Back in My Day: Ringtones Were Art, Fantasy Was Optional, and Bread Was Cheap

In this gloriously unprepared episode, I admit I barely understand my own fantasy baseball league… but who cares? I still dive head-first into a chaotic trade debate, roast my questionable roster decisions, and prove that zero knowledge is no obstacle to having extremely strong opinions.

Then I go full grocery store detective: ranking the most ridiculous food price increases from “eh, whatever” to “this is highway robbery” — because apparently $7 orange juice is where I draw the line, but $4 bread is fine.

And finally, I spiral into full nostalgia mode about the golden age of ringtones. Back when your phone actually had personality, you could annoy everyone in a 50-foot radius with a custom song, and getting a call felt like a tiny concert. Why did we let that die?!

Zero research, maximum ranting, and way too much yelling about milk. If you like unfiltered comedy about dumb everyday stuff, this one’s for you.

Transcript

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Welcome to Gotta Get Said. Here's your host, Matt Cucko. One, two, three, go. What's happening, guys? And welcome to another episode of Gotta Get Said on this Wednesday, March 25th, 2026. What's going on, everybody? How's everybody doing? How's everyone's week been? Everyone's having fun. Winter's over, so we hope. Nah, it should be. It should be over, right? Northeast. This is it, right? This is it. Easter's right around the corner. This is it. That being said, it's cold right now. It's cold as we speak on this Wednesday, March 25th, 2026. So who knows? But it's I think we're good. I think we're in the clear. So that's good. That's nice. That's just dandy, if you will. That's just dandy if you will. What do you want to talk about, guys? What do you want to talk about today, right? So many different things. So many. I'm in a fantasy baseball league. So that's fun, right? See, I don't mind. I actually love being in a fantasy baseball league. You know, I'm with a bunch of friends. There's a group chat. People are talking shit. If you know what I mean? Like, it's a lot of a lot of tension. The only problem with being in a fantasy baseball group is this. I know nothing about baseball today. I know how to play the game of baseball. I know the rules of baseball. I know I you know I know just enough to get me in trouble in baseball, but I don't know ball. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know who the starting third baseman for the Minnesota Twins are right now. You know, I'm not even sure the min is are they still the Minnesota Twins? Genuinely, I'm not 110% positive. You know, so I do my research as the season goes on. It's not rocket science, you know what I mean? There's a ranking system, there's a hot knot, there's a percentage of people that have these people, there's a what these people are currently doing. So I look at it very analytical because that's all I have. Because I don't have a hot take opinion on it. I don't have a I think this should happen opinion on it. I don't have the I'm the smartest guy in the room. No one knows this, but I know that take on it. You know what I mean? I don't have those takes. So I stay very down the middle. I stay very analytical, and I hope just hope that maybe I get lucky. Because to win a fantasy base, to win anything, any fantasy league, especially a fantasy baseball league, because the season's so long, 162. See, I know that, right? Did they cut it short? Yeah, I don't think so. But uh they might have actually that being said, but pretty sure it's 162, and if it's not, fuck yourself. But um, you know, it's an everyday grind. You have to pick up pictures, they call it streaming. See, I know that they call it streaming, I know that much, you know. Like I won this league three years ago, you know what I mean? So it's not like you know, it's not out of the realm, if you will. But I don't know as much off the fly as anyone else in this league. So, and there's no secret to that, and I'm not naive to that, and I'm not ashamed of that. I just um, you know, I like doing it. It's a form of gambling, quite frankly. Let's call a spade a spade. If we were doing this for free, I wouldn't be doing this. If we were doing this for Oreos, I wouldn't be doing this, but uh careful. Double stuffed? That's double, by the way. Does anyone not get double stuffed Oreos? Does anyone still get regular Oreos? Why get regular? There's one right down, right next to it, adjacent to it, in the aisle on the shelf. There's the same exact Oreo, just with double the amount of the good stuff in the Oreo. Just get that one, just get the double the amount of good stuff in the Oreo. People still get regular Oreos, right? Huh. I you know, I was eating a double stuffed Oreo the other day, and I was like, is this just it? Or do they still sell regular Oreos? Because if they do, why? Why do they do that? Because I just don't, unless double stuffs are more than regular stuff, they should be. I don't grocery shop, to be honest. So, but if they're the same price, that's insane that people would ever buy regular Oreos. Like, in my opinion, I'm sorry. That's insane. But okay, to get back to baseball, just for one second. I'm gonna say I'm in a fantasy baseball league. I don't know much about it, but you know, today's opening day, and we're excited, and I hope I do well, and I love doing well because I'm in a league with a lot of friends, you know. But a lot of these people love baseball, and a lot of these people pride themselves on being knowledgeable in baseball, and they are knowledgeable and they should pride themselves. But I love when like something goes wrong for them and right for me in a sense of like that, because it's like, oh my god, they thought all the like, no, but I'm the but I'm the smartest guy in the room. How did had that happen? You know what I mean? So I just I love when that happens, to be perfectly honest. That's just a happy accident, as well as the winning the money part. Close second behind the winning the money is watching my friends who were know-it-alls with baseball not know-it-all, you know what I mean? They're know-it-alls, but none of them do it for a living. You know, if you're a know-it-all, you would work with the know-it-alls, but you don't work with the know-it-alls, you work with where you work, you know? And that's fine. That's your lane, that's your journey, but you're not with the know-it-alls. So, like, why do you say you know it all? What yeah. Whatever. What do I know? You know, I don't know it all, you know what I mean? Anyways, to get back to double-stuffed Oreos, I will say this. I will say this back to double-stuffed Oreos. And not just double, like, yes, I think that whoever has double stuffed Oreos should only have double-stuffed Oreos. I genuinely mean that from the bottom of my heart. But I will say this. I will say this. For the people, for the people. Hold on, I gotta pause this for a sec. In regards to the food stuff, Oreos in particular, you know, stuff like that. I always find it fascinating that like when people are like, oh, like I got this on sale versus I got that on sale, like, yeah, and that's fair, but like in my opinion, like food price like differential, like is nonsense. It's absolutely nothing. Like the best cheese in that fucking shop, right, is$8.99 a pound. And like the worst cheese is like$6.99 a pound, or like$5.99 a pound. It's like, all right, like, so for$6 you get the best cheese we offer. Creme de la creme of cheeses, and for six extra dollars you get it, or you save the six dollars and you're now eating the worst cheese we have to offer. You know, I don't is it mean, you know what I mean? And I know people listen to this and they're like, you don't chop, and you don't get it, and okay, like I hear ya. I really do hear ya. I do, I fucking hear you. But like, I don't know, man. Like the best, you know, jar pastas, the best marinara sauce in a jar is eleven ninety nine a jar. The worst marinara sauce in a jar is five ninety-nine. I get it. I really do get it. I understand. It's five bucks. I understand. And quite frankly, my example is a little extreme. It's probably closer to like two or three dollars the gap, truthfully. Let's call it spade a spade here. I'm being a little I'm being a little extreme going against myself with my examples. I think we can all just agree that that's fair. So let's call it$6.99 versus$9.99. Best versus worst jar sauce of pasta sauce. I don't know, man. To me, like, is it I I'll just take the best, I'll take the best pasta sauce for the extra, I'll spend the extra three dollars for the best pasta sauce. I don't think that's a big deal. I don't, you know. And I'm not saying like buy the best of you know, I'm not saying buy the best of everything in every aspect of it. I'm not. Like, I'm really not. Like the best tinfoil versus the worst tinfoil, I don't know. I would imagine it's fairly the same. So, like, you know, if you want to pinch your pennies with that, okay, no problem. But like, you know, like the best cereal ever, like Fruit Loops,$3.99. The worst cereal ever. You know, like I don't know. Pastured loops, the sh the bag of Fruit Loops on the floor, you know? The bagged cereal when we were kids, that was the worst one. Last level bagged cereal in like that like pillow, plastic pillowcase cereal. We all remember that. I don't even know if they do that anymore, but back in the 90s, there was a pillowcase of plastic cereal that used to be on the bottom shelf of these places.$3.99 for the best of the best cereal. Plastic bottom shelf collecting dust cereal.$150. And I know what you're gonna say, like, well, pound for pound, that's more than double, Matthew. Sure. It is, it is more than double. I totally understand. I will not dispute that. You are a thousand percent correct. You are, but more than double is still in reality a dollar seventy-five. You know what I mean? Like, this isn't like a six hundred thousand dollar house versus a one point two million dollar house, you know? It's not that, it's a dollar fifty versus three ninety-nine for the best to the worst. You gotta cut the top of the play. I would imagine you wrap and clip. I would imagine that's how you keep it fresh. You I would imagine, I would imagine, maybe double clip because it's 12 inches wide of a bag, I would guess. So like clip. For an extra dollar fifty, you can have the best cereal. You can have the Cadillac of cereal for an extra dollar fifty. And I know, I know you people listening to this right now are saying to your, I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. You're saying this is prime example of a guy who doesn't go grocery shopping. This is prime example of a guy who doesn't penny pinch because the family and dinner on the table, and it all adds up. I know you were saying that. I do, and I am well aware that there's a world where that is a fact, and you know, there's an angle you can play that make that make sense. I totally understand, and I genuinely respect that. So I'm not even gonna like come at you on that level because there is a world where you are right. I don't shop and I'm not in that mindset that I really have to cut corners, penny, like you know, to like get dinner on the table. I get it. I really do in a whole, I understand it. Probably does end up in a hole. I understand, but like I don't know, man. Like on smaller ticket items, the cereal example, you know, like there's there's examples like you know, like 75 cents swing. Like, oh, these are 75 cents more. Okay, so like the best of something is 75 cents more than the worst of something, and we're gonna get the worst of something to save that 75 cents. Okay, like okay, you know, okay. Like, I you know, I don't want to play, you know, I don't want to come off like this because I know people are gonna listen to this and be like, you just don't shop, you don't know what it's like, and you don't coupon, and I don't, and you're 110 right, you really are right. But from the outside looking in, like the best of this version of something is 75 cents more than the worst, and we're getting the worst version of that to save 75 cents, and I know it all adds up, I know, but like I don't know, man. That's a lot of adding up for it to affect my life. That's a lot of adding up for it to affect my life. 75 cents, it's like I hear ya, I hear ya, I really do, but I don't know, man. I don't know. Gas too. Ah I didn't even want to I know I don't even want to talk about gas because I know that I sound like an idiot. I know when I talk about gas prices, I sound like a jackass. I know that when I talk about gas prices, people look at me and say, look at this fucking fat buffoon, doesn't know his ass from his elbow, doesn't know the economics of the the fucking, you know, whatever. Whatever it's called, he don't know it. And you're right. I don't know anything. I don't know my ass from my elbow. I don't know what I'm talking about. But what I do know is things that I just feel in my personal life gotta get said. I know right now gas prices are insane. I know it. I know I have a car, I pay for gas just like you pay for gas every single day. I totally understand and I totally respect where you're coming from. I really do. I promise I do. But like, you know, gas is what$380 a gallon right now? Terrible. Six months ago it was$280 a gallon, you know? And that's terrible. That's a full dollar a gallon. That's crazy, right? That's insane. Like society is upset, like the market is plummeting because of this, and I I know all of that, and I'm not gonna pretend to dispute or rebuttal or give an opinion on any of that because I don't know about any of that, you know. But what I do know is like this guy right here getting in his car for work, driving to the gas station to put money into my tank, paying 380 versus 280. You know, it sucks. You know, I have a 13-gallon tank, so an extra dollar times each gallon, 13-gallon tank, so it's an extra$13 to fill up my tank right now. That does suck, you know. That is unfortunate. I'm not happy about that by any means, but like, you know, it's$13. And I know, like, I know I'm I'm crazy, and I know for the owners of the freight companies that do all the logistics, and that I I totally understand that$13 truly adds up. Your your truck tanks are 150-gallon tanks, and uh millions of dollars is extra on that dollar. I totally respect and I totally understand that, and I would never try to come at you, even like the big companies, like everything's like when fuel's more expensive, like I get it. Everything goes up. I understand how it works, I really do, and that does suck, and I hate all of that from the bottom of my heart, and I I respect all that, but on like a real, a real, like person, a real, real, real personal level. Me personally driving to the gas tank every day, real personal, you know, I'm I'm personally paying$13 more to fill up my tank. Personally, that's what I'm that's what I'm paying extra.$13 to fill up my tank. You know, it sucks. But like, you know, it's not the end of the world. Is that I I might even edit this out because the backlash I'm gonna get for it, I'll leave it because I like to party. But I'm not excited about the backlash I'll probably get from that statement. And I know. Listen, before you backlash, I'm going on record telling you that I'm aware that when fuel prices are a dollar more, everything goes up because these big companies have to pay for the offset of the fuel. I understand, and that sucks for us. That affects us. That's why, you know, my plane tickets are more and like my bus, all that's I get. I get it. And I hate that, and that I know why it affects our economy 110%. I'm just talking from the personal person, regular Joe guy like me, day-to-day complaints about the gas. You know, it's$13 extra a gallon. And that sucks, but like, you know, uh. Right? Gotta get said? No? Maybe yeah, yeah, yes, no, maybe so. Okay. We'll leave it alone. We'll leave it alone. I won't get into it. Because I feel I forget, I feel like I know that that's gonna get taken wrong. And uh maybe as it should. Maybe it's a little bit on me. Maybe that should get taken the wrong way because um, you know, I didn't I didn't necessarily articulate uh articulate my words beautifully, and I didn't really give like tons of amazing examples and blah blah blah. And I respect that. So like I I guess I'll I'll take the backlash, but I didn't mean it in a sense of like what what you are probably gonna accuse me of meaning it like. Like, I know I get like I said, I get why it affects our economy, I get all things go up because everything's raw. I understand. I was just talking from like an a real deal, everyday per like, you know, that and um that's all. I was just talking about that. I was just talking about that. What else do you guys want to talk about? What else? I don't know. I don't know. What do you want to talk about? We can talk about um we know what we could talk about if you wanted to is the just a rise in technology, man. The rise in technology has been second to none, I will say. The rise in technology is just absurd. Like, it really is like crazy how much like the rise of technology has happened. And obviously, like I can play the angle of like robots and you know medical science and lasers and you know cures to cancer, and you know, I can play that angle 110%. Like, obviously, like the rise of that technology has been absolutely absurd. I can play that, like, you know, mainstream large angle, but I'm not even really talking about that necessarily. That is all true, like I agree with all that as well, but just like your everyday, like your cell phone. Your cell phone is something we all can relate to because we all have cell phones, like the rise and fall from like what cell phones used to be to where they are today is like just crazy, just crazy. Like 20 years ago, we were all rocking the prepaid flip phones, man. Remember the prepaid phones used to come in like that hard plastic hanging from Verizon? You would buy a fucking card, you'd buy like a$30 card, and you'd be considered like a baller. Remember that? Oh my god. Just a rise and fall. Remember the ringtones? Can we bring back ringtones? Why did ringtones ever leave? I loved ringtones. Ringtones are awesome. You never see them anymore. Everyone got so serious. Why so serious? I want a ringtone, man. Remember your girlfriend or boyfriend had their own ringtone? Your parents had their own ring. You my parents, you my parents to the like, you know, like everyone had their own. Even no, I'm not gonna ring it. And you're like, hold on, it's shoddy's calling, man. You know? Remember ringtones? When do they come back? I'll bring them back right now if y'all are on board with me. Gotta get said. Gotta get said. Can we bring back ringtones? Why did ringtones ever leave? I love a ringtone, especially now with all the technology we have. We could do some fucking really cool ringtones. I miss ringtones, man. I miss ringtones. Remember, please enjoy this song while you why we call the ver dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Why'd that leave? Why can't I hear violins instead of a ringing sound? Why that end? I loved hearing the Verizon uh violins instead of the generic that we always hear. I'll take the violins any day of the week. Why'd the violins leave? That was classy. It lightened the mood and put people in a better place. Why? Why did they stop that? Now we're just back to regular ring. I missed the violins. I missed the violins. Why where'd the violins go? Ringtones, violins? Man, now it's just boring. Now it's just bore. Man, I want my ringtone back. And I want the violin. Please enjoy this song while you wait for your Verizon Person. Man. That was good stuff. I'm sorry. Gotta get said. Rington's and the music violin while you were waiting for someone to pick up the call needs to come back. That needs to come back. I don't want to listen to a ring. We get it. I wanna I wanna fucking I wanna hear Bok. I wanna hear Bok. I wanna hear shit. Seriously. Bring it back. I want to be sitting on that subway on the work way to work and watch the person next to me their phone blare out of their pocket a love song. I want to know that that guy's wife is calling him to check in on the morning commute. I want to know. And uh well is like hey, how are you? I wanna know that. I wanna see that, I wanna feel that. We don't feel anymore with our phones. We don't feel anymore with our phones. I miss that. Bring that back, all kidding aside. All kidding aside, bring that back. Man, gotta get said. I'm bringing sex poor Justin, right? Justin Timber, like, huh? Poor him, huh? Yeah. It's hard, man. It's hard, you know. He's at he was at his worst right there. He was hammered. He was at his worst, man. It sucks. I watched the whole video and I just felt for the guy, man. I felt for him. You know, we all we've all been vulnerable. We've all been vulnerable. And to be vulnerable like that in front of the world, waiting to judge you, it sucked. I felt I honestly felt for the guy. I really did. And now he has to like play damage control and be politically correct. And you know, like, oh, I would not you know the things I did, and I get it. And like he has to do that, and I'm happy he's doing it. But like you we all know. You're good, buddy. We're all the world, we do it too, and we're not hundred millionaires. You know, imagine if we were hundred millionaires, you know? Imagine what we would do if we were hundred millionaires. Imagine the uh vulnerability we would expose ourselves to if we were worth what he was worth. So, like, maybe give the guy a little bit of a break. It was funny though. It was funny. It was funny to watch that. But yeah, I don't know. I guess that's it for me, man. Poor Justin Timberlake. Bring back ringtones and the violins between calls. The gas thing. I apologize for the gas thing. Maybe I shouldn't have gone there. Maybe fast forward through the gas part. I feel like you guys are gonna misinterpretate what I meant by that. Even the food, some of you moms aren't gonna love that, I'm sure. What I talk about first. Oh, fantasy baseball, yeah. For those who are listening who are in my fantasy baseball league, go fuck yourselves, baby. I'll see you at the top. Alright, guys, that's it for me. Until next week. I'm out of here, and I say same time, same place. I will see you next week.

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Peace.