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voyescape.com. Welcome to Frequent Myler on the air with Greg and Nick. This is the first ever

naughty and nice episode. Today we're going to talk all about our naughty and nice

list that we, each of us produced a naughty and nice list for 2019, which, you know,

miles and points things we thought were particularly bad that went on our naughty list and which things

we thought were really good and went on our nice list. So we will get to that in a moment.

But first, we're going to do reader feedback time. My favorite segment of the week, well, that's

because it's the only segment other than the talking segment so far, but my favorite alternative

segment, but we're going to have two of those this week, so we're going to have a question

at the end. But the reader feedback is going to lead us off. Okay, so this is not technically

feedback as much as information that a reader contributed, and I thought it was really good information

and worth sharing.

So this is kind of long.

So bear with me as I read this.

And then we could discuss it briefly.

This is from Parts Unknown.

Last week, we talked about me not having signed up for the Aspire card. I think we've talked about that a number of times.

New times. Parts Unknown says, you guys didn't mention it. So just putting it out there, when you're over the five-ish amex credit card limit, you can always apply for another amex credit card. And yes, you will get denied, but you can recon the denial and cancel the excess cards as part of the recon to get approved.

For example, if Greg had jumped on the zero annual fee aspire and applied, yep, he would have been denied.

But then Amex usually calls you, or you can take it upon yourself

to call in and reconcone, that is, asked for reconsideration, the denial. Why is this useful? Because

the original terms for the application are what's enforced. In this case, the $0 annual fee,

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