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June 10, 2022Ep 26 - May Recap
Biggest month so far, harvesting bonuses from banks, credit cards, brokerages, crypto exchanges, mealkits, cashback, and cellphones. All the churns!
(1:12) - Credit cards (CIU, VentureX, USB Connect, Go, WF Biz)
(10:16) - Banks (WF Biz, Chase Biz, Chase Personal, Albert, SoFi, Fairwinds, SCU, Chime, Huntington)
(38:06) - Brokerages & crypto (Fidelity, Varo, Voyager)
(41:16) - Mealkits & cashback (Factor75, Gobble, Blue Apron, SunBasket, Rakuten, BeFrugal)
(51:09) - Cellphones (Visible)
(51:41) - Final tally ($3,416 + 106K UR + 25K Cap1)
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55 min
May 25, 2022Ep 25 - Parking Cash
Ideas on best places to park your cash to stay on top of inflation, including banks, bonds, and crypto exchanges. Plus a primer on stablecoins and avoiding collapses like Terra & Luna.
(2:16) - SoFi & Ally @ ~1%
(4:40) - HMBradley @ 3%
(7:25) - Current @ 4%
(8:30) - I-Bonds @ 9.62%
(12:15) - Stablecoins 101
(15:08) - What happened with Terra & Luna
(21:32) - FTX fiat @ 7.9%
(23:58) - Voyager USDC @ 9%
(27:32) - Gemini GUSD @ 6.9%
(29:26) - Stocks vs crypto
(32:22) - Parking $10K vs $100K
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37 min
May 03, 2022Ep 24 - April Recap
Another big month packed with bank churns (and fails), along with more crypto, bonds, and brokerages. Plus cellphones, mealkits, cashback, and lots of free food.
(0:56) - Banks (Monifi, Astra, Wells Fargo, Chase, Fairwinds, Service CU, OnJuno, SoFi, Albert, Chime, Current)
(27:07) - Crypto, bonds, brokerages (I-Bonds, FTX, Voyager, Gemini, TradeStation, Public, Stockpile)
(41:08) - Cellphones (Visible)
(42:21) - Cashback, mealkits, free food (Vital farms, Smirnoff, Venture X, Ibotto, Rakuten)
(52:15) - Final tally ($2,400 + all the free foods 😋)
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54 min
April 22, 2022Ep 23 - ANA First & Business
Step-by-step guide to using AMEX points to secure one of the best value premium cabins, plus booking tips & tricks gathered from 50+ hours of research, phone calls, and experimentation. Brace yourselves, this one goes DEEP 🤓
(0:00) - Why ANA?
(4:52) - ANA booking basics
(10:58) - Advanced techniques
(20:43) - Other quirks with ANA
(32:39) - Booking example #1 (simple)
(42:41) - Booking example #2 (complex)
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April 04, 2022Ep 22 - March Recap
Another busy month churning banks, treasury bonds, credit cards, mealkits and cellphones, plus updates on some MS opportunities and high-yield stablecoins.
(0:54) - Banks (PSECU, Current, Fairwinds, HMB)
(5:13) - Gifting treasury bonds
(9:48) - Crypto stablecoins (Voyager USDC, Gemini GUSD)
(16:58) - Brokerages (Feb MS, Stockpile)
(21:27) - Credit cards (CIU, Venture X)
(27:31) - Cellphones (Costco, Visible)
(31:49) - Misc (Cigna, mealkits, Rakuten, Dell)
(39:47) - Final tally ($1,245 + $3,300 cashback)
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42 min
March 07, 2022Ep 21 - February Recap
Massive month in February with lots of new bank accounts, some interesting brokerage opportunities, crypto, easy MS, mealkits, cellphones, and cashback.
(2:52) - Banks (PSECU, Affinity, First Tech, Fairwinds, Monifi, Albert, Current, Chime, Huntington)
(25:13) - Bank tally (16 new accounts)
(28:40) - Brokerages (Titan, TradeStation)
(41:15) - Crypto (high-yield stablecoins, gemini, USDC)
(44:47) - Credit cards (Venture X, Hyatt Biz)
(45:55) - Mealkits (Daily Harvest, Freshly)
(49:23) - Cashback (Rakuten, BeFrugal)
(51:08) - Cellphones (Visible BYOD)
(55:31) - Final tally ($812)
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58 min
February 21, 2022Bonus - Risk of Ruin Interview
Bonus episode of an interview I did recently on another show, Risk of Ruin. I talk about leaving the work world behind in favor of early retirement, how churning fits into leanFIRE, my time in Japanese jail and our homesteading plans.
(0:00) - Intro
(3:27) - Risk of Ruin
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51 min
February 07, 2022Ep 19 - January Recap
Season 2 - Detailed breakdown of January 2022 churns across credit cards, banks, brokerages, cell phones, and misc categories.
(1:15) - Credit cards (Southwest, Venture X, mealkits)
(12:48) - Banks (Kabbage, FNBO, HMBradley, I-Bonds)
(21:29) - Brokerages (Nadex)
(23:17) - Cell phones (Visible)
(24:15) - Misc (Cigna)
(26:40) - Final tally ($1,085)
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30 min
January 04, 2022Ep 18 - End of Year Recap
Season finale! Detailed breakdown of December churns along with a final year-end tally for 2021, plus a bonus recap on how the podcast is doing and some lessons learned making the show.
(1:13) - Cell phones (iPhone 13, Boost, Visible)
(8:36) - Bank updates (Chase Biz, HMBradley, I-Bonds, Lili)
(18:37) - Credit cards (SW Performance, Hyatt Biz)
(23:02) - Westin Kona mini-review (Marriott travel cert, Amex offers)
(28:47) - Brokerages (Nadex)
(29:06) - December tally ($647)
(29:36) - 2021 tally ($10,497 + 150K Amex + 125K UR)
(32:04) - Bonus: podcast recap
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42 min
December 20, 2021Ep 17 - Churning iPhones
In-depth walkthrough of the various iPhone deals available from Costco, Best Buy, and Visible, as well as strategies for reselling on Swappa.
(1:11) - Costco $300 BYOD offer
(1:44) - T-Mobile $20 Talk & Text only plan
(3:17) - Costco $720 BOGO iPhones
(5:59) - iPhone Pro Max selling above retail
(8:07) - Best Buy's crazy iPhone trade-in values
(12:30) - Caution re: Flex Reseller policy
(15:11) - Unlock trick using prepaid ATT sim
(17:03) - Requesting unlocks from TForce
(18:37) - Mistakes I made on the BB deal
(22:10) - Swappa rundown
(24:49) - BFMR address formatting ideas
(27:09) - Visible offer extended
(29:10) - $1 Boost mobile SIM cards
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33 min

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Anyone can churn anything. Each week, learn how to churn something new and novel, from credit card & bank bonuses to flights, hotels, cellphones, mealkits, even FIRE.

Decades of churning…