Oct 21, 2026 · 1 hr 58 min · 12 segments
00:00 – Welcome and Check-In 03:37 – If We Could Fix One Thing About the Points and Miles Industry 08:26 – Hilton vs. Marriott: Which Is Better for Domestic Travel? Comparing credit cards, loyalty…
yeah considerably so um all right let's jump into our viewer questions our first question comes from bill w who asks what part of the industry would you fix very loaded question or not uh rj what part of the industry would you fix
I don't think people are going to like me very much when I say I would fix the rat squad would get innumerably more power and all of the manufacturing being done would cease to exist because everyone would get L3 and it would close it down.
Because those loopholes hurt people who are not playing stupid games and stupid prizes are not being handed out swiftly.
Lonnie? I would like the industry to change in favor of the consumer and we finally get some bonus categories that mean something.
Very far-fetched, but
honestly would appreciate that.
Oh, there's so many areas that we could fix, but what part of the industry would you fix? One of the things that always annoys me...
I do think that like sudden policy changes because terms of your credit card and policies related to your credit cards are not always the same.
And that in tightening up policy change communication because people are... chase announced that the um hyatt transfer rate was dropping to four to three several months before it actually dropped to four to three and yet people still cannot fathom that is four to three on the software preferred i am i'm seeing people posting online why am i not getting one to one on my on this for this transfer well it was announced months ago that as of this date this was going to change um so there's something i would fix um besides you know rat squads um it would it would be like everyone knows the policy everyone knows that when the policy changes and you do not get to plead ignorance Like it shouldn't be a month after the policy changed or like several weeks after the policy changed.
It's been all over the print media in a hobby that you seem to have some knowledge of.
Would you specify a minimum font size?
It'd be a very yelly announcement.
You cannot plead ignorance when it's been going on, when it was announced three months in advance.
yeah considerably so um all right let's jump into our viewer questions our first question comes from bill w who asks what part of the industry would you fix very loaded question or not uh rj what part of the industry would you fix
I don't think people are going to like me very much when I say I would fix the rat squad would get innumerably more power and all of the manufacturing being done would cease to exist because everyone would get L3 and it would close it down.
Because those loopholes hurt people who are not playing stupid games and stupid prizes are not being handed out swiftly.
Lonnie? I would like the industry to change in favor of the consumer and we finally get some bonus categories that mean something.
Very far-fetched, but
honestly would appreciate that.
Oh, there's so many areas that we could fix, but what part of the industry would you fix? One of the things that always annoys me...
I do think that like sudden policy changes because terms of your credit card and policies related to your credit cards are not always the same.
And that in tightening up policy change communication because people are... chase announced that the um hyatt transfer rate was dropping to four to three several months before it actually dropped to four to three and yet people still cannot fathom that is four to three on the software preferred i am i'm seeing people posting online why am i not getting one to one on my on this for this transfer well it was announced months ago that as of this date this was going to change um so there's something i would fix um besides you know rat squads um it would it would be like everyone knows the policy everyone knows that when the policy changes and you do not get to plead ignorance Like it shouldn't be a month after the policy changed or like several weeks after the policy changed.
It's been all over the print media in a hobby that you seem to have some knowledge of.
Would you specify a minimum font size?
It'd be a very yelly announcement.
You cannot plead ignorance when it's been going on, when it was announced three months in advance.
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