Todd Coats and Elliot Strunk, the creators behind the hit design and pop culture show Two Designers Walk Into a Bar, announced last week at the PodFest Expo Upfronts the release of their newest investigative true-crime series, Design Crimes: Comic Sans, Who’s Laughing Now?, set to drop on April 15, 2024.

For Boomers and Gen X viewers alike, Miami Vice blended the nighttime grit of the criminal underworld with the pastel-tinged sleekness of New Wave, all set to the beat of a Hollywood-ready soundtrack.

We remember the halcyon days of being old enough to have a few bucks in our pockets but not experienced enough to have been burned by a product that didn’t measure up to its billing.

Okay, so Warhol was using his work to recombine the familiar in new ways to make a statement and help us see something again for the first time. But he’s been gone since 1987. It’s been a minute. So who is our “Warhol" now? We propose three potential candidates.

We hope you’ve been enjoying our recent series about Andy Warhol. We’ve tried to bring to life a person plenty has been written about, talked about and filmed, while still being enigmatic to even close friends. So how was Warhol able to crack the code and begin making fine art that was also thematically accessible to the typical suburbanite?

In a recent episode, we talked about the movie The Man with the Golden Arm and its connection to the Beats. The production was fraught with controversy. Director Otto Preminger had to jump through hoops, and his challenges taught us a few lessons about how heavy restrictions can lead to a more adventurous outcome.

When digging into research for our episodes about The Beats, we came across a few pop culture threads that tie North Carolina to one of our favorite actors. Maybe you know him as Gilligan. Maybe as Maynard. Either way, you know Bob Denver.

In what is being heralded as a breakthrough in the twin fields of podcasting and artificial intelligence, Two Designers Walk Into a Bar has become the first podcast completely produced with no human intervention.

San Francisco is one of those places with different mythologies that hinge on who you’re talking to and the era you’re talking about. Elliot’s familiarity with the 415 was mostly through skateboard magazines and videos, but even a wide-eyed Buckeye could imagine there was waaaay more to see in this unique place.

As two pop culture junkies, we wanted to know how Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and the lot became who they became and, maybe more importantly, why they still have power to capture our (and very likely your) attention some eighty years later.