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 50: The Mountaintop
May 7th, 2019 | Season 2 | 47 mins 57 secs
france, germany, israel, italy, spain, united kingdom
Dave Steeves joins us to discuss the Eurovision auto-qualifiers as we ask the eternal question "Could Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the host country advance if they had to compete?"
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Episode 49: Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final 2 Part 3: Johnny Bravo
April 30th, 2019 | Season 2 | 37 mins 41 secs
albania, azerbaijan, netherlands, north macedonia, norway, russia
We finish our Eurovision 2019 semi-finals coverage by talking about Russia, Albania, Norway, Netherlands, North Macedonia, and Azerbaijan.
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Episode 48: Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final 2 Part 2: These Are Six Songs
April 23rd, 2019 | Season 2 | 48 mins 31 secs
austria, croatia, denmark, lithuania, malta, sweden
The second semi-final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will include Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Croatia, Malta, and Lithuania. We can confirm these are songs.
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Episode 47: Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final 2 Part 1: Sorry, Country
April 16th, 2019 | Season 2 | 45 mins 32 secs
armenia, ireland, latvia, moldova, romania, switzerland
We start our exploration of the second semi-final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with special guest Lindsey Weber.
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Episode 46: Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final 1 Part 3: Extremely Online
April 9th, 2019 | Season 2 | 48 mins 31 secs
estonia, georgia, greece, iceland, portugal, san marino
With running order in hand, we finish covering Eurovision Semi Final 1, talking about Georgia, Iceland, Estonia, Portugal, Greece, and San Marino.
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Episode 45: Eurovision 2019 Semi-Final 1 Part 2: “Oof”
April 2nd, 2019 | Season 2 | 38 mins 17 secs
australia, belgium, poland, serbia, slovenia
We finish the first half of the first Eurovision semi-final discussing Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia. Then Australia and Belgium kick off our second half coverage.
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Episode 44: Let’s Discuss Eurovision 2019 Semi Final 1 Part 1
March 26th, 2019 | Season 2 | 51 mins 17 secs
belarus, cyprus, czech republic, finland, hungary, montenegro
We welcome Eurovision newbie Chris King to our first discussion about the first semi-final. This week's countries include Belarus, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, and Montenegro.
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Episode 43: The Ones That Got Away (2019)
March 19th, 2019 | Season 2 | 32 mins 13 secs
azerbaijan, croatia, czech republic, denmark, estonia, france, israel, romania
Another Eurovision Selection Season is behind us, but we are still holding out hope for a strong write-in campaign for six entries that didn't make the cut.
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Episode 42: Madness!
March 12th, 2019 | Season 2 | 42 mins 35 secs
armenia, austria, azerbaijan, belarus, cyprus, greece, ireland, israel, malta, netherlands, north macedonia, poland, russia, san marino, sweden, switzerland
The madness of Eurovision Selection Season has ended. With 16 songs to discuss, we change up the format to get into competition mode.
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Melodifestivalen 2019 Preview
March 8th, 2019 | Season 2 | 34 mins 29 secs
sweden
Sweden's Melodifestivalen — AKA Melfest — will wrap its 59th edition on Saturday. We go through the 12 entries competing to represent Sweden at Eurovision in Tel Aviv.
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Episode 41: Loose Ends
March 5th, 2019 | Season 2 | 32 mins 27 secs
belgium, finland, georgia, iceland, moldova, norway, portugal, serbia, ukraine
The loose ends of Eurovision national final season started wrapping up this past weekend, with seven songs selected, one country confirming withdrawal, and tickets... well...
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Episode 40: YIKES
February 26th, 2019 | Season 2 | 41 mins 22 secs
belgium, denmark, finland, france, georgia, germany, hungary, iceland, lithuania, moldova, north macedonia, norway, portugal, serbia, sweden, ukraine
Eurovision ticket prices? Yikes. Lithuania Marathon finale shenanigans? Yikes. Ukraine's Vidbir Inquisition? YIKES. It's been a week, y'all.