Shows and boards are public.
The nature of every show and of most posts that are industry-related on boards is to show off your knowledge/connections/ressources/philosophy/ethics/etc in order to entice others to do business with you while divulging as little information as possible in order to keep your competitive advantage.
Telling all of the secrets is not good. Same principle applies to boards as to free content: never give them the *real* money shot/tip.
Obviously, many people in the industry never figured that out, expecially in the TGP world, and it produced the expected results...
The ones who did not figure it out are interesting to hear because from time to time, even if they're newbies, they'll handle you an uncut diamond.
The old hands at the business are complete bore to listen to because they'll never give you any operational information. All bla bla, very little useful info.
With the exception of knowledge/issues that profits the whole of the industry ( exemple: how to deal with 2257) because ignoring it does a bad name to the industry, there is nothing much of interest.
Then, there's the entertainment value, if you like that kind of entertainment, that is.
I listen to a few shows, some of them are fun.
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