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 77: Anarchy in the NRK
February 18th, 2020 | Season 3 | 53 mins 16 secs
armenia, belgium, france, iceland, lithuania, norway, poland, portugal, romania, slovenia, sweden, ukraine
The Eurovision 2020 songlist has hit double digits after this past weekend as we encounter internal selections and national final results.
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Episode 76: Sanremo LXX (Long, Xtra Xtra)
February 11th, 2020 | Season 3 | 52 mins 15 secs
andorra, australia, iceland, israel, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, norway, sweden, ukraine
Saturday proved to be a marathon as Australia, Latvia, and Italy chose their Eurovision entries and a whole bunch of other countries made progress.
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Episode 75: Austvia Superdecides
February 4th, 2020 | Season 3 | 55 mins 39 secs
australia, czech republic, greece, iceland, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, spain, sweden, ukraine
It's time to update your Eurovision Top 2 videos as Czech Republic makes their choice and Australia, Italy, and Latvia get ready to make theirs.
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Episode 74: Semi Final Allocation Czech In
January 28th, 2020 | Season 3 | 50 mins 31 secs
belarus, czech republic, denmark, finland, lithuania, moldova, norway, poland, spain, sweden
Czech Republic came to play, y'all. We do a deep dive on this year's Eurovision selection entries and check in with news across Europe as we wait for the semi final draw.
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Episode 73: Boys!
January 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 31 mins 27 secs
czech republic, denmark, finland, france, iceland, lithuania, moldova, north macedonia, norway, portugal
We have an avalanche of Eurovision news this week, including two new artist selections, a bunch of songs, and Billie Eilish?
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Episode 72: DRIP in a Box
January 14th, 2020 | Season 3 | 27 mins 4 secs
czech republic, iceland, latvia, lithuania, netherlands, norway, portugal, serbia, slovenia
Eurovision Selection Season 2020 begins in earnest with Norway's revamped Melodi Grand Prix and Lithuania's fashion makeover.
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Episode 71: Sticks Nix FiK Picks
January 7th, 2020 | Season 3 | 37 mins 43 secs
albania, australia, georgia, italy, lithuania, netherlands, north macedonia, norway, ukraine
We're barely a week into 2020 and we already have Eurovision drama up to our ears (HI ALBANIA!). We get caught up on the news from over the holidays in this episode.
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Episode 70: The Ones That Got Away 2010s Edition
December 31st, 2019 | Season 3 | 54 mins 48 secs
albania, azerbaijan, belarus, bulgaria, croatia, finland, hungary, latvia, lithuania, montenegro, north macedonia, portugal, romania, san marino, slovakia, slovenia
408 songs competed on the Eurovision stage this decade. 148 did not qualify for the Grand Final. From those, we picked 20 that still hold up.
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Episode 69: Ben’s Grand Eurofying Theory
December 24th, 2019 | Season 3 | 25 mins 9 secs
australia, azerbaijan, bulgaria, cyprus, italy, sweden
Ben flies solo this week after getting too caffeinated while prepping for the last Eurowhat of the year. He develops a theory about Eurovision in the last decade and makes an audio essay about it. It involves snacks.
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Episode 68: Eurovisie Songfestivus
December 17th, 2019 | Season 3 | 45 mins 24 secs
albania, austria, czech republic, iceland, netherlands, sweden
Tickets! Hosts! More selections! Eurovision 2020 is in full swing, but we look back at 2019 pop culture and make a 2020 wish list in this episode.
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Episode 67: Hungary for Turkey
December 3rd, 2019 | Season 3 | 34 mins 29 secs
australia, bulgaria, cyprus, estonia, france, hungary, russia, spain, sweden, türkiye
Hungary's reasons for withdrawing from Eurovision sound similar to Turkey's. What else do the two countries have in common?
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Episode 66: Iceland Airwaves
November 19th, 2019 | Season 3 | 46 mins 12 secs
australia, bulgaria, cyprus, czech republic, estonia, georgia, germany, iceland, slovenia
Our Senior Hatari Correspondent Ben traveled to Reykjavik to check in with the Iceland Airwaves festival and what's going on in the Icelandic music scene.