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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Jeff Kahn, who heads the Johns Hopkins

Berman Institute of Bioethics, about a podcast he and his team have created entitled Playing

God. The 10-episode series brings a bioethical lens to topics such as whether you should be

able to sell a kidney or what to do when a loved one is considered brain dead.

Let's listen.

Jeff Kahn, thanks so much for joining me.

I'm very happy to be with you, Stephanie.

You, as we have just said, are the head of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health.

And I wanted to talk about a podcast that you

put out in the fall called Playing God. I thought it was a really interesting exploration of

bioethical questions. And I wanted to ask you some questions. So you could tell us a little more

about how this podcast came about and what your goal is. Yeah, it's a good question.

And I would say, you know, the short answer, a long time coming, but that doesn't really

answer in the way that you're wanting to hear. I have thought for a very long time that the work

that we do in bioethics is of interest to a much wider audience than it sometimes ends up being

in front of. So we do a really good job of sharing our scholarship and our research with

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