All There Is with Anderson Cooper - A Message from Anderson

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

Anderson checks in with an update about the podcast and invites listeners to call the All There Is voicemail.    Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Complete offer eligibility criteria by March 31st, 2025. Choose one of five eligible charities. Up to $500,000 in total contributions. Welcome to All There Is. I'm Anderson Cooper. This time of year can be hard for so many of us. It certainly is for me. I plan to have an all-new episode of the podcast this week, but I'm taking some time off with my kids and I couldn't finish editing and writing it in time. I'm sorry. We're going to be taking a break for the next couple of weeks and we'll be back in January with the last three episodes of this season. Starting today, we've reopened our voicemail box. It'll be up for the next two weeks. So if there's something you've learned in your grief that you think might be helpful for others, please give us a call and leave a voicemail.

I listen to all the voicemails and some of them might be used in a future episode of the podcast. The number to call and leave a voicemail is 404-692-0452. If you want to catch up on episodes from this season, you can visit our online grief community at cnn.com forward slash all there is online. You can also hear some voicemails from podcast listeners about their own experiences with loss and grief, and you can type in comments of your own. I'll be checking in there over the next few weeks and leaving comments when I can. The podcast is going to return on January 7th with my guests Amy and David Sedaris. I cannot believe I lived through my mother's death.

I can't believe it. In what way? Because I just thought I wouldn't be able to live without her. Or just without her love. Without her love, yeah. I just adored her. Just adored her. And when my mother died, I was like, I'm alone. I don't have anybody. Just adored her. And when my mother died, it was like... He was mama's boy.

I'm alone. I don't have anybody in my corner that way. And it happened really fast. She called and said she had cancer. And then three months later, she was dead. And I remember there was her chemo medication and stuff. And we were so mad at it. Do you know what I mean?

And just throwing it into a trash can and my father's pulling it out because he wants to get a refund. He wants to take it to the drugstore and get a refund on it. Wow. Now wait a minute. I remember the priest came to the house

and my mother had a jigsaw table on them and so we were just throwing, oh, I see you're finishing that in honor of your mother. And it's like, get out of here. Who let him in here? It's just so dumb. Like, why do you have to even ruin it by saying crap? Like, oh, then we're going to frame it. And then we're going to, we laugh so hard. Like, yeah, we just laugh so hard because that's how we dealt with it. That episode will be available January 7th. I look forward to hearing your voicemails. The number again is 404-692-0452.

Thanks for listening.