The Ask

Waise Azimi, Cliff W. Gilmore
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The Ask is a podcast hosted by Waise Azimi and Cliff W. Gilmore that humbly explores life, the universe and everything in between. A new episode is recorded every month.

  1. 12/30/2025

    Episode 24 – Ali Faqirzada & Asylum in Trump’s America

    In this episode of The Ask, Malia K. Du Mont, Dumaine William, Danielle Riou, and Anwen Hughes join us for an urgent conversation about the detention of Bard College student and asylum seeker Ali Faqirzada, and what his case reveals about escalating enforcement and immigration policy shifts under the second Trump administration. Our Episode Guests:…

    1h 4m

  2. 06/07/2025

    Episode 23 – The Winding Road

    In this episode of The Ask, several extraordinary guests join us for a discussion about the long, winding road ahead for America and the rest of the world in the wake of Donald J. Trump’s election to a second term as President of the United States of America. For this episode, we have been undeservedly…

    59 min

  3. 03/10/2024

    Episode 22 – Halcyon with Elliot Ackerman

    In this episode of The Ask, award-winning author Elliot Ackerman discusses his work on Halycon. From pivotal elections to crumbling marriages, from the Civil War to the Battle of Saipan, Halcyon is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual…

    50 min

  4. 01/31/2024

    Episode 21 – Into the Storm with Tony O’Brien

    In this episode of The Ask, award-winning photographer Tony O’Brien takes us into the storm of the First Gulf War, from his perspective as a foreign correspondent for LIFE magazine. Our Episode Guest: Over the course of his decorated career as a photographer, Tony O’Brien has documented the lives of drug addicts on the streets…

    1h 7m

  5. 11/27/2022

    Episode 20 – Divided We Fall: America’s Session Threat And How To Restore Our Nation

    In this episode of The Ask, award-winning author David French discusses his work on Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation About the book: Our Episode Guest: A graduate of Harvard Law School and a constitutional lawyer long devoted to taking on religious liberty cases, David French has long been a leading conservative…

    1h 8m

  6. 08/10/2022

    Episode 19 – The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan

    In this episode of The Ask, award-winning author Elliot Ackerman discusses his work on The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan About the book: The Fifth Act is an astonishing human document that brings the weight of twenty years of war to bear on a single week, the week the war ended. Using the dramatic rescue efforts…

    55 min

  7. 07/20/2022

    Episode 18 – Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

    In this episode of The Ask award-winning author and US Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay discusses his work on Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War About the book: From the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in…

    57 min

  8. 04/28/2022

    Episode 17 – The Line

    In this episode of The Ask Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Doug Shultz discusses his work on THE LINE. About the film: U.S. Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher stood accused by his own platoon in the biggest war crimes trial in a generation. Now a new, four-part docuseries will examine the case and the blurred line…

    1h 11m
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The Ask is a podcast hosted by Waise Azimi and Cliff W. Gilmore that humbly explores life, the universe and everything in between. A new episode is recorded every month.

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  • Creator
    Waise Azimi, Cliff W. Gilmore
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    The Ask