Episode 924 News Recap and Wajahat Ali Returns!
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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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.
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 | Hey friends, stay tuned for the debut of John Carroll's union made at the very end of today's show. |
| 0:08.0 | There's links in the show notes, but I will debut it here on the show for the first time at the very end. |
| 0:14.0 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:15.0 | Joining me today, the brilliant hilarious and always awesome Wajahad Ali, |
| 0:20.0 | joins me to talk about a whole bunch of current events and people that you're reading about in the news. |
| 0:25.0 | Always a great conversation with Waj. |
| 0:28.0 | If you want to skip today, it starts at 23 minutes after a very comprehensive robust news recap with some pretty good audio clips. |
| 0:35.0 | I don't want you to miss that, but if you must, it's 23 minutes watch and I start. |
| 0:39.0 | I hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:40.0 | Sorry Teresa that I didn't get a show up on Monday and to everybody else who reached out to me. |
| 0:45.0 | You know, everything's fine. |
| 0:46.0 | I had posted my conversation with Michael Cohen on Sunday and I was hoping that would suffice because I had a bit of a rough one on Sunday. |
| 0:56.0 | Evening, listen folks, over the weekend on Saturday, I was out doing some long work, some landscaping, |
| 1:03.0 | some getting ready for fall stuff and I was weed whacking and I nailed a hornet's nest which I knew was there. |
| 1:11.0 | I should have remembered and I got stung a whole bunch of times around the ankle. |
| 1:17.0 | These were all over me and I ran through the weed whacker and I screamed and I ran into the back because I was going to jump into the pool like, you know, |
| 1:25.0 | a cartoon character, I think you're supposed to do that and by the time I got back there, they were, they were all gone. |
| 1:30.0 | I didn't see any left. |
| 1:31.0 | So I didn't have to jump into the pool. |
| 1:33.0 | But then I had made your pain in my ankle. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm not allergic to them and I wasn't worried about anything other than the localized pain. |
| 1:40.0 | But man, it really hurt all night long. |
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