1262 Wajahat Ali #TaintWeak
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 34 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 2025, everybody. I'm trying to get used to saying that. It's still |
| 0:07.0 | Taint Week, at least for me, so I've been in the regular format of the show, which includes |
| 0:11.6 | headlines, clips, and your opening good stuff segment. But I do have a great conversation |
| 0:15.9 | with one of my favorite human beings. My guest today, Wajat Ali, joins me. And I actually reached out to him |
| 0:22.3 | yesterday before the horrific apparent terrorist attack in New Orleans. But we did spend a lot of time |
| 0:28.4 | talking about that, as well as the Maga Civil War and Waj's recent substack piece titled, |
| 0:34.2 | quote, in defense of rest, which is exactly why I'm trying to catch up on it this week |
| 0:40.3 | and why I won't be hosting a hangout got friends in town and going to be with them so I want |
| 0:47.0 | to finish taint week strong and then get back to all of the regular format next week. |
| 0:56.6 | So thank you very much for press and play and for listening today. |
| 0:58.5 | I think you'll love our conversation. |
| 1:05.4 | Also, of course, I want to make sure that, you know, every day that I want you to come to join us in Las Vegas at Podjam 2, everybody. |
| 1:09.9 | It's going to be awesome. |
| 1:11.7 | We're going to be all together again and you are invited. |
| 1:15.7 | I hope to see you there. |
| 1:16.8 | There are tickets in the show notes. |
| 1:18.9 | So I think that's all I needed to tell you for here at the opening. |
| 1:23.3 | So let's get to it right now with my conversation with Waj, who you should most importantly subscribe to his substack, |
| 1:29.4 | the left hook.substack.com. |
| 1:32.1 | Listen to the democracy-ish podcast that he co-hosts with Danielle Moody |
| 1:37.5 | and follow him in all the social media. |
| 1:39.6 | All that linked in the show notes. |
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