Episode 10: Hella Animated

Episode 10 of Hella Foggy goes animated. We talk about Pixar and the Bay Area’s down low reputation as an animation hotbed, the kind of regional oddity where world-shaping studios coexist with foggy hills, strange little subcultures, and people who casually know someone who worked on some iconic animated feature that changed the industry.Greg debuts a new microphone, purchased after a brutally honest comment from one of Wayne’s many cousins. Unfortunately, the microphone does not fully rise to the moment. Audio technology remains humbling.Wayne, meanwhile, spends a frankly heroic amount of time talking about Star Wars. More than warranted, probably. But that’s part of the charm.Elsewhere: Bay Area pride during the Winter Olympics, including Alysa Liu bringing a properly Hyphy energy to the proceedings. We drift through kelp forests, Wayne’s encounters with elite Uber-nerds, and a brief marine-biology sidebar asking the important question: are cephalopods actually the jerks of the sea?And, it cannot be stressed enough: a lot of Star Wars crap. Honestly, kind of a weird amount.