Your favorite EuroDaddies, Cesco and Anthony, are back to help brighten up that gloomy part of the year between Christmas and the New Year with a new episode! It’ll give you something to listen to while you recover from food comas or shop the post-holiday sales. You’re welcome, kiddos. They chat about some of their favorite watches over the past few weeks, including Mask (the Cher one), Hannah Waddingham’s Christmas special, The Sapphires, the new Godzilla film, and May December before diving into this week’s topic, which is the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. They discuss their relationship with the mini-me of ESC before going through their top 3 faves this year. Before they run off to drop their New Year’s balls, they add songs to the ESC Etc. ESC (now including JESC!) and Etc. Playlists. See y’all in 2024!

As the fog rolls out on Samhain, Anthony and Cesco are back to bring some Eurovision shenanigans to your spoopy season. They catch up on what they’ve been up to since we last met and extol the cozy virtues of autumnal vibes. They then talk about their hopes for six upcoming national finals, with an emphasis on the Nordic region because, well... duh. Have you met them? What are these countries doing right? What could they improve? What can we all do to make this Eurovision season a better, more loving place? Then they add a few tracks to the ESC Etc. playlists before they fly off into the night on their broomsticks. Happy Halloween, boos and ghouls!

The boys chat about the massively underrated Drag Race Sverige (aka Sweden), the messy brilliance of Ted Lasso season 3 and the flawlessness of Hannah Waddingham, and how they might just be too old to properly appreciate Heartbreaker.  Then, like the cumsluts for Swedish pop they are, they dive headfirst into the wonderful, wild, wacky world of Melodifestivalen. They take a look at the yearly Swedish music festival that ultimately chooses who will represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest. They delight in everything from the divas on parade to the accents that sound vaguely like Kermit the Frog to the incredible music to the way the Swedish crowd flops their balloons around. That’s not a euphemism. Then Cesco chooses five Mello songs he considers to be important. Not the best or his favorites, necessarily, but five songs that have had an impact on the contest. Get your maypoles ready, folks! Midsommer may be over, but things are starting to heat up round these parts. And before we’re all overtaken by schlager fever, Cesco and Anthony add songs to the ESC Etc. playlists. Consider this your MelFest 101, ladies, gays, and theys!

Cesco and Anthony visit August: Osage County in late July (where they discuss how the stage version is far better than the movie) and then Barbieland (neither of them has seen the film yet, but hoo boy do they have hella gay opinions about Miss Barbara). They do not, however, make a stopover in Oppenheimer-ville. Life’s too short. Then they dive into the first ever cancelled contest from 2020 that was lost to the shmandemic. What was it like not having the Gay Olympics to look forward to that year? Which songs from national finals did they root for before it was all snatched away and which competitors were their favorites? What content did they fill the infinite existential void with? And, most importantly, who would have won if the contest had happened? Using incredibly scientific methodology, they determine who would have been the (unofficial) official winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with help from listeners who sent in their top tens! Their ESC Etc. playlists expand and they say goodbye feeling confident in the fact that they solved one of the greatest Eurovision what-ifs of all time! Huzzah!

Cesco and Anthony welcome Tom Zohar, noted twitterer and Anthony’s hubby, to the pod to discuss the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. First they chat about their favorite things of the week including the documentary Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed and The Horror of Delores Roach. Then they dive in, gushing over Iceland, praising all things Rachel McAdams, giving Will Ferrell some severe audio side-eye, and discussing the high highs and low lows of the film that got millions of Eurofans through a bleak year without the Contest. Finally, some real bangers are added to the ESC Etc. ESC & Etcetera playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. Do they play Ja Ja Ding Dong? You’ll have to listen and find out!

The boys discuss the deep lesbian love of Hitchcock’s Rebecca and the giallo insanity of Wan’s Malignant. Then they get controversial by sharing their top 5 should-have-been-Eurovision-winners. Who would they give that crystal microphone to? Why would they snatch it away from the real winners? What do they think gives them the right to play Eurogod?!? Then they add two of their picks to their ESC Etc. ESC playlist and two songs featuring queer icons to their ESC Etc. Etc. playlist as they bid adieu to 2023’s exceptionally odd Pride Month.

Cesco and Anthony discuss some recent reality TV favorites. Spoiler alert: Sweden is involved. Then they put on their big boy pants and wade into a fiery pit of hot takes as they count down their top 5 (very subjective) Eurovision winners of all time. Spoiler alert: Sweden is involved. But, knowing them, are you honestly surprised? They then add to their curated ESC Etc. playlists. And with that, off-season is officially underway!

The boys welcome their first guest to the pod! Our fabulous friend Liliana was lucky enough to attend the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool live and in person, so she agreed to join us to chat about it. We spill some tea about what it was like to be there on the ground and kiki about our feelings on the 2023 show. Lastly, we add to our ever expanding, and hella good, ESC. Etc. playlists!

The boys get ambitious and discuss all 37 songs from Eurovision 2023! From San Marino to Sweden, they discuss each country’s entry and how it performed at this year’s ESC. Then they add their biggest growers of the season to the ESC Etc ESC playlist and another song to the ESC Etc. Etc. playlist. There will be laughter. There will be tears. Will they survive to see off-season? You’ll have to listen to find out!

Cesco and Anthony drop an extra episode this week as a thank you to everyone who has spent part of their Eurovision 2023 with them. They reveal their personal favorite top 10s of the season and express their undying gratitude! Happy Eurovision week!