A victim's son calls Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, and PBD Podcast #865 opens nineteen times past usual
Patrick Bet-David's Thursday interview with the former mob underboss passed 175,000 views in thirteen hours, on a channel where a new upload usually finds about 12,000 in its first day.
PBD PodcastStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 238,519 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (12,340).
“Why Did You Kill My Father?” — Ex-Mafia Underboss Reveals the Call | PBD Podcast #865
Patrick Bet-David sat down with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano for episode #865, and the moment the title is built around comes partway through: a phone call from the son of a man Gravano is linked to, asking why his father was killed.
The interview took off fast. Thirteen hours after it went up, it had more than 175,000 views. That is a pace of roughly nineteen times a usual first day for the channel. It is also the third episode in a row to start well ahead of the norm, after the Trump and Xi show and the Disney interview earlier in the week.
The description frames the conversation as a reckoning with the life Gravano built and the one he left behind. The chapters show how much ground it covers. He answers John Gotti Jr.'s version of mob history and is asked whether he would ever sit down with him. He goes back over why he cooperated with the government and is asked about his past with James Comey. He talks about raising children while he was an underboss, and the episode ends with why he chose to be baptized. A segment on Zohran Mamdani and a Little Italy controversy also has its own chapter.
The comment section has filled at the same speed as the views. Much of it is about faith and forgiveness, with viewers weighing whether a man with his past can be redeemed. Some people wrote about their own time served. Others point out that Gravano said again and again that he would not discuss Comey, and the questions kept coming. One line has become a favorite: while talking about the reviews of the Gotti film, he got Rotten Tomatoes' name wrong.
The channel followed up the same day with a short clip of Gravano explaining what his baptism means to him.
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- Channel
- PBD Podcast
- Subscribers
- 2,970,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 329,147 (on a normal day: 265,524)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 176,489 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 238,519
The numbers
The figures below show how far this interview ran ahead of a usual first day for Patrick Bet-David's show.
