0:00 So, that looked like Brad Pitt? No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that movie, but I was thinking of Brad Pitt in a Hawaiian shirt and he was also in a drug movie. He's He's thinking about Tom Cruise in Fight Club. No. >> [laughter] >> That's what he Right? Take a look at this guy right here. His name is Ryan James Wedding. >> More ice. Yeah, sorry. This isn't ice. >> CAN WE GET AWAY FROM ICE? >> NO, THAT'S SNOW. OH, OKAY. OKAY. YEAH, YEAH. SNOW. All right. Powdery. So, um just looking at his picture, you'd imagine what a successful guy. Like, clearly he's an Olympian. That's a crazy angle to be. Yeah, his stance. Like, the foot's forward, too. Is this the drug guy? Yes. ████ sorry. Which one? Way to ruin the story. [laughter] Yeah, why don't you tell us the story?
0:51 Yeah, so Ryan James Wedding, he's a snowboarder from Canada. He went on to represent Canada in the 2002 Olympics, right? In Salt Lake. Yep. Six years later, the feds are tracking him on what would be his rise to becoming one of the most wealthy and violent drug kingpins. What the ████ This guy. Tell me it's snow. Tell me it's cocaine, then it's like very poetic. Yes. Come on, do the thing. Sniff it. SNIFF IT. WOW, SIR. >> This guy has so much experience. Caught red-handed right there. >> [laughter] >> So, so here's how the story starts. It's pretty freaking nuts. So, 6 years after the Olympics that he's that he's on, he him and friends they go to San Diego to buy like large amounts of cocaine. Um but the dealer that's selling it to them is actually an undercover fed. Oh. >> So,
1:41 the dude gets convicted in 2009 and then just released in 2011 cuz of course, why not? Uh immediately he begins his criminal drug enterprise Right after. because he becomes a member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Dude, deport this guy. What the ████ How do you do ICE, come get this ████ guy, bro. How do you do that? Send him to Canada? Yeah, get him out of here. How do you Send him back over the border. I have no idea, but he ends up like making connections with them, and then he begins his own division within the Sinaloa Cartel, and he ships 60 tons of cocaine through SoCal. Um and along the way, he's accused of a lot of different murders, including uh federal witnesses that were meant to testify against them. Uh so any any point where they could have got him, he was basically just silencing everybody. Um and so once they caught him, which
2:33 was in Mexico, they the feds seized 2,300 kilos of coke, 44 kilos of meth, 44 kilos of fent, and 55 million dollars in assets. >> Holy ████ >> And back in Mexico where uh where uh Ryan Wedding was hiding and operating, uh the feds seized 40 million dollars worth of motorcycles. That's ████ hilarious. This guy has is a high-octane athlete, bro. >> also a really good snowboarder. And he took his two Olympic medals. They found two Olympic medals, and they they seized them. >> achieves such high things in different areas. >> So was was this before or during or after snowboarding that he became uh Sinaloa Cartel? >> After snowboarding. Life after snow. >> [laughter] >> That's all you wanted to say. >> Snow to snow. >> Yeah. So Ah, I got you. They've arrested
3:23 like 40 people about in his organization, just in his like bubble. Are they all snowboarders? Dude, imagine. That's how they get away. Dude, that's Whistler boys. That's got to be such a sick win for the Sinaloa Cartel. Imagine that like, "Yo, we brought a guy in." >> We got a white boy working for us. >> White boy's an Olympian from Canada. Yeah. >> Dude. And he's down to move mountains. Yeah, no one's going to suspect this guy. >> And guess what? He's going to >> Rocky Mountain. And he's got 40 million dollars in motorcycles. That's the coolest part about him. >> I'm pretty >> sure he got that after he was selling the snow. Oh, yeah, you're right. He's such a high achiever in like so many things. Like bro was like, yeah, you're right like Okay, that guy looks like it. >> Woah, wait. He looks really different when he's >> It's cuz life after snow. >> when he's fully covered and uncovered? Fair. Well, over there he looks like a ████ Hells Angel. Yeah. I mean, that guy looks like he's
4:14 trouble. Which one? Left or right? >> Definitely right. But then he's covered. Damn. What if you took the cover off? >> These eyes look like the eyes that you like draw on rocks and put on dead people. He got white walker eyes. >> Anthony. He got dead eyes. He's sociopath eyes. >> walker ████ They don't know how many people were were in his organization in total, but yeah, they got like 40 of them. So 40 of them? They're asking for [music] like help and info like to identify the others in his like branch. >> Big Rico. But that's crazy. >> operating was bringing the coke to America or bringing it to America to Canada? Into I It says it's in through SoCal. So I'm imagining it's it's for California. >> Maybe they're using the tunnels, yeah. Yeah, that would be the bringing the drugs in from Mexico to to California and then maybe to Canada after that, who knows. But that border that border I mentioned is a trickier one. >> [laughter]
5:04 >> And he's like, wow. >> He's probably doing it like multi-level marketing. >> With 60 tons? 60 tons, bro. >> was his career? So it was uh from 2011 >> years. >> till now. Yeah. Oh, he had a good run. He had a great run. He had a great run right there, too. That's a That's a really good run. >> Gold medalist run right there. >> I bet you he does double black diamonds on a on a regular. Who the heck is like 40 million in just motorcycles? It's insane. >> Wait, so he seized 50 Wait, hold on. 40 of that? Just motorcycles? Well, those might have been like two separate seizures. I don't know. >> Yeah. That's a lot of motorcycles. >> That could also just be like 80 super sick motorcycles. Why do you need 80? How do you even get Like what if you're at this one and you're trying to get to the other one? You got to like get all the way through like >> [laughter] >> You have a warehouse.
5:54 >> Crazy. That's his I think that's part of his laundering. Never even think about that. Oh, he has Shoot me through the bike. You knock them all down? I think it's part of his laundering. Like so you take your money and you put it into a different tangible value of a thing. >> What if he had a motorcycle business? >> You [laughter] said You're like I think it's part of his laundering. He had 40 motorcycle riders? Like they're moving money? LIKE NO, CUZ MY ████ PLANE MY plane method. >> It's like your plane method. >> Yeah, you buy all the motorcycles and then you have 40 motorcycle riders that bring it into Canada. That's how you get the money in. $1 motorcycle. Oh, okay. I see what you're saying now. Yeah. You sell the drugs in California and then you turn it into motorcycles and then you bring it into Canada. 40 motorcycles. $40 million. >> Yeah, you might have just topped your buy the plane. >> that they caught in his organization.
6:45 That's interesting though. Like it just looks like they're on one of those touring motorcycle groups that goes across the country. But the value of the bike is the actual laundered drug money. That's pretty interesting. Sons of Anarchy right there. >> Yeah, it would be. Do you guys ever want to be a drug trafficker? >> [laughter] >> No, I sometimes when I watch those shows and movies there's a party that feels like oh yeah, that'd be sick. But then, you know, you don't want the rest. >> because you're so low on the totem pole that they'll never save you. >> I'd rather be like a pharmacist. You're like a fall guy, you know what I mean? >> You're like the fall guy basically. You get caught, that's it. And if and if you don't get arrested and you go back to the boss, the boss kills you. >> Yeah, cuz they think you rat. >> What about that one guy that Brad Pitt played? The guy that does the plane one. >> Tom Cruise? No, the one that that worked for El Chapo. >> Tom Cruise. >> No, he played that one guy that that flew the drugs into America.
7:36 >> you're talking about Tom Cruise in American Made or whatever. That was Tom Cruise? With like He's blonde. >> With like the Cosa Nostra people and they're Yeah, that's Tom Cruise. Yeah, Brad Pitt is the one in Top Gun. >> Maverick. Are you thinking of of uh Oh, wait. I'll I'll find it right here. Are you thinking of uh this one? Like that? Yeah. >> [laughter] >> So, that looked like Brad Pitt? >> No, it wasn't that It was that movie, but I was thinking of Brad Pitt in a Hawaiian shirt. And he was also in a drug movie. >> He's He's thinking about Tom Cruise in Fight Club. No. >> [laughter] >> That's what he Right? >> It's this movie, but I picture Brad Pitt in a So, I mixed two movies together. I think he's thinking about Tom Cruise in Ocean's Eleven. Oh, yeah, yeah. He keeps eating. He keeps eating. >> to Angelina Jolie. >> Yeah. Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
8:26 >> Was Brad Pitt in a drug movie? He was in a Hawaiian shirt. And it doesn't ████ matter, dude. You don't brought it up. >> [laughter] >> I know. I think he's thinking about Ben Affleck in Sicario. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> Ben Affleck Del Toro. >> [laughter] >> But okay, you know the true story that this is based on? >> Uh-huh. Brad Pitt? No, it's Barry Seal Barry Seal. Yeah. It was he Flor- like Florida, right? I think no. I thought it was, yeah. >> Okay, okay. Florida. So, wouldn't you want to do that? Actually Florida. Still no. >> Back then, yeah. I would back then. In the '80s? Yeah. >> In the '80s, hell yeah. And it didn't cost my peace of mind. I want to be so stress-free. It's so scary. >> But they wouldn't know what to look for back then is what I'm saying. >> that got away with it. >> Yeah. That's what I'm saying. >> There's no like cameras. There's no
9:16 internet. There's no like >> Crime in the '80s is sick, dude. You can get away with anything. >> But anytime you look back, it looks easy. Yeah, exactly. It was hard now. But then 20 years later, they're like, "Dude, 2026 was so easy to get get away with s███." >> Cuz that's the way like in Cocaine Cowboys when they interview those people, they always say like, "Oh, you could never do this today." But back then, the way they would do it, how they would they would bring the cocaine on shore and then they would put them into cars that are parked illegally. They own the tow truck company that tows those cars. That's how they move the coke. >> Genius. Dude, come on. >> I feel like we still do that. That's pretty tight for the '80s. You know a guy with a tow truck company? >> They're not going to pull over a tow truck pulling a car that's like that got tickets. They're like, "Yeah." >> Genius, dude. Really smart. Bring that back. That'll still work. So smart. >> And then they put their girlfriends in condos looking at the shore to tell when
10:06 the drop is there. Sick. And and then like the movie Blow, where they got the stewardess to just bring it on her luggage and they don't check her cuz she's a part of the flight crew. Oh, yeah. It's like Jackie Brown, too. You're thinking about Brad Pitt in the movie with Margot Robbie where they did the with Jonah Hill, right? Wolf of Wall Street. >> [laughter] >> He's not even playing anymore. Wolf of Wall Street, Brad Pitt. Yeah. >> He's not playing anymore. Look. >> the Hawaiian shirt. >> [laughter] >> I want to know what movie Brad Pitt was in a Hawaiian shirt.
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