1496 Wajahat Ali + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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My conversation with Waj starts at about 45 mins in to today's show after headlines and clips - "The Shit Show"
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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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. It is Tuesday. It is December 9th, and I've got your headlines, a shit show, and a conversation with one of the best people to talk to about all of the things that we discuss here on the show, all of the important things and everything else. |
| 0:19.0 | It's our friend, Wajahad Ali, who I haven't taught to in about a month. |
| 0:23.2 | He's so busy talking to all the biggest, most influential, smartest, most credible people out there on a wide range of important issues. |
| 0:31.8 | He's really found his footing here in this new media atmosphere. |
| 0:36.2 | So I was happy to get some time with him today. |
| 0:39.1 | And I think you're going to love our conversation. As always, if you want to jump to it, |
| 0:43.4 | you can. It begins at 45 minutes. But coming up, it's headlines and clips first want to thank you. |
| 0:51.3 | Thank you. Thank you for your support here on the show. If you're a paid subscriber, I can't do it without you. A long time subscriber just upgraded this pledge significantly. And I really appreciated it. It is so motivating to see new paid subscriptions come in. And it's always amazing when people decide they want to pay more. |
| 1:14.1 | I thank you very, very much. You know who you are. And if you're not signed up or you want to pay more, |
| 1:19.8 | patreon.com slash Pete Dominic. You can also get a paid subscription over at Substack if you want, |
| 1:26.0 | but please subscribe there as well. And YouTube, YouTube and Substack if you want, but please subscribe there as well and YouTube. |
| 1:29.5 | YouTube and Substack at StandUp with Pete. |
| 1:32.0 | Those are two of the platforms. |
| 1:33.9 | I go live with my guests almost every day, sometimes more than once a day. |
| 1:38.4 | So subscribe to those as well. |
| 1:40.2 | And okay, here we go. |
| 1:43.3 | Let's get to those headlines that I've gathered for you. |
| 1:46.5 | And remember, these are the aberrations. |
| 1:48.9 | These are the bad things. |
| 1:50.2 | That's why they are news. |
| 1:52.4 | Infinite amounts of acts of love and kindness are happening all day, every day. |
| 1:57.7 | Go out and commit a few yourself. |
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