Omaha: Somewhere in Middle America
If you drive east out of Omaha long enough, you’ll hit this river—and then immediately wonder why you’re in Iowa.
What is the Missouri River?
This fast-food chicken chain is either known for its fried chicken—or for being the most polite drug front in television history.
What is Los Pollos Hermanos?
This 2013 breakout song by The 1975 proved that chocolate can be both a dessert and a questionable life choice.
What is “Chocolate”?
This essential skill separates beginners from actual riders: mounting without holding onto a wall, pole, or your pride.
What is a free mount?
Theo Von occasionally references this mysterious Louisiana figure as a symbol of chaotic wisdom—either a real person or entirely made up, no one is sure.
Who is Billy Conforto? (Accept also: “a guy Theo definitely might have known” 😄)
This annual event, held in Omaha, determines the NCAA Division I baseball national champion.
What is the College World Series?
This lawyer’s TV ads scream “Better Call Me,” which is fitting because you probably need him after doing something very illegal and very dumb.
Who is Saul Goodman?
The band’s third album has this overly long title that sounds like Matty Healy didn’t know when to stop typing.
What is “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships”?
When you pause in place by rocking the wheel back and forth instead of dismounting, you’re performing this balance-saving move at stoplights or while showing off.
What is idling?
On “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” this producer frequently becomes the target of Conan’s jokes and mock arguments, despite clearly being the most patient person in the room.
Who is Sona Movsesian? (Acceptable: Matt Gourley, but Sona is the classic target 😄)
This Omaha resident still lives in the same modest house he bought in 1958, even though he could buy your house, your neighbor’s house, and probably the entire block.
Who is Warren Buffett?
In one of the show’s most subtle callbacks, this pink object found in Walt’s pool connects directly to a mid-air disaster caused by someone he indirectly traumatized.
What is the pink teddy bear (or pink teddy bear eye)?
This book of Jack Kerouac poetry inspired the band’s name, after Matty Healy noticed a handwritten date scribbled inside.
What is “The Rum Diary”?
This hopping-based technique allows riders to climb curbs, pallets, or stairs—often while terrifying pedestrians nearby.
What is trials riding (or side hopping)?
In “Haunted Cosmos,” the hosts often frame supernatural encounters under this theological concept—suggesting many phenomena are not neutral, but part of a larger spiritual conflict.
What is spiritual warfare (or a biblical cosmology worldview)?
This Omaha zoo is so good that locals casually brag about it like they personally trained the animals.
What is the Henry Doorly Zoo (and Aquarium)?
Before becoming Heisenberg, Walt shows his true scientific pettiness by refusing financial help from these former colleagues—a decision that indirectly leads to… everything.
Who are Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz?
Before fully pivoting to The 1975, the band released music under this name, leaning more heavily into emo and punk influences.
What is Drive Like I Do?
This type of hub system, often found on higher-end unicycles, allows the cranks to mount via a splined interface instead of a square taper for increased strength.
What is ISIS (International Spline Interface Standard)?
Unlike typical paranormal shows, Otherworld leans heavily on this storytelling format—long-form, first-person accounts that feel more like documentary than spooky campfire tales.
What are first-person witness narratives (or listener-submitted stories)?
Opened in 1898, this exposition helped put Omaha on the national map and featured a grand “lagoon of nations.”
What was the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition?
In a moment that proves Walt is both petty and diabolical, he poisons Brock using this plant—because nothing says “mastermind” like weaponizing backyard landscaping.
What is Lily of the Valley?
In a bit of self-referential chaos, this 2018 single critiques internet culture with a title that looks like a typo and nearly broke streaming service formatting.
What is “Love It If We Made It”?
In street and flatland, this trick involves the rider jumping while simultaneously rotating the unicycle frame beneath them—distinct from flipping the cranks.
What is a unispin? (Not to be confused with a crankflip.)
On Conan Needs a Friend this hilariously fake sponsor claims to be a luxury men’s fragrance that somehow always smells vaguely like failure and desperation.
What is “Chill Chums cologne”?