1534 Wajahat Ali + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Today I have your headlines + Clips and my conversation with Waj begins at 38mins.
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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, friends. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to today's show where I am in conversation with my good friend, Wajahad Ali, joined him yesterday on Substack. |
| 0:11.0 | We talked for a long time, brought in another guy at the end, Nick Porro. |
| 0:15.5 | We had a great threesome for a moment. |
| 0:17.3 | It was awesome. |
| 0:18.3 | Worth listening to for sure. |
| 0:20.6 | And if you want to jump to it, |
| 0:22.2 | that conversation starts at about 38 minutes into today's show. But like every day here |
| 0:27.5 | on my daily ad-free podcast, I've got your headlines and your clips from yesterday coming up. |
| 0:33.6 | There's nowhere to get your news, more comprehensive list of stories and clips on a daily |
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