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 87: AfriMusic, AI, and the Free European Song Contests
June 3rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 47 mins 32 secs
australia, cyprus, germany, italy, latvia, netherlands, sweden, turkey
The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest did not happen. We discuss three Eurovision-adjacent song contests that did happen in the first half of 2020.
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Episode 86: Shine a Light
May 19th, 2020 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
belarus, belgium, france, georgia, ireland, latvia, sweden, ukraine
The 2020 Eurovision Season comes to an end with Europe: Shine a Light. @dudepoints joins us to reminisce and set the record straight on the Riga Beaver.
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Episode 85: Eurovision Again
May 5th, 2020 | Season 3 | 52 mins 58 secs
australia, bulgaria, finland, germany, iceland, malta, russia, sweden, united kingdom
Eurovision Again impresario Rob Holley speaks with us about the Eurovision Twitter time machine extravaganza.
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Episode 84: What is Poptimism?
April 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 58 mins 58 secs
finland, ireland, netherlands, norway, spain, sweden, united kingdom
Music critic Ned Raggett joins us to discuss rockism, poptimism, and why Eurovision songs are worthy of critique.
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Announcement: Eurostream 2020
April 14th, 2020 | Season 3 | 3 mins 29 secs
netherlands
We are thrilled to announce that we have have partnered with several websites and outlets to work together on Eurostream 2020!
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Episode 83: Fanopticon
April 7th, 2020 | Season 3 | 45 mins 35 secs
australia, bulgaria, france, iceland, lithuania, norway, san marino, spain, united kingdom
Despite Eurovision's cancellation this year, the fandom is still fully engaged in the Contest. Eurovision Obsession's André Durham joins us to chat about how we're coping.
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Episode 82: The (Other) Ones That Got Away 2020 Edition
March 24th, 2020 | Season 3 | 38 mins 24 secs
albania, finland, latvia, lithuania, sweden, ukraine
We look back at the songs that missed out on being in the weird limbo space created after the cancellation of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Special Edition: Well…
March 18th, 2020 | Season 3 | 10 mins 19 secs
netherlands
No news is good news. This news is bad news. Eurovision 2020 has been canceled. Now what?
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Episode 81: WHY ARE WE YELLING?
March 17th, 2020 | Season 3 | 50 mins 33 secs
austria, azerbaijan, bulgaria, cyprus, ireland, malta, north macedonia, russia, san marino
We finish up our initial evaluations of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entries with the last nine songs to drop in March.
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Episode 80: This is Fine
March 10th, 2020 | Season 3 | 40 mins 12 secs
denmark, finland, georgia, israel, netherlands, portugal, sweden, switzerland
We made it through the end of Eurovision Selection Season! Well, the competitions in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Portugal, at least.
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Episode 79: Songageddon 2020
March 3rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
azerbaijan, belarus, croatia, estonia, germany, greece, iceland, moldova, romania, russia, serbia, united kingdom
Somehow we managed to be verbal after mainlining hours upon hours of Eurovision content this past weekend. It's Songageddon 2020!
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Episode 78: Remedial Dance Party
February 25th, 2020 | Season 3 | 38 mins 18 secs
belarus, croatia, estonia, germany, iceland, moldova, poland, portugal, romania, serbia, slovenia, sweden, ukraine, united kingdom
We're in the eye of the Eurovision Selection Season storm thanks to a light TV schedule this weekend. Time to practice the "I'm a Little Tempest in a Teapot" dance!