Ilana Glazer

Wow, wow, wow.

No offense to guests I've had on the show 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, you know, going on shows and talking.

But then to have the privilege of meeting her in person, it's the same person.

This is very different, I mean, from many famous people you meet, but...

But certainly not elected officials.

AOC is the Democratic congresswoman for New York's 14th district, representing parts of the Bronx and Queens.

And she won not initially against a Republican, the big Republican.

The big goalpost she had to hit was winning against an incumbent Democrat, 10-term incumbent Joe Crawley.

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,

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, a real brawler for democracy.

real working people.

She's championed Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and she's aggressively anti-corruption, pro-worker, and anti-establishment.

The news cycle is just strategically horrific and such an onslaught, but to see AOC as somebody in power working so hard for you and me and for a better future...

That is something I'm grateful for, even just from a distance.