Dispatch Live for November 22

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To prep for the inevitable political conversations that come with getting together with family for Thanksgiving, join David, Kevin, Declan, and Esther to talk about the special counsel appointed for investigations into former President Trump, the human rights scandals in Qatar and the World Cup, RSV, and more in this week’s Dispatch Live.  As always, there will be plenty of time for questions from members. Happy Thanksgiving! 

Tune in on November 22 at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube. Come with your questions, grab a drink (or a few), and settle in for a meaningful conversation. 

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    Ben Connelly

    “I don’t know. It’s two years away,” says Esther about 2024.

    That was the correct answer.

    “Who knew there was that much to know about concrete?” asks David.

    David, you have no idea. Take pretty much the most basic engineering concept you can think of… and there’s probably a massive amount of information involved. Anything more complex than water flowing in a pipe (which is way more complex than concrete) is like graduate school level.

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    Nikkimemmott

    Thinking about David’s “Hold me back” analogy…. I see both Trump and DeSantis are “Hold me back” candidates, actually. But I think many Trump supporters either thought he was a real fighter, or knew he was more “hold me back” but were fine with the show because he was winning. DeSantis has clearly been a “hold me back” candidate all along- if he’s a fighter at all - but he is actually passing stuff and dealing with hurricanes. It was Kevin I think who brought up WWE, and I think that’s pretty apt regarding Trump at least - people are bored of the character and ready for competence with a little red meat thrown in. Or maybe Trump is the drunk, catty girl on The Bachelor - fun to be caught up in the drama for a little bit, and she’s hot so she keeps getting roses a few episodes too long, and by the time she gets booted you are glad to see her go.

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    Bean

    If everyone on the call is impressed by the thickness of that textbook, then they haven't spent enough time around engineers. I had lots of textbooks that were that thick. And that expensive. (Not that one. My degree is Aerospace, not Civil.)

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      Ben Connelly

      Haha yeah! I also majored in Aero. $165 or whatever was probably average as textbooks went and certainly wasn’t the most expensive book.

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    Rachelzastrow

    I don't think I'll be able to listen live, but I have a question and a comment for Steve!

    Comment: everyone knows you think of the thing you should have said after you walk away! We meet at the Chicago meet up and I mentioned my passionate hatred of changing clocks as though humans can somehow alter reality, i.e. the number of hours of sunlight by just pretending the time is different. I FINALLY joined the dispatch because I was outraged by Steve's indifference. I was not successful in convincing Steve at the meet up, but I forgot to mention that this is perhaps the ONLY bipartisan issue in the US! Even though that's usually a reliable predictor that a given idea is terrible, in this case we're just giving up on a stupid thing we've been doing for a couple hundred years. Win all around!!!!!

    Question: we're planning to go to Spain for spring break and only have time for 2 cities, flying in to Madrid. Second city: Seville, Barcelona, or something that's not on my radar? 7 days total, probably splitting time roughly equally.

    Bonus question: a wine we should not miss?

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