Introducing: Discount Dave (and the Fix)
4/29/20262 min
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 on a path of self-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.
This series is an Official Selection of the 2026 Tribeca Audio Festival. Available June 09 wherever you get your podcasts.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[intro music] This is a CBC podcast.
Becca· Host0:03
Hey, it's me. [upbeat music] Well, it's the shadow version of me, and in 2005, I'm a young actor, fresh out of theater school, with big dreams and an even bigger drug habit. Blow, bump, Charlie, Chucky, C, dust, flake, yayo. You get the picture. But things are pretty good, you know? You know, I'm madly in love with my sweet boyfriend, and I've just got my first big break at a Shakespeare Festival. I love an audience. Nothing can outshine-eth me. [clapping] That is until my best friend is set up on a date with David Lee Roth. Yeah, that David Lee Roth, from Van Halen. If you know, you know. [snorts] [ding] And I need a piece of the action, so I invite the action backstage. Yeah, I'm on a mission, a mission, yes, yes. This is how it's done. This is how it's done. Yeah. Party girls are fun. Party girls are fun, fun, fun, and it's fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. [sirens blaring] Until it's not. Until he's not David Lee Roth. [upbeat music] From CBC's Personally, this is Discount Dave & The Fix, the true-ish story about how a fake rock star led me to a real trial that held up a mirror to me. Yeah, me. Well, you know, the shadow