you mate. This is the heart of the block here, bro. Camera [Music] present gang life. Oh, I was pretty much brought up in it. My old lady, everybody. Yeah, there was gang tension was high before my generation before I see you. So, what was it like for you growing up here, my friend? Um, pretty gang affiliated, bro. Just gang affiliated, my just trying to set a trend for these young homies coming up. Welcome to Masterton's east side, commonly known as the block, a suburb renowned for its rich moldy heritage and tight-knit community. Approximately 30% of the block's residents are moldi. Historically, the block has faced social inequality, being identified as a low socioeconomic area. In 1977, the Nomad's gang was established in the nearby Horenua region by Dennis Hines, a former member of Black Power. Over time, their influence extended into areas like Masterton, impacting local communities. In the last 3 months, the region witnessed two gang related homicides. One in Featherston involving a fatal shooting near a supermarket. That this is a gang related driveby shooting and that somebody is dead. that the block continues to thrive through community-led initiatives focused on cultural preservation and neighborhood improvement. Yo, it's your boy Dave here and this is the TFS podcast. A fresh start. Hope all is well out there. God bless. Hood diaries once again. Today we are in the wider upa Masterton. So I've come here to show you guys around the hood around the block as they call it here. So that's the east side of Masterton. As a lot of these towns that I go to, these cities that I go to, there are other aspects of these places. These are obviously beautiful places where a lot of good, hardworking people live. And um all I'm showing you is the other side of that. I'm going to be meeting up with a man named Shannon. So he's an actually a uh ex nomad. So he was a member of the nomad gang here in New Zealand. In 1977, Dennis Hines, a former Black Power member, founded the Nomads Gang in Horo Fenua, marking the beginning of a new chapter in New Zealand's gang landscape. Assaults and scare tactics have become the norm. Police say the gang has virtually held the horror feno to ransom over the last 2 years. Town's folk were living in fear. I don't want to comment. Under Hines's leadership, the Nomads expanded their influence into the wider upper region, establishing a formidable presence in local communities. The Nomads became notorious for violent activities, including drug dealing, extortion, and assaults, accumulating numerous criminal convictions. Following Dennis Hines's death in 2009, the Nomads experienced leadership changes and internal power struggles impacting their operations in the regions. The nomad's activities have left a lasting impact on the Horo Fenua and wider upa communities with ongoing challenges in addressing gang related violence and fostering community resilience. This man was once a member of all of that and he was a member for almost well over 30 years. So um he's been able to move on from all of that and you know he's moving on with his life now even though he still has a lot of love for those people that are still in those spaces. And so he's come from a lot, you know, he was uh taken away from his family. He went into state care, he was abused in state care, which just led on to a life of anger. And for him wanting other people to feel his hurt and so he ended up going down the gang route, hurt a lot of people, hurt the community, but now he's helping to heal the community. Meet up with a couple of different boys here. will catch up with one of the boys. Um he's one of the killer bees out here. So he'll be able to show me around his um neighborhood as well. And yeah, it's going to be a good day, man. So welcome to W It Up Masterton the block, baby. Let's go. [Music] K my brother. Good to see you, brother. My lord. My lord. Good to see you, my brother. Yeah. And the young fellow here, hear me? Um, so I'm an ex nomad navigated my way out of there and um I pretty much for the last year helping others uh navigate or use use tools to navigate um out of that same place that I was. Yeah. And this is my cousin Stace 501 St. Of course not another 50 everywhere. Good to see you. Here we are. Um, tell them a little bit about you, son. From the age from the young ages into where you are today. From the age of two to 6 years old. I was patched up with with my dad. Um, we just starting our own business. Yeah, the bromy's killing it with his old man. And like he just said, so um you know in Shannon's past life, he actually used to get his son to wear the patch as well. So he was wearing the patch uh since he was 2 years old, you know. So it's powerful to see how guys far you guys have come my brother bro. Thank you brother. Yeah on on that he um I actually used to glorify it consciously. I was glorifying it on the daily. Um like look at my son you patch me and patch me all that stuff. And then along the journey I've also I've learned um it was actually child abuse. Through this new endeavor that I'm on giving them a chance pretty much given my children opportunity at life a better opportunity than I had. Oh hey bro, can you share a little bit about what you're doing with yourself nowadays? So um for the last year um there's few shots of people actually p work up I've been working at um this place here fodder um big shout out to Triny um Jake and especially my auntie Derby it g me the opportunity to um be able to work in a space like that and in a you know government organization what I was doing there. So I developed a um a vape recycling bin helping um other help other um connect back with themselves. And what I found through my own journey is it was hard. It was hard listening to somebody that looked like my abusers. It was hard listening to somebody that looked like my judge. It was hard listening to somebody that looked like the police that arrested me. But um what I figured in that space was man we need to develop our own space where we can help our own people where they're looking at people that look like them that sound like them that talk like them and walk like them. Oh, the bro's got to have a little bus for some coins for the bus home. The video just [Music] All right. So, we've just pulled up to the hood here. So, now we're in the east side. Is it the east side? My right. So, this is the east side of Masterton here, the block. And this is where the brother grew up. Born and bread in the south. my bro. Um, yeah, this is a play place. This is probably the exterior of the block. So, yeah, my brother. So, I've been seeing your mahi that you've been doing, bro, out in the community on your online space and things like this. And it's beautiful to see you on the journey you're on now, my bro. But, I mean, so you were uh a member of the nomads, was it? Yeah, I was pretty much. Well, cuz your dad was a member as well. So, you sort of grew up around that sort of born into it pretty much, my bro. Um yes, pretty much from a young age, even though I had other positive influences in my life, those were the things that interested me that gangsterism. Yeah. And I that was something that I um I embraced as a young as a young boy, young fellow being brought up in these hoods. We come from the um we come from the struggle. Oh, well, so you were taken into state care and things like this as well. Yeah, I went went through all that. I think the earliest my earliest memory is around six. I left that street there for a holiday with my old man. Guy kept me longer than he was meant to and then I was taken into care or they found me and that was the first time all that kind of jazz happened. But fortunately all that kind of behavior stopped at me. I didn't continue on. I didn't become uh an abuser myself. I became devious to avoid other predators and whatnot when those things but um I ended up taking those ugly behaviors into ugly places. Man, I'm so happy. I'm content today. The work that I do today for our half or for as many people as I feel I can do it for. I'm so grateful for that. And um yeah, I won't get opportunity like that again, brother. What led to you sort of wanting to leave the gang life behind? This guy. So, everybody knows this. I had this guy patched up. Hear me here. You want to hear me? Shut up. And I realized that my bro on this healing journey that I was taking him down an ugly road, a road that I could handle. You know, there something for me to handle those ugly people. But I don't think my baby could have handled that. So I just feel like I did the conscious decision and chose my family instead of selling drugs. What do we sell now? Oh, food. You guys sell food now? Is that all good? Yeah. Shop for the prayer. Feeling charged now. Oh, those are some nice dogs, brother. You breed them and sell me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Breed the bulldogs. Oh, did you grow did you guys grow up together here? So, me and Lulu Me and Lulu did, but um you got a few mean ones. Yeah. Yeah. They got award ones. Um British dogs. British. This is the OG. This is the OG of the man. This is This is how you need to get on. This is how you need to get on. Come out here. Good morning to you. Good morning. How are you guys? Beautiful. Beautiful. Lovely day. Yeah. Just going around. He does podcast. Yeah, I've seen I've seen him. I was born and b here. So this I've been in this house since I was a baby. Went to East school week. Yeah, we went to E school together. Then intermediate. Intermediate. One thing in common with all of us, we all come from a struggle street. We just found a way out. There's still a lot of trouble you around these ways. You know, there's still a lot of um you know, I feel like our generations, we've sort of grown up and, you know, come out of that um come out of that mindset. you know, crime and all that sort of stuff, but you know, the younger ones are picking it up now and and they're worse, I reckon. Oh, man. Yeah, they are. Oh, so we used in jails together as well. Yeah. Done a few legs, me and the breed together. Um, so the bra turned his life around before me. What sort of leads are that one, bro? Oh, my daughter. I like um Yeah, I was in that in the system since I was like 13, 14, you I'll do a crime and then they'll put me into like a like a like a family, you know, with a family, you know, I can't be with my family. Wasn't allowed in mastered in um and yeah, like right up until I was about 25 26 and then I had my daughter and um yeah, she just sort of just turned me right around. E like um yeah, now I could I couldn't do any more jail, you know, can't leave can't leave them out here while I'm in there, you know, and some other man raising my daughter or something like that. So, but yeah, now um yeah, me and the bro done a few legs together in that. And what sort of led you down that path, brother, at 13, 14? I feel like growing up in the block um growing up here, you know, I had the best of both fields, you know, I had my church life, could hang out with the island boys at church and then um I come back home and you know, hang out with all the moldy boys, you know. Um yeah, bit of mischief, get up to mischief with the moldy boys in there and um yeah, that's that's what sort of started it. Yeah. This is the heart of the block here, bro. Camera present. Yeah. The these shifts, these moves happening for us, you know, positives. Yeah. Collectively, there's a there's a few far in positions to I mean, a lot of the far don't even know what's available to us. Cuz your dad was a gang member as well. Yeah. So, what was it like growing up around that around here? So, it was normal. So, all that life is normal to me. um you having patch members, gang members up, you'll drive and Well, cuz your dad was a mobster originally, was it? He was. So, my dad was originally a rogue. So, his his um his brother's the founder of the Resol. He just lives down the road. Yeah. He was um and he was a dog first and then um he became a nomad. Wait, hold him and became a nomad. And um Yeah, I followed in those footsteps. I followed in those footsteps, you know. I thought I thought that was me, you know. I thought he was the bee's knees. Um, after 30 years, I learned that wasn't that he wasn't the bee's knees. There's a lot of puck, a lot of [ __ ] papa, especially down here to um especially the nomads and that. Well, how did that journey start for you, bro, when you ended up joining? Um, so I joined young. I was like 12, 14. Oh, that's a big thing. You know, heaps of our OG's around here, you know, they all switching on, you know, they're all getting up with the play and keeping out of mischief, which is, you know, trying to set the example for the younger ones. Hey, my boy. You know, like especially like, you know, the bro he's, you know, he's doing me and, you know, all the young got influence. So, all those younger ones when they see that, you know, they're like, "Oh, yeah, that's that's the way." Yeah, you know, but you know, back in the days in the ' 80s, 2000s, early 2000s, you know, this was dominated by nomad in that, but because of the values had dropped and the the belief see the house there. My dad and my niece alleyway will just shoot down. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think a lot of my cousins [ __ ] up. [Music] And a few sleeps down here. And a few sleeps. this alleyway. Eh, well, so yeah, so your your dad was a rogue and then why he joined the nomads? Yeah, him. My uncle had a fallout and then pretty much Yeah, Dennis grabbed my old man. My dad Yeah, he was Yeah, he was nomad here, but he's poor more prominent up um in Oakuckland. Well, can you explain who Dennis was, bro? Dennis Mossy Hines began his gang involvement as a patched member of Black Power in Wellington, establishing his reputation in New Zealand's gang scene. In 1977, seeking autonomy, Hines led a faction that split from Black Power, forming the Black Power Nomads in the Horenua region. The group eventually rebranded as the Nomads with Hines at the helm, steering them into becoming a formidable force in New Zealand's gang hierarchy. During the 1990s, the Nomads exerted control over Masterton's east side, establishing a stronghold with minimal competition from rival gangs. Hines passed away in June 2009 while incarcerated. His death triggered internal conflicts leading to violent incidents and arrests. Dennis Mossy Hines left behind a legacy of violence. Though his reign ended, his name remains etched in the country's gang history as a formidable and ruthless leader. Guess who I was actually under at a young age. I knew I wanted to be under the boss. Even in my new m I want to Yeah. I want to watch I want to be around that. But who Dennis was is um for me. So I I only seen a good side of him cuz I always did my I knew what I was up to. But pretty much, bro, he was either your best friend or your worst enemy. He was the founder. He was the founder of the nomads. He he had a big stronghold over in um Feninoa and a lot of his fun over here, too. But um yeah, he was the president of the nomads and it was just snow. They had their had their ways of thinking and values in life and that's pretty much what it was. A lot of the cordial people here tax tax will be tax you know that was the mindset and a lot of it was done from fear but um when you look at it all from a behavioral sense of it my brain it's all a reflection of oppression and it's a repetitive of it it's a repetitive of colonization when when you actually look at it you all this year it all lazed off and I swear Every house has a dog. Yeah. Every house you go past, there's a dog. Got to be down here. I think back in the day, you know, you never in the hood. And you know, over time, I thought, you know, that sort of just went out the window. You know, people were jumping fences and that around here. And back when I was younger, man, it was a no no. True. It's sad. Some some of these young boys have had the wrong teachers and um they now steal off each other. What are you up to? His dad was our only white white member and he was shot at the pub. Oh, he's the only white um but he was a hard name. Oh, he was brought up without dad and all that. Oh, it's a huge house. [ __ ] yeah. I got like four or five of my family, bro. Oh jeez. This fellow here is one of our oldest um active members. So those ones I talked about M not this guy. He's part of the furniture. Especially down here in the hood a we all know him. Yeah. But yeah this is our uncle Steph. This my uncle um through pocka papa and also through related through colors. So this fell looked after. So I haven't seen this kid since school this man here since um my code of college name. So his name's my middle name. But we've always had a I ain't seen this fellow since I was a kid. But he always looked after me. Oh wow. Yeah. I was a real good to see you my bro now to side. Yeah, me and my old man used to live in there. Yeah. So the bro could even even you remember all that stuff been gay and all that. Oh yeah. Yeah. I grew up This is my Kur's house here. This I was not anymore. Was your old man in the club life? Was it or? Yeah, my old man was in the club life. Yeah. Gang life. I was pretty much brought up in it. My old lady, everybody. Well, you know, like all my uncles, my parents, you know. Yeah. Yeah. What do you reckon made you stop? uh made to make that decision to jump on. Not to be honest, probably burying my dad, bro. Oh, yeah. Cuz that was like he didn't get shot by another gang member, but the actions of the gang caused him to get shot in a in a way. Yeah. Without saying it was anybody. Yeah. Yeah. By Yeah. That mindset, you know, and like that was even myself as a kid. Like I got kids. My mom's got pictures of me as a kid drawing little nomad skulls. That sucks, you know? Like, oh yeah, we went, you know what I mean? Damn glorifying that thinking was cool. Kind of seeing both my parents in jail away, you know, growing up, you know, little being a drug mule and stuff with balloons. Balloons. By the time I was in my teens, bro, I knew I was going to go to jail. I never knew what I f but I was ready mind me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me mentally, you know. Yeah, bro. Wow. Um this is our local community house and today they call it uh butina and um they do a lot of great work for our community here on the east side. So remembering we come from the low income side of society and we were the far that didn't have the best opportunities in life. didn't get the resources that a lot of the um lands down so way and the west side got. But hey, we our seeds are growing today. We're starting to um yeah protrude out of that um out of that dirt. We got the little seedlings. His father was killed. He got uh he got shot also. Your dad was um shot out the front of a pub. Yeah. Yeah. Coming to you. And then I got I got sent to Aussie like a year later to go. My mom lived over in Aussie. She had moved over there already. And then yeah, I got sent to Aussie and moved to Aussie by my mom and that's where my journey in Aussie began. That so yeah, this is the local cemetery in the hood here where the bro's dad's buried. This old man here. [Music] So like what we were saying before, how come that that the cordway got buried down there, you know? But don't get me wrong, I still loved it and I but I when my younger days, I had my own had my own there, you know. I didn't need to go chuck his cir on. But that's kind of why I I haven't put one on since I came home, too. And back in those days, bro, those nomads were bad buggers. Oh, they were real bad. They were even the rigs. That's who they were fighting with at that time. My dad's brothers and they were um those both those mindsets were Yeah. were bad people. Heard some gnarly stories of them old gangsters. A bro [Music] So, I just teeing up now with a couple of the boys as well, he and the bros. [Music] to see is a member of the Killer Bees. Founded in 2003 in Utara, the Killer Bees emerged as a youth street gang affiliated with the Tribesman motorcycle club. Under the leadership of Josh Masters, the former vice president of the Tribesman, the gang rapidly expanded its influence, extending its presence beyond South Oakland into other regions. Following the death of Nomad's leader, Dennis Hines in 2009, a power vacuum allowed gangs like the Killer Bees to establish themselves in areas such as Masterton's east side. Today, some members in the widered upper region are striving for positive change within the gang, though challenges remain. So, I'm just with the brok at the moment. Good to see you, my brother. You my brother. Hey, thanks for welcoming in us into the hood, brother. All good, my bro. Good to have you, brother. Were you raised up around here, was the brother? Yeah. Yep. Morning bread, my bro. Master [ __ ] today, my bro. Real family orientated. Yeah, I can tell. That's all I see, bro. It's like real family around here. to the city. Get your hustle on the cash rubber band up the seasons on heat. You feel it for the dollar only. Taste it on the street. Now everywhere I go, everywhere I go and everything I see. Everybody's trying [Music] to check yourself. Check yourself before you break yourself. That's how we live. We feed on the system. [Music] [Music] The young follow the faro is it? Yeah. Yeah. This is the family. Hey, my boy. Yeah. Just around the corner. The house was just there. Just around the corner. Oh, so you grew up on the street here. Yeah. This is like Cameron Crazy. So EG people live around here. Read. Some of them haven't even left the hur you've been here their whole lives e I mean cuz we had a little walk around the hood before bro and people speak highly of you around here my bro yeah a lot of the boys were saying they have been changing it up and doing it especially with your boys and that as well just when you you know you get a bit older try different things you go off track yeah went off track for a bit then just done a bit of time you know I come come out and hit that vision you know um just yeah keep everyone on mahi all of that stuff they keep everyone honesty it's been going good all the Mahi. Yeah, they're all employed. All got full licenses, you know. All have just ticking those boxes. He um get tested, you know, if there's any little bit of thing and everyone's solid. Don't even need to do them anymore. Yeah. Just doing better something new. E my brother. I mean, bro, what was it like for yourself personally when you were growing up here, guys? Um [ __ ] I loved it. Like it was um there were all kinds of gangs, you know? Um yeah, brought up around here. There was Yeah. for different ones. But yeah, there was gang tension was high before my generation or before us, you know, was a bit full on and um yeah, it's just but yeah, just like like everyone sees just family orientated, you know, see all the kids down here, you know, just all [ __ ] you know, it's me, me, all different families down here. See, good to see you, bro. Yeah, my man. How's it going, bro? N good, my brother. What's up? Are you Are you from the area too or? Yeah, from the area. Yeah. And what's it been like, bro, with the boat and all that gold, brother? Like all on the right path and all that e. So everything's looking good. Everything's looking good, my brother. Yeah. What was it like for you yourself, brother, growing up here on the block and good? It was actually quite good with um young fellow boys and that growing up and that e just seeing all the older generation now, bro. It's like like you know, they gone older and that now and we're the next ones that are coming up and we're the older ones now. So just trying to set a trend for these young homies coming up. Yeah, that's it, bro. Got to got to set them on the right path. Yeah. So full on full on. Yeah, my man steer. Oh, a couple of bikes here and there really like not how it is now. Ei sort of just everyone's just killing it off on the bikes these days. Down here it's like the new buzzy. Well, you know, not really. They're sort of against it, but it's going to keep everyone out of trouble. Like, that's how I see it, man. Yeah, that's how I see. And like you said, all the boys are on the right path getting their licenses and all of that, so can't go wrong. Yeah. Can't beat you all [Music] these live around here, is it? for the [Applause] [Music] street from the two for the street for the [Music] song. They can't handle this. I scandal falling. Babylon is falling. My mind is metamorphing so approach with caution. World's full of disease and full of disorder. They poison our thoughts just like they poison the water. Frequencies causing me disease in the air. The house. How's it going, bro? Good, brother. And how's the area changed since you was gone? Changed heaps. It was old school back in the day. It was rough as like one warrior days. Yeah. Full changed now. Yeah. Oh, it must be good to see the community all like out like this. It is. It's awesome now. It is. Yeah. is still got it rough areas around here. East side. Yeah, bro. This is me for the smoke. Not me. [Music] Hi. Let my people go in the city full of L. She got to leave. Oh, say you guys are fine now. Is it? Yep. Yep. See, that's my mom's out there. Oh, true. So, yeah, pretty much all the G's and a lot of the G's around here go back to that is like you said, it's all about fun. Is it around here? And even amongst the different clubs and stuff, is it all just family around here? Is it? Yeah. Yeah. All everyone's all good. That's why there's not much like gang tension like everyone sort of good with everyone. the the gangsters that are still around here and stuff all good of each other. I was a bit younger when I was when I was down there and then we moved out of the hood, but you know, just like coming back. Lived on Church Street, lived on River Road, you know, for years than that. But now it was just um there was just Yeah, it's just street family. Hey, like the gang the gangs were just pretty crazy. It was back in your first era cuz we was a bit uglier. And then it started to smoothing out. I think Yeah. I think it was that old school stuff earlier stations there when we were talking into all that kind of stuff. See the house over there. Auntie Kawi's house. [Music] Yeah. Auntie around the corner. All the G's went there. 5 years. [ __ ] All the other families, they've been here for still got their homesteads today. Solid. Yeah. And you do a little bit of work out in the in the neighborhood or in the area. Is it bother? Yes. I work for a place called Turangaroo. We um we predominantly work with um who have been um either suspended, expelled or on their way to being suspended and or expelled or just have um issues with being in mainstream um education. My boss, she works tirelessly to keep this program going cuz yeah, it's definitely needed in our um in our neighborhood. um you know um I don't know if you've seen but you know there's there's a lot of um poverty and and uh inequity in our community and um it's starting to come to a head now and starting to be recognized and we're starting to um change the way that people see us. You know, it's not just the hood anymore. We're we're a community and we come with a lot of different ethnicities. It's not just Molly, but um yeah, just out here trying to make better for the community. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, good. See y up. Everywhere I go, everywhere I go and everything I see, everybody's trying to [Music] [Music] Tell me [Music] [Applause] [Music] how. So, we're just going to go check out the bros um Shannon and Little Hemy's pie cut. Apparently, they got some pretty good um power here. Creamed power. So, we'll go have a little look [Music] see. All right. So, we're just at the pie cart here or Hemy's Kota, which is moldi for kitchen. How's it going, boys? Oh, good. Yeah. Good to see you, bro. This is pretty much what I sell. Cream power fried bread, chicken katsu. We got our chicken katsu here with our chips. Chicken katsu. Yep. Cream flour, fried bread, and um the sauce is magic power sauce. Finally. Oh, look at this. Magic. So this is the fried prefo. Pretty good. Pretty good. Here's it with our uh chicken katsu. Uh then also comes with magic power sauce which is what we have here. Finger the magic start. Like I said breakfast of champions right there. So how long you been doing this for? Oh about doing this for How long? A year eight. Yeah. We started down here with just a table as the front of our house. Yeah. So what was it like growing up around there man in the block in there? Oh, I I loved it, bro. Like all our cousins that used to hang out together. So even though my uncle B he was a no man, I didn't see him. He was just my uncle. So what makes you sort of not want to go down that route of being joining a gang, bro? Um I just had heaps of heaps of like um family that were like LDS members on the weekend. I'd go to church with my nan. Uncle Harry would pick us up, bro, and and take us on his van. Then after church, I'd go hang out with Lucky Matthews and Isvo, Javan Walker and all of those. Hey, we are products of our environments growing up, but we're also more importantly a product of our own decisions. Hey, brother. And you're a perfect testimony to that, bro. Because you grew up like them, bro. You know, but he went down the route of joining a gang, but you you grew up like that, but you didn't join a gang. So at the end of the day, we are a product of our decisions. E and if you've got God, even better. Yeah, bro. Straight up. Mormon um church has a uh well, the LDS church has an influence here. E bro, cuz he cuz also the bro Shannon grew up in the LDS as well, isn't it, bro? Yeah, bro. Like you know the Matthews family, uh floods, walkers, the couches, lots of families, bro. How is it? See how it's [Music] going, bro? Good. Good. Yeah. E, we never use a traveling through master. How's that, bro? 33 Queen Street then. Yep. What's it like, man, when we've been working on the truck? Um, it's cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's bonding time for me and dad. Nice. Nice. So, back in the days, you actually got shot in front of your son, wasn't it? Yeah. Oh, he was there. My whole family were there and I'm on the property. Um, yeah. Got a bit of a um bit of a mama, guys. Coming in there. Tell me. Anyways, as the person said after we after um after they did it was only a 22, but yeah. Yeah, I got shot and fortunately my sister my sister um she worked in theater. Um thank you sister. And um yeah, she was able to um get all the things I needed to do all my dressing and whatnot. But um yeah, we stuck fed. We stuck it out. We stuck out. But yeah, she's very Bernie. She was a Bernie ones coming. [ __ ] me up. You going to break me up. Whose house are we going to? Um, so the house we're heading into now is Barry Barry Reiny. Um, she um he was the ones of Junior Black Power around here and his son cousin La. He runs um Wellington and Red Company. Um he them and the other son was just about to go and see is um my cousin who everyone seen recently ended his colors and uh so he could uh become a better father and be a present father for his children. But you know we'll just stop here. It's pretty famous. Uh, good to see you cuz Dave Ro. Yeah, man. Meet you. Raw. Hey, Mom. Good to see you, Cous. Dave. Oh, true. Good to see you, bro. You, too, brother. [ __ ] How's it going, brother? Yeah. All good. All good. Now, this these are my um homesteads. My homestead. These are where I was brought up in these two houses here. Yep. Um Yeah. Oh, yeah. I So, did these all grow up here? Yeah. Um um I did um me and my sister my children and if they come and stay here and that as well. Oh man, bro. How's your daughter here? Yeah. Hey killed off the camera. Hello. So what was it like for you growing up here my bro? Um pretty pretty gang affiliated bro. Yeah. Um yeah my father was the priest was the priest back in the day and so yeah. Yeah. Um, is that the prize for the nomads? Cuz Yeah, black power nomads. Oh, black power nomads. Yeah. Yep. Pretty hard. Pretty hard in there, bro. So, you ended up taking the route of joining the club and all of that. Yeah, bro. And how was that for you? Um, yeah, it was all good in that, bro. Um, it's all your family, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. All my family and that. Yeah. I just came to a point in life, bro, where um I wanted to be there for my children and that and do do better for my children. Yeah. So, yeah, I handed my colors in. I think a few people here in New Zealand saw that video, you know, and it was pretty powerful, brother, to see you make that decision and stuff like that. Oh, did you all grow up here? Was it or Yeah. All of us, my brother? Oh, yeah. So, how was it growing up and it was right just came with my Oh, yeah. But he's still far, is it? Yep. Farming, family. This is So, this is the other house here. This where you walked in. Go one more, bro. I remember this when I was a kid. What's that called? Staunch, staunch. It's got the nomads in here, bro. But back in these days, bro, no other gang was allowed here, bro. Oh, yeah. So, so when you're growing up around here, the nomads were the main. Yeah. Pretty much the only gang. Oh, the only gang. Yeah. So, back in the days around this around this area in Masterton. So, the nomads were the only ones around here back in the days. Oh yeah, there's some of the old patches there. So I mean are you guys affiliated with the club now or? No master. Black car master tonight. Oh man. Oh true my other son feeling. Oh is this your other son? Oh my son. Solid. So I mean yeah that's sort of why you decided to step away was it bro for the kids. And good on you bro. Straight up brother. So I mean yeah since you decided to do that brother I mean what are you deciding to do now nowadays just be a a better father bro positive father just one day at a time they can't handle this trip you up with the scandal straight from the gravel I hear the trumpets calling Babylon is falling my mind is metamorphing so all right one two three honestly I've had the best time down here in Masterton with the brothers, especially the bro Shannon. Um, honestly, man, like as we've done the vlog and just hearing more and more about his story, it's just um pretty inspiring to see, especially with his son, seeing them do do the bizo together, hot dogs, this that. I mean, man, how inspirational is that? Look, the bra's climbing back up. Me, man. How's how's the water? Good. um there's a couple of powerful moments that were shared um and until I keep doing what I'm doing, seeing those kind of results and um be silly not to. Yeah, exactly. Any man in their right mind, we continue on what I'm up to. Amen. Bye-bye. And they remember Faro, it's a Hemy's kota. Hemy's kota. Hemy's kota. We do haggies. Hag power. You guys saw the food. You saw how good it is. Yeah, if you want value for your buck, then go see um Hemy's Kod. All right, fo. Well, if you enjoyed the vlog, just give it a like and subscribe. Much love. Keep tuned for the next one, Hood Diaries. Much love.