1344 Wajahat Ali + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Waj joins me at 24 mins
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Waj Joins me at 28 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.
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, my friends. It is Tuesday, the 29th of April, and I've got Wajad Ali joining me today. |
| 0:08.0 | Our conversation begins at about 24 minutes into today's show. |
| 0:11.7 | But first, I've got your headlines and clips, so let's do it. |
| 0:18.4 | All right, we are off, and thank you to everybody who joined me at the Monday night. |
| 0:22.8 | Subscribe or hangout. |
| 0:23.8 | We had a great time spent over two hours connecting, chatting, commiserating, laughing, and more. |
| 0:30.0 | Anybody who wants to watch it, relive it, or listen to it, you can get the link in today's show email. |
| 0:36.8 | So check that out again. |
| 0:38.2 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:39.4 | I hope to see you on Thursday night. |
| 0:41.6 | I do two of these a week, and they are always rejuvenating, inspiring, and restoring. |
| 0:47.8 | So please check out our hangouts. |
| 0:50.0 | Let's see. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, big day yesterday for the Canadians where Mark Carney and the Liberal Party won. |
| 0:57.7 | That's right. |
| 0:58.3 | Trump's chaotic threats actually helped win the prime minister's seat for Mark Carney in the Canadian election, but only just barely, apparently. |
| 1:07.7 | A stunning comeback for Mark Carney and Canadian liberals to win their federal elections yesterday. |
| 1:14.9 | Mark Carney vowed that Trump will never break us after his historic election win. |
| 1:20.6 | A lot more to say about that tomorrow, but that was one of the big headlines yesterday, or late last night, I should say. |
| 1:27.2 | A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal affecting tens of millions of people, schools, |
| 1:32.9 | and businesses closed, trains came to a halt and lines formed outside of ATMs. |
| 1:38.4 | People had to be rescued off elevators. |
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