The Unexpected Podcast Wiki



The Unexpected Podcast Wiki
The Unexpected Podcast (est. 2017) is a storytelling podcast that often features an unexpected twist. While the tales themselves are self-contained, they are also part of the wider Unexpected Universe; the pieces of which have been collected here.

The Unexpected Podcast was created by Andrew Soucek and Erik Bergstrom to fill a vacuum in the storytelling podcast world with simple, engaging tales for the working class. Since its humble beginnings, it's gone on to satirize everything from baseball to the public's trust in its elected officials.

It is currently the 122,617th most popular storytelling podcast on iTunes.

Origins
Since 1999, Andrew Soucek and Erik Bergstrom have been operating various forms of media under the name The Unexpected. This includes their first foray into short films, using the production name Unexpected Films. The name, "Unexpected", comes from the title of an even earlier set of horror movies made while Soucek and Bergstrom were in middle school.

After a straightforward horror piece titled Sweet Dreams, the duo found their first taste of fame and success with a film titled The Korean War, which was produced for a high school class. Lauded for its courageous writing and dry wit, The Korean War was celebrated in their hometown of Litchfield, Minnesota by teachers and peers alike. In the eighteen years since, however, revisionist historians have labeled the film "short-sighted" and "idiotic", while many others have come out against its cruel depictions of ambiguously homosexual soldiers. As a result, Soucek and Bergstrom have distanced themselves from the film after a public apology over social media. The film can still be found on the Internet in a bootlegged format.

Unexpected Films produced many other well-received movies, including a handful of informational videos and the slasher film series, A Night to Dismember. The series was added to over the course of a few years and eventually became the company's only focus, ending in 2005 with the fifth installment. Over the next couple years, Soucek and Bergstrom had the intent to develop A Night to Dismember into a feature film, but the production landed in development hell when funding fell through for casting Tony Danza in the title role.

In late 2017, after listening to an episode of a well-known horror fiction podcast, Soucek got the idea to resurrect the "Unexpected" name, this time applying it to the world of podcasting. He contacted Bergstrom and pitched the idea of ''The Unexpected Podcast. ''Their first episode, "Honk for Homicide", was produced shortly afterwards.