Ireland

This show is all about Ireland and Rocket's recent month-long trip there with 23 California college students and his family. Over the course of the film-making summer abroad class, the group travelled from Dublin to Belfast to Derry to Galway to Cork and back to Dublin. The class learned about Irish history and culture from pubs to geology and by the end of the trip each student had made a film. Rocket acted in one student's film, "The Protester", which is available on Youtube. Rocket talks about events from the trip including visting the Giant's Causeway and the Dublin Pride festival. On the trip, one student told an obnoxious shaggy dog story which Rocket repeats about a little boy named Jimmy and his good friend Tom who witness a horrific accident that ruins Jimmy's life. This show also features a couple Irish jams: The Irish Rover and Dirty Old Town by The Pogues. Acme's summer show the Madwoman of Chaillot opens in a week, a story of oil mining corporations in Paris and one woman's ability to set everything straight in an afternoon. Shoutout to Benton for the sick guitar amp!