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  • I went to a job interview at a financial services company as a young man. There was no interview, just a sales pitch and I was asked to provide the contact info and career (income estimates) of ten people before I could be hired. I think they were selling mortgage refinancing or something. I just got up and left.

  • Italian had a great presence this year, with their own good song (#5), the unexpectedly fun San Marino (#26) entry, and the fake Italian song from Estonia (#3). I hear Italians were pretty pleased!

    I had expected Sweden (#4) or Finland (#11) to win, but my favorites were Albania (#8) and Latvia (#13).

    Austria performed really well and I knew the jury would love it, but I only really rooted for him toward the end of voting because the alternative was infuriating.

  • Watching the national finals starts to feel like work. This year there were, I think, three Super Saturdays with several multi-hour shows to watch. Oof.

    Benidorm Fest from Spain is usually good. San Remo (Italy) is great, of course, since they're the template on which the ESC was based and because the Italians view THAT as the real show. Ukraine's Vidbir is interesting because you can tell they have no budget and are often bombed during the show. Portugal's Festival de Cançâo has some amazing songs, because they don't care about winning ESC, they're just focused on highlighting the best Portuguese acts.

    I have some favorites from 2025 that didn't make it out of the national finals - From Ukraine I loved Future Culture's Waste my Time Vidbir Live - Music Video . From Finland I'm still listening to Goldielocks's Made Of UMK Live - Music Video . Germany sent the wrong song again, they should have gone with Feuerschwanz's Knight Club is super fun. NDR live - Music video .

    I found the Eurovangelists podcast, and they're a lot of fun to follow along with. Taking in too much media ABOUT the contest can color your enjoyment of the songs, though.

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