Good morning, good morning, and welcome to the RV Lifestyle podcast. I'm Mike Wendland,

30 years of journalism, 18 Emmy Awards, wars, elections, investigative reporting, consumer

affairs, and now I'm an RVer. I've carried a lot of ground in this business.

And the one thing that never changes no matter what the story and whether it's news or RVing,

no matter the beat, it's this.

The facts matter.

Sources matter.

You do not say something on air unless you can back it up.

And that's how we do this podcast.

Every story you hear this morning is sourced primary sources,

industry data, official filings, real owner accounts.

And every link, every single one,

is waiting for you in the full transcript at RVpodcast.com. Check my work, verify, and dig deeper

if you'd like. That's how journalism's supposed to work, and that's how we do it here.

All right, we have several stories for you this Monday morning. First of all, Jennifer and I just

spent a week doing hands-on reviews of six small motorhomes, class Bs and compact class Cs. They call them B-pluses, but they're really compact class Cs. And I have some things to say, oh, what they cost, strong things that have been building up for a while. We're going to go there

today, including a hard look at the manufacturers who are trying to capture the low end of this market

with rigs that are frankly not worth what people are paying for. Now, we're going to talk about tariffs.

On April 6th, new steel and aluminum duties took effect, And if you thought that Winnebago or that

Newmar was already out of reach, this story's not going to make you feel any better. And we

close with a story about 193 million acres of public land and a federal agency reorganization

that could change how, even whether you access your favorite camping territory. But first, before we

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