1240 Wajahat Ali Returns with Trump Derangement Syndrome
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 29 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 | Hello and happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:04.9 | I wanted to give you something to listen to on the road, so I reached out to my friend |
| 0:08.4 | Wajat Ali. |
| 0:09.4 | We had a great conversation, so that's what I've got for you. |
| 0:13.1 | Again, I am abandoning the regular order, regular format of the show, just to bring you |
| 0:18.4 | something a little simpler. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm avoiding the news myself and frankly, |
| 0:23.8 | I need a little bit of time off this week as well. So great conversation with Wajat Ali coming up |
| 0:30.1 | right now. Though I do just want to take a moment to thank you and show you my gratitude because I, |
| 0:36.0 | like many of you, have had a challenging, I'll say in my case, |
| 0:41.1 | last few years with a whole bunch of things. |
| 0:43.4 | And you guys have been so supportive and given me so much purpose. |
| 0:47.5 | I've made so many amazing friends through this community. |
| 0:50.5 | So I just want to let you know how thankful, how grateful I am for you. I've been to the |
| 0:55.3 | edge and back and too many times, but you really are what keep me going. I love getting up and |
| 1:01.8 | doing this work and posting this show for you every day of the week. It gives me a whole lot of |
| 1:07.1 | purpose and a whole lot of joy to be able to do it. So thank you, thank you, |
| 1:10.8 | thank you. I am so thankful to you. I hope you have a great time with whoever you are with. |
| 1:15.6 | I hope you get along. I hope you take a moment between stimulus and response and recognize it |
| 1:20.6 | and make a different choice so that the next few moments, hours or days aren't really bad or at best |
| 1:27.2 | awkward. Find the peace, find the love, stay in the |
| 1:30.9 | moment, enjoy the day. And here is my conversation with Wajat Ali, whose substack you must |
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