The single best starter card | Ep144 | 4-2-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The best card for a student or young professional just starting out on life's journey and the path to valuable rewards for spend isn't necessarily clear-cut, but on this week's show we discuss the options we would be most likely to recommend -- and why one probably stands out over the rest for a large segment of the market.
1:09 Giant Mailbag double feature. A cool trick for Caesars and Wyndham and a reader thank-you.
5:10 What crazy thing . . . did Greg the Frequent Miler do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/which-credit-card-offers-the-best-free-night-certificates/
12:14 Mattress running the numbers -- err, lounge running the numbers with the Royal Air Maroc status match.
https://frequentmiler.com/get-oneworld-status-with-royal-air-maroc-status-match/
19:35 Main Event: The single best starter card
21:10 Discover It Student card
https://frequentmiler.com/discover-it-student-good-grades-20-per-year/
26:24 Freedom cards https://frequentmiler.com/cff/
https://frequentmiler.com/cfu/
32:37 Citi Double Cash https://frequentmiler.com/dc/
37:53 Citi Custom Cash https://frequentmiler.com/customcash/
41:15 Bilt Mastercard https://frequentmiler.com/is-the-bilt-card-worth-it-who-should-consider-it-is-it-the-ultimate-starter-rewards-card-on-nicks-mind/
1:01:12 Question of the Week: Looking for flexibility in United award tickets Join our email list:
https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/
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? |
| 0:20.9 | The main event. |
| 0:21.7 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main events, the single best starter card. |
| 0:30.6 | Built is out for real. |
| 0:33.6 | They're available nationwide now with a card that is arguably the best or one of the best |
| 0:39.0 | starter cards where someone just starting out needs a credit card and is built the one. Well, |
| 0:45.1 | there is some really strong competition. So we're going to talk about which one is really best. |
| 0:50.5 | And we will have the single definitive answer. A single best, the single answer to the single best. Because we never hedge. We never say, well, in this case, this is better or this case, that's better. Now, we would never do that to you. Definitely not. We might. We'll see. Possibly. We'll see what happens. We don don't know because, I mean, it happens live, right? |
| 1:12.5 | I mean, we have an idea of what we're going to talk about, but we haven't like talked about it yet. |
| 1:16.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:17.1 | We have no idea. |
| 1:18.3 | We have no idea. |
| 1:19.4 | All right. |
| 1:20.2 | Getting into the giant mailbag, today's mailbag, uh, mail comes from Danny. |
| 1:25.5 | Danny says, another great podcast as usual. In the latest episode, |
| 1:30.2 | you mentioned use cases for Wyndham slash Caesars transferability because you could transfer |
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