485: Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
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4.2 • 35.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In the early morning hours of June 5, 2002, a man appeared in 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart's bedroom at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He put a knife to her neck, told her if she screamed he would kill her, and marched her out of the house and into the woods. The only witness was Elizabeth's 9 year old sister Mary Katherine. For the first time, both of them are telling their complete stories. From Elizabeth's harrowing nine months with her captors to Mary Katherine's traumatizing experience in isolation trying to remember all the details of that terrifying night, we're gonna unpack AND SCREAM ABOUT IT ALL. Join us for this tough but inspiring journey. Ugh. OK, here we go!
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| 0:00.0 | Girl, I've been dying to tell you this. |
| 0:01.5 | What? |
| 0:01.8 | I've got some bad news for the Broadway community. |
| 0:03.9 | What's going on? |
| 0:04.4 | My dear friend Matt Doyle has met a man. Okay. He's going home to, with the man, to visit the man's family for the first time. Wonderful. Would you like to know where the man's family lives? Yeah. Monaco. Oh, no. He's going to Monaco. The safest unsafe place in the world. |
| 0:20.5 | Matt, we can't lose you. |
| 0:21.7 | We need you. |
| 0:22.5 | Well, you know what? |
| 0:23.2 | Props for not being a billionaire, so I think you'll be fine. We don't actually know. He like, Matt's going to do some recon and find out. It could be. We don't know. Okay, please report back. Now I'm really worried. Maddie, we love you. Hi, Julian Benzavali. Hello, Patrick Hines. Girl, I already forgot what we're supposed to say. Facebook and Patreon, I think, right? We have a Facebook group, fam, and you should join it. There's like 60,000 people in there, and it's really fun. It's where you're to, like, make new friends, like talk about the episodes, talk about your dogs, |
| 0:55.6 | talk about your whatever. |
| 0:56.4 | Talk about whatever the hell you want. |
| 0:57.8 | There's a dog in our episode today. |
| 0:59.1 | I know, JJ. |
| 0:59.8 | JJ, he gets like a whole, he doesn't get screen time, but he does get mentioned. |
| 1:02.9 | Best to know is on the force. |
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| 1:04.2 | And the Patreon, we do all the series. Right now we're doing Trophy Wife from Hulu. It is wild. It's so crazy. It is really, and then next we're doing Don't Date Brandon. Don't date Brandon. You know that I'm, like, really feeling these, like, love scam things. This guy is a fucking cycle. Diabolo. I mean, like. Oh my God, I told you I saw a TikTok that I, from this documentary that I just thought was a crap. |
| 1:30.1 | I didn't realize it was from this. I know. It is absolutely wild, fam. Go to the show notes. Click there if you'd like to join us over on the Patreon. Yep. What are we talking about today? This is kidnapped. Elizabeth Smart. This is on Netflix, and it's pretty excellent, but also very harrowing. |
| 1:47.4 | Elizabeth Smart. This is on Netflix, and it's pretty excellent, but also very harrowing. |
| 1:47.3 | Elizabeth Smart was a 14-year-old girl. The family said she'd been taken from her bedroom in the middle of the night. |
| 1:55.2 | I saw this cut screen, and the window was wide open. My wife screamed, call 911. |
| 2:03.6 | Elizabeth was living a very normal wife in a very nice neighborhood. |
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