Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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After filmmaker Penny Lane decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, it took three years and a complex, often infuriating, sometimes terrifying process to make it happen. Along the way, being a filmmaker, she eventually decided to chronicle her experience and explore the question: How can a choice that seems so obvious to the donor seem so strange to everyone else? Listen as she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts what she learned, what's still a mystery, and what she hopes we'll all take away from her story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.9	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Sholem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.8	Go to EconTalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.2	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.7	Our email address is mail at econTalk.org.
0:30.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:36.7	Today is October 15th, 2020.
0:39.1	My guest is filmmaker Penny Lane.
0:41.4	This is her second appearance on the program.
0:43.6	She was here in January of 2022 talking about her documentary, listening to Kenny G.
0:50.9	Today we're going to talk about her new documentary, Confessions of a Good Samaritan, which is scheduled to air on Netflix right about now.
0:59.4	Penny, welcome back to Econ Talk.
1:02.1	Great to be here, Russ. Thank you.
1:05.0	In 2016, a while ago, you made a decision to donate a kidney to a stranger.
1:13.4	And in August of 2019, about three years later, you had surgery in your kid, one of your two kidneys was removed and put in someone else's body.
1:25.0	And you made a movie about it.
1:27.2	And that's what we're going to talk about.
1:29.4	And I want to start with the obvious question.
1:32.0	Why would you ever think this was a good idea?
1:38.5	Why?
1:42.5	It's such a hard question to answer.
1:45.0	Why does someone choose to have a child?
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