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.

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.