Rocket Radio

Rocket Radio is a show aimed at Davis youth of all ages, from elementary to high school. DJ Rocket features music, poems, books, interviews, and current events, all while maintaining a young perspective.

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Bo Burnham

Bo Burnham performed Sunday night at the Community Center Theater in Sacramento on his Make Happy Tour! In this show, Rocket talks about the performance and tells a bad joke about a pink and purple, polka-dotted polka dot. This show also includes a reading of some of the introduction to a copy of Macbeth. Music for this show consists of: Summer Shandy by The Front Bottoms, My Team by Drew Jacobs, and Emperor's New Clothes by Panic! At the Disco from their new album, Death of a Bachelor (to be released January 15). Rocket also reads an article relating to My Team from MTV News.

Halloween 2k15

Halloween!!! This show includes some rhymes, witch facts, and other halloween-related oddities from "The Hodgepodge Book". These include useful information such as "If you carry a penny in your pocket or wear a new dime in each show, witches can't harm you". Rocket tells a scary story about a man who sleeps in a haunted hotel. There are also scary stories from the book "More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" such as "The Voice" and "The Man in the Middle". Of course all this storytelling is accompanied by halloween-themed music such as "This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas, "Run" by The Maine from the album Forever Halloween, and the classic, "Monster Mash".

Science Stuff

In this show Rocket talks about the debate tournament last weekend at Mira Loma High. There is also a bad pun involving debate and twenty-one pilots. Because of the chemistry test Rocket has to take this week, this show includes an excerpt from the book "Scientific Feuds" by Joel Levy about the age of the Earth and. In other news flu shots are a thing. Music for this show includes "Undercover Underwater Everywhere" by The Vesuvians (thanks to Alex!), "Fairly Local" by twenty one pilots (the bad pun), "The Elements" by Tom Leherer (chemistry!) and "Shots" by Imagine Dragons (like for the flu).

Debate & Fallacies

This Saturday DHS will be competing in a league dabate tournament at Mira Loma High School. The majority of this show is a list of logical fallacies that are commonly used in arguments. The list in the show comes from the University of North Carolina and includes fallacies such as equivocation, strawman, hasty generalization, and slippery slope. In other news: The Veterans' Memorial Center will host an Upstander Carnival this weekend to raise anti-bullying awareness through carnival games, DHS homecoming was last weekend (we won the football game!), articulation day is this Thursday, and the anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death just passed. This show includes "Miss Jackson" by Panic!

A Fairytale Feast

Thank you to everyone who came to see Acme's fall fundraiser of A Fairytale Feast! This show includes an article from the Davis Enterprise about the performance. A Fairytale Feast was a series of fairyales told by a travelling group of hunters. Each of four stories corresponded to a delightful dish including pumpkin mousse and gingerbread cookies. In keeping with this show's fairytale theme, Rocket reads some Aesop's Fables and all the songs are fairytale-themed. The songs in this show are "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid, "Prince Ali" from Alladin, and "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast. Rocket also talks about "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger.

Football and Gay-Straight Alliances

Congratulations to the DHS football team for winning the first home game of the season against Edison High 36-0 (image from The Hub). Rocket talks about Persepolis, a movie about a young girl growing up in revolutionary Iran, as well as lunchtime rap battles at school. GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) clubs are starting up for the year at both Holmes and DHS. The Holmes GSA meets at lunch on Wednesdays in P-1 and the DHS GSA meets some Fridays in L-20, Mr. Wheeler's room. GSAs offer a safe space for students as well as a great way to get involved in LGBTQIA+ issues.

Period BOMB

Period BOMB, the Los Angeles-based baby martian gore pop band, are currently on tour and are playing in Davis tonight! You can see them at 8:30 at 239 3rd Street! This show includes a phone interview with Period BOMB members Cami Miami, Mars Odette, and Jizzy Creams while in a car on the way to their next tour stop. Through multiple connection losses and looking for a gas station the band talks about their music and the tour. This show also includes their song "Gnarly Princess" for which they just released the music video. This show also features "I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor" by Arctic Monkeys, and in other news, The Visit was excellent.

Butcher Shop 2015 - Year of the Goat

The Butcher Shop is a free annual festival in Chico, CA, featuring music, theatre, and art from the area. This year's theme was "Year of the Goat". This show features a recording of Jonathan Richman from the festival. In other news DHS is gearing up for its fall musical Band Geeks and Acme is preparing for its fall fundraiser, Food and Fairytales. Crown the Empire also just released a new song, "Prisoners of War". This song also features some math, mysteries, and maybe-hawaiian words. This show also includes the song "Hearts" by Patrick Watson from the album "Love Songs for Robots".

First Week of School

One week down, many many more to go! This show features a retelling of a radio-themed dream Rocket had, a review of Sinister 2, and 3 minutes of Donald Trump saying "China". This show also includes a series of moral dillemmas (dillemma creds to Jamie): if there were three people, identical to yourself in all relevant repects/capacities (age, intelligence, family relationships, emotional quota etc.) except that each needed a vital organ (heart, liver, kidneys) 1) Should you kill yourself to save the lives, 2) If someone else was in the same situation and you were observing, should they save the three people (would the benefits outweigh the harms), 3) Would your answer change depending on your relationships with the three people, and 4) how many people's lives would have to be at stake for you to sacrafice yourself in a real-world situation?

Last Day of Summer!

Today is the very last day of summer vacation in DJUSD. Today was also sophomore orientation at DHS. If any highschoolers are interested in being involved with theatre, there's a DHS drama/acme potluck BBQ on the first Friday of school. With school starting it's important for students to know their rights when it comes to suspensions, expulsions, and involuntary transfers, and this show includes an ACLU article with a lot of relevant information. In other news, Unfortunate, a show here at KDRT, hosted by DJ Nosferatu and OG Willikers, has recently come to an end. In honor of the fiery legacy of this show—nay, lifestyle, this show also includes some Calvin & Hobbes.

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Can't wait to listen!

Love, your biggest fan (AKA: Jessica the babysitter)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 6:30pm

Show will begin on April 6th!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 11:16am

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