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00:03:24.000As you guys know, we do this once a year where we give you guys the top business credit cards, best beginner credit cards, best cashback credit cards, best travel credit cards.
00:04:55.000I want to really also take this moment real quick to thank you guys because we just hit our three-year anniversary on October 24th, and I didn't get it.
00:05:02.000We were in Vegas at the time, and we didn't really get to acknowledge it.
00:05:05.000And it's been three hard years of really hard work, man.
00:05:23.000We got the YouTube plaques in the back.
00:05:25.000My favorite plaque is the Fresh Fit Podcast one on the far left there.
00:05:28.000I don't know if you guys can see it on camera, but it's a bit banged up.
00:05:31.000But it's literally one of the perfect representations of all the BS that we went through to hit that first 100K and then everything we endured right after getting it because a lot of the drama happened between our 100K subscribers and a million.
00:05:45.000We're the only YouTube channel that hit 400K subscribers twice.
00:05:48.000This is our first time doing a podcast, actually, because you're from a, I want to say, I'm from Tech, basically, and for us, it's more like our first time doing a podcast, figuring it out from the bottom, from the top, and it's fun, man, but also hard as well.
00:06:00.000Yeah, you know, coming up with new ideas, innovating, going through different staff, having staff backstab us and starting their own podcast, etc., you know, copying our shit verbatim and then failing to Getting canceled?
00:06:11.000Talking shit, people coming on our podcast and coming back after the fact and talking shit about us out of nowhere when we treated them well.
00:07:05.000You know, our cameras alone are worth more than most people's entire studio setups, you know?
00:07:10.000But that's how serious we take it, guys.
00:07:11.000And, you know, a lot of you guys say, oh, we donate, we give this money and we donate into the show and then Fresh is going to go buy a Lambo.
00:07:18.000Fuck Fresh or fuck Byron, blah, blah, blah, yeah.
00:07:21.000Bro, we really do invest the money back in right into the studio, man.
00:07:24.000A lot of stuff behind the scenes that you guys might not necessarily see, but there's a reason why we're able to get a constant flow of attractive girls on the show.
00:07:38.000Adding in little funny gifts and stuff like that.
00:07:40.000Little things like that, guys, are really important with making sure that we're continuing to push the envelope, continuing to innovate, continuing to provide fresh ideas.
00:07:55.000And I think a lot of you guys could take something away and learn from it because he's not alone.
00:07:58.000There are so many guys that are just like him, that are underperforming, that want their girl to be submissive and dutiful and all this other crap, but they're not necessarily holding up their end of the bargain.
00:08:06.000And I tell you all the time, man, it starts with the man.
00:08:20.000So ultimately, again, the girls after hours, obviously it was Howard Stern before, but in this space itself, to bring that to the platform, we did it first.
00:08:38.000And for anyone that says, oh, yo, Howard Stern and all these guys were doing it before y'all, bruh, they weren't doing it live, on YouTube, talking about, you know, literally debating these girls on their fucking ridiculous mindsets.
00:09:47.000We would just literally go three times per week, bring on girls, be fucking done, rack up the super chats, do the stream for as long as fucking possible, right?
00:09:57.000Four or five hour streams, just be done, and that's it.
00:11:25.000You got to get your shit together, blah, blah, blah.
00:11:27.000How the fuck do I look telling that to the women on the show and telling the guys that in the audience that are watching and I'm not even teaching it?
00:14:06.000A lot of people aren't able to, you know, use some common sense.
00:14:08.000Of course we do everything that we do for the money, but the thing is that it doesn't lead our decisions.
00:14:13.000A lot of things we do, from a business sense and being strictly profitable, are not profitable.
00:14:17.000Doing shows like this is not profitable, guys, being honest with y'all.
00:14:20.000Especially when we're demonetized, we're actually...
00:14:22.000Stupid for doing this, but it doesn't fucking matter because it's that important to us where we can't sit there and tell y'all, get your shit together and not give you a solution.
00:14:30.000We're not going to sit here and complain about the dating marketplace and say, women are useless, blah, blah, blah, hypergamy, passports, leave the U.S., the West is going down, girls don't swipe right on guys on dating apps, blah, blah.
00:14:41.000We're not going to give you guys all the issues without necessarily giving you solutions to the problems.
00:16:26.000Yeah, we never want to lose that essence because once you lose that essence and it's not funny anymore because of the job, you don't want to do it, then you guys are going to see that in how we move.
00:16:43.000And the most important thing is I look at it like this.
00:16:46.000After Hours, I'm breaking a fourth wall here.
00:16:48.000After Hours is a necessary evil that we must deal with to bring in new viewers to come and watch this shit.
00:16:55.000Because this is what's going to actually make you better.
00:16:57.000This is what's going to help you make money.
00:16:58.000This is what's going to make you more attractive.
00:16:59.000This is what's going to put you in a position where you don't tolerate fuckery for women.
00:17:03.000I want you guys to make money, not just so that you can be financially free, but so that you can be free from 304s that try to sit there and, you know, you've got to tolerate low SMV women because you don't have the ability to get hotter girls.
00:18:21.000Like I said before, at the risk of my own sanity, I definitely read comments and everything else like that and try to improve and I write down notes of stuff that's good.
00:18:29.000The no porn one, we're going to absolutely do that episode.
00:18:31.000Someone called in and said, hey, can you do an episode on how to get guys off of porn?
00:18:36.000We're going to do a full-on podcast where we're going to go step-by-step how to get rid of a porn addiction because that's something that literally debilitates so many different men.
00:19:20.000From the beginning, bro, there is not a more in-tune or more robust podcast that covers how to buy a real estate property step-by-step in today's day and age with how the real estate market is.
00:20:26.000Before you go ahead and start applying for some of these credit cards that were about to name here, these are some of the top-of-the-line travel credit cards.
00:20:31.000If your credit score sucks, guys, please go back and watch our episode that we did on how to build your credit.
00:20:57.000If you had just waited or paid off a bill or something like that, it would have shot up to maybe a 710, 720 and you would have had a way better chance.
00:23:02.000Because whether you make the minimum payment or you have an auto pay or something like that, guys, you want to be always paying your credit cards.
00:23:09.000I don't care if it's the bare minimum payment.
00:23:10.000Of course, you don't want to do that, right?
00:23:12.000Because your interest rate is going to go crazy high and you don't want that.
00:23:15.000Especially with credit cards, their interest rates can vary between 17% all the way up to damn near.
00:23:52.000You don't want to go above $300 because at that point you're going above 30% usage and that's too much and your credit score will start to reflect that.
00:23:59.000Optimally, you want to be under 20 to 10%.
00:24:01.000Between 10 to 20%, if you can get under 10%, even fucking better.
00:24:05.000The lower your overall usage, guys, the better.
00:24:08.000Now, there's two ways that you can go about this, all right?
00:24:10.000You can either, A, just spend less money with your credit card, or pay it off right away.
00:24:14.000Like, let's say you got a $1,000 credit card limit.
00:24:17.000You buy a TV on it, and then one or two days later, you pay that shit off immediately.
00:24:57.000You could do this shit right now while you're watching this show.
00:24:59.000Call your credit card company or go on your app for your credit card, increase your credit line.
00:25:04.000And what that will do is it'll automatically decrease the percentage of usage because now you have more available credit to you.
00:25:10.000The more available credit to you, the more that you can use while staying below that magic number of 30%.
00:25:14.000Because once you hit 30%, what ends up happening with these credit card companies, they have a bunch of statisticians and numbers and algorithms and all this other bullshit where You're more likely to default, right, as you pass 30%.
00:25:26.000Once you pass 50%, it goes up even more and your credit score goes down.
00:25:31.000And then you'll start noticing you might start getting declined for certain transactions if you haven't shown the ability to pay off more than 50% utilization.
00:26:35.000Like, don't deal with hard money lenders, guys.
00:26:37.000The only time I have hard money lenders, like if you're going to be a fixer and flipper and that's way more advanced, that's for another episode.
00:26:43.000Typically, average American, what do they do?
00:26:44.000They go get a credit card, buy furniture, buy stuff for clothes, buy stuff to look good, maybe buy trips, right?
00:26:53.000Gets a high amount, and they just pay a minimum of balance every month.
00:26:58.000That'll do good for your on-time payments, but terrible for your utilization.
00:27:36.000That's when your card starts to decline.
00:27:38.000Unless you've shown a history where you're able to pay off, where you have a high balance and then you pay it off immediately, that's different because you're showing the ability to be able to pay things off.
00:28:01.000But if you're letting those balances sit there for a while and accumulate and it goes higher and higher and higher, especially when you have these charge cards like Amex, Platinum, and shit like that, which we're going to talk about.
00:28:12.000What'll end up happening, even though these cards technically have no limit, they'll start to put you in a high-risk category and start to limit your spending.
00:28:19.000Transactions might start getting declined here and there, blah, blah, blah.
00:28:22.000So, guys, keep your utilization low and then pay It off.
00:28:27.000If you do those two things right there, you'll be fine.
00:28:30.000Honestly, that's really the two main tips.
00:28:32.000There's way more that goes into it, but those two are the predominant factors that affect your credit score.
00:28:38.000And the reason why we're touching on this and giving you guys that little refresher is that I want you guys before you, because some of y'all are going to try to apply for these credit cards.
00:28:45.000Bro, get your utilization down, make on-time payments, get your credit score as high as you possibly can, then apply.
00:28:53.000And you kill three birds with one stone.
00:28:54.000You're killing the on-time payments, you're killing the utilization, and then you're dealing with the hard inquiry situation.
00:29:00.000Because now, you're only going to do one hard inquiry, because you properly did it, and you applied for the card when it was actually appropriate, versus you apply for it now because your dick is hard, and you're watching the podcast, I'm going to apply right now.
00:29:10.000You get declined, then you've got to wait...
00:29:27.000If you're going to go ahead and apply for some of these credit cards or apply for multiple of them, get that credit score up like we told you guys before, apply for all of them at the same time.
00:29:44.000All those inquiries will be counted as one.
00:29:46.000Because what happens is, especially when you're shopping for a mortgage or whatever like that, the credit monitoring companies, they look at it as you shopping rates.
00:31:56.000You've got to keep that money because you obviously have good credit, which means you have good financial experience and you understand the concept of a dollar and you understand spending less than you make.
00:32:11.000So it's better to build a foundation to have good credit and then make the money versus, oh, I have shitty credit and then I made the money.
00:32:16.000You're still going to spend your money like an idiot.
00:38:49.000You're either gonna be edgy and controversial and understand that a lot of people aren't gonna fuck with you, but you fucking people love you.
00:40:18.000But like I said before, and I'm not saying this to flex, be like, oh, look at all the sacrifices we made for y'all, blah, blah, blah.
00:40:23.000I'm just saying that to let y'all know that if other creators were putting a position that we were in, them niggas would have sold out fucking years ago.
00:40:30.000They would have sold out back in 2021.
00:40:55.000Well, you could say notoriety is good too, but the point is that loyalty and relationships over everything and then staying on your fucking square of what you want to do.
00:41:04.000I didn't want to compromise our content and be super kosher and vanilla when we bring girls on and not say what the fuck we really want to say.
00:41:11.000And also I realized as well, clout is a drug that has to be constantly bought versus relationships can be mended, can be built, and it lasts forever.
00:41:21.000To me, that's better than having just a bit of clout here and there.
00:46:43.000I would say get yourself back to breaking even and or maybe a small profit and then reinvest that money into something else.
00:46:50.000Unless you really love fashion and you just want to keep going and maybe you have some money to run ads and shit like that, But bro, it is very difficult to get into the clothing business unless you're an influencer and you have a sizable audience that will actually want to wear your shit.
00:47:03.000Companies and influencers plan months in advance for Black Friday.
00:47:08.000And actually, they build an audience all year round waiting for these special Christmas Black Friday holidays because you know what?
00:52:43.000Okay, and from this point forward, guys, we're going to read 20 and up.
00:52:46.000Have you ever thought of IRL self-improvement camps where five guys who watch the shows could sign up, getting in shape, getting better with girls, et cetera?
00:53:42.000If you're a Marriott employee, you can open a Marriott Bonvoy account or a credit card, use your employee discount, and still earn points, which before wasn't allowed with discount price.
00:56:03.000Don DeMarco, because like I said before, anytime you guys tell us about your wins or how much something has impacted you, that means a lot to us.
00:56:09.000Like I said before, that is worth more than making a bag on YouTube or anything like that.
00:56:15.000Like I said before, man, these Money Monday shows and Womanizer Wednesday shows and even the call-in shows, etc., They're not that profitable, man, to be honest with y'all, but we don't give a fuck because the most important thing is about giving you guys free value.
00:56:28.000It's a big reason why we don't necessarily push our own courses.
00:56:30.000We might affiliate here and there and bring people on, but our goal is always, like, whenever we bring a guest on or whatever, can the audience benefit from this and learn something, or can they make money?
00:57:22.000But don't just, oh, I'm thinking about it.
00:57:24.000Alright, so let's go ahead and get into some of the cards now.
00:57:27.000We talked about what's needed, how to get your credit score to a point where you can apply for some of these cards, how to go about applying for them in a strategic manner that won't mess up your credit score.
00:57:36.000Let's go ahead and get into the first card.
00:57:38.000We're just going to get a Capital One Venture X, guys.
00:57:41.000And again, I just want to tell y'all this too.
00:57:43.000None of these credit cards are paying us, nigga.
00:57:44.000We're just going ahead and giving y'all some of the best credit cards with no kickback, no nothing, because we want you guys to win.
00:59:29.000Then you get a $300 annual credit for bookings through Capital One Travel where you'll get Capital One's best prices on thousands of trip options.
00:59:35.000Guys, a lot of these travel credit cards, what they'll do is when you have their app, they'll have a portal where you can book your flight and book all your stuff through there.
00:59:43.000You need to book it through there to get the benefits.
01:00:29.000Earn 10x miles on hotels and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel and five times miles on books flight through Capital One Travel.
01:00:43.000Unlimited complimentary access for you and two guests at 1,300-plus lounges, including Capital One Lounges and the Partner Lounge Network.
01:00:49.000Use your Venture X Miles to easily cover travel expenses, including flight, hotel, rental, cars, and more.
01:00:54.000You can even transfer your miles to your choice of 15-plus travel.
01:00:58.000Loyalty programs elevate every hotel stay from the premier or lifestyle collections with a suite of cardholder benefits, like an experience credit, room upgrades, and more.
01:01:05.000And then receive $100 credit for global entry at USA PreCheck.
01:01:08.000So that's a pretty good one right there, guys, because...
01:01:11.000What ends up happening is, as you guys know, you're at the airport and you don't want to wait in line.
01:02:04.000I mean, this is a staple, but one of the key things to look for whenever you have a travel credit card, it better have no foreign transaction fee.
01:02:11.000And what is a foreign transaction fee?
01:02:12.000Let's say you're in the UK or whatever it may be.
01:02:15.000When I was in Romania, I used my Capital One card for everything and my Amex Platinum.
01:03:10.000The only way I see an authorized user as acceptable is if you run a business and you have employees and they need to buy shit, like you have an assistant or something like that.
01:03:18.000That's different because then it's for the business.
01:03:19.000You can at least write that off, whatever.
01:03:49.000And then you can monitor it and you can see which authorized user used it and where they spent it at, etc.
01:03:54.000If it's for a business, that's different.
01:03:56.000Because then you obviously, you know, if you're the boss, you are going to give it to people that work under you or work with you to spend it for the business, right?
01:05:09.000You must select Apply Now to take advantage of this specific offer.
01:05:12.000Earn unlimited 3X points on things that really add up, like restaurants, travel, gas stations, transit, popular streaming services, and phone plans.
01:05:18.000Plus, earn 1X points on other purchases.
01:05:30.0000% intro APR for 12 months from account opening purchases, which is pretty good, guys, right?
01:05:35.000So you don't get hit with that 20% plus APR until after.
01:05:39.000Get up to $600 off of cell phone protection against damage or theft when you pay your monthly cell phone bill with your eligible Wells Fargo card.
01:05:46.000Redeem your reward points for travel, gift cards, or statement credits.
01:05:49.000Or shop at millions of online stores and redeem your rewards when you check out with PayPal.
01:05:54.000So you guys can see here that this is a travel card, but it also has other situations that you can use it for.
01:06:01.000Because this is kind of like the Freedom Flex.
01:06:04.000This is kind of Wells Fargo version of it, but you can also use it for travel as well.
01:06:08.000And this is a pretty good diversified card, which, yeah, it's travel as well, but it will help you with other stuff.
01:06:15.000You can use it on restaurants, streaming services, etc., and get some points as well.
01:07:03.000And for a limited time earned a total of 10 thank you points per $1 spent on hotel car rentals and attractions including air travel booked on the city travel portal through June 30th, 2024.
01:07:47.000You get three points per $1 spent at restaurants and supermarkets or one point per $1 spent on all of the purchase annual hotel savings benefit.
01:07:54.00060,000 points are redeemable for 600 in gift cards or travel rewards at thankyou.com.
01:11:19.000You got earned three points per $1 on the first $150,000 spent in combined purchases in the following categories each account anniversary year.
01:11:28.000Now we're getting into the big boys with these cards.
01:15:30.000So you always have to make sure you go to the website and look at what it currently is because they're always switching terms and rules and benefits and everything else like that because the credit card game, just so you know, is extremely competitive.
01:15:43.000So they're always updating their offers and benefits.
01:17:10.000Look at different sites because each site has a different sign-up bonus.
01:17:14.000And some, especially the one that you want to get the car from, for example, the actual premier site, let's say it's Amex, you go to Amex directly, you might get bonus points rather than regular sites.
01:17:22.000Like NerdWallet has a really basic sign-up bonus, but the actual website itself may have an extra bonus as well.
01:17:56.000Okay, so scroll back up because this one is always changing, by the way, guys, with the Amex.
01:17:59.000Okay, so you earn 80,000 membership rewards after you spend 8,000 eligible purchases on your platinum card within the first six months of card membership.
01:18:06.000So let's say you're going to do a big purchase or you just open your business or something like that.
01:18:08.000This is a good card if you can get approved for it, right?
01:18:11.000Know if you're approved with no credit score impact.
01:18:22.000Get up to $200 back in statement credits each year on selected prepaid hotel bookings through American Express Travel using the Platinum Card.
01:18:29.000So you get $20 back each month on eligible purchases made with your Platinum Card on one or more of the following.
01:18:36.000Disney, Disney Bundle, ESPN, Hulu, The New York Times, Peacock, Sirius, etc.
01:18:41.000I can tell people are going to be scared of the annual fee for this card, but believe it or not, I want to say half of the benefits of this card, or even less, you'll gain way more than $700.
01:19:06.000Which, if you guys travel a lot, especially, as you guys know, there's American Centurion lounges, you can get in with an Amex Platinum and be able to use the lounges where you can shower, they have way better food, it's more comfortable.
01:19:17.000But now, they require you to have a certain amount of points to use a lounge.
01:23:52.000But if you're going to have an Amex Platinum, I would say have one backup, either travel credit card or one backup card that's cashback or something like that, that's Visa or MasterCard.
01:24:03.000Always have at least one Visa or MasterCard in your repertoire, guys, because a lot of places don't take an American Express, unfortunately.
01:24:12.000But honestly speaking, bro, Chase is a W. I'll tell you why.
01:24:16.000Well, they always have Visa or MasterCard.
01:24:17.000Yeah, but with Chase, though, let's say you don't have that big of a credit score, not that high, sometimes I believe, if I'm correct here, if you bank with them for a long period of time, off the history of just having an account, never being in a negative, they may give you that, you know what, you bank with us, we'll give you this card.
01:24:33.000So that might help you get a card before everybody else because you have an account with them, and that should be stable, it's been present, positive all the time.
01:24:40.000Yeah, having a bank account, guys, right?
01:24:42.000Like, let's say you want to get a Bank of America credit card.
01:24:44.000You'll get more benefits, or it'll be an easier process to get accepted for that card if you have a bank account with the bank.
01:24:52.000And the higher the amount in there, the better for you.
01:25:10.000Doesn't hurt to have a credit card tied to that bank account, or tied to that bank, so to speak.
01:25:15.000They want to know that you can pay the card off, or actually make payments on the card, and if they can see it from history, or see that, oh you know what, he's actually one of us?
01:25:37.000You need a MasterCard or a Visa in your repertoire as well because a lot of places will not take Amex or they'll give you a hard time about it.
01:25:43.000They'll take Amex, but then they'll lie to you and say, no, we don't take it.
01:25:46.000Imagine you traveled somewhere, right?
01:27:36.000And then they're like, oh, well, it's a variable interest rate, dummy.
01:27:39.000Well, the good thing is, my friends, if you follow our advice and you pay on time, you don't keep a balance on your card, it shouldn't matter regardless.
01:27:53.000Well, actually, credit cards are going to hate this, but the best thing to do, use a credit card, pay that shit off a few days later, keep your balance always under 10%, and never pay interest, and that's it.
01:28:03.000You get a bunch of free points, and they don't get shit.
01:28:14.000So, you pay for gas, maybe you pay for your insurance, maybe your rent if you can, maybe pay for like, I don't know, regular expenses from the grocery store.
01:28:59.000I'm looking to get my first duplex house to get in real estate, but my sister on my credit card and she pays late and it's affecting my score.
01:30:30.000My thing is try to diversify where it's not everything.
01:30:34.000Maybe one or two shakes a day most, but yeah, you definitely want to have at least one or two solid meals where you're getting it from chicken or fish or steak or something.
01:30:55.000Marketing agencies are competitive, so be ready.
01:30:58.000And then now, man, with the military stuff, bro, I mean, dude, if you don't have your college degree, take that GI Bill and go get a college degree.
01:31:04.000Well, it's something that will make you money, though.