Personal Best

Personal Best

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Personal Best episodes

  • Personal Best Introduces: Discount Dave (and the Fix)

    Everyone has a party story. Host and creator of Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix) 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.


    More episodes of Discount Dave (and the Fix) are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/DDxAFI

    21 min
  • Wilbo Baggins

    Will likes the simple things in life, but he is haunted by a fear of commitment. Only a very special shawarma can break the curse.

    39 min
  • Alone Day

    Shemika wants to eat at a fancy restaurant by herself. Her best shot at success? Advice from a naked man named Buck.

    39 min
  • An Unremarkable Handshake

    Connor is a stand-up comedian who moved across the country to pursue his dream in show business. But he's self-conscious about his handshake. The solution: strangers put their hands inside a mysterious hole.

    47 min
  • Are You Still Making Lasagna?

    This episode Rob and Andrew call their past guests to learn if they’re still keeping up with their goals, what’s changed in their lives and to find out if permanent change is even possible.

    31 min
  • Angor

    Darryl is two people. The first Darryl is an incredibly calm, relaxed and mediative man. The second, a rage-fuelled golfer who is ruining the first Darryl’s life. Can Darryl find the source of his anger before it's too late? Our final episode of season 3.

    37 min
  • Open Your Eyes and Feel Good | Live Recording

    A senior who doesn't know how to retire. An ex-teacher who suffers in the presence of incorrect facts. Rob creates an entire episode of Personal Best without Andrew knowing — all in this special live episode recorded from the PodSummit 2024 stage.

    39 min
  • A Big Announcement! And Check Out Radiotopia Presents: Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative
    Rob and Andrew are back with some news. Also, a preview of a new show from Personal Best's very own Jess Shane. What really happens when stories about people’s lives are collected, edited, and consumed? Radiotopia Presents: Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative, a four-part non-fiction series created by Jess Shane, about the nuts and bolts of documentary storytelling, the power dynamics between makers and subjects, and rewriting unwritten rules of the documentary and non-fiction content industry. To learn more visit: https://radiotopiapresents.fm/shocking-heartbreaking-transformative
    40 min

About Personal Best

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Personal Best celebrates small ambitions, half-wins and the quiet satisfaction of getting less bad at things. Each week we help ordinary people work through the little things they’d never bring to…

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