Maybe you remember this. About a month ago, I did a backstory episode about a former Olympic snowboarder from Canada,

who became an international drug lord, an associate of the Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful and most vicious cartel in Mexico.

You can check out that episode, which posted on December 5th.

But ironically, after 10 years in hiding,

Ryan Wedding turned himself into the FBI

in Mexico City last Thursday night.

I'm Patty Steele.

Why did Wedding hand himself over?

And what kind of a deal did he cut?

That update is next on the backstory.

This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

We're back with the backstory.

As you may remember from the December 5th episode of the backstory,

Ryan James Wedding was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1981.

His family was obsessed with snow, teaching skiing, skiing competitively, even owning a ski resort.

Ryan had a solid future in what was then the new Olympic sport, competitive snowboarding.

He makes the Canadian national team at the age of 15, and then he makes

the start list for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he's entered into the

men's parallel giant slalom. But he doesn't meddle. He finishes 24th. He wanted more,

and rather than push himself up the mountain to compete on a higher level, he drops out of the sport.

While going to college, he gets a job as a bouncer and starts hanging with petty criminals and drug dealers.

...