Interview with Maggie Weaver

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Maggie Weaver is the marketing director for Pitt Eats and is best known for yapping. I interviewed her on food, music, and hypothetical situations – here are a few highlights from out conversation.

Avonews: What’s your favorite food?

Maggie: Oh, that’s tough. I once created a ranking of my top five favorite food categories. But I would say that probably ramen ranks pretty high right now.

Avonews: Okay why?

Maggie: Why? Probably because I’m cold today and I’m thinking about noodles, but I don’t know it has like all the things you would want in a food like noodles, there’s vegetables, theres broth, and like it comes in a lot of different ways.

Avonews: If someone gives you an elephant that you can’t sell or give away, what would you do with it?

Maggie: Does selling count as selling tickets to people to come see it?

Avonews: No

Maggie: Oh okay, so that would be an option, start a little petting zoo in my backyard. Okay if I was gonna be responsible, I would probably take it back to it’s natural habitat. If I was going to be irresponsible, I would start a petting zoo, maybe like right outside of Pittsburgh, and then maybe we could contract out to like the people that come in and film so it could have a movie star elephant.

Avonews: Yes! That’s what my mom said when I asked her.

Avonews: If you could chose one song to play everytime you walked into a room, what song would it be and why?

Maggie: I wanna say “Bad Day” (Daniel Powter) because that would just be so funny. It would be that or probably “Copacabana” by Barry Manilow. Very different vibes. The first one just because it would be hilarious, the second one because “Copacabano”’s just such a good song.

Avonews: Have you ever had a bad day before?

Maggie: Is that really one of your questions?

Avonews: Yeah.

Maggie: I have had a number of bad days but they’re generally cured when I listen to the song “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter.

Avonews: Would you rather fight one hundred duck sized horses or one horse sized duck?

Maggie: That’s…. Neither would turn out well for me. I think a hundred duck sized horses.

Avonews: Why?

Maggie: At least I would have control of the height in the space and I feel like a duck sized horse would be very dangerous cause I would not see that thing coming from above.

Avonews: How many pennies do you think would fit into the room you’re in right now?

Maggie: It’s gotta be in the billions, it’s a pretty big room. I’m in our guest room – yeah billions or trillions.

Avonews: What actress would you want to play you in a movie about your life?

Maggie: Wow, that’s really tough, I don’t know if I have a good answer to that. It would be cool and unrealistic to have Hillary Duff play me because she’s so iconic, but she does not look like me. People have told me I look like Pam from The Office so maybe her.

Avonews: What would the title be if someone wrote a biography about you?

Maggie: Somebody tell her to shut up. That’s the first thing that came to my mind.

Avonews: Which three famous people would you invite to a dinner party and why?

Maggie: That’s a good one. Definitely Beyonce cause I feel like she has a lot to say just in general. Who else would I be excited to eat dinner with? Maybe, probably Harry Styles, I feel like that would be an interesting combo. And if I… should I really just throw a wrench in there? So Beyonce, Harry Styles, and I’m blanking on every single celebrity I’ve ever heard of in my life… Maybe like Guy Fieri, let’s really round it out.

Avonews: Okay, okay

Avonews: If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

Maggie: Okay, I think about this actually quite frequently. I would quit my job. I would probably, if i was being responsible I would put a lot of it in savings, but I’d probably divy it out among family I feel like that’s a nice way to go. Quit my job and open up a restaurant.

Avonews: Okay, so you would quit your job and just start a new job?

Maggie: Yep!

Avonews: Okay, what type of restaurant would you open?

Maggie: I go back and forth. Sometimes I think like a coffee – just like a daytime coffee like bookstore, I really like the like bookstore coffee shop that’s happening these days. But I also think it would be really fun to have a restaurant in like a greenhouse and we could grow a bunch of our food but also sell plants – I’m not responsible for the plants though.