Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bill of Jesse Thorn. We're in Chambers

this week clearing the docket. And with me is Brooklyn's only podcaster, Judge John

Hodgman. That's right. I look, I was up in Maine and then I got a telegram saying Brooklyn

has no podcasts. It said, please send podcasts, comma lobster rolls. So I hopped into my Mitsubishi

Delica and zoomed down the coast. That was just a little, I know. I got you thinking about

a Mitsubishi Delica. So I'm going to be in my in my Delica subreddit looking at Delicas

now. A Delica is a Japanese adventure van. It's like you need to say more words after that.

I just couldn't love looking at him more. Except for John, do you know about Subaru

Sam Bar classic? No, what's that all about? It's even better than a Delica. For me, it's

not better than a Delica for practical purposes, but it's also Japanese only. It's what they

call a K car, which is a class of car in Japan that has a sort of very small engine that's

encouraged by tax and emissions laws. And it's an adorable van that is actually quite tiny,

but also immensely capable. But unfortunately, after learning that there was one for sale

at an extraordinarily affordable price right near my home, I learned that they cost about

five to ten thousand dollars to bring to California emissions standards. Oh, so you can't

be obvious. I know that you love Mitsubishi Delicas. And for those who have not yet pulled

over to the side of the road to Google this vehicle, it looks like a 1980s sort of VW

Vanagan style camper van, except it's about seven feet off the ground. Somehow it's seven

feet off the ground with wheels about the size of pancakes. Like it's very, it's a very

nice silver dollar pancakes. Tiny little wheels, but it has off-roading capabilities. And

we, I was thinking about it because we genuinely saw one on the road as we were, as we were

speeding south from Maine to bring podcasts to Brooklyn. And my wife was like, what is

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