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Fictional Women Around the World: Officer O'Leary · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't welcome to
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  Speaker 1: stuff I've never told your protection of I hire Radio
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to another sub sub segment of subsegment one
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  Speaker 1: subseck I don't know of women around the world, fictional
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  Speaker 1: women around the world, And today we're having over to
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand to talk about Officer oh Leary from the
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  Speaker 1: What We Do in the Shadows Universe from the spinoff. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the main characters on the c
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  Speaker 1: W show that I'm in love with Wellington's Paranormal but
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  Speaker 1: you can find on the c W R HBO Max
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  Speaker 1: and yes, I do love What We Do in the Shadows,
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  Speaker 1: both the movie and the show, which is the show
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  Speaker 1: on f X is about to have it season three premiere,
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  Speaker 1: and I definitely want to come back and do an
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  Speaker 1: episode on Naudia. I'm going to talk about her briefly
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  Speaker 1: at the end of this one, but that is in
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  Speaker 1: the works and you can see the episode I did
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  Speaker 1: on movie Crush about the What We Do in the
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  Speaker 1: Shadows movie to learn more. But basically, the What We
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  Speaker 1: Do in the Shadows Universe was created by Taiko W.
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  Speaker 1: T T and Jamaine Clement. First a movie by the
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  Speaker 1: same name, although they did have like and you can
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  Speaker 1: still find it on YouTube. They had a short that
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  Speaker 1: they did first as like a proof of concept, and
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  Speaker 1: then they made the movie in and then they did
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  Speaker 1: some shorts after that, a lot of them in conjunction
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  Speaker 1: with like the New Zealand Documentary Board or with New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand Air. They did like a Wellington tourism ad. Then
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  Speaker 1: they did the spinoff show The TV Show on EFX,
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  Speaker 1: which I adore, and now Wellington's Paranormal on the c
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  Speaker 1: w AM, though it aired before this in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: and I accidentally got spoiled as much as you can
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  Speaker 1: get spoiled in a show like this, because I was
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  Speaker 1: looking it up to research this and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the episode summaries. What uh So? This show follows officers
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  Speaker 1: oh Leary am Anogue along with Sergeant Maka as they
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  Speaker 1: tackle or attempt to tackle paranormal activity in Wellington, New Zealand. Okay, so,
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  Speaker 1: oh Larry in Minogue were first introduced in the Twoteen
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  Speaker 1: mockumentary horror film as a pair of bumbling cops who
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  Speaker 1: were glamored when investigating a vampire. Then and showed up
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  Speaker 1: again later after a werewolf attack. Yes, and this movie
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  Speaker 1: was hilarious. It took me a while begin into it
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  Speaker 1: as I've been introduced, and like, ha ha, hilarious. So
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  Speaker 1: Oli is played by who was actually a teacher, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a kindergarten teacher. She's a kindergarten teacher. And um is
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  Speaker 1: also a comedian, Karen O'Leary, who had never acted before
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  Speaker 1: landing the role in What We Do in the Shadows.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Allegedly Clement was struggling to think of
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  Speaker 1: a name, so he just went with A Larry in
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  Speaker 1: minogue because they sound police like. Yeah, And it's it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting knowing that now because a lot of how o'
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  Speaker 1: larry acts. I can see her being a teacher because
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  Speaker 1: she's very like, well, you know, you're not gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a good time, or you're not gonna have a good
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  Speaker 1: time if you stay up too later, if you do
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  Speaker 1: it like. She's very kind of practical, no nonsense in
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  Speaker 1: that way. And her first name has not been revealed
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  Speaker 1: over three seasons, which I think is part of sort
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  Speaker 1: of the running joke. I don't think that's any slight
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  Speaker 1: on her being a woman and not having a first name. However,
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  Speaker 1: Minogue's was revealed, but it was part of a joke
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  Speaker 1: because he's getting picked on by these other cops and
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  Speaker 1: they were calling him Kylie Minogue and he leaned in
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  Speaker 1: and said, actually it's Kyle and the e is silent dude. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that says a lot about his character. Actually, much of
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  Speaker 1: the movie was ad libs, and the humor of both
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  Speaker 1: of the movie and the show is very, very dry.
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  Speaker 1: It's very straight faced and dead pan. Both the movie
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  Speaker 1: and the show really lean into being set in New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand and the character of New Zealander's as well, so
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  Speaker 1: it's like really low key. When O'Leary does bad Cop,
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  Speaker 1: for example, she just leans in and says, calmly, stop
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  Speaker 1: that you're scaring me, and it's sort of a send
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  Speaker 1: up of cops. Is filmed with hidden cameras, dash cams
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  Speaker 1: and documentary crew. There's a lot of investigating noise complaints
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  Speaker 1: and parties and telling people to be quieter, are ghost
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  Speaker 1: to be quieter? As it so happens, um it's very
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact in common the face of ghosts and
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  Speaker 1: monsters and werewolves and vampires and zombies, treating them just
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  Speaker 1: like any other citizen or like often they're more concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the PaperWorks and the fact that there are aliens
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  Speaker 1: making clones, which they do make a clone of Olaria.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the episode where the clone comes back,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently it does. So o' larry believes she's really competent,
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  Speaker 1: and she is more competent than Mino guy will say,
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  Speaker 1: and often Sergeant Maca as well, and Sergeant Marca is
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  Speaker 1: the one who like loves the X Files. His underwear
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  Speaker 1: says like the truth is in here. He is like
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  Speaker 1: so into it, he takes it so seriously, but both
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  Speaker 1: of them are just kind of like, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: And oh Larry definitely takes things in stride. She's very
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  Speaker 1: down to earth. She is often more annoyed that paranormal
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  Speaker 1: creatures are flouting New Zealand's cas, whether it's goes who
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  Speaker 1: have been partying too long and having all these noise
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  Speaker 1: complaints about them since the seventies or millennial zombies who
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  Speaker 1: are too busy looking on their phones and causing trouble
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  Speaker 1: are jaywalking creepy clowns. And she's really annoyed about the
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  Speaker 1: jaywalking and she really doesn't appreciate any suggestion she isn't
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  Speaker 1: good at her job either, and she'll should get really
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  Speaker 1: like defensive about it. Uh, there's been a werewolf in
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  Speaker 1: particular where she's like, I learned how to do this
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  Speaker 1: at least school. A lot of A Larry's personal life
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  Speaker 1: and history is a mystery. You know. She likes softball,
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  Speaker 1: plays guitar, and worst fear is embarrassing. Her mother is
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  Speaker 1: often implied that she's a lesbian. She grew up in Wellington,
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  Speaker 1: going on to join the Wellington Police Force, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: she partnered with Minogue. So both A Larry and Minogue
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  Speaker 1: are recruited by Sergeant Marca to investigate paranormal activities around
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  Speaker 1: Wellington at the beginning of the show, a job they
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  Speaker 1: undertake in our very bad at but ernest in their efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Pay for effort, they asked the silly questions a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us have about 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 unidentified applying object and
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  Speaker 1: Minogue says, well, if we identify it, is it just
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  Speaker 1: identified somethings like that just said really flat, like she's
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  Speaker 1: not wrong, Oh, Larry has also appeared in some New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand p s a s. She will appear in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth season of Wellington Paranormal, which is just rap post protection,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll see after that. I know they're going
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  Speaker 1: on kind of a pause and Jermaine Clement has said, like,
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  Speaker 1: we're working on another project and we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to come back and talk about I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know if it's a trope, but one day
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  Speaker 1: I want to come back and talk about this whole
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  Speaker 1: like competent woman trope, because I feel like there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of examples I can think of. Or there's three
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  Speaker 1: characters and two of them are men and one of
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  Speaker 1: the woman, and the woman is like the most temp wine.
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  Speaker 1: So if you think of like Harry Ron Hermione or
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  Speaker 1: Luke Leahan and then in this case, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: kind of curious about that, and I mean, oh, Larry
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  Speaker 1: is definitely I mean, they're all bumbling, they're all wake ups,
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  Speaker 1: but obvious three I would I would say she's probably
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  Speaker 1: the most competent of the two. Yeah, yeah, So I
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  Speaker 1: do want to come back and talk about that one day.
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  Speaker 1: And even like in the show, you have nandor Laslo
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  Speaker 1: Nadia Naudia is the most competent, but if you add
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  Speaker 1: gear Mo went too that equation or even Colin I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely Giarmo than Giarmo is the most competent. Soma
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  Speaker 1: is definitely competent. But but you think about that and
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  Speaker 1: sitcoms too, that happens a lot in just sitcom so
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  Speaker 1: not even like adventures, you know, any of that an
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  Speaker 1: adventure because if you think of like Guardians of the Galaxy,
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  Speaker 1: Gomera is the competent one of all of them, and
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  Speaker 1: so the one that kind of keeps them together like
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  Speaker 1: calm down, as well as in New Girl you have
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  Speaker 1: CC being the ca but one typically and or just
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  Speaker 1: being the one that takes the lead. M. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: you're right, there's a lot of that, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: typically look at it closely. They also get the being
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  Speaker 1: the boring one, yeah, or the most annoying or bitchy. Right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get to have as much fun, right, And
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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, such curious. But yes, I love this show.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely recommend it. I recommend the movie and the
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  Speaker 1: other show as well, And as always, we would love
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