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Frequent Miler on the Air

How best to spend $115K... Asking for a friend | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep350 | 3-20-26

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast episode, we'll share 3 ways to improve your Google Wallet, we'll see how Marriott Bonvoyed us again, and Nick will explain how he would spend $115K.

Giant Mailbag

(01:24) - Mark shares how to arrange the card order in Google Wallet

(03:30) - Rick & Heather share another way to arrange cards in Google Wallet

(03:55) - Raj shares a way to set a card as default, and customize the nickname of a card on Google Wallet (which Raj uses to specify the rotating category for a card)

Card News

(05:46) - IHG Biz 200K Offer

Learn more about the IHG One Rewards Premier Business Credit Card here

(12:25) - New/updated resource: Best credit card purchase protections

See our Best credit card purchase protections resource here

(19:44) - Citi ThankYou Points about to end points-sharing between cardholders?

Read more about this here

Bonvoyed by Bonvoy

(25:04) - Read more about Marriott card eligibility here

Learn more about the Marriott Bonvoy® Brilliant® American Express® Card here

Learn more about the Marriott Bonvoy Bevy® American Express® Card here

Awards, Points, and More

(28:39) - Rove Miles: Redeem Rove Miles for a paid stay at a loyalty-eligible rate and earn hotel points

Read more about redeeming Rove miles here

(31:43) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card / Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ Card Price Match Guarantee

Learn more about this here: https://frequentmiler.com/chase-travel-offering-price-match-guarantee-for-hotel-bookings/

(36:52) - Delta's 20-minute baggage guarantee

[40:14:26]

Main Event: How to best spend $115K....asking for a friend

(40:16) - A large capacity for spend could mean many welcome bonuses

(43:20) - The contenders

(43:34) - Learn more about The Business American Express Platinum Card® card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AmxPlatBiz/#Goto

(46:19) - Learn more about the Chase World of Hyatt Business Credit Card: https://frequentmiler.com/WOHBiz/#Goto

Learn more about the Chase World of Hyatt Credit Card: https://frequentmiler.com/WOH/#Goto

(48:27) - Learn more about the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-american-express-surpass-card/#Goto

(49:49) - Learn more about the Caesars Rewards® Prestige Visa Signature® Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/CaesarsRewardsPrestigeCard/#Goto

Learn more about the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/VentureX/#Goto

(51:43) - Learn more about the Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card here: https://frequentmiler.com/CSR/#Goto

(53:02) - Our thoughts

Question of the Week

(1:10:57) - How might investments enhance the points and miles game?

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast.

0:03.9

You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyscape.com.

0:10.5

On today's episode, we talk about three ways to improve your Google Wallet.

0:15.7

Marriott Bonvoy bonvoys us again.

0:19.4

And I explain how I would spend $115,000.

0:26.0

Frequent Milo on the air starts now.

0:30.1

Today's main event, how best to spend $150,000 asking for a friend.

0:47.5

So Nick had a friend reach out to him that was in a, had a great opportunity, I guess is the best way to put it, to spend a heck of a lot of money in a fairly short amount of time.

0:58.4

And in today's main event, Nick is actually going to walk us through his thoughts about if he was in that situation, how would he make that spend?

1:06.4

Because the answer of like what's the best way to do it really depends so much on your individual situation.

1:09.9

And so Nick can best answer that from his point of view.

1:44.5

Yeah. So we'll talk about that a little bit more in a little bit. But don't forget if you want to jump ahead to that or come back to something later on. You'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box for that. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give this a like. Give it a thumbs up. If you like the idea of spending $15,000, give us a like. And if you think it's crazy, give us a like too. We'll talk more about that a little bit later on. But right now, let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right. Today's giant mail, we have three pieces of mail that are all basically saying the same thing, but in different ways. And there's different nuances to each. So I thought it was worth reading each one. Basically, in previous shows,

1:51.0

we talked about how you can reorganize cards in your Apple wallet for Apple Pay. And we didn't know if you could do a similar rearranging in Google Wallet and a number

2:09.5

of readers wrote in to say, actually, yes, you can.

2:12.3

And here's how.

2:14.3

And the interesting stuff is in the details here.

2:17.7

So first up, Mark says I was watching your episode about gems from the giant mailbag.

2:23.6

One of the readers mentioned about how to change the order of your cards in Apple wallet.

2:27.4

And next said, it doesn't appear you can do that in your Google wallet.

2:30.9

I'm an Android user and you can change the card or at least on my pixel phone I can.

2:35.0

When you open your wallet, you will swipe left through the cards all the way until you see a circle with three bars in it.

2:42.0

And for those listening, Nick is doing this right now to try it out.

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