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SMNTY Classics: Officer O'Leary · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told you protection of I hi radio. I'm really
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  Speaker 1: excited to bring this classic back. So this is a
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  Speaker 1: fictional women episode we did forever ago on Karen O'Leary
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  Speaker 1: uh from Wellington's paranormal, which is a TV series and
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  Speaker 1: that's how I love not currently a sponsor. It's on
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  Speaker 1: Hbo Max and I think it's over. I think that
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  Speaker 1: just finished, is it? That was only okay, wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: so we're watching it on HBO. We hit the Max episodes.
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  Speaker 1: So I met guessing. And so there was like four
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  Speaker 1: episodes in the season. Four, is that that many? So
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  Speaker 1: the last two episodes are like who the hell? It's
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  Speaker 1: called who the hill, which is about Satan, and then
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  Speaker 1: time travel, time cop, but not that one. Okay, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. That's I think that's it. I know, I'm bummed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm bummed. Oh, I love it so much. Anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to bring this back because it's really interesting to
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  Speaker 1: me because when we first did this I was I
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  Speaker 1: think I've only seen like a season and a half,
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  Speaker 1: even though it had been released mostly in New Zealand already.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of stuff I talked about in there
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen yet, and I say I say this
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  Speaker 1: in the episode, but now I've seen it all and
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  Speaker 1: I want to confirm some things that I talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Are you talking about the Virgin episode? Yes, yes, so
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  Speaker 1: I speculated based on a lot of kind of like
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  Speaker 1: in jokes, that Laria was a lesbian, and it was
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that she's at least by well, but probably mostly,
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  Speaker 1: a lesbian because she's never had sex with men. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like that was like an explicit like that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you're right. You're right, but like I
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  Speaker 1: feel like she was like no, definitely, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost because she was kind of like not grossed out,
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  Speaker 1: but visibly like no way about having sex with men
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  Speaker 1: when her mom kind of torments her in that fear episode. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so probably, but, you know, just just to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that's fair, I did really enjoy the episode where she
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  Speaker 1: challenges the Devil to a game of essentially guests who,
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  Speaker 1: but it's called the hell. It made me because I
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  Speaker 1: know you, me and your partner played guests who. You
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  Speaker 1: have guess who, Um, like a year person, though. He
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  Speaker 1: won every time. So I'm still mad about it. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm not very good and I'm good at guessing who,
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  Speaker 1: but Oh leary was excellent. I was like in awe
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  Speaker 1: of her skill. I love that scene, very, very good,
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  Speaker 1: Um and just continued to show how how competent of
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  Speaker 1: of them, which I mean ultimately they're kind of blundering cops,
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  Speaker 1: but of the blundering cops she was pretty competent. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 1: I normally, like I said, I don't Rewatch TV shows,
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  Speaker 1: but I've rewatched that one because it's it's just kind
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  Speaker 1: of light and it's nice and fun and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely in my wheelhouse. So yeah, if you're if you're
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  Speaker 1: into paranormal New Zealand documentary mockumentaries, excuse me. I recommend it,
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  Speaker 1: but in the meantime, please enjoy this classic episode. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is Annie and Samantha. I don't belcome to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I never told your protection of I hire radio and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another sub subsegment of sub segment, one SUPSEC.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know of women around the world, fictional women
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  Speaker 1: around the world, and today we're having over to New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: To talk about officer Oh leary from the what we
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  Speaker 1: do in the shadows universe, from the spinoff. Currently this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the main characters on the C W
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  Speaker 1: show that I'm in love with, Wellington Paranormal, but you
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  Speaker 1: can find on the C W R HBO Max. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: I do love what we do in the shadows, both
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  Speaker 1: the movie and the show, which is the show on
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  Speaker 1: fx is about to have it season three premiere and
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  Speaker 1: I definitely want to come back and do an episode
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  Speaker 1: on Naudia. I'm going to talk about her briefly at
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  Speaker 1: the end of this one, but that is in the
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  Speaker 1: works and you can see the episode I did on
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  Speaker 1: movie crush about the what we do in the shadows
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  Speaker 1: movie to learn more. But basically the what we do
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  Speaker 1: in the shadows universe was created by Taiko Watt and
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  Speaker 1: Jamaine Clement. First a movie by the same name, although
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  Speaker 1: they did have like and you can still find it
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  Speaker 1: on Youtube. They had a short that they did first
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  Speaker 1: as like a proof of concepts and then they made
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  Speaker 1: the movie in and then they did some shorts after that,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them in conjunction with like the New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand Documentary Board or with New Zealand air. They did
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  Speaker 1: like a Wellington tourism ad then they did the spin
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  Speaker 1: off show, the TV show on e fx, which I adore,
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  Speaker 1: and now Wellington's paranormal on the C w. am, though
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  Speaker 1: it aired before this in New Zealand and I accidentally
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  Speaker 1: got spoiled, as much as you can get spoiled in
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  Speaker 1: a show like this, because I was looking it up
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  Speaker 1: to research this and I was like, Oh, the episode summaries. What? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: So this show follows officers Oh leary am anogue, along
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  Speaker 1: with Sergeant Maka, as they tackle, or attempt to tackle,
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  Speaker 1: paranormal activity in Wellington, New Zealand. Okay, so a Larry
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  Speaker 1: in minogue were first introduced in the twenty fourteen mockumentary
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  Speaker 1: horror film as a pair of bumbling cops who were
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  Speaker 1: glamored when investigating a vampire then and showed up again
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  Speaker 1: later after a Werewolf attack. Yes, and this movie was hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: It took me a while begin into it, as I've
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  Speaker 1: been introducing like Huh, hilarious. So olarity is played by
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  Speaker 1: who was actually a teacher? Yeah, a kindergarten teacher. She's
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  Speaker 1: a kindergarten teacher and Um, is also a comedian, Karen O'Leary,
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  Speaker 1: who had never acted before landing the role in what
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  Speaker 1: we do in the shadows. I love it. Allegedly Clement
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  Speaker 1: was struggling to think of a name so he just
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  Speaker 1: went with a Larry and minogue because they sound police like. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's interesting knowing that now because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of how o'larry acts I can see her being a
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  Speaker 1: teacher because she's very like, well, you know, you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a good time or you're not gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a good time if you stay up too later, if
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  Speaker 1: you do it like she's very kind of practical, no
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  Speaker 1: nonsense in that way. And her first name has not
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  Speaker 1: been revealed over three seasons, which I think is part
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  Speaker 1: of sort of the running joke. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: any slight on her being a woman and not having
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  Speaker 1: a first name. However, Minogue's was revealed, but it was
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  Speaker 1: part of a joke because he's getting picked on by
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  Speaker 1: these other cops and they were calling him Kylie Minogue
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  Speaker 1: and he leaned in and said actually, it's Kyle and
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  Speaker 1: the E is silent. Dude. Yes, yes, that says a
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  Speaker 1: lot about his character. Actually, much of the movie was
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  Speaker 1: Ad Libs and the humor of both of the movie
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  Speaker 1: and the show is very, very dry. It's very straight
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  Speaker 1: faced and dead pan. Both the movie and the show
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  Speaker 1: really leaning into being set in New Zealand and the
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  Speaker 1: character of New Zealanders as well. So it's like really
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  Speaker 1: low key. When O'Leary does bad cop, for example, she
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  Speaker 1: just leans in and says calmly stop, that you're scaring me,
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  Speaker 1: and it's sort of a send up of cops. It's
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  Speaker 1: filmed with hidden cameras, Dash Cams and documentary crew. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of investigating noise complaints and parties and telling
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  Speaker 1: people to be quieter. Are Ghost to be quieter, as
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  Speaker 1: it so happens, um it's very matter of fact in
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  Speaker 1: common the face of ghosts and monsters and werewolves and
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  Speaker 1: vampires and zombies, treating them just like any other citizen
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  Speaker 1: or like often they're more concerned about the paperworks and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that there are aliens making clones, which they
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  Speaker 1: do make a clone of Olaria. I haven't seen the
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  Speaker 1: episode where the clone comes back, but apparently it does.
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  Speaker 1: So Larry believes she's really competent and she is more
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  Speaker 1: competent than but no guy will say, and often Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Marca as well. And Sergeant Marca is the one who
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  Speaker 1: like loves the x files his underwear. Says like the
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  Speaker 1: truth is in here. He is like so into it,
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  Speaker 1: he takes it so seriously. But both of them are
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like what is this? Oh, Larry definitely
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  Speaker 1: takes things in stride. She's very down to Earth. She's
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  Speaker 1: yea often more annoyed that paranormal creatures are flouting New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand's laws, whether it's goes who have been partying too
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  Speaker 1: long and having all these noise complaints about them since
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  Speaker 1: the seventies, or millennial zombies who are too busy looking
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  Speaker 1: on their phones and causing trouble, are jaywalking creepy clowns.
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  Speaker 1: She's really annoyed about the Jay walking and she really
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  Speaker 1: doesn't appreciate any suggestion. She isn't good at her job either,
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  Speaker 1: and she'll should get really like defensive about it. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's an a werewolf in particular, where she's like, I
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  Speaker 1: learned how to do this at least school. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of a Larry's personal life and history is a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she likes softball, plays guitar and worst fear
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  Speaker 1: is embarrassing. Her mother is often implied that she's a lesbian.
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  Speaker 1: She grew up in Wellington, going on to join the
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  Speaker 1: Wellington police force and yes, she partnered with minogue. So
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  Speaker 1: both a Larry and minogue are recruited by Sergeant Marca
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  Speaker 1: to investigate paranormal activities around Wellington at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the show, a job they undertake in our very bad
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  Speaker 1: at but ernest in their efforts. Pay For effort. They
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  Speaker 1: asked the silly questions a lot of us have about
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  Speaker 1: the paranormal, but they do so genuinely. Yeah, so like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, there's one time where they're investigating aliens and
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Marca says something about like on idea defied applying
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  Speaker 1: object and minogue says, well, if we identify it, is
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  Speaker 1: it just identified? somethings like that. Just said really flat
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  Speaker 1: like she's not wrong. Oh, Larry has also appeared in
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  Speaker 1: some New Zealand P s. A S she will appear
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth season of Wellington Paranormal, which is just
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  Speaker 1: rap post production, and then we'll see after that. I
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  Speaker 1: know they're going on kind of a pause and Jermaine
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  Speaker 1: Clement has said like we're working on another project and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I do want to come back
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  Speaker 1: and talk about I don't even know if it's a trope,
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  Speaker 1: but one day I want to come back and talk
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  Speaker 1: about this whole like competent woman trope, because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's a lot of examples I can think of.
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  Speaker 1: Or there's three characters and two of them are men
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  Speaker 1: and one of the woman, and the woman is like
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  Speaker 1: the most competent one. So if you think of like
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  Speaker 1: Harry Ron, Hermione or Luke Leahn, and then in this case,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just kind of curious about that, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean Oh, Larry is definitely I mean they're all bumbling,
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  Speaker 1: they're all wake ups, but obvious three, I would I
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  Speaker 1: would say she's probably the most competent of the two. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I do want to come back and talk about
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  Speaker 1: that one day. And even like in the show you
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  Speaker 1: have Nandoor laslow Nadia. Nadia is the most competent, but
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  Speaker 1: if you add gear mo into that equation, or even Colin,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but definitely Giarmo, than Giarmo is the most competent.
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  Speaker 1: Soma is definitely competent. But on top of that, but
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  Speaker 1: you think about that, and sitcoms too. That happens a
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  Speaker 1: lot in just sitcom so not even like adventures. You know,
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  Speaker 1: any of that an adventure, because if you think of
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  Speaker 1: like guardians of the galaxy, Gomera is the competent one
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  Speaker 1: of all of them and is the one that kind
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  Speaker 1: of keeps them together, like calm down, as well as
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  Speaker 1: in new girl you have CC being the competent one,
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  Speaker 1: typically in or just being the one that takes the lead. H. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you're right, there's a lot of that and we
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  Speaker 1: don't typically look at it closely. But they also get
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  Speaker 1: the being the boring one, yeah, or the most annoying
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  Speaker 1: or Bitchy, right. They don't get to have as much fun, right,
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  Speaker 1: although I mean, oh Larry is having fun. And I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about this because it's not like there's been
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  Speaker 1: a long history of the you know, ditzy sex object
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  Speaker 1: portrayal of women. I'm just kind of curious about this
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  Speaker 1: is whether it's like a really leaning away from we
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  Speaker 1: can't make fun of women or as as kind of
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  Speaker 1: a response to that history, or if it's even kind
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  Speaker 1: of like how we do expect women to be more
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  Speaker 1: competent at their jobs. So I don't know, I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 1: I want to look into it more. I'm never like
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  Speaker 1: super angry. Women are competence, but, you know, just just curious,
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  Speaker 1: just curious, curious. But yes, I love this show. I
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  Speaker 1: definitely recommend it. I recommend the movie and the other
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  Speaker 1: show as well and, as always, we would love to
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