PodGis with Ava Val
Ava Val, a Canadian stand up comic, rants about today's topics, spins hilarious yarns, explores and shares her reflections of gender during her transition, and covers a wide variety of topics, all while injecting a little therapeutic optimism in there.
A podcast full of impressions, characters, ridiculous premises, non-sequitors, and wild, silly thoughts... but above all, it's a podcast full of heart.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 146
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
E087 - Guns and the Weather
Algis comes right out this episode by having a quick laugh about bowler Pete Weber's famous clip, but then takes a bit more of a serious tone in lieu of more gun violence news in America. She discuss…
E086 - Sometimes Maybe Good...
Hello there! Grab your bag (for the last grab-baggin' time?) and join Algis for a heavin' helpin' of PodGis!
She kicks off the episode talking about vocal feminization training, then recalls her favo…
E085 - Spoiler Alert!
Uh Oh! SPOILER ALERT! This episode is so fun so sorry if you weren't sure whether or not this PodGis would be fun! I SPOILED IT.
SPOILER ALERT Algis (AKA Al Val) starts out in a weird little mood but…
E084 - My Beautiful Inner Phaeses
Hello hello get your bag and away we gooooo
Val AKA ALGIS Kicks off the podcast in a dirty dirty way, commenting on her waterless predicament and how difficult a time she's been having lately combobu…
E083 - Cringe, Ahoy!
Ahoy there! It's time for Algis to get really BUSINESSGIS and give you the business! Because she's a BUSINESS GIRL!
Val kicks off this episode by ripping into a meandering riff about why old movies a…
E082 - How 'bout some TWINE!
Hello there and welcome welcome to another bangin' episode of PodGis! Featuring Al Val AKA ALGIS (cue cool DJ scratches)...
In this episode, Algis wastes no time gathering your bags and getting going…
E081 - Clanker of the Week
Hey you! Grab your bags and get in the car because we're going on a journey through an absolute HONK HONK silly billy time! Val opens right out the gate with an excitable intro to match her excitemen…
E080 - But We're Rangers!
In this icy cold week in the barren Canadian winterscape, Val cozies up with all kinds of subject matter, including:
Watching a comedy show that she is not booked on; the difficulty of posing for pho…
E079 - Level 99 Venus Dorka Sork M'Lorkus
Algis comes in fresh from a viewing of "The Last of Us" and comments on her emotional reaction from the third episode (don't worry, no spoilers!). Despite her emotionally charged state, she has a bla…
E078 - My Guest and Friend
Welcome to a VERY special episode of PodGis, indeed! For just the second time in the history of PodGis, Val invites a special guest to join her in the "studio" to hang out, chit-chat and have the sil…
E077 - GetTheFugguppOnOuttaHeaaaa
This episode has everything!
SILLIES: Val comes hot out the gate with funny bits about rappers.
OBSERVATIONS: About the growing trend of neurodivergent self-diagnosis, and the kids in class who had A…
E076 - F*#k Town
Welcome to F*#k Town, population ALGIS!
In this episode, Val talks a lot about Batman inside jokes and goes on a classic tangent, inventing a new Batman villain on the spot called "The Ostrich". She …
E075 Animal House
In this shorter episode, Val discusses being in the midst of a dog-sitting adventure and how challenging and revealing it has been for her. She also discusses "The Mole" on Netflix and how she comple…
E074 - Lumpy 4 Lyfe
Let's get LUMPY! What a lumpy lumpy start, as Algis acknowledges her egregious blunder of forgetting to edit in the theme song in the previous episode! It won't happen again? It won't happen again!
S…
E073 - About Three Denmarks
What a week Val (AKA Algis) has had! She spends most of this episode dissecting and discussing her experience with going viral on Instagram for a silly dance: the influx of hate and pettiness, the ad…
E072 - Not For Me
Welcome back! AGAIN! And again and again and again welcome back, because Val can't seem to nail down a regular weekly schedule! BUT she packs another episode with quality (with an extra 15 minutes of…
E071 - Barbara Said You Couldn't Do It
What a special one this one is! Algis comes hot out of the gate, Ellen-style singing and dancing in the snow! She goes on a tangent about song lyrics that only make sense to the writer. Then after bu…
E070 - Clank Those Thoughts Clean
Hello hi hello! Welcome to PodGis! Al Val's unofficially official podcast!
In this hairy scary episode, Val braves the growing fog outside her window and discusses the string of shows she'd recently …
E069 - Youyouyouyouyou
Let's start out by saying this first: in this episode of "PodGis", Val gets a ton of mileage out of a silly sounding stutter he accidentally exclaims. Otherwise, in this episode Val discusses voting …
E068 - "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Dog"
On the eve before her hairline surgery Val is brimming with exuberance, dancing lithely from topic to topic, streaming a thread of consciousness through a wide myriad of topics off the top: obsessing…