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Footy for a Seven-Year-Old
No AI tool this episode, just Silentpoisen trying to explain Australian Rules football to his seven-year-old, and discovering thirty years of watching it taught him nothing he can actually explain.
The field is called "the oval," and the kid's first question, "why," stumps a grown man who has watched the sport his whole life.
A full lounge-room reenactment of "the mark" gets ruled "not transcribable" by Magpie: leaping and yelling isn't a definition.
Standing on another player to catch the ball is, apparently, completely legal, which the kid finds thrilling and Magpie finds alarming…
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