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Today's main event, the revised platinum card coming soon.

Like it or not.

Like it or not.

No choice there.

I bet everybody's eagerly waiting to pay the new $695 annual fee.

I mean, it comes to so many more credits. We'll have to talk about it. It does. I'm going to, I'm going to play, I was going to say devil's advocate, but Angel's advocate and say that it's, that it's a great thing. We'll see how far I get. Okay, we'll see. I get see. I wish you luck. There's actually, no, I think I can make a pretty strong argument. We'll see. All right. Okay, let's dig into the giant mailbag. All right. What are people saying this week? Where does it come from. This comes from Mike via email.

Okay. Hi, Mike.

Mike just wanted to thank you. And I think that's the plural you, like us.

I'll take it.

For the great work. I'll take it.

For the great work you do.

I had an expiring category four seven night Marriott travel package from the Starwood

days and was ready to just let it expire rather than using it at one of the limited and uninspiring courtyard options.

Then I remembered something I read in your blog a couple of years back and searched Marriott's database for Category 4s that were recently opened and sorted by rating.

I came across the current, the current hotel.

So that's not to say that it's a current hotel, but it's called current hotel.

The current hotel in Tampa. It's an autograph collection. And he says, I checked the review and I had a number of new hotel type complaints.

So it's very, very common when hotels first open, all kinds of complaints.

But anyway, he said it looked more like a category seven.

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