Novak v. City of Parma

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 39.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. "I just thought, 'That would be funny.'" About a month later, he was arrested. Novak is now petitioning the Supreme Court, and The Onion submitted an amicus brief in support of his case. Their brief is written as a parody of an amicus brief. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from Krakan.
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0:21.3	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:25.0	This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Hi, this is Phoebe.
0:34.0	Hi Phoebe, nice to see, meet you.
0:36.0	How are you?
0:38.0	I'm good. How are you?
0:40.0	I'm fine, thank you.
0:41.0	That's good. So Anthony, me what do you do? For a living? Yeah. Oh I work in sales. Do you like your job? That's good.
0:54.0	And you like comedy?
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.0	I like comedy a lot.
0:58.0	Anthony Novak was born in 1988 and grew up in Parma, Ohio.
1:06.0	He says he's always really liked comedy.
1:09.0	He remembers his father showing him the movie Airplane when he was little.
1:13.0	And as he got older, he and his friend would write comedy sketches and post them online.
1:19.0	Then, one day in 2016, Anthony had an idea.
1:25.0	He knew his local police department, the Parma Police, had a Facebook page.
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