Time for a real "Open Concept" podcast! In this episode of PodGis, Val excitedly shares her new housing arrangement; debriefs about her experience writing for "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" and how it all started with her feet somehow; the mental anguish or trying to look sexy and the 22 Minute afterparty; an awkward and baffling encounter at a public bathroom that Val CANNOT get out of her head; minimizing your life; her current struggling of "turning off the funny" in sexy situations; and finally, Val tries her best to tackle the news story regarding the trans high school teacher who showed up to her classroom with gratuitous, cartoonishly large prosthetic breasts.

Stay cool and open concept, and never, ever apologize for loving marble.

CONFIDENCE!!! We're talking confidence today!!!

In this PodGis episode, Val may be tired but she PULLS THROUGH for a nice little chitchat about writing political satire versus standup, a little crash comedy lesson, the time she was compared to Woody Harrelson in bed, being told to 'be more confident', a segment called "PeeveGis" about a specific confidence-related pet peeve, and lastly she discusses religious thought-shaming, having a penile tumescence, and the importance of second thought.

Always remember: GET CONFIDENT, BITCH!

Uh oh oh boy! It's time for another "PodGis Excluuu"! Val kicks this one off being hella annoying (just trying to get those followers down, baby!), then discusses the origins of 'EXCLU'; the rise and fall of the generation-defining Cheese Factory rap group; and  explores when things are wheat versus when they are chaff. Val then issues a definitely not apology for her emotional outburst in the previous episode; tells an "Am I the Asshole" segment; marvels at "chasers"; then ends on some inward observations regarding her psyche during the writing progress in her new sketch writing job.

Val records this podcast the day after attending a wedding as a plus one, and tells some silly anecdotes, reflects on the wonderful time she had, and then digs into some intimate details on what she sees (or rather, doesn't see) in her love life's future; she then closes on a reading of some of Dr. Seuss' finest quotes and what they mean to her.

Warning: Val gets pretty emotional in this one. It's got funny up front, and then a whole bunch of sappy thereafter. If you love vulnerability then this is the episode for you!

Val got sick with Covid! Oh nooo!!! But the worst of it is behind her, and so our plucky podcast heroine forges onward providing insights and giggles. In this especially enthusiastic episode, Val digs in and gets to the bottom of a number of topics, including: having hair extensions and YOLO'ing the extension experience; when people suggest movies and TV Shows; a brief thought exercise involving "Go Fund Me" campaign honesty; AIDS jokes; weddings and silly unspoken dress code rules; "Cutco" knives; "misgendering in one's head. Val then has some... choice words... about "The Bachelor/Bachelorette" TV shows, and finishes with some thoughts on the Netflix series "Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist". See you next week!

Sorry for the delay! Val is back and very excited to regale you with tales of her experience performing at the Jo Koy Gala in Montreal for the prestigious Just For Laughs festival! She walks you through the good and the bad - from the beginning of her trip, managing a massive wave of hatred from a silly impression, to SLAYING the Gala and feeling like she's really and truly arrived.

In this silly, upbeat episode, Val introduces a new sponsor: Krogus! She also discusses how she thinks she would fare in prison, and her desire to 'get hard'; about her experience seeing "Rage Against the Machine and walking around town looking like a head-turning rocker chick; the ways that people stare at her on the street; getting harassed; her explanation for being 'the hardest working comedian in Toronto'; and Imperial Pub's mouse/rat problem. See you next week, when Val has some tales of Just For Laughs!!

Algis sets the record straight about the previous episode's misinformation regarding coffee, before she covers a variety of topics at a distracted clip, contemplating whether she has ADD or if she's just a distractable millenial with bad habits; discussing a video that she had to watch in order to feel like a nice person and more broadly, the things that people send her without context; the symbolism around communion wafers in the Catholic church; dealing with strangers online who get uppity and feel entitled to her time and energy; people who ask "when will you be onstage?"; and a mistake in her 'sensual' YouTube music playlist...

Algis comes right out of the gate fully honest about the case of the 'Sads' that she's got going on today, but she turns the GODDAMN BUS AROUND and has a lovely time!

In this episode she talks about supporting her podcast through natural disasters, suddenly loving a new colour, seeing morbid content on Reddit by accident, her incredibly delicious guacamole, her favourite instagram account (@francis_bourgeois43), the time she yelled "it's fine!" at a racoon, a terrifying little tale about a centipede, some complaints about her printer, "The Boys" TV show, and then reflections on coffee and Val's relationship with it.

In this fine-as-wine episode, Algis kicks off the episode by describing her new 'studio setup', then exercising her 'expertise' by speaking absolute nonsense about Bitcoin. After that she talks about the pain of facial laser hair removal, the irrelevance of Freudian Psychology and sitting on a carrot when you're four years old, having sex to odd music, overplucking her nose, and a story about tracking down a bottle of leave-in conditioner.