A Week of Vacation, Another Blizzard, and Getting Our Ears Waxed

- Hey, it's Andy Cohen here with this week's chapter of Andy Cohen's Daddy Diaries Podcast. The high highs and low lows of my life

“is a daddy to two kids and dozens of housewives.”

Hey everybody, it is Andy joining me as always.

It's my co-host John Hill. Hey John, hi. This week, John and I are back from winter break. While I was hatched down in home during the Blizzard John at Stuckin' at LA, talked all about the Bahamas,

the kids, the traders reunion. John and I went on a Valentine's day field trip to a waxing center. John went on a mission to find his David Beckham sunglasses. My kids wreaked havoc. That was everything happened this week.

This is Andy Cohen's Daddy Diaries Podcast. (upbeat music) Monday, February 23rd, 2026. Good morning everybody. I'm Andy Cohen, broadcasting from my office.

It is, it's massive. This is a massive, massive snowstorm. I'll take a picture of my office and post it for y'all on my stories.

Good morning, John Hill is in Los Angeles.

He's in his T-shirt. He's smiling. - Hi, John. - Hi, it's so nice here.

“- Now, dear remind me, why are you in Los Angeles?”

- Well, as you may recall, on Thursday, Friday of last week, I had the trip of a lifetime to smile taxes. - Yes, yes. - Where I received the gift of a gum lift, gum graphs, and two dental implants.

So I'm a little swollen still. The, yeah, I received the luxury of that experience. - Yes, I really recommend. - Wait to see the results. - Well, there's only 10 queries in right now,

but it's gonna be a long process, but a beautiful one. Enjoy, right? Anyway, when I booked the trip, I didn't really look at the treatment plan.

And I said, well, I'll be halfway across the country. It's freezing in New York. I'll just stop back through LA. I have to pick up mail from my old apartment, get a haircut.

I'll just kind of like spend some warm time out there. I shouldn't have traveled maybe after these procedures. It wasn't fun to travel with a small enough, but now it's fine, I'm on the mend, and I'm stuck here while you're in a blizzard.

- Wow. - You can do that. - Not bad, it looks like you made the right call, John. - That's right, that's right. - I will say, I did get back yesterday

from the Bahamas. It felt super counterintuitive. Racing back into this storm. Yet, we've had so many snowstorms. And here we are, yet again, another.

And at 10 o'clock, three AM East Coast time, let me say, we are still getting pummeled with snow right now. I mean, it's Jordan, you are in where you right now. - I am at home in Westchester.

- And how is it where you are? I mean, I'm assuming you can't even leave your house. - Yeah, it was like one of those like, it was like a cartoon where you open the door, and then there's like two feet of snow,

just like snowing you in. So yeah, I got a lot of work to do later. - And all your kids have snow days, right? - They sure did. - Yeah, they sure did.

- I wish I could be there, it's not gonna last snow day, I had been feet on my face. - Yes, sure did. Well, Ben's little friend Nikki from down the street is just arrived.

So Harley Nikki, they're gonna leave me alone. The remote's not working in the family room. That's the crisis inside the house right now. So he was in my bed watching. Jordan, are you familiar with this show

about like the big bear and all the little cute little things around the bear, it's on Netflix or something? - I'm familiar with a children's book, the bear snores on, and it's like, no.

“- Oh, wait, I know, it's like a bear and lemons, right?”

- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. - It's like, there are like seven minute episodes which is very annoying to me. Anyway, yada, yada, yada. - I hope they don't show the part

where the lemmings all commit groups suicide in jump up with.

- No, no, yeah, they're always jumping off cliffs and stuff,

but they live in this. - Okay. - Wait, back in the Bahamas, I was watching your location. Right when my flights were getting canceled, I saw that you were in the Bahamas

and then all of a sudden you were back so quickly, that seemed very easy in the middle of the storm or you flying commercial. - Ah, I wasn't. - Wow, incredible.

- Incredible. - I was not, to be honest, and also, yeah.

the one time that I spring for a plane.

Here are you guys. - Oh, though, you made the right decision.

“- You pay for efficiency, you get efficiency, right?”

- I thought, I was literally on the phone with Delta and they were saying that I can't get out until Thursday and I was like, wow, what's Andy gonna do? Hopefully he's back and I saw you're at the Bahamas airport and I almost said, why are you wasting your time?

You can't get back and then I got distracted and then the next thing I knew, you were safe and sound. - I was stunned. I thought they were gonna say, sorry, all the runway's closed and you're stranded and then I thought,

this is the best possible world. I already paid for this plane.

The plane is in the Bahamas.

It will, you know, maybe this plane will be able to get out on Tuesday, so I was thinking, you know, I'm now, I'm live tonight after below deck on Watch What Happens Live. We're going to be doing a, you know, snow stormy show

from the clubhouse, which should be fun. And here we are, but yeah, I couldn't believe it. I was ready to do a Zoom show from the Bahamas. This morning, and I was, yeah. Anyway, there we were on the plane watching the finals

of the hockey, which was very exciting. My nanny is a huge hockey fan. And she knows a lot of the players on Team USA, and it was like a very big deal for her to the point that our departure time, our wheels up time,

got moved up a few hours. They were like, we can slot you into Teterboro, but you have to leave at 11 a.m. I'm like, okay, we gotta get out of here, guys. We were packing and going crazy.

My nanny was so focused on the game that I was scared of her.

“Like, I was like, is there anything else I can do for you?”

Do you need this? Do you need that? Like, I was a psycho. It was actually kind of funny. But the trip itself was so great.

I did everything.

It was my first trip since my summer vacation, by the way.

I've not gone with the family anywhere. I stayed in town for Christmas. Oh, well, we went to St. Louis for Thanksgiving does that count? I don't think it counts.

I read two books. I spent so much time with my kids. I slept so much. I was going to bed at like 930 or 10, and sleeping 9 or 10 hours a night.

It was lovely. It was just, it was everything I wanted the vacation to be. It was really, really nice. So thanks for asking how it was. And Ben learned how to play backgammon.

John, you know what a huge deal this is for me now. Yes. In the house, Lucy, by the way, for months, has been saying that our nanny is taking us to the Bahamas. And she and I'm like, and I keep saying,

I'm taking us to the Bahamas. It's daddy and the morning we were leaving last Monday morning. At 6 a.m., I overhear her saying to the nanny, "Is daddy coming?" Yeah, daddy's taking us.

It's my thing. It's crazy. Anyway, I suppose that homeless kittens in the Bahamas. Oh my god, that kept up. I mean, we're trying.

How long do I let this homeless kitten thing go on, Jordan?

“Oh, you have to let it play out, just let it play out.”

I mean, forever, just why stop it. 'Cause she's literally like, my own, my own. This morning, she's like, my own, she's processing something, whether it's stress, or she's trying to dissociate from something. I guess, I guess.

Let it go until she demands you like, kind of tail on her 24/7. Then it's, then maybe it's gone too far. But for now, it seems really cute. I took them out last night. We went out for our Sunday dinner.

And Ben at the table was saying, I, he's like, I have a tummy ache daddy, 'cause I was like, eat more of your spaghetti and meat sauce. He's like, I have a tummy ache. And I'm like, then stop drinking your chocolate milkshake.

And he's like, I don't have a tummy ache. I'm like, hmm, okay. So he's like, whovering his chocolate milkshake? Well, his beautiful green rug and his hallway outside of the out of his room

is now stained with chocolate milkshakes

Welcome to New York City, Daddy. A Blizzard Bomb. And Ben spent a lot of time with that. It's spent a lot of time.

“I was using fresh snow to kind of water down the surface.”

It just seemed more glamorous to go on my terrace and pick up some snow. I have woke up this morning thinking that the snowstorm was a bust. And but it's absolutely not.

I, I posted on threads. I'm like, is it me or is this a bust? And everyone was like, this is horrible. You're terrible. Like, okay, fine.

Wow, we have so much to talk about. So much happened while we were gone. It really did. There were a lot of things that happened. I mean, Nancy got three still missing.

Like, there are huge things going on that are crazy. Starting to kind of crazy. Have weird conspiracy theory. Me too.

I am, yeah, absolutely. You too, it's very shady, honey. Well, then they were saying it could be like years until they find her, which is yeah. What is bonkers?

No. And then there's the doorbell cam where they clearly have somebody on there, I don't understand. Oh, God, poor Savannah. It's just reeks of shade.

I know. We have a lot of stress of Savannah. I love her. I know. The great Eric Dane passed away the other day.

ALS is just unbelievable. I have absolute tragedy. And we loved him so much, but both of them were so great on this show. Yeah.

They're both up for, you can listen on demand and you can hear how full of life he was. And he was so, he was so gay and emotionally mature. He was emotionally mature, but he was also gay and funny. And he was flirty and he was a little dirty.

I mean, he just, he was one of those people that I remember we had him on because I was such a euphoria fan. And then I was like, wait a minute, this guy is just gold. He's great.

So sending all of our love to his family and his two kids, very sad. John, very happy. Blackbirds. Yep.

No, what were his last words? No, we had, there's this big thing.

It's really amazing to watch.

Netflix has this last words. It's his long letter to his daughters at the very end. He's like, and these are my last words. And then it's ducked down from Netflix. Like, I would just feel like they could lead the logo off.

You know what I mean? Like if it was a transcript of that. And these are my last words ducked down. It's on something.

“You should watch the clip because when I was watching it,”

I was like, this is what the world needs now. This is gonna pierce through the bullshit. This is wisdom and beauty and light and love. And then does everything have to be branded like with the Netflix logo?

Right. Anyway, what were you gonna say? I was gonna say it was very excited to hear from you a couple times during break that you have become a fan of the key key lounge.

Oh, yeah. It became part of my morning routine. This is very exciting to me. Oh, yeah, I'm really, really.

I've always liked the music, but I have a very specific

morning routine and it is phone off until I finish myself care, you know, and make my beverage and everything. Just I have a morning to myself without any internet or anything. But I always have music playing.

And it's a little bit of a hit and miss. It's been a little bit of like, can't find the right groove.

“But I just started putting on the key key lounge”

on my very nice sound bar that I invested. Oh, yeah. And you suggested that. And then I thought that's gonna be too loud or whatever, but it's the perfect vibe in the morning.

And it's perfect vibe late at night, too. Yes. I'm very happy to hear that. What did you think of my Macauge ad campaign? The folks that my viral puffer jacket.

We were the first thing I thought

was that the production value was so incredible.

I know it cameras they're using, but it's beautifully done. Yes. And yes, I was very excited and amazing. For my trouble, they gave me a matching coat for Ben. Tell you that.

It's so, I already told you that. It's like, I saw it in person. And he, but he has gotten his so filthy. It's like, yeah, covered in grease.

I didn't take it off a corner of the road the other day.

I'm like, Ben, so we've already washed it once. I just, it's, it's crazy. But when he and I trust and believe when he and I walk on the street together, wearing our matching coats, it's a little bit of a spectacle.

I mean, it's the other day, I can't remember where we were going, but I didn't wear it. And he goes, Daddy, why didn't you wear the coat? I go, it's just too much. I go, I don't need people coming up to us.

“He goes, do you not like it when people talk to you?”

I like it turned into this whole thing. Anyway, so that's that. Love my new coat. Thank you very much. I love my new coat.

Yes, I got John, I'm a college coat. I did the Trader's reunion while we were on break. And it was really good. I have to say judging by Rina and Candice on Twitter since they've been eliminated, spoilers, sorry.

Do you think they realized that it was a game? Like, I think Candice does. Candice's husband is tweeting all this crazy stuff about Rob. It's like, it's a game called Detroiters.

But every housewife who's ever been on that show has this issue. With the exception, maybe like, sure, they-- I mean, in the worst case being Larissa, where they forget that it's a game because they are so used to being triggered by what someone says about them or professionals.

But that's just can't help it.

“But I think, like, I think Darinda knows that it was a game.”

I think the housewife saying, oh, was a game brandy. Yes, I spoke about last week. But there's a housewife skill is that is the drama. Right, yes, not the game. But anyway, it's just, it's wild to see some of the posts,

tweets and stuff. I was on the flight back from the-- from the Trader's reunion on the day after. I was sitting there, you know, listening to the show that I love flying because I get so much work done.

And I'm up there. And I usually, I'm screening a lot of housewife shows,

basically, and doing my notes on those shows.

And I was sitting very rapidly, very rapidly, watching the Potomac reunion. And this flight attendant came up and-- so what's the news with Samantha's mom? And I said, and I had my headphones on.

And I said, I'm sorry, should what's the news with Samantha's mom? I said, I really don't know, but I'm very sad about it. And then she-- and then I went back to my thing. And then she comes over and she's like, so you don't watch ET. I go, what?

She goes, you don't follow the news. I go, excuse me, what is it? She goes, you only know the housewives then. You don't know what's going on with Savannah's mom. Is that what you know?

“And I go, yeah, that's what I know, lady.”

Like, I started getting a little crazy, OK? And then she said, well, you know what? You're no fun. And I'm like, you know what? I'm doing my work.

I'm not fun. I'm working right now. How's that? I'm not fun. So then I land and it's Friday night.

And you know, I just want to get home. I'm done. And my driver has gone to the wrong terminal.

I realized this is a first world problem.

Your driver going to the wrong terminal. But I'm standing there for 25 minutes. And he keeps saying, I'm three minutes away, but he's not three minutes away. And I'm going crazy.

And I get in the car. And I was, you guys, I was crazy in the car. Like I was like a little bit caged annually. I was like, well, I mean, you know, I mean, I've just been standing there for 25 minutes.

And it's like, now I'm not going to be able to see my kids because they're going to go to bed. And you know, and he's like, I'm sorry. And then, you know, whatever. And then I was like talking to my parents on the phone

and my mom's like, God, it's late. I go, well, I said I was made 25 minutes later. And then now we're getting close to home. And of course, it was so much traffic.

Now we're getting close to home.

And now I'm doing that thing where I feel that I've been too harsh on the driver. And I am like, you know what? Well, I go, well, we're getting close. I go, I really hope you have a really nice night.

And I hope the rest of your weekend is good. Like, I'm like, Mr. Kindness now. And like, and you know what I am? I'm a gaslighter. I'm gaslighting this person into forgetting what a dick I was.

And he said, listen, again, I want to apologize. And I said, oh, no, I go, it's not even. I said, that was not your fault. I said they told you the wrong German one to go to. Now it was his fault, by the way, but you know,

I was totally changing. I said it wasn't your fault, all good. Now we've pulled up to the thing. And he does what I hate a driver to do.

And I always say, don't get out, don't get out.

I never want my driver to get out of the car when I get out because it's just pointless. I don't need help, I got it. I was only traveling with a backpack, by the way. But you know, whatever.

So I said, all good, like, thank you. He says to me, I would appreciate it if you would give me a five star review. And I said, oh, no, I said, well, I'm, I hate, he got me back, I go, well, I'm not doing that.

And I said, but have a good night. I walked away, and I didn't give him a review,

“but like, can you imagine I'd appreciate a five star review?”

Like, I can actually, I think in those moments when you're raging, can you take a moment of pause to skip forward to say, what I like, am I going to feel bad about being such an asshole later? And just, yeah, I know I am kind of surrender

to the moment, right? So maybe, like, and then that way you won't be an asshole, and you will have given away a little kindness this person, but what I've learned about the drivers is I hate when they get out too, but it's part of what they perceive

to be an integral part of their job. And if they don't get out, they won't get a review, they won't get a tip, and I think it's just in there, they're doing their job by saying, hey, give me five stars because I think they're livelihood really depends on it.

I don't think he was saying anything personal about, it wasn't my fault, I think it was he'd say it to anybody, like, hey, give me five stars, that's part of the sign-off, that's like, hey, thanks for writing to be five stars. Like, that is their bread and butter.

“And I think you should have given him five stars”

who cares, the world is burning, just like, it costs you nothing to give five stars. - Okay, all right, well, now I feel terrible. Jesus, I would be mad if I was, if he was 25 minutes late too, but you're in control of how you, if you were a dickness,

yes, you don't have to be a dick. - I mean, but excuse me, you will admit that it is kind of funny that the guy is like, I had to appreciate a five star review. I mean, you have to admit that's kind of funny, John. - My driver from Smile Taxis, we were almost,

I almost asked my flight because he said, hey, I could see his navigation and it was, he had gone the wrong way. And he was trying to pass it off like, oh, hey, just so you know, like, I don't like this freeway. So we're gonna go in this other freeway.

I was like, girl, I can see that you missed the turn. (laughs) That's fine. Like, why this charade, just say, like, oh, shit, I missed it, like, big deal.

They don't have a gel to lounge in Houston, Bush. - Wow. - All I wanted was Yogurt, oatmeal, or soup, or something. I couldn't chew, and I wanted some ice. I was like, this is what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna get to the airport early. I'm gonna fill up a baggy with ice. I'm gonna sit there with it on my cheek, and I'm gonna suck down yogurt and oatmeal. They don't even have a delta sky lounge, I'm sorry, babe.

- I was very mad. - Okay, now, we're home, back to the, in the long flight of time, was that United or American, you're American, American, you gotta change.

They never do that to you and Delta one.

“I, I'm, you know, I'm Concierge Key on American,”

so I'm just locked in. Anyway, we have so much to talk about today. We are gonna take a break, we are gonna come back. I wanna, I do wanna recommend the book that I read. I read two books, post about them book,

but special shout out, long island compromise. It is so good, you guys. It's out in paperback. It is excellent, it's, it's a great book.

it's about a rich family on the island,

and kind of what money does. It's really good. - Did you see all those videos from that plastic surgeon, Dr. Davia, who was like responding to Kelly Dodd,

“and then got into like this Instagram war with her.”

- Oh my God, oh is she a plastic surgeon? - She's like a double board certified doctor in one of them is plastic surgery, and she was a breast cancer reconstruction surgeon. - No, is that what she does?

She's a breast cancer reconstruction surgeon. - Read to Constructive Surgeon. - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - So smart and was just,

she became like the internet's darling on Instagram. - I read. - I actually, there was so much of it. And it was incredible. I don't think I've seen someone get decimated

like that in a long time. - Yeah. - It was impressive. - Wow, she got eaten alive by that board certified doctor.

“- And of course, we Kelly was also like deleting videos,”

but of course they live around the internet, so then like people were serious. - Margarita Lady deletes a lot of videos too. Anyway, Anderson announced he's leaving 60 minutes,

what an incredible run he had on that show, 20 years.

And seems like, listen, a good time too. - Oh, shit girl. - Focus on your family. Seems like a good time. - Yeah.

Tuesday of your 24th, 2026. Good morning, everybody. - Woo! - I am still home in my cozy apartment. Had a lot of fires going over the last 24 hours.

- Oh, kids are cozy. How you doing in LA, John? - You know, I'm good. I am thawing out. - Good, yeah, I'm enjoying my new temporary teeth.

- From smile to fat.

“- Wanna hear Ben's list of things he's gonna do when I die?”

- Yes, spend the money. - Not eat broccoli, do whatever he wants. Not listen to me, he told me. Okay, he told me, not listen. And then he said, he hopes that my soul

can see him doing all these things that I have told him not to do after I pass. He's very big on my soul either, seeing him after I pass or hugging him after I pass or whatever.

So it's very interesting. But you know what I said? This is interesting. I said, you know what Ben? That sounds like a good list.

I agree with you. You know, yeah. - He's processing and learning cry up on his own belief system of what a soul is and what happens to die.

Like this is him figuring that out.

It's amazing that he's sharing.

You get a front row seat to this process that we all had at one point or another did. - He said to me, on the trip, we were in the Bahamas two of my girlfriends that I've been friends with since junior high.

Came, Jeannie and Jackie. And he told me at one point, he thought that Jeannie and Jackie were sisters. And I go, oh my God, I go, no Ben. I go, they're not sisters.

They're, we're like old friends. And he put his hand, he's so funny. Put his hand on his head, he goes, oh my God, he goes, I've thought this the whole time. Meaning he is whole time being alive.

I go, come as a parent, they kind of... - I know, well, they really do, but it's so funny. The other night he was going to Ben and he said, for the love of God, Lucy, let me sleep in the morning.

I'm like, for the love of God. Like, he has such an old Jewish man. This kid is like an old soul. It's so funny. Anyway, funny, funny.

John and I had a field trip before I left. And I will say it was spurred on by Ben Cohen and I played the audio here, telling me that I look, quote, more like a grandpa than a dad.

he said, you have whiskers on your ears.

So John and I took a field trip. Where did we go, John? - It was actually on Valentine's Day.

“Where else do you want to be in your life,”

other than on a date with your ex at European waxing centers where we got our ears and noses waxed? - And I guess who I brought is my Valentine's Day to watch. - So cute. - Ben Cohen came to watch. - I was really, really cute.

He was so enthralled because when they ripped the stuff out, it's covered in nasty, nasty old man hair. And now I have like Brazilian like smooth ears, they're very sensual. My ears are so pristine.

And let me say this when they rip that ball of wax off of your ear and then they show it to you. And it is covered in the longest hairs. I was like, oh, wait a minute.

- I got you. - I got you.

- I got you. - I got you. - I got you. - Don't blame you on you. - And they went back to watch. - They went back to watch. - We got to go back twice. And then I'm like, Ben, come here, look at it.

Even Ben lost interest in the hairy wax man that came out of my ear, my ear fetus. It was crazy. - Yeah, it was, I felt very well taken care of because it is such a,

I didn't realize it was going to be that harrowing to see what actually comes out of you in that process. I thought it was just going to be a light peach fuzz, but men over 45 all say is there's, no, myself included, there's, there's a jungle growing

in the ears. And, you know, it's a beautiful purple wax gorgeous hot product on your ear.

- Our technician was lovely.

- And John went to say tell me is that I should be going back like two months. Six months, six months they said.

“- Yeah, and I think that once you do it a few times,”

you can do it kind of, you can spread a mask. - Last year. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I'm going back, I will be going back. - You didn't see my results, but mine was, I'd less than you.

- Of course you did. - Of course you did. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But I have felt very like more confident. - Oh. - I didn't know that I was walking around

with the shame of such a dirty ear. You know, it was showing kind of like a, but now I've just been very proud. - Right. - Right. - Or just holes.

- Yeah, you're being waxing. - You're just gorgeous. - They're everywhere. - Jordan, I can do things for you, I'm sure not. - Oh, don't bring Jordan in it. - No, they, no, it's a, they, it's an industrial.

- I know, but this comes like coming in HR issue. Yes, Jordan, we can't hear you, darling. Oh, yes, now we can, oh no, we can't hear you again. Oh my God, Jordan's microphone. (laughing)

- Now here, I'll edit this. Yeah, I start talking Jordan, I head you off there. - Oh. - Now can you hear me? - Yep.

- Yes. - I was just trying to help her with them. Is full of, like, your waxing videos. So I actually kind of wish you took a picture. - Oh, we're gonna take you.

- Oh, we're gonna take you. - Our algorithm is just full of hot guys. And every time I look at a hot guy, yeah, I know, John, because every time I look, there's a like from John.

(laughing) - Well, because for a while, I was trying to train my algorithm to show me, you know, gym aspirational stuff. Now I'm going back in un-harding and unfollowing hot guys. - Oh, because I've read more enriching things in my feet.

- That's true.

“- And I think I like those guys un-harding them.”

- Well, if I happen to see that if I get fed some hot guy and I've already liked it, I unlike it. - Oh, okay. - I'll grow them to show me enriching things for my brain. - I know, but if, oh, okay.

Now, I was blown away while we were gone by the clips of Michelle Obama talking about the Jersey Housewives. But there's a clip of her describing me getting pushed by to research you guys. Did you hear it, John?

- Yes, and I would like to hear it again. We have it. Do we have it, Jordan? - Yes. - Yeah, we have it. - Okay, let's hear this.

It's so insane. - Go to New Jersey. - Okay. - But you got a star, I go pick a season that you can start maybe right around the time.

She's about to go to jail. - Okay. - Would be a good one.

when she like almost knocked out Andy Cohen.

“- Go on, she was going after another housewife”

and he was trying to stop her. This is the host. She takes one arm and just pushes him out of waiting. She's a little lady, but she's strong. I love that one.

That was another one. - Okay. - All right. - Alright. Michelle Obama liked seeing me get pushed by Theresa.

I didn't think that was wild. My God, I couldn't believe it. I texted with Theresa about it. I was like Theresa, the way that she spoke about you. Because she, that wasn't all she said.

It was like five minutes of clips. And she refers to Theresa's daughters, it's beautiful. And I mean, she really, she knows what's up. It's wild. - Yes.

- She really does.

“Now Jordan, should we do some viewer listen or mail now”

and then go to break or should we go to listen? - Yeah, let's get into the mail back. - Let's get into some, okay, let's get into some listen or mail, John. ♪ Listen or mail, listen or mail ♪

- Listen or mail, hold on, hold on. It's a different system today. - Oh boy, hold on. - No, it's good, it's common, I just stop, okay. It's not, hey, my listen and mail.

- Tight and right. - Wait, listen or mail. - This is from Kay, Andy and John, does your neighborhood look like the other parts of Manhattan with the piles of dirty snow dog poop and mountains

of trash bags just curious if so, what are your thoughts?

Now I will speak to this first as the owner of a dog

who poops out, the size of a raisinette poop. - Right. - I picked that up and sometimes I go you know what? I'm wasting trash bags by picking up this little acorn. - Right.

- But I do it, because when I lived in New York before I saw it happen and my dog, the Allison Janney was on this show. We talked about it, the people don't pick up their poop. Snow goes on top of that, it's just layers of poop. Snow, poops, no, poops, no, and then it all melts.

And then it's a river of poop and then your dogs are walking in it and they get Jardia. And then they diarrhea in your house. So it's a cycle of poop, but no, why are people not picking it up? And I'm talking, these are big dogs.

“- They are big dogs. - That's what I just...”

- You're just leaving her, yeah. - They'll leave it out.

- But it's interesting, but here's what's happening.

We had a huge snowstorm as you know, earlier in January, like massive. - Yeah. - And it was followed by like three weeks of temperatures that were under ice.

- I'm gonna say, under 25 degrees. - So nothing melted and it screwed up everything. And as a result, there are all these videos going around of New York City to make it look like it's this house gap. And everyone's blaming it on mom-dong, cleaned and cleaned.

- And he's a socialist. (laughs) - And the amount and before the snowstorm happened, like on Sunday, everyone was... And when I say everyone, everyone who doesn't live in New York City and doesn't know what they're talking about,

was posting like, "How do you feel about your new mayor now?" New York, I gotta tell you something, all of these posts, they are making me not only more proud to be in New Yorker. - Yes. - But they're making me support the mayor,

even more than I ever did. - I think that's a great job. - Let us deal with what we have going on here. Don't you worry about it, because by the way, you're posting from Oklahoma, which has the worst educated people

in the country. So just deal with your own problems. - You're right, it does give you sense of pride, 'cause it's like, "Bitch, you wouldn't last two seconds." Yes, this is happening.

Yes, it's annoying. Yes, there's snow that was six feet tall and it was frozen 'cause it couldn't melt had nothing to do with anybody else, but we were like, "All right, we'll walk around."

- No one would-- - Yeah, exactly. - We can handle it. You are the least. - Yeah, this is what we do. - This is what we do. - Yeah, we're good.

- Yeah, we don't need to take care of. - What else is this in your mail, John? - Saludos from Cres-Corpus Chrissy Texas, shout out John. So my husband and I have been obsessed with Whisper Wednesday since its inception.

He works out a town and shit you not every single Wednesday when we call each other, Whisper. For like the last two years, if you recall last year, when we called him into her son started,

on Thursdays, you like my accent, I'm taking to a lingo.

“We do that too, except he tells me the same lame-ass joke”

every week, but it's our thing.

And I laugh like it's the first time I heard it.

He even makes his employees told jokes on Thursday and Whisper's in their daily meeting on Wednesdays. We counted down the days to this year's Whisper Wednesday and Chef's kiss as per use and side note, the husband who works out of town 90% of the year,

secret to Marital Bliss. - Wow, that's great. Saludos, Christina from Indiana. - I've been playing Word Chumps with Andy for several years. I'm a deadhead since the '80s and also a B-52s fan.

I feel like we should have been besties. I've not like Whisper Wednesdays in the past, but this year made me laugh out loud when Andy cursed about having to do the live reads in a whisper. I nearly spit out my coffee.

Keep up the good work. I love you, John, and your show is a highlight. - Wow. - My day. - I wonder if she is see-weaver because I have been playing with see-weaver.

- Well, don't blow up your spot. - Yeah. What else? Kelly Higgins, one year ago I called in from the hospital to announce the birth of my daughter, Liliana Rose.

I'm happy to say that we have survived one year. - Yeah. - You just wanna let you know that listen to your show during maternity leave was a constant comfort last year.

It's a time that can sometimes be lonely as you're snuggled up in a bubble. While the world moves on around you, your bans are made it feel like I was surrounded by old friends, glad you're back in New York, John,

and Andy, your parenting stories always hit home

along with great advice from Jordan. That's wishes to you all and if possible, wish,

“would you wish my girl Liliana Rose a happy first birthday?”

- Happy birthday, Liliana Rose. - Feliz company, annualios. - Liliana Rose. - Feliz company, annualios, annualios, annualios. (laughs)

- Ile, Iel, A.Y.L.E. How unbelieveably 14-year-old Mean Girls, John and Andy, to get off on Jill Z firing from New Show. Can't grasp. Telling listeners to call eat a complaint,

probably help get that done. Jill expressed an opinion, "Shint like the halftime show?" - She ain't murder anyone's cast. - That's why Lilia's lost the election.

- Exactly. - Because it doesn't align with Hollywood politics and the woke culture, first of all. - Okay. - Okay.

- And just because something doesn't make them racist, I have a coworker who commits fraud. Lies every day on Team Skull. Her husband's can't stand her. She engages in conflicts.

He can behave very lazy as fuck. - Okay, okay, this is crazy. Not everything is racism. - Jill, all right. - All right, to voice her opinion.

- Yeah, well, she did. - And guess what? - It's a racist opinion, dumbass. - Well, no, guess what? I didn't express Glee.

I will say, was I a little, yeah, let's see. Well, did I, I didn't, I don't think I expressed Glee. I think me saying call E was, I mean, it was a little of what that meant was, don't complain to me.

- All right. - Not your problem. - So, you know what, if there's something that's not my problem, yeah, consider me, you know, this, you also need to have something

that's not my problem. What I couldn't believe at what I expressed on the radio was, and it made me sad actually, was the Zaryn Fabric thing. I just couldn't believe it.

I never thought I would see it,

and I was, and I don't want anyone to think I was Gleeful talking about that Zaryn Fabric thing. I just couldn't believe it. - Couldn't believe it. - Yeah.

- What else? - I hated this email. Okay, Red from New Jersey writes John, as an icon and a legend, so I hate to say this, but Andy is somewhat right about Starbucks tea.

It is indeed a fuel containing a small bag. However, it tastes like the liquid from a bar mat. Embarrassed to say that I say drink it for the euphoric buzz. Sorry, John, Andy, get the fort and we may some brand and make it at home and actually taste good,

just don't expect the associated high. Now I will say our listeners, I only do it for the fort and am in Mason tea, and I was drinking this back at once. And I loved it.

Thank you to our listener. - That's great. - It's really, really good, yes.

“But I do, it is like jet fuel, and that's why I'm addicted”

to it. - Well, I got into the espresso machine, and I do two double espresso with a little bit of milk in the morning, and if you want to get cracked out of your ass, give it a try.

- Tea, what? - I tell you. I did not cover any of my outdoor furniture for the entire winter. All of these couches from restoration hardware

that are, they ain't cheap. Well, Jordan, why are you looking like that? I mean, you think it's gonna be that bad on my furniture? - No, I'm making a face because I also didn't cover any of my outdoor furniture, and then berated myself

for not doing it, and then certainly had the opportunity in between snowstorms to cover it, and I still didn't do it. So, we'll see. - I mean, by the way, the snow is just falling off the top of this like greenhouse like structure that I'm in.

All right, John, put us in this.

“- I mean, what else is in our, in our, in our, yes.”

- Yes, mailback. Take it or leave it. This is Tali from Oahu, after 15 years in education, it sounds like Ben is ready to start journaling to build his reflection skills, I'm into this.

I recommend letting him pick out a journal, and to start, you can do it together, or he can put chosen stickers or short words, by specific dates to reflect how the day or week was. This can be five to 10 minutes,

once a day, once a week, whatever feels comfortable. I say it because you shared he was reflecting already on the slime birthday, getting to many sweets. It's truly great to start these impactful habits early. I don't think Lucy is ready,

but if you get one for a big brother, you'd best see it. Andy, you're a great father from what

I can tell, but there will never be enough for you

to go around and it's great to start showing them how to self-south, early. Boom, love it. True. - Yes, that is good.

- Yeah, yeah. - Myra, Andy, I wanted to tell you that I too have some human kiddies at home.

“I have three-year-old twins, boy and girl,”

and they take turns pretending to be a kiddy. The cutest thing is that they are each other's own eyes. - Thanks for making me laugh each day. (laughing) Oh, no.

- Okay, Laura Quinn, can Andy finally wash his hands of any Woody Allen support? Love you three to the moon, heart. - I'm not, I'm not like actively supporting Woody Allen. I don't know what, what does he want from me,

to publicly denounce Woody Allen?

I don't, you know, I love Woody Allen movies.

I'm not gonna get over that, I, I don't, you know, I, that's just where I'm at, you know? - Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's a big conversation. We have about a bunch of different people, like I don't like hearing Michael Jackson music,

it makes me think of bad things, but also a lot of people are, I mean, that shows a big hit on Broadway, people don't have any problem at all. It's different people, like I just re-watched

Vicky Christina Barcelona because I'm going to Barcelona and I was able to separate because you don't see, I don't know, thinking about the element I'm watching.

- When are you going to Barcelona, babe? - Last week of May. - Oh, great. - We're off. - I got a little piece of viewer message.

- But that being said, Woody Allen, bad, bad, bad, bad. - Yes, denounce, go ahead. - I got a piece of viewer mail yesterday from someone called Angelique. - If you're listening to you this morning

on Andy Cohen live, I realize how much of a rich, completely toned death. It's a toned death. (laughs) It's death. Ooh, out of touch, person, you are.

Also when someone calls you out a little bit

“and tells you perhaps you should be the bigger person”

or give person some grace and explain why or explain their story or experience, you immediately cut them off and go back to yourself. You need to get serious therapy and realize what a privileged life you lead,

maybe show other people grace. People make mistakes all the time and not on purpose, but they're just mistakes. So what they went to the wrong freaking terminal, who cares?

Was your life really that messed up? And like John said, they're bread and butter depends on that review. But no, you have to be like, I was inconvenienced. You really are a privileged rich toned death.

Toned death, she says again, that's not toned death. Toned death, doned death, death, death, death. Not toned death, toned death. And out of touch jerks sometimes to which I responded, I agree, Angelique.

But I will say, I thought that John gave me great feedback on that yesterday and I didn't discount it. What every single thing he said was true. So, well, I also relate to how upset it. I get very upset and stuff like that too.

I just, in that moment, just, I always think

I don't want to have to apologize later. Right. Of course. I don't want to feel bad and I want this person. Yes.

I want to get out of this car. But I want to be like, thanks, bye, and just get-- And you know, it's just that thing where you fly six hours. Totally. And you finally get to where you're going.

And you know you have an hour left in the car together. No, we get it. And you can just make your kids bed time. And the guys like, oh, I'm at the wrong terminal. And it's 25 minutes later.

So I mean, whatever, it's frustrating. But yes, by the way, I know how privileged I am. I really do. I promise you. You do.

You're grateful. You're grateful. Thank you. Mm, let's see. Jackie.

Don't Florida. Just want to drop a line and see that you're both awesome. Your banter makes my day with all the atrocities in the world. I look forward to your show every morning. John's un-solicited child rearing advice is hilarious.

Keep up the fight against felon and chief. Love you both. OK.

“I weigh in on the conversation that's happening.”

I would never give a parent.

I don't give a shit. Yeah. I'm out. They're dancing. I don't know.

But we have the conversation. Susie, Susie from Ohio, there needs to be a survey to see if Jordan's laughing in the background is agitating to others as it is to me, oh my god. Awesome.

They need to feed back on Jordan's laughing. Have her laugh into the microphone. The background knows it's so annoying. Please make it stop. You can see that sky is blue and she'll laugh at it.

Stop the med. OK, first of all, I don't laugh if it's not funny. There are a lot of things that do not land with me, but I'll keep my joy within. No. I know.

I'm going to pay you guys dust going for it.

Oh boy. I don't know. Don't listen to it.

“It's really hard to be a funny person or trying to be an entertaining person”

and hear nothing. I agree. It's hard. It's almost as bad as when you say something brilliant or hilarious and your co-host goes, "That's funny."

Let's see. Well, that is how I do it. I do a lot of things that are funny. Back with more from this week's Daddy Diaries after this. Wednesday, February 25th, 2020, Tuesdays, good morning, everybody.

I'm Andy Cohen right here in the radio and the studios. What studio is this? Studio 10? Yes. Video 10.

In New York City, John is joining us in Los Angeles. Hey, John. Oh, hey. Good morning. John's in a t-shirt, just rubbing it in.

Wow. I've been avoiding slush puddles all morning. I'm surprised you're in the studio. I know they're huge snow banks everywhere, snow banks, snow banks, and then lakes of slush.

But there's still so much snow. It's bad. It is bad. I know you're coming back tomorrow. Don't rush.

I'm fine. I'm coming back right after this. Okay, well, don't rush. Anyway, we are here. Yeah, I came in.

I brought my barista's nerds today. I brought a huge thing of nerds for them because they've been begging. And I have, in my hallway, outside of my apartment, a case of so many nerds. So, I'm the nerds guy.

What can I tell you? I'm the nerds guy. How was your, where are you staying in LA, John?

“Like, are you staying at a friend or are you in a hotel?”

Yeah, some staying at my friend, Microsoft. Nice. And are you seeing a lot of people? Yes, I have seen, I have like run this trip like a networking event or a speed day dating for singles events.

It's crazy. I've seen so many people, I've really taken advantage of the time. And now that you've spent a couple days there, how are you feeling about your New York move? Are you regretting it all?

No. Not even. Not even. I don't like being in a holding pattern. I didn't pack the right panties.

You know what I mean? Like, I don't like being a trading water, liminal space. If I would have come out here and said, okay, I'm going to go out open and did. No return flight. That would have even been better.

But this is like, I planned on smile Texas recovery, gum surgery, I'm in comfort clothes. You know what I mean? I had to go to a really fancy dinner last night, I'm like, girl, I'm in $60 Nike sneakers. Right. Right.

What was the dinner? I took it. It was at a place called the Living Room here. It's this art space. Have you heard of this place?

No. It was amazing. It was for my friends, the hospital. They're so I told you about their Jackie Nose who they are, their big, huge artists. Oh, wow.

And they, yeah. And it was one of those big dinners where everyone is seated with a, you know, name card. Yeah. He split everyone up.

And I, you know, I don't always love to make new friends.

How the back dinners. How the back dinners. It went amazingly, because every single person at the party was cool. I sat next to this artist named Lauren Halsey, who is a sculptor. She has sculptures on the roof of the Met.

I sat next to an architect to my right, who designs hotels and stores.

Okay. And I gumbed my food. I kind of sucked up.

Oh, are you having to gum your food?

Well, I'm having to kind of suck. Oh, I mean, you suck a baby. I'm not sucking it around.

“I got, have you been doing any sucking that while you've been there?”

No, but I did have a friend who I had hooked up with in the past. And he was like, oh, you're in town. And I said, yeah, but I can't. I can't, my mouth won't open. I can't do anything.

And he was like, world world heavy lifting. And I was like, oh, my God, that's kind of embarrassing. Wow. Okay. Oh, my God.

It was Jeff Lewis. Ah, that's funny. Oh, my God.

Um, have you run into Jeff Lewis in the studio?

No, I haven't. I haven't. It's too bad. He and I had, um, coffee last week. Back by the way.

Oh, where? And I was in LA. Or two weeks ago. When I was there for the traders.

“And did you guys go to site glass right here by the studio?”

No, we went to the sunset tower. He came to home. Oh, yes. They have to coffee there. Yes, they do.

I had tea.

Um, I've got the Serena on watch what happens live tonight.

And that's awesome. Headlines about this. Yeah, she writes in her book that she burned my book. She's so dramatic. I'm like, I taxed it or I go, Lisa, you burned my book like, I mean, really?

And she's like, I know, she's, I go, you're so extra or something. She laughed. But I started the traders reunion. And, um, you know, did I say this already? I apologize to her at the traders reunion.

I was that morning. I was in bed. And I was thinking about why I printed those two text messages in my book. And part of the reason I did was because she is like the queen of mention at all, you know, you know, she's, remind me what those texts, well, this is what's so funny.

We went and we looked back. I had Nick Rizzo, Jack for me, um, are my, my brain at watch what happens live. My head researcher. And he checked there were two. One was that she texted after the Beverly Hills reunion and said that she quit.

The other one was that she said that she felt that I was too hard on her at that reunion. And I said, I didn't think I was hard enough on her at that reunion. And I was thinking, you know, I was justifying printing them. And I also thought that I thought she would like it that I printed that she quit the housewives.

People love the optics of quitting as opposed to being fired. That makes her look kind of in control above it, et cetera, et cetera, uh, in charge of her narrative. But then what I realized is, as I was laying there the morning of the traders reunion, thinking about this, what I realized is there was a time a few years ago where Jeff Lewis

read some text messages that I had sent him, uh, any read them on the air. Now they were a little more inflammatory than the ones Lisa sent, but that doesn't matter because maybe in her mind, whatever they were her messages, and I didn't like it, that he put those on blast. And so it is her right not to like it.

And I was like, I said to her, the traders reunion off camera.

“I said, I need to apologize, um, what, what are you?”

I can barely read with this last, what I just say, it was just funny because the niche, if her new book, she has a disclaimer at the beginning that says none of the names have been changed in this book because everything here is just my opinion and I'm entitled to it. So FM.

Oh, okay. Which is, you know. Okay. So mention it all. Well, she's mentioning it all.

Anyway, I just felt like, you know what? I get it. And I said to her, I apologize to you, and I'll apologize on the show tonight, um, you know, publicly. That's very big of you.

And yes, um, when you hear Lisa Rina's coming out with a book, I can only assume that you assume there's going to be some dramatic moments in shit talking in there. There is. And there is. And there's some, there are some things in the book that I, that I remember completely

differently. But there you go. We all have our own experience. We all have our own memory. Right.

And she has a conflicting relationship with the housewives.

But I, she was on the show for I believe eight seasons, which is a lot.

And she was really important to that show. And I want, you know, I, she's, she's done some things for me that have held a really important place for me in my life, which I will explain tonight in front of her. And I want to, I want to say that to her. So, um, and vice versa, I mean, she says I've, I've read some of the book.

And it's, you know, housewives is such a great gift. She's great full for it. And in that, I'm sure there are some resentments and things like that. Yeah.

“I think she acknowledges that it's a hue.”

It was a huge deal. So, I'm sure she's great full, but now I read something about her being roofed. Were you roofed at that party? Were you at that party? Were you at that party?

That party was in the abbey. Oh, no. But, you know, watch your glasses at the abbey. Yes. Always come right up.

Yeah. Yeah. Um. Yeah. So, she's on the show tonight.

And then we've got Amanda Francis on the show tomorrow from the housewives of Beverly Hills. Now, I want her to be able to speak her piece on the show.

“I want her to be able to say what she needs to say, because everybody else certainly”

has a lot to say about her. Um, and I don't love to see when people, you know, all the time. Well, go in on one person, you know, but there's a lot, there's a lot being said. There's a lot being said. I kind of like her.

And then sometimes I'll see a clip that's kind of just looking out. Yes. I deleted it and I'm like, girl, throughout this phone landing. Now, it's mercury in retrograde right now. Okay.

It is right now. Scott, do you have an opinion on this? You're opening your mouth. I did see something that for this next week. I don't think it's mercury and retrograde, but there is something happening in the universe.

Well, all report back in a second.

Let me tell you this. Things have been messed up. At what? Electronically. Technologically.

Yes. What is it? Monday night. We did. Do you have something good?

Mercury is in it's first retrograde of 2026 starting tomorrow and continuing through March 20th. So she came a little bit early. I think. She touched me on my shoulders, starting on Monday because actually, I got back in town.

And that's big. I made it back to town on Sunday, but man, she messes in with me. She messes in with me, mercury, lady, mercury. Because on Mondays, watch what happens live. We pre-tapped the cold open from the terrace, and it was me in the snow in Mablu Parka.

And, you know, saying some rhyme and doing a shot. And, you know, the cold open of the show before Andy Cohen's got the 411 plays. Well, I don't know what happened in the control room, but I've certainly been hazing

“everybody in there, even though the truth is.”

We very rarely make, well, let me change it. I make a ton of mistakes on watch what happens live.

My team never makes mistakes.

I'm the one that makes the mistakes. So, and guess what? I wind up looking dumb, and, I mean, yesterday we taped Sunday's show and I have to wear these glasses for a week because they're measuring my eyeballs without my contact lenses. To see if I can get this freaking cataract surgery, but these glasses, the prescription

ain't great or my eyes have changed or something. So, I can't read this prompter that well, and I've light splaring in my eyes. And, so, we're taping Sunday's show. And, at the drinking word, it says, and we probably should take this out of the prompter because I don't need a stage direction because I'll say, if you hear this word and then

I point, point here, it says, in parentheses, point here, I read point here on the show for Sunday. I'm like, and if you hear this word, point here, can you imagine? You've been doing this for so long, that's been in the script for so long. I know.

Oh, it's crazy. But on Monday's show, we're sitting there with the gas, and all of a sudden, the cold

And I just, we could not figure it out, and then, and I'm like, am I on? Am I on? And, poor John Jude was in my ear, he's like, just talk, just talk. Like, I just started talking, it was so bad. But yesterday, last night, at the show, Nick Rizzo, why mentioned a little bit earlier,

my, our head researcher, he, he has a, way fancier title than that, but he's just incredible this guy. He came in, and I saw him, he usually sits in the back row, and he's got a big smile,

and he's always sitting there with a big Cheshire cat grin, and I'm looking at him, and

“I thought, wow, he, he, where'd he go on the break?”

Like, he got a little, he got 10, didn't think anything of it, and then like an hour later, he's sitting towards the front of the control room, and I looked at him, and I was like, Nick, and he, I mean, I don't want to say, like, he looked like he was Lu and Delasap's pretending to be Diana Ross, if you know what I mean? But it was, bad, and I go, what, I go, Nick, Delasap, no, he, yeah, he was Dolas, all

like, no, he had gotten a spray tan, that afternoon, and I guess you're supposed to shower right, have honey, no, we go to the same place, he goes to cigarette and bronze, and you're

supposed to wait three hours, rinse off the makeup layer, and then it keeps, well, cooking

for eight hours. That's what she didn't rinse.

“You have to rinse, it looks so crazy, it was cooking, and the more I got a selfie with”

him, I went, I go, can I have a selfie, like he was famous, like, I kept going, and meanwhile, I mean, it's black history month, this is not the time to be doing this. I mean, it was, bad, and it was just, but we needed it so bad, we all needed something to laugh at, so bad, it was really, really funny, well done Jordan Ocean, I want to see it, send it to me too.

Hold on here, I'm going to show you, oh, well, I posted it on my fence to here, I'm putting it on the zoom. Oh, yeah, that's, that's, yeah, I mean, he looks like Luan B, and he looks like Julian Huff in 2013, it's crazy, guys, yes, oh my god, we haven't had a celebrity wearing black face in a while, we need a celebrity black face scandal to unite us, I am stunned that

no one in Trump's cabinet has, there's gotta be a Pete Higgs-Seth black, I'm sure from Halloween last year, he was probably doing it, oh my gosh, anyway, it was really funny. You want to know something insane that I did, what, okay, I'll try to make it quick, well, we got all the time in the world, dear, all right, well buckle up, you're, I can't tell if you're gonna think I'm crazy or you're gonna love the dedication, so maybe for Christmas,

you and I both receive a generous gift from Lady and Sir Beckham, yes, sunglasses from the David Beckham line of sunglasses, as one is one thing, so I have had them tell me that you won, really sold that, oh god, okay, are you kidding, okay, okay, go ahead, I would rather jump off a bridge and end my life, I fell in love with one pair and I have posted about it, I love them, I brought them with me, yes, you reposted you.

He sure did, 80 million people, great photo of me, I was in a waymo, I got out of the

“waymo and I was screaming very much like you, see that's why you take a waymo, there's”

no driver to insult, you can scream at it and someone's remotely driving it from the Philippines, anyway, I get out, I was screaming at it because I didn't like where it was dropping me off, I had to run into this target, I left the sunglasses in the waymo, there's no one to call because there's no driver, so hours later, I get back on the app and I, there's an option to call someone, I call it say, hey, I left my sunglasses in there

and they go, okay, well, in this situation, we send the car back to the waymo depo where all the waymo's go and if we find it, we'll send you a QR code in within eight hours, eight hours came and went and last night at this fancy dinner, I got an email, your sunglasses have been found and it goes, you can come and get them 24/7 at the waymo depo and I'm like, well, that's probably a TV city, it's CBS over here because that's where they all

park overnight, oh girl, yeah, I'm sure it's not where near you, don't tell me you took

why you take them, so I took, yeah, because you're putting your life in danger, disagree,

“so I took a $20 waymo 30 minutes to Santa Monica, I got my David Beckham sunglasses and I took”

the waymo back home for $19, wow, and I have, I was so mad, it's so hard to find sunglasses that fit my tiny little face, do you have a tiny face, you have a tiny little face,

you tattooed your sunglasses, don't fit, I know my head is small, what about your little

ear fetus, beanie, it's a work in progress, that's still there, do you think they could hack it off at smile texas, oh yeah, if anybody could, they could hack that off at smile texas, oh my god, anyway, I have my David Beckham sunglasses, oh my god, so happy,

that I just, I couldn't bear the thought of having them lost in a waymo, oh my god,

wow, I'm gonna travel to LA, you cannot have sunglasses, yeah, no, you need it, you need it, let's go to Jackie from Maryland, hey Jackie, hi how are you, good how are you, oh my god, I can't even believe that I'm even talking to you right now, this is unbelievable,

“oh you're kind, oh well, I am calling, honestly, I'm calling him to Santa Jordan, I feel”

like you had somebody right in the other day and they said they hated Jordan's back around last, yes, I find it absolutely delightful, oh, and I feel, I really felt like, you know, someone on TM Jordan needed to call in and really defend her and just enjoy that she brings to our morning so that one person does not represent all, how Jordan have you ever been told that you bring joy to people's mornings? At the risk of sounding full of myself, yes, I have, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we did get a couple of few other emails in defense. Oh, okay, and giggles in the back. We will thank you. Okay. Well, we will be reading doing viewer mail tomorrow. So we'll, we'll get into that. But that's, well, that's very nice to hear Jackie. And Jordan, have you been told that in the

context of this show or just in your daily life? Wow, that's, some would say I have a very sunny disposition. Well, not my husband, but other people. Right. Well, that is very nice of you to call in, Jackie. That's true. I felt like she needed somebody to have a back and I got you to thank you, Jackie. Oh, absolutely, very nice. Thursday, February 26, 26. Good morning, everybody. I'm Andy Cohen, which I know, hey, John. Good morning, Darling. Good morning. It's a sad morning. Um, no. And I just want to start with this

Bravo news. Um, and then kind of clear our palate a little bit. We're so sad to read the news about Mary Cosby's son Robert. Um, and I just, I can't think of anything worse than losing a child and in this way. Um, and, you know, John, you and I have talked so much on this show about addiction and the heartbreak.

“Uh, that is associated and I, I just, I have so much love for Mary and I spoke to her. I spoke to her on Tuesday for a while. And, you know, it's just, it's, I think it's every parent's worst nightmare. And of course.”

Um, you, you know, and I want to say we, you and I talked about this too, just about how much respect we had for the way that just spoke to Robert when we saw them. Yeah, talking about this on air and what what I really admired was that she kind of met him where he was in a way and she was kind of gently steering him or guiding him and we then laughing him with loving him. Yes. And last season as you know, when we shot the reunion, he was in jail and she was really hoping that he would be scared straight. Um, and I guess, you know, I guess that didn't happen.

That's a natural thing that I think it's a, you have to just focus on he was so lucky to have a mother like Mary, I'll never forget that conversation they had, which I think helped a lot of parents who may have a child who goes through the same thing.

“So hopefully remember how brilliantly she showed up for him. And it's, it's tough to talk about because it is a real risk when you have someone who's so seriously in addiction. It's a, it's a risk that they may not make it.”

And you, you, it's always in the back of your mind and I've known a lot of people since I started to try to get sober that have passed. Wow, it's real and it's dangerous and you are rooting people on, but it's like it always is, it is that serious. It is a life and death matter.

And one thing I've learned from you through the, through your journey is that you, you just, you cannot help people who don't want to help or don't want it for themselves.

Is that, would you say that? Yeah, yeah, that is true, but I also think that there are people who do want to help themselves, but it's, it is the hardest thing to do. And so like even if even if the people like I wanted to for years, but I didn't know how and so that's why people like Mary are so important. Because they, you have to adapt, you know, I'm here when you need me. I'm here when you need help, and you don't want to pressure them, you don't want to push them, but you also, you kind of do. I think tough love is important, you know, and I think it's, there's no silver lying to any of it, the only thing is just gratitude for how lucky he was to have a mother like Mary and hopefully the way she showed up will help other people.

“Even people who are struggling who need help and realize that you have to ask for help sometimes. Yeah, I know through Mary's faith that she, that, that, there's a belief that, you know, in the Jewish religion, it's like when you pass, you just pass.”

And one of the things that I, I'm inspired by in other religions is the idea that when you pass, you go to another life that is better than this or another place that is, you know, yeah, she'll see him in the afterlife, I'm sure she's, that's the, that's the hope that's the right, that's the grace, that's the belief they'll be reunited. Right. Anyway, all our love, we're sending all our love to Mary and Robert, you love you, Mary. Yeah, we love you so much. Um, I have to say I'm, I was looking at pictures on Instagram, everybody pasting my friends posting pictures of their kids out playing in the snow on the snow day and mine refused to leave the house even to go on the terrace to play.

They just, they're smart. And you know what, that's how I feel. Well, you want to go out in that shit. Yes, frozen. It's ice. They want to be closer to the under a blanket. Hello, don't know. Those are my children, yeah, why, yeah, although I got to tell you something. My daughter on the way to school today.

“Um, she, she, she was all, when I left to take Ben to school, she started getting so upset because I was leaving the apartment and I said, don't worry, I will be home.”

And she's like, and will you take me to school, Daddy? Yes, I will take you to school. I get home. Fine, I change to go to work. I, she's all bundled up and I, we get in the elevator and she looks at me and she's like, I'm tired. I'm tired. And I go, oh no, I go, she goes pick me up. I go, no, I'm not picking you up. I'm not picking you up.

Starts balling. And I look at her. By the way, we're now on floor like 11 of the building. Okay. So like the elevator ride has, it's, it's been 10 seconds.

And I said, and she's like, crying, I go, are you going to cry the whole way to school? And guess what? She cried the entire way to school. And you know, there's nothing worse than bringing, then dropping off a child who is in his sterics crying to school.

It is a car, a blanch, but you are. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's awful. So I don't know. You're a good parent. Thank you. Maybe I have to cry. Yeah.

“I'm sure you're not the only parent that has dropped off a crime. I know that on the way to school goes, you know, Daddy. I just, I got to die. Yeah, he goes, you're the best daddy in the world. I go, thank you.”

So nice. He goes, you know, but when you think about it, all the kids at school say that their mommy's and daddy's are the best mommy's and daddy's in the school. I go, well, that's true. He goes, but I know my daddy's the best. And I go, oh, thanks. He goes, why? I go, why? He goes, you're famous. I go, Ben. That's not. I go, that has nothing to do with anything. He goes, I know, but it is fun to watch you on TV. I go, when do you watch me on TV? He goes, nerd's daddy. I go, okay. Well, that's, well, that is true. But like, anyway, I go, don't, don't, don't do the same thing, Ben. That, that ain't it.

I'm the best daddy because I am taking you. I'm going to St. Louis tomorrow to spend the day with my mom and dad to kind of check in and see how my mom is doing.

“And, and I'm coming back Friday night, I happen, I mean Saturday, I happen to find out straight Dave's daughter goes to wash you and St. Louis.”

And straight Dave texted me the other day goes, hey, I'm going to be in St. Louis Friday visiting my daughter. I want to visit your parents. I go, Dave, I am going to be in St. Louis. I go, oh, this is so exciting. Can we hang out, daughter, daughter, daughter. So that was, that's exciting.

And then I was thinking, maybe I'll stay in St. Louis on Saturday night too. And I get up two nights with straight Dave in St. Louis.

But I go, I have nothing going on Sunday. We'll guess what? Sunday is a chess tournament, which Ben is participating in. There's a chess tournament at his school from like, by the way, 10 30 to like 130.

“And I've made such a big deal that I'm taking him. Jordan, any idea what I'll be doing during that time?”

Watching a lot of probably sitting and watching other kids play chess and then just waiting for Ben's turn is what I imagined. What's Ben going to be doing during that time? Probably sitting with his little chess friends being, getting antsy, does he have chess friends? You tell me, yeah, I don't know. Well, there's a chess club, right? Yes, it seems like I'm going to be on Instagram a lot on Sunday. If anyone's wanting to DM me, I'm feeling I'll be looking and are a smart.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Ask me anything from, I'll be taking selfies. I will be causing such a ruckus in whatever corner of the room I'm in, you know? Oh, my lord. Anyway, I had spoken after Thanksgiving about sleeping in my parents' bed and that there is a mountain in the middle of the bed. And there are two valleys on either side.

And I've come to realize that there are mountains in almost every hotel bed. I've slept in since. And so out of nowhere, my parents also have this couch. When they moved into this condo there in, which was like at least 20 years ago, at least I'm going to say 25, they got this couch, which is the most uncomfortable couch. It's like a big hard Cadillac civil from God knows when it is terrible. It is so uncomfortable every time I go to St. Louis, I say, "When are you going to get a new couch?" And I say, "Are you just going to die with this couch? Is that the plan? Is this end game for you?"

I mean, you know, I would like to buy her another couch at this point. I just should, but it would cause so much havoc in her home if I barged in with a new couch.

But so they have this couch, but somehow my carrying on about this bed caused them to people who do not make a move to buy a new mattress after however many years.

And the new mattress is there. Well, it's very hard to mattress. It's extra firm. So I said to them, "Look, you can get a mattress topper for the mattress."

“And you'll be fine. And so I think she's worried that the sheets now that they're going to have to get new sheets because they're not going to cover the topper and the mattress.”

But I think that I am going to be tasked with getting a new topper for them and then trying to get the sheets over and whatever, which is fine. I like a task.

So if you're wondering what I'm doing before I make my chest journey, I'll be doing that.

“And there will be no further questions on the matter.”

That's all for this week's edition of Andy Cohen's Daddy Diaries podcast. To hear every minute of my geeky with John plus interviews news and more, you can listen to my Series XM channel Radio Andy anytime on the Series XM app. We'll see you right back here with more Daddy Diaries next week.