1128 Wajahat Ali Stops by !
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Wajahat Ali is a Daily Beast columnist, public speaker, recovering attorney, and tired dad of three cute kids. Get his book Go Back To Where You Came From: And, Other Helpful Recommendations on Becoming American which will be published in January 2022 by Norton. He believes in sharing stories that are by us, for everyone: universal narratives told through a culturally specific lens to entertain, educate and bridge the global divides.
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He frequently appears on television and podcasts for his brilliant, incisive, and witty political commentary. Born in the Bay Area, California to Pakistani immigrant parents, Ali went to school wearing Husky pants and knowing only three words of English. He graduated from UC Berkeley with an English major and became a licensed attorney. He knows what it feels like to be the token minority in the classroom and the darkest person in a boardroom. Like Spiderman, he’s often had the power and responsibility of being the cultural ambassador of an entire group of people, those who are often marginalized, silenced, or reduced to stereotypes. His essays, interviews, and reporting have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and New York Review of Books. Ali has spoken at many organizations, from Google to Walmart-Jet to Princeton University to the United Nations to the Chandni Indian-Pakistani Restaurant in Newark, California, and his living room in front of his three kids.
I asked Wajahat Ali to pop in and he is always awesome. Check out his new substack , Tik Tok and Podcast !
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| 0:00.0 | Stand Up. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to a special Saturday show. |
| 0:05.0 | I've got my friend Washahad Ali joining me today and it's another good one. |
| 0:10.0 | We always love when Wash joins us. |
| 0:12.0 | My mom says, |
| 0:13.0 | Watch is one of my favorite guests. |
| 0:15.3 | And so many of the rest of you love him too. |
| 0:17.9 | We had a great conversation, as we always do. |
| 0:20.3 | It's been a little while, a long time since we taught taught but he's doing some great new stuff like a substack left hook as well as a new podcast with Jen Taub called a Muslim and a Jew walk into a bar and so much more you can find him on |
| 0:34.5 | Tik-Toc making videos of course contributing to the Daily Beast and a whole bunch of |
| 0:38.8 | other outlets we always love when he joins us also listen to his podcast democracy-ish with Danielle Moody. |
| 0:45.4 | He does a lot. |
| 0:46.4 | He's putting himself out there. |
| 0:47.8 | I love his perspective on things. |
| 0:49.6 | Smart, he's funny. |
| 0:51.0 | He's Wajajah Ali. |
| 0:52.2 | Let's do it, and we can't do it without you. |
| 0:54.4 | Patreon.com slash Pete Dominic. |
| 0:56.4 | Hope you're enjoying your weekend and I hope you enjoy my conversation with Waj. |
| 1:00.3 | And there he is Mr. Ten Commandments himself. I was surprised to see that you |
| 1:06.8 | supported this decision from the Louisiana legislature to put the |
| 1:11.4 | Ten Commandments in the schools but I guess is watching your |
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