Remember the Sony Sports Walkman? (with Mike Kinsella of American Football)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Bayers welcome Mike Kinsella of American Football to the podcast! We talk about Mike eating deep dish as a little kid growing up in the Chicago suburbs, playing shows with Cap'n Jazz as a teenager and owning the most controversial baseball card of the 80s. We also get some exclusive stories from friend of the podcast and fellow American Football member (and Mike's cousin), Nate Kinsella! For our topic we discuss the Sony Sports Walkman, something Mike would listen to during long road trips next to his older brother Tim, in the backseat of the car. From the autoreverse to the heavy-duty yellow casing, this machine truly had it all. We also discuss our first cassettes and debate if the Beach Boys song "Kokomo" benefited from studio trickery that has never been exposed until this episode. (Kokomogate?) Finally we play around of CHANGE DOT DORK where we debate the merits of an American Football-themed mural in Champaign-Urbana, the return of Hershey's Dunkers and should the residents of Mike's hometown of Buffalo Grove be allowed to own backyard hens? You'll have to listen to find out. In the meantime you can catch American Football on tour and pick up their new album, LP4, now.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:10.9	Who never meant to have such a great guest on today's podcast.
0:14.2	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird.
0:33.0	Yeah. So Vanessa, we normally have a story up front where we tell.
0:33.3	Yeah.
0:34.9	Yeah, we sure do.
0:55.0	Normally we discussed it in advance and we just didn't this week. So, yeah, have you had it? You recently did a show at Largo? A little peek behind the scenes. Behind the scenes. Yeah, you certainly did a show with Jenny Lewis and Kyle Mooney. Yes. How did that go? It was great. I guess we didn't have to, I guess the audience would have never known.
0:55.5	They would have never known. They wouldn't have a story.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:57.4	Yeah, it went great.
1:00.2	We had such a fun time and Kyle Mooney performed as Kyle M., his alter ego, and great having
1:07.4	Jenny, you know, they, Kyle opened for Riloh Kiley over the summer and I was
1:12.5	out of town and I didn't get to see it. So I kind of got to recreate that. Nice. At Largo and it was so much fun. Yeah, they were both so fantastic. I'm so happy they did it. And thank you to everyone who came out. Yeah, any more gigs coming up, you think? Still figuring out. I got another Largo show this month.
1:30.0	What's a date?
1:30.8	You should just say the day. coming up, you think? Still figuring out? Yeah, I'm, I got another Largo show this month.
1:29.4	Okay. What's a date? You should just say the date? May 21st. Yeah. So, so get your tickets
1:35.1	fast. Yeah. Get your tickets fast. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks so much, Jonah. You're welcome. Well, yeah,
1:40.7	let's get into today's guest. We're so excited, singer-songwriter, best known as vocalist, guitarist of the band
1:46.4	American Football, whose fourth album just came out.
1:49.8	You may also know from his work in Owen, Captain Jazz, Joan of Arc.
1:54.2	Let's welcome our old friend Mike Kinsella.
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