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 275 Episodes.
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Episode 105: AHHHHHHHH!
February 2nd, 2021 | Season 4 | 43 mins 2 secs
bulgaria, croatia, estonia, france, lithuania, norway, san marino, sweden
We try to keep calm as we discuss the live audience at France's Eurovision final, Sweden's Melfest "plan" and make our picks for Eesti Laul Semi 1.
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Episode 104: Où est la Discoteque?
January 26th, 2021 | Season 4 | 31 mins 45 secs
cyprus, finland, france, israel, lithuania, north macedonia, norway, portugal
Norway opts for a preliminary "Hero", Lithuania takes us to the "Discoteque", and France gets ready for you to decide their Eurovision entry.
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Episode 103: Pabandom is When?
January 19th, 2021 | Season 4 | 29 mins 41 secs
finland, france, israel, italy, lithuania, norway
Lithuania's Pabandom is Naujo and Norway's Melodi Grand Prix have begun and we are optimistic about Eurovision Selection Season 2021.
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Episode 102: Hoe is de Zorg?
January 12th, 2021 | Season 4 | 35 mins 11 secs
finland, france, greece, israel, lithuania, netherlands, norway, sweden
We have songs to talk about! Israel and Norway have Eurovision tracks in the wild while we consider the optics of putting on the Contest amid a pandemic.
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Episode 101: Disco Toilet
January 5th, 2021 | Season 4 | 38 mins 3 secs
albania, belarus, croatia, cyprus, iceland, ireland, israel, italy, lithuania, san marino, serbia, slovenia, spain, sweden, turkey
From Albania's FiK selection to Senhit's latest disco cover to the results of ESC 250, we discuss a lot of Eurovision news from over the holidays.
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Episode 100: Spotify Warped
December 15th, 2020 | Season 4 | 42 mins 59 secs
albania, croatia, estonia, france, israel, italy, portugal, sweden
We're celebrating 100 episodes and the end of 2020! After checking the news, we look at our Spotify Wrapped, ESC250 ballots, and our origin stories.
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Episode 99: Merry FiKmas
December 1st, 2020 | Season 4 | 1 hr 3 mins
albania, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, estonia, finland, france, lithuania, norway, sweden
Eurovision season usually begins in December with Albania's Festivali i Këngës, sometimes known as FiKmas. We dig into FiK's history.
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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.