Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/10/26

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**Jim Cramer** (1:02)
My mission is simple, to make you money. I'm here to level the playing field for all investors. There's always a moment in summer, and I promise to help you find it. Mad Money starts now.
Hey, I'm Cramer.

**Jim Cramer** (1:19)
Welcome to Mad Money. Welcome to Cramer America. I was going to make friends. I'm just trying to make you some money. My job is not just to entertain, but to educate and teach you. So call me at 1-800-743-CMBC, or tweet me at Jim Cramer.
Whenever you're listening to anyone's investing advice, you need to consider the source. And ideally, you want to know where that person's coming from. That's why tonight I'm going to tell you exactly who I am and how I got here. No, not the standard introduction. I'm Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, co-host of Squawk of the Street, chief of the CMBC Investing Club. What I want to do tonight, in an extremely special show by even my wacky standards, is trace the arc that brought me to Mad Money. Not for some autobiographical ego trip, but to kind of give you some money making lessons from the phases of my various careers. And explain, of course, how you can pop the phone. Remember, in the end, this is Cramer Erica, and everything we do here is about trying to help you make money. In short, I'm giving you the Invested Cramer Guidebook. I didn't call that the skinny on how I learned to be a good investor and how I continue to learn every day so I can help you become better than I ever, I want you to be better than I ever was going to be. By the way, that's our mission in the Investing Club too. Let's start real early. My love of stocks didn't begin after law school or college or even high school. No, my love for stocks started back in fourth grade. That's fourth grade. You see, my dad would bring home the old Philadelphia Bulletin. Boy, that brings, about a long time ago that was. At that point, the Philadelphia Bulletin was one of the largest newspapers in the country.
He'd have it when he came back from work every night and give it to me. I wanted the comics and sports. I was a ridiculous Phillies fan back then. I still am.
It's a lifelong affliction, I guess, although I have pivoted hard toward the Eagles.
I was also a curious kid. Curiosity's always been both a blessing and a curse for me. Not unlike the proverbial cat that's always probing, looking, and occasionally jumping on some hot stoves. Anyway, there was always this solid chunk of the paper that seemed impenetrable to me, the business section. It was impenetrable because it had these giant lists and names and agate type that seemed to go on forever. There were the other tables, different from the batting averages tables and box scores I scrutinized as regularity. When I read them from left to right, they made no sense to me whatsoever. Open, range, close? I mean, what's open? What range? What closed? What were these strange things?

**Jim Cramer** (3:30)
Why did they matter?

**Jim Cramer** (3:31)
I asked my dad, who I knew dabbled in the stock market, because occasionally I hear him get mad when he heard prices that were mentioned on the radio. And particularly, I always seemed to get angry when I heard something called national video and how it went out. I don't know what video did other than go out and why it went out. I don't know if Pop did either, though. But I know it made him furious. I wanted to know why.