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 during the contest off-season, using Eurovision as a lens to analyze what’s happening in pop culture and the world.

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Episodes

  • Episode 104: Où est la Discoteque?

    January 26th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  31 mins 45 secs
    cyprus, finland, france, israel, lithuania, north macedonia, norway, portugal

    Norway opts for a preliminary "Hero", Lithuania takes us to the "Discoteque", and France gets ready for you to decide their Eurovision entry.

  • Episode 103: Pabandom is When?

    January 19th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  29 mins 41 secs
    finland, france, israel, italy, lithuania, norway

    Lithuania's Pabandom is Naujo and Norway's Melodi Grand Prix have begun and we are optimistic about Eurovision Selection Season 2021.

  • Episode 102: Hoe is de Zorg?

    January 12th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  35 mins 11 secs
    finland, france, greece, israel, lithuania, netherlands, norway, sweden

    We have songs to talk about! Israel and Norway have Eurovision tracks in the wild while we consider the optics of putting on the Contest amid a pandemic.

  • Episode 101: Disco Toilet

    January 5th, 2021  |  Season 4  |  38 mins 3 secs
    albania, belarus, croatia, cyprus, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, lithuania, san marino, serbia, slovenia, spain, sweden, turkey

    From Albania's FiK selection to Senhit's latest disco cover to the results of ESC 250, we discuss a lot of Eurovision news from over the holidays.

  • Episode 100: Spotify Warped

    December 15th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  42 mins 59 secs
    albania, croatia, estonia, france, israel, italy, portugal, sweden

    We're celebrating 100 episodes and the end of 2020! After checking the news, we look at our Spotify Wrapped, ESC250 ballots, and our origin stories.

  • Episode 99: Merry FiKmas

    December 1st, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 3 mins
    albania, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, estonia, finland, france, lithuania, norway, sweden

    Eurovision season usually begins in December with Albania's Festivali i Këngës, sometimes known as FiKmas. We dig into FiK's history.

  • Episode 98: Let’s Talk Turkey

    November 17th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  50 mins 5 secs
    albania, belgium, estonia, germany, israel, türkiye

    Turkey was last at Eurovision in 2012. We take this opportunity to comb through its history and gobble up any information we can find.

  • Episode 97: Eurovision AV Club

    November 3rd, 2020  |  Season 4  |  51 mins 10 secs
    albania, austria, denmark, finland, france, iceland, israel, lithuania, netherlands, san marino

    We could all use a distraction during gestures at universe. Here are some picks for Eurovision-adjacent media from our AV club.

  • Episode 96: Take! It! Off!

    October 20th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 3 secs
    australia, belarus, iceland, italy, montenegro, norway, poland, portugal, united kingdom

    The Masked Singer has proven to be an international hit and a potential aftermarket for Eurovision alumni. Mike from Aussievision joins us to discuss the insanity.

  • Episode 95: Six on Stage

    October 6th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 2 mins
    austria, belarus, denmark, estonia, greece, ireland, israel, kazakhstan, moldova, portugal, russia, sweden, ukraine, united kingdom

    Will Howells has created a database called Six on Stage, cataloguing every performer on the Eurovision stage. We chat with him about the project and get caught up on the news.

  • Episode 94: Double Trouble

    September 15th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  29 mins 39 secs
    belgium, bulgaria, estonia, hungary, ireland, israel, italy, malta, moldova, north macedonia, norway, romania, russia, san marino, slovenia, sweden, switzerland, turkey

    Ben flies solo again with another audio essay, this time looking into performers who made double, triple, and even quadruple visits to the Eurovision stage.

  • Episode 93: Rotterdam, Ahoy! Take 2

    September 1st, 2020  |  Season 4  |  33 mins 57 secs
    australia, belgium, bulgaria, iceland, kazakhstan, kosovo, netherlands, norway, san marino, sweden, switzerland, ukraine, united states

    Rotterdam gets to take a mulligan on 2020 as we look ahead to how preparations for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest begin to take shape.