Hi @heyitsburnout,
I was able to replicate the issue on my end. This appears to be a bug in the code being used to generate the page titles on the search results page and the author archive pages.
I’ve gone ahead and opened up an issue in our Github issue tracker, so we can keep track of this bug and get it patched up. Feel free to follow along with the progress here: https://github.com/godaddy/wp-primer-theme/pull/225
Additionally, I’ve issued a pull request against the code base which resolves the bug that you have reported here. If you would like to review the changes that need to be made to get things working properly, feel free to review the pull request here: https://github.com/godaddy/wp-primer-theme/pull/225 / https://github.com/godaddy/wp-primer-theme/pull/225/files
We should be able to get this patched up in the next release.
Thank you for taking the time to report the issue!
Evan