945 News Recap and Wajahat Ali is back
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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14 mins 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.
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 | Hi there, welcome to episode 944 of Stand Up with Pete Dominic. |
| 0:07.9 | Joining me today, a guy who has joined me so many times before, and many of you want |
| 0:12.7 | to meet him on, is Wajahad Ali for another great conversation about both what's happening |
| 0:19.4 | in the Middle East and on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:22.4 | My conversation with Waj starts at about 14 minutes in, but you don't want to miss |
| 0:28.1 | the news recap, got plenty of stuff to talk with you about here at the top, including |
| 0:33.5 | thank you to everybody who joined me on a rare Monday night hang out because I wanted |
| 0:38.6 | to get folks thoughts and views, ideas, criticisms, and more on how we should be talking about |
| 0:45.7 | what is happening in Israel, Palestine, and we had a great conversation about an hour |
| 0:51.1 | and a half, over 40 people were there, really fascinating thoughts and opinions shared |
| 0:56.2 | by so many of you, and I am so grateful for this community and to everybody who showed |
| 1:01.2 | up means a lot to me and obviously learn a lot, hurt a lot, I may share that whole conversation |
| 1:07.2 | I want to think about it, but I may post it on tomorrow's program, but let's see, what |
| 1:11.6 | do we have to get to today, wow, day 1000 of the Biden presidency, President Biden announcing |
| 1:19.6 | late the administration that he would be traveling to Israel next week and in another |
| 1:25.3 | a connected and developing story, apparently Hamas announced that they would be releasing |
| 1:30.1 | all of the, or some of the hostages that were apparently foreign nationals, this is reporting |
| 1:36.5 | from Richard Engel on MSNBC last night. |
| 1:40.8 | The chief spokesman for the Hamas military wing, just issued a statement on camera in |
| 1:46.5 | which the group is offering to release foreign hostages unconditionally, and I think this |
| 1:52.7 | could significantly change the way things develop here over the next several hours, potentially |
| 1:58.9 | change the course of this conflict so far. |
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