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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO Late Night series, Real Time with Bill Ma.

Okay, here we are in overtime with a staff writer at the Atlantic,

an author of Summer of Our Discontents, for Thomas Patterson Williams,

an author of an editor-in-law of County Highway newspaper, 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, why would this be interesting to watch?

I saw the picture of it.

It's robot.

I had this toy when It's a robot.

I had this toy when I was a kid.

Remember Rock'em, Roe? What was it? Rocksock him robot? Something like that. It sucked then. I think it'll suck now, but maybe you have a different take. Thomas is a sport 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. 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. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah. Oh, good. Like what sports? Um, well, I mean, in adulthood, the sport that I love that I can't play

myself as tennis. So I'm an Nidal guy. Diehard Nidal fan, and it killed me when Jokovic passed him. Okay. No, I mean, I do like tennis.

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