History Podcast / KingFallsAM

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In Episode 63, after spending half of the night fuming and threatening Sammy and Ben, Greg Frickard gets knocked to the ground by a solid punch [[spoiler: from a thoroughly pissed-off Emily]].
---> '''[[spoiler: Emily]]''': Hi, Greg."
---> *punch*
---> '''[[spoiler: Emily]]''': Bye, Greg."

** Chet Sebastian, the smooth-talking and [[AnythingThatMoves lecherous]] host of Chet Sebastian's Jazz Corner (which plays on the same station), will occasionally sub in for Ben or Sammy if one of them is out of the studio. He consistently hangs up on phone calls from anyone who doesn't sound young and attractive. Yet, in Episode 27, he uses his lechery to weaponize IBangedYourMom to imply all sorts of horrible things about Pete Myer's mother so that he'll give up details about [[spoiler: Ben's location]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-Universe, Howard Ford Beauregard III claims that the leader of the Nazi party was ''Waldorf'' Hitler.

* CorruptHick: Mayor Grisham, hinted to embezzle from the town, and all-around unpleasant. He has run completely unopposed in the last two mayoral elections. [[spoiler: When he ''is'' opposed, the votes are mysteriously rendered null and void. And he ''wins the election'', nearly killing Troy in the process just so the ballots from the election station won't be counted.]]
** Joining him is Sheriff Judd Gunderson, whose very presence intimidates Sammy and Ben to the point where they're powerless to do anything. [[spoiler: It is ''blatant'' that he had Troy Kreighauser-- ''his own deputy''-- run off the road just so he couldn't deliver decisive ballots for Mayor Grisham's election. He even has him run off at Torrance Gulch- the place where he himself killed Ben's sugar glider Serendipity, just to rub salt in the wound.]]

* RealityEnsues: After Gwendolyn the Racist Witch summons a snowstorm for Christmas, massive storms happen in January and February of the next year due to the weather being magically changed from eighty Fahrenheit to below freezing within forty minutes.

* EldritchLocation: King Falls itself. AliensAndMonsters, apparitions, the possible demons in [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace the Devil's Doorstep]]...

Early episodes could be described as [[FollowTheLeader an attempt to emulate]] PodCast/WelcomeToNightVale, but [[GrowingTheBeard it grows the beard as the storyline goes on.]] The podcast was canceled in 2020 due to behind the scenes issues.

Early episodes could be described as [[FollowTheLeader an attempt to emulate]] PodCast/WelcomeToNightVale, but [[GrowingTheBeard it grows the beard as the storyline goes on.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Ben verges into this sometimes.

** The King Falls Chronicles Part 3 has mention of King Falls being north of California.

** Gauging accents doesn't help at all either, as most of the townsfolk don't have pronounced accents except for Troy, who sounds like he's right out of [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Mayberry]] and Mayor Grisham, who sounds like he's from the heart of New England.

Only for him to be stopped by a local police officer because the apparition of a Civil War general has been screwing with his sense of direction. Then things get ''weird'' as he and his co-host begin reporting on lake monsters, skinwalkers, werewolves, murder, zombies, transmissions from the abductee, mysterious presences calling in to the station, pet seances, a library [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext haunted by the apparitions of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth,]] and the... [[CityOfWeirdos let's call them eccentric...]] residents of King Falls, along with its [[KitschyLocalCommercial absurd local businesses.]]

** Subverted InUniverse in Episode Twenty, where Greg, after his and Emily's Valentines [[BlatantLies "business meeting"]] gets crashed, takes her parting statement as a reference to {{Disney/Aladdin}}. As Ben says, giving a TitleDrop in the process:

** It seems that anniversary episodes are prime candidates for Wham Episodes-- in Episode 49, [[spoiler:Grisham runs an attack ad against Sammy showing his old days as a Shock Jock DJ, Ron Begley is arrested live on air by Gunderson for allegedly vandalizing Grisham's property, and it's revealed that Greg has {{Gaslit}} Emily into believing ''he'' saved her from the Rainbow Lights, so he could force her into a relationship with him.]]

* EldritchLocation: King Falls itself. AliensAndMonsters, apparitions, the possible demons in [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace the Devil's Doorway]]...

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Devil's Doorway, a mountainous area just outside of King Falls that's full of... [[NightmareFuel something bad. Something evil.]]

** Sammy operated out of an unnamed "big city" during his shock-jock years, but exactly which big city is never confirmed, and [[TheUnreveal Sammy seems to dodge the question whenever it comes up]].

* AllHallowsEve: Halloween is ''not'' celebrated in King Falls, because celebrating it is essentially TemptingFate and asking for various ghouls and nasties to come out of the dark, which King Falls already has enough of. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And because of diabetes]].

** Episode 41: [[spoiler: Mary Jensen is getting caught by the Lights, and is about to be abducted... until Troy arrives, shoots at the UFOs, and runs them off.]]

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Apparently they like to [[BestialityIsDepraved get frisky with purebred dogs]], and pass on these tendencies to those they bite. If they manage to... get frisky with them, their puppies become human under a full moon. Also, they develop a love for Series/TheTwilightSaga. [[CaptainObvious They're team Jacob.]]

** Episode 45 has Ben mention an Anderson Air Force Base. There's no such base, but there is an Anders''e'' Air Force Base... and it's in ''Guam.''

** Episode 45 has Ben mention an Andersen Air Force Base, which does actually exist... and it's in ''Guam.''

** The Transmogrifier has the same name as another [[CalvinAndHobbes troublesome ray gun.]]

* BrassBalls: '''Sammy'''. When finding out about the fact that Mayor Grisham is going to use the 7th Annual Best Small Town in America Award ceremony to announce his candidacy for mayor in 2016, he calls him out ''live, on air'' for using an event that the town has been eagerly awaiting to announce this. [[spoiler: When he's snubbed from announcing the mayor on stage, he goes up to the stage to confront him, and Grisham cusses him out and punches him in the face. Sammy apparently [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome puts up quite the fight]].]]

** Deputy Troy - though [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he and Ben end up burying the hatchet later.]]