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.

Sid Rosenberg has risen to talk radio prominence in the Big Apple. And he believes he didn’t get there by strictly sticking to politics.

Earlier this week, a portion of Rosenberg’s conversation with former President Donald Trump went viral, with many national outlets playing clips from the show.

And while he received acclaim for his discussion with the President, that didn’t stop Sid Rosenberg from talking about a sports topic directly after discussing the reaction to his interview with the President.

He shared there’s a method to his madness.

“We’ve got so many great guests talking politics today but we do a lot of sports here. And that’s part of the reason why this show is so successful,” Rosenberg stated. “We had this great sales meeting yesterday, it’s once a month, and John and Margo (Catsimatidis) come. And Chad (Lopez) explained to the whole staff ‘We’re not WFAN.’ Boomer and Gio right now are probably breaking down Drake and Duquesne. And I mean, no one cares. Not even the coaches. We’re not going to do that.

“But to do a show in New York City, especially a morning show, and ignore sports is — how do I say this? — effing stupid,” Rosenberg continued. “it’s the reason Don Imus had all those great personalities doing sports.”

Rosenberg — who rose to prominence in his radio career in sports — shared that he still loves sports and loves talking about sports, and in a market like New York, that still works on the air on a talk radio show, in his opinion.

Conservative commentator Candace Owens departed The Daily Wire Friday morning, with CEO Jeremy Boreing making the announcement on social media. Owens has now spoken for the first time since the news was released.

In a post to X, Owens confirmed the news.

“The rumors are true — I am finally free,” Owens wrote.

Owens — who joined The Daily Wire in 2021 for a self-titled podcast — had sparred back-and-forth with Shapiro about each’s takes on the Israel/Hamas conflict after the October 7th terrorist attacks.

The “finally free” comment flies against the public comments from Boreing, who remained adamant throughout Owens’ public feud with the outlet’s co-founder Ben Shapiro that she was free to speak her own mind.

“Candace is paid to give her opinion, not mine or Ben’s. Unless those opinions run afoul of the law or she violates the terms of her contract in some way, her job is secure and she is welcome at Daily Wire,” Boreing maintained throughout the feud.

Included in her message announcing her departure from the conservative digital outlet was a statement claiming “There will be many announcements in the weeks to come.”

Earlier this year, Spotify agreed to a new contract with Joe Rogan for his popular The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. We now know how popular the show truly is.

According to a report from Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman, Spotify has quietly launched a feature sharing how big the audiences are for shows it distributes, including Rogan, Call Her Daddy, and other giants in the podcast realm.

With the new figures available, The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5 million followers according to Spotify. While that number is lower than his YouTube subscriber count — 16 million — it dwarfs virtually every other podcast. TED Talks Daily is the next closest audio program, with 5 million followers on the platform. Call Her Daddy, Crime Junkie, Stuff You Should Know, Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain, and Huberman Lab are the only other shows eclipsing the 3 million follower mark.

“This number represents the number of users who have decided to ‘follow’ a show on Spotify — it doesn’t represent a show’s total audience or the performance of an episode,” Spotify told Bloomberg. “The early feedback from both creators and users has been encouraging. We have no further details to share at this time.”

Those figures are different from the Podtrac rankings that are released each month, with noticeable shows like Dateline NBC not in the top 10 podcast rankings. A spokesperson for Spotify claimed some shows didn’t have the functionality on their pages to be completely counted because the newly launched feature hasn’t been completely implemented yet.