Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 323: Why Dave Ramsey Uses Disgust to Get You to Believe Him

November 10, 2023

In this episode, we ask:


  • Do you remember the elementary school cafeteria?
  • What about hair nets?
  • Who was Edward Bernays?
  • What about public relations?
  • What is disgust for?
  • What about avoidance?
  • What about rejection?
  • What about punishment?
  • What about the basal ganglia?
  • How are we manipulated by disgust?
  • What words elicit disgust reactions?
  • What does Dave Ramsey say in his book?
  • What does he say in his article, The Truth About Life Insurance?
  • What does Dave Ramsey say about the stock market?
  • Who is the Edward Bernays of the financial infotainment industry?
  • What licenses does Dave Ramsey hold?
  • Who is A.L. Williams?
  • What is happening behind the scenes with the stock market?
  • Do you trust that company?
  • What about being over the top?
  • What about paint-by-number thinking?
  • What about nuance?
  • What about manipulation?
  • What about bias?
  • What about repeating what other people have said, without thinking?
  • Would you like to hear Episode 302?
  • How many influences are recommending?
  • What is the recourse?
  • What about Franz Kafka?
  • Is insurance a primitive religion?
  • What about rational thinking?
  • What about magical thinking?
  • What did Orit Tykocinski say?
  • Do you have health insurance?
  • Do you feel less at risk?
  • Why do we buy insurance?
  • What about the word “sure”?
  • What about lack of doubt?
  • What about the advertisement?
  • What about the logos?
  • What about the warranty?
  • What about avoiding the pain of loss?
  • What about loss mitigation tactics?
  • What about life insurance?
  • What about guarantees?
  • What are the chances of the claim being paid?
  • Why is whole life insurance different from other types of insurance out there?
  • Does the stock market have guarantees?
  • What percentage of term insurance policies result in the insurer paying a claim?
  • What are the lessons?
  • Am I buying for the right reasons?
  • Am I just trying to please my psyche?
  • What about getting motivated to take action?
  • Is it something that you truly want?