Best of The Axe Files: Anderson Cooper

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This Thanksgiving, we're revisiting a conversation with Anderson Cooper from October 2021. Anderson is now a well-known CNN anchor and host of the new podcast, All There Is with Anderson Cooper, but he got his start in journalism armed with just a camcorder and a fake press pass. Anderson is also part of the storied Vanderbilt family, which he wrote about in the book Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. He joined David to talk about the corrosive power of money and how its effects can ripple through generations, his mother’s life and her capacity for overcoming trauma, losing his father at 10 years old, and how he hopes his book teaches his children to feel connected to something beyond themselves.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with
0:12.6	your host David Axelrod.
0:15.9	First happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
0:20.9	I hope you are having a wonderful day with the people you love.
0:24.3	We're taking the week off, but I did want to reshare a conversation I had a while back
0:29.2	with Anderson Cooper after the publication of his book Vanderbilt about his famous Star
0:34.2	Cross family.
0:35.8	And on this day of love and reflection, I'd also highly recommend Anderson's new podcast
0:39.5	All There Is in which he explores stories of loss and grief with all the insight and
0:44.0	sensitivity of one who has experienced it in his own life.
0:47.7	Please give this podcast a listen and his as well and we'll see you all next week.
0:59.8	Anderson Cooper, good to see you my friend.
1:02.3	You know, I worry about you all the time that you're not busy enough.
1:05.6	And so I was really gratified to hear that you have another book out.
1:09.4	Yeah, I know.
1:10.4	It's been, it seemed like a wise idea.
1:13.4	Especially when I was having a baby, I thought, why not?
1:16.3	Exactly, exactly.
1:18.4	And doing your show in 60 minutes and your online show and, you know, other stuff.
1:25.6	I'm working on an icecapedes version of my life.
1:29.4	Excellent.
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