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Donnie Smatlak: Without Judgment

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Donald David Smatlak was a 25 year old from North Versailles, PA. On Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006 he left his apartment to visit a friend in the neighboring town of Delmont. He never reached his destination and was never seen again. Charley Project Page: http://charleyproject.org/case/donald-david-smatlak Find The Missing: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/14787/0/ Project Jason: https://projectjason.org/forums/topic/310-missing-man-donald-d-smatlak-pa-01282006/#comment-33191 Pittsburgh Post Gazette article: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2006/02/10/Missing-North-Versailles-man-sought/stories/200602100208 If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Donnie Smatlak, please contact the North Versailles Police Department at (412) 823-1111 or (412) 473-3000. Twitter: @unfoundpodcast Email: [email protected] Facebook: Unfound Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/650717205110075/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unfound/id1151955197?mt=2 Podomatic: http://unfoundpodcast.podomatic.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald David Smatlack was a 25 year old from North Versailles, Pennsylvania.

0:06.0

On Saturday, January 28, 2006, he left his apartment to visit a friend in the neighboring town of Delmont.

0:14.4

He never reached his destination and was never seen again.

0:18.8

I'm Ed Denzel and this is unfound. passing judgment. It's part of our human nature, isn't it?

0:44.9

I know it's a goal of the world to become a non-judgmental society, but it's going to be

0:50.9

hard to do when everybody all 7 billion of us do it so easily.

0:57.6

We meet somebody we automatically decide do we like this person, Do we not like this person?

1:04.0

We go to see a movie.

1:05.0

We either like it or we hate it.

1:07.0

Or maybe we're sometimes in between.

1:09.0

Music, sports, a new job, your next-door neighbor, a hobby, just about anything that you do in your life,

1:21.8

your brain automatically is trying to decide, is that something good that I did?

1:26.7

Is it something bad that I did?

1:28.1

Can I do better next time?

1:30.4

And of course we've seen a lot of that. time.

1:33.0

And of course we've seen a lot of that recently because this year was an election year.

1:38.0

We just had an election and some people judge the results as being pretty good and some people judged the

1:47.0

results as being pretty bad and the truth is as much as there is a goal out there to not be so

1:56.5

judgmental I mean there's nothing worse than somebody calling you judgmental right

2:01.9

The reason it's in our human nature is because it is one of those in-grown

2:07.7

things that allows humans to survive on this earth. I mean if we gave into every whim that came into our very sophisticated

2:16.0

brains I don't think any of us would be around very long. I bring this up for two different reasons.

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