1278 Wajahat Ali Headlines + Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Waj Joins me at 29 mins. 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.
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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 | Hey, it's Friday. We made it through the week somehow and we did it together. Well, at least a lot of us did. |
| 0:05.7 | There was a record attendance at last night's hangout. I think I saw 76 people there. That was great. |
| 0:11.9 | We had an awesome time. And at the end of the hangout, which went a little over two hours, I had to jump out because I was on CNN with our friend |
| 0:20.8 | Laura Coates last night. But the very talented Garrett Seber was joining us. And he recapped |
| 0:28.6 | a lot of what was said at The Hangout in a song. And that's all I want to open your Friday. |
| 0:34.1 | It was so much fun and amazing for everybody that was there to see. He |
| 0:38.3 | really writes this down and basically improvs it and got it amazing. Unfortunately, |
| 0:45.1 | you know, it's Zoom quality audio. But Gareth, you really helped recap our conversation, |
| 0:51.2 | which at one point was mentioned, you know, it's hard to, it's hard to watch |
| 0:54.6 | this. I've had to look away from the news. I've had to punch out. And then our friend Kimberly |
| 0:58.8 | Richardson went on an epic rant saying we can't punch out. We've got to stay engaged. This is very |
| 1:04.0 | bad. They've, they're defunding Black America, rolling back the Civil Rights Act and so much more. Well, Gareth did his best to |
| 1:12.5 | encapsulate all of it and somehow make us feel good at the same time the way that only he can. |
| 1:18.8 | Take it away, Gareth. |
| 1:23.2 | The way things stand as it all plays out, it's already enraging the more we talk about. People will get hurt and lives will be lost. Everybody will be affected. I don't want to look, don't want to be inundated it's easy to get dejected oh but please don't sit |
| 1:49.2 | this one out don't just sit around and shout get off your ass and be the helper |
| 1:57.3 | take charge and give them help for it's not just a vibe shift oh no it's a billionaire communal |
| 2:07.5 | grift we collectively don't have to put up with this shit together we can rise up and overcome it |
| 2:16.9 | we've got webs of connection, collective actions within this community. |
| 2:24.3 | No better time than today to get up and actually see what we can do. |
| 2:31.3 | There's no getting around it the only way is through let's team up and find out what we can |
| 2:38.5 | actually do don't just sit this one out don't just sit around and shout oh please get off |
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