SUPD 1007 Wajahat Ali on what caused the Civil War and Mid Life Challenges
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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.
Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends and thank you so much for your support throughout the year. |
| 0:05.3 | This is the final episode of the year and my guest is Wajahad Ali and we get real |
| 0:11.6 | personal in today's episode. |
| 0:13.4 | The first half of our conversation is about current events, politics, and everything that's |
| 0:17.8 | been going on these past couple of weeks. |
| 0:19.8 | But then at about 29 minutes I ask Waj about his New Year's resolutions and what he wants to change and do better and he really opens up to me in a way I'm not sure he ever has. |
| 0:29.0 | And I was so there for it. I'm so here for it. Isn't that what they say? I think it's amazing. I think what he says is going to |
| 0:36.4 | resonate with so many people listening I think it's going to give you permission to feel the |
| 0:40.4 | way you want to feel, the way you're feeling to not feel alone in those feelings, |
| 0:45.6 | Waj really gets honest and open and raw and it's wonderful so I'm not sure if you prefer the |
| 0:52.1 | politics and the current events. |
| 0:53.8 | I mean we have a talk that I feel like we've had the talk today that we've had many times before with some new updates. |
| 0:59.8 | But the last 29 minutes to me is really great. |
| 1:03.2 | And I loved it, and I think you will too. |
| 1:05.4 | So last episode of the year, |
| 1:07.8 | I'll probably take New Year's Day off |
| 1:09.4 | and be back with a new episode on Tuesday, |
| 1:12.0 | but we will see who I can get my hands on. I am so |
| 1:16.3 | grateful to you for your support. Had a great time hanging out with folks on |
| 1:19.6 | Thursday night and I am really excited about what's to come in 2024. |
| 1:25.2 | So with all that said, the intro is done. |
| 1:28.3 | It's time to get to watch. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pete Dominick, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Pete Dominick and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.