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.

It’s the special holiday episode of Hella Foggy! That time of year when it’s unusually easy to pick a theme for a podcast episode. Greg and Wayne dive into Bay Area holiday antics, and take an unreasonably long detour into topics like Kristi Yamaguchi, the Bay Area’s underwhelming version of the Hollywood sign, and the ecclesiastic politics of the Russian Orthodox Church.

We also reference a charming song by Vic Damone, Christmas in San Francisco (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhrH3AVsm2A), and Silver and Gold, as sung by Burl Ives in the Rankin/Bass classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrpLh7N67m0). We nearly sang Silver and Gold during the episode. Hopefully, that won’t get us sued.

Happy Holidays, everyone!