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I don't know. I'm not sure if this is it.
This is Beppo. Let's ask him where tradition's hiding here at the Oide Wiesn.
Beppo: Tradition's hidden within people. That's the best thing about the Oide Wiesn: people coming here wearing old -- really old -- Dirndls and speaking Bavarian dialect.
Maybe in 100 years people will say "Boy, those latex Dirndls -- that's tradition!"
Beppo: No! Latex Dirndls, that's a no-go! It's bad enough to see all those people with really bad taste out there, in their ugly pants and ugly Dirndls ... No, I don't like those!
Well, I'll focus on people then. So you're saying tradition's within people?
Beppo: Tradition's within people and when you've found it, you come back here and let me know.
Will do!
Here it is: Festzelt "Tradition". Let's go.
This is the Festzelt "Tradition" and I think I've found the right man to tell me what's tradition and where to find it. Grüß Gott, I'm Christian. And who are you?
Winklhofer: I'm Toni Winklhofer. I'm the landlord of the "Festzelt Tradition" and I'm a committed traditionalist. We cultivate tradition and ...
do things the old way. We got stone ware steins, wooden barrels and inside the Festzelt, there's a dance floor.
Beppo told me tradition's within people.
Winklhofer: That's true. Tradition is within people. We're just offering people an opportunity to live tradition. But of course, tradition is kept alive by people:
..by traditional costumes associations, by our guests who like it here and are looking for an Oktoberfest different from the regular one. So you're in the right place!
One last question: Is it possible that tradition can be found inside one of those steins?
Winklhofer: I'd say: Let's try and can taste it instead of just looking at it!
Let's do it!
Say -- why are you standing here at the emergency exit? -- Huh? -- Tradition's exit. -- That's the way out. -- He's not talking to me. He's already had one too many.
Just look at this!
Grüß Gott, I'm Christian.
Wasti: Servus, I'm Wasti.
Where are you from?
Wasti: I'm from Frasdorf, Aschau, near Chiemsee.
And there, you're still driving such museum pieces as this here?
Wasti: Yes, we do because they never stop working.
That's incredible! How old is this thing?
Wasti: It was built in 1930 in Mannheim.
Would you call this tradition?
Wasti: I'd call it a potentially addictive passion.
Potentially addictive passion.
Wasti: Exactly.
I'm a musician and it's just like that for me, too. When I'm playing traditional or old music, I realize how good that feels. I guess it's the same with this old tractor here.
Wasti: Yes, that's exactly it.
Great, so I'll let you drive home and I'll keep looking for more tradition.
Wasti: Okay.
Let me have that back -- your hands are really dirty. Look at this!
Let's see if Wasti's right and if it's really the musicians who are tradition. I think they are.
Wasti and Beppo told us that tradition's within people. You're musicians, so now I'm asking you: Where do you find tradition?
Female musician: I wouldn't look for it inside people because that might be a little gross. It isn't easy. But maybe if you listen to our music and dance to it -- maybe that's the way.
Are you playing traditional music?
Male musician: I think so. People say so.
When music's old, is it automatically traditional music or is traditional music special? Could a new piece of music be traditional music because it's played in a certain fashion?
Male musician: Maybe we're trying to continue tradition. Not only by following the old ways but also by looking for new ways and see what happens. And maybe, one day, there will be a new tradition.
That's how we started out this morning: Let's see if we can find it but so far, we haven't really found it. We've seen a lot of things but haven't found out, yet, who exactly tradition is.
It looks like everyone's got their own tradition: the tractor-driver his tractor, the landlord his wooden barrels and stone ware steins, Beppo his fish on a stick and musicians their music.
Look at those people dancing. I think tradition is everywhere but you can't spot it immediately. I don't know.