Mar 12, 2026
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Episode Description
Elon
Musk wants your money in the X app — and he's offering 6% APY plus
3% cash back on debit to get it. Meanwhile Bilt is having a rough
week: mortgage payment failures, a hidden foreign transaction fee
on their "no fee" Palladium card, and a PR mess that Forbes and the
Wall Street Journal are now covering. Plus Robinhood Platinum
advertises $3,000 in credits that most people will never fully use,
and Marriott finally did something nice — raising the certificate
top-off cap from 15K to 25K points.
- 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel
- 0:26 Intro
- 0:40 Thrifty Traveler Premium
- 2:18 Robinhood Platinum breakdown
- 6:28 X Money debit card
- 10:31 Bilt 2.0 mortgage issues
- 12:56 Bilt Palladium hidden foreign fee
- 15:25 Marriott certificate top-off
- 17:27 Hyatt vs Marriott + hotel program strategy
- 19:35 Loyalty program illusions
- 22:14 Amazon pay with points promo
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