1426 Wajahat Ali
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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No news and clips today because I am on a college visit with my daughter. You can watch my conversation with Waj on YouTube
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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, my friends. Welcome to The Wednesday Show. I've got a great conversation with Wajahat Ali joining me today. It's not really a show because I don't have the other two segments of the whole opening block. The news headlines and clips I normally do here at the top of the show, which takes a lot of production and a lot of time. But I am on the road with Julia looking at colleges in Boston. |
| 0:24.2 | And so today it's Waj and I. |
| 0:26.4 | But, hey, it is not disappointing, apparently, |
| 0:30.0 | because we got a tremendous amount of feedback from Wages' substack, |
| 0:34.8 | where this also aired live. |
| 0:36.9 | A lot of people liked it and subscribed to my substack, which I'm trying to figure out. |
| 0:41.5 | So I hope that you like it as much as those folks did. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm not sure exactly what made this one so special, but people really enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:49.0 | Wage, of course, is on Substack and on YouTube and hosting a million different things, doing great work with |
| 0:56.0 | Medea San at Zateo. As always, I love talking to Waj. She's a very good friend of mine, |
| 1:00.5 | and I'm always happy when he joins me. So that's what I've got for you today. I'll be back |
| 1:04.2 | tomorrow with the regular show. I hope you like this conversation with Wajad Ali and I right now. |
| 1:12.1 | It says live. It says, oh my God. Are we live? Oh, my God. I think so. You're live. |
| 1:17.5 | I think we're live. We're live. We're going to do it live. That's all everybody ever says as soon as you say that is that famous Bill O'Reilly thing. |
| 1:24.6 | And we're live on my substack also. Well, |
| 1:26.5 | done, Pete. Awesome. Well, everybody on substack, please, I'm just a poor, independent. I live alone now. I, my dog, my dog just died. Listen, if you subscribe to Wage, there's a poor sickly white, bald man here that could use some of the heat that Wage has created for himself. |
| 1:53.8 | And I would hope that you will subscribe to my substack and all of what I'm doing because I work so much harder than Wage and there's so much |
| 2:02.7 | more at stake for me. My kids are already grown up. His kids are still little. I'm white. |
| 2:07.2 | He's brown. There's a lot that he has going for him that I don't. And you see what I'm saying? |
| 2:11.9 | I'm literally replacing Pete Dominic and Pete Dominic is trying his best not to be replaced as a middle-aged, |
| 2:20.6 | balding white man. And like I always said, Pete is proof that I love the whites. Some of my |
| 2:26.4 | favorite whites are the progressive whites like Pete. And Pete Dominic, in all seriousness, |
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