It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

On today's show, WNYC's Bihar Oestadon on the EBT scams plaguing many New Yorkers, when you go to use your

EBT card at a grocery store for SNAP benefits, you might be at risk of having your card surreptitiously

scanned and the money on it drained. We will invite you to help us do the reporting with your

stories on the phones, and Bahaar will explain how it happens and what can be

done about it. We will also have a member of the New York State Assembly who's got a piece of

legislation that should help prevent this for the future. Also, we'll continue our series with

the makers of the five Oscar-nominated feature-length documentaries. Other people do the hit movies. We do

the documentaries. Today, the director of a nominated film from Chile called The Eternal Memory

about a couple dealing with one partner's Alzheimer's disease that also has a national politics,

Alzheimer's overlay. and we begin here.

Actually, before we begin here, one other thing on today's show, we will have Charlie Locke

on their essay in Vox about why it's sometimes good to have regrets, with your calls on how

regrets have ever made your life or the world better. But here is where we

begin. It's our climate story of the week, which we do every Tuesday on the show. And today we

have a special guest to mark an anniversary. It was five years ago this month, February 7th, 2019,

when New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in office barely a month introduced the

Green New Deal resolution along with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts. Here's 30 seconds of that

moment, five years and two weeks ago. Today is the day that we truly embark on a comprehensive agenda of economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.

That's what this agenda is all about.

Because climate change, climate change and our environmental challenges are one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life, not just as a nation,

but as a world. AOC on February 7th, 2019. So how's it going five years later? With us now for

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