COVID-19's impact on our business, Hyatt & Simon surprise, readers delight
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Nick discuss:
-How COVID-19 is impacting the business of Frequent Miler in a major way and what we and you can do to weather the storm.
-Awesome news from Hyatt
-Simon $1K VGCs are how online, but are they worth it?
-Going live: get notified the next time we're live on YouTube.
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Timestamps:
1:36: Reader feedback: Clarifying Citi application rules
7:12: How Frequent Miler makes money and will survive the COVID-19 crisis despite big hits to income
18:20: A very special thank you
32:00: What can readers do to support Frequent Miler given the current environment?
36:36: Good news: Hyatt keeps Greg's wrong prediction streak alive and now I've caught his bug.
44:33: More news: Now register to buy $1K Simon Visa gift cards online, but is it a good deal?
57:52: We were live and will be again. Join us. Subscribe.
1:03:43. Question of the week: Are gift cards FDIC-backed? Should we be concerned about holding them right now?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | Voyescape.com. Welcome to Frequent Myler on the air. How are you doing, Nick? I'm doing great. How are you, |
| 0:17.2 | Greg? Doing well. Today we're going to talk about, what are we going to talk about? We're going to talk about how frequent Miler as a business is going to survive COVID-19. It's not the happiest topic, but we are going to survive. So I guess it is a happy topic. Anyway, first, let's jump into reader feedback. |
| 0:40.3 | But before we do that, I just wanted to mention to anyone watching or listening that we're changing up our technology this week. |
| 0:49.1 | So we don't really know how well this is going to work. |
| 0:52.8 | In the past, we had been recording the video using something called OBS Studio, and now we're using Zoom. |
| 1:00.0 | And we're still trying to record the podcast sound with Squadcast, which is the thing that kept crapping out on us before. |
| 1:09.0 | So luckily, Zoom seems to be recording the sound pretty well. |
| 1:13.3 | So it should be a good backup for us. |
| 1:15.9 | We'll see. |
| 1:16.7 | But if there's any glitches or anything or any, I don't know, unpolished segments to all |
| 1:23.5 | this, we'll blame it on the technology being new. |
| 1:29.7 | All right. Sounds good. It's not a good excuse to me. So our feedback. The audio engineering team appreciates your patience. |
| 1:36.6 | Yes, they do. Our feedback comes from David. David says, guys, I'm really enjoying the podcast and appreciate you guys putting it out there. |
| 1:46.7 | Just a quick point of clarification from the most recent episode, I think Greg mentioned a couple of times about a 48-month clock between thank you point card sign-up bonuses. |
| 1:58.6 | But I was under the impression that the clock for these bonuses was only 24 |
| 2:02.6 | months. I'm newer at this game, so I'm not sure if I am right, but I was hoping for some |
| 2:07.8 | clarification. Appreciate it. So, David, first of all, I'm glad you're enjoying the podcast. |
| 2:16.5 | We're enjoying doing them. |
| 2:18.3 | So that's a good combination. |
| 2:21.5 | And I think he's right. |
| 2:23.1 | If I indeed did say that it's a 48-month wait, which I probably did say that |
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