00:02 John Daub: Welcome to Prague's Old Town Square. As you can see, the Christmas market is roaring! Which is good because we need some roaring fires here—it's pretty cold. To the left is the Christmas tree. It's massive on the square. Pan up! I believe that's City Hall over there. What's that building? Old Monastery. Yeah!

00:37 John Daub: Greetings from another continent. How you doing? This is John. John and this is Suzanne—they're gonna be our co-pilots because the WiFi is in John's pocket. Thank you, John, for the WiFi. I did not think we'd be able to do a livestream, but guess what? We're gonna try our best. We're gonna take you around one of the most crowded markets I've ever seen in my entire life. I thought I would start here from the stairs because you get an elevated view. Prague is beautiful. It's absolutely stunning, guys. I see Nosh is here, our moderator. Good—keep it clean out there. Halle Spirit everybody! I can smell grilling meat, sweet meat, cinnamon, wine. Ah, it's an amazing smell in the market.

01:28 John Daub: We're gonna follow John and Suzanne to where Kanae is on the other side of this massive Christmas tree. This part of Prague 1, the center of the city, is the most touristy—they say it's the most touristy, crowded place in the entire country. Maybe even in all of Europe. Who knows? But we have a small meetup here—five or six people. Hey! We're live everybody! Hey! There's Kanae. Are you staying warm?

02:12 Kanae Daub: It's a little cold. Just a little bit. I have so many layers on.

02:18 John Daub: So how do you like Prague, Kanae?

02:21 Kanae Daub: Oh, I love Prague a lot. This is a very beautiful city.

02:26 John Daub: How many stars do you give Prague out of 100?

02:29 Kanae Daub: 100?

02:30 John Daub: 100 out of 100? How many stars out of 5?

02:34 Kanae Daub: 5.

02:35 John Daub: Sometimes the number is different—I have to ask. You never know. But you walk around Prague—I don't know how many of you have been there. Tokyo has a lot of history too, but because of World War II, a lot was destroyed. You have to travel around the country. When you go to Kanazawa [?], you can see some ancient things. Things are made of wood in Japan. Here, they're made of stone. These buildings, these castles, even the roads—the cobblestone we walk on—it's such a big contrast to Japan. That's why we love it. We love it because it's different.

03:07 John Daub: We're going to walk around the Christmas market together. You guys want to show everybody the cards I gave you? Because you found me. That's right—you guys have proof. Look at this. Everybody got one. Oh, it's already in a case. Actually, I told you where it was going to be, so it helps, right? I'll be in front of the nativity scene by the big Christmas tree. And it is really nice to see that. I think people take the Christmas market pretty seriously, and you're about to see that. Do you guys want to introduce yourselves to the world? We have a growing audience.

03:51 John (Prague): Hello, I'm John from Prague.

03:55 Helen: Hi, I'm Helen. I'm from the States. Currently, Rhode Island.

04:00 John Daub: Rhode Island, the smallest of them?

04:04 Jacob: Hello, I'm Jacob, and welcome to Prague.

04:07 Susanna: Hi, my name is Susanna. I'm currently from Prague.

04:11 John (Prague): Hello, I'm John, and I'm from Prague.

04:14 John (Prague): Hi, I'm John, and I'm in Prague.

04:17 Kanae Daub: I'm Kanae from Tokyo.

04:22 John Daub: All right. Where does a tourist go first here? So let's get maybe some warm spiced wine at a ridiculously expensive price.

04:38 Kanae Daub: Okay.

04:39 John Daub: It's not too bad. It's not too good either. How much more expensive is it in Prague than in your hometown?

04:50 Susanna: Well, it depends. If you mean a tourist spot, it's really expensive—like three times maybe.

04:58 John Daub: Three times more expensive? Wow. But it is a big city, I guess. But if you take some other part of Prague, it's really similar. Wow, I love it. Even despite the fact that most of the people here are tourists, you have the Christmas music in the background. It feels so different than anywhere else in the world. Europe is just so wonderful with the Christmas markets.

05:30 John Daub: You hear that in the background? Susanna, we're following you. Mostly. I'm following John because he has the WiFi. Hey, John, there are like these devil-looking people. They're dressed up like devils—they look very evil. They picked up a Korean lady and scared her—she was crying.

05:58 Susanna: Because yesterday there was St. Nicholas. And they are going—St. Nicholas, this devil and angel together. The angel asks if you were polite and nice. If not, this devil takes you to hell.

06:29 John Daub: So the devil takes you to hell. That poor Korean lady—she was picked up by the devil. Take it to America—you might get sued. But in Prague, this is tradition.

06:51 Kanae Daub: Kanai went behind me to protect herself. Like a lot of good that my scrawny arms will do. Those guys are huge. And wearing devil masks.

07:02 John Daub: If we do see them, run. Just let me know in advance. Thank you. We're on the lookout for that. And Matthias, hey! Hi from the train to Nuremberg. Matthias is going to Nuremberg tomorrow. Hey guys, there is the astronomical clock. It's astronomically cool. We're now in the most crowded area of the Christmas market. But thankfully we're getting taken away from here.

08:00 John Daub: I guess people are waiting for something. What's gonna happen?

08:10 Susanna: You'll see. In 10 minutes.

08:17 John Daub: Should we wait here for 10 minutes?

08:22 Susanna: No. That's the reason why it's still crowded—because of the astronomical clock.

08:34 John Daub: You've been in Prague seven times and you've never seen the astronomical clock?

08:38 Susanna: No, I just walked by and said, what are these tourists doing? They probably lost or something. I just kept walking.

08:47 John Daub: Whenever I was in Prague, I would just walk around the city and through the streets. And when I found food, I would eat it. That was it. I've never been to the top—you could go to the top. But it was always too crowded. Actually, when I was here in 1996 for the first time, I think it was under construction or not open. I just couldn't. I was just a boy back then. But if you look back, we've walked across—isn't it just beautiful? With the Christmas tree. At the Holiday Inn [?], I think it's the most beautiful thing in Prague. And the holiday season is just so much better because it's got this smell of warm spiced wine. So you're going to want to stick around because we're going to go and get some. I've got to. It's part of the Christmas tradition. But look at that big Christmas tree. That's where we walked from. Now we've crossed the market and we're waiting for the astronomical clock to do something. Apparently it does something. You could Google it and see it right now if you wanted to on YouTube, but we're going to try to watch this live.

10:15 John Daub: Last time, Kanae and I came here before we got hitched. We stayed at the brewery hotel, the U Medvídků. It's like a hotel founded in the year 1412 or something like that—15th century. It's crazy. The rooms are good, but it's gotten double the price as the last time we were here. It's just because there's a lot of tourists and demand is high. This is high season. Everyone wants to be in the Prague Christmas market. It's really beautiful. The thing is, there's so many Christmas markets here. This may be the one to avoid. I figured that this would be the easiest for us to find because I know where it is. And I started this meetup kind of late—like this morning, really. Tomorrow, by the way, Nuremberg. We're taking the bus at 9:30 in the morning, get to the station around 1 p.m., check into the hotel, and walk around the market. But we're going to be in Prague. If you are in town, you can just try to hit me up and meet in the market because Kanae and I are just going to be walking around all day. Probably eating, drinking, being merry.

11:49 John Daub: This area has gotten really crowded. John, I hope this signal is good. John's signal was blazing fast—we had like 10 megabytes per second off this. Are you sure it's unlimited? We're going to put it to the test. I think it's streaming at 720p right now. So not to worry. If it was 4K, my God, that would be the real test. So guys, we're going to go around and maybe I'll have a warm spiced wine or something. But first, we've got to wait for the astronomical clock. Something's going to happen. Nobody will tell me. And I have not actually seen this live ever, despite being here seven times. This is Only in Japan, in Prague. Prague, everybody. So if you think this is some city in Japan and you're tuning in right now, you're wrong. This is Prague, Czech Republic—a beautiful country.

12:47 John Daub: Can anybody out there name four countries that surround the Czech Republic? John, you cannot participate—you guys live here. Austria. Germany. Slovakia. Poland. Wow. Country that I went to in '97 was the first time—almost no tourists. All the Polish students would come up to me and try to make conversation because they'd never seen tourists before. Poland '97 was just kind of newly opened. Even the youth hostel I stayed in—Polish travelers were there and I was the foreigner. There was a guy named Nico from Mexico. Two brown guys in a Polish youth hostel. We stayed there four or five days in Krakow—incredible experience. And then we met two British guys—they were the fourth people. It was a nice experience, but that was 22 years ago and a lot of things have changed in Poland. Of course, same here in the Czech Republic. Prague is just beautiful—even despite all the tourists, it has that charm.

14:33 John Daub: Tokyo is the same way because Tokyo's at that elastic point. The city of Tokyo is always going to be growing—it's elastic, it can take in those people. But how will it change? Prague isn't a good example—despite having as many tourists as residents. Every day there's as many tourists as there are residents in the city of Prague. The city still retains that charm, and that's really great. Despite all the pushy tourists here, people are still pretty friendly most of the time. Sometimes the service at restaurants is not as good, but I could be aggressive—you know, there's a little bit of New York in me. Dimitri can attest to that—one of our Discord moderators, he's also from New York.

15:31 John Daub: Two minutes seems like an eternity. So how many people can they fit up there? 200? Wow. If it was Japan, I bet we could get 400. You've seen the subways in Tokyo in the morning—it's not comfortable, but we can fit you in there. What happened in two minutes? I don't know—just the clock gonna open up and free beer and then we can get to the next one. Beer is gonna squirt out—everybody open your mouth. Or is it hot wine? Why is the crowd here? The crowd has really increased. Look at this—if we look around, we are in the middle of a pretty good spot. A ton of people—hundreds, maybe thousands. They've all come to... this is the only Japan meetup. Hey everybody, how's it going? High fives everybody. See, five minutes after it will be empty. Everybody goes... that makes sense. Oh, it's happening. For the next couple of minutes, please enjoy the astronomical clock in Prague.

17:03 John Daub: It's kind of an act. It's pretty neat—the bells are ringing on the side of the clock there. The skeleton—is it gonna strike eight times because it's eight o'clock? Is there more? Where's the beer? That's it? What? That was pretty cool, but I don't know—where's Mickey Mouse? Does he pop out at all? Okay, I'm happy just for this. Every hour is still good. Wow—just for that, all these people came? Are they mental? So wait, I guess so. So I was not wrong to just walk by it and not know that this existed. I was not wrong. All right, well thanks for showing us that, guys. Now where can we get that hot wine to forget what we just saw? Let's walk this way.

18:46 John Daub: Okay, so that is in the queue. This is the only different meetup—Only in Prague. We did not know we would be doing a livestream, which is super cool. And we're in our extremely crowded area. John here has the WiFi—yeah, so I have to follow him. We're like prison buddies, handcuffed. It's got the signal—I've got the camera. It's extremely crowded—everybody. I can't smell anything except for people now. Not as pleasant as at the Christmas market a little while ago. But good night. Actually, I'm the one who gets lost usually. Kanai is the one who knows where to go. Oh look at this—some Christmas spirit right there. I follow John. I can't believe all those people were waiting for that—they were waiting 30 minutes for that. Oh look at the Christmas trees—there's some more.

20:17 John Daub: Walking in the winter without snow—Wonderland, no snow. I thought it would snow. Doesn't it snow, John? It's so cold—you think it would snow in two or three weeks. Christmas Day—how's Santa gonna get here if there's no snow? Okay, good—Susanna knows where to go. All right, how much is it? It's okay. Oh no, no—it's good.

21:11 Kanae Daub: Kanai doesn't drink booze, but guess what? I do. So technically I would have to drink Kanai's—she has an allergy to alcohol. She's a designated driver. That's why she got a license.

21:28 John Daub: Wow, that's all the way to the top. Do you realize how strong that this is? It's not strong? It's that strong? Okay, that's good—that's bad. Wait, it depends on how you do it. Not strong—is that good or bad? These are called chimneys—I don't know why. Kanai, you want a chimney? All right, nobody. How do we say kanpai? Check. And to all of you out there. Oh, that's strong—stronger than beer because it's wine. Yeah, there's a queue. It's nice though to stay warm. Kanai is warming her heart—she's a warm person. Naturally warm. I'm cold-hearted—I need all the wine I can get. Mulled wine. Kanai, do you need a hot coffee or something? Yeah. So are these breads—they're Hungarian? Yes, but they're everywhere in Prague. Chimney cakes or trdelník (traditional Bohemian pastry). The old Bohemian specialty—they say Bohemian because that includes Hungary, so they get on a technicality.

24:00 John Daub: It was really weird because it wasn't that long ago we were in Japan at the YouTube Fan Fest. They were giving me this award for 1 million subscribers. They told me that I had to do a pose—on the red carpet, please stop and stand there for 10 seconds and do something interesting, then walk towards the stage. They laid this out on me in the morning and I had no idea what I was going to do. If you try to be silly, you know that never works—you have to be yourself, but you can't just be yourself. You have to do something. So I did a hands-folded pose, then a James Bond pose. Then I figured oh no, guns would be demonetizing, so I put my finger gun away and shrugged. I went towards the camera, walk slowly. But the energy of the room took control—it took control of me like the Exorcist. I started to high-five random girls that were screaming. Their hands are very warm and soft like pillows—they were screaming like I was a Beatle. You know, Paul, John, Ringo... George. Live chat good, George. Poor George. I felt like one of the Beatles—they were screaming like that. I never had anything like that happen to me in my life—it was amazing. Then at the same time there were two Japanese DJs guys talking about what I do, but because I was running so quickly, they didn't have time to say much. Our viewers were like, what's with the hieroglyphics because everyone was writing in Japanese. I got out on stage and I do what I do. Then Hakkinen—who's one of the big subscribers—handed it to me. I turned to the camera, made sure I looked at the camera to get a picture. I held it up in the air and screamed ah in my samurai pose—remember that from Osaka Castle? It was a pretty unique experience. The YouTube Japan Fan Fest cut that up so you can see just the people getting the awards. It was neat—and I thank all of you for that.

27:08 John Daub: How you doing? Good. All right, are we gonna see how much bandwidth John's phone really has? We're 30 minutes in—we've seen the astronomical clock do something astronomically not that amazing, but actually it is pretty amazing because it's really old. Right? That's an original? Well, it was in reconstruction like two years ago. Good—it's old and new. Now it's controlled by Bluetooth—somebody pushes the Bluetooth button and operates it. But when was it built? Does anybody know the history? You guys would be awful YouTubers—this is your city. What year precisely? No? Ballpark figure, within 100 years? Nothing? 1410. That's when they started the brewery hotel we're staying in—around that time. So I guess all the workers after they finished this constructed the brewery hotel and started making more beer. 1410—that's before Columbus sailed to America. There's no America. Crazy—Middle Ages, before the plague I believe.

28:49 John Daub: We can maybe go up there and see the whole city from there. There's got to be a massive line—there's no way. John, can you do something? We're residents—just let us up. There's a special elevator for you? No? You're from Canada—you can charm them. Kanai, smile—do a ballet pose, a kick. It doesn't work. All right, Kanai charm goes only so far—it does not extend too far out of Tokyo. It worked on me in New York. This angle—I actually like really a lot. Inside there the Christmas market—it's so crowded. I keep bumping into people extending their arms to take selfies. I feel bad—oh, I'm so sorry. There's no direct route through there—you have to do S-curves because everyone's taking a selfie. You don't want to get in the selfie. So we left like 30 minutes and went all the way around to avoid people to get to the spot. Then somebody kicked the cord and we were like oh my god. Now the Christmas tree lights went out—it wasn't us, and now it's back on. I guess there's something over there, so let's go a little bit further and then we'll end the livestream because we want to save John some data. I wish this was unlimited. The reason why I couldn't do a livestream on my own is because Vodafone—I got my SIM from Vodafone Germany and I cannot charge it in Vodafone Czech Republic. They're enemies—frenemies maybe. Same company. I can charge it tomorrow when I go to Germany. These stands look so clean and modern.

31:24 John Daub: Hey look, there's a Czech Santa. Kind of scary—is this the Czech Santa? No—looks like a serial killer, the way he's grasping that bell like he's used it as a blunt instrument. Have you seen this man? From the profile—have you seen this man before? Call 1-800 turn him in. Spooky. Whoa, what is that—is that matcha green tea? Oh my gosh. Pistachio—you like it? Oh wow.

33:07 John Daub: All right, he got his feet together a little earlier because you were sick. I would like an imperfect Santa Claus. I think Santa Claus should have done some time and he was rehabilitated and now he does some good. I think that's a good story. Those in Hollywood, take note of a script—this would actually be pretty good. Santa doing some time, the pre-Christmas years in a medieval jail. Saint Nick. This could be blasphemous. But my imagination has no bounds because that Santa did look creepy. I guess if you got out of prison after decades, you'd get fat and grow a beard too. Go live in a shack in Montana. Start writing letters to the government. Bad Santa. This wine—there's something about this wine. It's sake strong. Like Japanese sake strong.

34:30 John Daub: I did bring some stuff here. I forgot the apple pie Kit Kats—I'm so sorry, they're on my sofa. But I brought these things. For free? Oh my God. These are the Christmas version—they didn't smash up in my suitcase either. This is where they smash it for you. Is this one smashed? No, this one's okay. Here you go. I don't want to die. Thank you very much. Just throw it away and save the label. I like that. All right, Helen—I have one more. Kanai, you want one too? What do you call those again? The umeboshi? Umeshu? Yeah. Oh, you've got a leaning tower of ice cream right here—you better eat it. Start licking from the other side. That's how I balance it. Or if you bite the bottom... it's freezing out here. It won't melt. But the hole is so big on the bottom, you could suck the whole thing through. That's what I do. Yeah, it's pretty heavy—voluminous.

35:56 John Daub: Menchie [?]. Have you ever had the black ones? The ones with caffeine? No? What do you get these? Do you have a dealer? Where do you get these? From Japan? Oh, that's ume flavored. Whoa. Would you like one? We're good. I used to eat the ones that were black and inside there's a little teeny caffeine pellet and it's stacked. English at a place called Gaba—15 years ago, more than 10. You take those before the lessons because it could get boring. It's so bad for you. We gotta take a group photo. That's right—see your photo. Alright folks, you have any questions about Prague? Who is your dealer? There has to be a way you got it from Japan to the Czech Republic. Is there a Japan store in Prague where you can get good stuff? How many Asian stores, but Japan only—maybe one, here in Prague. Not gonna be out in the countryside. Like Born [?], Borno [?], or yakiniku—we should go there really. So the owners Japanese? Hard to tell. Kanai could smoke him out—you could check and see if the yakiniku chef is really Japanese. Test his language skills. I'll send me in as a spy—I'll figure it out. I'll start off with some watashi wa like some really bad Japanese, then bust out in Kansai-ben. We'll go through all the readings from Miyazaki up to Hokkaido—pick out where he's from. Make sure we know, then we'll find out he's from a small town in Korea or something in China. Right, that's how it works.

38:16 Susanna: She actually did ballet here—she found a school near the hotel, had a ballet lesson behind the hotel.

38:36 John Daub: The teacher speaks Czech—they teach in Japanese? It's an elementary school? Very cool. So there is Japanese culture—is there ramen here? Ramen—is it good? Quite good. You should taste it. You've been to Tokyo many times though—you know what good ramen is. So you know. Is it good ramen? Yeah, it is—really good. That's good. It's really cold—I'd say minus something, right? Minus two. So it's enough... if I spill this wine, people will slip on it. Despite the alcohol, it is really beautiful. We're going to take a group photo of this and we'll put it on Instagram for you to share this moment. It's so cool to be able to come anywhere in the world and have a meetup and people will show up on short notice. I wish I'd given more notice. Tomorrow Nuremberg is at 7:30 p.m. somewhere in the center near the Christmas market. I'll put a link in all the places—Instagram, Facebook. I connected to Facebook pretty late—I got it now. I didn't have this code generator so they wouldn't let me in, but went in through a backdoor—which scares me because hackers could probably do that too. Backdoor, uh oh. And then we'll do a meetup in Innsbruck and then in Vienna on the 11th before we leave on the 12th in the morning to go back to Japan. So if you're in Vienna, get ready—Stephansplatz at 7:30 p.m. I don't know if there's any markets there. I just like Stephensplatz—I like the subway station that goes there, the way they announce it: Stephansplatz. And I'm probably pronouncing it wrong. I always took the S-Bahn and there's this bell—dun dun. I love Vienna. Vienna is one of the first cities I fell in love with outside the United States.

41:01 John Daub: Okay, so without further ado, let's say goodbye to everybody because we've been doing it for 40 minutes. Thanks so much for coming out. We had an amazing meetup here. The great thing with Prague is everyone's pretty friendly and probably a little bit toasted—just slightly drunk. Not a bad thing. It's Christmas. Right, Kanae?

41:24 Kanae Daub: It's Christmas.

41:24 John Daub: Do you feel the Christmas spirit?

41:26 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

41:27 John Daub: Does it make you go like this with your eyes? Yeah? This is Christmas. You love it. Christmas is awesome and it's great in Europe. If you're watching from the United States, do come and see us—come to Prague and Europe because it's just awesome. Prague especially. Love this place. See you everybody. Have a good day, good night, wherever you are. We're definitely going to have a good night. How do you say bye in Czech?

41:53 All: Ahoj. Ahoj. Goodbye.