Revisiting Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The podcast is taking a short break, new episodes of All There Is will return January 10th. In the meantime, we are sharing Anderson's powerful conversation with Stephen Colbert from the first season of the podcast. Can we learn to love the things we most wish had never happened? Can we really become grateful for grief? Heartbreak? The deaths of loved ones? Stephen believes we can and explains why and how. It is a deeply moving, thought-provoking, and at times funny conversation that Anderson says has had a major impact on his life.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anderson. I'll be back with new episodes of all there is in January, but I want to share
0:06.2	this episode from the first season of the podcast that meant a great deal to me and I know to many of you.
0:10.6	It's my conversation with Stephen Colbert.
0:16.0	I've gotten so many comments from you and direct messages on Instagram, which is pretty much the only
0:20.4	social media place I am anymore, and it's been really beautiful to
0:24.0	read them.
0:25.0	They're personal, they're intimate, they're deeply felt, except for the ones about buying
0:28.7	cryptocurrency which I haven't because frankly I don't really understand what it is but so many of you have
0:35.6	been willing to share with me the names of your loved ones who have died and how you
0:39.5	faced and are still facing their loss and that sadness. As isolating and
0:44.0	lonely as grief can be as sadness can be, it's also something that links all of
0:48.8	us together and I'm really grateful for that And I'm grateful for you for listening.
0:54.8	If this is your first time listening to the podcast,
0:57.0	I'm going through my mom's apartments,
0:58.8	packing them up, going through all her things.
1:01.0	But I'm going through her things.
1:02.2	I'm also coming across things that belonged to my brother who
1:05.3	died when I was 21 he was 23 by suicide and things that belonged to my dad who died
1:10.6	when I was 10 years old I keep opening up closets and boxes and finding new things
1:18.0	and I'm still struggling to figure out what to do with them all.
1:20.0	Check all the lights.
1:23.0	on the top shelf on one closet I just found this.
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