Ep. #165 - What If You Never Existed? - (Karel Novak)

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1950's a man in the woods with nothing but knives and lint in his pockets was discovered along the borders of Poland and Czechoslovakia who would become an international mystery for decades to come. Knowledgable in many languages, with a variety of origin stories, no true knowledge of where he came from, and a deep well of strangeness, Karel Novak became one of the most strangely unknown humans of all time. Who was he? Why did he tell different stories of who he was? Pretend he was deaf and mute? Run from the police? We investigate this week on The What If? Podcast.

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0:00.0	so they make them that way they salt around the bulb they're cast in salt put the bulb in
0:07.5	and then you pour in the salt cast in salt sounds put it on the list but only for christian rock
0:15.3	bands cast in salt is a christian rock band for sure Is there like a Bible story about that or something?
0:22.4	The Bible talks about salt a lot and casting is the thing they do in the Bible a lot.
0:26.5	So cast in salt is very like, it's biblical shit.
0:29.7	I'll take your word for it.
0:30.6	Biblical is shit.
0:31.9	What's up everybody?
0:32.9	It's the What If podcast.
0:33.9	My name's Ryan Copper.
0:34.8	That's Spencer Worth Davis over there.
0:37.6	What's up, man?
0:41.8	We're, uh, you know what? We're a day late and dollar short. Thanks for accepting that as a response to your question. Yep, I just kept rolling. I was like, I don't know what that was, but I'm going to keep it moving.
0:52.0	We're a day late and a dollar short and we appreciate appreciate y'all y'all's patience as is.
0:57.8	And, you know, Spencer and I live very busy lives,
1:00.5	and every once in a while.
1:02.2	And by every once in a while, I mean,
1:03.5	maybe for the second time in like three fucking years,
1:06.4	we're putting out the show on a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday.
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:10.8	Just a heads up.
1:11.3	It's probably going to be the same thing next week.
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