Welcome to episode 515 of the RV podcast.

And this week we talk about essential RV extras, the top upgrades that real RVers want.

Welcome, everybody. I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my healthy bride, Jennifer.

Me, I'm the puny one this week. I am not feeling up to snuff.

It's been a grandkid cold. At least that's where I'm blaming on. Every year I get a cold at this time.

When school starts. A couple weeks after school starts, the grandkids bring it home and it gets me.

So we've got a lot.

Our main topic is one, I hope RV manufacturers listen to this podcast.

I don't think they do because very few RV manufacturers, even RV.

So they're not nearly as interested in it as you are, a real RVer. But I would hope that somebody in their industry would listen,

particularly their marketing thing, to realize that all of the chinsing that we have seen

over the last few years, as the industry has tried to keep costs down and make it more attractive

in times of inflation and high interest rates, they've cut off a lot of things that

people that are really important to think, people, little things.

All right.

Now you're calling it chinsing.

They call it making the RVs more affordable.

Chinson.

Come on.

It's what it is.

It's all semantics, right?

And I understand that that's what they have to do because the industry is still in decline and sales are down.

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