Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix)
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Everyone has a party story. Host and creator Rebecca Auerbach’s involved in a run-in with rock icon David Lee Roth (you know, from Van Halen). At least, that's who he said he was. It’s Vancouver. 2005. Becca, a young actor who loves hard and parties harder gets her first big break at a Shakespeare Festival. She’s young, she’s having fun, party girls are FUNNNNN… Rehydrate, recuperate, recalibrate, repeat. But when her best friend goes on a date with the aging rocker, Becca is on a mission. To get a piece of the action. And maybe it's because she loves rock and roll, or maybe it's because she’s trying to fill a hole, but she holds onto that night. And it ultimately leads to her own reckoning. A harrowing and hilarious blend of memoir and auto-fiction, Discount Dave (and The Fix) is the true-ish story of a fake rockstar, a real trial and what it means to stop running, face yourself and fight to heal. Episode one of this series, "I Runneth with the Devil" is an Official Selection of the 2026 Tribeca Audio Festival.
---ABOUT PERSONALLY--
Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time. This is what it sounds like to be human.
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Recent Episodes
S10E2 Episode 2: Sweet Boyfriend
Two years before Becca gets duped by Discount Dave, she falls in love with Sweet Boyfriend. They are young and wild. Loving hard and partying harder until tragedy strikes. Becca finds herself in…
S10E1 Episode 1: I Runneth with the Devil
Becca, a hedonistic actor, spots a familiar face in a courtroom, and is hurled back to a cocaine fueled night 14 years earlier, when her best friend’s date with David Lee Roth took an unexpected…
S10 Introducing: Discount Dave (and the Fix)
Introducing an upcoming season of Personally, called Discount Dave (and the Fix). When David Lee Roth crashes the backstage party at a Shakespeare Festival, Becca — a hedonistic young actor, is set…
S9E9 Creation Myth: Life After Memoir
Avery Trufelman interviews Helena de Groot about the making of Creation Myth, and how it transformed some of the most important relationships in her life. Including special guests! Also Helena…
What If Closure Never Comes? | From A Slight Change of Plans
Helena joins Maya Shankar on her show, A Slight Change of Plans from Pushkin to talk about her story: what happened, how she questioned and re-questioned her decisions, and how she found peace within…
S9E8 Creation Myth, Episode 8: Yes
When Helena was still married to David, she lived through something she doesn’t often revisit—it was too big, too scary. But now she’s ready to talk about it with two friends who were there: Chris…
S9E7 Creation Myth, Episode 7: Orb of Calm
Four of Helena’s friends are pregnant. They’re spending more time with other mothers and mothers-to-be. Will there still be room for her? And while her friends experience the biggest transformation,…
S9E6 Creation Myth, Episode 6: The Nuclear Option
Since she can’t decide if she should get sterilized or not, Helena asks a stranger. A guy named Sam who doesn’t have any stake in her life. Sam regretted having his kid. He didn’t realize at the time…
S9E5 Creation Myth, Episode 5: All of it
Just like her grandmother, her great-grandmother, and her aunt, Helena gets depressed. She sits down with her mother Annika, to really talk about it. “It was as if your skin no longer fit,” her…
S9E4 Creation Myth, Episode 4: Freedom Form
With her sterilization scheduled, Helena sits down with her new lover to explain her decision. But the conversation leads in an unexpected direction. More confused than ever, she reaches out to…
S9E3 Creation Myth, Episode 3: Doors Do Close
After her abortion, Helena’s marriage is at a tipping point. David still wants kids, and she wants her tubes tied. In a moment of despair, a conversation with Ama the poet shifts Helena's…
S9E2 Creation Myth, Episode 2: Pregnant
Helena does not want kids. Her husband does. For years they’ve battled it out. Then, while he is on his way back from a surfing trip, she finds out she’s pregnant. What will she tell him? What should…
S9E1 Creation Myth, Episode 1: Nothing Complicated
Helena knows she doesn’t want kids. She’s sure of it. Almost. It was a constant topic of conversation with her friend Sigrid in her 20s. Sigrid would try to convince her, but having children was not…
S9 Introducing: Creation Myth
Introducing the new season of Personally, called Creation Myth. Helena does not want to have kids. Kid, child, baby - not for her. She’s just not parent material. So why is she obsessed with…
S8E8 Resurrection, Episode 8: San Francisco, 2022
The final chapter in our series on Daryl Allen. We end the story where it started.Email us at [email protected] creation of this podcast was made possible thanks to the financial support…
S8E7 Resurrection, Episode 7: Mustang Zero-One
We share Daryl's play with the world.The creation of this podcast was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseildes arts de Montréal, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec,…
S8E6 Resurrection, Episode 6: What Happened in Vietnam
This is the story of what happened in Vietnam.The creation of this podcast was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseildes arts de Montréal, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du…
S8E5 Resurrection, Episode 5: Janet
Janet's side of the story.The creation of this podcast was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseildes arts de Montréal, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the…
S8E4 Resurrection, Episode 4: Kansas (Part Two)
In the second part of our trip to Kansas, we go on a hunt for the Allen Family Farm.The creation of this podcast was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseildes arts de Montréal,…
S8E3 Resurrection, Episode 3: Kansas (Part One)
In this episode, we go to Kansas.The creation of this podcast was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseildes arts de Montréal, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and…
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