Hey Talking Points listeners, it's your host Brian Kelly, The Points Guy.

We're taking this week off for the holiday, but I've got something else for you. We're taking this week off for the holiday but I've got something else for you.

We're launching another podcast in January called Miles Away hosted by

TPG's own Zach Honeg. So have a listen to his intro episode and as always

safe travels. Welcome to Miles Away. I am your host Zach Honeg Editor at Large at The Points Guy and today I kind of want to give you an

overview of what to expect from our weekly podcast. So my first guest is our

senior Points and Miles editor Nick Ewen. Welcome.

Thank you, Zach, excited to be here.

Thanks for joining us.

Nick is joining us from Florida where it's a swaltering 84 degrees, 85 degrees?

Yeah, it doesn't really feel like the holidays in December when it's 80-something degrees out, but you know, we suffer through that so we can enjoy when it actually turns into Florida winter.

So let's start off by talking about earning points and miles. You know, how does someone go about, you know, racking up the travel rule? about

you know, racking up the travel rewards. Well credit cards I think are the A number one of course the

usual caveats I always say make sure you pay your balance in full do not spend beyond

your means there are so many other ways to

earn points and miles as well when you shop online you should never go directly to a

retailer's website always start at an online shopping portal you You can go to a website like

cashback monitor.com and you can see various different sites that will give you

either bonus cashback, bonus airline miles, bonus credit card points for going

through one of these online shopping

portals. There are dining rewards networks where you know you have

thousands of restaurants all across the country that will give you extra points

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