Audio Extra: Rocket's Tips on Surviving Lockdown

(door slams) Okay guys, welcome to isolation. This is your first time in isolation. I've got heaps of experience. So I wanna share with you some of the ways I used to get around the bottom of being locked down. (door slams) We're gonna do the no-bake cake. Everyone used to beg me for this recipe. You wanna need a packet of biscuits, Scotch fingers preferably, tube of condensed milk, milk powder, and a one liter of UH-3. It's tea milk. And then dairy milk chocolate or sneakers or any chocolate you desire. And maybe some jelly beans, if you wanna make it all fancy pants. Depends how much you wanna make, is depends how much you use. But yeah, let's make heaps. (door slams) Okay, so the first thing you gotta do is you gotta smash up your biscuits. You gotta smash them and crash them, take all your anger out on this. This is your little anger release. Get rid of it. Whoever's pissing you off, pretend it's them. Smash them biscuits with whatever you can find a smash 'em. Like you need 'em down into little tiny crumbs. Crumble them, like they're your enemy. Crumble them biscuits. Ooh, got a bit carried away with that one. Next of all, add your tube of condensed milk, mix it all up, mix it all up. It's gonna be a bit sticky, but get your hands dirty. Put some gloves on and get your hands dirty, get in there. And then also like a little bit of milk powder, a little bit of milk. You mix that to a nice fine paste and you mix that in there with it. Like just to make it all sticky. Put that all into a container. That nice, once you've got the nice little, then that's gonna be your base, okay? So you don't want it too sticky, but you just want it nice. Chuck that in the fridge, let it set. Why are you doing that? Grab out your chocolate or whatever chocolate by you desire. But what I do is I melt a whole block of cabbary where you used to get, we only get little bars now, but we used to get a whole block of cabbary, melt that and then chuck a snake as it in with it to your chopped up finely. Mix it all together. Grab your base out, tip it out onto a plate, upside down and then it'll come out nice and flat 'cause you put it in a flat container. Chuck all your melted chocolate and shit that you've just had out in the sun, melt in for half an hour, 45 minutes, bloody, make sure no one steals it. 'Cause people used to go and steal my bits of chocolate if they could get away with it. Anyway, chuck all that on top of your base, chuck it in the fridge, let it set. That there is rockets, no bait cake. (upbeat music) Next, we've put on a bit of bait now. We're starting to feel a little bit guilty 'cause we've wouldn't consume the freaking cake. Wow. So let's do some exercise. I'll teach you just a couple of little exercises I did to keep me fit while I was in there. Just using my own body, not using anything else just me. Okay, so let's get fit. My favorite exercise is push ups. I love push ups and I'm never fit when I go to jail. But so you gotta start somewhere, right? But what I do, make it a little bit easier for myself, is I start out doing it like on a bench of some sort out about waist height. So put yourself down on a bit of an angle, put your feet, go to which part, or even further apart if you're a bit of a chup. Now remember, DCC wasn't building a day. Let's go. Holy shit, I know when there is bit as I used to be. Let's see, Steven push ups. Let's go up and down, up, far out. Oh my god, this is heater. I used to be able to smash out hundreds and, all right, I've just done 15. (laughs) Little bit out of shape. Just remember though, everybody's gonna be in different shape. Like when I'm really unfit, I started out with two and I was happy with that. And then 15 minutes later, I went back and did another two. And then the next day I did four, each set. And you just do little sets all day, like, yeah. Just do sets of two, sets of five, sets of 10. You know, go up every day. I'll be interested in the see how many years can all do. Okay, one for your tuck shop arms is you stand up with something behind you, out about your bum hot. And you put your hands on there, your feet out in front of you, on a fair bit of an angle. And you go, oh, I won. Three dips, doing dips. Okay. I've no idea how many of them go. It feels like a hundred, okay. And that will take care of your tuck shop. Um, so I've got actually quite the arms, but. Okay, so people use the laugh at me for doing this, but hey, it works. Like, it actually works. If you need to run from the coppers, this is the one you want to be doing the way you're inside. Oh, I mean, on lockdown, if you want to walk your dog or something. So just go for a little jog on the spot, go for a little jog. And then as you start going a little bit, you start lifting your legs up higher and higher. Oh, that's about as high as they go. Okay, so my legs aren't going that high, but. It doesn't matter. You don't need to go very high. Just run. Run as long as you can. If I were you and you were me, my complaints would not have fallen upon deaf ears. If I were you and you were me, this mental abuse wouldn't have gone on for years. What are my favourite ways of killing time in there? In lockdown is to write a short story, write a small journal. Doesn't have to be too in-depth, but yeah, I read back on my journal today and I was like, "Whoa, whoa, that's some pretty heavy shit." And it just reminded me, you know, to keep going out here to stay strong. Yeah, reminded me how I was back then, my mindset. And it's just a good thing to look back on in a few years' time. Also write poetry. I like to think of myself as a little bit of a poet. Yeah, I got published last year in the Australian poetry journal, volume nine, number one, page 26. If I were you and you were me, you'd introduce a heap of programmes because you'd understand, we're all really bored. If I were you and you were me, you'd realise that six flushes isn't enough and neither is a free minute-time shower where women. If I were you and you were me, you would sack the officers that continually abuse their powers. If I were you and you were me, you'd know why I'm so passionate and about speaking it up for the women who won't speak up for themselves. If I were you, I'd make some bloody changes. And another way just to beat the bottom, why don't you sit down, pen to paper and write the girls and sack the four of letter. They would be so happy to get some fan mail, because they can't see all the reviews and stuff online from the podcast like I can and other people on the outside can. So just take some time, doesn't have to be much. Just let them know that you're thinking about them. Let them know that you've heard the podcast. The address is bird's-eye view, sector four, Darwin Correctional Centre, GPO Box 1066, Howard Springs, NT, Australia, 0835. Yeah, send them out some fan mail. And if you want to send me some fan mail, my Twitter handle is @ReneeRocket. That's R-E-N-A-E-R-O-C-K-E-T. All right, guys, look forward to hearing from you and stay safe during Corona. It's still legal to walk your dogs, so I'm going to take my little man, Oli, for a run around the block. I used to just spend so many hours in the day dreaming about the day that I could take my dog for a walk. So let's do it. Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. Come on, let's go for a cruise. You want to go walk, is he? Oh, yes, you do. He knows you do. I'm taking Oli for a walk. Oh, he's all excited. Let's go, buddy. Let's go, buddy. And that was surviving lockdown with Rocket. [Music]