125. Should We Replace Umpires With Robots?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 4 December 2022
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| 0:00.0 | We humans seem to like each other, except when we're hating each other. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Antela Duckworth. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Stephen Dubner. |
| 0:10.0 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:12.3 | Today on the show, should we replace human umpires with robots? |
| 0:18.1 | If the purpose here is to get it right, then why on earth would we even want to have |
| 0:24.0 | the humans around for that? |
| 0:25.8 | Stephen, I have a question for you that comes from watching my husband. |
| 0:34.1 | Are you ready for this one? |
| 0:36.1 | I'm not sure, Nate. |
| 0:37.1 | You can't do that. |
| 0:38.1 | First of all, he's fully clothed in these observations and he's seated in our living |
| 0:43.7 | room and screaming. |
| 0:46.7 | So now he's actually probably standing up, yelling at the television during the World |
| 0:51.9 | Series, which is now in the rearview mirror, unfortunately. |
| 0:58.2 | Is this because he's a Philadelphia sports fan because they are the worst, the yelling |
| 1:02.9 | est, the loudest. |
| 1:03.9 | But he doesn't strike me as that. |
| 1:05.5 | I mean, he's a sports fan and he's in Philly and he's rooting for Philadelphia teams. |
| 1:09.5 | We do have a reputation. |
| 1:10.8 | Is that why he's yelling though? |
| 1:12.2 | The Philly's did lose the World Series this year. |
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