Strange bedfellows and secret alliances | Ep178 | 11-26-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that Amex partners with United and that your favorite UR card might be the one that indirectly offers Grubhub+? On this week's Frequent Miler on the Air podcast, Greg and Nick discuss some of the strange secret partnerships you can find in your wallet and why they may be of interest.
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1:26 Giant Mailbag
3:25 What crazy thing...did Wyndham do this week?
8:15 Mattress running the numbers: Bilt offers 100% transfer bonus to IHG
12:35 Awards we booked this week
15:45 Strange bedfellows and secret alliances
16:25 Amex Platinum Declared partnership: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN through Digital Entertainment Credit Secret relationship: HBO and Showtime (through Hulu) Secret relationship: Paramount+ (through Walmart+)
19:12 CSR Declared relationship: DoorDash Secret relationship: GrubHub+ (via Lyft Pink)
22:56 Amex Declared relationship: Marriott. Easiest path to Marriott Titanium status Secret relationship: United MileagePlus (for elite status)
28:10 United Declared relationship: Marriott Weird relationship: IHG
31:34 Question of the Week: Can I stack Rakuten and the Capital One Shopping extension? Where do I find my Capital One Shipping money?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, strange bedfellows and secret alliances. |
| 0:31.6 | What's going on there? |
| 0:33.6 | Things that make you go, hmm. |
| 0:35.6 | That's sort of the intent of the title. |
| 0:39.3 | Make you go, hmm, what's going on? |
| 0:41.3 | This is intended to be a fun look at some rewards programs and how there are these strange |
| 0:48.3 | alliances, like the one we've talked about many times in the past is Amex Platinum, you know, that luxury card |
| 0:55.2 | and Walmart Plus, which is not exactly the luxury brand. |
| 1:00.3 | So that's an example of a strange bedfellow. |
| 1:02.0 | But there's also these secret alliances, which are places where different programs have both, |
| 1:09.2 | like publicly declared relationships between each other. |
| 1:13.3 | Uh, and there are certain situations where people, where different programs have |
| 1:18.3 | almost accidental, uh, relationships due to different perks that different programs have. |
| 1:24.1 | And we'll talk all about us. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm confused now. |
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