Quit Paying for Yesterday's Mistakes

**Dave Ramsey** (0:27)
I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, Jade Warshaw, number one, and I'll see you next time. I'm your selling author, Ramsey Personality is my co-host today. Open phones here at 888-255-225.
Most of you know I am a lifelong Tennessean that our studios operate in Franklin, Tennessee, and just south of Nashville, and many people drop by. There's several people sitting out here today watching us. We do the show from one to four live. Come visit us.
Lifelong Nashvillean as well, which means that as our radio career has grown, and whatever else I do around here, career has grown, I've gotten to know and become friends with a lot of the country music folks around Nashville, particularly of my generation. I don't know a lot of the younger ones as well, because I'm not that cool, but I know a few of them. But one of the things I've learned over the years of working with the country music community is there's a few twerps, but most of them are incredible people.
The absolute queen of the state of Tennessee and of all the country music artists would have been Dolly Parton. And I just heard a moment ago that she just passed away. And I'm heartbroken. And as all of the world is, I'm sure, but certainly Tennesseans and those of us who... She was an absolutely amazing woman behind the scenes as well as on the stage. Phenomenal business mind.
Absolute genius at business. And very well accomplished in the boardroom as much as on the stage. The things that she has pulled off and Dollywood among them and many, many other things. And the other thing that she's most known for among those of us... I didn't know her, but I knew half a degree of separation 46 times. And incredibly generous. Every child in the state of Tennessee gets a free book every year from the Dolly Pardon Foundation. She wanted to encourage reading. She grew up in Sevierville, Tennessee, in the mountains of East Tennessee. And reading was a privilege, not an automatic entitlement. And so she wants to make sure... She wanted to make sure children, regardless of their economic circumstances, had that. And I think the third thing that comes to mind when I think of Dolly is... I mean, the fourth is the performances and the absolute incredible world-class talent in movie and on stage and everything else. But she, as much as anybody I've ever known in that business, stayed completely out of any kind of politics or social issues. She just said, I just love you.
And you don't have to just accept that. But we're not going to talk about who I voted for, we're not going to talk about your social agenda, conservative or liberal, because I just love you. And nobody except the ones closest to her know what she actually believed on those things. And because that was not who she was and she didn't care. She said, that's not my job. And she was really, really good at her job and her job was being Dolly, the only one ever. I mean, there's very few people you can say a singular name like Dolly, a single first name and you don't even have to say the last name. And as a performer, you had to be really, you had to have seen her and watched her many times.

**Jade Warshaw** (4:13)
Oh, absolutely. I mean, I'm, I don't have a long list of things to say, but I will say the world that I know needed certain people in it. And when they leave, it doesn't feel quite right.
And it's people like Prince, it's people like Dolly Parton, it's people like Michael Jackson. And when somebody like Dolly Parton leaves the world, you go, oh, it just doesn't feel right. Because they shaped the world that I saw.

**Dave Ramsey** (4:39)
Leaves a hole.

**Jade Warshaw** (4:40)
Yeah.

**Dave Ramsey** (4:41)
An irreplaceable hole. Yeah, that's true. And in all cases that you mentioned, force of nature. Absolute force of nature and just incredible. So Ramsey Show is grieving with our friends and our neighbors and her husband today.
And honoring her as best we can from this distance. But, wow, you know, she was scheduled to come on here several different times to do books and things that she had coming out. And it just never worked out. Something would blow up and at the last minute get changed and everything else. And I, you know, people ask me all the time, you've met a lot of people. Who's the one person you have never met? And I always say, Dolly. Oh, man. And I never made it. I never made it. So I regret that. And I know so many people that are close friends. And I should have forced the issue, I guess. But I didn't. I regret that at this moment. I tell you that. So. But anyway, I can't. The only way I can drop the name is she lives about five miles from lived about five miles from me. And everybody knew where she lived. I mean, you know, and but just see her. People would see her at the grocery store. She wasn't recognizable. She said it takes about three hours to look like this. So that was her line. And so pretty pretty incredible. So gosh, makes me want to tear up. But OK, open phones here at 888-825-5225.