Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci - Happy Mother's Day, Mama Mooch!

Episode Date: May 12, 2024

Wishing a very happy Mother's Day to the real star of Open Book, Marie Scaramucci. Anthony talks with his Ma about everything from botox and going in on Trump, to boyfriends and favourite children... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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She is quite the character and she is completely unfiltered. So at some point I'll probably get canceled as a result of my mother. I actually could care less. I think it's important to have her 87-year-old voice on the show. And if you're a frequent listener, you know she's always pushing me to run for office, which is against the wishes of my wife Deirdre, who believes in her presidential platform would be a castration platform, which we certainly don't want to have that happen to me, God forbid. But let's get to it.

Yes, ma. Yes. Holy, I'm talking like you really hate his guts, baby. Well, I do hate his guts, ma'am. I know. What if he wins? You love the way I attack Trump or not really? No, it makes you worry, right? Yeah, I worry about people.

And I think that's part of an insecurity. Okay, but you didn't raise me to be a shrinking violet, though, right? I mean, come on. No. I grew up on Webster Avenue. I got taught to have no fear. We go right at the guy, right? Well, first of all, my brother was people from Forbes to people that were almost homeless,

so you got the feeling of everybody. All right. Well, we're celebrating Mother's Day, Ma. Happy Mother's Day to you, okay? So this is a bonus episode. It's dedicated to you because apparently you are the real star of the show. Okay, my mom, Marie Scaramucci, has stolen the show from me. Is that surprising?

You know, I did. You're the best I could in raising you. Okay. Happy Mother's Day, Ma. Let's start out with the new boyfriend, though. You're 87. You have a boyfriend, ma? Well, I have someone that I went with as a child.

15 to 17. Okay. And he came back in my life. Okay. And so you're dancing around him? There's pictures on my phone sent from my sister Susan where you're dancing with him all over Long Island. What's going on, Ma? Well, it's a very one can love you after 68 years.

You know, it's like an unbelievable thing. I don't think, without saying names, I don't think he ever, ever got over me. Okay. Well, you're hard to get over, right, ma? I guess so, because you're still into me. I'm still into you. You're my mother. Of course I'm still into you.

I mean, come up. I know, but there's mothers and there's mothers. There's mothers and there's mothers. I mean, I had a person within my family who left her children with her children. All right. Here we go. You're going to bring up all the dirty laundry. You're going to put all the family's dirty laundry on the podcast.

All right. So you're 87. You're still dating. What was your first date like, Mom? Were you smoking cigarettes on your first date? My nana wanted to smack you? What was your first date like? My mother was certainly very spoiled by my 10-12 year difference.

And if I couldn't get it from my mother. You were breaking the rules by smoking, right? Yeah, for sure. Okay. I used to open the bathroom window and blow the smoke out and spray it. Right. And she pulled your hair? All right.

So let me ask a mom. Did you like being a mom? I mean, you're still raising me. I'm 60 years old and you're still raising me and telling me I'm not dress right and my makeup's not right on television. and I need to cut my hair and what the hell are you doing with the air? I love being a mother. I love being a mother and I love being a grandmother, but I love being a mother. I don't think there's anything more rewarding than being a mother.

So, Ma, let me ask you this, though, even though I'm for sure your favorite of the three kids that you created, do you lie to the other kids and tell them that they're their favorite when you're with them? You can tell me. No, I get who you are. I love this. So you were socially. You like Carl Marks, right? You're a socialist, right?

You love everybody equally, ma'am? Yeah, I do. I really do. I love each. It's one of my children for their own personality. My mother used to always say to me, have a hair, and I think everyone has a hair. And every once in a while, it surfaces and myself without saying anything to my three kids. Let me ask the question differently, Ma.

Who's the child that is most like you? You. Okay, tell me why. So what are the characteristics that I have that are like yours? Go ahead. Well, first of all, you're a giver. None of my immediate family and my outside family that are relatives. Don't hesitate and you don't give to get it back a good human being.

I think you're ahead of the class on that. All right, but I think it's important if you're giving something to somebody, you don't remind them about it or anything like that. That's stupid. You just give it and write it off and move on. And I think that where you can, when you expect. explode, you're like I am. Right. That's true. It takes a lot to piss me off, but once I'm gone, I'm ready to go.

You can't get yourself. Yeah. No, I'm ready to go. Yeah. No question about that. And my brother was working for somebody for years, and the guy, he got old, but he was very honest. And the guy said that he couldn't work anymore, and I called him up. And I said, maybe we should throw you in the water and have the fish eat it. Right. But I didn't say it very nice. I was. And I think that's how you are. You think that's how I am. see that, but I try to keep it together. I might not let people know that side of my personality, right? My daughter said that's the Zulu side of my personality, right? Where I could really, if you catch me wrong and you're doing something unfair, particularly if you're treating

somebody that's been in your mind beneath you, which nobody is beneath anybody, by the way. But if someone's doing that to somebody, I get really pissed. You know that about me, right? And so do I. And I don't think you differentiate anybody. Never. Why would you do that? Everybody's the same. I mean, people that have money, I'd act like assholes. I can't stand. I think my mother instilled it in me that everyone in Italian was God's children. White, black, Asian, whatever. Whatever.

Sexual orientation, whatever. It doesn't matter. Yeah, and I think you have a spill of that and you are like that. I think that helps you become successful. So I think that's an asset in your personality. So let me switch to a subject for a second. Are you vain? Yes.

So tell me why, why are you so vain, Ma? Well, first of all, I used to be told that I looked like Natalie Wood, and that used to make me very conceited as a kid. Okay, but you're 87-year-olds old. You're still getting some injections in your face, right, from the dermatologist, or no? I need them right now, but I have gotten them in the past. And I worked with makeup for 12 years, and I did clear-roll models, and I love makeup. have become a makeup junkie at 87 years old.

I love it. And I love to do it on my face. I can have a nightgown on and have makeup on. But you don't like wearing your bifogels in public, though, right? Ma, you don't like people seeing you with the glasses, right? No, but I love sunglasses. I have a few fetish. I like shoes.

I like sunglasses. I like makeup. I have an American Express bill, Ma. I'm very aware of what you like. You're very vain. You are vain. Oh, wow. Who's the name of that?

You always look. You always look. good and you have very good looks and you like to hear it. I was at an affair the other night and somebody thought I was 72 and I told the person that he was pulling my leg and he said to me, well, top should be 75. I said, I'm maybe 70. He thinks that I was lying. You love that, right? How many times you've- I love it? How many times you've repeated that story, Ma? Because I've heard it, I've heard it four times now, now it's on the podcast. How many times do you? I love it. All right, good. I love it. All right. Tell me one memory, Ma, of you and me together. Go ahead.

One memory of each, well, one memory is that you passed the bar. Okay. And then the beginning, you didn't take it serious. And then when you passed it, I was, it drove me crazy. You drove me crazy. Yeah. I didn't even, I didn't even work as a lawyer, but you made me take the bar exam. It's unbelievable. And the guilt, the levels of guilt were just exponential from you. Well, there's an Italian guilt. Right. There's no question. No question. The Jews think they have like a monopoly on the guilt, but the Italians are literally worse, you know, they just don't have great writing about it. I think that the Italians and the Jewish people are a little similar because my partner was Jewish, but I do think

there's one difference with a Jewish and Italian. Jews send their children to camp, and I would never send my children to camp. Never. I always tease. 100%. I always tease my Jewish. What the hell are you doing, sending that kid to camp? But they like to spend the summer with that the kid. I would never do that. I like to stare at the kid. Oh, that's an offspring of me that you have inherited. 100%. All right, ma. What else, Ma?

What else you want to say on Mother's Day, Mom? That I love my children, and I love you for who you are and what you are. I can picture you as president of the United States of America. And I think that you would save the country. The country's in enough people. Okay. And I think you would do it. All right.

All right. Thanks, Mom. Nothing like a mother's love. Okay. Happy Mother's Day, Ma. I love you. Where are you? I love you.

Where am I? I'm in my studio talking to you. Are you coming over? Yes, of course, Mom. I'm not going to miss a Saturday without seeing you. I'll be over there in a little while. All right? I love you, honey.

All right, bye. I'm Anthony Scaramucci, and this is Open Book. For more about me, my childhood, early career, Skybridge, Bitcoin, and yes, the White House, my new book from Wall Street to the White House and back, is available for pre-order on Amazon and wherever you buy your books. So there is the famous Marie Scaramucci at age 87 dating. I mean, it's sorry for me to believe, but she's dating her former high school sweetheart. They are a widower and a widow.

And they're out dancing together. Okay. So God bless them. And, you know, that's the interesting part about life. Okay, we soften and we get more humbled as we get older. But it's nice to see my mother having some companionship at this age. And if you've got a mother out there, I hope you're wishing her a happy. Mother's Day today and you're getting a sense for where I get some of the craziness of my personality.

But in the meantime, thank you for listening to Open Book and a happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. I am Anthony Scaramucci and that was Open Book. Thank you for listening. If you like what you hear, tell your friends and make sure you hit follow or subscribe wherever you listen to your podcast. While you're there, please leave us a rating or review. If you want to connect with me or chat more about the discussion,

discussions, it's at Scaramucci on Twitter or Instagram. I'd love to hear from you. I'll see you back here next week.