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Elizabeth Smart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2134 total appearances

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Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

How did they just know that?

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

frosting and dough.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

Like, I can't do that on my best day.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

So...

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

And also because I have so many people disclose abuse to me who have never disclosed it to anyone else, that at the end of the day, I don't want, I need to find a balance in my life as much as I can.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

And so I don't typically watch whether they're documentaries or movies or shows that kind of go into that world just because I need to be able to sleep at night.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

And I don't want to live in fear.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

Yeah.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

So I have so much respect for these people, whether they're police officers or FBI agents or they're advocates who work at advocacy centers or therapists or forensic psychologists or like these nurses who do these rape kits who keep coming back day after day after day after seeing heartbreak and tragedy and just the worst side of humanity.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

And yet they keep coming back and there's still these good people trying to make money.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

difference in the world.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

So for that reason alone, I mean, I have the greatest respect and admiration for them.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

And I think that's really like admirable of you because, again, someone in your position, I think you had the right to be bitter if you want.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

You had the right to be angry, but to choose not to be, I think, is something really special.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

You know, and like you said, people aren't getting into law enforcement to make money.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

Most of them have the best of intentions and they know their job, right?

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

They know their role when a kid goes missing or when something happens, someone is assaulted.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

They know what they're supposed to do.

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

One of the things that I really struggled with in

Crime Junkie
AUDIO EXTRA: A Conversation With Elizabeth Smart

You know, learning about your story, a question that I don't have an answer to still, and I don't know if you have any thoughts on it, is more, is civilians' responsibility.