I Lived Bitch! w/ Ellie Schnitt
Binchtopia
Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Julia is joined by bestie of the pod Ellie Schnitt to dissect the organ transplant industrial complex (figuratively)! Ellie lends her expertise as the proud owner of a gently used kidney to help unpack the wild history of transplantation, the misconceptions and ethics surrounding organ donation, and the surreal, life-altering experience of waking up with a new lease on your body. Digressions include Ballerina Farm's completely predictable raw milk controversy, taking thirst traps in the hospital bathroom, and why the last person you want to hear from after major surgery is your flop ex.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette.
Check out Ellie's Substack here: https://ellieschnitt.substack.com/
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A narrative review on the psychosocial domains of the impact of organ transplantation
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
Current Strategies for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Ethics of allocation of donor organs
Exploring Disparities in United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Scoring Systems
H.R.2544 - Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act
Hospitals Cater to 'Transplant Tourists' as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs
How it All Started: The Fascinating History of Organ Transplantation
How One Father Created an Organ Empire
Increased Scrutiny Leads to an Improved Organ Transplant System
Inequities in Organ Transplant Allocation
Life-or-Death Decisions: Philosophy Student Weighs Ethics of Organ Transplants
Medical Ethics Unpacked: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation
Organ Donation and Transplantation
Organ donation: Don't let these myths confuse you
Organ Donation is Rare, Here's Why
Organ Donation Legislation and Policy
Organ Transplant System 'in Chaos' as Waiting Lists Are Ignored
Organ Transplantation: HHS Action Needed to Improve Lifesaving Program
Personality Changes Associated with Organ Transplants
Psychiatric Aspects of Organ Transplantation
Sick and Skipped Over: How We Investigated the Organ Transplant System
Systemic Issues Plague Life-Saving Organ Transplant Program
The Ethical Boundaries of Organ Donation
The history of organ transplantation
The Medical Minute: Six organ donation facts knock down six myths
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Binchopia. We hope you enjoy your stay. |
| 0:15.7 | Hi everybody. Welcome back to Binchopia. I'm Julia Hava and I'm here with friend of the pod, |
| 0:20.2 | Ellie Schnit today. Hey Julia and hey Binchies.. I'm Julia Hava and I'm here with Friend of the Pod, Ellie Shnit today. Hey, Julia and hey, binchies. Hey, Ellie. Ellie and I actually, we were roommates when I first moved to New York. So it's really like, it's been so many months since then, so many moons since then. And we no longer, either of us lives in a condemned apartment building. Is it condemned? No, it just felt condemned. Oh, it did feel that. Maybe. |
| 0:38.6 | It might be. We lived in an apartment building and to be fair, we just were looking |
| 0:45.4 | for a place that, like, had good sunlight. We were looking and, like, who can blame a girl for thinking |
| 0:50.0 | that a place that has good windows is also the ceiling is going to fall off. Right. To me, |
| 0:54.8 | like you would think like good light, good ceiling. Right. This is not the case. No, you actually |
| 0:59.7 | can't assume that just because there's good windows means the ceiling actually works. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah. 3-1-1, like they knew us by name. They really did. Yeah. I'm trying to think of all the horrors |
| 1:09.3 | that happened at that apartment. Like both of our ceilings collapsed. |
| 1:12.6 | Many times. |
| 1:13.1 | So the rain, we would rain and then we would get rained on. We would get rained on. In bed. And then we also had the fly invasion. Oh, the flies. Which I've actually never had that. I've never experienced anything like that in my life. We got those Zivo traps and we like plugged him into the home. |
| 1:28.6 | Oh, God, I'm getting disturbed. |
| 1:30.1 | Thinking about it. |
| 1:30.9 | It was a horror. anything like that in my life. We got those Zivo traps and we like plugged him into the home. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm getting disturbed. I'm thinking about it. It was a horror. I mean taking it, oh my God, |
| 1:32.7 | I'm sweating. Like taking it off and it was just like black. And I have those now like in the |
| 1:37.9 | summertime and I maybe I see three or four flies on there. On occasion. We would change it and it |
| 1:43.0 | was like the entire world of flies was living |
| 1:46.2 | in our primordidling. Then remember the time that my shower door exploded. Oh my God. On the floor |
| 1:51.8 | into a million pieces. You closed it in normal hard. Okay. I just, I mean, I tried to take a shower, |
| 1:58.9 | which was on me. I shouldn't have assumed that that was something |
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