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
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Episode 146: Україна
March 1st, 2022 | Season 5 | 33 mins 27 secs
australia, finland, france, germany, iceland, italy, netherlands, romania, russia, serbia, sweden, ukraine
We stand with Ukraine.
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Episode 145: Quante voci? In questa economia?
February 22nd, 2022 | Season 5 | 40 mins 51 secs
australia, azerbaijan, croatia, finland, iceland, italy, malta, norway, poland, san marino, slovenia, sweden, ukraine
In the biggest Saturday for Eurovision 2022 selection season, 6 songs were chosen for Turin. We travel to Norway, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, San Marino, and Malta and examine a variety of TV formats along the way.
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Episode 144: HyperRoop
February 15th, 2022 | Season 5 | 38 mins 54 secs
austria, croatia, estonia, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, romania, slovenia, sweden, ukraine
It was another busy week for Eurovision as Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia made their picks for Turin. We get caught up and look ahead to the next Super Saturday in this week's episode.
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Episode 143: Oops! All Screens!
February 8th, 2022 | Season 5 | 43 mins 11 secs
croatia, denmark, estonia, germany, ireland, israel, italy, latvia, lithuania, north macedonia, norway, romania, san marino, serbia, sweden, ukraine
North Macedonia, Ireland, Israel, and Italy have determined their songs for Turin, and that was only about 1/3 of Eurovision Super Saturday number 1 for the 2022 season. We recap this weekend's non-stop content stream.
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Episode 142: Convoluted
February 1st, 2022 | Season 5 | 28 mins 30 secs
estonia, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, latvia, lithuania, moldova, north macedonia, norway, slovenia, spain, sweden
Moldova made a surprise internal selection and Spain made its Eurovision selection at last week's Benidorm Festival. We discuss these songs and look ahead to the first Super Saturday of 2022!
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Episode 141: Sound of Beauty
January 25th, 2022 | Season 5 | 22 mins 33 secs
italy, lithuania, norway, slovenia, spain
Ben returns with his thoughts about Lithuania's Pabandom is Naujo, Norway's 2022 process, Maneskin's appearance on Saturday Night Live, and a look ahead to EMA and Benidorm.
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Episode 140: Pivot
January 18th, 2022 | Season 5 | 21 mins 49 secs
finland, iceland, italy, malta, norway, poland, portugal, sweden
Dave Steeves returns to the program to discuss Norway's Melodi Grand Prix, a casual approach to Eurovision Selection Season, and the pivoting that is happening in response to the pandemic.
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Episode 139: Hunker Down
January 11th, 2022 | Season 5 | 17 mins 32 secs
finland, italy, latvia, lithuania, montenegro, norway, poland, romania
This week we meet Montenegro's entrant, travel to Lithuania for Pabandom is Naujo, check out the Eurovision menus in Romania and Latvia (ooo, salad), and see how famous Maneskin's birthdays are.
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Episode 138: Unprecedented
January 4th, 2022 | Season 5 | 25 mins 3 secs
albania, italy, lithuania, montenegro, norway, spain, sweden
It's full steam ahead to Eurovision 2022, with Albania making its (correct?) choice, a wild ESC 250 countdown, and looking forward to selection season series starting Saturday.
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Episode 137: Class of 2021
December 21st, 2021 | Season 5 | 33 mins 5 secs
albania, australia, czech republic, greece, italy, lithuania, netherlands, spain
The Czech Republic has made their selection, a number of processes have released more details, and we check in with the Eurovision Class of 2021.
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Episode 136: Eurovision 101
December 7th, 2021 | Season 5 | 36 mins 40 secs
albania, bulgaria, czech republic, estonia, italy, norway, san marino, slovenia, sweden
With a lot of new folks discovering Eurovision over the past year and selection season 2022 underway, we put together a tutorial to answer the question: How does Eurovision work?
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Episode 135: Nul Points
November 23rd, 2021 | Season 5 | 44 mins 50 secs
albania, austria, czech republic, estonia, georgia, iceland, norway, spain, turkey, united kingdom
The dreaded Nul Points visited Rotterdam at Eurovision this year. We take a look at the sordid history of the dubious distinction.