Anderson Cooper (CNN Political Commentator)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Anderson Cooper (Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty) is a broadcast journalist and political commentator. Anderson joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the relationship with his mother after the passing of his father, the reasons why he sought adventure in his life, and the motivation for writing a book about his ancestors. Anderson and Dax talk about why the Vanderbilts constructed such elaborate American palaces, how that time period was the beginning of celebrity in America, and how the inheritance of the family mansions affected future generations. Anderson explains that there was a pathological desire for money within the family, that the concept of a trust fund was explained to him at a very early age, and how he approaches the subject of money with his own son. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm
0:03.8	Dan Shepard, I'm joined by Monica Mouse. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi, end of the
0:08.0	year. Oh man. It's the end of the year. It's our last interview. Of the year?
0:13.0	Uh-huh.
0:14.0	I don't like that.
0:15.0	I'm sorry.
0:16.0	Okay.
0:17.0	We can't take our foot off the gas.
0:19.0	We got to keep it pegged.
0:20.0	Board to the floor.
0:22.0	We have Anderson Cooper today.
0:23.8	Oh, what a great last interview of the year.
0:26.4	Particularly fun for me because, and this comes up in the interview, but as soon as I knew we had
0:31.2	Anderson coming up, I had this anxiety of like all I'm going to want to talk about is the Vanderbilt's because I'm obsessed with Cornelius Vanderbilt.
0:39.0	And I was like, shit, he's not going to want to talk about Cornelius Vanderbilt. He's lived. Vanderbilt.
0:43.0	He's lived in the shadow of it.
0:44.0	Well, by God, his fucking new book is about it.
0:45.0	And I was like, oh my God, this is so wonderful.
0:48.0	He has a new book called Vanderbilt,
0:50.0	The Rise and Fall of an American dynasty.
0:52.0	And if you don't know this about Anderson Cooper,
0:53.6	his great, great, great grandfather,
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