About the show

The Eurowhat? Podcast launched in 2018 and features two Americans (Ben Smith and Mike McComb) attempting to make sense of the Eurovision Song Contest. The show tracks national selections and artist announcements, breaks down each year’s songs with a diverse array of guests, and dives into the 65+ years of contest history using Eurovision as a lens to analyze what’s happening in pop culture and the world.

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Episodes

  • Episode 260: Stragglers

    March 18th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  28 mins 38 secs
    cyprus, france, georgia, israel, switzerland, united kingdom

    We reach the end of Eurovision Selection Season 2025 and share our first impressions of the internal selections from Israel, Switzerland, Cyprus, Georgia, and France.

  • Episode 259: Choose Chaos

    March 11th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  38 mins 24 secs
    austria, czechia, malta, portugal, san marino, sweden, switzerland, united kingdom

    After addressing some KANTroversy, we discuss the Eurovision selections from Austria, United Kingdom, Sweden, San Marino, and Portugal.

  • Episode 258: LUMO

    March 4th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  45 mins 54 secs
    australia, croatia, denmark, germany, netherlands, portugal, san marino, serbia, sweden, switzerland

    We get a mix of Eurovision internal selections and national finals this week from Australia, Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Denmark, and Croatia. We also meet a new mascot/nemesis.

  • Episode 257: Disco Sauna

    February 25th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  35 mins 29 secs
    azerbaijan, estonia, germany, iceland, italy, portugal, san marino, sweden, switzerland

    Azerbaijan and Iceland have their Eurovision songs selected, Germany picked their finalists, Sweden and Portugal held heats, and San Marino is doing... something.

  • Episode 256: Ren Faire

    February 18th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  46 mins 15 secs
    armenia, estonia, germany, iceland, italy, lithuania, norway, poland, portugal, sweden, switzerland

    We mark the halfway point of Eurovision Selection Season with the third Super Saturday in a row.

  • Episode 255: ('Singing')

    February 11th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  50 mins 55 secs
    armenia, azerbaijan, czechia, denmark, estonia, finland, germany, iceland, ireland, latvia, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, sweden, switzerland, ukraine

    It's the biggest weekend of Eurovision 2025 so far with Ireland, Ukraine, Finland, Latvia, and Malta making picks while several other countries' processes continued. Do-re-mi-fa-serving exhausted, but we shall persevere!

  • Episode 254: Super

    February 4th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  49 mins 13 secs
    austria, azerbaijan, belgium, czechia, denmark, finland, france, greece, iceland, ireland, latvia, lithuania, malta, san marino, slovenia, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine

    Eurovision started to get structure this week thanks to the semi-final allocation draw, the first wave of ticket sales, and selections from Greece, Slovenia, Belgium, and Spain. Sweden kicked off Melfest, Lithuania got competitive, and Latvia picked finalists. This was the easy Super Saturday...

  • Episode 253: Vox Lux

    January 28th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  30 mins 44 secs
    austria, belgium, croatia, finland, greece, ireland, israel, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, moldova, norway, portugal, serbia, slovenia, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine

    Luxembourg selected their Eurovision representative at the end of a surprisingly busy week. Moldova has withdrawn, several countries released potential songs, and Finland's UMK faces a significant shakeup.

  • Episode 252: Process

    January 21st, 2025  |  Season 8  |  22 mins 13 secs
    belgium, iceland, ireland, lithuania, luxembourg, moldova, norway, poland, portugal, serbia, slovenia, switzerland, ukraine

    It's another hopping Eurovision 2025 setup week with another wave of potential songs, information about Basel, the ESC hosts, ticket sales, plus auditions and previews from Moldova and Belgium.

  • Episode 251: Wading

    January 14th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  24 mins 8 secs
    belgium, croatia, finland, greece, iceland, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, switzerland

    We ease into the waters of the Eurovision TV season, thanks to the first heat of Lithuania's Eurovizija.LT. We also check in on the candidate song drops for the processes happening in Finland, Malta, Croatia, and Greece.

  • Episode 250: Loaded with Energy

    January 7th, 2025  |  Season 8  |  44 mins 15 secs
    albania, estonia, finland, iceland, ireland, lithuania, moldova, netherlands, san marino, spain, sweden, switzerland, ukraine

    Before 2025 gets into full swing, we catch up on Eurovision news from the end of 2024. We have designs! We have fonts! We have an entry where we're not not saying Tirana 2026! Plus, we go deep on the results from the ESC 250 Countdown.

  • Episode 249: Pew Pew Pew

    December 30th, 2024  |  Season 8  |  59 mins 34 secs
    austria, belgium, croatia, cyprus, denmark, estonia, finland, france, germany, iceland, ireland, israel, latvia, malta, netherlands, north macedonia, norway, romania, russia, spain, sweden, switzerland, turkey, united kingdom

    As we head into 2025, we jump back 25 years to watch the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest. How has the competition, fashion, and pop music changed in the last quarter-century(!)?