Hey, how's it going? It's Michael Lohanger. A quick message before we get into the show.

It's fundraising season here at On The Media.

This show is supported by you, our listeners.

And Brooke and I, the whole team, we're coming to you now to ask you for money.

Plain and simple, a couple weeks ago, we announced a challenge, whereby if we received

250 donations by November 10th, we would unlock $15,000 from generous O-T.M. fans Bill G and Sue Crothers.

And guess what? You blew us away with your generosity. Here we are, two weeks

after the challenge was announced and you've already doubled our initial ask with more

than 500 new contributions to on the media. It warms my heart. Thank you so much.

We really appreciate you for real. Now something about the team here. We're overachievers. We like to dream big and we want to keep this fundraising machine going through next week.

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Now, on to the show.

I come at this with not one identity, but multiple identities.

I'm an American, I'm a Jew, I'm a reporter.

As the war grinds on in Israel and Gaza, reporters struggle... a reporter

to find clarity in the Merck.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Also on the show, a Netflix series has sparked a long-awaited me-to moment in Taiwan, but don't even think of asking what took them so long.

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