What's in our wallets? | Ep194 | 3-18-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Since Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Garner won't stop asking, this week we discuss what's in OUR wallets (and why). Find out which cards the two of us carry regularly for each of the major expense categories.
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- 00:40 Giant Mailbag
- 03:02 Card Talk: Hilton Aspire
- 12:55 Award Talk
- 13:04 Alaska Devalues JAL awards
- 17:00 Southwest Wanna Get Away Plus for the win
- 20:05 Nick’s quick hit Award Talk triple header
- 20:15 LifeMiles Manual Booking success
- 22:41 Hotel Nyack
- 23:38 MGM “Free” stay
- 25:22 Main Event: What’s in our wallets?
- 27:38 Greg’s Travel spend card
- 28:40 Greg’s dinning card
- 29:50 Greg’s grocery card
- 31:06 Greg’s gas card
- 32:10 Greg’s Office Supply card
- 32:50 Greg’s Apple Pay card
- 34:52 Greg’s Everywhere Else card
- 40:33 Nick’s Travel card
- 43:07 Nick’s dining card
- 44:04 Nick’s gas card
- 45:15 Nick’s Office Supply card
- 46:21 Nick’s Google Pay card
- 47:08 Nick’s Pharmacy card
- 48:20 Nick’s Everywhere else card
- 49:48 Greg’s Debit card
- 53:14 Question of the Week: What’s the best program for suite upgrades — and what can you do to increase your chances of an upgrade?
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, what's in our wallets? |
| 0:28.6 | You know, Nick, the other day I was watching TV and Samuel L. Jackson looked right at me and said, what's in your wallet? |
| 0:36.6 | And, you know, I figured if he's |
| 0:39.4 | interested, maybe some other people are interested, too, what's in both of our wallet. So we're |
| 0:43.8 | going to talk about exactly that for today's main event. Today, of course, first, of course, |
| 0:50.6 | we have the giant mail bag. Today's giant mail comes from Frank as a comment on the |
| 0:56.8 | revised Marriott-Bonvoy Complete Guide that we updated and republished recently. Frank says he called to |
| 1:06.5 | extend his free night certificate expiring soon and was told that the policy has now changed. |
| 1:13.3 | And these certs from credit cards cannot be extended at all. They did extend them not too long ago. |
| 1:20.2 | So what do you think bad news from Frank? I think bad news from one misinformed agent or perhaps |
| 1:27.3 | even if I'm more blunt about it, |
| 1:29.7 | one lazy agent that didn't want to have to do it is my pet. |
| 1:33.4 | Or maybe just didn't know. |
| 1:34.8 | Maybe just let's give them the benefit of the doubt. |
| 1:36.4 | Didn't know. |
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