Another great video, thank you. Your chat with Alesia was a joy to watch. Congrats on your awards, they are so deserved. Really looking forward to the 2025 season. It's not the right time now, but at some stage i would love you to go back to previous decades, 50s onwards, exploring and exposing the political dramas of the time. It feels like it's never been done before on TH-cam. I'm an older viewer, watched my first contest back in 1969 and seriously, I've watched European history unfold in front of my eyes - dictatorships fall, the iron curtain and the awareness of diversity across a very divided continent. There is so much content here that is never discussed. Please, Eurovision did NOT start in 2000
Thank you!! And that's a great idea-- we definitely want to incorporate something like that into Season 2. It's easy to get so caught up in recent events that you forget the richness of the history of the contest and how relevant it is to today. Hopefully we'll have more to announce on that front soon :-)
@@euroversepodcast Thank you for the thumbs up. ESC pre-2000 is just SO ignored in the reactor world, yet it is incredibly important to understand how the contest has impacted on European socio-political history and events. You touched on the Portugal coup earlier, that is just one example. As a British kid growing up in the 60s 70s I watched Europe evolve in front of my eyes. As a gay man I watched the approval and rejection of content that showed a reflection of myself on screen, and how ESC, early 80s, was the route to find a chosen family for that "gay christmas" celebration that gay viewers always talk about. This needs discusion!
@@euroversepodcast An interview with Paul Oskar would be epic . ERSC's first openly gay contestant. I recall when he performed, Terry Wogan - the UK commentator said prior to his performance something along the lines of "Eurovision will never be the same again"
Just a slight correction about the Portuguese revolution: It wasn't completely bloodless. 4 people were killed while protesting outside the PIDE headquarters (censorship and political police) after the main coup was sucessful. Someone from inside the building shot at the people protesting outside. Now, the Revolution (25 de Abril) is often referred to as bloodless because the transition of power didn't involve death, but the families of these people still complain about that notion (rightfully so)
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Another great video, thank you. Your chat with Alesia was a joy to watch. Congrats on your awards, they are so deserved. Really looking forward to the 2025 season. It's not the right time now, but at some stage i would love you to go back to previous decades, 50s onwards, exploring and exposing the political dramas of the time. It feels like it's never been done before on TH-cam. I'm an older viewer, watched my first contest back in 1969 and seriously, I've watched European history unfold in front of my eyes - dictatorships fall, the iron curtain and the awareness of diversity across a very divided continent. There is so much content here that is never discussed. Please, Eurovision did NOT start in 2000
Thank you!! And that's a great idea-- we definitely want to incorporate something like that into Season 2. It's easy to get so caught up in recent events that you forget the richness of the history of the contest and how relevant it is to today. Hopefully we'll have more to announce on that front soon :-)
@@euroversepodcast Thank you for the thumbs up. ESC pre-2000 is just SO ignored in the reactor world, yet it is incredibly important to understand how the contest has impacted on European socio-political history and events. You touched on the Portugal coup earlier, that is just one example. As a British kid growing up in the 60s 70s I watched Europe evolve in front of my eyes. As a gay man I watched the approval and rejection of content that showed a reflection of myself on screen, and how ESC, early 80s, was the route to find a chosen family for that "gay christmas" celebration that gay viewers always talk about. This needs discusion!
@@euroversepodcast An interview with Paul Oskar would be epic . ERSC's first openly gay contestant. I recall when he performed, Terry Wogan - the UK commentator said prior to his performance something along the lines of "Eurovision will never be the same again"
Just a slight correction about the Portuguese revolution: It wasn't completely bloodless. 4 people were killed while protesting outside the PIDE headquarters (censorship and political police) after the main coup was sucessful. Someone from inside the building shot at the people protesting outside.
Now, the Revolution (25 de Abril) is often referred to as bloodless because the transition of power didn't involve death, but the families of these people still complain about that notion (rightfully so)
Thank you for the correction! Misspoke and did not intend to downplay the deaths of the protesters. Thanks for listening! - Charlie