Stop Making Excuses for Bad Money Choices

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.9	Live from Nashville, Tennessee, it's the Ramsey Show where we help people with their wealth, their jobs, their work, their relationships with just about
0:23.3	everything. And I guess jobs and work are the same thing, James. So there you go. If you want to be
0:28.5	on this show, we're taking live calls, AAA 825-5-2-25. I'm John Deloney joined by my great friend,
0:34.1	George Camel, and we're taking calls from all over the planet.
0:39.7	AAA 825-5-225.
0:42.9	Let's go out to Pennsylvania and talk to Nancy.
0:43.5	What up, Nancy?
0:45.2	Hi, guys.
0:45.8	How are you?
0:46.9	Doing awesome. How are you?
0:48.0	I'm okay.
0:49.5	So what you got?
0:59.0	Well, so I have a little financial problem with what to do about my dad's house.
1:00.3	All right. Tell us about it.
1:01.0	Okay, so my mom just passed away in February.
1:04.4	I'm sorry.
1:05.6	Thank you.
1:06.3	And my father decided three months after my mom passed away to make a phone call to a woman
1:15.3	that he hadn't had an affair with over 40-some years ago.
1:21.0	And the problem is now they're in love.
1:26.3	Okay.
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