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On Display with Melissa Gorga

Getting Straight to the Point(s) (w/ The Points Guy - Brian Kelly)

On Display with Melissa Gorga

PodcastOne

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Melissa has a very special guest on this week's episode. He's a Housewives superfan who knows all about traveling on a budget, using points to your advantage, and the do's and dont's of flying. It's The Points Guy, Brian Kelly.

What's the best day to book a flight? Which credit card should I use for this purchase? How easy is it to upgrade to first class? Is it ok to take my shoes off on the plane? Brian answers all of these questions while sharing his tricks, hacks, and best approaches to get what YOU want when spending money and traveling. 

Melissa also spills the tea on what Housewives trips are really like, including a story of sneaking out late at night in Italy. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Melissa Gorga on display with me, Melissa Gorga on podcast one.

0:07.0

It scans a website non-stop for you and then whenever appointments open up it'll shoot you an email so you can take it before anyone else.

0:16.0

So many of my readers have been here.

0:18.0

Are you kidding me? Where have you been my whole life?

0:30.0

Hey guys, so welcome back to another episode of on display. We have a different episode for you this week.

0:39.0

I'm super excited. You guys are going to get so much information from this guy about traveling about how you're going to use your money traveling, how you're going to use your points traveling.

0:49.0

What days to book travel? What airline to book travel on that's going to give you the most.

0:55.0

If you like to travel, you need to listen to this podcast because this is going to be so insightful for you guys.

1:02.0

All right, he's basically the expert when it comes to taking advantage of loyalty programs and rewards points so that you can travel and enjoy life in an affordable way.

1:12.0

He reaches over 11 million people a month on his media platforms.

1:17.0

You know him as the points guy ladies and gentlemen, Brian Kelly.

1:22.0

Hi, hello, hello. I'm here to teach everyone how to travel like a housewife today.

1:28.0

Oh my god. My listeners are going to be so excited to hear this. I'm actually looking for a bunch and I feel like I use my loyalty points and we'll get into that.

1:39.0

I want your advice. I want to know how you do this. First off, let's just tell everyone we did just recently me. I don't was at the first time we met or we've met before that, I think.

1:49.0

I think I was at the pride Margaret's pride party that she did. I think we met briefly last summer, but I think we really chatted at the recent built credit card launch event, which was so much fun.

2:00.0

And that was such a big thank you. I wore all white to that that space. What was that summit? What? Oh my goodness, the space summit at Vanderbilt. Yeah, unbelievable.

2:11.0

Like it was almost like there's so many mirrors and it's up so high in this guy was almost like disorienting. I'm like, am I drunk? Am I going to crash into a wall here?

2:19.0

It was disorienting and it was also like you were just floating in the middle of the sky like no matter where I looked and I got confused at one point because there's some mirrors and I just thought it kept going and going and going and going.

2:29.0

Totally insane space, insane space. But yes, it was so nice to meet you. I think and you know a lot of the housewives, you know, Duranda, you know, Margaret, have you met like all of these ladies have you met so many?

2:43.0

I've met a lot over the years Ramona, dangerous, a good friend, dangerous hysterical. It's just kind of funny like sometimes my friends call me like the housewives whisper because I'm an avid, you know, die hard fan of the show.

2:55.0

And I watch it. I always bring it on planes with me. It's like my release. It's like everyone on my phone's not on. I'm like, I can just dive into like the latest episode. So yeah, the housewives to me are just like the perfect way.

3:08.0

You know, flight a five hour flight goes by in like 20 minutes when you've just got like a bunch of shows to binge.

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