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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

1227 I'M BACK with Wajahat Ali, Celeste Headlee and David Rothkopf

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

Racialjustice, Comedian, Democracy, Comedy, Environmentaljustice, Politics, News, Organizedlabor, Standupcomic, Covid, Petedominick, Trump

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 90 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.

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. An expert in conversation, human nature, reclaiming common humanity and finding well-being, Celeste frequently provides insight on what is good for all humans and what is bad for us, focusing the best research in neuro and social science to increase understanding of how we relate with one another and can work together in beneficial ways in our workplaces, neighborhoods, communities and homes. She is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media and a highly sought consultant, advising companies around the world on conversations about race, diversity and inclusion. Her TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 23 million total views, and she serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project. Celeste is recipient of the 2019 Media Changemaker Award. Her new book, Speaking of Race will be released in November, 2021. She is the proud granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, the Dean of African American Composers. 

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David Rothkopf is CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a media company that produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, hosted by Rothkopf. TRG also produces custom podcasts for clients including the United Arab Emirates. He is also the author of many books including Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American PowerSuperclassPower, Inc.National InsecurityGreat Questions of Tomorrow, and Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Stand up.

0:01.8

Here I am.

0:02.8

I am back and thank you very much for all of those of you who reached out to me who were

0:07.4

concerned.

0:08.3

I literally had to go underground for a couple days and pretty much stopping communication

0:13.6

almost everywhere because after my CNN appearance, I received a whole bunch of threats

0:19.5

on my phone and to my family and in my email and

0:23.9

obviously on social media.

0:25.9

And when that kind of a thing happens, you really have to go dark in almost every way.

0:30.1

I tried to get back to those who reached out to me, checking up on me.

0:33.4

But I also needed to gather my thoughts.

0:35.3

I am as distraught as many of you are over the election, and part of that time I reached out to several of you to get your take on what you thought we should be here at standup with Pete Dominic moving forward.

0:48.0

And several of the folks I heard from said they just can't deal with the news and the situation right now. And so you're turning

0:55.3

away from media and news and political media and turning towards things that make you feel

1:01.3

better and happier and more positive. And so ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the brand new

1:07.8

at least this week and moving forward, at least temporarily, until we figure

1:12.0

out what the hell is going on, the very positive stand up with Pete Dominic.

1:16.5

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be talking to all kinds of really thoughtful,

1:21.7

amazing, inspiring people who have overcome serious adversities in their life, who are

1:27.3

currently struggling and offering

1:29.3

solutions on how to deal with everything. Because this week, I learned that problems that were a two

1:36.1

became a nine after the outcome of the election. And so I realize collectively that we are

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