Anderson Cooper

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3,307 appearances 41 recordings 10 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 17 Sep

Anderson Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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All There Is with Anderson Cooper · Amanda Peet: ‘There’s No Algorithm For Grief’ · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

How did you handle telling them about your diagnosis?

Hate being gone?

I just want to read this.

You're talking about your mom.

She wouldn't stop moaning and we tried to give her liquid morphine, but she kept biting down on the syringe.

So I finally pulled her lip down and inserted the dropper through a gap where she was missing a tooth.

Even though Jerome promised me that the biting was just a reflex, it seemed like her last line of defense and made me think she didn't want to go.

This idea was unbearable, but watching her gasp for air was worse.

The morphine was taking forever to kick in and she was looking at the ceiling and whimpering, so I climbed onto her rented hospital bed to get in her line of vision.

We locked eyes and she quieted down, and then she and I continued to stare at each other for what felt like several minutes.

I thought of my teen improv class, which she had found for me when we moved back to New York from London.

In improv, even if the given circumstances defy logic, you and your scene partner have to stick to them.

I wasn't sure whether my mom knew that she was looking at me or whether I was just a constellation of interesting disembodied shapes.

I said, howdy doodle.

That's how she often greeted me.

But then I realized that she was communing without words, and I followed suit.

Time was running out, and besides, I had already told her everything.

It's beautiful.

How do you doodle?

I was with my mom when she died, and...

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