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But now they're done, here is an episode of Answer Meethys.

If the Secret Service is secret, how come we know about it?

That's to me this. If there was a ban on flouting, how would you flout it?

Has to be it,

us to be this.

Helen and Oly, answer be this.

Well we're starting with two of the things we care about most in this world, sport and Canada,

because it's a question from Joanna who says, I am a Canadian and I've got a sports question. Is it about the Putin Olympics? I don't think so.

She says. A few years ago I spent some time on your side of the pond and first encountered a sport called

Netball which I'd never heard of before. It seems to be some

sort of mash-up between basketball and volleyball. Well there's no volleyball in it and

it's like basketball with all the energy taken out. But she says it is obviously important enough

that over there in the UK you even teach it in school gym classes.

Yes, 13 years of this wretched ball sport.

But only if you're a girl, if you're a boy. You get to play real sport.

Even more surprising to me, continues Joanna, that its apparent popularity over there was its complete lack of a presence over here, Canada, whatsoever.

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