Dave Ramsey: My Retirement Will Include Continuing to Host The Ramsey Show (2024)

Dave Ramsey quietly began shifting branding away from himself and more towards the Ramsey Solutions brand in recent years, but he says he doesn’t see any retirement in his immediate future.

During an appearance with The Iced Coffee Hour on YouTube, Ramsey was asked about any impending retirement plans. He said he had no idea of stepping away from his nationally syndicated radio program any time soon.

“I’m 63, I’ve been scaling back for a long time,” Dave Ramsey said. “Four years ago, I quit working on Fridays. Does that count? It’s a step in the right direction. We moved my son — 12 years he’s been working here, and the operating board moved him into the President’s role in January…he and I get to work together, so we’re having a blast working together.

“Some day, I’ll retire. But retirement for me, I’ll still do the show. As long as I make sense. If I quit making sense and I start hurting the brand, then we’ll have to take me off. Then I’ll become completely irrelevant and an angry boomer. I’m close now, maybe!,” he joked. “I’ll continue to speak as much as I can. I enjoy those things, so that will be my retirement.”

Dave Ramsey continued by noting that when he began approaching the age of 60, he recognized the importance of moving the brand to become more focused on Ramsey Solutions rather than just Dave Ramsey. He revealed that the company wanted to feature a 50/50 split in revenue between revenue tied him and then the rest of the company in 2022. However, in 2023, 78% of the company’s revenue came from “non-Dave” sources.

NPR is in the news after a controversial op-ed from one of its editors called into question the political bias of the network. Dan Bongino says there are other issues with the outlet.

Business editor Uri Berliner wrote a story criticizing the company he’s called home for 25 years yesterday, alleging political biases have tainted coverage at the public broadcaster. He alleged that while going through the political affiliations of senior editorial members at the outlet, he could not find one registered Republican among the top decision-makers at the company.

While discussing the situation, Dan Bongino took time to argue that NPR has lied about the level of funding it receives from the federal government.

“By the way, NPR loves to claim that it’s a small portion of government funding that goes into its coffers. That’s BS. It’s a large portion,” said Bongino. “A lot of it are projects and grants and things like that. And also contracts they have. Don’t believe it. A lot of your tax money goes to NPR.”

NPR claims less than 1% of its annual operating budget, on average, comes from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants and federal agencies and departments.

Dave Ramsey has made a living out of answering questions from people. But learning to not answer questions that weren’t asked was a bigger challenge.

During The Ramsey Show, the Ramsey Solutions founder shared that the lesson was a difficult, but important one to learn.

“You’re trying to change other people, and until they really want to change, you can’t do it. I do it for a living,” said Ramsey. “And I have had to learn that I don’t answer questions that aren’t asked. When you ask a question, I’m going to answer it. Because that’s my duty. But I’m not going to just walk up to people, start preaching at them, because that don’t do nothing.”

He went on to share an anecdote of a friend who leased a new car — which Dave Ramsey rails against — bringing it to his home to show it off.

“He knows I think leasing cars (is) stupid. And he drove it up in front of my house. So what am I gonna do? Go ‘You’re stupid’? No, I said ‘great car.’ He didn’t ask my opinion!”

Longtime NPR Business Editor Uri Berliner wrote an op-ed Tuesday arguing the outlet had lost its way and is now filled with political bias. Now, the network’s Editor-in-Chief is fighting back.

Berliner claimed NPR is not representative of the American public, and claimed the outlet missed or inaccurately reported three large stories in the past few years due to political biases from the employee base and editorial edicts from the company.

After the essay went viral, NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin defended the network from the criticism.

“I and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes,” Chapin wrote. “We’re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories. We believe that inclusion – among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage – is crucial to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world.”

She continued by noting that while she disagrees with the encapsulation from one of the outlet’s own editors, she said NPR is not above reproach.

“None of our work is above scrutiny or critique. We must have vigorous discussions in the newsroom about how we serve the public as a whole, fostering a culture of conversation that breaks down the silos that we sometimes end up retreating to. Ideally, we engage in this debate respectfully, with the goal of lifting up and strengthening each other’s work.”