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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Thank you. Welcome back to the Underwall podcast, the audio visual programmer, two journalists, one of whom wear sunglasses indoors, who have reported on international organized crime all over the world, bring you a new story on international organized crime from past, present, and future every single week.

Well, except for this week, sort of. We'll explain why.

I am one of your host, Danny Golds. I am joined by legendary magazine writer Sean Williams,

who is in the process of transition. He's transitioning from a New Zealand yokel to a sexy

Latin, I don't know, tango dance person, right this very week as he moves to Argentina like two weeks from now, a week from now, something like that?

As we're recording this two weeks, but yeah, when this is out, maybe I'm on my way. I don't know how that's going to work.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. But not tango. That's way too high energy for me. I like the cumbia stuff. You listen to how much of that? It's really cool. It's like, chill. Looking forward to you talking about it all the time. I will. Look, since Sean is moving his entire family and dog and baby, literally across the world, It's on the verge of actually a breakdown.

He's putting out of front, but he is hanging on by a thread. No, I need help. We decided to save him the troubles of writing a script this week and hit you guys with a stash house episode instead of just airing a repeat because there's a lot going on right now in Crimland. And, uh, you know, we need to continuously feed the content beast. It is our burden to bear the massive boulder that never gets to the top of the hill. So apologies for not having a regular episode this week, but like we wanted to get you something. So is this going to be a little low effort? It might be, but it's still content. Patreon.com slash in the world podcast for bonuses or sign up on Spotify or iTunes,

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Do you want to know, actually, and a little aside, it's not really me that has the issue.

It's my dog. So my dog is going from Wellington, New Zealand, right?

Get this.

To Auckland, to Toronto, to Vancouver, to Santiago to Chile, to Buenos Aires.

And if my dog makes that trip alive and not like in a completely busty case,

I will, yeah, maybe I can make a bet on Kalshi that she, she survives. You stop, please stop. You can't just put, can't put it in like a bag, like it's a small dog, right? No, it's a medium. It's a medium, not a dog bag. Not a bag dog. That sucks, man. It's a proper dog. Yeah, Sad. Anyway, this has been our impression of what every other podcast that isn't about organized crime is like. But we are going to talk about Ryan Wedding because we have got so many messages about him in the last, what is it, two weeks. He's the Olympic snowboarder turned drug impresario that just got busted in Mexico. How could we not start off with that? A few people have been like, you guys should do an episode on him. We did in May of 2025. It's like 45 minutes. It is a good one. If you want a regular episode and haven't listened to that one before, definitely go back and listen to this, but let's get into the arrest. For those

who don't know, Wedding is a former Canadian Olympian snowboarder, though, I mean, he placed like 23rd at the Salt Lake City game. So, I mean, let's be real. Like, he's not, he's not Sean White, okay? Low effort, Olympian. He began, there's no such thing. I'm just, I'm just I would not, never disrespect the Winter Olympics, except for curling.

He began a meteoric no such thing. I'm just, I would not, never disrespect the Winter Olympics, except for curling.

He began a meteoric rise in the drug game in the 2000s, culminating with him being pretty

high up in the Sinaloa cartel, especially for a foreigner.

There's been comparisons to Chapo and Escobar and El Mayo, which are absurdly overblown.

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