A stick of butter, a bag of peanuts and a dollar in David Pakman's 'Check this out'

The title gives nothing away, so the comments explain it: viewers say the man in the clip is Dr. Oz, pricing groceries one item at a time.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 167,926 views a day, 5.2 times a normal first day on this channel (32,129).

Check this out #shorts

Political commentary channels around David Pakman's size are having a slow stretch, from Megyn Kelly to More Perfect Union and The Rubin Report, and Pakman's own channel is running at about half its usual daily pace. One small upload has gone the other way.

"Check this out #shorts" is about as vague as a title gets, but its comment section is not vague at all. Viewers name the speaker as Dr. Oz, and they keep returning to one argument from the clip: that a stick of butter or a bag of peanuts costs about a dollar. Much of the talk is a reply to that price. Commenters ask who shops for one stick and one bag at a time. Others point out that butter is sold by the box, not the stick, and some trade their own versions of the joke about what else might be priced one piece at a time. Several note that the interviewer in the clip pushes back on the claim.

The Short passed 122,000 views in its first 13 hours, a fast start for one of Pakman's quick clips. It went up alongside his usual run of longer segments on Trump's speeches and the coming midterms, and it has nearly kept pace with the biggest of them, "Trump's brain FALLS OUT during live speech," which had a head start.

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The numbers

A quick clip with no clue in its title, running well ahead of the channel's usual first day for a Short.

the video's first day

usual first day here

32,129

this video

167,926

subscribers

3,670,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,868,915,226

views per day

1,062,758

typical day: 2,143,180

the video

views

122,461

likes

1,309

comments

331

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Megyn Kelly

4,160,000

More Perfect Union

4,040,000

The Officer Tatum

3,850,000

David Pakman

3,670,000

Matt Walsh

3,460,000

The Rubin Report

3,230,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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