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 62: Morocco 1980
September 24th, 2019 | Season 3 | 24 mins 30 secs
iceland, ireland, morocco, spain, turkey, united kingdom
Remember that time Morocco competed at the Eurovision Song Contest? We don't since neither of us existed at the time. Let's learn about it together!
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Episode 61: It’s Rotterdam! Ahoy!
September 10th, 2019 | Season 3 | 32 mins 53 secs
israel, italy, netherlands, russia, spain
Happy Eurovision New Year! We're talking about Eurovision 2020's host country the Netherlands and the host city of Rotterdam.
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Episode 60: Hallelujah
August 27th, 2019 | Season 2 | 48 mins 32 secs
israel, luxembourg, monaco, netherlands, spain
With Tel Aviv about to pass the Eurovision hosting baton to Rotterdam or Maastricht, we watch the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest to see what has changed in the last 40 years.
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Episode 59: 12 Angry Points
August 13th, 2019 | Season 2 | 33 mins 53 secs
germany, iceland, netherlands, turkey, united kingdom
Nothing courts Eurovision controversy quite like the juries. We journey back to 1997 when the introduction of the televote made the juries A Thing.
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Episode 58: The Big 5 Gut Rehab (France and United Kingdom)
July 30th, 2019 | Season 2 | 47 mins 10 secs
france, netherlands, united kingdom
Helen Groothuis joins us as we finish our Eurovision gut rehab project with France and a United Kingdom intervention.
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Episode 57: The Big 5 Gut Rehab (Spain and Germany)
July 16th, 2019 | Season 2 | 36 mins 7 secs
germany, netherlands, spain
Our July renovations continue as we wander the Eurovision wilderness with Big 5 countries Spain and Germany.
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Episode 56: The Big 5 Gut Rehab (Italy)
July 2nd, 2019 | Season 2 | 27 mins 47 secs
italy, netherlands
We love a summer renovation project and the Eurovision Big 5 could use some work. Well, maybe not Italy...
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Episode 55: Visiting Songland
June 18th, 2019 | Season 2 | 22 mins 25 secs
netherlands
As Eurovision explores making the American Song Contest a thing, we watch NBC's new songwriting series Songland. Is the process telegenic?
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Episode 54: Madame X is Eurovision
June 4th, 2019 | Season 2 | 45 mins 7 secs
iceland, israel, italy, north macedonia, portugal
Maura Johnston joins us to discuss Madonna's Eurovision performance, Madame X, and how the Queen of Pop can navigate 2019.
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Episode 53: Satisfactory Winner
May 21st, 2019 | Season 2 | 52 mins 23 secs
israel, netherlands
André Durham from Eurovision Obsession joins us to discuss the Eurovision 2019 Grand Final and dig into the semi-final data.
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Episode 52: Eurovision 2019 Grand Final Preview
May 17th, 2019 | Season 2 | 49 mins
australia, france, iceland, italy, malta, netherlands, spain, switzerland
This is it. The Eurovision 2019 Semi-Finals are done and we know what 26 countries will compete in Saturday's Grand Final. We add our own wild speculation to the mix.
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Episode 51: Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final Predictions
May 12th, 2019 | Season 2 | 37 mins 46 secs
israel
Ben and Mike have done their rankings, mixed them with other data, and have made their picks for which songs will make it to the Grand Final.