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 Winnipeg doing a one-woman show but she’s just surviving. Eventually, isolation drives her to escape. She seeks solace from her parents, and they send her to see “The Plant Lady”. Hear all episodes of Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix) now, early and ad-free, on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/channel/cbc-stories/id6443681642" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CBC Stories Premium on Apple Podcasts</a>.

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 Winnipeg doing a one-woman show but she’s just surviving. Eventually, isolation drives her to escape. She seeks solace from her parents, and they send her to see “The Plant Lady”. Hear all episodes of Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix) now, early and ad-free, on CBC Stories Premium on Apple Podcasts.

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 Winnipeg doing a one-woman show but she’s just surviving. Eventually, isolation drives her to escape. She seeks solace from her parents, and they send her to see “The Plant Lady”. Hear all episodes of Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix) now, early and ad-free, on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/channel/cbc-stories/id6443681642" rel="noopener noreferrer">CBC Stories Premium on Apple Podcasts</a>.

Episode 2: Sweet Boyfriend

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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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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