Mike McComb has been following the Eurovision Song Contest since 2010 and has covered the competition across a number of websites since 2011. While studying Television, Radio, and Film at Syracuse University, he fell down a video rabbit hole of Ukraine’s previous entries that radicalized him into Eurofandom. Mike first attended Eurovision in Kyiv 2017, which doubled as his honeymoon. He lives in Chicago and has an inscrutable online media algorithm.
Mike McComb has hosted 268 Episodes.
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Episode 98: Let’s Talk Turkey
November 17th, 2020 | Season 4 | 50 mins 5 secs
albania, belgium, estonia, germany, israel, türkiye
Turkey was last at Eurovision in 2012. We take this opportunity to comb through its history and gobble up any information we can find.
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Episode 97: Eurovision AV Club
November 3rd, 2020 | Season 4 | 51 mins 10 secs
albania, austria, denmark, finland, france, iceland, israel, lithuania, netherlands, san marino
We could all use a distraction during gestures at universe. Here are some picks for Eurovision-adjacent media from our AV club.
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Episode 96: Take! It! Off!
October 20th, 2020 | Season 4 | 46 mins 3 secs
australia, belarus, iceland, italy, montenegro, norway, poland, portugal, united kingdom
The Masked Singer has proven to be an international hit and a potential aftermarket for Eurovision alumni. Mike from Aussievision joins us to discuss the insanity.
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Episode 95: Six on Stage
October 6th, 2020 | Season 4 | 1 hr 2 mins
austria, belarus, denmark, estonia, greece, ireland, israel, kazakhstan, moldova, portugal, russia, sweden, ukraine, united kingdom
Will Howells has created a database called Six on Stage, cataloguing every performer on the Eurovision stage. We chat with him about the project and get caught up on the news.
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Episode 93: Rotterdam, Ahoy! Take 2
September 1st, 2020 | Season 4 | 33 mins 57 secs
australia, belgium, bulgaria, iceland, kazakhstan, kosovo, netherlands, norway, san marino, sweden, switzerland, ukraine, united states
Rotterdam gets to take a mulligan on 2020 as we look ahead to how preparations for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest begin to take shape.
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Episode 92: Americandom is Naujo!
August 18th, 2020 | Season 3 | 40 mins 28 secs
germany, iceland, lithuania, moldova, sweden, united states
We welcome Helen Groothuis back to the show to workshop how on earth the American Song Contest is supposed to work?
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Episode 91: A Brief History of the EBU
August 4th, 2020 | Season 3 | 49 mins 38 secs
belarus, belgium, france, germany, romania, russia, switzerland, ukraine, united kingdom
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) turns 70 this year! How did the EBU come into being? We dive into telecommunications history and evolution to find out.
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Episode 90: Wine Aunt Energy
July 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 51 mins 31 secs
albania, bulgaria, croatia, denmark, finland, france, germany, greece, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, moldova, san marino, slovenia, united kingdom
We open up our mailbag and a chilled bottle of pinot grigio as we get caught up on Eurovision news from the last month or so.
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Episode 89: 12 Points to Fire Saga?
July 3rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 47 mins 8 secs
belarus, bulgaria, finland, iceland, russia, spain, special guest, sweden, switzerland
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga arrived on Netflix last week and 12 Points from America joins us to discuss the music in Will Ferrell's new comedy.
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Episode 88: 12 Minutes in 2007 (Part 1)
June 16th, 2020 | Season 3 | 54 mins 37 secs
finland, poland, serbia, ukraine, united kingdom
Chris King joins us to chat about UK quiz and panel shows—including Pointless Eurovision—and the rock block of Serbia, Ukraine, and the UK from Eurovision 2007.
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Episode 87: AfriMusic, AI, and the Free European Song Contests
June 3rd, 2020 | Season 3 | 47 mins 32 secs
australia, cyprus, germany, italy, latvia, netherlands, sweden, turkey
The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest did not happen. We discuss three Eurovision-adjacent song contests that did happen in the first half of 2020.
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Episode 86: Shine a Light
May 19th, 2020 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
belarus, belgium, france, georgia, ireland, latvia, sweden, ukraine
The 2020 Eurovision Season comes to an end with Europe: Shine a Light. @dudepoints joins us to reminisce and set the record straight on the Riga Beaver.