We lament the passing of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and delve into the Chatteroo postbag. We'd love to hear from you - it's your Chatteroo, too: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neuroscientist and author Tali Sharot has joined the Chatteroo to talk about her excellent new book, 'Look Again - The Power of Noticing What Was Always There' (co-written with Cass R Sunstein.) It's the habituation sensation that's sweeping the nation. Email us! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Includes a Presidential belch, life lessons from toddlers, the grace of a giraffe, and the Village People. We need your email to fuel the Chatteroo! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The calm before the swarm, your email, and Ed shares his music lesson trauma. Email us! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/14/theres-joy-i-havent-felt-for-years-how-i-got-hooked-on-the-piano-craze Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A flurry of email prompted by last week's episode, plus cheerful nuggets from John Kerry's New York Times exit interview, the age at which jeans become inappropriate, and an Oscars-themed quiz. Send us an email: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com John Kerry: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/john-kerry-climate-change-china.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voicenotes, lessons from the New England Patriots, your email, and our best quiz yet. Chat makes the world go round! We need your email - send us facts about hedgehogs, stories of sticking to your guns, rules for voice-note etiquette, ideas for quizzes, articles... anything you'd like to hear Ed turn his big ol' brain to: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sad owl news, happy hedgehog news, and an encounter in the Portcullis House cafeteria queue. Plus, your email - send us more, please! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Liebreich: Net Zero Will Be Harder Than You Think – And Easier PART 1: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-i-harder/ PART 2: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-ii-easier/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed vs Mud, Geoff has the lung capacity of a slightly younger man, how to apologise, and a game of Know Your Station Apologise Like You Mean It: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/well/live/apology-tips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Where Did Our Strange Use of 'Like' Come From? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/casual-speech-like.html?searchResultPosition=2 Email us! It makes Ed so happy... chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tracy Chapman, the age of a Prime Minister, how Marx and Engels communicated, plus more aggressive birds. Seen anything you'd like us to talk about? Got a question? Someone you'd like to hear us talk to? Want to set us a quiz? chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Donald Trump vs Taylor Swift, Ed vs wildfowl and your email. Join the Chatteroo: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Où est le chatteroo? Voici le chatteroo! Send us hamster facts, or anything else that's on your mind: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Life is a Chatteroo, old chum! Come to the Chatteroo. Hello, and welcome to this week's catch-up, during which we discuss afternoon tea, including young voices in the climate conversation, a hat made of mushrooms, and workplace wellbeing and urban rewilding. Send us an email: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brilliant climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh joins the Chatteroo to talk through the climate data for 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed's new TV obsession leads to a chatteroo about therapy, including a mention of this twenty year-old essay by Nicholas Spice: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n01/nicholas-spice/i-must-be-mad Plus! Meet our famous new sidekick... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hap-py New Year! We welcome our first guest of the Chatteroo-era, and what a guest: This year's BBC Reith Lecturer, Professor Ben Ansell - political scientist and former teaching assistant to Ed Miliband (as Ed mentions 5,000 time during the conversation.) Listen to/read Ben's Reith Lectures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 Buy Ben's book, 'Why Politics Fails': https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/why-politics-fails-ansell-ben-w/ Visit Ben's website: https://benwansell.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A chatty accompaniment as your potatoes roast and your sprouts boil. We wish you a cheerful Christmas! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chatteroo, roo, roo! Push pineapple, shake the tree! More Cop reflections, plus encouragment for Ed's paleontology ambition Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey you, the Chatteroo crew! Show what you do, make a break, make a move. Ed's back from COP28 and is bursting to talk about a phasedown of unabated fossil fuels, paleontology, and Taylor Swift. Plus Geoff pitches a policy idea for the next Labour Party manifesto. Suggest things for us to chatteroo about: reasons@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're live from COP28. Well, Ed is - Geoff wasn't invited. He's asked for a souvenir from the COP shop. Dive in for Ed's news from Dubai, he's *very* excited about the ENAP Emissions Report. Plus, saying 'hi' to strangers, and a mysterious high energy particle is heading for Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the Chatteroo stew this week: Ed reflects on the Autumn Statement and budgets he has known and (sometimes) loved, and Geoff gets the wrong end of the stick - or drumstick - about an American tradition. Email us: reasons@cheerfulpodcast.com Music: Ed Seed Artwork: A child with a potato and some paint Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.