A son's view of his father, age by age, in Patrick Bet-David's newest short
The comment section of "How a Son Sees His Father at Every Age" turned into a long thread of viewers writing about their own dads, many of them gone.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 326,047 views a day, 23 times a normal first day on this channel (13,984).
How a Son Sees His Father at Every Age
Patrick Bet-David built his show on business, politics and the news of the day. His newest hit is about none of those.
"How a Son Sees His Father at Every Age" passed 240,000 views in its first thirteen hours, on a channel where a short usually ends its whole first day somewhere near 14,000. The title promises a walk through the stages of a son's life. The description does not explain much. It asks viewers to text their fathers and say thank you while they still can. Episode #867 closed on a similar call-your-dad note, as we reported here. Maybe the short grew from the same thought?
The comments say more than the views. More than 500 arrived in those thirteen hours, where a usual short collects about two dozen in a full day. Most are personal. People write about the age they were when their father died: 12, 27, 30. One parent shares the last ordinary phone call with a son. Others say they are now the father in the teenage stage and finally see it from the other side. A well-liked comment names Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" as the song that already told this story.
The same day brought a very different conversation. Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher, talked about why he quit and why he suspects Chinese spies inside American AI labs. That interview also opened far ahead of the channel's usual start, while the shorter clips cut from it drew smaller audiences.
Bet-David, who describes himself as the father of two boys and two girls, spent part of that day on the question of who will control AI. The piece about fathers drew the bigger crowd.
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What viewers say
If you get to go through all these stages with your dad, you are lucky ;(
@richardpaul7640See it on YouTubeThe song "Cat's in the Cradle" describes this so well.
@sandrasmith9546See it on YouTubeThis is so true. I would say this is the same way I as a daughter saw my dad when he was alive but with more emotion and less friction in my teen years.
@Saffeya_hSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- PBD Podcast
- Subscribers
- 2,970,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,016,529
- Channel views, pace per day
- 570,044 (on a normal day: 284,696)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 241,421 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 326,047
The numbers
For a short on this channel, a start like this is far outside the routine, and the comments climbed even faster than the views.
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Patrick Bet-David was born in which country before his family left in the 1980s?
Bet-David was born in Tehran and left Iran with his family during the Iran-Iraq War, later growing up in the United States.
