Video: Herschel Walker, Ukraine, SCOTUS, and Home Runs

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The Dispatch Live crew discusses how allegations that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion of a past girlfriend will affect the Georgia Senate race … if it even affects it at all. Then, the panel discusses just how dangerous the situation in Ukraine is as Vladimir Putin threatens nuclear war: Would the U.S. respond if Putin ever actually used tactical nukes? What would that mean for the world? And finally, a brief overview of the new Supreme Court term and a quick debate on whether or not Yankees’ slugger Aaron Judge is the true home run king after hitting his record-setting 62nd home run of the season. 

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  1. Bryan D

    Great discussion! The Ukraine segment was very insightful. I really enjoy Adam's perspective when he joins in...but y'all need to get him some audio equipment.

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    Ben Connelly

    This was good. All four did a fine job, including the younger reporters. I could do without the disparaging attitude towards Andrew and Declan that some other commenters seem to have.

    As far as the home run record goes, of course Judge’s record is the true one. I’m all for creating a separate league for people who want to use PEDs. But in any sport, if you break the rules that exist at the time you are playing, you are a cheater. It doesn’t matter whether you think the rules should change. There should be zero tolerance for cheating, because we need to incentivize following the rules. Barry Bonds chose to cheat and he reaps the consequences.

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  3. Pohl

    Pretty good one for the Ukraine portion. I like these better when no more than one cub reporter is present, though. There are lots of competing pods and videos out there.

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      Carson J.

      I'd prefer if we could have at least two of the fab four for these, but David is my favorite so I'll take it.

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        Aylene Wright

        Also, better matching of junior staff to the main topic might be a good idea. David wound up semi apologizing to Andrew at the end, because he really had nothing to say for most of the Russia/ Ukraine discussion, because he's not assigned to the international beat, he focuses on domestic politics. When he did speak, he was obviously uncomfortable addressing the topic. I think Charlotte Lawson actually would have been a better fit.

        Now as it turned out Andrew did wind up talking about his reporting on Walker in the first half. But per the TD page promoting the session, he was booked *before* all the news about Walker broke. The original domestic topic they were supposed to talk about was Hurricane Ian and maybe how it affects Desantis politically. I assume Andrew would have provided brilliant insights on that too. But he still would have been sidelined during the second half.

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      Aylene Wright

      Ok but technically it was one Cub reporter and one Cardinal reporter. As the latter's homage to Pujols made clear. 😉

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