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'America, Wash Your Ass!' - Mehdi and Wajahat Ali Call Out Racists' Hypocrisy and Hygiene

'America, Wash Your Ass!' - Mehdi and Wajahat Ali Call Out Racists' Hypocrisy and Hygiene

We're Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends vor 1 Monat

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Mehdi and Wajahat Ali have been friends for almost two decades.
And just like with any good friend, there's a lot the two don't
agree on, from who they think the best Bond actor is to whether
there are alliances the left can make with the far-right on
Israel. But one thing they do stand together on is just how vital
immigrants are to America.

In fact, it's the premise of Waj's memoir, Go Back to Where You
Came From, which he calls both a "love letter to a country that
doesn't love us back" and a "warning to a country about what
happens when you go against the immigrants." Waj discusses his
experience growing up as the child of Pakistani immigrants and
Mehdi chimes in with his experience being an immigrant to the
U.S.

They also talk about America at 250 and the dueling 4th of July
speeches between Zohran Mamdani (very good!) and Donald Trump
(very bad!). "There were MAGA people on the mall who told
journalists that it was 'liberals in the weather service' trying
to ruin the Trump speech on Saturday night," Mehdi says. "They
literally see the storm destroying the sets and they're like, 'We
don't believe the liberals in the weather service.'" Waj says.
"It's a cult, man."

In this intimate and hilarious conversation, the two also
discuss:

Waj's parents being sent to prison.

Donald Trump intervening in the World Cup.

Extremism in the U.S. versus the UK.

The rise of Islamophobia.

And… the Epstein Files.

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Credits:

Hosted by: Mehdi Hasan

Guest Host: Wajahat Ali

Executive Producer: Kiran Alvi

Senior Producer and Editor: Frank Cappello

Music: Andy Clausen

Design: Alicia Tatone

Mix Engineer: Valentino Rivera

Title Animation: Ehsaan Mesghali

Special thanks: Kennedy Garmong

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