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Welcome to Too Good to Be True, an investigative podcast exposing the scams, schemes, and financial cults trying to separate you from your money.

Well, we're back for part two of our discussion about the evangelical church, the

prosperity gospel, and how Dave Ramsey fits into all of this.

You guys are not ready.

I'm not ready.

So has this thought process started to be laundered and leak into secular culture in ways

that I might know about,

but I don't know that this is where the source of the ideas are coming from.

Oh, absolutely.

Like there's a lot of nuance to this, which I think brings us inevitably to Dave Ramsey.

So what is your exposure to Dave Ramsey and his principles been like?

So I know that he has some pretty wacky ideas about money that and I know they are all

mostly counterintuitive and based on my understanding denial or like a very black and white

thinking about money and that he's very sexist and that he has had

several scandals for his personal behavior.

And I imagine him as like a figure yelling on TV.

I don't really know much about him beyond that.

That's fine.

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