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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.

comedy stand-up

All Episodes

01:23:28

E128 - How Come Fugg

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/05/08

Val is back from the Winnipeg Comedy Festival with stories and insights to share! But not before she takes a deep dive into the Kendrick Lamar versus Drake beef, Jerry Seinfeld's recent thoughts on "woke" showbiz, and some more character ideas including a sensual undercover cop and a football player with an unfortunate tick. She then goes on to discuss her performance and lessons from the Winnipeg Comedy Festival television taping, and ends with her favourite Kanye moment and a pitch

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01:24:09

E127 - Like Watching Jeans Dry

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/05/01

WE HAVE A NEW INSIDE JOKE WITH THE FANS ;)...Which Val introduces early, then goes on to discuss a myriad of topics including *more CharacterGis*; a miscommunication with a nail salon worker; a couple *big announcements*; trying not to reading the comments; being approved for gender affirming breast augmentation; *another rant* about the bystander effect, and fight/flight/freeze responses; *another rant* about closted admirers/chasers of trans women; her take on the first two episodes of

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01:42:46

E126 - Dubstep

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/04/17

Al Val is back from her comedy tour and bursting with stories to share!In this episode, Val combs over many details from her recent two-week tour through western Canada and deviates into some personal reflections regarding her good nature and exploitable naivete, the upsetting self-serving futility of saying "I told you so", being more comfortable singing and dancing post-transition, and taking the stage after being immmediately misgendered by the emcee. Heck, she even throws in a new

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00:31:24

E125 - I Wanna Be a Jeans Model

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/04/10

We're in for a "shorty" this week! This is just a little something to tide PodGis fans over while Val wraps up her Canadian tour.At any rate, she has a delightful little time talking about jeans models, the prejudices against Alberta that she is cautious not to overindulge, some schmuck's (accidentally transphobic?) terrible first impression, JK Rowling and the "just don't look" approach to battling transphobia, and she concludes with another classic timespeak

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01:22:19

E124 - A Funny Occurrence

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/04/03

It's been a week and still no word from the Huble Cremshaws out there. [Shrug] Guess I'll just have to keep talking to myself!In this delightfully plucky episode, Val discusses pranks and her relationship to pranking, being on breakfast television, a "Twitter sexy fart scam controversy", people who refuse to play along with fun social cues, finding a bag of old male clothes from her past, approaching her transition pragmatically and how that manifests a sort of impostor

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01:35:24

E123 - Swenty Seven Hops This Time

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/03/27

Hello to the Huble Cremshaws out there!!Val is in high spirits because of the happiest percussive clap! She then goes on to list the reasons why standup has ruined her social life, send an invitation/challenge to her listeners to prepare a VERY specific dinner party for her, "Step In Time" from Mary Poppins, "That Thing You Do", her borrowed Ninja Turltes 'graphic novel', doing standup in less than ideal circumstances and a neat trick to overcome ambient chatter, the

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01:24:18

E122 - I'll Be Home For Quizmoiss

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/03/20

In this episode Val discusses her bag of dreadlocks, the highs and lows of glow-in-the-dark nails, being selected to perform in the upcoming Winnipeg Comedy Festival, making podcast mistakes like a metaphorical Super Mario, the lack of a star system in Canada, more tax agony, a funny bit about a dad who didn't think about names for his newborn, having cracked lips, Dylan Mulvaney's "Days of Girlhood" music video and the ensuing discourse about 'what makes a woman',

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01:12:26

E121 - Glug Glug, B****!

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/03/13

HYDRATE, B****!After a quick apology for the (almost inevitable, at this point) mild tech issues, Val discusses 'selling out'; the iRestore helmet; a VERY positive potential happy ending to the snowboard theft caper(!); Facebook suggesting celebrities as friends; getting banned from the University Improv Troupe; a quick little commercial for water; some improv stories, and being worried she's lost her 'spark of insanity'; and she ends on a little love letter to her best

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01:13:01

E120 - Swingin' Like Bertuzzi

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/03/06

In this episode of PodGis, Val laments the recent lost of a priceless cherished personal item; the recent cancellation of Just For Laughs and the concept of bankruptcy protection; an applicable, practical theory on considerate and self-aware people in public; Todd Bertuzzi; the ubiquity of hacky pronoun jokes and "I identify as" jokes in the comedy community; people who abuse the word "woke"; her "Lady and the Tramp" viewing-style suggestion; and lastly, on her vocal

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01:32:44

E119 - Al Val: RADICALIZED!

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/02/28

Uh oh! Al Val's been RADICALIZED!!In this episode, Val explains in great detail the 4 'encounters' with life that she had that day that totally RADICALIZED her - and essentially by that we mean "grounded her in reality, thus making her a misanthropic adult". After that she briefly discusses getting misgendered by emcees during her intro at comedy shows, goofy pre-recorded show announcements at certain Canadian comedy club franchises, and finishes off with a wonderful story

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01:15:32

E118 - "Are You a Drag Queen?"

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/02/14

In this episode of PodGis, Val discusses NEW MERCH, finalizing her legal name and gender changes, an episode involving a botched people-pleasing impulse and her ensuing regret, a run-in at a burlesque show that all trans women would despise, an old crowdwork video, surgery-obsessed trans women who sew insecurities in others, and the origin story of Val's constant self-awareness. Is she a narcissist? If so, she's the BEST DAMN ONE AROUND

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01:11:08

E117 - Rubbin' Out My Cerebral Folds

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/02/08

Welcome to the J**z Factory! Val takes her enthusiasm and lets it rip for the full 70 minutes, covering a range of topics including: the mispronunciation of her podcast, her vocal feminization journey and her 'target pitch' strategy, boasting and wearing leggings, watching footage of herself and knowing what she's about to say, the villainization of TAYLOR SWIFT, Galen Weston, Jesus Day, Florida's anti-trans bills, and the most narcissistic boss she had ever worked for. See you

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01:44:04

E116 - Deplorably Unscrupulous

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2024/01/25

"PodGis with Al Val" Episode 116 - "Deplorably Unscrupulous"AvaGis is back once again! And this time it has all gone off WITHOUT A HITCH!In this comeback episode, Val packs a extra whippaload of bonus content, discussing the wild things that have kicked off 2024 like the guy who got stuck in the urn and the "Jew tunnel" in NYC. She then goes off to cover a wide range of topics such as "Palworld" and the decay of society's opinions of plagiarism; musical

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01:21:03

E115 - Joke is Life

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/12/01

Boy oh boy what a fun episode this one was! Val hops around happily from topic to topic once again, covering a variety of topics: receiving a pair of mittens from a fan; Eminem as a playable Fortnite character; the mental battle that is auditioning for commercials as a trans woman; speaking breathily and vocal feminization training; fans who inundate her inbox with memes; the offputting YouTube algorithm of her phone's previous owner; Sneako as a groomer; YouTube accounts that read their scripts

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01:21:54

E114 - May I Be Excused?

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/11/22

After a technical-difficulties-inspired self-imposed break from the pod, Val is back with wild rantings and ravings that range from silly to deeply self-reflective and somber. Val dives right in, and after explaining her little break she discusses annoying background and theatre actors, seeing her old self on television, a bittersweet exchange with a former suitor who saw her old onstage antics and how she feels about potential partners being exposed to previous 'stages' of her identity, and

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01:05:35

E113 - Pet Communicator

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/10/31

Coming atcha hot and spicy with another banger! Val has recovered from a difficult week and comes back with a vengeful pluckiness, covering a wealth of topics: remorseful retrospectives, neurodivergence, self-diagnosis, distrust against medical professionals, "pet communicators" and animal mediums, cold reading, online debates and "debate bros", improvising onstage, people who are VERY proudly themselves, Smart car horns, and dog poop pranks.

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00:41:13

E112 - BlobfishGis

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/10/25

Sure, saving the pandas, seals, and koalas is a fine cause, but WHY won't someone THINK of the BLOBFISH???? What about the uggo animals?? Why won't someone spare a thought?! One can only shake one's head at this cruel, cruel world. In this episode, Val talks about her schedule, about the arctic tundra as an inferior biome, her experience at the Arctic Comedy Festival, a little bit about her Vancouver tour (Including a story about a lady who didn't know how to use a paper towel

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00:57:13

E111 - Hungus Bungus

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/10/17

Al Val goes under the Al Val hood once again - before she removes most of the hair atop - to speak loosely and precisely on a wide range of topics, from comedians who laugh at their own jokes, to the Arctic, to the cloud, to posting before and after transition photos, her appearance on an old episode of "League of Skanks", and being followed on s*ssy p*rn accounts on Twitter.

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00:59:16

E110 - How Long is Your Tongue?

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/10/10

Rantasaurus Rex over here! LOL! In this episode, Val goes on long tangents spanning FOUR WHOLE TOPICS, ranging from the timeless medical act of "clounching", her guilt complex when it comes to rejecting men online, her boiling eternal hatred for "Cards Against Humanity"-type games, and saying "can you imagine?" immediately after saying something rude.

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01:31:18

E109 - "You Signed Up For This"

PodGis with Ava Val ·

2023/10/03

In this episode, Val brings back (and shuts down??) "Which One's Bigger?" and goes on to discuss having the algorithm perpetuate trolls on an old TikTok video; the excuses people make for being abusive jerks online; performing for JFL; breast augmentation surgery and endocrinologist gatekeeping; Eddie Izzard; and "Neil from the Matrix" and back-door/reverse gender euphoria. Sorry for the gaps between episodes! Thank you for tuning in!

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