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Speaker 1: Here's something interesting. Apparently, according to this wellness data that's

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Speaker 1: just out from Stats New Zealand, those of us here

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand are pretty satisfied with our lives. The

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Speaker 1: overall satisfaction rating that we've given is seven point six

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Speaker 1: out of ten, which actually isn't that different to twenty

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Speaker 1: eleven or twenty twenty one, sorry, which was you know,

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Speaker 1: you remember COVID times. We were actually feeling pretty good

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Speaker 1: at that stage. The rest of the world was dying

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Speaker 1: and we weren't. Google Sutherland is a clinical psychologist. Hey, Google, Hey,

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Speaker 1: are you that nice to speak to you? It's good

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Speaker 1: to talk to you too. Now, are you surprised that

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Speaker 1: our well being and happiness is holding up so well

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Speaker 1: given how gloomy we are at the moment in general?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look I was awe But then when I dug

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Speaker 2: into the stats, it was like, oh, no, that does

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Speaker 2: seem to be reflective of the kind of general temperature

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Speaker 2: of society at the moment, you know. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: guess perhaps it was more positive than what you might

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Speaker 2: be believed to see if you're wandering around the streets

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Speaker 2: of Wellington.

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Speaker 1: So is it possible that what this says is we

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Speaker 1: are actually happy in general with our lives and our

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Speaker 1: lifestyle and the country. We know we've got it good.

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Speaker 1: It's just that we're unhappy and we're gloomy about the

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Speaker 1: trajectory of the country, like the economy and the health

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Speaker 1: system and so on.

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Speaker 2: Look, it could be. I mean another interpretation is that

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Speaker 2: we you know, we're sort of sitting there or thereabouts

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Speaker 2: most of the time, and that at particular points of

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Speaker 2: time we worry about certain things, like I'm sure in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one we're all worried about COVID, and now

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Speaker 2: you know, we're worried about the economy and a bit

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Speaker 2: about crime and a bit about healthcare. So maybe this

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Speaker 2: is just generally how it is, and that there's always

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Speaker 2: something to worry about, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: What do you make though of the decline of trust

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Speaker 1: in a bunch of institutions and in particular in Parliament,

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Speaker 1: which has fallen quite quite a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, that saddens me a bit, but doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 2: I think we've seen trust levels and a lot of

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Speaker 2: those institutions slipping, particularly around the media in Parliament, and

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Speaker 2: I think it reflects a bit more of a general

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Speaker 2: distrust that people seem to be having with, you know,

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Speaker 2: with the general institutions of life. People's trust seems to

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Speaker 2: have been eroded over the past few years.

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Speaker 1: That seems to be like something quite big that needs

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Speaker 1: to be addressed, don't you.

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Speaker 2: Think I do? I do? I think so. I think

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Speaker 2: I think we're If we're talking about some of the

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Speaker 2: key kind of institutions of our society, police, government, media,

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Speaker 2: then it's I think it's important that people do have

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Speaker 2: trust and faith in those and if we don't, then

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Speaker 2: we need to look at how do we win that

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Speaker 2: trust back and how do we not convince people? Because

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Speaker 2: I think I don't think convincing people would work, But

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Speaker 2: how do we how do we prove to people it's

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Speaker 2: maybe a better way of doing it that those institutions

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Speaker 2: are actually important and trustworthy.

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Speaker 1: Where would you put yourself out of ten.

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Speaker 2: I would put myself at about six point five. I

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Speaker 2: think I'm in Wellington. Yeah, yeah, so it's I'm not

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Speaker 2: singing from the from the roof, but I'm not completely

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Speaker 2: down on the dumps either. But it does feel a

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Speaker 2: bit a bit doomy and gloomy here, at least in Wellington.

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Speaker 1: Is this I mean to be fair to you. You

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Speaker 1: have just come through a Wellington winter, and I mean

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Speaker 1: that is a rough time, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, but nobody chooses to live here because of

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Speaker 2: the weather, that we take that as a given that

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Speaker 2: it's never going to be that great. But you do

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Speaker 2: touch on an interesting thing is you know often our

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Speaker 2: mood does drop a little bit during winter, and then

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Speaker 2: you know, in spring we pop up again. And I

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Speaker 2: noticed that myself in the past couple of weeks, just

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Speaker 2: standing out on a balcony, going, oh, actually the sun's

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Speaker 2: coming up and there's blossom out and it kind of

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Speaker 2: feels spring light and there's more light around. So I

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Speaker 2: don't think we should neglect the fact that the environment

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Speaker 2: has a bit of an impact on it.

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Speaker 1: Do you take vitamin D to get you through the winter?

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Speaker 2: I do not know why not. I never thought of it,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, I don't feel like I've got a

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Speaker 2: I haven't tested it, but I don't feel like I've

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Speaker 2: got a vitamin D deficiency. But I do try and

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Speaker 2: get out. I try and get out in the morning

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Speaker 2: and at least three or four times during the week

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Speaker 2: in daylight during winter, just to get that that SODAD

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Speaker 2: in again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well good for you, Okay, Google, thank you Google,

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Speaker 1: Suther and clinical psychologist, I think Google needs to take

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Speaker 1: vitamin D. I reckon he'd go from a six point

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Speaker 1: five to a solid eight point five if he's taking

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Speaker 1: the vitamin D. The reason I'm saying this is because

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Speaker 1: my mum said to me the other day. She was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what she was reading, probably some conspiracy

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Speaker 1: website or something again, and she's said in so much

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Speaker 1: trouble anyway, So she said to me, she said, do

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Speaker 1: you know what Heather, she said, I read the other

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Speaker 1: day that if you grew up in a place where

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Speaker 1: you had lots of sunshine and now you don't have

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Speaker 1: as much sunshine, you should take victimin D because it's

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Speaker 1: very odd for you. And we grew I grew up

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Speaker 1: in a place actually instinctly where she grew up as well,

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Speaker 1: where I think we maybe got like three or four

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Speaker 1: rainy days a year, like it was a semid is

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Speaker 1: it right? So there's a hell of a lot of sunshine.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I decided, well, you know, it's very hard

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Speaker 1: to replace that kind of level of sunshine or started

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Speaker 1: taking the vitamin D. Game changer, absolute game changer, hasn't

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Speaker 1: it been?

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Speaker 2: Laura?

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Speaker 1: Last two weeks, I've just been so excited, haven't I

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Speaker 1: haven't I? Yeah, that's what I did. Yeah, I just

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Speaker 1: took the Vitamin D. They just go down to your pharmacy,

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Speaker 1: get some Vitamin DSK, completely natural all that. You go,

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Speaker 1: Happy days. You'll thank me later if it Google needs it,

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