This is Anna. A couple of weeks ago we did an episode with a woman we called Alice.

She talked about why she shoplifts and why she's not really afraid of getting caught.

I know I'm a white female so I mean I feel like I would get off a lot easier than some other people would.

How does that feel to say out loud?

It's kind of disgusting. allowed.

It's kind of disgusting to me, but I mean, it's how the world is,

so I sort of use it at my advantage.

We got a lot of responses to this episode, mostly negative.

Oh, my God, I was like, I was so appalled.

Hearing someone else

upset a lot of you

one of you commented I'm not a violent person but I fantasized about

smacking her

someone else wrote I've never been so angry listening to a podcast.

Kara, whose husband works in retail,

sent in a voice memo.

I really wish that Alice could hear the anger and defeat

from my husband when he tells me that his door was hit again.

It felt like there was more to talk about here, so I reached back out to two listeners to hear why they reacted the way they did.

I called up Alyssa from Atlanta.

She'd written us an email saying she felt almost betrayed by the episode because she couldn't

find a way to connect to Alice.

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