Come on man, when he says:
"In fact, I've completed thousands of flights under Part 121 without a dispatcher being involved in any capacity whatsoever." you don't think that shouldn't require a little ball-busting? Because unless he has personally crunched the numbers on the Part 121 minimum fuel requirements for the flights he's operated, he has in fact had a dispatcher involved in one capacity or another.
And I'm not putting words in his mouth. He said, and I quote "I've completed thousands of flights under Part 121 without a dispatcher being involved in any capacity whatsoever. So yes, he is saying that in his opinion, they are not needed at all due to the thousands of flights he's completed without them being involved in any capacity whatsoever.
TonyC is a man who has demonstrated his ability to dissect and interpret complex paragraphs and sentences. So lets just wait and see how the aviation expert describes how he was able to accomplish all of the requirements of piecing together thousands of legal, Part 121 flight releases without a dispatcher being involved.
In addition to that, I'm curious how he can explain signing the flight releases he computed that requires both captain and dispatchers signatures, without a dispatchers signature. The inspector with the badge will be wondering how TonyC interpreted that controlling regulation when he's ramp checked in ABQ.
And no FDXLAG, dispatchers don't use E6B's. But as Tony already knows, the FAA requires complex flight planning systems with redundent servers in case of a computer outage. Flight releases can be done manually, but only domestic flights and they are very time consuming, unless you're TonyC.
I probably should have put a lot more smiles in there since you failed to see my sarcasm.