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Frequent Miler on the Air

Pandemic vacation, take 3 | Ep61 | 8-29-20

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

1:02 Mailbag: Nick closes the loop on Capital One and offers Confession Time

7:13 What crazy thing did Citi do this week?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-21/bofa-customer-opens-mobile-app-and-finds-an-extra-2-45-billion

9:50 Mattress Running the Numbers: Is the Marriott status challenge worth mattress running?

https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/marriott-instant-status-match-challenge-from-ihg-hilton-hyatt-and-accor/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVurTjC6afE&t=1933s

19:28 Main Event: Pandemic Vacation Take 3

https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/miraval-berkshires-resort-my-failed-attempt-to-double-dip-deals/

https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/madison-beach-hotel-curio-collection-by-hilton-bottom-line-review/

51:40 Question of the Week: Does opening credit cards affect your insurance rates?

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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 voyescape.com.

0:12.2

Frequent Miller on the air starts now.

0:19.4

Today's episode is all about my pandemic vacation. My latest one, this time I flew. Part two. Yes. My previous one I drove. This one is flying. It's like the whole Shameel Shemazel. Do you know what show that's from? I don't. I was like, as soon as you said it, I was like, I'd never heard that before. I've heard a lot of expressions, but not Shamele, Shemazel. What? That's Laverne and Shirley. Do you know that show? You know, I do, yes. I remember, I remember like the conveyor belt in the beginning and the song. That's right. That's right. So part of the song was Shemiel Shemazal a corporate or something like that anyway there you go see I

0:59.7

remember it in reruns it was in at least that's my big memory of it I probably

1:03.1

watch it again go nothing like that what was I think anyway so yeah so that's

1:10.7

her main part too yes. Right, right. But first, of course,

1:15.0

it's time for you to drag out the giant mailbag. Here it comes. Let's see what's in there.

1:20.0

All right. Today, oops, I accidentally pulled out two things. Two. Look at that. Two. One,

1:26.3

two. They're both, what what they're both from you for me

1:29.1

from you but what are the chances i can't read this handwriting next you're gonna have to you're gonna have to

1:34.2

read them to us what does this say you know i don't know if gregg's ever actually read my handwriting but

1:38.4

that statement would be really accurate so terrible handwriting uh so so two things from the the thebag this week, which are both really for me,

1:48.2

like Greg said. So the first one, I wanted to kind of close the loop because we talked about my

1:52.1

capital one shenanigans a few weeks ago and how I upgraded my garbage card to a venture card.

1:58.0

And then the annual fee, well, first of all, I got a master card, a venture master card. And then the annual fee well first of all I got a master card a venture master

2:02.2

card and then the annual fee online was still showing the 39 bucks from my old garbage card so I get

2:08.6

kind of excited about that and then downside I couldn't generate referral links so right fast forward

2:15.9

a couple of weeks and about a week ago or so, I saw a doctor of credit

2:19.6

reported on Twitter that a whole bunch of people had had their capital one credit line slashed

2:24.3

down to almost nothing. And I thought, oh, geez, I haven't used like my venture one card

2:28.7

apart from transferring miles and forever. And my wife has a one or two. She hasn't used in a long

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