I didn't think his comments about Josh were particularly bad, simply that he has a hard time brushing off mistakes. Dave seemed to be trying to get him to say something negative about Josh's work ethic (which Dave has made comments about in the past, and I don't know enough about Josh personally to know if those criticisms are valid or not.) But Alex didn't take the bait and instead commented on how he has seen Josh handle mistakes. It didn't seem especially negative to me. He also expressed his opinion that hypothetical clean-Jason-with-a-quad beats clean-Josh-with-a-quad which I didn't think was any worse than his observation that a clean Hanyu beats clean Javier. And I obviouslyJosh but didn't think any of his comments about him were especially nasty.
On the other hand, he made a bit of a snide comment about seeing a photo of Gracie with a celebrity and wondering if she's actually training. In addition, the joke he made about Gracie training 3A and/or 4S and how she must have a real sense of humor about it wasn't kind, especially when he so diplomatic about explaining why he doesn't think Ashley will ever get a 3A.
Overall though it was a fun interview and I really enjoyed it and learned from it.
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And actually, the Joshua Farris comments only came AFTER Dave was basically trying to challenge Alex's assertions about Jason's skating/skill, etc. Alex did not volunteer his opinion on Josh, Dave asked him. He did say that he felt Josh had a mature style of skating, so there's a compliment.
Back to Gracie -- I think it would have been great to bring Alex to talk about the men and another coach to talk about the ladies. Their break-up (lack of a better term) is not even two years, so the bitterness and/or unresolved issues are still probably there.
Actually maybe Tammy Gamill might have been interesting -- Karen Chen is one of her students, but she isn't coaching any of the ladies who were at WTT. Or Angela Nikolov, who is a coach and obviously a former Nationals medalist.
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