We go long this week to pore over all the shout
horns, crotchy synth chords and late-80s affluence of what Mike
Pace famously describes as Spago rock. Molly Lambert explains the
Spago-adjacent music she and her brother have dubbed “Glass Bricks
rock,” and the whole panel gets into what Wolfgang Puck and Spago
as fantasy and reality meant to pop culture from the 1980s onward.
Wynter and Karen kick off the show by processing the homosocial
episode of Dave, and explain why Apple TV’s
Physical is more than a glossy journey through 1980s
aerobics culture.
Nuo-lingo reminds us we’re in a pandemic, and we leave you with
a song in honor of the recently departed cultural critic, Lauren
Berlant.
About the Podcast
A Gen X-themed show with podcast veterans Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson (Pop Rocket). W2X revisits the pop culture & social issues that defined Generation X from a (queer) woman-of-color perspective in a way that sheds new light on the pop culture from both then, and now.