You Don't Have to Stay Stuck
7/6/20262 hr 7 min
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[upbeat music] Brought to you by the EveryDollar app. Start budgeting for free today. [upbeat music] Normal is broken, common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life. From the Ramsey Network in the Fairwinds Credit Union Studio, this is The Ramsey Show. So today, we're gonna do a little walk down memory lane. For those of you that have been with us for a long time, you'll recognize a lot of these things, and if not, you're about to learn some things you didn't know. Uh, I started this show in, on, uh, on a radio station that was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, uh, I agreed to work for free. It was called The Money Game, and I told the guy, "If we're really bad, you can cut our pay in half." And we were really bad. It sounded like Darryl and his other brother Darryl doing a radio show. "Dave Ramsey, and this is WWTN." It's about how it sounded. [laughs] And, um, we, uh, uh, started that in, uh, January tw- or, I'm sorry, June 25th of 1994. So, uh, we're coming up, uh, we'll be coming up on our 40 year here before we know it. Or 1992, I'm sorry, 1992. Um, we'll be coming up on our 40 year here in just a few years. And, um, later on, a company called Gaylord, uh, that owned Opryland and still does own Opryland Hotels and a bunch of other things, they owned some radio stations at the time