Episode 8 of Hella Foggy is thick with Bay Area mythology. Greg and Wayne take a head-eyed, debunking walk through the stuff people get wrong about the Bay Area: wine and cheese culture, the omnipresent haze of pot, hippie residue, gothic baseball energy, burrito doctrine, and yes, snow. Call it a field guide to the regional misunderstandings we all inherit.

They detour through boba tea economics, the Little Man, a regrettable teenage incident involving a movie marquee, and a bleak family story featuring cod liver oil. Also, because tradition matters, there is more bread bowl discourse.

Like always, the episode drifts the way memory drifts. Local legends blur into half-facts, stupid opinions, personal folklore, all wrapped up in a pretty little bow of memory fog.

It’s a juicy one. Buckle in.

In Episode 7 of Hella Foggy, Greg and Wayne drift into the soft, slightly embarrassing pleasures of San Francisco tourism, both real and imagined. Along the way they encounter a mysterious time traveler named Biff, remember the late Doug McConnell, and try to make sense of the City’s wild parrots. There is bread bowl talk. There is the story of the day San Franciscans nearly broke the Golden Gate Bridge. There is Wayne’s disappointing brush with stage magic, and Greg’s reluctant admission that he loves a good tourist trap.

As usual, the episode wanders the way memory wanders, looping through local legends, half-remembered facts, and personal embarrassments, in search of whatever truth hides inside the kitsch.

Episode Six of Hella Foggy and our first one of the year. We ease back in by talking about things that definitely shaped the Bay Area and possibly us as people: video game arcades, roller skating, vomiting while roller skating, and the dark arts of three-card monte. From there we wander into everything we don’t know about the South Bay, address some audience complaints, and spend a surprising amount of time on Wayne’s cousin’s clearly superior BMX bike.

Programming notes: Greg’s audio is weird in this episode and we genuinely do not know why. Apologies in advance. Also, we’re moving to an every-other-week schedule because Wayne misses his family. Wayne is our heroic editor, and frankly this podcast does not exist without him. Yay Wayne.