Nike in freefall, then a call-your-dad ending on PBD Podcast #867
The Monday Home Team episode ran through Mbappé, OpenAI and a G7 oil release, but viewers are writing about the closing talk on fathers.
PBD PodcastStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 421,070 views a day, 32 times a normal first day on this channel (13,129).
Nike in Freefall, OpenAI Fires Spies, & G7 Dumps 100M Barrels | PBD #867
A new full episode of PBD Podcast usually ends its first day around 13,000 views. Episode #867 passed 290,000 in about twelve hours, and its comment section had already outrun a typical full first day.
The title promises a news rundown, and the chapters deliver one. Kylian Mbappé leaves Nike for On Running. OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers, which the title calls firing "spies." Mortgage rates reach a three-year high. The G7 releases 100 million barrels of emergency oil, framed in the episode as Trump pushing Europe to act. It went up on a Monday, so this is Patrick Bet-David and the Home Team in the Vault at Valuetainment's Fort Lauderdale studio, not a sit-down with a single guest.
The part people write about comes at the end. After a chapter on Denzel Washington's warning about success and one on a Tom Cruise film the episode says cost far more than it earned, the talk turns to fathers. Co-hosts Tom Ellsworth and Vincent Oshana speak about their own dads, and Bet-David's message is a simple one: call yours. Under the video, viewers describe tearing up on the drive to work and share the lessons their fathers left them. Several say they reached out to a father they had not spoken to in months. A few also notice that Tom wore a suit for the show.
Nike ran through the rest of the channel's day as well. Three shorter Home Team cuts about the brand went up alongside the episode, covering Mbappé, Thierry Henry's role at On and the turnaround under chief executive Elliott Hill. Each is still in the low tens of thousands, far behind the full episode with its unexpected ending.
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- Channel
- PBD Podcast
- Subscribers
- 2,970,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,815,596
- Channel views, pace per day
- 114,252 (on a normal day: 303,634)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 294,916 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 421,070
The numbers
Half a day in, the episode was already far beyond what a full episode of this show usually draws on its first day.
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Denzel Washington, whose advice on success comes up in the episode, won the Academy Award for Best Actor for which film?
Washington won Best Actor for playing the corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day (2001); he was nominated but did not win for the other three.
