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Let's get into the giant mailbag.

What crazy thing did City this week?

It's time for mattress running the numbers.

Ready for the main event? The main event.

Frequent Miler on the air starts now.

Today's main event, award booking artistry.

Booking Lloyd flights is not always straightforward, is it?

No, it isn't.

You have to be an artist sometimes. Sometimes you do,

at least if you're trying to get the best deal. I mean, you could always just jump online and

if you have a million points, book it for a terrible deal. Right, right. You can just throw

painted the canvas. Yes, exactly. But if you, you know, if you want to make a masterpiece,

then you get a piece it together, right?

That's right. That's right. And there are all kinds of tricks and art, artistry that can be used, can be applied to put together the perfect trip.

And it'll drive you absolutely bonkers trying to figure out the best way to do it.

But we're going to discuss a whole grab bag full of techniques and then let the listener decide which, if any, to actually go forward with.

And we'll probably have forgotten some good ones too. So, you know, send us, email us at mailbag at fregramiler.com

if you have ideas that we left out. Or comment wherever you see this or watch this or listen to this

and let us know. Absolutely. But speaking of mailbag, it's giant mailbag time. I thought you're

about to say something. No, I was just, I was just over here. Nick was kind of wriggling his head around. I was, I was waiting for the music. As if there was music going on. Maybe we'll put a little background music in right there so that it doesn't looks so awkward. That little pause. Yeah, okay. Giant Mail today comes from Dave and St. Louis, and this is Giant Mail in the sense that there's several paragraphs here. I'm going to read two of them. Dave says, I'm gearing up for retirement this year. And while I was working on my annual spending plan, one expense category was conspicuously absent thanks to you.

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