Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[71, 183, 25, 244, 297, 108, 120, 104, 20, 217, 221, 100, 38, 205, 234, 144, 87, 218, 82, 75], k=3
38