Tom Ellsworth
Tom Ellsworth is a business commentator and regular PBD Podcast co-host.
Circuit updated August 6, 2026
- Adam Sosnick says a couple is suing a surrogate for $600,000 because their son with a cleft lip is alive
“when you turn having a child into buying a coach purse that oh this one's got a can I get a discount? This one's got a little defect on it.” 5:57
- Vincent Oshana says Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has no Greek actors in major roles
“If you wanted a biopic of the of of basically exactly what Homer was talking about, wait for HBO to do like 20 episodes and do a historical biopic.” 10:16
- Tom Ellsworth says IBM has 135,000 employees in India and only 40,000 in the U.S.
“Its own people are referring to it as Indian business machines rather than International Business Machines.” 3:48
- Patrick Bet-David says the Pepsi jet lawsuit guy finally got 7 million Frontier miles
“marketing has consequences”
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“If you wanted a biopic of the of of basically exactly what Homer was talking about, wait for HBO to do like 20 episodes and do a historical biopic.”
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“I love it when it snaps back. But you know what I love even more is when companies do something for good, even if they're doing it for funny.”
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“when you turn having a child into buying a coach purse that oh this one's got a can I get a discount? This one's got a little defect on it.”
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“Its own people are referring to it as Indian business machines rather than International Business Machines.”
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“IBM USA only has 40,000 employees. It's been shifting. It's been shifting on H-1Bs.”
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“there's more to it than just this earnings report. IBM has got some issues inside”
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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.
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.
Tom Ellsworth says IBM has 135,000 employees in India and only 40,000 in the U.S.
The PBD panel treated IBM’s brutal earnings reaction less like a bad quarter and more like a warning light for a company that may have outsourced its identity.
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.