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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: like any other citizen or like often they're more concerned

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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: 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: 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: 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: the most competent of the two. Yeah, yeah, So I

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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: 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: 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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