Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. On today's show, WNYC's

Bahar-Ostadon 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

cards 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

Bahar 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 as 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 in 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,

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