, stay for the floating beverage-ware, and leave wondering if that weird noise in your attic is just the house settling.

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 12-year-olds.

Also in this episode:

• Danny Bonaduce’s underage draft notice earns Chris 102,000 points.

• A Kids in the Hall cocktail earns Jeff 90K and a paper umbrella.

• A narrator-heart with body dysmorphia walks us through heart disease.

• And the mystery of why every child actor in commercials sounded like a 50-year-old Brooklyn bookie.

Plus: upside-down vision experiments gone horribly wrong, Home Alone trivia bombs, and a pitch for Jesus: The Back of His Head – The Motion Picture.

This one’s hot to the touch and full of cinematic nonsense—handle with oven mitts.

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In a twist no one saw coming—mainly because no one thought to ask—Episode 57 delivers a new first in AI scoring that’s so inconceivable, 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, that’s right. Danny "I-might’ve-been-drafted" Partridge himself pops in for a gloriously unhinged voice memo that sets off a nostalgia avalanche for the Partridge Family bus, tambourine storage logistics, and braces that receive FM radio. Buckle up for conspiracies about Shirley Partridge’s mysterious husband,Vietnam-era sitcom storylines, and Jeff’s grim fan theory about Rupert Holme’s unholy ear worm.

This installment is a tribute to everything wonderfully wrong with ‘70s lyrics—and it might just be the most batshit episode yet.