Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Okay, here we are in overtime with a staff writer at the Atlantic, an author of Summer of our Discontents,

Sir Thomas Patterson Williams, and also another at log of County Highway Newsmaker, Walter Kern,

and she's a podcast host and author of How to Lose Her Mother, Molly Jungfast. Okay, here are the questions from the people. This is the people's choice. What does the panel think about China hosting the world's first humanoid robot games? Is this the future of sports? Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, this... Why would this be interesting to watch?

I saw the picture of it.

It's a robot.

I had this toy when I was a kid.

Remember rock'em, what was it?

Rock'em, rock, sock, him robot.

Something like that.

It'd suck then.

I think it'll suck now, but maybe you have a different take.

Thomas is a sports fan.

What do you think, man?

I mean, I don't watch Google Alpha, whatever, play stockfish in chess,

and I don't want to watch robots compete in sports.

You know, they might even surpass us.

But what's interesting is the human fallibility, right, and the quest for excellence.

Are you a sports fan?

I'm a big sports fan. How are you are? Oh, yeah, yeah. Like what sports? Well, I mean, in adulthood, the sport that I love that I can't play myself as tennis. So I'm a Nidal guy. Die-hard Nidal fan, and it killed me when Jokovic passed him. Okay. No, I mean, I do like tennis.

I don't watch it that much, but... when Jokovic passed him. Okay.

No, I mean, I do like tennis.

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