Hold Space for Grief with Anderson Cooper

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Broadcast journalist and podcast host Anderson Cooper joins Michelle and Craig to share what he’s learned from hosting his grief-focused podcast “All There Is.” The three talk about how they managed (or avoided) the grieving process and how their moms prepared their kids to live without them. Plus Anderson shares his thoughts on the Vanderbilts inspiring an episode of “The Gilded Age.”

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0:00.0	The only connection to the Vanderbilt's I had as a kid, my dad once took me to Grand Central Station, which was founded by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was not a nice guy.
0:09.6	And there's a statue of him outside Grand Central Station, which, by the way, he paid for and had made and set up there.
0:15.2	It wasn't like his workers loved him and he did it. It was his. And he made photographs.
0:21.0	He had paintings painted himself
0:22.6	and gave them out to all his children,
0:24.1	not that they wanted them either.
0:25.6	But I remember my dad taking me to see this statue when I was like six.
0:29.6	And the only thing I took away from it
0:31.2	was that grandparents turned into statues when they die,
0:33.9	which is very relatable.
0:34.9	I know.
0:35.2	Everybody feels this.
0:42.2	Yeah. when they die, which is very relatable. I know. Everybody feels this. This episode is brought to you by Rivian.
0:48.3	Meish.
0:49.2	Hi, Craig Robinson.
0:50.6	How are you?
0:51.2	I'm good.
0:52.2	I'm good.
0:52.7	How are you?
0:53.6	I'm fine. I'm having such a good time out here in L.A.
0:57.3	Yeah. So you've got some company with you this trip. So this trip, Aaron, our youngest, our fourth is here.
1:07.7	And Kelly Robinson. Kelly!
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