Latest / Billy & Lisa in the Morning / Classic Moment: Erin Maguire
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, hi guys, well Hire, you're a spy ponder then, you.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Know, and Arlington spy Ponda. That's my hometown, Arlington.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I know.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Only we had a mascot named after a body of water.
- 0:11Speaker 2: You can't have somebody dress up as a lake. We're
- 0:14Speaker 2: so lame, like, wouldn't be a tiger or a Bobcat
- 0:18Speaker 2: or something. Kid, that's what we're gonna go with the pond.
- 0:23Speaker 1: But Arlington's a beautiful town. I gotta tell you, Lisa
- 0:26Speaker 1: Dunavan and everybody I know, this is the first time
- 0:29Speaker 1: I had to miss Comics Come Home. Everybody says immediately,
- 0:33Speaker 1: Aaron Maguire, that woman that opened the show, stole the show.
- 0:35Speaker 1: You were the standout.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Oh my god, I just got chills. Thank you. We
- 0:39Speaker 2: were talking about you after the show. Were you our Yeah?
- 0:42Speaker 1: Good.
- 0:43Speaker 2: It's all part of my Whisper campaign. It's slowly been
- 0:47Speaker 2: letting people know that I'm a big deal. Well very quietly.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Comics Come Home is one of the biggest comedy events
- 0:55Speaker 1: of the year in the country. I mean, it's all
- 0:57Speaker 1: the best hottest comedians on Onnesday in one night. You
- 1:02Speaker 1: were the first time there, a first time and you
- 1:04Speaker 1: had to open the show. What did that feel like?
- 1:07Speaker 2: Well, I left my body. I so left my body
- 1:10Speaker 2: at a certain point it felt amazing. I mean I
- 1:14Speaker 2: have been mentally preparing for Comics Come Home. I mean
- 1:17Speaker 2: I booked this in my head five years ago. Nobody knew,
- 1:20Speaker 2: you know. And when I booked it, Mike Clark, who
- 1:24Speaker 2: run Brother, He's such a fantastic guy and such a
- 1:27Speaker 2: champion of me and my talent. He called me and
- 1:31Speaker 2: he was like, you got comics come Home, kid, And
- 1:34Speaker 2: I got so excited, called everybody in my family. There
- 1:36Speaker 2: were about five thousand mcguires. Actually we were like half
- 1:40Speaker 2: the audience.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody came out of the woodwork. I'm like, I
- 1:45Speaker 2: don't even know you. They're like, I'm your third cousin.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Can I get tickets?
- 1:49Speaker 2: It was such an honor to share the stage with
- 1:53Speaker 2: people like Dennis Leary, Conan O'Brien, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman,
- 1:57Speaker 2: Michelle Buteau, Letty Clark, Bobby Kelly. The list goes on
- 2:01Speaker 2: and on. And when I found out the lineup, I
- 2:03Speaker 2: was like, I better start getting ready right now. Well,
- 2:06Speaker 2: you were telling funny real fast baby off the air.
- 2:09Speaker 1: You were sharing some of your stories from backstage, even
- 2:11Speaker 1: before the show, that you got to mix and mingle
- 2:13Speaker 1: with all these people.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Yeah, and it felt like I was no different than them.
- 2:16Speaker 2: It was very comfortable. It was so much fun. I
- 2:19Speaker 2: was surprised how like present and calm I was because
- 2:23Speaker 2: I just had to be. There was so much overwhelmed
- 2:25Speaker 2: happening that you just were like, I'll deal with I'll
- 2:28Speaker 2: unpack the feelings of this in about a week and
- 2:31Speaker 2: I'll just start crying on my couch out of nowhere.
- 2:34Speaker 2: But right now I'll be present because you are among
- 2:36Speaker 2: comedy royalty. You're on the biggest stage in Boston. Yeah,
- 2:41Speaker 2: you're your hometown, you know. And at one point I
- 2:44Speaker 2: was on stage and I have a big closer of
- 2:47Speaker 2: my number, which you've seen some of you guilt trip.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Nobody sees the shady eye I just gave you. But
- 2:55Speaker 2: I did say to myself in my head, I was like,
- 2:58Speaker 2: oh my god, remember this moment for the rest of
- 3:00Speaker 2: your life, because I was just I hit this last
- 3:03Speaker 2: moment on stage and I looked up in all the Celtics,
- 3:06Speaker 2: Penance and Bruins, you know, flags are hanging from the
- 3:09Speaker 2: ceiling of the garden. There's seventeen thousand people there, and
- 3:12Speaker 2: they're all wanting to see you succeed.
- 3:15Speaker 1: And you were in the Bruins locker room for I was.
- 3:18Speaker 2: I went through their underwear. I took some collectibles.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Okay, Eron, never go through someone's hockey bag, all right,
- 3:26Speaker 1: it'll yeah.
- 3:28Speaker 2: I was like CSI, you.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Know we're talking Aaron maguire. She was in Comics Come
- 3:32Speaker 1: Home a couple of weeks ago. She's shooting her comedy special.
- 3:35Speaker 1: By the way, that's tonight Rockwell Theater tomorrow night.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Okay tomorrow Friday night, two shows seven and nine pm.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Can they get tickets too?
- 3:43Speaker 2: They can get tickets at Rockwell Theater, the Rockwall Theater website,
- 3:46Speaker 2: or go to Aaron McGuire dot com. That's spelled m
- 3:48Speaker 2: A g U I r E. It's such a pain.
- 3:51Speaker 2: I'm sorry everybody. I'm not in mcg McGuire. And now also,
- 3:56Speaker 2: I'm not the only Aaron McGuire. There is another aeronmill
- 4:00Speaker 2: she's a Republican strategist for Fox News. I'm not even joking.
- 4:06Speaker 2: This is this has messed up my algorithm so badly
- 4:09Speaker 2: that I feel like I need to get in front of.
- 4:11Speaker 1: This woman now.
- 4:13Speaker 2: She married into the name, and I was like, you
- 4:15Speaker 2: gotta be kidding me, because now my Google search is
- 4:17Speaker 2: getting all her stuff and I'm getting her fan mail. Oh,
- 4:21Speaker 2: so I'm like, she's the Aaron McGuire my parents ordered,
- 4:26Speaker 2: and I'm the one they got. So I'm the team
- 4:28Speaker 2: o Aaron McGuire. Do you know what it's like to
- 4:31Speaker 2: Google yourself and somebody's doing you better than you?
- 4:34Speaker 1: And I was like, are you kidding me?
- 4:37Speaker 2: She married into the name and so yeah, I get
- 4:40Speaker 2: her fan mail. But now I'm messing with her fans
- 4:42Speaker 2: we show tomorrow. She's too busy making money hand over
- 4:48Speaker 2: fist in Manhattan right now. I'm like, I'm getting paid
- 4:51Speaker 2: in drink tickets. So will I'll take you to Senior
- 4:55Speaker 2: Frogs other Aaron mcguires somewhere while it does. Yeah, I'm
- 5:01Speaker 2: not surprised. I'm sure I've played the bathroom and a
- 5:04Speaker 2: Senior Frogs. Like from a high Highs to low Lows.
- 5:06Speaker 2: You're at the garden one day and then you're in
- 5:09Speaker 2: the bathroom at Senior Frogs the next, and that is comedy.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Baby. Now, when you're back here, do you feel the
- 5:14Speaker 1: need to go through Arlington and see if you can
- 5:16Speaker 1: pass some of your local faves.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Always whenever I come home i work, I always have
- 5:21Speaker 2: to go to Harvard Square when I'm home and relive
- 5:24Speaker 2: my grunge days. Just for the record, I'm tweaking right
- 5:27Speaker 2: now because I'm at Kiss one a weight and this
- 5:29Speaker 2: is what I grew up listening to. I would be
- 5:31Speaker 2: in my geoprism. Put on Kiss one Away and listen
- 5:35Speaker 2: to Eddie Vedder while I'm driving through Harvard. I'm smoking
- 5:37Speaker 2: a clothes cigarette and I'm like living my best Kiss
- 5:46Speaker 2: one Away.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Like I don't think we were playing a lot of
- 5:48Speaker 1: Eddie Vedder. I got, well you.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Had you were more like Janet Jackson. It was a nation,
- 5:53Speaker 2: a little Celine Dion. There you go in my kiss,
- 5:56Speaker 2: in my in my geo, just being like so I
- 5:59Speaker 2: cam to me, Oh you guys, It's just you're part
- 6:04Speaker 2: of my life, in my childhood. So this is an honor.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Whenever I go back to Arlington, Yeah, there's certain things
- 6:09Speaker 2: I have to do, certain places I gotta go. And
- 6:11Speaker 2: now so many of the places are like disappearing. Where's
- 6:14Speaker 2: Papa Gino's you guys, Oh.
- 6:16Speaker 1: That's gone Arlington.
- 6:17Speaker 2: It's like it's like a cannabis shop. Now, oh, it's devastating.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of ethnic cuisine right on that
- 6:24Speaker 1: chunk of Arlington Center on mass Av. Like I go
- 6:27Speaker 1: to a place by the way, I'll give it noodle market.
- 6:29Speaker 1: I'll give it a shout out. Oh okay, mass Ave
- 6:31Speaker 1: in Arlington, noodle Market.
- 6:33Speaker 2: We don't have spices in my family, so that's like
- 6:35Speaker 2: there's a lot of like Indian food and Thai food,
- 6:37Speaker 2: and I was like, this is wasted on my family. Yeah,
- 6:39Speaker 2: there's a real salt.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Yeah tie on massav in Arlington Center. Yeah.
- 6:44Speaker 2: No, we boil everything, so we don't want anything with flavor.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Ever.
- 6:49Speaker 2: I never saw a green vegetable until I was eighteen.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I grew up with a lot of boiled My mom
- 6:56Speaker 1: was a Sullivan, a lot of boiled dinners.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Yeah, eezier put it all in one pot.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what my dad would do early on a
- 7:04Speaker 1: Sunday morning. Everything just goes in the pot except vegetables.
- 7:07Speaker 2: We said if my mother opened up her own restaurant
- 7:10Speaker 2: and would be called a taste of nothing. When you
- 7:14Speaker 2: get cafe.
- 7:15Speaker 1: When you get to Arlington, do you feel the need
- 7:17Speaker 1: to go buy the pond? Uh?
- 7:20Speaker 2: Oh, you mean Mystic Mystic Valley Parkway. Of course, I
- 7:24Speaker 2: love the pond and oh yeah, you gotta go visit.
- 7:27Speaker 2: You know all of the local ponts Man Capital Movie Theater.
- 7:32Speaker 2: That's where I worked in.
- 7:34Speaker 1: High school as an usher or something, or.
- 7:37Speaker 2: I was the girl that served the ice cream they had.
- 7:40Speaker 2: That was when ice cream first started to come on
- 7:42Speaker 2: the scene at the Capitol Movie Theater. Yeah, isn't that
- 7:45Speaker 2: still there? Oh yeah, absolutely, I think I still have
- 7:48Speaker 2: the shirts. I should just put one on and go
- 7:51Speaker 2: in and start working there and see if they catch
- 7:53Speaker 2: ticket stuff.
- 7:54Speaker 1: You take yourself a soft serve.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Who is this ginger that's taking tickets?
- 7:59Speaker 1: Speaking speaking of gingers off the air a few minutes ago,
- 8:03Speaker 1: I said, boy, I love your hair. Yeah, and you
- 8:06Speaker 1: said Conan made a comment about it. Yeah.
- 8:09Speaker 2: I talked to Conan for a while at comics come home,
- 8:12Speaker 2: and you know, we have the same wacky sense of humor,
- 8:15Speaker 2: like we're just goofy and we instantly get along and
- 8:18Speaker 2: we start chatting and he goes, oh my god, you're
- 8:20Speaker 2: like me with a wig.