1253 Wajahat Ali and I talk about the Crisis for Men and Boys + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
My Conversation with Waj begins at about 36 mins
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I joined Waj for a LIVE talk on his Substack Channel "The Left Hook"
Check out his new show on youtube ‘America Unhinged,’ with Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali - Zeteo's new weekly show following Trump's first 100 days in office.
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.
Listen to WAj and DAnielle Moodie on Democracy-ish
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, it's the 12th of May. I hope you had a good Mother's Day. I'm happy to have you here today. I've got a great conversation, something a little different, is Wajad Ali and I together on Substack. We went live last week, late last week, to talk about the crisis of masculinity and the exploitation of the quote |
| 0:23.3 | manosphere I was a guest of wages on his substack live the left hook with wajat Ali and we did |
| 0:31.2 | over an hour we had about a I don't know 70 minute conversation it was good, and that is what I will be sharing today on the podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | I've got a great week of guests planned for you. |
| 0:43.8 | If you want to jump ahead to that conversation with Wage, it starts at about 36 minutes into today's show. |
| 0:50.6 | But as always, I've got your headlines. |
| 0:52.7 | I've got a whole bunch of news clips from the |
| 0:54.8 | weekend. And I've got you. And I wouldn't, couldn't do it without you here. So thank you very |
| 1:00.7 | much for pressing play on today's podcast. If you don't have a paid subscription, maybe consider |
| 1:05.2 | one. Patreon.com slash Pete Dominic right now. You always pay more if you want you can upgrade your |
| 1:11.9 | subscription and have access to our biweekly hangouts tonight at eight by the way eight east hope |
| 1:17.8 | to see you there i've got to say let's get after the news the headlines here's what i've got |
| 1:23.3 | for you starting with what hopes to be some kind of de-escalation or agreement between the United |
| 1:28.8 | States and China, who said early Monday they reached an agreement to temporarily reduce the punishing |
| 1:35.8 | tariffs they have imposed on each other an attempt to diffuse the trade war, threatening the |
| 1:40.4 | world's two largest countries' economies. New York Times reporting in a joint statement, |
| 1:46.0 | the countries said that they would suspend their respective tariffs for 90 days while they |
| 1:50.8 | negotiate. Under the agreement, United States would reduce the tariff on Chinese imports |
| 1:54.5 | to 30% from its current 145% while China would lower its import duty on American goods to 10% from 125%. |
| 2:04.5 | Treasury Secretary and Muppet Scott Besant said we concluded that we have a shared interest. |
| 2:12.3 | The consensus from both delegations is that neither side wanted to decoupling. |
| 2:17.5 | The agreement breaks an impasse that had brought trade between China and the United States |
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