Eurovision Song Contest 2021, Italian Victory and Geo-Blocking
The 2021 Eurovision Song Contest concluded in Rotterdam with the Italian rock band Måneskin winning the competition. The event, funded by government public broadcasting systems through the European Broadcasting Union, featured 37 participating countries including non-European members like Israel and Australia. NBC's Peacock streaming service acquired the U.S. broadcast rights, geo-blocking other feeds and removing the traditional humorous commentary, leading to plans for an independent fan-commentary stream next year.
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00:00 Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Sunday May 23rd 2021 this is your award winning Kibo Nation media assassination episode 1349 This is no agenda Celebrating Europe and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin Texas capital of the drone star state In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley we're flying saucers or unidentified. I'm John C DeVore.
00:43 your birthday. The Eurovision Song Contest finals were last night, yes and the winner in a crazy horse race finish between Switzerland and France at the very last moment Italy won with a throwback band from the 70s with leather bell-bottom pants and everything Manon Skinn with Zitti e Buone Just like you hear a little bit of how much ass they were kicking on stage Anyway, so they won but holy is he like a bad ZZ top
01:29 So I watched the whole show and there was a number of things. I need to talk about because this is of course is a New World Order globalist program Remember it as the Eurovision Song Contest And here's the style I had to ask bunch of questions that know nothing about this so let me ask you some questions Exactly we don't do this every year, I love it Eurovision yes, then were euro yes correct? Yes Now does that mean it's in the eurozone referring to the currency? Well John, this is very interesting because Europe as everyone is addressing at last night Europe includes Israel Azerbaijan Includes Malta Maybe Malta. Yeah you can see that too But it's always Israel is always the strange one Azerbaijan like come on
02:22 Australia. Oh, wait I think i'm figuring it out So this refers to countries that use the euro in some trading sense. Maybe they trade it or they know exchange euros for shekels No, this goes back to gosh It must be 60 years now the European Broadcasting Union which you could join as a non-european member so it's it's a club and they share some satellite resources a lot of it is basically countries that have a public broadcast system. So these shows are produced with government money
03:00 Oh, these? I thought this was a commercial enterprise. No! This is all government money. So this is like PBS doing a music festival... Yes with the pledge drive and the tote bag All in the Red River Valley or something and John Kesh would be the host so here's how it works um I think they had 37 countries that all entered and they go through their national, it's a whole thing. Every country goes to their national awards and then the winner of that goes to the finals. Now wait I still have more questions this happens every four years? No its every year! Like the Olympics or maybe the World Cup every four years they do this? No its every year Well what is the point?! What you mean what's the point
03:47 Aren't these sorts of events supposed to be every four years? It's a big deal. When we have the Olympics every year or the World Cup every year, it doesn't make sense." Well I can't help you with that! We're all very happy with the yearly occurrence and... Now okay so the way they do the voting is you have professional judges in each country and so then of course what constitutes in the public broadcasting sense of the word professional judge. Typically a musician who had a big hit in the 60s or 70s maybe in the 80's who now sits on the board of some performing rights organization? Yeah what is it, what makes that I want to ask you this serious question this part... What makes that person a professional judge
04:40 I have no answer for you. I'm just telling you what it is of course that person is not a this It's all subjective won't they call something else then just like judge Well, that's a good question them judge. I think it's to make it look more important however That has changed in the past five years and the way it works as you give out points one through eight and then there's a ten point and at twelve point And for, and God knows why this is but it's historic. So there's no seven I think there's no seven there's no nine but there's a 10 and 12 and the big thing is that twelve points who which country do we give our twelve points to?
05:22 And this obviously in the past was very political. You'd see East Bloc countries giving stuff to their neighbors and then giving zero to Russia, the Dutch always giving the Belgian some, the Belgians giving the Dutch, the French not giving the Belgians any you know that kind of stuff so now they changed it So now that's only half of the score and now the audience can call in and vote or vote on that Eurovision app And their score is 50% of the final score. This sort of a gimmick is what ended up getting Bodie McBoatface, the winner of the contest in England to name a new ship! That's why this show is so fantastic everything about it is wrong now
06:17 It was produced in Rotterdam. So the Netherlands won two years ago, of course they had to skip a year and I was obviously favorite to host the show this year but they went in a different direction and they chose four hosts... Hold on back off! Mm-hmm so you were did I recall something about you hosting this show? Yeah I'm perfect for it. I speak Dutch, I speak English, I am handsome, I have Tourette's. I mean I'm all in for these European events Yeah. Blinkin' my eyes, twitching my head... You'd wear a dress if they told you to do that? If they asked me too no problem. But they chose hosts who could sing and I was very proud of them. You can sing?! Yeah! And I could have accompanied myself on the theremin. I mean, I understand why they lost out.
07:07 So it was Edzilla and Chantal and Jan, and then this new girl who I guess came from Instagram or something. Now the show itself... The Dark Star! The production a 10, an absolute 10. Whatever money this cost it was all on the screen it was slick they had fantastic graphics package the sound was great of course is usually its only the singers not that the bands aren't playing themselves what was Taylor Swift there? No there were no celebrities in the past they brought Madonna on and done shit like that which no one cared about and the first ten songs
07:49 I thought were pretty darn good. All of them had a hook, you know in one form or the other it wasn't your typical kind of bubblegummy shitty pop euro trash song some of them were later on it got a little worse but in general I was quite impressed with that but here is the problem In The United Kingdom they've only...I think the last time they won was Brotherhood Of Man Kisses For Me in 1976 and Ireland has won since then, I think Scotland has won. And the UK is famous for not winning and it's such a joke in the UK that for many years... Now the way this is produced by the way, It kind of like uh..it is international event so there's no voice over during the transition between the acts they have a cool little trailer showing who's coming up next what country they're from and all the correspondents do their voice overs for TV shows back home
08:45 this radio 2 DJ named Terry Wogan and later was became Sir Terry Wogan he started to drink and do the commentary for the BBC. And it became a cult thing, and he would just be ragging on it with his dry humor...and Britain would always lose because they you know they just they always sent something that sucked And he passed away and then Graham Norton took over, and he did a fantastic job. If you recall a few years back there was some streaming outfit on Pluto TV or whatever that had like four gay guys doing commentary for the US! It was fantastic! There can't be exactly what you need to do with this type of broadcast Well that's no more
09:31 Because Peacock bought the rights, they geo-blocked everything. The YouTube feed... every feed you could find from this thing was geo-blocked and you could only get it on Peacock And they just aired it without any commentary! They completely screwed the pooch! They lost an incredible opportunity to be... To get themselves on the map with something that people would talk about It would be funny They ruined it Well, it's like a shaggy dog story you just told me. Well I'm not quite done yet! Oh no...
10:09 So next year, the Keeper and I are going to do the voiceover since Peacock will not provide it. And we will synchronize that on Noah's End stream. You'll be geo-blocked! No what do you mean? I can watch it on Peacock and we could just talk about it on Noah's End stream. And people in Gitmo Nation can listen to our commentary Okay, I'm all...I'm in on that now. Now.. I don't want to be IN ON IT, I mean. I want you to DO THAT. I think it'd be great. Oh yeah. Okay so here's here's the... Here gets sued. Here's the kicker That's the kicker. I just told you the kicker fine going oh, I'm so worried about doing something fun I can prove it if Leo can provide commentary on Apple unboxing we can do this for people Oh interesting point Thank You Won't take legal advice from you
