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!

In our third episode of Hella Foggy, Greg and Wayne wander through films and TV shows set in the Bay Area, drift into a few stories about local serial killers, and spend an unreasonable amount of time on the Phantom Diner saga, including the part where his real identity finally comes to light. From there it’s Mrs. Doubtfire memories, odd run-ins with George Lucas, and some of the secrets tucked inside the Fairmont Hotel. Ice motorcycle races come up for reasons neither of us can fully explain, as do martinis and a baseball legend’s surprisingly lousy house. The conversation meanders the way these things tend to, following whatever thread catches our attention at the moment.

In our second episode of Hella Foggy, Greg and Wayne dig into the wonders of the It’s-It and try to reverse-engineer whatever went into Diana’s Meat Pie to make it both gross and unforgettably good. From there we tumble into the conceptual futility of those old TV commercial sign-offs promising “Top of the Hill, Daly City,” in a city made of hills, none of them especially definitive. Along the way, we wander through Creature Features, Ultraman, Bay Area Backroads, and whatever else surfaces. The episode moves the way memory does, tracing odd threads and local legends as we overclock our tired memory banks.