Mark Consuelos was just a fun guy hanging out with his pal Anderson Cooper on this morning’s episode of Live with Kelly and Mark. While Kelly Ripa was absent from the show, she sure did make her presence known during the duo’s chat about mushrooms.

Consuelos sparked the odd-ball discussion when he asked the longtime CNN host if he’s a fan of the fungus.

“No, I don’t [eat mushrooms]. I’m a picky eater. I will not say this in front of my children. They eat mushrooms so I’m thrilled about that,” Cooper replied. “I find mushrooms interesting. They’re like weird, freaky things.”

According to Cooper, he read that mushrooms are “connected somehow” and that they “talk to each other,” which left him “very suspicious” of the food. However, Consuelos playfully suggested that “people are eating mushrooms then writing stuff about that,” to which his guest host confirmed is “very possible.”

Before the two men could move on from the fungus talk, the Riverdale alum whipped out an arguably NSFW photo his wife sent him prior to the show starting — which showed two extremely phallic-looking mushrooms that sent the audience into hysterics.

“Kelly was taking a walk yesterday and she sent this to us today — just for you and me on the show today,” he told Cooper, who was practically speechless. “She was thinking of us. New York City mushrooms.”

Once the political commentator composed himself, he joked that the fungus in Ripa’s photo looked like “downtown mushrooms,” to which Consuelos added, “I was thinking a little more Bushwick.”

The two continued their banter as Cooper speculated that you might find those kinds of mushrooms “next to a tattoo parlor” or a “vape shop” — which, according to them, NYC has more of than Duane Reades these days.

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