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Talking Points

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tune in for a credit card low-down with TPG's credit card editor Benét Wilson. Wilson's an AvGeek at heart, but she's also a credit card warrior. She explains everything from building your credit and avoiding FAKO scores to choosing the right premium rewards card and identifying the most valuable sign-up bonuses. Plus, she even throws in what she thinks is the number one underdog card.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Talking Points. This is your host Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, and today we officially
0:07.4	have a Points Girl with us.
0:10.0	Benet Wilson is the new head of credit cards content at the points guy and she is just a fascinating
0:17.6	woman all around. Benay, thank you so much for joining us.
0:21.2	I'm so happy to be here. Thank you Brian. So first and
0:23.7	foremost you know you manage our credit card content but you are an aviation
0:27.4	geek to the core. Yes. You've been since 1992 an aviation journalist.
0:33.7	Tell us about how you got into the world we're in today.
0:36.1	Take it back to the 90s.
0:38.0	Well, I actually have been an Av geek all my life
0:42.4	and I was that little kid who would sit and go to the my parents
0:45.6	indulged me and took me to the airport and I track things and then in 92 I found out my roommate
0:51.3	said hey this company is looking for somebody to write about
0:54.2	aviation and I thought she was joking like somebody would pay for that and I got
0:58.7	that first job and never looked back and so if you do hashtag AV Geek, some people say Av Geek, some people say A- Geek.
1:07.4	So it's Av Geek, for the record, because your Twitter name and everyone should follow Benet on Twitter is Ave Queen Benet, B-E-N-E-E-T.
1:17.4	So for the record it's Av Geek.
1:20.4	So you started writing about Airlines and then you ended up working for airlines.
1:24.5	How did you make that jump to actually working for the airlines?
1:27.0	I was minding my own business.
1:29.0	In 2001, I went out to visit Mesa Air Group.
1:33.2	And I was doing a series of stories and they were asking me questions about the airline and everything.
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