About this podcast
“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretched from covering the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice a month after his 21st birthday, to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-game show in a span of just twelve days, to rejoining ESPN as a “rookie” baseball play-by-play man at the age of 59.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 740 episodes
- DO YOU REALLY THINK TRUMP ISN'T IN THE JENSEN HUANG SPY SCANDAL? - 11.12.26 · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 23COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 23 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Why ON EARTH would anybody look at this Jensen Huang Chinese Industrial Spy Scandal and not think…
- STEPHEN MILLER'S APPOINTMENT IS TRUMP'S DECLARATION OF WAR ON AMERICA - 11.9.26 · 1 h 10 min · Season 5 Episode 22COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 22 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Do not deceive yourself. Trump's appointment of Stephen Miller is not some kind of desperation…
- BULLETIN: TRUMP MAKES STEPHEN MILLER CHIEF OF STAFF - 11.6.26 · 7 min · Season 5 Episode 21BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 21 Trump's plan to "work with" Democrats after they eviscerated him in the midterms? Fire White House Chief of Staff…
- AS VANCE ATTACKS HIM, TRUMP TURNS RADIOACTIVE - 11.5.26 · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 20COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 21 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): As Vance attacks him, it's finally true: Trump is now radioactive - even inside the GOP. Jayvee's…
- BULLETIN: DEMOCRATS SWEEP HOUSE, SENATE, CRUSH TRUMP - 11.4.26 · 22 min · Season 5 Episode 20BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 20 Blue Wave? Insufficient. Blue Tsunami? Not good enough. To paraphrase "Arrested Development": Trump just blue…
- WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER THE MIDTERMS? - 11.2.26 · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 19COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 19 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): What Fresh Hell will the world look like after the midterms? Certainties: it will look like a…
- HOUSE DEMOCRATS RELEASE NEW TRUMP-EPSTEIN RAPE FILES - 10.29.26 · 60 min · Season 5 Episode 18COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 18 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): "...the actual evidence we have seen...indicates that Trump abused, assaulted, and even raped…
- TRUMP LAUNCHES HIS PLOT TO STEAL THE MID-TERMS - 10.26.26 · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 17COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 17 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Deeply delusional, convinced his approval is "really" at 60% but The New York Times stole it from…
- COULDN'T TRUMP'S DOCTORS INSTITUTIONALIZE HIM? - 10.22.26 · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 16COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 16 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Trump's doctors are not asking him to tell the difference between a snake and a giraffe because he…
- TRUMP PROVES IT AGAIN: HE IS OWNED BY RUSSIA - 10.19.26 · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 15COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 15 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT) Trump has proved it again and Trump has proved it anew. He is owned by Russia. Only, this time…
- BULLETIN: TRUMP FIRES PRESS SECRETARY AT HALF A SCARAMUCCI - 10.16.26 · 8 min · Season 5 Episode 14COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 14 Bulletin - Trump confirms press secretary Katie Zacharia (in Monday, out before close of business Friday) is out as Press…
- TRUMP IS INSANE: NOW HE'S POSTING SNUFF FILMS - 10.15.26 · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 13COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 13 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): The President is insane. I know you know this – we all know this. But – days after a disturbed man…
- ONE THIRD OF TRUMP '24 VOTERS ABANDON HIM AS MIDTERMS LOOM -10.12.26 · 1 h 7 min · Season 5 Episode 12COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 12 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): 31% of those who voted for Trump just 707 days ago now DISAPPROVE of his presidency. His approval…
- TRUMP’S “LET THEM TAKE OUT L.A.” IS TREASON. IMPEACH HIM FOR IT - 10.8.26 · 1 h 12 min · Season 5 Episode 11COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN – SEASON 5 EPISODE 11 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): This is not complicated. Trump: ”They could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let…
- TRUMP'S NEW BRIBE LIE: "THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL!" - 10.5.26 · 1 h 16 min · Season 5 Episode 10COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 10 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Even Trump sees the wave of Blue water forming on the horizon, now less than a month out. It's so…
- TRUMP WROTE ME A FAN LETTER - 9.28.26 · 1 h 14 min · Season 5 Episode 9COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 9 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): You heard me. Trump wrote me a fan letter - but he hates me. Yet here's something I never write…
- BREAKING: REPUBLICANS THROW TRUMP OVERBOARD - 9.24.26 · 1 h 5 min · Season 5 Episode 8COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 8 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): BREAKING: Republicans finally throw Trump overboard - or maybe it's "Republicans finally throw…
- SHOCKER: WHY CNN + MS SHOULDN'T FIGHT TRUMP WHITE HOUSE BAN - 9.21.26 · 1 h 5 min · Season 5 Episode 7COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 7 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): I confess - I fell for it. Trump banned CNN and MS Now from the White House and I immediately…
- IT'S NOT JUST "A.I. WILL KILL US ALL"...IT'S "TRUMP'S A.I. WILL KILL US ALL" - 9.17.26 · 1 h 10 min · Season 5 Episode 6COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 6 A Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): We're actually under-reacting to the threat from A.I. because it is not just 'A.I. Will Kill Us…
- OH BTW - WE'RE AT WAR WITH CHINA - 9.14.26 · 1 h 2 min · Season 5 Episode 5COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5, EPISODE 5 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT) - Hey, yeah, sorry, we forgot to mench...before U.S. servicemen were killed at a base in Jordan…
- BULLETIN: TRUMP OFFERS EVERY ADULT $5,000 BRIBE IF GOP WINS MIDTERMS - 9.10.26 · 6 min · Season 5 Episode 4COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER 10 2026 An hour into his typical delusional speech at the Republican "Midterm Convention" in Texas last night Trump actually…
- NEWEST EVIDENCE TRUMP IS NOT LOYAL TO THE UNITED STATES - 9.10.26 · 1 h 24 min · Season 5 Episode 3COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT) Am I the only one who noticed this? Is the news media so compliant, so dead, not to recognize Trump…
- BULLETIN: MURDOCH FIRES MARIA BARTIROMO FOR TATTLING TO TRUMP - 9.3.26 · 13 min · Season 5 Episode 2BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN SEPTEMBER 3 2026 Trump's favorite Goebbels impersonator Maria Bartiromo has been fired by Fox - I believe directly by Rupert Murdoch…
- TRUMP BECOMES THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO LOSE A WAR! - 8.6.26 · 1 h 35 min · Season 5 Episode 1SEASON 5 EPISODE 1: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Hey look, we're back. A special edition to test new equipment (both internal and mechanical)…
- THINK BIG, BE BIG, DEMOCRATS! THIS IS NOT THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - 5.11.26 · 2 h 11 min · Season 4 Episode 84SEASON 4 EPISODE 84: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (3:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: Back from a week off just in time to put the podcast on health hiatus...details within today's…
- TRUMP'S PLAN TO STEAL A THIRD TERM: THE 2020 ELECTION OF 2028 - 4.30.26 · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 83SEASON 4 EPISODE 83: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (3:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has given away his labyrinthine plot to stay in office past 2028 in one social media…
- I'M NOT SAYING IT WAS STAGED! YOU'RRRE SAYING IT WAS STAGED - 4.27.26 · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 82SEASON 4 EPISODE 82: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (3:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: Call me a cynic but I am beginning to get a sense that you may have some doubts about this…
- TOP MAGA MAGAZINE HEADLINE: "TRUMP IS LOSING HIS MIND" - 4.23.26 · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 81SEASON 4 EPISODE 81: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (3:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: "Donald Trump Is Losing His Mind." It's the headline on a column in perhaps the most prominent…
- EMPEROR TRUMP HAS NO CLOTHES - AND NO CLUE ON IRAN - 4.20.26 · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 80SEASON 4 EPISODE 80: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (3:00) SPECIAL COMMENT: Nobody is at the wheel of Trump's war in Iran. Is the Strait of Hormuz open or is it closed?…
- TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN WITH DISTURBING MAKE-OUT IMAGE - 4.16.26 · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 79SEASON 4 EPISODE 79: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump doubles down on bashing the Pope and appropriating Jesus. This time it’s not him…
- UNSTABLE TRUMP THREATENS POPE; MELANIA RESTARTS EPSTEIN SCANDAL - 4.13.26 · 1 h 20 min · Season 4 Episode 78SEASON 4 EPISODE 78: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) BREAKING: Trump attacks and threatens Pope Leo in insane online rant, criticizing him for being opposed to…
- TRUMP POSTPONED IRAN TO USE IT LATER, AROUND THE MIDTERMS - 4.9.26 · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 77SEASON 4 EPISODE 77: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Did Trump lose to Iran because the war was escalating too quickly for him? Firstly, great…
- SO...NUCLEAR WAR ON TUESDAY? - 4.6.26 · 1 h 22 min · Season 4 Episode 76SEASON 4 EPISODE 76: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: The OTHER part of Dementia J. Trump’s vile, multi-religion blasphemous Easter post is the…
- BULLETIN: TRUMP FIRES BONDI, REIGNITING EPSTEIN COVER-UP - 4.2.26 · 11 min · Season 4 Episode 75BULLETIN: TRUMP FIRES ATTORNEY GENERAL - SEASON 4 EPISODE 75 Trump, who attacked Iran to distract from his cover-up of and culpability in the Epstein Files disaster (and the…
- TRUMP CALLS AMERICA "STUPID" - 4.2.26 · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 74SEASON 4 EPISODE 74: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: The buffoon who is, for better or worse, the actual president of this country has called the…
- TRUMP DIDN'T KNOW VINCE LOMBARDI. HE KNEW VINCE LOMBARDI JR! - 3.30.26 · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 73SEASON 4 EPISODE 73: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: I have figured out what might be the weirdest most pointless delusion of Trump's second term…
- THEY SHOW TRUMP A SPORTSCENTER VERSION OF HIS IRAN WAR EVERY MORNING - 3.26.26 · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 72SEASON 4 EPISODE 72: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has started World War 3 and has no idea how to stop it - and he doesn't know he's LOSING…
- TRUMP IS GIVING IRAN $14B WITH WHICH IT CAN TRY TO KILL AMERICANS - 3.23.26 · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 71SEASON 4 EPISODE 71: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is paying Iran to try to kill Americans. $14 billion, he’s giving them. Fourteen billion…
- THAT WAS TULSI GABBARD TELLING TRUMP TO GO BLANK HIMSELF - 3.19.26 · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 70SEASON 4 EPISODE 70: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: We are all looking at it backwards: That was Tulsi Gabbard’s passive-aggressive mini-coup…
- TRUMP IS PERSONALLY LOSING THE WAR IN IRAN - 3.16.26 · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 69SEASON 4 EPISODE 69: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is not qualified to continue as commander in chief. Not for another five minutes. He has…
- IS TRUMP IN A FUGUE STATE ABOUT IRAN? - 3.12.26 · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 68SEASON 4 EPISODE 68: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump doesn’t REALIZE that he’s screwed in Iran. He can't decide if he's won and we should…
- TRUMP IS BASICALLY PAYING RUSSIA TO TELL IRAN WHERE OUR TROOPS ARE - 3.9.26 · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 67SEASON 4 EPISODE 67: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is in essence paying to provide Iran with the location of our forces in the Middle East…
- TRUMP'S TROOPS TOLD THE WAR IS MEANT TO 'CAUSE THE APOCALYPSE' - 3.5.26 · 1 h 19 min · Season 4 Episode 66SEASON 4 EPISODE 66: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: It's literally a disaster of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS. Some of Trump’s Troops are being told that…
- WE REJOIN THE TRUMP EPSTEIN SCANDAL, ALREADY IN PROGRESS - 3.2.26 · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 65SEASON 4 EPISODE 65: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: We rejoin your regularly scheduled Trump-Epstein Cover-up Scandal Show, already in progress!…
- BULLETIN - NEO-CON DON BOMBS IRAN - WE ARE AT WAR - 2.28.26 · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 64COUNTDOWN BULLETIN PODCAST FEB. 28 2026: WAR WITH IRAN (2:30) BULLETIN: While you were sleeping Trump illegally and unconstitutionally declared war on Iran, began to bomb its…
- TRUMP'S NEW EPSTEIN COVER-UP; WHY WAS PATEL DRINKING 'ON THE JOB' - 2.26.26 · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 63SEASON 4 EPISODE 63: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENTS: Trump should be in prison JUST for his new role in the new covering-up of the part of the…
- PATEL JOCK SNIFFS AT OLYMPICS ON OUR DIME; TRUMP OWES US $293 BILLION - 2.23.26 · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 62SEASON 4 EPISODE 62: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: In case you somehow missed it, Kash Patel's enablers at the FBI (Fan Boys International) were…
- BULLETIN: PRINCE ANDREW ARRESTED, SoKOREA SENTENCES PRESIDENT - WHILE WE SLEEP - 2.19.26 · 9 min · Season 4 Episode 61SEASON 4 EPISODE 61: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN BULLETIN: On his 66th birthday, British police arrest the former Prince Andrew (now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) on suspicion…
- ARIZONA GOP WANTS TO MAKE ICE MANDATORY AT VOTING BOOTHS - 2.19.26 · 1 h 14 min · Season 4 Episode 60SEASON 4 EPISODE 60: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Arizona Senate Republicans just introduced a measure to make ICE MANDATORY at polling places…
- TRUMP ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS HIS PLOT TO STEAL THE MIDTERMS - 2.16.26 · 1 h 32 min · Season 4 Episode 59SEASON 4 EPISODE 59: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Just because we're paranoid, that doesn't mean Trump isn't out to get us. Trump has just…
