Graduation Season, Grocery Store Anxiety, and Hot Girls Hit Curbs

Speaker A: Welcome to Mind you'd Business, where we

Speaker B: talk about fun stuff, hard stuff, and everything in between.

Speaker A: I'm Gina Anguiano.

Speaker B: And I'm Inger Hiller.

Speaker A: Let's get into it.

Speaker B: All right. Welcome back to another episode of Mind you'd Business. I'm Inger Hiller.

Speaker A: And I'm Gina Anguiano.

Speaker B: So let's get into it. All right, Gina, we talked last time a lot about menopause, and we're going to get back into that. But before we do, I just wanted to kind of talk to you about, um, a little bit about what we've been doing in the last few weeks. And I don't know if you've been doing this, but I've been doing this. And this is going to, uh, buttload of these graduation, uh, parties. Do you go to any of these?

Speaker A: No, I don't think so. I think we're in a different season because our kids are older now, and our grandkids. Our grandkids aren't old enough. So it's. No, we haven't been to one, which is weird. Our granddaughter graduated last year, but that was it.

Speaker B: Okay, well, I mean, I think that, uh. I mean, it's interesting because I want to do here, I want to hear more about before, when you were going to war, just because maybe they've changed. Because lately I have been going to a lot of these graduation parties. And in fact, one of my friends, uh, I wanted to get together with her for lunch, and she's just like, well, let's get out of this. May sember season. Maysember? Is that a thing? Is that like a TikTok thing?

Speaker A: I've never heard of that.

Speaker B: May sember season.

Speaker A: Eight years old.

Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, just because maybe they're saying it's like a December, it's so busy.

Speaker A: Wedding, graduation. Yes, it is. Maysember. That makes sense.

Speaker B: And so I've been going to a, uh. I haven't been into that many, but I did a. Did go to a couple, and, um, I think they're bigger and better than ever. These, like, these graduation parties.

Speaker A: I agree.

Speaker B: And so let me ask you this. If you got invited to a graduation party, what do you bring as a gift? I always bring money.

Speaker A: I always.

Speaker B: It's money, right?

Speaker A: Yep.

Speaker B: Cash, baby. Moves everything around us.

Speaker A: And that's all kids want anyway, Right?

Speaker B: Well, what's the number? What do you. What. What number do you bring?

Speaker A: I feel like you're at 100 bucks now.

Speaker B: It's a hundred bucks, Benjamin.

Speaker A: And, yeah, it's all about those Benjamins.

Speaker B: Gotta bring one.

Speaker A: Mhm.

Speaker B: Yeah, I, I'd say that's the, the quintessential same at a wedding if you

Speaker A: don't know what to bring. They always love money, so.

Speaker B: Right.

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker B: All right, well, so you hear, you heard it here first. Bring money.

Speaker A: They like money.

Speaker B: They like money. Just uh, do, do that.

Speaker A: You can be creative though and put things together with money. I don't know if you've seen like tick tocks or stuff like that where they put like a card together and have like some kind of tree, money tree or something. Yeah, well, I'm not that creative, but

Speaker B: they are getting better than ever. And I will tell you one quick story. I uh, went to a, uh, graduation party of a friend recently. And one thing that was happening is. So there was this, this beautiful like entryway, uh, where you put the cards and all the things when you come in. But everyone was bringing flowers and there was nowhere to put the flowers. So everyone was putting their flowers on the floor.

Speaker A: Why flowers?

Speaker B: Well, I mean, like a bouquet of flowers. I don't know. And so, um, it wasn't very long that I became busy body inger and decided, you know, these flowers need to be in water. And so I start rummaging through the cabinets. I'm looking for water pitchers and things. And so I'm like. And my friend is like, what are you doing? I'm getting water pitchers out, put the flowers in because they were on the floor and they needed my help. So you know, I am a little bit of a busy boss in that sense. So if you invite me to a party, just expect me to like, uh, get involved, do something. I don't know. And also they had this beautiful charcuterie board and there's all these beautiful cheeses. There's no knives. So I'm like getting knives out of

Speaker A: the people need help.

Speaker B: Well, I mean, they, I mean, it was not in a bad way. Charcuterie board. It was the most beautiful party, but you know, I just can't help myself. Yeah, I get involved, but they've gotten bigger and better than ever. But back to the situation at hand. Let's talk about what we were talking about last weekend. Or uh, last week. You said after the, you guys didn't hear this, but after the episode she's like, oh my God, I would have never done that. And what, what were you telling me?

Speaker A: Oh, you were talking about restaurants and how you would. You've gotten to the place where you don't care what anybody. If you get food and it's not cooked right. You send it back. So it made me think back to a movie, and I think we know what it's called, but I can't remember. We didn't look it up, but it reminded me, because I would do that, too, and I would be upset and send my food back. But this movie shows what people do in the background when you're angry and upset and send your food back. And so since then, I have never done that.

Speaker B: Never, ever. Well, okay, let me just give you a little background on when I send something back.

Speaker A: Were you nice about it, though, at least?

Speaker B: Oh, of course. I'm always nice about it. But, um, I. The only time I send something back is. Listen, I never send something back. If I'm at a place that the average price point of the dinner is $20 or $25, we're talking. I'm on a date night. This is something special. This is an anniversary or birthday, and I chosen a nice place. Uh, so I don't think in those places, the things that are happening. Uh, I know. I. I'm pretty sure I know that movie. It's got to be waiting, right? Maybe. Which. Shout out to the movie Waiting. Because that thing is based on. Because in the movie. Oh, yes. The restaurant's called Shenanigans, right? Yeah, I know it is. That's the one.

Speaker A: But it's really Bennett.

Speaker B: It's really Bennigan's, which is. And that's where JD And I met each other. And, uh, used to say, you guys are friendigans. And so basically, uh, I would say at that restaurant. Well, it's over now. Like, Bennegan's isn't even around.

Speaker A: No, it's not.

Speaker B: No, it's gone.

Speaker A: It's gone.

Speaker B: So I can say it. Yeah. That stuff, uh, definitely would have happened in what you saw in that movie.

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker B: And we're not gonna talk about what was in that movie, but it was bad.

Speaker A: Go see it. If you. Yeah.

Speaker B: If you haven't seen it, complain about your family. That definitely happened. But in a nice restaurant, I would say that it's okay. Although, one story, then we'll get into this other part of the topic. But I went to this nice restaurant in Erie, Colorado. A friend invited me, and if they hear this, if they. If they listen to this, they'll be okay with this, because they know the situation. Got it. Super. I mean, at the time, super expensive steak. I don't know. It was like, $80 or something. And I got the steak, and the thing was, like, a Charcoal briquette. Oh. I ordered it medium rare, and it came well done. And so I sent it back saying it's well done. I'd like a new one.

Speaker A: I'm sure if they looked at it, they would notice. Yeah, she's right.

Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. We need. So I sent it back, and I was nice. I promise you, I was nice. And, uh, it came back. They sent me the same steak back again with a piece of lettuce on the top. And so that was, uh, the same thing, but it had my same. My, like, bite mark pattern out of it. It was the same. It was the same steak they sent. They thought they could, you know, cover it up.

Speaker A: Yeah. Which they literally covered it up.

Speaker B: So it really did probably have. They covered it up with a piece of lettuce. Oh, she'll never notice it's a lettuce on top. So, uh, that was the only time. And trust me, I did not then bite into that. That steak. How do you. How do you uncook a steak? Ask me that. You can answer me that, Gina. How do you uncook a steak? No.

Speaker A: So I have learned, though, when you want a steak, like, if it's not a fancy restaurant and you want steak, do it undercooked than you actually want it. So if you like medium rare or if you like medium well, do medium or if you like medium or. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker B: Because they'll typically overcook it.

Speaker A: Yes.

Speaker B: Right. You can't uncook it.

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker B: Right. So anyway, but, uh, I digress. I'm sorry to get us so off topic. Uh, we were talking last episode about menopause and what we do for. And it came up as a good point of what do you do when you don't want to leave the house? When you don't want to. When you're like, I'm going to stay under the covers, um, and I'm not going to do anything. So what do you do?

Speaker A: Well, you were talking about going to the grocery store. Gina does not go to the grocery store anymore. I do online shopping, and I get it delivered. And I will suffer and wait and not have that thing that I actually need until I can order it and it's delivered.

Speaker B: I never knew that about you.

Speaker A: Uh, it's not me. That's not me. I don't want to see people. I don't want to talk to people.

Speaker B: I told you the superpower. You can turn it on and on.

Speaker A: I do when I have to. I do my smile thing. Um, and even though they're wrong, and they're mean, and they don't look very pretty when they're upset. Then I'm gonna have a smile.

Speaker B: Mini carts. That's the key. So you can zoom in. Yeah, I don't do. I don't play around with that big car. You'll see me through with the mini cart. So through the grocery store, the thing is piled to the ceiling because I don't want that big cart, you know?

Speaker A: Yeah, well.

Speaker B: And I go, like, three and four times a week.

Speaker A: I'm a crazy person. You don't have to. You don't have to.

Speaker B: I know, but I like it. I like. I want to see which apple I want.

Speaker A: You know, I don't want to pick your own groceries.

Speaker B: I want to pick all my own groceries. I want to. I want to see everything. Uh, I am a. I'm a visual person. I'll bring it. I bring a list, and that list never leaves a pocket.

Speaker A: Can I give you my list?

Speaker B: If I'm lucky, I'll bring my kids, and the kids will man the cart because I actually hate the cart. And so if they will be in charge of the cart, I'll be way happier because I would prefer to just zoom in and out and be throwing things and then the cart and things in that. Um, so if I'm lucky, I can get my kids to be in charge of the cart.

Speaker A: Well, sadly, it's also being in the car, because not every. I feel like I'm the good driver. I'm the good driver, and they aren't.

Speaker B: Well, I mean, why don't you drive?

Speaker A: I am driving.

Speaker B: Okay.

Speaker A: I don't want to go to the grocery store because I have to deal with other drivers.

Speaker B: These people. Hey, did we talk. Have we already talked about this in another episode? I don't know about. About what I say when another person cuts me off.

Speaker A: Oh, yes, we did.

Speaker B: Okay. All right.

Speaker A: What is it?

Speaker B: Well. Well, like, when someone cuts me off, instead of getting mad, I Zen out, and I just say, oh, that person really needs a pee. So make sure. Start using that. There's a couple things you can use. One, that person really needs to pee if somebody cuts you off. And the second thing is, if you. I read this bumper sticker once on a car that says, uh, hot girls bump curbs or hot girls hit curbs. So if you accidentally hit the curb while you're parking, make sure whoever's in the car, you let them know, hot girls hit curbs.

Speaker A: Hot, uh, girls.

Speaker B: Yes. All right, but. So tell me what it is you do. You don't go to the grocery store. What is it you do? Do you read? Do you watch movies? Do you watch tv? Do you go hiking? What's your story? Do you listen to music? All the things.

Speaker A: I will text a friend like you and say, can you get me out today? I need to get out.

Speaker B: Yes.

Speaker A: Or I have, like, a standing lunch thing with Jason that I'll go. Like a lunch date with Jason and Taco.

Speaker B: Tuesday and Wednesday, date night. We know that.

Speaker A: Thursday, uh, I'm home.

Speaker B: Okay. Searching your home. Not grocery shopping.

Speaker A: Go out again. Right. Yeah. And then it's a weekend, so you got to do something. Right. But anyway, yeah, I. I do my social media stuff. I do a lot of that at, uh, home. Which. Right. Keeps me busy.

Speaker B: Yes.

Speaker A: Yeah. Right.

Speaker B: Well. And you got a book club, too, I think, right?

Speaker A: We do have a book club.

Speaker B: Do you read it?

Speaker A: I listen.

Speaker B: Let's be honest.

Speaker A: I listen.

Speaker B: Tell me the truth.

Speaker A: And it's not. And if you're a bookie, I know all you bookies out there. You're. That's. I'm cheating. But I'm okay to cheat, so.

Speaker B: So you listen. Do you listen? Where do you listen to your books?

Speaker A: Always when I'm getting ready in the morning.

Speaker B: No, but where? Not where, not where in the house. Where? In the bathroom. Where? Like, do you listen to them on Spotify or do you listen to them on Audible? Audible. Audible, yes. Okay.

Speaker A: I buy them on. Well, I have, like, a free thing. A free book every month, so. Okay. Audible. How about you?

Speaker B: Well, I try to get them on Libby, which is the free app, uh, through the. Through the library.

Speaker A: Wait, wait, hold on. Are you listening as well?

Speaker B: Yeah. Yes. I'm guilty. I'm not giving you any trouble about listening to it. Listen, the funny thing is I have a book club, um, too. And for the longest time, I wasn't going to the listening, and so I would buy the book, but, I mean, you go to my basement. Gina, there is an entire library of books that I did not read. Oh, uh, yeah, no, no. I mean, I told you, as soon as I read two sentences, I fall asleep. Oh, man. And so I have to listen to him. I have to listen to them in my car on the way to. To and from appointments, things like that. So. No, I have to listen to the books for sure.

Speaker A: I do, too.

Speaker B: Well, and then. Okay, so I'm about to bust you out. Did you know that? Okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna put it out there. All right. When I asked. Speaking of listening to things, in the car, like, audible on things like that. When I asked Gina to do this podcast, you know what she told me? What'd you tell me? She said, I've never listened to a podcast and I don't listen to podcasts.

Speaker A: I have, but I haven't. So I don't have, like a favorite that I listen to.

Speaker B: Mind your business. Favorite podcast. There you go.

Speaker A: Now, favorite podcast I have, um, yeah, I don't, like, get in my car and like, oh, I have to listen to this next episode kind of thing. I'd rather listen to my book or something.

Speaker B: Okay.

Speaker A: So I. I don't know.

Speaker B: All right, all right. Well, that's okay. That's okay. You're breaking in.

Speaker A: Unless it's true crime or something. I do like those. But again, I. I'm not. It's not something I look forward to.

Speaker B: Really?

Speaker A: I don't know.

Speaker B: Okay, so what do you look forward to? You don't look forward to that? Do you watch any shows? Do you listen? Did you. Do you. Had you binge shows on Netflix or hbo?

Speaker A: Like, yeah, if there's a good one, I do. It takes a lot to get sucked into a good, like, series, but if there is a good one, I love it. And I'll. I'm. It's just dedication. It's like commitment. I'm like, do I really want that?

Speaker B: Well, do you like the ones that are like limited series? Six episodes?

Speaker A: Yes. Yes. Right. Not like 25.

Speaker B: All right. I'm still trying to get through Dexter with Sven. He wants to watch how many episodes? What, of Dexter?

Speaker A: Yes.

Speaker B: Well, I mean, there's like 17 seasons. I mean, I don't know, seven seasons, something like that. We've gotten through five episodes. But, uh, our, uh. Five. Five seasons. I mean, I've seen them all. My daughter Elsa will say, after five seasons, just forget about it. We're done.

Speaker A: I'm with Elsa.

Speaker B: Yeah, like, you should quit when you're quit while it's hot, you know? And so, um, so we. Yeah, but, uh, but so when you see us limited season. So you know you're not gonna get too involved.

Speaker A: Right.

Speaker B: It's too intimidating. These 16 seasons and things like that.

Speaker A: I've never watched. What is it, Yellowstone? Um, we tried to, but again, it's like I forgot.

Speaker B: I couldn't get into it.

Speaker A: I forgot what the beginning was about.

Speaker B: I couldn't get into it. And there's like 10,000 spin off seasons of it. Hey, shout out to anyone who loves it. I know it's a big deal, but, uh, it's not for me.

Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.

Speaker B: All right. Do you have anything you do love

Speaker A: that I do love? Like, a series?

Speaker B: Sure.

Speaker A: Like, one that I did love was Dead to Me. That was a good one. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker B: Oh, gosh. With, uh, what's her name?

Speaker A: Christina Applegate.

Speaker B: Yes. That was fantastic. I saw two seasons.

Speaker A: There was only two seasons. She couldn't do a third. Oh, that's that. Yeah, because she's not.

Speaker B: Yeah, but that was a great one.

Speaker A: That sucked you in. Like, it was like a book you couldn't put down.

Speaker B: Speaking of amazing actresses that I just realized. Did you ever watch the Seas? You. I'm sure you didn't, because there was a million seasons, but the. The series Weeds.

Speaker A: No.

Speaker B: On hbo. All right, well, never mind. But I just realized that that gal who was in. Who's the lead. Lead actress in Weeds was also in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, and I just. That just came up on Netflix, so I just watched it. Anyway, I guess that's off topic, but, um. All right. So you never leave the house, but do you ever get out to do, like, outdoor stuff or hikes and things you just talked about in the last episode? Uh, about this amazing thing you did in Bailey. Was it Bailey?

Speaker A: Yes. We're good about, like, doing things on the weekends with friends. If it's with friends or each other or we meet up with friends or whatever, we're good about that. So it's like, hey, and we have group. I don't know. Doesn't everybody have a group chat with friends?

Speaker B: Uh, hey, group chats. I mean, I try. I try to have them, but, man, I. I mute myself immediately as soon as I get on a group chat. I'm like, I don't want to see this. Uh, I mean, I don't take myself off of it, but I don't want alerts on group chats.

Speaker A: I'm talking about, like, a friend group.

Speaker B: Yes. Friend groups. No, thank you. Friends.

Speaker A: No, I do. We'll do it. Like, we'll say, hey, what are you guys doing tonight? And we'll all end up, you know, the same place. And it happens rarely, but. And if so. And so can't go, at least there's four of us or six of us or whatever.

Speaker B: Oh, you gotta put me on your group chat.

Speaker A: You don't want to.

Speaker B: That's true. That's true.

Speaker A: You won't want to.

Speaker B: I guess I outed myself on that one.

Speaker A: You'll delete yourself and mute yourself.

Speaker B: Why isn't Inger coming to. Answering to any of these Things.

Speaker A: She's not even responding.

Speaker B: Yes, exactly.

Speaker A: Do you. Do you get out? Do you do. What do you do?

Speaker B: Well, okay, uh, let me just tell you one thing that I, uh, wish I was doing this upcoming weekend, but I'm not doing. Um, by the time this airs, it'll be long past anyway, so everyone plan on 20, 27. Let's do this together, everybody. But I really want to be doing. I, uh, want to go to Fruita, Colorado, and go to the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival. Have you. You're a Colorado native. Have you ever been to the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival?

Speaker A: No.

Speaker B: It's in Fruita. Yeah, they do it every, uh, last weekend in. In May. I'm gonna be out of town somewhere else, and so I'm not gonna be able to go, but I want to go next year. Can we. Can we put it on our calendar? Sure. Okay, so let me tell you what the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival is basically. Uh, I don't know, is it 1920? Something along those lines. In Fruita, there was this chicken where they literally, like, beheaded the chicken, but whoever did the beheading messed up quite a bit. And so they cut it in a way that, like, left the whole cerebellum intact in the brain. They kept the chicken alive for 18 months without a head, and they would just drip food into his esophagus. And so they would take him around the country. No, that's real. That is a real thing. And so they have this huge. They have this huge, like, ah, uh, monument, like a statue of Mike the Headless Chicken in Fruita, Colorado, which is on the western slope. Because they would drag this chicken around all over the country and, uh, to show them at state fairs and things like that while the chicken was alive literally was out ahead. And they kept that guy alive just by dripping, like, food into his esophagus because he had a cerebellum which was able to run the rest of his organs. Anyway, I know this is kind of sounding creepy, but the festival itself in Fruta sounds cool. There's music and fun, and it just. There's so many crazy, irreverent, uh, festivals in Colorado that I want to see them all. I haven't seen any of them. I want to go to the one in Estes Park. I want to go to the one with their coffin races down.

Speaker A: That's amazing.

Speaker B: You've done that, huh?

Speaker A: Huh? Yeah, we done it every year for a couple years.

Speaker B: Oh, dang it.

Speaker A: We love it.

Speaker B: All right, well, by the way, if

Speaker A: someone ever tries to chop off my head and you want drag you around and drag me around and feed me with the tube or some kind of thingy? No. Just get me out of my head.

Speaker B: What if your sponsors on Instagram are like.

Speaker A: Are like, I can't have a head.

Speaker B: We're going to give her a lot of money for her sponsorship.

Speaker A: I'm not going to enjoy it.

Speaker B: Uh, well, your heirs might enjoy it. I might drag you around. Okay, I'll promise you this. I will not drag you around Colorado or the country if you don't have a head.

Speaker A: Thanks.

Speaker B: Can we say cheers to that?

Speaker A: Yes. Thanks.

Speaker B: All right, well, tune in next week. Who knows what we're going to say at this point? Uh, tune in next week to what we have to say on mind your business. And what I always say is mind your business, right?

Speaker A: Yes. Mind your business. Cheers.

Speaker B: Cheers.