Welcome back and of course, "HAPPY NEW YEAR" from Algis herself LOL JK JK it's 2/2/2022 you dunderhead!

In this episode, Al Val pulls on some more complicated threads and explores some complicated multi-sided issues abound with different perspectives. Overall though expect such topics as: the doomsday clock on her computer; about being on the frontier of brand new material and taking the leap into material yet unexplored; brutally callous, outdated episodes of Maury Povich/Jerry Springer that made audiences determine whether the women onstage were "men or women"; arguing in the TikTok comments, and the idea of 'infringing' on someone else's freedoms; and her recent guilt-ridden encounter with an unsavory video game that wasn't what she expected it to be.

Hello there! Would you like a slice of PodGis? Well then, here it is!

After a brief catching-up with you, the listener, Algis discusses Tucker Carlson's weird fetish for M&M's and the trademark "Tucker Carlson Face", the weight of steel versus feathers, then back again to Tucker Carlson and co., then Algis talks about the inside-ball vocabulary in "Succession", the TikTok endorphin slot machine and other millenial social media complaints. See you next week!

In this fun, boundless episode of PodGis, Al Val kicks things off by 'trying something new' - as in, a video component (spoiler: it fails.)! BUT we'll work on that, I guess... After that interesting little experiment, Val goes on to talk about her rosacea; her history of adolescent acne and Accutane to get rid of it; her annoyance when people do a "gotcha" when they didn't actually get her; a couple stories about "Intention vs. Execution", which is a timelessly trademark Al Val struggle; and then ends things off with some rambling about religion and having a dry face.

Working on levelling up the content, I promise! See you on www.rushtix.com on January 22nd! (Don't forget to use promo code 'AL10'!)

Happy New Year, even though it's a 'new year' every day! Get it?? Algis does!

In this episode of PodGis, Al Val talks about being on the cusp of another lockdown in Ontario, tells all the scientists out there what to do about the aging process, talks about video games and the time she accidentally trolled someone in GTA5 Online, then proceeds to speak at length about Clint Eastwood in "Gran Turino", how racists think in general, and the time Clint Eastwood talked to a chair onstage at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

HAPPY NEW YEAR...GIS!

Al Val breaks in the new year with a podcast reflecting back on the year she's had and the profound personal growth she's experienced, declares her New Year's Resolutions (with the caveat that you can resolve at various other times of the year, of course), sends lots of smushy, mushy love out to you, her listeners (<3), then ends on a sequence about what she calls "Russian YouTube".

Sincerely, I want to thank you for joining me on this journey and for listening to my wild ranting and intimate oversharing. On to the next year and into the great unknown!

Happy holidays, y'all! Sorry for the late upload!

In this not-so-festive episode, Algis talks about weighing optimism and pessimism equally, her terribly sticky experience with Tide Pods, "Apollonian" vs. "Dionysian" artistic impulses, adapting as a standup comic, and comics who believe in "TRUE" comedy.

What a crazy "PodGis" we have in store for you today!! Algis comes out hot, fresh off enjoying a delicious panini, and briefly talks about having chapped lips before she launches into a crazy story about a colleague who threw a 'terminally ill goodbye party'... She then talks about acting in murder mystery dinner theatre shows, tells a brief 'epic bomb' tale, and then closes on a theory about "Horseshoe Movies".

What a story, Mark!

"I just got back from the Ontario Science Center, and boy are my arms science!"

-Al Val

In this episode of PodGis Val talks about her recent experience at the Ontario Science Center and her lifelong connection to David Attenborough; from then she explores a variety of topics such as people who believe that she's just "trans for stagetime", the science of Operant Conditioning as it applies to hopelessly romantic strangers on FaceBook, and the unfortunate amorality of pet ownership by the noisiest species on the planet.

Al Val is down as ever to have a hodgpodge, silly vanilly time this week! Al Val takes a short trip down memory lane, talking about album covers she'd designed for CD's she burned as a teen, a "letter from a fan" she received one time in university, domain names/capitalism and Martin Shkreli, one particularly personally resonant line from the movie "Hook", and finally a tale of putrid, comforting warmth on the subway.

Al Val is back from her tour in B.C. (the place, not the... measurement of time) and she's getting her SILLY on! Welcome, new fans!

Val rips right into this one, talking about the stresses of everyday living, poignant memories of Jeb Bush, some observations on TikTok and joke theft, a fond memory of the time a flight attendant tried reading the synopsis to a Russel Crowe movie, and a new world order as a result of line etiquette deviance.

See you soon! Muah!