kajet wrote:
lastlap wrote:
Well as has been repeated many times as a defense of Messick in this thread his only role is to maximise profits so no, Gordon Gecko isn't really a stretch is it? Greed is good...?For the record: Messick may be a greedy capitalist, in addition to having an allergy to transparency and openness, but Gekko was a fraudster.
Anyway - if you watch the GTN show and not listen to the podcast, you might be inclined to believe that Jack asked a whole lot of reasonable questions and Messick did not answer a single one, then walked out.
But neither is really the case. Jack asked two questions (good questions, to be sure) 50 times each and Messick addressed them both, though the answers may not have been entirely complete (first issue) or direct (second issue). There are so many things he did not ask, for example, why "giving women their day" was so essential that Ironman had to shaft hundreds of men who had already booked non-refundable flights to and accommodation in Kona for 2023. Or, did Ironman have formal, written assurance of a two-day race before it started selling slots for Kona 2023 (I bet not), and would it be reasonable to expect that it would (I have no idea). Jack ran out of time because he was not in control of his own word salad, let alone Messick's.
Yeah I agree with you Jack could have been more concise during the interview with his questions and just let Messick speak and bury himself with his responses. Instead Jack repeatedly asked the same question in a more and more hostile way, in which he just ended up getting in his own way and ruining is own cause of exposing Ironman's deceit and dishonesty with everyone. I would like to see these tough questions being asked by someone who allows Messick to respond and calmly asks pertinent follow up questions like you posted (i.e. did they have a written contract with Hawaii before they started offering people slots and having them pay to register, book travel). Had he asked that he would have done a much better job exposing Ironman's issues.
Jack speaks way too much as a podcast host as it is. His Brownlee interview could have been half the time, or more informative from Brownlee talking more, but instead Jack takes 5 minutes of babbling just to ask one simple questions.