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 90: Wine Aunt Energy
July 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 51 mins 31 secs
albania, bulgaria, croatia, denmark, finland, france, germany, greece, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, moldova, san marino, slovenia, united kingdom
We open up our mailbag and a chilled bottle of pinot grigio as we get caught up on Eurovision news from the last month or so.
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Episode 89: 12 Points to Fire Saga?
July 3rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 47 mins 8 secs
belarus, bulgaria, finland, iceland, russia, spain, special guest, sweden, switzerland
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga arrived on Netflix last week and 12 Points from America joins us to discuss the music in Will Ferrell's new comedy.
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I Am Confusion (Part 2)
June 23rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 36 mins 4 secs
finland, serbia, ukraine, united kingdom
We try our 12 Minutes from 2007 on a complete newbie to Eurovision. What does our guest Justin Ladia think of the festivities from Finland?
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Episode 88: 12 Minutes in 2007 (Part 1)
June 16th, 2020 | Season 3 | 54 mins 37 secs
finland, poland, serbia, ukraine, united kingdom
Chris King joins us to chat about UK quiz and panel shows—including Pointless Eurovision—and the rock block of Serbia, Ukraine, and the UK from Eurovision 2007.
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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?