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 75: Austvia Superdecides
February 4th, 2020 | Season 3 | 55 mins 39 secs
australia, czech republic, greece, iceland, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, norway, poland, spain, sweden, ukraine
It's time to update your Eurovision Top 2 videos as Czech Republic makes their choice and Australia, Italy, and Latvia get ready to make theirs.
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Episode 74: Semi Final Allocation Czech In
January 28th, 2020 | Season 3 | 50 mins 31 secs
belarus, czech republic, denmark, finland, lithuania, moldova, norway, poland, spain, sweden
Czech Republic came to play, y'all. We do a deep dive on this year's Eurovision selection entries and check in with news across Europe as we wait for the semi final draw.
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Episode 73: Boys!
January 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 31 mins 27 secs
czech republic, denmark, finland, france, iceland, lithuania, moldova, north macedonia, norway, portugal
We have an avalanche of Eurovision news this week, including two new artist selections, a bunch of songs, and Billie Eilish?
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Episode 72: DRIP in a Box
January 14th, 2020 | Season 3 | 27 mins 4 secs
czech republic, iceland, latvia, lithuania, netherlands, norway, portugal, serbia, slovenia
Eurovision Selection Season 2020 begins in earnest with Norway's revamped Melodi Grand Prix and Lithuania's fashion makeover.
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Episode 71: Sticks Nix FiK Picks
January 7th, 2020 | Season 3 | 37 mins 43 secs
albania, australia, georgia, italy, lithuania, netherlands, north macedonia, norway, ukraine
We're barely a week into 2020 and we already have Eurovision drama up to our ears (HI ALBANIA!). We get caught up on the news from over the holidays in this episode.
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Episode 70: The Ones That Got Away 2010s Edition
December 31st, 2019 | Season 3 | 54 mins 48 secs
albania, azerbaijan, belarus, bulgaria, croatia, finland, hungary, latvia, lithuania, montenegro, north macedonia, portugal, romania, san marino, slovakia, slovenia
408 songs competed on the Eurovision stage this decade. 148 did not qualify for the Grand Final. From those, we picked 20 that still hold up.
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Episode 68: Eurovisie Songfestivus
December 17th, 2019 | Season 3 | 45 mins 24 secs
albania, austria, czech republic, iceland, netherlands, sweden
Tickets! Hosts! More selections! Eurovision 2020 is in full swing, but we look back at 2019 pop culture and make a 2020 wish list in this episode.
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Episode 67: Hungary for Turkey
December 3rd, 2019 | Season 3 | 34 mins 29 secs
australia, bulgaria, cyprus, estonia, france, hungary, russia, spain, sweden, türkiye
Hungary's reasons for withdrawing from Eurovision sound similar to Turkey's. What else do the two countries have in common?
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Episode 66: Iceland Airwaves
November 19th, 2019 | Season 3 | 46 mins 12 secs
australia, bulgaria, cyprus, czech republic, estonia, georgia, germany, iceland, slovenia
Our Senior Hatari Correspondent Ben traveled to Reykjavik to check in with the Iceland Airwaves festival and what's going on in the Icelandic music scene.
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Episode 65: Lebanon-starter
November 5th, 2019 | Season 3 | 39 mins 19 secs
bulgaria, hungary, lebanon, moldova, netherlands
Lebanon was supposed to debut at Eurovision 2005. We examine the unexpected ways international relations impact the Song Contest.
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Episode 64: Win Win Win Win
October 22nd, 2019 | Season 3 | 32 mins 12 secs
france, georgia, germany, hungary, iceland, italy, malta, netherlands, spain, united kingdom
We jump back 50 years to that time Eurovision had a four-way tie for first place... and no way to break it.
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Episode 63: Flags on the Play
October 8th, 2019 | Season 3 | 50 mins 50 secs
armenia, belgium, iceland, israel, russia, spain, united kingdom
Who knew that flags—symbols of national identity—could have political implications at the Eurovision Song Contest? Drink!