Points! with The Points Guy and My Partner Mal Blum

Bad With Money With Gabe Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

Business, Careers, Investing, Education

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Hotel points! Frequent flyer miles! Credit card points! How do you use them and what are the pros and cons? Gaby is joined by THE POINTS GUY Brian Kelly, another queer finance media person, to break it all down for the average consumer. Then, we see how this works in the real world with Gaby's partner Mal Blum, making their stunning third appearance on the show. Mal uses points for everything! How can you do the same? Plus, be nice to flight attendants and customer service people, please! Find a transcript of the show at: bit.ly/BWMS9E3Transcript Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Follow Brian Kelly on Instagram @BrianKelly Follow The Points Guy on all platforms @ThePointsGuy Follow Mal Blum on all platforms @MalBlum Bad with Money is produced and edited by Lindsey Floyd. It is sound engineered and mixed by Lindsey Floyd. The Executive Producer is Lindsey Floyd. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You got problems that you either can serve with, you don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.
0:08.0	You're a freak with a dark shame, full secret, but you're not the only one.
0:13.0	Teach your hidden financial fears with a blast of sun.
0:16.0	Now your healing has begun. It's bad with money with Gabby.
0:21.0	Done.
0:22.0	Hi, I'm Gabby Dunn and this is Bad with Bunny.
0:26.0	This week we're going to talk about credit card points with the biggest and the best, the points guy, Brian Kelly.
0:33.0	When I first started dating my partner, Malblum, I found out that they love points.
0:38.0	As a musician, they traveled a lot and collected a lot of credit card points, hotel points, and they used them strategically to tour and make records.
0:47.0	When I was on my book tour stop in Miami, I got to the hotel early and my room wasn't ready and Mal, who had met me there so they could meet my parents,
0:55.0	came through with their elite point status and we got to wait in a very nice lounge.
1:00.0	So of course, I had to have them come on again, making their stunning third visit to this show.
1:06.0	They are actually pretty star struck to be on an episode with the point sky.
1:11.0	Brian Kelly has built an empire and a name for himself as the most comprehensive place to go for anything you could ever want to know about credit card points and points in general.
1:21.0	I'm a little scared of points because it kind of seems too good to be true and in some ways it is obviously.
1:28.0	It takes discipline and desire that not all of us have and if it doesn't become like a hyper focus, it won't stick in my mind.
1:37.0	And Brian does advise that paying for all kinds of meals and travel just for the points is a bad idea but it's more about being strategic with money you were already planning on spending.
1:47.0	I'm really excited to have Brian here, especially as a gay man in the financial world to talk about credit card points, traveling wallqueer
1:54.0	and how to make credit card points more inclusive with regard to race, disability and transness.
1:59.0	By the way, I had no idea the points guy was gay.
2:02.0	Like literally no idea. I googled him when he reached out to be on this show and I had the complete wrong idea about him and finding out he was gay was like the best news I had heard in months.
2:14.0	So let's talk to Brian.
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