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Hella Foggy is a San Francisco Bay Area podcast where Greg (East Bay) and Wayne (the Peninsula) talk through the culture, history, and everyday strangeness of the region they grew up in.
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- Jul 4, 2026
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Episode 23: Hella Shocking! (opens the original)
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Some stories you tell because you're proud of them. These are not those stories. This week, Wayne talks Greg into confessing two tales he'd otherwise take to the grave — one involving a pony, one involving Wayne's own wedding reception — and both come with an unmistakable whiff of something gone wrong. First up: Greg and a retired pony have a reckoning, which somehow opens onto carnie ethics, the real differences between ponies and horses, and what it means to finally make peace with an equine.
Episode 22: Hella Metropolitan (opens the original)
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With the sort of hubris that only two guys with microphones can muster, we spend an episode putting San Francisco on trial against many cities, foreign and domestic. Pretty presumptuous, we know. But first, a first: an actual guest. Monte, dot-com era veteran, joins Wayne from his porch in Breezy Point, Queens, to relitigate the strange, beer-soaked boomtown SF once was. Rugby, free dot-com beer, burritos as a food group, the tyranny of hills on a bicycle, the slow surrender to SF's chill, the c
Episode 21: Hella Overrated (opens the original)
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Wayne and Greg fire up the overrated/underrated machine and let the Bay Area have it — soccer, al fresco dining (Greg says nonsense, Wayne hedges), Angel Island and the immigrant experience, and Northern California's impossible summer weather (hot, cold, dusty, damp, all at once, somehow). There's a London mission burrito sighting, a detour into educational PSAs, and a loving stare at the brutalist bones of the Oakland Coliseum, plus the East Bay's odd Rolling Stones legacy and Candlestick Park'
Episode 20: Hella Music (opens the original)
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It's the big one — twenty episodes in, and Greg and Wayne finally take on Bay Area music, a topic so sprawling and so foundational to the region's identity that they were dreading it long before they hit record. The shadow this place casts on music is enormous, and this episode tries to walk through as much of it as two guys can manage in one sitting without getting dehydrated. What comes out the other side: New Jack Swing, a night at the club, a romantic gesture that may or may not earn marriag
Episode 19: Hella Visual (opens the original)
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The Bay Area is a place that has consistently, and somewhat quietly, punched above its weight as a center of visual culture. Not just tech aesthetics — but the longer, stranger history of a region that has produced an outsized number of visual thinkers and image-makers without always getting full credit for it. The episode opens with a question that turns out to be genuinely hard to answer: what exactly is Oski? The UC Berkeley bear mascot rewards scrutiny poorly — the closer you look, the less
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