Episode 09: Hella Parabolic

Happy Lunar New Year. Episode 9 of Hella Foggy heads into San Francisco’s celebration of the holiday, starting with a long-ago comment from Greg that Wayne has preserved like a cultural artifact—and weaponized accordingly.

From Chinatown fireworks to quiet cemeteries in Colma, the City’s famously overpopulated necropolis suburb, we trace the strange overlaps of festivity and mortality that feel uniquely Bay Area. There’s more fog, naturally. There are dreary childhood memories of mandatory language school (Chinese for Wayne, Russian for Greg), and a detour into romance, obscure and slightly unhinged foot races, and the Golden Gate Bridge in all its engineered grandeur.

We also revisit a wayward humpback whale that once turned the Bay into a spectator sport. David Letterman drops in. Freemasonry surfaces. The thread loosens early and rarely tightens again. As always, we start with a plan. And as always, we don’t stick to it.