Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode sponsored by Point Me. |
| 0:02.0 | Want to know the secret to booking flights with points and miles? |
| 0:05.0 | Let's say you've got 80,000 points, and you're looking at a business class flight to Europe. |
| 0:10.0 | Cash price? |
| 0:11.0 | Around $3,000. |
| 0:12.0 | You check your credit card travel portal, 300,000 points. |
| 0:16.0 | Way too high. |
| 0:18.0 | But shh, here's what you should do instead. |
| 0:20.0 | Go to point.me and run that exact same search. |
| 0:23.3 | In seconds, it shows you better ways to book that same flight across dozens of airline programs. |
| 0:28.8 | Now instead of 300,000 points, you're seeing options closer to 65,000. |
| 0:33.6 | That's because you can move your credit card points into airline programs, where the pricing is usually way lower. |
| 0:39.3 | Same flight, same seat, for less than half the points. |
| 0:42.7 | And Point Me doesn't just show you the options. |
| 0:45.0 | It walks you through exactly how to book it. |
| 0:47.5 | If you want to get more value from your points without becoming a points nerd, |
| 0:51.3 | visit point.me and see what your points are really worth. Get 25% off an |
| 0:56.6 | annual membership with code points 25. It's more of Mark. Mark Simone on 710 WOR. |
| 1:07.8 | Hi, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter, his website, showbiz 411.com. |
| 1:14.3 | There's great stories there every day. |
| 1:16.4 | Showbiz 411.com. |
| 1:19.2 | Roger Friedman, how you doing? |
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