As previously mentioned, I did a little interview with CNBC’s Trish Regan. We discussed, among other things, her time at DE Shaw and whether or not Charlie Gasparino and Dennis Kneale are necrophiliacs.
What do you think of the financial reform bill?
I think considering the effect that the banks had on the entire system that it’s understandable people are truly outraged but I do worry that the politicians might take it too far. There’s been talk it might be watered down, though, so that’s a good thing.
You were Miss New Hampshire. Do you feel that any subsequent Miss New Hampshires have lived up to your standards?
I haven’t kept up with the pageant! I don’t know anyone who’s won so I really can’t say.
Was being a beauty queen good training for financial journalism?
Well I learned how to do my make-up which can come in pretty handy but other than that I don’t think there’s a huge connection.
As a former Goldman Sachs employee, do you think all the heat they’ve taken has been warranted? Do you want to rub Lloyd’s gleaming pate and tell him it’s all going to be okay and tell everyone else to back the shit off?
I think Goldman is like the Yankees. They’ve been incredibly successful so it’s easy to take shots at them. People love to hate.
After Goldman, you did a stint at DE Shaw. A friend of mine was told by a rather intense representative of the firm that they only hire “geniuses”—are you a genius? The logic follows
[Laughs] Well I’ve never been tested so I couldn’t say. When I was there the culture was very much about being super smart. And you got to wear jeans to work—jeans with holes in them!
What’s next for you professionally? RenTec?
I definitely want to say in news and financial journalism. I love CNBC and I do a lot of other work for other brands within the company, like the Today Show and Nightly News. And I’m doing another documentary.
Part II to Pot?
Yes! This one’s not in California, it’s all over. I was just in Portugal, and we were out in Denver, which is really the emerging market of marijuana.
Have you been forced to partake a lot for research purposes?
You know I’ve actually never smoked pot in my life.
Ever think about changing that?
Probably not, I feel like I’ve made it this long without doing it. I’ve also never eaten ketchup. Maybe I’ll just have one crazy night where I do all the things I’ve never done.
David Shaw, Steve Cohen, George Soros: Who would you want to babysit your kids? Who would you want to father you kids (if Mr. Ben was out of the picture)? Who would you want to pay 2&20 (or 3&50)?
That’s a tough one. I think I’d go with David to baby-sit. For managing my money? Probably have to go with David—
You can’t do that, you picked him as the babysitter.
But he’s so good!
But nothing– these are the rules. You can only use one name per category. You know Steve’s not too shabby with money, why not take him?
Yeah but David’s a genius, remember?
Well actually I didn’t say that someone on his payroll did but okay, then put Steve on babysitting. I’m sure he’d do a good job. Great airplane noises while feeding them.
Okay Steve as babysitter—though he probably wouldn’t be a match for Larry’s skills—and David investing.
And the final category?
I’m very, very happy with my husband.
Don’t doubt that at all. But in our imaginary scenario, he’s out of the picture and you need a donor.
Really, no, very happy with husband.
Pretend I’m putting a gun to your head.
Can’t answer this question—impossible.
Fine– but I just want you to know that George Soros does have feelings.
Alright, let’s move on. I noticed that you didn’t graduate from college until 2000, after finishing high in ’91. What went on in those gap years?
I took some time off to pursue a career as an opera singer.
Why’d you give that up?
I didn’t love it enough. It was something that I wanted to do when I was 14.
What’s your favorite opera?
La Traviata.
Do you sing in the shower?
I have sung in the shower but I don’t anymore because one time our neighbor came over and asked us if we could “turn the volume down on the stereo.”
Wow. The cheek of some people.
Are your daughters going to call Larry Kudlow “Uncle Larry”?
Definitely. He hasn’t babysat yet but he promises and I’m going to be taking him up on that soon.
Pick for the World Cup?
USA, definitely.
The Dealbreaker readers came up with some questions for you. I’m just going to run down the list. Question number 1: How does it feel to be classified as a MILF?
What’s a MILF
It’s…it’s an acronym…it stands for Mother I’d Like to…synonym for word which means to have relations with. It’s a compliment.
Oh, then it feels good.
Question number 2: How do you feel you measured up next to Mandy and her assets?
I think I held my own.
Question number 3: If you had to: Charlie Gasparino or Dennis Kneale? Killing yourself is not an acceptable answer.
I think I would have to kill myself. Or be on life-support.
And then? Who would it be?
You think it would still be appealing for them?
Dennis Kneale and Charlie Gasparino? Yes, one of them would definitely still go for it, if not both.
Question number 4: Just so we can be fair, in that same vein, if you had to get down and dirty with one of the anchorettes on CNBC, whom would you choose?
See this question is just as hard as the last but for the opposite reason. I’m not into women but if I were it would be really difficult. We have a lot of beautiful ladies at CNBC.
Question number 5: Don’t know if you’ve kept up with this story, but a woman named Debrahlee Lorenzana recently claimed she was fired from Citi for being “too hot.” If you have kept up, give us your perspective — is she too hot?
She certainly looks very hot. Though obviously that shouldn’t have had an effect on her job.
Amanda Drury has said she’s coming with us on a field trip to Beamer’s, an establishment in Stamford, CT – are you in?
If Mandy goes I’ll go.
Trish Regan bringing the HEAT
1rd.
2 here – damnit!
-Former AIG quant
“And then?”
hell yes
@4 yes?
Bess–make that field trip HAPPEN! It will be epic. A modern Odyssey.
All pants have holes in them.
-another former Lehman quant
@4 (Bess Levin) just quoting you, “And then? Who would it be?”
You’re awesome.
Pess…..why not ask if Maria has been nice and helpful to her or as many have hinted, a complete ass?
Pess…..why not ask if Maria has been nice and helpful to her or as many have hinted, a complete ass?
“Maybe I’ll just have one crazy night where I do all the things I’ve never done.”
Mother of God
Don’t you mean Faye Reagan?
-BainCap who took a day off to “relax”
Both of them definitely would for sure.
Bess when is the Beamer’s trip?
So Chaz still has a chance..?
also. this image of Steve Cohen will forever reside in my heart: “Great airplane noises while feeding them.”
Awesome all around per the usual. Bess makes learning fun!
“Dennis Kneale and Charlie Gasparino? Yes, one of them would definitely still go for it, if not both.”
I can vouch.
-Charlie Gasparino’s Rug Trimmer
She makes my penis happy.
SAC
And you too, Bess.
SAC
She doesn’t seem smart on TV.
Bess, if you had to, Drury or Trish? Its ok, you can say both.
After that shot at George, your propects for employment at Soros Fund Management aren’t looking Soros-ee.
@24 worst pun all day. In a crowded field.
Truly remarkable. Even investment bankers don’t work this hard.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704629804575325210283345300.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_MIDDLETopStories
Marathon Wimbledon Match Suspended at 59-59
WIMBLEDON, England — The longest match in tennis history was suspended because of darkness at 59-59 in the fifth set at Wimbledon on Wednesday night.
The first-round match between 23rd-seeded John Isner of Tampa, Fla., and qualifier Nicolas Mahut of France already had been suspended because of fading light Tuesday night after the fourth set.
They have been playing each other for a total of exactly 10 hours — 7 hours, 6 minutes in the fifth set alone, enough to break the full-match record of 6:33, set at the 2004 French Open.
I’m stabbing myself in the eyeball with a Bic.
“And you got to wear jeans to work—jeans with hole in them!”
Follow up – Is the hole in the ass?
I don’t think she wears enough makeup…
Never smoked pot? Never had ketchup? That’s unAmerican!
@29 -There is no such thing as to much makeup.
Boy George
so did d. shaw tag her or not?
I feel a little guilty with the things I’d do to Trish. I bought a doll of her and keep it next to my Kernan doll.
@17 thinking Stevie would lose a little weight like TR did?
Do you like Indians Ms Trish ?
That Erin girl has very small ta-ta’s. Am I right ?
Does Mandy wax ? Do you wax? Would you like to ?
Love, Vik
no weed, no ketchup, never heard of the term MILF? guaranteed she is a dead fish. i bet she has never been on top or dined at the White Swallow.
YOURS.
i think she is comfy speaking into the mic, you know what i mean?
Wow, she blows.
She knows what MILF means. Spare us the phony innocence…
Trish Regan in the shower… mmmmmm
cirtin prifishinils in fininshul ripohting disagree with the blatant iksposure of assits of dubious quality. It would be too easy to use nichurul chahm but prifishinil fininshul ripohtahs abstain from using beauty when they can use their brains. Ay wouldn’t tyke advice from someone who has nevah seen Australiar, Canadar, or Chinar up close and pirsunul.
nice work Bess…..
Bess… Does she ever post here?????
Does she post up in this piece? Also, didn’t she steal her husband from his wife and blow him in the office????
I always pictured here as a huge fan of the sneeze- all gacked out at Martell’s w/ a Marlboro light 2000 in her hand.
When is the trip to Beamers?
When will there be an interview w/ Gillian Tett of the FT?
“Question number 2: How do you feel you measured up next to Mandy and her assets?
I think I held my own.”
Just went from 6 to midnight.
-Guy who likes to think of TR “holding her own”
It’s “catsup”, goddamnit!!
~Heinz Del Monte
President
Catsup Board of America
Lichfield, IL
good god, my dingaling is standing up.
Okay, I have to say that these questions are amazingly similar to the questions one finds in tuner punk car magazines when hyper-hormonal automotive ‘journalists’ get to interview the hot Asian models. Was kind of surprised to see that you didn’t ask her if she had implants. Even more surprised that she answered most of the questions. Give me a break Bess. I’m out of work for 20 months and your asking Trish Regan if she’d do Charlie Gasparino if she was dead or on life support? You should show pictures of Regan standing next to a really tricked out Hyundai Tiburon.
@50 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-NkI-W9PMQ
@51 – Exhaust so big I can stick my whole face in it
@51 (Jonah): Call me.
~Dave Ramsey
Trish – I am sure you and the girls in the office are reading the responses today. I am a bigger fan today than yesterday. One tip, or recommendation, go easier on the make up in the studio, you do not need it .
Okay, I have to say that these questions are amazingly similar to the questions one finds in old issues of Trader Monthly magazines when hyper-hormonal, big watch-wearing financial ‘journalists’ get to interview the hot Asian models. Was kind of surprised to see that you didn’t ask her if she had implants or lower back tattoos. Even more surprised that she answered most of the questions. Give me a break Bess. I’m out of work for 1000 months and your asking Trish Regan if she’d do Charlie Gasparino if she was dead or on life support? You should show pictures of Regan standing next to a really tricked Patek Phillipe or Tesla.
~Magnus
Okay, I have to say that these questions are amazingly similar to the questions one finds in old issues of National Geographic magazines when hyper-hormonal, big safari pith helmet-wearing adventure ‘journalists’ get to interview the hot topless Ubangi maidens. Was kind of surprised to see that you didn’t ask her if she had 70 neck extension rings or 6-inch lip disks. Even more surprised that she answered most of the questions without smearing herself in red-tinted dried mud or nasal “bone piercings”, pardon the expression. Give me a break Bess. I’m out of work for 40 “moons” and your asking Trish Regan if she’d do Charlie Gasparino if she was dead or on life support? You should show pictures of Regan standing next to a really tricked shrunken head or burnt dugout canoe.
~Lord Groesvenor
UK Knockout Artist and Explorer
OBE, ROBE, QMRE, SPQR, Ig-pay Atin-lay Insrtuctor
Bess, you’ve done well, but still….
We have Larry Kudlow, we have teleprompter reading journo-slores. Yet we have yet to see the tag line “Snow on The Mts…”
we still don’t know if Larry Kudlow smells like an old shoe or if he just appears to.
Was the interview meant to be funny? It reads more painful than humorous.
Bess, you come across as an introvert, unaware of social norms, and excelling at creating awkward tension. Normally, I would find that funny, but this doesn’t read funny.
Step it up cupcake.
Xoxo,
Trey
GREAT questions, Bess, especially the “which anchorette?” which leads me to ask, BEG U PLEASE ask Liz Claman that question of which Fox hotties she would…
Our trading floor awaits.
@59 Hi sweetheart,
Of course you don’t find it funny– you’ve spent a good portion of the last two years sitting in your little locked room devoting an impressive amount of time and energy leaving comments telling me how much you hate me, such as the one above, in addition to ones like:
* “How is this story in any way relevant to this blog? Greg is ridiculed non stop, people either praise Bess like a God, or she deletes the criticism. I find most of this blog entertaining, but I become annoyed with these useless stories…like Bess’ doctor is annoyed that she has to pay cash for doctor visits because she’s an uninsured and unemployed j-school grad. These lame stories that are posted just to squeeze out a few extra pages views.”
* “Bess,
I come here for Wall Street gossip, not to read what your white trash cousins are up to.”
And yet, you can’t let go, can you? I don’t much care what you think of me either way, I just think for your sake, you should step away from the computer and realize there’s a whole world out there! A potential life, waiting for you to live it! Don’t let your apparent obsession with me (that’s what it is, lovie, no matter how it manifests itself in your hate-comms) prevent you from doing so.
xoxo
@Bess
Don’t usually see you step into the ring like that and throw dowm the kimura lock
@Bess
Two questions I’ve been dying to ask:
1) Your thoughts on Max Weber’s thesis outlining the link between Protestant Reformation and the rise of modern capitalism?
2) Dtf?
Xoxo,
Trey
Don’t feed the troll, Bess.
Trish 3rd place
Fine as wine.
should have asked her about getting caught sucking her assignment editor’s old, decrepit cock at CBS.
Moving on, the blind item from Page Six:
Which gorgeous, auburn-haired network news reporter was caught in the act with a married assignment editor? Seems they ducked into the office of a reporter they thought was out of town, but the other reporter suddenly opened the door and found her colleague giving the boss oral sex. The official story is they were just talking.
Ohhh yea, Mika Brzezinski’s office.
@53: I didn’t do it Dave’s way, but I’m still debt free, baby!
@55: satire = funny
@56: derivative at best = not so much…unless you = @55, in which case just pick the best one and run with it.
I’ll put in a serious comment and say that was a humorous interview…she’s a good sport for putting up with those last few questions lol
Her stock just went up in my book. Anyone who can graciously dodge Bess’s (and our questions) deserves extra points
love the fuck me eyes in that pic
loved her on set today
NewsBusters: Wall Street Tabloid Asks CNBC Anchor ‘How Does It Feel To Be A MILF?’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/06/26/wall-street-tabloid-editor-asks-cnbc-anchor-how-does-it-feel-be-milf
Kodos to who ever came up with the M.I.L.F question.
Watching her CNBC “special” on the pot biz made me embarrassed for her…. completely ignorant and clueless on the topic.
Her lipstick today is downright awful she looks like an 7 year old playing dress up.
Was being a beauty queen good training for financial journalism?
~ Obviously
Trish Reagan – whenever she comes on, I change channel. Why? Because she uses the camera as a mirror admiring herself completely destroying her credibility.