Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
5/7/20261 hr 14 min
Ilana’s dream comes true as she interviews the U.S. Congresswoman from New York, the luminous progressive brawler, the one-and-only… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AOC shares about her personal experience growing up Puerto Rican American in the Bronx and Westchester, New York. She unfolds the myth of capitalism, the unyielding profit monsters that uphold it, and its tragic reinforcement of our lesser impulse to alienate and vilify the most vulnerable people in our communities. To break this corrosive pattern of barbarism in America, AOC emphasizes our need to form broad bipartisan coalitions, but she asserts that, in fact: the people will always have the power.
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Host: Ilana Glazer
Producers: David Rooklin, Annika Carlson, Madeline Kim, Kelsie Kiley, Glennis Meagher
Video Producers: Lexa Krebs, Louise Nessralla
Audio Producers: Nicole Maupin, Rachel Suffian, Rebecca O’Neill
Lighting Director: Kevin Deming
Editor: Tovah Leibowitz
Graphics: Raymo Ventura
Outro Music: Don Hur
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First 90 secondsIlana Glazer· Host0:00
Wow. Wow, wow. Uh, no offense to guests I've had on the show or, or will have in the future, but I just interviewed my dream guest, and that is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. OMG, it's AOC. Wow. You know, you see AOC doing her thing, messaging so clearly in real time on social media, and on, uh, you know, going on shows and talking. But then to have the priv- privilege of meeting her in person, it's the same person. This is very different, I mean, from many famous people you meet, but, um, but, uh, certainly not elected officials. Um, AOC, uh, is the Democratic congresswoman for New York's 14th district, representing, uh, parts of the Bronx and Queens, and she won not initially against a Republican. The, the big, uh, the big goalpost she had to hit was winning against an incumbent Democrat, 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley. And when she challenged this guy in 2018 as a former waitress and organizer, the daughter of working-class Puerto Rican parents in the Bronx and Westchester, uh, she won. She won 56 points to 43, and then she won the general at 78%. So AOC is known internationally for fighting for working families. Um, a real brawler for real working people.