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RVTravel.com is the country’s pre-eminent recreational vehicle website. It reports on every conceivable component of tthe ever-expanding industry. It has expert text and video, twice-weekly newsletters, daily tips, a huge social media presence and a forum. Its new feature is a weekly podcast.
Scott Linden, a long-time television and radio broadcaster and an avid RVer, is the host of the podcast which debuted in early April.
Linden our guest on episode #176 of The Weekly Driver Podcast.
Co-host Bruce Aldrich and I discuss with Scott the back story of how he started the podcast via his friendship with Chuck Woodbury, the publisher of RVTravel.com. Scott also details how he plans to host the podcast and topics it will cover every Sunday.
“There’s so much to be done in the works of RVing,” Linden says. “Especially now when there are some many people trying it for the first time. That’s probably the most exciting part about it for me is trying to help people have more fun.”
That first-timer appeal is not unique to RVing either. The same instinct — unpack once, wake up somewhere new, let the vehicle do the driving — is why European river sailings sell so well to people who would never book a bus tour, and why the lines now sell pre and post cruise packages that add hotel nights in the departure and arrival cities so travellers get real time on the ground at both ends.
A long-time hunter and fisherman, Linden will combine his television and broadcast experience and enjoyment of RVing into the podcast every Sunday.
Linden will strive to make the podcasts about topics RVers want to know about. He won’t make it a show geared toward his interests.
“I want to cover topics of interest to them instead of what’s of interest to me,” he says. “The feedback has been very positive. We are really ringing the bell of a lot of folks.”
The new podcast is available on RVTravel.com and will soon expand to popular podcast outlets.
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The podcast is in its third year, and we’ve had a diverse collection of guests — famous athletes, vintage car collectors, manufacturer CEOs, automotive book authors, industry analysts, a movie stuntman and episodes from auto shows and car auctions.
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Hosted by James Raia and Bruce Aldrich, The Weekly Driver Podcast dives deep into the highways and byways of the automotive world. Each week, we put you in the driver’s seat, exploring unique, unusual, and often untold stories from across the industry’s spectrum.
James Raia
A sports, travel and business journalist for more than 45 years, James has written the new car review column The Weekly Driver since 2004. In addition to founding this site in 2004, James writes a Sunday automotive column for The San Jose Mercury and East Bay Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., and monthly auto review and wellness columns for Gulfshore Business, a magazine in Southwest Florida. An author and contributor to many newspapers, magazines and online publications, co-hosted The Weekly Driver Podcast from 2017 to 2024.