2026-07-13
33 分钟You're listening to 20,000 Perks, the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
I'm Dallas Taylor.
A while back, I sat down with Grace East, our producer here at DeFacto Sound,
and Andrew Anderson, our resident European producer.
Andrew grew up in England and loved sound and music from a very young age.
For grad school, he moved to the US, specifically Indiana.
There, he worked in public radio, even hosting a local segment of All Things Considered.
Then, back in the UK, he was the editor-in-chief of an arts magazine, which is how I met him.
Eventually, with his wife, he moved to Bulgaria.
Where he opened a local bookshop
and became the lead singer in a post-punk band that was even featured on Bulgaria's Got Talent.
But the purpose of this meeting was for Andrew to try and teach us bumbling Americans about something
that we just can't grasp, but that millions of people across the pond are obsessed with.
And that's Eurovision.
So, Andrew, you have been trying to convince the 20,000 Hertz team that we should care about Eurovision.
Is that right?
Well, for me, it's just one of those things that is so present growing up.
Now, as a European person that lived in America for a while,
I kind of have some experience with some of those things.
Like I wasn't really aware growing up about what the Super Bowl was or the huge impact of it.