1211 Wajahat Ali + News and Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 51 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Why do you allow him to call you the Borders are? |
| 0:02.0 | When that's not even your... |
| 0:03.5 | You know, I'm not giving him permission for that. Oh, you're right. But I mean, you don't push back on it because that wasn't your role? Fact checkers have made that clear. Look, if I responded to every name, he called me, I wouldn't be focused on the things that actually helped the American people, and that's my focus. That is true. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, there she is. |
| 0:24.2 | The next president of the United States, we hope, yesterday on a radio show with someone called Charlemagne the God. |
| 0:31.7 | You probably know who he is, right? |
| 0:33.9 | Everybody's giving rave reviews to that interview. |
| 0:41.6 | She did a great job, and I'll have a couple more clips for you coming up. |
| 0:45.4 | Joining me on today's podcast, very special guest, Wajahad Ali. |
| 0:56.5 | Very excited anytime he joins the program, and we begin our conversation after the news update that I do each and every day at 21 minutes. |
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| 1:34.4 | here are your headlines for yesterday, the last 24 hours of news. The latest from North |
| 1:40.3 | Carolina, at least 92 people are still unaccounted for in North Carolina, as first responders, still sorting through the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, weeks after the storm devastated the western part of the state. |
| 1:51.5 | And in a related story, a storm system now in the Atlantic could potentially strengthen into a tropical depression as it heads towards the Caribbean later this week. |
| 1:59.9 | According to the National Hurricane |
| 2:00.9 | Center, the latest storm is what is already an quote above normal hurricane season. Now let's go |
| 2:07.0 | to news out of the Middle East with a diplomatic warning. The Biden administration was warned Israel that |
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