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On today's episode, we talk about a potential last-minute use for your dining credits.

American Airlines bond voids us too late to win an award.

And we pick 2025's Deal of the Year.

Frequent Milo on the air starts now.

Today's main event, 2025 Deal of the Year.

Today we're going to be talking about the best deals of 2025.

We're going to recognize the programs that have brought good things to us this year, unlike last week's episode where we talked about the most customer unfriendly

deals with the Bonfoy of the Year awards. This year we're going to give credit where credit really

is due to those that have brought us great deals in 2025. Yeah, and we love great deals.

We kind of eat and breathe great deals. So this is a fun episode for us and hopefully for

everyone else to kind of reminisce on some of the great deals that happened. And it's always good

to learn about those. So you recognize the great deals that come in the new year. Remember,

if you want to jump ahead to one of these segments and listen to something in particular, you can always expand the show notes and where you'll find the timestamps so you can jump ahead to something or come back to it later on to listen to it again. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like the video or give us some stars if you're leaving feedback on the podcast form. Leave us a comment. Let us know what you think. What was the deal of the year for you? We love to hear from you with your input and tips. All right. Let's drag out this week's Giant Melbag. All right. Today's Giant Mail. We've got several things going on. First, sort of a public service announcement. We're coming to the end of the year,

and we did a show about end of the year checklist. You know, it's time to make sure you've gotten all

your big coupons fulfilled and everything. And we've also done posts about it on the blog.

And one thing that a number of people have written in about is dining credits.

So, for example, the Amex Platinum cards have their $100 quarterly Rezi credits.

The Safari Reserve has its exclusive tables, $150 every six months credit.

And, of course, the latest versions of those credits are coming to an end, December 31st.

That's your last chance to get in on them if you haven't already.

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