1484 Celeste Headlee + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. An expert in conversation, human nature, reclaiming common humanity and finding well-being, Celeste frequently provides insight on what is good for all humans and what is bad for us, focusing the best research in neuro and social science to increase understanding of how we relate with one another and can work together in beneficial ways in our workplaces, neighborhoods, communities and homes. She is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media and a highly sought consultant, advising companies around the world on conversations about race, diversity and inclusion. Her TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 23 million total views, and she serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project. Celeste is recipient of the 2019 Media Changemaker Award. Her new book, Speaking of Race will be released in November, 2021. She is the proud granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, the Dean of African American Composers.
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.1 | Hi there. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to today's episode of Stand Up. |
| 0:05.6 | It's Thursday. |
| 0:06.4 | I'll be hosting a hangout tonight at 8 p.m. |
| 0:08.3 | I hope to see you there. |
| 0:09.6 | On today's show, you will, where you'll get to hear my conversation with the brilliant and righteous and amazingly talented and accomplished. |
| 0:20.2 | Celeste Headley. She joins me today. We had a great conversation. We were live yesterday. If you want to watch it, you can't on YouTube or Substack. You want to jump right to it. You can listen to that conversation. It starts at 33 minutes. But, of course, I've got your headlines and your clips are what I call the shit show. So let's get started, jump right into it. |
| 0:40.1 | Let's start with this fiasco of a legal disaster for the administration for the Department of Justice, |
| 0:47.7 | for the reputation of the current attorney general, the grand jury yesterday that apparently |
| 0:54.0 | we found out, the grand jury that charged the former FBI director James Comey, |
| 0:57.8 | apparently they never saw the version of the indictment that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had signed and that was delivered to the judge. |
| 1:07.2 | The government acknowledges yesterday an extraordinary concession that could |
| 1:11.1 | apparently just destroy the case, nullify the whole indictment. |
| 1:14.2 | I mentioned this yesterday, but I'm shocking that a real estate lawyer doesn't know how to |
| 1:19.9 | prosecute a criminal case or specifically that one of the FBI director, former FBI |
| 1:25.4 | director, James Comey, or even more importantly, a very, very high profile criminal case against the former top cop of the United States. |
| 1:33.2 | I can't believe that Lindsay Halligan screwed this up. |
| 1:36.3 | I can't believe that the administration, the Department of Justice made, appointed somebody who wasn't qualified for the job, and then it blew up in their face. |
| 1:44.9 | In their face! |
| 1:46.1 | Sorry, went a little Chappelle on you. |
| 1:48.4 | So we'll keep our eyes on that stupid case that never should have been brought clearly. |
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