Anthony Scaramucci
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Hello again, this is Giles Brandreth, and this is the Rosebud Podcast. If you're listening to this in real time, it is Friday, the 3rd of July, 2026, which means that tomorrow is the 4th of July, 2026, and officially the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. A quarter of a millennium. And we've been celebrating America for the past few weeks here on Rosebud on Fridays, meeting some remarkable and very interesting American guests. Today, I wanted somebody who had a bit of a political take. somebody whose voice I really like, whose ideas I find intriguing, and who I listen to regularly on another podcast, which is The Rest Is Politics, the US version. So you've guessed immediately that I'm going to be talking to either Cathy Kay or Anthony Scaramucci.
I tossed a coin. It landed on Anthony Scaramucci. So he is our guest today. And if you've heard him or seen him, you'll know he's a most fascinating and rather brilliant character. His claim to fame, he's an American financier. He's an American broadcaster. And he served briefly and really very briefly as the White House communications director in Donald Trump's first term. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about him being an Italian-American, about his childhood, about his links, if there are any, to the mafia, about his first marriage, his second marriage, and what happened with that. We're going to talk about his story, his story as an American. And I think you will enjoy this very special episode of Rosebud with Anthony Scaramucci.
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Anthony Scaramucci.
Do I call you Anthony? I love the, say the whole name just one more time for all of us, because I love the way you.
And I love saying it. I've been saying it a lot. Can I say in recent days, knowing you were coming, I've been saying, oh yes, our guest is Anthony Scaramucci. I love it.
I love the way you say it. Yeah, you can call me Anthony. I've been called Mooch. I've been called worse than Anthony and Mooch. So I mean, it's all good. Anything you want to call me.
A slight TH is heard, isn't it? Anthony.
Yeah, although Caddy Case is Antony, I think, or Antony, like Mark Antony. But again, you can say anything you want. I guess the only thing that never happened to me for some reason, no one ever called me Tony for some reason. So I've never been called Tony.
And yet, as you can discover, there is an Italian heritage. And I think of Italian Antonius as being Tony. Anyway, you are Antony Scaramucci, born on the 6th of January, 1964. At 11 a.m. At 11 a.m.? Nassau Hospital, Mineola, New York.
Anthony Scaramucci, what is your very first memory? My very first memory is riding the bus. I was probably about two and a half, three years old, and I was with my grandmother. And, of course, she didn't know how to drive, and she put me on the bus with her. And I can remember it because, you know, I was... Very young, very small, but I could remember the smells on the bus, the metallic smell. And I have this vivid memory of her squeezing my hand in this overprotective position where I remember thinking, well, and I could sense her worry, even though I was a young kid, you know.
Where was this bus and who was this grandmother?
Who was she, the mother? So she, her name was Maria Gimenez. Aldorada DeFeo. And she was my mom's mother. Unfortunately, I never met my dad's parents. They died before I was born. But I did get to meet my grandfather and my grandmother, or my nono and my nana, as we would have said in our Italian American community. And she died when I was nine, but I was very close to her. I would say that my first nine years on earth i was uh parented by two catholic and very tough italian american women and so you know i got hit with the wooden spoon you know they would they'd do this with their hand you know you had to run you were gonna what was that with your hand what happened that was a sign of anger in southern italy you know if my grandmother went like this with her hand you were getting hit with something we didn't know what it was but something was she did this before it happened yeah before it happened and this was trying to control herself
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