5th Annual Norwegian Christmas Spectacular

Zero To Travel Podcast

Jason Moore

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Places & Travel

4.6 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

My wife, Anne-Dorthe, and I are together on the pod to share all about Christmas traditions in Norway and the United States. You'll hear what it's like to taste Julebrus for the first time, see who will win the theoretical battle between Santa Claus and Julenisse, discover the three main traditional dishes in different parts of Norway, get a special Norwegian treat from my wife, and so much more! Can you appreciate your traditions as if you were a traveler seeing and experiencing them for the first time? Have a wonderful Holiday wherever you are, my friend! *This is a previously released episode from the archives! Zero To Travel interviews are timeless, offering valuable insight whenever you listen. What are your Holiday traditions? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message. Resources: Subscribe to our FREE newsletter Thanks To Our Sponsors Planet Visionaries - Listen to the podcast on Apple and Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jason here. Quick announcement before we dive into this one. We did 10 years of Norwegian
0:07.6	Christmas Spectaculars. Retired the show a couple years ago, but every Christmas now I'm
0:13.9	bringing some back from the archives. And I wanted to bring this one back. It's our fifth annual
0:19.7	Norwegian Christmas spectacular.
0:21.9	We were about halfway through our 10-year run on Christmas specials.
0:26.4	And this was a fun one.
0:28.3	We had a theoretical battle between Santa Claus and the Norwegian Santa Claus called Yulnisa.
0:33.8	We talked about some of the traditional dishes in different parts of Norway.
0:38.5	You get to hear us on a literal one-horse open sleigh ride in the beginning. And this was a fun one. And these are
0:45.5	always fun for me to re-listen to as a bit of a time capsule for me personally, getting to hear
0:53.3	where I was out in life at that time and just, you know,
0:56.7	how things were.
0:57.4	So anyway, we always enjoy celebrating the holidays here in Norway.
1:01.0	And we wanted to share that with you in the form of a Christmas spectacular series.
1:06.1	And we did 10 of them if you want to dive in and enjoy some other ones.
1:10.0	If you find this to be a cozy thing to just kind of have on,
1:12.9	either listening or even in the background,
1:15.5	feel free to binge them and hang out with us.
1:18.6	But for now, for this holiday season,
1:20.6	we'll bring out from the archives the fifth annual Norwegian Christmas Spectacular.
1:24.8	I hope you enjoy it.
1:26.2	And thanks for listening.
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