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.

Happy New Year, friendos. It’s the last Hella Foggy of the year. Granted, we’ve only been doing this for a month, but still.

This time around, Greg and Wayne dive into Bay Area Auld Lang Syne–adjacent territory, then drift into desk calendars, Y2K, cursive writing, the Twist, and the nutritional downsides of Irish coffee. We also seriously entertain the possibility of Wayne wearing a blonde wig at some point in the future.

Happy New Year / New Years / New Year’s to everyone. Let us know in the comments what you think the correct name for this holiday actually is. And please Follow us, if you’re so inclined.