Night Owls
Hosted by Joe Klein and John Ellis and Joe and John · John Ellis and Joe Klein
4.6from 35 ratings
- 77
- Episodes
- 74
- Transcribed
- 35
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About Night Owls
Joe Klein and John Ellis on what's happening and what happens next. Joe Klein is the author of seven books and "Sanity Clause," a Substack newsletter. John Ellis is the founder and editor of two Substack newsletters — News Items and Political News Items. The two friends have covered American politics for a combined 95 years.
- Publisher
- John Ellis and Joe Klein
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 3 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
74 of 77 episodes have a transcript.
3 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Night Owls Episode 78 (With Rye Barcott)
1 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Night Owls Episode 77 (With Nicholas Eberstadt)
11 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Night Owls Episode 76 (With Michael Fenzel)
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Night Owls Episode 78 (With Rye Barcott)
Published 3 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Dan was wounded grievously in, in, uh, Afghanistan lost his eye in combat. And then he did this amazing orientation to the new members of Congress at the Kennedy School about two years ago. And this is where all the freshmen members come. And he was the keynote speaker there to give some advice about what it was like to be in Congress for the last eight years. And one of the things that he said became the title of the chapter, which is, do you want to be someone or do you want to do something? And what he was pointing to was a tension of that exists, particularly in office right now, around the showmanship versus the substance. […]
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- Rye Barcott
- HR McMaster
- Marc Dunkelman
- Wolfgang Munchau
- Larry Summers
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- 4.6 / 5
- 35 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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