00:00:19 John Daub: Christmas market, it's just so lovely. I can imagine though, because when tourists go to Tokyo, they avoid Shibuya, Harajuku, the tourist places, but locals avoid them too. Here in Nuremberg, it is quite beautiful, but I could see how people could avoid this area because check it out, that's a lot of people down there. You see? It's a lot of people, and that's in front of the Christmas market. We're gonna go down there right now. You see that one area right there? They're grilling meats and stuff, so that's gonna be a lot of fun.

00:02:36 John Daub: A lot of you might notice right behind me is Matthias. He was in a livestream at Hibiya Park with me last year, yeah? We had wagyu, I believe. It'll be hard to find wagyu here, but they have a ton of meat in this market. They were grilling a lot of sausages; it smelled awesome. You just said the magic word: bratwurst. Haha, how many people in the city have that as a password, I wonder? What's this plaza called? This area? You traveled from... by the way, this is in Germany, right? Pretty far. What do you call this plaza here?

00:03:56 John Daub: That's the main market, okay? I'll go with that. This is just starting; it's only about to be fully open today. Over there is a church, and there's another church just there, straight ahead. It is extremely busy because it's Saturday night. You can see here they're cooking bratwurst. The local Nuremberg bratwurst are a little bit smaller, yeah, from this city. Does anyone want a bratwurst? Not right now? Maybe wine? Okay. I've got 50 euros here, so I'm just going to buy a bratwurst. Let's buy one to show everybody. Check it out. Oh, that looks so good. The bratwurst, please. The small one? Yeah, Nuremberg one. Wow. Yeah, one. Thank you.

00:05:42 Matthias: And I'm guessing that we would put some condiments on it right here. There's mustard, white sauce. I guess we go by color: red, white, yellow.

00:06:00 John Daub: How do I do this? I push this here? Tom, you want a sausage? Yeah, can you push it? Just push it. Ah, all right, that's pretty good. That's good. Hey, that's good. So this is a Nuremberg bratwurst. They're smaller than the other kinds. They look really good, especially with the mustard. Tom did a great job; it's all on the outside. I can smell the hot wine. We'll just try it. I feel bad because we actually have a group of about 15 people, and I'm the only one eating. We're gonna have to remedy that really fast. Here we go: bratwurst from Nuremberg. You see that steam coming out of it? I actually had this two hours ago from the same place. It was incredible.

00:07:17 John Daub: Some of you might know Tom from the wedding. He was the cameraman in the "Oh hey everybody, I'm getting married" video from two years ago. Nice to see you again. Shall we move on? You can walk and eat here. In Japan, that's considered rude. Oh, I got mustard. So that's that burning sensation. Let's move on. Let's get to the hard stuff. Kanai, did we lose you? We're moving on. The rain is starting to fall. Hey, we're moving on to get the hard stuff now. Bring on the wine. Do you feel the Christmas spirit?

00:08:18 John Daub: All right, join the crowd. We're going straight into the heart of the crowd at the market here. Now, we're going to come back here tomorrow during the day and show you some of the amazing things they're selling. So you might want to come back, make sure you subscribe and get the notification because we want to show you all the things during the daytime. It's really amazing, but you cannot really put the feeling into words. You need to see it to believe it; it's just an incredible feeling. I think if we go in there, we'll never come out. It's super crowded. Should we just give up and go to the other one? Is that far away? I guess it would make sense. There's no alcohol at the kids market unless dad wants something.

00:09:54 Tom: Here you go. What do you think? Can I...

00:10:07 John Daub: Good, it's really good. I like the bread; the bread is really mochi-mochi, like that. It's fresh. Oh look at the steam coming out of that shop right there. Oh man, we're going in; we might not be coming out. It's really crowded, like shoulder to shoulder. Oh yeah, is that what I'm talking about right here? Did Kanai go ahead? Kanai!

00:10:46 Kanae Daub: Hi! Okay. What's this? It smells good.

00:10:56 John Daub: Oh, fish, fish bridge and fish rolls. Fish rolls? I'm gonna look in from the side here. Oh, look at this! Whoa, that's a long one! What? I've never... that's a meter long. Oh my gosh! That's like a meter long! Maybe you should try one.

00:11:36 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I'd keep... Wow, there's another one! That one's not as... Yeah, there are a lot of other things. Oh, okay. That one's not as happy as the other one. It's kind of droopy.

00:11:48 John Daub: Look at the meat grilling here! This market is awesome. Look at that. We lost Kanae already, huh? She's taking some photos. I've lost her. She always finds me. Kanai! Kanai! We have like a plan: if we get lost, she goes straight to the Starbucks. Kanai!

00:12:29 John Daub: Alright, just check out the market here while we're looking for Kanae. Look at the amazing figures here. I love these. Do you see these right straight ahead? You put incense inside of them and the smoke comes out of their mouth. And the incense have all sorts of really nice smells, like spice and cinnamon and smoke—everything except tobacco smoke. Kanai! This livestream has been retitled "Kanai." Kanai! Is that Kanai? No, it's not. Kanai! Zero Cool writes in, "Action adventure begins: searching for Kanai." Kanai!

00:13:37 John Daub: Oh, look at that. Smells so good. I think Kanae and I are on the same wavelength. When you live with somebody for a couple of years, you start to think the same. It's like in The Office when Michael Scott got lost and it was his girlfriend who found him because they think alike. Kanai! Hey look, there's a clearing here. And if you look up there, that's a really amazing church overlooking this square. I hear the music is coming from the other side. Our group got really sorted. Kanai! I lost my wife. Will I ever see her again? Kanai! Did she go straight or turn left? I really don't know.

00:14:40 Passerby: Are you vlogging?

00:14:43 John Daub: Hello. What's your username?

00:14:44 Passerby: Only in Japan.

00:14:49 John Daub: That sounds weird though. Germany. She said, "What's my username?" I said, "Only in Japan." That sounds weird in Germany. Kanai! Look at the toys. I heard in an article that Chicago is trying to replicate the feeling you get at these Christmas markets in Nuremberg. I think it's such an authentic market. You can tell these are local people selling these goods here. That's what I like about it—it's real. Kanai!

00:15:35 John Daub: Excuse me, did you see Kanai? Kanai! Look at the chocolate here. Oh! That looks really good. Gingerbread balls. Oh! Wow! How much to try just one? Okay, I'll try just one then. The one with spiced wine? Which one's the most popular? With, please. Wow! Thank you. Alright, I'm eating my way to Kanai.

00:17:04 John Daub: Oh, Kanai! Look what I got you! I got you this! Oh, you found me. See, that's why I'm live streaming so we don't get lost. I bought you this, but I kind of bought it for me though. Oh, it's got alcohol in it. Oh, sorry, you can't drink that. You can't eat that. Oh no. Zato 71, this is for you. Here we go. You all know what this tastes like, right? Wow! You can taste the booze in there. It's so soft, and this is like gingerbread. Wow! Oh, it's good. Delicious, yes! Very tasty. I'll be back. That's a nice shop.

00:18:10 John Daub: Yes, I noticed everybody pretty much speaks English in Germany, right?

00:18:24 Tom: Not really. Everything they say is completely wrong. Sorry.

00:18:31 John Daub: I did get the name of the city right. I was going to put it in the title: N-U-R-N-B-E-R-G, but nobody in the English world knows that U with the two dots on it. So I just put in the one you see in the history books. Oh, what are these? This is so beautiful. My eyes are just drawn to the colorful things dangling in front of you. Look at this. Rita writes in, "Get something for Kanae." Kanae, do you want something? Look at the American school bus. That's pretty awesome. These are really nice ornaments. We're coming back here tomorrow afternoon and we're going to be buying some stuff. Tom, do you see something you like? Do you have a Christmas tree in your house? No? Alright, we all still together? We're getting close to the end of the market now.

00:20:06 John Daub: Alright, we're here at an intersection. I found the Christmas tree. Look at this. It's beautiful. We're not in Japan anymore. This is not Japan. Yeah, this is Germany. Oh, look at these. These are pretty nice too. What do you call these? Almonds with caramel. Alright, that looks pretty good. It's warm. Sort of expensive, yeah, but it's tasty. That goes great with warm spiced wine—Glühwein (hot spiced wine). We're looking for that. This market is so crowded. Let's go, let's make our way someplace else. And look, you can set up your own nativity scene. Look at all the ornaments. It's just so beautiful. It's so much better with your own eyes, I think. It's hard to do justice through a livestream. But take a look down the line of markets. It goes on for a while, loads of them, different rows. The rows of markets take up the entire plaza. I'd say there's about 250, 300 shops here. Some sell the same thing. You'll find different meats, warm Glühwein all over the place.

00:22:26 John Daub: Where shall we go next? Shall we escape this area? Because I'm getting body checked. Let's find some wine and keep our group together. I want to introduce you to everybody. Oh, Kanai, did you want to buy the ornaments here?

00:22:46 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I'm going to buy them.

00:22:49 John Daub: There's a little bit more space here. I love the things with the incense that you put in and the smoke comes out of the mouth. I used to have those when I was a kid. My mom had one from a local shop. The incense made the smell really Christmassy. Then we ran out and couldn't find them. Now I see them all over here, so I've got to buy some and send them home maybe.

00:23:21 John Daub: A magnificent meal. Oh, look at the candy again. There's the spiced almonds, the sweet almonds. They look really good. Kanai, did I lose her again? Oh, there she is. We're taking a trip through the market. Oh my gosh, look at these. Apple? Is that an apple? That looks like a banana. Oh my gosh, is that chili? That's a chili pepper.

00:24:24 John Daub: You think that's spicy, Kanai?

00:24:27 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Can you eat? Pepperoni, I don't know.

00:24:35 John Daub: Where's our team? Is that spicy? Oh, look, she got the best seat in the house. Look at that: chili pepper with white chocolate. Is that spicy, you think? Or is it like a paprika, like a red pepper? Is that spicy? Yeah, it is. Really spicy? It's nothing, you see it everywhere. At the beginning it is, but at the end not so much. Okay, I'll try one.

00:25:26 Tom: You're gonna get one?

00:25:29 John Daub: Yeah, I'm gonna get one of these choco pepperonis. I've never seen this before. Can I try this choco pepperoni? Spicy? Is it spicy?

00:25:49 Vendor: Yes. It's a white one. Which one's more delicious? The white one.

00:26:07 John Daub: Tom, you're gonna help me out with this, Tom. Thank you. Oh my. Wow. This has gotta be insane. Alright, Matthias, you in on this? No, what are you laughing at? Who's doing this with me? What? That can't be that spicy. You need a Glühwein. I need a Glühwein? Well, what happens without it? Can you take care of me? Where's the local hospital? Is it far? Yeah, my mom's from India. I should be... What? Slightly true. No, that's true. But will I survive? Does anyone want a bite? There's like a lot of people shaking their heads like I made a big mistake.

00:27:04 John Daub: Alright, if you want me to eat the chili pepper, we should get to 250 likes. Do the 50, everybody, just click the like right now. If you want me to eat this, click the like. It's up to you. Click the like. Do it now. Do it. Nobody's clicking? Other people are clicking. Do it. It's chili pepper. Come on, do it now. Click the likes, get 200. Alright, we're almost there. Hey look, we just got like a hundred likes because I said "do it, do it, do it" in the camera. It works. Okay, here we go. Alright, ready? I found that bad. That's really bad. That's really good. It's good. Sorry, the owner's right there. Is he watching me? You want a bite? Please? Who else wants? It's very good. It's not spicy at all. No, it's good. You'll love it. It's chocolate, it's sweet.

00:28:26 Tom: It's not bad. It's pretty nice. Kind of a lot of competition, I think.

00:28:52 John Daub: Alright. Oh god, this is a... I see you have a spicy on your body. Okay. Spicy? But it's not... Okay, yeah. Well, that was the spiciest bit of them all. Where's the Glühwein? Where's the Glühwein? I have to go this way. Don't look at me. I feel the burn. All the seeds were in there. It's gonna come over here. Let's keep going. There's more to see over here. They said it goes away, the pain. Oh my god. Oh, that looks good over there. It's got corn. Some stuff churning inside. Yuck. I got the hiccups. I'm putting as much distance as I can between me and the chili pepper shop. Awaken the Indian inside of you. That Indian doesn't want to come to the front door. He left out the back door. Who came up with that idea? Oh, you know what? Let's put some white chocolate on a chili pepper and some tourists are gonna come and eat it. Oh yeah, that's real smart. Oh, is that fudge? Looks like fudge. Oh, look, these look like nikuman. Kanai nikuman. It's like dumplings. Look at the light. I'm trying to cool down naturally, but it does hurt. That was so worth it.

00:32:22 John Daub: Look at this. I've had these before, but they're kind of light. Right? They're very light. From pain will come pleasure. Yes! I'm building momentum. You can feel something big is about to break. Look at the lines! There's some really long lines, but it's for the Glühwein. It says here on the top, Glühwein. We found the right place. Okay, let's do this. So how do we get the Glühwein? You just stay there, you pay, and you get the Glühwein. Who wants in on this? You have to buy the cup too, right? It's a deposit on the cup, but you can return it. What if you keep the cup? You don't get your deposit. It's yours. You have to go to the priest? Do they serve you chili peppers? Is that part of the rehabilitation? Alright, let's go get a Glühwein. You can't drink it, right?

00:34:05 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I can drink it.

00:34:06 John Daub: Hey, do they have non-alcoholic Glühwein?

00:34:08 Vendor: No, they don't.

00:34:10 John Daub: Tom, you want a Glühwein? We're gonna get one here. They're 4 euros for one. Alright, let's go. Oh, there's lines. I don't want a button line. Then I'll be the one. Someone's gonna pound on me. Are there different kinds of Glühwein? Yeah, there's like hot pepper. There's one from the city here, one with rum liquor, some mixed stuff. But I think they all have alcohol. So maybe the Nuremberger Christkindlesmarkt punch. Wow. He's gonna punch me in the face with that chili pepper. I'm gonna have another punch with this wine. Alright, let's try this. This is gonna be a pretty good ending to this. Let's do what we would do normally, traditionally here: get Glühwein and try it. Then we're gonna go somewhere else. It's way too crowded here to do livestreaming. It's really hard. Germany is bad in general. Is it a bad signal? You guys see? Is it Minecraft, guys? Alright, let's just get it. Because you're a foreigner and nobody cares, you can just do whatever you want. Okay, I'm a foreigner. I'm just gonna do what I want.

00:35:48 Tom: You can try, yes.

00:35:54 John Daub: Corona says it's a good signal. The German 4G is actually surprisingly good. Wow, it's like burned around the rim. I'm surprised that Tom took that down like a man. What does that say about me? I ate the stem though; that was the hard part. Okay. Here's the menu. I'm gonna go for this one: the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt punch. On request, refined with orange liqueur. Wow, that looks pretty hardcore. Can I try the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt punch? Yes, this is without ice. Rum, amaretto, orange liquor. What would you recommend? Rum. Spiced rum! Oh, is that too late? Spiced rum. Look at the mug that it came in! So if I keep it, I lose my 3 euro? Alright, this is what the cup looks like. It's a really nice cup, about 200 milliliters. It's frothy; that's a good sign. You can bring it back, but I lose my 3 euro deposit. This is the mug; it's very stylish. I'm taking it home. Look at that steaming cup. This is the Christmas spirit. The spirit steams out of your cup. Okay, let's try it. That does not mix well with the chili pepper. It's spreading my mouth. It's very good; it's a very good punch. So this punch is Glühwein—it's wine, not Kool-Aid.

00:39:05 John Daub: Yeah. No reaction from the chili pepper. Did you try the chili pepper?

00:39:09 Tom: Yeah. It's a little spicy, right? A little bit.

00:39:15 John Daub: Do you come to this market every Christmas? No? Why not? It's awesome. A little too crowded. Cheers. Prost.

00:39:31 Group: Cheers. Prost.

00:39:36 John Daub: I'm prosting. You don't say that here? Prosting. Yeah, I can breathe. We do that at Oktoberfest. I don't see anybody else doing it here. I'm a tourist. We're from Japan. Hey, David Kimura's here. Hey David. Prost everybody, or kanpai—I always say prost here. It's fun. You know, the great thing about the Christmas market is it's a place where you can come with your friends and really enjoy the outside in the winter. It's usually too cold to hang out outside, but the Christmas market's an excuse to hang out outside and drink hot wine and eat good foods: sausages and bread and almonds and candy and chocolate that costs 1.5 euro. The lady was really nice, chili peppers and white chocolate—you can find all sorts of things here. I highly recommend this market. People are friendly, everybody, and despite all the tourists, everyone still has a sense of humor. Like the guy—I said I wanted spiced rum, he said oh it's too late, it's cool. I like that; he said it tongue-in-cheek.

00:41:09 John Daub: Kanai can't drink alcohol. We'll get Kanai something off camera. Tom, you're gonna get one after the camera's off? Yeah, you want one? I got Tom one; he came to the wedding. It's a long way—you live in England now, right? London? You like it? You want to emigrate to Japan? It's a possibility. Kanai, use a possibility? You're gonna come live with us in our spare room? Yeah, we got space now. No thanks, guys, for watching this livestream. Thanks everybody for watching; we're at this market, it's really awesome. Tomorrow we're going to take it in during the daytime when there's less people. Are there less people in the daytime? A bit. Did you guys want to introduce yourself? There's some people watching. It's up to you. Did I not show them enough? Which one? Should I run over there and show them? It's better at night than during the day, right? Yeah. Alright, I gotta go show you that. Should I down this? You can't down hot punch. You people on the internet, listen: you cannot down hot punch after a chili pepper, especially like chug it. I've never seen that done. Have you ever seen that done? Like some guy go uh oh? Do it, do it, do it. You don't have to do it. No, I'm just joking.

00:43:17 John Daub: We're going to show you just a little bit. Shall we take the people and show them something? Can we walk and drink? Alright, we're going to take you a little bit further into this. We really do appreciate you watching for this long. Definitely click the like button if you want to see more of this market and enjoy a little bit of the Christmas spirit together. Japan's Christmas is really not great, and that's why we've come here because you can feel the spirit of Christmas. It's just fun. And despite having a lot of tourists here, everyone is getting in the spirit. The warm wine definitely helps; it keeps my hand warm. Alright, right here. Oh, this thing! Yes! We have one in Hibiya Park at our Christmas markets in Tokyo, but it's really lame. This one's beautiful. Does it move? What is it? What's it called?

00:44:20 Stefan: Schöner Brunnen (beautiful fountain).

00:44:23 John Daub: Schöner Brunnen. Beautiful fountain. It really is. And they have it at Christmas time. Only at Christmas? No, it's year-round! So it's famous here in Nuremberg. Alright, well let's go take a closer look. Have you seen the face? See the face? What face? Oh! Yeah! What is that? Do you see that face? It took me a second. Face! With a hat! That's so cool. Everywhere you look, there's always something interesting. This is why I feel like such a tourist. I go around Japan and all the tourists come and say hi. Now I'm going around here, I feel like a tourist. Everyone's just laughing at me. Now I understand what it's like to wear the shoe on the other foot. I'm going to take you here, just give you a panning shot up here. I really want you to come and enjoy the Christmas markets. It really is an amazing feeling to be here. And that's why we came back. Because I don't know if we're going to be able to travel that much more. Who knows if we start a family next year or something. But the opportunities to leave aren't going to be the same.

00:45:46 John Daub: What's he doing? What's that guy doing? You must put it in 360 in a circle and you get your wish granted. Do a 360 and you get your wish. I don't have any wishes. What should I wish for? Tom, do you have any wishes? If you turn it 360, you get your wish. Run a faster marathon? No? More hot wine. Is that a real thing or just touristy? Just touristy, and the locals laugh at them. That sounds like something a tourist would... No, that's real. It's not touristy. I think it was the smith's apprentice in the Middle Ages managed to put it in there without a welding nut. Oh wow, so it's quite old. Was it magic? So it's very old. It's probably older than America. America is a pretty young country. It's beautiful, isn't it?

00:46:51 John Daub: I've seen at the Christmas markets they have these kind of like windmill things. What are those called? It's like a little tower with... No clue? In Tokyo we have one and they said it was a German Christmas... Ah yeah, the candles and then it spins. Yeah, it's quite large, the candles spin it. Yeah. So I'm going to be here for another day and tomorrow we're definitely going to buy that thing with the incense coming out of its mouth, and Kanae's going to buy a lot of stuff. We're probably going to drop a lot of our savings here. It's just too cool. But there's a lot of feeling behind it, and you have to have the warm spiced wine. It's great here. You guys want to introduce yourself to the people?

00:47:50 Stefan: Hi, I'm Stefan from Nuremberg.

00:47:56 Olle: Hi, I'm Olle from Nuremberg.

00:48:00 Alex: I'm Alex from Brunswick.

00:48:06 Raphael: Raphael from Ingolstadt.

00:48:20 Kanae Daub: I'm from Tokyo.

00:48:38 André: Hi, everyone. I'm André from Erlangen.

00:48:40 John Daub: Nice to meet you. How far away is that? Just 10 minutes by train? Really close. But you don't come here every year? I just came here for you. Thanks, buddy. And thank all of you for watching too. We appreciate it. We're going to be doing another livestream tomorrow during the day. This is what you subscribe for: adventures on the road. So thanks, everybody. We're doing mobile livestreaming on Germany's Vodafone 4G LTE, slightly mediocre signal. And no one is... Everyone is agreeing. Thanks, everybody. See you in the next livestream. Appreciate it. Hit the like button. Bye. Kanae. Bye. Dankeschön. How do we say goodbye in German?

00:49:25 Group: Auf Wiedersehen. Merry Christmas.