00:00:03 John Daub: Hey everybody, greetings from Innsbruck. This is the Inn River and above us—the Alps, not the Japanese Alps. Look at that, it's at sunset, the sun is down, so we have a very low light situation. The river, a beautiful emerald green. I showed this in a live stream about six hours ago, but the clouds have parted, the sun came out later today, now it's completely clear, and we have this beautiful view of the colored houses on the other side of the river as well. Look at that, this is the beauty of Innsbruck at Christmas. It's just charming, it charms you a lot, it charms you to get some street food.

00:00:50 John Daub: Right there is Dominique. He's going to be taking us around the market. We're going to go together, and we're going to try some Glühwein (mulled wine), and he knows everything that there is to know about Glühwein that you could know. It doesn't matter if it's Germany or Austria, Dominique is the one to... if you're going to go drinking, you want to have Dominique with you. I think so. Yes, and you might have already started a little bit before me, but that's okay.

00:01:14 Dominique: I'm drunk, so I apologize in advance. I'm already drunk.

00:01:18 John Daub: No apologies necessary. No apologies is necessary. All right, we're gonna have to wait to cross at the light, that's okay. We'll take you back to the river. So this is the market. Hey everybody, this is the market at Innsbruck. We've had an amazing time today, my friend Tom and Kanae and I. We were walking around the market, we thought we would go up to the mountain but we looked at the live camera feed from up there and at that time in the afternoon there was so much clouds and still snow up there, you couldn't see anything. So we didn't go up there, which was a shame, but now if we were to go up there you'd have a beautiful view.

00:02:01 John Daub: However, okay look at the background, it looks panoramic, it's a crazy beautiful background. There's a really nice Christmas market over there where we're gonna go into the center of the city. Do you have your glass? I have a glass. Yeah, I also have Glühwein with me but it's cold. I have my Glühwein glass right here, check it out. So I have one too. Oh you have one too. Oh yours is it? Oh you use the dark green, mine is kind of a lime green Innsbruck. This is the glass from 2019, yeah the olive color. And we're gonna fill that up 200 milliliters with some Glühwein and go over some of the things that we've learned about the Christmas markets. This is my fifth Christmas market that I've been to. We're now walking from the Inn River towards the center which is where we're gonna be getting some Glühwein.

00:03:04 John Daub: I'm really excited about this. Top shelf is here, you got it buddy, you got it, top shelf. Look how you can see the moon up there on the top of your screen. Oh the smells of the Christmas markets, I'm telling you, the glow from the stands. Do you see that? There's no YouTube smell, YouTube yeah no smell-o-vision yet. Kanae has taken a nap, it's been a very long day walking around, so we don't want her to catch a cold. There's the moon in front of us up on the top there, almost a full moon. Maybe some people know some Goku full moon, yeah Dragon Ball, you know he gets a real big monkey gorilla.

00:03:46 John Daub: So this is the hotel we were staying at right here. We wanted to get really close to the market. This is the Golden Adler, it's a beautiful hotel. The best part, the history goes back to the 14th century and they have pictures of all the guests that have stayed there. And I think Kanae might be looking from the window from our room. There's the big Christmas tree on the square and we're gonna walk around there and get some Glühwein. I think I don't know if Kanae is in the window but I'm gonna hit a Santa Claus. There's Kanae up in the window, do you see her? That's sort of creepy like the movie Frosty. Kanae, Frosty, Kanae. Oh she's opening the window, she's gonna give us a blessing or something like Rocky. Hey Kanae!

00:04:52 John Daub: She's up there on the fourth floor, we have a nice view of the Christmas market. We're getting some Glühwein baby, awesome. So we have a very nice view of the Christmas market, so let's get this party started. That's pretty neat. Are the lights still on up there, do you see?

00:05:27 John Daub: I saw that, I saw the Santa Claus, he was playing music in one of those old music boxes where you have to crank it. So are we gonna go and get the Glühwein from the place we went to the last time? Right, this round's on me because you got the last round, you agree? I have this from another place, I can't use this. Oh you can't use this. All right, can you hold this for a second?

00:06:08 Dominique: He's in a very good mood, people are friendly, you can come over.

00:06:14 John Daub: All right we got it here. Sure, they don't take IC card, my wallet's upstairs. I'll pay you back later. Okay. Actually this on Dominique because I left my wallet upstairs. Yeah whatever you recommend, I'll pay you back when I get up there. Okay yeah yeah yeah. There you go, that's my wallet in my room. I gotta, this is supposed to be my round too.

00:06:54 John Daub: It's top shelf. I will take care of them after the live stream. Thank you Dominique, we'll take care of Dominique. Yeah. Oh look at that hot Glühwein. Do we want to give these glasses in or? My one is not from here. Oh do you want to keep these ones? Okay I have to exchange it later. Ah I see, okay so you have the choice, thank you.

00:07:27 John Daub: Oh we'll come back, yeah it's okay we can give that in there, it's okay I don't need my glass. There you go. You have to put a deposit down on it, we're good. All right so and get the money back from the deposit. There you go, thank you.

00:08:11 John Daub: Oh okay well frohe Weihnachten (Merry Christmas).

00:08:15 Dominique: Merry Christmas.

00:08:17 John Daub: Merry Christmas. It's not Glühwein, it's Feuerzangenbowle (fire-tong punch). I can't even repeat what you just said, fire tongue punch. Fire tongue punch? No tongue like you know like the tool. Okay oh tongue okay yeah yeah yeah yeah fire tongue punch. So this isn't Glühwein, it's a little bit stronger, it's a little bit sweeter and stronger. Okay usually they burn it here but here they don't do it I don't know why but usually it burns and you have to like—oh so this is really high in alcohol. Yeah this is the sign. What's the drinking age in Germany and Austria, how old do you have to be?

00:09:02 Dominique: 16 for beer and wine.

00:09:08 John Daub: Okay and 18 for hard liquor like gin beam or whiskey stuff. Yeah that's just 6, 18. I think in Austria it's the same, I'm not sure but I think it's the same. You know so this is a high school student's dream come true in the United States to come here I guess. And that's why a lot of my friends in high school back way back then, we had some German classes, they studied German so that they could come on the field trip to drink beer at Oktoberfest and in Germany. I'm serious that they studied German so they could come here and drink, but they learned German so that was good. Most of them did good guys, good guys. Not really, they just wanted to drink alcohol. They want to come here for that legally. Yeah the teacher said that they couldn't do it but they somehow found a way around it. This is like way back in high school like 25 years ago but more. Oh my god, a reason to learn German. Yeah it's a good reason. At least you have to like in Japan you only need to know like "hai, futatsu biiru onegai shimasu" (yes, two beers please). Yeah that's important to survive in Japan. Maybe futatsu beer, that means two. Or you can say okawari (refill), do you know okawari? One more please, refill. I need to remember, I'll have another one. I know like what you recommend. Yeah it's also really helpful that's right.

00:10:43 John Daub: So when you come to the Christmas markets in Austria or Germany, is there a difference between German Christmas markets and Austrian Christmas markets?

00:10:48 Dominique: Yeah it's a little bit difficult if you say it because I'm from Bavaria and Bavaria in Germany it's almost similar. So yeah so I don't see any difference. Even they still Nuremberg Christmas, Nuremberg Glühwein in the supermarket here right. Nuremberg there's a company Glühwein is most famous from Nuremberg, that's where we were before here. I don't know why but they have 90% of the market share, 90% of the bottled Glühwein comes from Nuremberg. So you think that that would be the best place for the Glühwein but was okay, I didn't maybe.

00:11:32 John Daub: It was okay at least. That's true we have not had bad Glühwein. It doesn't matter, it's cold outside, it's hot in your hand. Yeah that's the most important things. Yeah it's like they say here Nuremberg Glühwein. I just see small difference between right and Austria. We are more, you know Bavaria is more like it. Bavaria is more similar to Austria than to Northern Germany. That's true okay that's interesting.

00:12:07 John Daub: Yeah I would get that. That's what people have been telling me so Germany is very diverse even though it's one country. The North of Germany is very different than the South and the East is very different than the West so it's very much like Japan as well but Austria is more similar to Bavaria.

00:12:21 Dominique: Yeah I can feel here, I feel here very like at home because I can speak my dialect with the people and they understand me you know. Yeah it's not like if I go to Berlin where they would not understand us so yeah. I hope you can use my car if you like to visit us. Austrian Bavarians maybe almost the same. Also we eat schnitzel, Wiener schnitzel (Vienna cutlet), you know Wiener schnitzel all stuff.

00:12:40 John Daub: Speaking of street food, let's take a look around here. So they had some strudel over here. This one has burgers, burgers are not really a German thing though are they? I guess hamburger comes from Hamburg maybe so I guess burgers are more German than American is that what you're saying?

00:13:04 Dominique: I think hamburgers come from America.

00:13:09 John Daub: Yeah I think hamburgers come from America but maybe somebody from Hamburg emigrated to United States. My great great great grandfather Johan Daub emigrated from Heidelberg via Bremen on a ship in 1850s to New York, he could have brought the hamburger with him.

00:13:31 John Daub: All right we're looking, we're going to look over here and show you some more street food. This one is called Käsespätzle (cheese spätzle), we ate this yesterday right in here. Yeah we ate the spinach Spätzle (spinach noodles). Yeah it's right here, just look at it through the window here. Wow so this is made so that there's cheese in that. Yeah we have a soup noodle, potato pasta. And this is more based on egg pasta and with spinach and the one is the white one is more with cheese and no spinach. Wow you can really smell that cheese, it's got such a strong smell to it. So this one is called Käsespätzle, then we have the spinach Spätzle, spinach Spätzle. And we have the soup noodle, the soup noodle is like potato pasta. That looks wonderful so they're like french fries with cheese.

00:14:29 Dominique: It's more than potato and usually you put like sauerkraut inside and usually also bacon. Yeah this is like the there are different variations but usually it's with bacon and sauerkraut.

00:14:49 John Daub: That looks great and you can try here you can get a dish with all three of them as well or just two of them. It's seven euro, seven euro uh ten which is about what eight dollars or so, eight which is a pretty good deal. It's warm, it's hot, it smells good, it's cheese delicious. And you can get Glühwein here as well, look at all the glasses that they're preparing. This is a crowded area, let's go, let's get through here.

00:15:20 John Daub: This looks like so they also have punch. Oh that's a tight corner, sorry she's got a backpack on. Ah it is cold. The Milky Way, oh that's that represents the Milky Way the galaxy. Galaxy is very delicious, eat the galaxy. So I noticed here that this isn't Glühwein but this is another kind of, I see punch up there. Punch is something that we give to kids right like only if it says Kinderpunsch (children's punch), kinder meaning child punch that's non-alcohol. That's what Kanae drinks, she drinks the Kinderpunsch, they mix like a punch without alcohol.

00:16:43 John Daub: It's a good combination. I don't think that I see any beer which is weird because in Germany you would think that they would have beer at a festival.

00:16:51 Dominique: You can buy beer but it's cold. Yeah but it's cold so it's not so comfortable in cold temperature to hold the cold beer you know. It's a little bit more comfortable to hold it like this.

00:17:03 John Daub: Yeah it's basically more hold it like this, it's minus four degrees right now and temperatures dropping to minus seven. So Christmas markets in Germany you won't find beer out at the market. No you can but inside the market. But you don't see many people drinking it, most people have Glühwein but I drank.

00:17:27 John Daub: All right let's take a look over here. Austrian beer, is it wait is there a difference, is it Austrian beer better?

00:17:38 Dominique: I think it's also good, I think it's not much difference from the quality.

00:17:46 John Daub: All right let's take a look at the sausage tent over here they have some. I guess it was bratwurst but do they have different kinds of sausages in Austria? Because Innsbruck is Austria by the way. They also have Nürnberger (Nuremberg sausages). Yeah I think the small one because yesterday they said I want Nürnberger. Ah here's the big Christmas tree, it is really nice.

00:18:09 John Daub: Very very. I like the fact that they don't make a lot of colors on it. Oh yeah because that's a symbol of Austria. Yeah the tree is very well done, I love the white lights to it, the champagne colored lights to it not the colored ones with all the ornaments on it. Keep it simple, it's a very natural place Innsbruck so I think fits in pretty good. This is the Goldenes Dachl (golden roof) which means the golden roof. Right the golden roof. Wow how did you make that, how do you say that again? Goldenes Dachl. Which the weird thing is in Innsbruck the Austrian people, it's almost a Swiss dialect here.

00:18:43 Dominique: So they used to you know always Goldenes Dachl, Goldenes Dachl. It's weird but it's more similar to yeah. I like that you can feel when you speak you can feel it, Goldenes Dachl.

00:19:12 John Daub: They really yeah like you did it, you did it well. I'm a beginner, I'm just not professional.

00:19:26 John Daub: This the Swiss German. I noticed there's a lot of Italians here so we're kind of close to Italy. I think we're closer to Italy so lot of the staff speaks Italian I noticed that. If some people speak Italian they also come here. We have everything in Italian explained and also some of the staff speaks Italian because we are near to Milano (Milan). Yeah Milano. So this here is a if they have something called Currywurst (curry sausage), currywurst what is that like? It's usually famous in Berlin.

00:19:55 Dominique: Oh it's just from a special thing.

00:20:05 John Daub: Okay I think most of the people who know about Germany know curry. Yeah I don't know, I think it's I know schnitzel maybe the next is Currywurst. Well I know about curry and I know about you know bratwurst. I like the fact that they put it together. I don't know I just I don't think I think it's a different kind of curry is Indian curry but you can see this is a bratwurst tent. It's very modern bratwurst I mean if you compare it to the ones in Germany this one looks a little bit different. The Austrian style here is more modern, it's not as traditional looking.

00:20:42 Dominique: I think it's not much different.

00:20:50 John Daub: Yeah there's not too much difference but the tent the not the tents but the shops around here they don't have that same wood feel. Just a little bit different, the colors are different but I thought in Nuremberg it was more traditional and in Munich they were bigger shops with more wood and more look they look like little miniature shops. At the end the difference make the environment you know like the nature like the mountains make the difference that's true.

00:21:11 Dominique: Of course also Munich people want to go to the mountains and to the snow right and that's always that what that makes this the Christmas spirit. Yes snow and that's what makes me happy.

00:21:27 John Daub: And that's why I wanted to start up by showing you that the mountains are just full of snow. Last night it rained here but up in the mountains it snowed like crazy so when we woke up the clouds parted and we saw such a beautiful sight but you didn't see it right you didn't see it till sunset. Till sunset but it's so beautiful. You can see down here they have there are four times to take pictures and it was not I didn't see the top of the mountains but now it's cleared up. Yeah very beautiful but you see it in the beginning of the live stream.

00:22:00 John Daub: These are just potatoes that go along with the french fries with six different mayo. Oh six different kinds of mayonnaise. Oh they have basil, aioli, cocktail, ketchup, garlic. Okay okay aioli is garlic and then sour cream, sour cream okay and regular mayonnaise. That's pretty cool so three different kinds of toppings that you can get I like that I like that.

00:22:27 John Daub: All right I noticed here and again this is the Christmas market in Innsbruck for the people who are joining us just walking around the old area. You can see you want to look up as much as possible because just I know this is crazy chandeliers in the street. Let's just walk a little bit forward. Uh our Glühwein getting cold already because it's so cold outside but it's still good. Look at chandeliers in the streets. It's such a beautiful old feel to Innsbruck in this area of the town of the city I guess I don't know it's a city but has a town feel to it. And you can see just above here um the shadow of the mountain up there. It's a little bit weird because if you go this direction it's like a city like a full metropolitan city but if you stay here in the old town it feels like a village.

00:23:20 Dominique: A village yeah a good combination in my opinion because if you go there it's busy and it's like a city you know. If you go a little bit there near to the main it feels like a city, a lot of shops and malls and yeah stuff. And here we have like the prior Christmas market, the combination is really good. It's a peaceful very peaceful feeling to it.

00:23:43 John Daub: Between the buildings and the shops there's a place where you can walk what almost looks like a cave right. It almost looks like a cave and that's good when it was raining or this morning we walked through there. There's a Christmas tree on the square here in the middle of the old town. Kanae is asleep, I can see the lights gone off in the hotel. I've reserved that three months more than three months in advance to make sure that we would get a nice view looking at it. This is our that's our Christmas present to ourselves for a really long year. Yeah you are drinking outside but Kanae uses it, yeah Kanae uses it. She'll be out later tonight but I think she should take a nap and join us later on. I like to have benches outside so you can get your Glühwein and kind of hang out with your friends and talk I like this. They make the trash a little bit like a table I think this is a very smart idea of the city. The trash oh this is the trash can here people can go there I think this is really convenient and smart. Yeah so you can put your drink up there. We were eating on the trash can yesterday but I had yeah that's fine for me because after we finished we just had to slide the plate into the trash it was pretty easy. There's the Milky Way the galaxy where we saw the uh um spinach and cheese which are so good we ate that last night. There's grapes here over there.

00:25:16 John Daub: Oh here's the staff okay follow Dominique. Dominique's been scouting this for over 24 hours we got here yesterday. Oh there's a dog in there so he knows this he knows the market very well now and yeah there's a doggy dog in that doggy. After a day of going why isn't it more people up here oh my yeah it is the perfect view. Look at this so we're above it all right now there's the Goldenes Dachl the golden roof in front of us there's the Christmas tree. Ah look at that and even even between the buildings there you can see just the sliver of the mountains it's really very faint I don't know if the iPhone's gonna pick it up. It's beautiful view of Innsbruck right there this symbol of Austria built by Maximilian. I he can see the McDonald's sign. Oh so he points out McDonald's the most German of restaurants. Yeah I see that on the other side but it's also a little bit like Japan you know like we have the traditional environment and the McDonald's sign. They did a good job though not making it stick out too much but still it'd be better if it was surprised. Surprised there's not a Starbucks here though there's no Starbucks down this street that's good.

00:26:44 John Daub: Whoa oh I got the chills from that. All right so this was Feuerzangenbowle but maybe we should try it where would be the best place to get Glühwein maybe maybe the same place I think they are really good.

00:26:56 Dominique: But this morning I drank it at the morning but in this morning you drink it this morning yeah it was my breakfast today.

00:27:10 John Daub: So when you do Christmas markets you really do Christmas markets you really do it. It gets boring you know and then you see the people drinking Glühwein at 10 a.m. then you want to join that's true. There's an infection. The Christmas markets you can come alone it is but I think if you come with friends it's always better. But if you do come alone people are pretty friendly you know. You're it's like you can get a Glühwein you stand at a stand at a table and just start talking to people and they'll ask you. If we give tips to them they ring the bell maybe we should show them this to them. Yeah okay okay well I hope I have enough money I'll pay I'm gonna pay him back I'm gonna pay him back. I love my I ran outside because I was almost I was I didn't want to be late to meet you but I left it at yeah but you have to leave and you have to you have to leave to go back um in 30 minutes right yeah yeah we have a little bit of time. All right we got time for one more and we'll take care of them.

00:28:17 Dominique: Well I can't you can't you have to love Dominique he's the he's the big guy big heart big Glühwein.

00:28:32 John Daub: Big normal Glühwein I know let's try the normal Glühwein maybe uh is it this this is the best of the best the shop is the best one. I think somehow I like this shop I don't know why maybe I think because because of the bell. He always gives a tip and we're going to talk about tipping at the market now this is a little inside information. Finished I did my hands are getting cold because it is minus three minus four. Oh they got strudel here. It's cucina (kitchen), Italian oh sounds Italian it must be Italian.

00:29:31 Dominique: So you like the bell the valley develop how much tip do you give? It's up to you it's up to your feelings.

00:29:43 John Daub: Yeah you can give a little bit of a tip but one of the things that I'm always uncertain of when I come to different countries is how much do you tip. You tip in Austria and Germany if you have 7.40 you round up you can also give only 50.

00:30:02 John Daub: All right wow I tipped five euro for lunch might have been it might have been a lot. Depends if you pay 100 she was really happy yeah she's really really happy with the tip she wished us a nice day and walked us out the restaurant so I figured it's you know yeah it's a season I guess. Afterwards I learned that I had over tipped but that's okay.

00:30:23 Dominique: You will get extra food yeah the obachan very exactly you will get always gives a little bit something. Yeah you will get extra food and you will probably have hugs and love like you'll never see before.

00:30:43 John Daub: I get the obachan I told them that the deer ate my paper you know what's the name the momiji (maple leaves) uh like the bakery stuff momiji I don't know. Yeah momiji yeah in Miyajima right I ate this and then the deer came and ate my paper and then some random obachan came and said hey you're kawaii and they gave me some candies or something. All right the live stream may have dropped out I saw this the viewers dropped from like to zero and now back to a hundred so um we I gave him I gave Dominique some change and we gave it to the nice lady um and she called him darling. And the same principle applies in Japan when you when you yeah so when you call somebody really cute or an old lady like kawaii or bijin (beautiful person) or something you'll get extra food and extra love and extra special attention. That's more important than the tip actually.

00:31:36 Dominique: But John do you taste the shot inside? I taste something stronger the shot inside has chili inside chili yeah that's why they call it fire chili rum chili rum that's why they call it fire.

00:31:48 John Daub: I taste something a little bit chili taste I also feel it on the tongue I feel in the back of my throat man yeah it's chili inside. So here's the glass it's the chili. Innsbruck is famous for skiing this is the Christmas glass. I like the white one is really pretty Innsbruck there you go I can't decide which color is the best I think the white one I think the white the blue one is nice too. They give you different colors it just depends on uh how do you think.

00:32:23 Dominique: The green one is not so nice.

00:32:27 John Daub: Green one isn't yeah the green one's okay. Kanae took the green one with the red inside yeah you could you could pay three euro as a deposit you can keep the glass right or give it back. Yeah it's very hot. Most people give it back but every now and then when Kanae's there she'll keep I think she's got like three glasses in her bag now it's getting heavy. That's enough it's enough enough for memory.

00:32:57 John Daub: What are what is the most famous German um now we're in Austria but at the Christmas market the most famous food what would that be Christmas market?

00:33:10 Dominique: I think that this is something I told my Japanese friends you know Japanese people always think like sausage is famous in Germany right but the Christmas market is the place where actually German people eat the sausage. This is something rare you know like if you go to Oktoberfest they take the half chicken half chicken with potato salad and the beer this is like Oktoberfest food. And but Japanese people also choose like a sausage but right this is like where people really take the sausage sausage and soup. So this is so the food is authentic this is what people eat there's no tourist food. Yeah what you see at the market is what everyone really eats everyone eats yeah sausage in a bread I love that yeah I think this is number one the bratwurst in all different kinds like fire yeah half meter one meter I saw that half a meter sausages and people had trouble holding them.

00:34:04 John Daub: But you know the great thing about the bratwurst is it's also part of American like the tailgate parties. This feels like a tailgate like you're at a football game and you're just tailgating you have similarities you know it's very similar. I have a friend in Dayton Ohio if he watches yo-yo yo-yo always shows me somewhere like if he goes to baseball games or football games. Yeah also he showed me like Thanksgiving we also don't have Thanksgiving he showed me something we have similarities especially in Dayton I think they also have Oktoberfest there. Yeah that region from Pennsylvania west Pennsylvania we have the um the Quakers the Amish there were a lot of people from Germany and in fact the the official language of America was almost German did you know. You know it and it lost by one vote there was so much hatred for the English after the war they had to vote on a national language and the Quakers were very strong in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia was the capital of America before it was Washington DC. They voted and according to history some history I'm not you guys can confirm they said that German lost as the national language by one vote which is crazy. So America we could be all speaking German one vote it's not crazy which is also like the language of the world it would have been. Yeah it would have been with Spanish Spanish maybe spread we all would have been yeah all America would have looked like this you know America would have looked like this. And again like in Innsbruck you want to look up more than look down maybe it's good that it doesn't look like this I don't know it's very colorful though it'd be pretty good pretty cool if it did.

00:35:54 John Daub: All right let's go around the tree here Dominique we'll take people around the other side and uh so I'm very thankful for all the information that you gave us about Christmas markets.

00:36:07 Dominique: I'm not Austrian but I think Austrian people feel me because I'm Bavarian. It's the Christmas spirit you don't have to be Austrian to come to the Christmas market and I said like servus (hello) or Grüß Gott (greetings) it's like hello in the Bavarian or Austrian. Yeah we speak same language the language of the wine the language of.

00:36:30 John Daub: You are everywhere in Germany everywhere in the world so if you can't get to central Europe for Christmas market I hope that this kind of brings a little bit of cheer and Christmas holiday spirit to you wherever you are in the world doesn't even matter which religion. Christmas is a time I think where we all just feel something good and it's about giving it's about sharing and that's the reason why we came back here because we just wanted to share not just through the videos but just share with each other even though Kanae's asleep she's kind of a co-host leader even though she's asleep. It's a good way for us to share and walk around and really take in the environment because it's just so friendly isn't it. It's a friendly time of the year Austrian people are really friendly I noticed that sometimes too friendly they talk like like this how you doing like they're a little bit sometimes some close speakers been slightly uncomfortable but in the most part you know as long as it smells like Glühwein I don't mind fire higher in our soul and then drink more drinks. Yeah so high five brother thank you again. I saw him on the train coming out here I'm so thankful that you made it all the way to Innsbruck uh this is this is the German guy who got me drunk in Munich to get him drunk I guess one may say it did like that I was not drunk it's maybe a little bit tipsy. Kanae may have helped me get home but it you know when you're at the Christmas market you want to feel the spirit and I guess it's nice to be drunk and you know that's kind of spirit and having one or two is a good idea but don't overdo it always pace yourself and don't drink too much right don't drink too much.

00:38:13 Dominique: Yeah it's always a problem but I think in Oktoberfest here's a little bit more chilly yeah not like Oktoberfest right overdo it there but here it's more like it's festival right it's very family-friendly I like that you know yeah you have a family it's a very family-friendly experience.

00:38:32 John Daub: So people aren't getting really sloppy drunk here they kind of just sip the wine and and it's only 200 milliliters for each one but I like that that's also important these are family events that you come out here. And I think if you did come with a family to Germany or to Austria to go around the Christmas markets I think it's really good I think it's really good yeah in the punch ginger punch right they have something for everybody they have non-alcohol punch and they have a lot of other things they have a lot of other things.

00:39:14 John Daub: You get what you want. Crude but works, crude but works. Thanks everybody we'll. You get what you want. That really is it. Tomorrow morning and then we're out of here the next day we're going back to Japan. You're going back to Augsburg yeah of course yeah in about one hour and I will see you in Japan or in Germany. When will I see you next in Japan or in Germany I don't know I start a new job so I have to cancel my flight in February so maybe maybe autumn autumn okay after the Olympics after the Olympics all right very good. Autumn is Oktoberfest yeah that's when you play the music. All right Dominique always a pleasure brother nice to see you nice to see you and we'll see you in Japan in a couple of days. Bye everybody the last 20 seconds we'll give you to the market. Innsbruck is awesome just kind of feel that that medieval charm of Christmas like you're in a different era and strangely at the same time you're not.