Guest

Patrick Bet-David

Patrick Bet-David is an entrepreneur and the host of the PBD Podcast.

Circuit updated September 29, 2026

Every appearance, the moment worth your time
  1. Jul 1
    Patrick Bet-David says a $300,000 AI UBI would make most people miserable

    “AI has done such a good job that financially everybody's taken care of and you just go live your life. Do you think people would be happier or no?” 15:54

  2. Jun 30
    Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk made a friend's $1 million SpaceX investment worth $100 billion

    “There is positive forces that pull us up, that we do better things, and there's negative forces magnets that pull us down.” 0:18

  3. Sep 21
    Patrick Bet-David says robots will make sports teams more valuable because fans will pay more to watch humans

    “The losing of control because you know, you know why I think sports teams valuation is just going to go higher and higher and higher and even more exponentially.” 6:51

  4. Sep 7
    Adam Sosnick says the Lindsay Clancy case is the new prenup

    “بطريقة غريبة، قضية ليندسي كلانسي هي النسخة المحدثة من اتفاق ما قبل الزواج.”

  5. Jun 25
    Patrick Bet-David says Tucker Carlson is going to run for president after rejecting the Republican Party

    “I said Tucker's going to run for president since 2022 and I said he's going to want to get into it.” 11:04

  6. Jun 24
    Patrick Bet-David says Lionel Messi’s perfection is why he’ll never be loved like Diego Maradona

    “If Portugal wins the World Cup, you know what debate is coming back? Ronaldo versus Messi. And it'll be so heated.” 0:15

  7. Jun 23
    Patrick Bet-David says your micromanaging boss may be right not to trust you

    “There are a lot of people that I don't micromanage. You know why? Because I trust them.” 2:29

  8. Jun 22
    Patrick Bet-David says foreign leaders snubbed JD Vance because they think Marco Rubio will be president next

    “100% of what I'm saying to you right now, speculation.” 1:13

  9. Jun 22
    Patrick Bet-David says the UK has had seven prime ministers in 10 years

    “Seventh prime minister UK has had in the last 10 years.” 0:03

  10. Jun 22
    Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk can identify who is paying for fake bot attacks on X

    “Imagine if you could run a research to know who is attacking you with fake bots and who is paying for it. How valuable would that be?” 0:00

  11. Jul 16
    Patrick Bet-David says OpenAI is losing the propaganda war and no major tech company is defending Sam Altman

    “What major mainstream critic is sitting out there and saying, 'No, Sam Alman's a good guy. They're doing the right thing.' Who's who's on his side?” 0:00

  12. Jul 16
    Adam Sosnick says a couple is suing a surrogate for $600,000 because their son with a cleft lip is alive

    “Simplest way to do it. Don't allow it. Simplest way to do it is don't allow it.”

  13. Jun 17
    Patrick Bet-David says the alleged White House UFC terror plot was not even a top 10 media story

    “Isn't that crazy that this is not even a top 10 story?” 1:40

  14. Jul 20
    Vincent Oshana says Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has no Greek actors in major roles

    “So, only one Greek actor appears to be in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.” 10:38

  15. Jul 16
    Patrick Bet-David says Amy Coney Barrett should resign if threats made her vote less conservative

    “if this job comes with threats, this job is risky, this job has a lot of pressure, this job isn't for everybody, but if you're scared for your life, then quit.” 6:02

  16. Jul 6
    Patrick Bet-David says Iranian mourners held Kill Trump banners while the U.S. was negotiating with Iran

    “Why is the biggest bastard in the world still alive?” 0:00

  17. Jul 8
    Patrick Bet-David says the Pepsi jet lawsuit guy finally got 7 million Frontier miles

    “For a guy to be this resourceful, I hope this guy became like super successful.” 3:36

Notable quotes
All coverage
Patrick Bet-David says a $300,000 AI UBI would make most people miserable
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says a $300,000 AI UBI would make most people miserable

A Ford AI quality-control story turned into Bet-David’s bigger anti-utopia: money without resistance is not freedom, it’s spiritual mush.

Sep 29, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk made a friend's $1 million SpaceX investment worth $100 billion
Money

Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk made a friend's $1 million SpaceX investment worth $100 billion

Bet-David's magnet stunt is really a sermon about proximity, but the SpaceX example is the number that makes you stop and check the math.

Sep 23, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says robots will make sports teams more valuable because fans will pay more to watch humans
Money

Patrick Bet-David says robots will make sports teams more valuable because fans will pay more to watch humans

The PBD panel was reacting to Elon Musk’s sci-fi future reel, but the sharpest business take was about why the robot age may be great for the Cowboys, Lakers, and UFC.

Sep 22, 2026
Adam Sosnick says the Lindsay Clancy case is the new prenup
Crime

Adam Sosnick says the Lindsay Clancy case is the new prenup

The PBD panel turned the Clancy mistrial into a brutal dating question, and the answer they want is not subtle.

Sep 15, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says Tucker Carlson is going to run for president after rejecting the Republican Party
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says Tucker Carlson is going to run for president after rejecting the Republican Party

PBD reads Carlson's Republican breakup less as a purity stand than a 2028 audition, and his own panel doesn't buy the martyr act.

Sep 10, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says Lionel Messi’s perfection is why he’ll never be loved like Diego Maradona
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says Lionel Messi’s perfection is why he’ll never be loved like Diego Maradona

The PBD argument is not that Messi lacks greatness, it is that greatness is a colder currency than myth.

Sep 8, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says your micromanaging boss may be right not to trust you
Money

Patrick Bet-David says your micromanaging boss may be right not to trust you

The PBD Podcast host argues that bad bosses are real, but the employee who runs from every hard manager may be the actual workplace problem.

Aug 28, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says foreign leaders snubbed JD Vance because they think Marco Rubio will be president next
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says foreign leaders snubbed JD Vance because they think Marco Rubio will be president next

The PBD Podcast turned a few awkward diplomatic clips into a 2028 power read, and the read says JD Vance has a respect problem.

Aug 22, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says the UK has had seven prime ministers in 10 years
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says the UK has had seven prime ministers in 10 years

The PBD Podcast framed a tearful Labour resignation as proof that Britain has turned Downing Street into a revolving door, but the number depends on counting the successor too.

Aug 21, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk can identify who is paying for fake bot attacks on X
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk can identify who is paying for fake bot attacks on X

The PBD Podcast host makes a very searchable claim about Musk, bots, and platform power, but the leap from suspicious traffic to a clean money trail is doing a lot.

Aug 19, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says OpenAI is losing the propaganda war and no major tech company is defending Sam Altman
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says OpenAI is losing the propaganda war and no major tech company is defending Sam Altman

The PBD panel framed Sam Altman’s problem less as an AI fight than a public legitimacy crisis.

Aug 8, 2026
Adam Sosnick says a couple is suing a surrogate for $600,000 because their son with a cleft lip is alive
Culture

Adam Sosnick says a couple is suing a surrogate for $600,000 because their son with a cleft lip is alive

The PBD panel framed an Ontario surrogacy lawsuit as the nightmare version of designer-baby logic, but the legal story is messier than the moral one.

Aug 6, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says the alleged White House UFC terror plot was not even a top 10 media story
Crime

Patrick Bet-David says the alleged White House UFC terror plot was not even a top 10 media story

The PBD Podcast framed the alleged FBI-disrupted attack as a media scandal, then accidentally made its own argument wobble by racing through it in about three minutes.

Aug 5, 2026
Vincent Oshana says Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has no Greek actors in major roles
Culture

Vincent Oshana says Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has no Greek actors in major roles

The PBD Podcast liked Nolan's Homer epic, but Oshana couldn't get past the weirdest casting detail: a Greek story with almost no Greek presence.

Jul 27, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says Amy Coney Barrett should resign if threats made her vote less conservative
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says Amy Coney Barrett should resign if threats made her vote less conservative

The PBD Podcast turned Barrett's bulletproof vest story into a much bigger accusation, that fear may be changing Supreme Court votes.

Jul 26, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says Iranian mourners held Kill Trump banners while the U.S. was negotiating with Iran
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says Iranian mourners held Kill Trump banners while the U.S. was negotiating with Iran

The PBD Podcast turns a funeral clip into an argument against negotiating with a regime whose street theater still knows exactly which American buttons to push.

Jul 15, 2026
Patrick Bet-David says the Pepsi jet lawsuit guy finally got 7 million Frontier miles
Culture

Patrick Bet-David says the Pepsi jet lawsuit guy finally got 7 million Frontier miles

Frontier turned John Leonard's impossible Harrier jet prize into a Super Bowl bit, and the PBD crew correctly clocks the real winner, the airline's marketing department.

Jul 9, 2026