0:01I am I've always been obsessed with news cycles and how they're used for political purposes, >> dude. And this news cycle has been just demented.
0:10>> So these the with these Epstein file things that happened, the latest drop is the one that happened on January 30th and that was the [ __ ] boogeyman one that people will not let go righteously so cuz it's some of the worst [ __ ] I've ever seen. And this is such a problem for the whole government. huge problem, huge distraction. They're freaking out about it. And in a span of three days, [snorts] we saw the reports coming out, including on this podcast from John Kuryaku, straight from the White House, which he turned out to be right about.
0:42He's about 3 days ahead, but we saw reports coming out that they're going to start the war with Iran, which is not our war. We saw the night before that, that Thursday, the 19th, Trump come out and announce that he wants the Pentagon to redact the UFO files. are literally giving us [ __ ] aliens like to try to get our mind off this stuff. And then we see El Mencho taken out on Sunday with US intelligence. And I'm like to me, if that is how it went down, even if it's not how it went down on the actual final like boom boom boom shooting that happened, it's like they knew where he was forever and they had that in the
1:19back pocket and they're like, "Yo, well, we really need to change the story." Oh, cartels. Look, violence crazy. Look at the pictures. you know, get people's minds off it, to distract from other things. And I cannot help but think this is one small pebble in that [ __ ] skip on the on on the top of of of the water to just try to get people to watch that instead of look over here and see what's really going wrong.
1:40>> I don't know. I don't know if I agree with that. I think that a lot of things can happen at once. And >> yeah, >> it's pretty interesting that three major things would happen. I've been getting a lot of comments like what what you're saying right now, but I I think that >> there's just a lot going on. I mean, >> it could be. It could be.
1:59>> I also like in terms of the Epstein thing, I think it's just enough that they just have been releasing it in small doses, micro doing the public and everyone kind of just at a certain point gets really desensitized to stuff like that and it gets brushed under the rug no matter what. I don't even think they need to drop some big thing in order for the public to just not really do >> I would disagree after this last one.
2:18And again, I'm more in it, but like >> you are more in it than me.
2:21>> This last one, >> these documents are some of the worst [ __ ] I've ever seen in my life. And it the volume of p righteously so, public outrage after this latest drop on January 30th went up by a scale of 20x. People are going to hate me for this, but like that's um I can't look at that stuff. I like, you know, I saw like bits and pieces and then there was like one thing that I was like, "Okay, anytime I see something with related to these files, I'm I I can't >> What was that?"
2:55>> It was like a It was just really violent and just really bad. I That type of stuff really bugs me. And I think I've said this on your podcast before, like I would rather be murdered than and like >> there's so much like and kids and stuff.
3:09I >> I and I hate to be that person. Like I've always been like I'm not ignorant, you know, and even if it's painful, you have to look at it. You have to be informed.
3:18>> But some of it is so vile. Like I I just can't Julian like >> No, I I also says a lot that you're like I can't with this. Like that [ __ ] bad [ __ ] You see awful [ __ ] >> like first person >> first person >> in like in front of me.
3:34>> Yeah.
3:34>> Yeah. But I I >> And you're making my point for me. Like this is how visceral that latest one is and people I mean it's just I've said this but it's such a red line for me.
3:44Like I mean it was a red line already before this, but now that you have [cough] some proof or at least hardcore smoke around the fire at the very least needing some more evidence to some of the most monstrous [ __ ] There's something about Sorry, I'm choking on water right now.
4:05>> I can see that. But this news cycle has been crazy. I mean like what January alone felt like I lived like 30 years because I went from [ __ ] Colombia, Venezuela to Ukraine to the northern border to Mexico. Like I was just like a hooker's panties. Like I was just everywhere. And it was the following news cycle. And then now people are like, "Are you going to Iran?" And I'm like, "Guys, I there's there's a [ __ ] line." And you know what? I haven't slept.
4:33>> Yeah. Yeah.
4:34>> Like there's only >> You can stay away from Iran. And I don't Yeah, there's >> I don't think you'd do well there.
4:40>> Why? Cuz I'm a woman.
4:43>> Also, you're not American. You're Canadian. But you know what I mean.
4:46You're coming from this part of the world and it's >> there's rockets going in there, right?
4:50>> In a lot of the parts of like the world, they don't know the difference between Canadian and American. And so impossible basically to identify yourself.
4:56>> Exactly. But let's I I I want to talk about some of the things you've been doing, which is pretty wild. But before we get there, I want to make sure we get through the whole CJNG stuff. So, we got our theories on what it could be. You're there is a power vacuum right now, but based on what we're thinking, it could just be for show and they already have someone who's very clearly in charge.
5:18Have we seen since the violence died down between the military and the CJNG fa factions the day after? Have we had major reports of serious violence from within the cartel world? Yeah, but adversarial cartels, not from within CGNG.
5:35>> So, they're not shooting at each other.
5:36>> No.
5:37>> That tells me they've had it figured out.
5:39>> Exactly.
5:39>> Okay.
5:40>> And you don't figure that out one night to the next.
5:42>> No, you don't.
5:43>> Come on.
5:43>> Now, did Eleno Is there evidence that Eleno >> handpicked? Who was it going to be?
5:50>> We do know that.
5:51>> Yeah.
5:51>> And which do we know who he handpicked?
5:53>> It's El Cerot, the stepson. Okay.
5:55>> And I'm sure that that was also upon the recommendation of his ex-wife, Rosalinda.
6:00>> Right. So no one's going to [ __ ] with that choice. You got the Kennedy, the Mexican Kennedys behind it. You got the guy who founded the whole dead behind it. That's where the money is. He's been on both sides of the border.
6:11>> Okay.
6:12>> He's a very strategic choice for sure.
6:14>> Now, what is the deal with the Chapitos and CGNG?
6:19C. God damn it.
6:21>> You said it right. Right.
6:22>> You did. You said CGNG.
6:24>> All right. Whatever. You get the point.
6:25[snorts] the what what is what is the deal in the wake of Elmeno between those two?
6:31>> Oh, that alliance stays alive. It's >> so they're not hitting each other.
6:35>> Okay. From what I've seen so far over the course of this week, nothing has really changed.
6:41>> Yeah, it's an inside job.
6:43>> It just doesn't it doesn't add up. Like I know cartels like this what I study.
6:47>> Yeah.
6:47>> Um and the fact that the leader is taken out, we should see [ __ ] three different guys vying for power. There should be a war in Sakatas. There should be a war in Verarac Cruz. There should be a warrants in Alo. Well, there already is, but you know what I mean.
7:00There should be Mitakan and Halisco right now. Should and Kol Lima should just be balls to the wall.
7:06>> No.
7:07>> Yeah. Yeah, it's a setup.
7:09>> But when I was in Kol Lima, there was like um the day I got there, uh there was a narco banner put up and there's obviously some sort of infighting going on in there between like but I'm pretty sure it's it doesn't have to do with the CGNG. It has >> where was this >> in K Lima which is the neighboring state with Halisco.
7:28>> Um there was an ARCO banner put up and they were naming it named all of the politicians who are on the payroll. And that's a tactic of infighting because one group is funding those politicians.
7:40So the other group will name them to call out that group, right?
7:44>> And they use them as like a it's like a proxy, right?
7:47>> Yeah. They know that that's not our guys. Leave them out to burn.
7:49>> Yeah, >> I got you. Um, but it's certainly there's there isn't anything [clears throat] right now that's indicating, oh my god, CJNG is up in flames. I mean, you remember I came here right after I was reporting in Soloa after Alio was gone. It was a [ __ ] war zone.
8:05>> [ __ ] show.
8:06>> Yeah.
8:07>> I I literally got off the airport and we're driving and it's just bodies >> and bodies and military just voom voom.
8:16Like at night, no one's going out.
8:18There's a curfew. No, kids can't go to school a lot of the days. Every night I'm being alerted of shootouts and narco blockades and we're going to cover it and then in the morning it's just like bodies upon bodies. That's infighting.
8:33>> Yes. And we're not seeing any of that right now.
8:36>> No.
8:36>> Yeah, [snorts] >> man. I had one of the best like brunches of my life in the Palpa. I was literally sitting on the patio smoking and eating my freaking chilakilles and just I felt like I was on vacation.
8:50and Guadalara is fine.
8:54Not fine, okay? Like I don't want to you know what I mean though, but like considering the context and I want people to keep that in mind cuz some of the listeners are not very critical sometimes where it's like when I say oh it's all fine and dandy.
9:06>> It doesn't necessarily mean oh you know you're in [ __ ] Maui but it just considering the context of the environment right?
9:13>> Yes. You you hate when I um insult your >> No, I think I I think you're funny like unintentionally sometimes, but that's pretty good.
9:20>> So, you But when you first went down there, like when you were first coming on the show back in 265, >> you know, you had gone down there to cover Sinaloa and again, you're covering it like in the wake of like you said having that whole very still, by the way, actually before I asked this, do we have updates on that? [laughter] Yeah, it was it was set up by the Chapitos. They betrayed him, sold him out to the US. He was they set him up.
9:49He was kidnapped and brought into the US.
9:50>> Was he CIA?
9:52>> I don't know. I don't think >> Is it quite possible though?
9:55>> I don't know. You asked me this about every single Kingpin. It's so hard for me to say.
9:59>> He's a He's such a prime target though for that.
10:02>> But aren't they all?
10:03>> They are. But he operated so quietly and so simply through all the ups and downs with El Chapo and everything and was really like the dude and El Chapo is like kind of more the public figure if you will for so long and he goes so far back.
10:20>> I think he went the longest without being captured, right? Yeah.
10:24>> Another actually glad you brought this up. I did read someone's um kind of like opinion piece about how they think that the Chapitos actually sold out Mencho because since the alliance they were privy to more information about him and because you know all the Chapitos essentially are in the US at this point except for Ivan Archibaldo who by the way crazy that Ivan has outlasted everyone okay outlasted wedding outlasted Meno outlasted Maduro like >> crazy because Ivan has been like number one target and he's like always just instant alone and there have been so many failed operations where oh we
11:03almost got him but there was like this hidden tunnel and it's like every like it's literally happened like I think like three times now which is crazy.
11:11>> Yeah, that's I just think it's crazy but like what the [ __ ] But um I don't know uh about what CIA or >> Yeah, with Alio. I just it the whole thing with him is very >> You've always asked me this. I don't know. And I don't I don't want to like make an opinion cuz I'm not >> Of course. No, I don't want you to do that. I'm not >> I think people actually appreciate that I don't do that.
11:33>> Yes, they do. Don't make [ __ ] up.
11:35>> No, I won't. I never do. And if I'm wrong, I admit it. I actually I was wrong about something this year or um I said >> I'll make you guys a bet. I don't think Ryan Wedding is ever going to see a cell. That was one thing.
11:46>> We're going to come to that story. Hold that thought because there was that's another one that's like kind of interesting how that >> I know all the ins and outs of that story.
11:54>> Okay. I just am not entirely sure what I can say publicly about that.
11:59>> Okay, we'll go through.
12:00>> But if people had known or were able to know what I know. Yeah, whatever.
12:04>> I got you. But like there's that guy I've told you about before who I got connected to a while ago through a cartel dude who's like definitely still in CIA, but like one of those 50-year guys who made his bones the first 20ome years of his career. He got into CIA as a knock in Mexico where they embedded him with the cartels with the >> Felix Ariano brothers. Is that right?
12:34>> Ariano Phelix.
12:34>> Yeah. Yeah. And so I, you know, he's very cy. I've been we've like he wants to do the podcast and we've been talking about it for like a year and a half, but he's always going to some [ __ ] third world country to overthrow government. Like his company just shows up there. It's like him and like >> But he's willing to do this with his face.
12:54>> Yeah. Yeah.
12:55>> No way. I call [ __ ] >> He's not in CIA anymore. He's But he >> I feel like you never actually leave the CIA.
13:01>> That's what I agree. I unless you're like John Kuryaku and they like throw you in prison. Like I don't think you leave. And like it's just funny because he's got a he's got a company.
13:11Shout out Ryan. He's got a company with like three other ex spooky people from CIA and all these other places. And in the words of Luis Na'vi is like they show up in some third world country and 6 months later the whole [ __ ] government's overthrown. Who would have thought that Venezuela, right? But no, it wasn't even Venezuela. It's usually like Africa or like countries you never heard of or whatever.
13:36>> Africa is not a country.
13:37>> But you know what I mean. I meant the countries in Africa. Do you know that a lot of your viewers love when I do that to you?
13:42>> I [laughter] know they do. But you know that guy I now I'd really be burning to get him on because we know CIA has used cartels for their own whatever forever and like they it's the ultimate like deal with the devil. Yep.
14:00>> Very interesting. But back to we we'll come to Ryan wedding because I do want to go through all that. That [ __ ] was crazy. But with Sinaloa, cuz that was the initial you were you were doing all those stories when you first got down there and you've mentioned them today because you mentioned the Chapitos alliance with one faction of CJNG and everything. What is what's outside of that? Like what's the status of them from a power perspective in Mexico at this point given that Elmo and El Chapo are now gone? [snorts] >> Honestly, I don't want to talk about who I think is winning that war because I I
14:33>> um I got a death threat about that. Oh, no. All right, let's not do that then.
14:37>> I know. And I because I had talked about it and I was super open about it. Um, >> why' you who what kinds of people gave you death?
14:45>> Someone within that within the faction that I said was not doing well >> and so they hit you up personally instead of >> it. It was real. And I talked about this on a podcast like a few days ago or something. um they asked me if you know death threats and I was like I can identify when it's just like you know this empty threat of someone trying to scare me versus when it's something that I actually need to pay attention to and unfortunately I know that it impacts >> hopefully not the integrity of my job but certainly the content of what I can say but also like it's my life right >> and so there was um I did like receive a
15:20message um and multiple people actually flagged it to me that there was B like chatter about this um and that it some people were just unhappy that I was saying that like basically what I thought was happening within this infighting. So I just rather not give an >> Yeah, definitely.
15:42>> Yeah. No, no, no. And and I'm actually happy to hear you talk like that cuz in the past I feel like you would have been like, you know what, [ __ ] it. But like you you got to I think when you're doing a job like yours, first of all, there's not many people who do it. Secondly, like the stories you do get are insane and like >> but that's why because I've always kind of been fearless about it, but >> there's a line.
16:05>> Well, when the threat literally is like substantial. I mean, yeah, it sucks because I don't want to be scared out of saying the truth, but I just don't even think that this is worth it. I think anyone who's a critical thinker could look at the the >> the civil war, let's call it, and could form their own opinion. Um, so yeah, but I I don't really just want to talk about that. Exactly.
16:29>> Yeah. No, we we won't. And >> especially if I have to go back to Solo at some point like >> that's what I'm saying. You have to make like And there could be people out there who are just they want to complain about anything and there there's always going to be people like that. But you have to make like tradeoff decisions sometimes where it's like, all right, I want to do 100% right. I want to get every [ __ ] thing. I want to be able to say whatever I want. If I do that, I'm dead. So, would I rather be able to do 80% of what I want and continue to do the job and do it extremely effectively and for many
17:04years and actually help save lives and maybe change the trajectory of stuff and shut up about the other 20% so that I can do that and live. Yeah, that's what you got to do.
17:13>> Yeah. And but it it was hard for me to accept that. You would you know that because you know me. So it was like it but it got to a point where I was like yeah that was the kind of the pay like the I had to accept that essentially >> and and it's it is the right decision so we'll stay off that. That's no problem.
17:31But there's still chaos basically, right? Like there's still >> it's still ongoing constantly. And I'm constantly being shown videos of someone in the Misa faction or someone in the Chapitos faction being murdered or like the literal [ __ ] gunfights within like the forest regions. Um, >> how much of it is dragging on to civilians?
17:55I think right now, I mean, no, it it it comes to a head every now and then where there's like a really public shootout and you have like kids that just got out of school running for their lives, like taking shelter in some woman's home and, you know, it happens. But because also everyone's desensitized and because this has been going on for a while now, uh it doesn't, you know, make the headlines as much. It certainly doesn't make the headlines in here. I mean, in Mexico, I see it all the time, but um everyone's very desensitized.
18:23>> Yeah. And we talked about this. Um the desensitization of all that population is is at an extreme.
18:32>> I mean I I I get it though. They've been living with it for decades.
18:36>> So long. It's generations.
18:37>> Runs their country. Yeah. We have Karolina here and she was her family's still there.
18:41>> Yeah.
18:41>> And that was last June when you were here. It's like, you know, we just take for granted how many of us, obviously, we have some gang vi violence problems in this country. And there's some places where people do live with with some things like that. You go outside, you got to duck from bullets and that's horrible.
18:59>> But at the scale that it is in Mexico >> because in Mexico it's a [ __ ] like nargo, >> it's everywhere.
19:04>> Government and economy.
19:06>> Yep.
19:07>> So, how do you even separate that?
19:09>> You don't. Is there I >> don't ask me for a solution right now.
19:13>> No, no, not not a solution. I have >> my least favorite question because you think if I had the answer like >> we'd be talking. No, >> no. You'd be meeting with more important people. But like have you seen any slight improvement at all in the corruption department?
19:32>> No.
19:32>> Yeah, it's still >> absolutely not.
19:35>> Every bit as bad as it was.
19:37>> Yeah. probably if not even like worse now with this weird [ __ ] conspiracy I have about Elemental.
19:42>> I don't think it's a weird conspiracy at all. You found you found a stage scene.
19:46>> You know what I when I was there so on the first day I went to the cabins.
19:52>> Um I went in like, "Oh my god, okay, we're going to be here. We're going to get this coverage and I'm going to show people what this is like." And at one point I think my cameraman got it on camera.
20:04I was like pissed because I when I saw like the shell casings and like just the way the scene looked, there's definitely like one scene of me where I'm just like [gasps] [sighs] let's leave. Like what the [ __ ] are we doing here?
20:19>> This is like this is such [ __ ] And I started getting mad like the way sometimes you get mad on your podcast.
20:25Like I kind of crashed out.
20:26>> And my cameraman like at the team I was with, they were like, "It's okay. We think the same thing." And then I spoke with some reporters that were also there who are with like a legacy media outlet and I was like, "Do you guys think I'm crazy?" And they were like, "No, we're thinking the same thing."
20:45>> Yeah.
20:46>> I'm shocked they let you guys in there.
20:48>> There was no one to let us in.
20:50>> Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like you just walk right up and you're able to go in. I'm shocked that given that it's so clearly staged, they didn't just create a perimeter and make some excuse and I don't know, [ __ ] bulldoze the place. one of the windows in one of the houses and they >> shoot it out.
21:06>> I know in one of the the houses um the one that I think was like uh vacant there's like sliding windows. Okay. And so in this house, do you know that like I don't I don't know how to explain this properly. So like in sliding windows or sliding window doors, you ever seen people who will like cut a piece of wood or like a piece of tube to put it in that space where it slides so that if someone tries to break in? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, this house had that and on the inside, sorry, on the inside is like the glass sliding doors and on the outside is like a bug net, right? Um, well, in this house there is like the window
21:49is broken.
21:52Like a piece of the window on the sliding door is broken and the glass is inside the house and like the the the rupture pushes inside, but the net on the other side of the door is completely intact.
22:05And then there's like one like bullet, but it's not like a bullet that was shot on the floor. It's like it fell out of the clip.
22:15I have a picture.
22:16>> Yeah. Yeah. Can you show me that? I mean, this is just like like put a little more effort in it, guys.
22:22>> Bro, I know.
22:22>> You know what I mean? Like, if you're going to do a cover up, like a good cover up creates evidence.
22:30>> They couldn't even take the time.
22:32>> Like, blow out a few windows with some bullets. How hard is it? No one's going to know.
22:36>> Put a body in there.
22:38>> Yeah.
22:39>> Yeah. Get Get Epstein's fake body. Put it in there.
22:41>> Here you go. This is This is great. And then you can slide.
22:45>> Okay. So, you can't see the net in that photo, but there's a net on the other side and you see the glasses like inside, then you see the bullet that fell out of the clip on the floor.
22:54>> Oh, yeah. And it's like aimed perfectly facing outside, too.
22:58>> Okay. But I'm not taking that.
23:00>> Just the aim. Don't take that into consideration because so many people has have been in this houses and stuff.
23:05>> So, they could have moved it.
23:05>> Yeah. So, like at one point, one of the guys I was with was like, "Look at that shell. It's on like this rubber mat and it didn't melt it." And I'm like, "Okay guys, like let's not be stupid here because shit's like been moving around.
23:16There's been so many people in here."
23:18>> And this is where the glass is broken.
23:20That's a closeup of it. I'll put that up. Thief, can you see it in focus?
23:24>> So that's where it's broken on the side of the wood.
23:27>> No, no, no.
23:27>> Where the wood would have gone to >> No, the wood is on the ground.
23:30>> I know, but where the wood would have gone. Like see how the wood is right there and that's where it's broken on that side.
23:36>> No, the wood isn't from that. I'm talking about here.
23:39>> Yeah.
23:40>> There's a tube. Yes.
23:42>> In there. That wood is from a broken door over here.
23:45>> Oh, so that's not even the thing you're talking about.
23:48>> And you can see this piece of glass is actually facing me. Like it looks like it got broken from the outside. Oh, when I zoom in, you can see there's net here.
23:56And the net is in perfect I'm not [snorts] even talking to the mic. I'm sorry. You're good. You're good.
24:00>> The net is in perfect condition.
24:02>> So, it looks like it was broken from the outside, but it I don't know. Like, >> but I'm also not a [ __ ] CIA investigator. CSI. I mean, >> right, that's a little Freudian slip right there [snorts] >> because we're talking about it.
24:15>> Uhuh.
24:16>> Don't try to [ __ ] push some [ __ ] narrative.
24:18>> They got a Z. They got a zebra on the wall.
24:20>> Oh, there was a lot of um uh >> [ __ ] zebra taxidererm zebra.
24:26>> That's wild. You couldn't take that with you as a souvenir.
24:29>> So, you want to know what's crazy? You know how many DMs I got of people telling me they'd pay me like x amount of money to bring them like shell casings and stuff like that?
24:36>> It would have been so profitable.
24:38>> But What am I looking at? What am I looking at here?
24:41>> Uh, a Jesus statue with the window broken in the back.
24:44>> But what's in the background? Like a Trojan horse statue?
24:47>> Yeah.
24:47>> Is that a hillside behind there?
24:49>> Mhm.
24:50>> Okay.
24:51>> No, there's more houses behind the Trojan statue.
24:53>> Yeah.
24:55What is this? What is the syringe?
24:59>> Medication.
25:00>> Oh, it's for insulin. I see that. Okay.
25:02Pictures of Jesus and Mary. They were very holy people.
25:05>> Did I tell you about the watermelon?
25:07>> No.
25:08>> Okay. Okay. So, I'll show it to you.
25:09>> I love watermelon.
25:11>> Okay. So, Oh, this is like a great map of like that's what I wanted to show.
25:15>> Oh, can we see that? Let's hold that.
25:16>> So, the green area are the cabins.
25:19>> All right. Green area right there. We got it, Dave.
25:21>> The green area is the green area.
25:24>> Focus now.
25:25>> Tell me when.
25:26>> There we go.
25:27>> The green area is the cabins. The red area is the um forest area in front where the military apparently came through.
25:36The pink area is that road, the side road that leads up from the highway. And then the blue area is the um is the country club. Blue area is country club.
25:50>> What? That's a big ass [ __ ] country club.
25:53>> I top left is where the part where he was at where he apparently went through tried to get tooth from the forest.
26:00>> Was he a golfer? Like was he just like out there like you know doing cart run the cartel business? I don't actually know if there was like golf there. I couldn't get in.
26:08>> Okay. Yeah. I'm not seeing holes and sand traps.
26:12>> Why do they call it a country club?
26:13>> Because it's a country club.
26:15>> Yeah. But usually like I I usually hear like golfers. They're >> in Mexico. There's there's country clubs and like people go swimming there and eat there and it's for like a lot of rich people to like have an escape from like >> the shitty town that they live in.
26:27>> So it doesn't have to have a golf course. I guess >> one of my friends in Mex in um as a state kind of has that.
26:33>> Okay. Um, I wanted to show you the watermelon. [snorts] >> Yeah. What's going on there?
26:39>> Okay. So, they said that like they went in and like all these guys were living there and that obviously there was like this huge conflict and so everyone kind of stopped what they were doing and there was like food and everything left out. And this I mean I would assume obviously watermelon was cut like right like before the oper like it was obviously not that long before this whole thing went h okay >> they brought the catering in first I >> like this watermelon is over a week old outside.
27:15>> Oh yeah it's >> but this is this is 2 days after the operation. So what did these guys just leave the watermelon out there for 2 weeks? No way. or no one was there.
27:25>> They abandoned it a long time ago.
27:26>> Yeah. No, that's molded as [ __ ] >> Yeah. I I asked Chat GPT what that molding looks like and my chemist friend and she's like that's over 10 days old.
27:36>> Yeah. No, I I can actually cuz I've left a watermelon in the back of the fridge >> like like in a fridge that's like 34 or 35 degrees or something like that before >> by accident and it doesn't look this bad. And also >> after weeks >> that those cabins, they're built to be really cool. So even though like outside it was really warm when you're in the sun, in those cabins it's it's very cool. What are you looking at?
28:01>> Is that the Wi-Fi?
28:03>> I think that's a phone number.
28:05But >> in two digits at a time.
28:08>> Yeah.
28:10>> Cabana numero.
28:12>> I think it's for the administration for that for those.
28:14>> Oh. Oh, it could be like an extension.
28:16And then you took a picture of like barcode up there.
28:21>> Oh, cuz I wanted to know if the Jeep was stolen, which it [clears throat] was from the States.
28:24>> Yeah, sounds about right.
28:27Who are the guys on the horses? Is that the cartel lookouts?
28:30>> No, no, no. Those are just guys that I thought looked cool on the donkeys. I don't even think those are horses, Julian.
28:35>> They look like mules.
28:36>> Wait, I can't I It was far away. Yeah, they're not horses. They are mules.
28:41You're right. They're small. Poor mule, man. That guy's like too [ __ ] twin.
28:45Hey, you need to stop sliding [laughter] there cuz I don't know what the [ __ ] is in there.
28:49>> Jesus Christ.
28:50>> Okay. All right.
28:51>> Um, and then >> so the whole point is it's sketchy.
28:55Period.
28:56>> Uh, very sketchy. And then at one point, this one was interesting to me. So, like out front there was um like a little barbecue and it was like obviously filled with ash. And so, dude, I'm like, what was in here? Because this was also right at the borderline between the parking lot and the forest where apparently the operative operatives came up. So, I just like literally started digging through the ash. Like when I got there, I was just like, I want to see everything, right? Which is why I to have pictures of the [ __ ] router even. [snorts] >> And look what I found in the ash in that barbecue
29:35>> in the ash.
29:39>> That little photo. And then slide again and there's another one.
29:45>> Is this cartel guy's girls?
29:48>> That's what I thought. But then someone else told me, I bet you if you put those pictures into a missing person, >> they're missing. Oh my god.
29:56>> But I don't know. I'm in the process of trying to figure that out. And don't show those pictures. And I'm not going to It's two women, just so you guys know. It's like They look like passport photos.
30:06>> It's like what you It's like Yeah.
30:08>> Little passport photos. They're not they're not like when I let me describe it right. They look like square cutouts of what would be a selfie but it's a selfie shot that you would see on Instagram like a Facebook profile picture. Yes.
30:22>> And they're like >> Whoa. That's [ __ ] Oh, that's an chill up my spine.
30:28>> But why would those photos just like I don't know. I don't know. I >> cuz they were targets for something.
30:33>> I'm driving myself crazy with this.
30:35>> That's nuts. cuz I thought, oh, maybe you know what, whoever these cartel lookouts were um tried to like ditch some stuff that could like >> [clears throat] >> identify them, >> but it was in the ash in the barbecue, but like these photos aren't burnt. Um >> that's really weird. And then also I so I was like maybe they're like the girlfriends of them but then I was like or maybe these were like targets you know like human trafficking or girls that they would bring to the compound to and we know that about CG&G is like at their um like at the Rancho Seir you know that extermination camp 50 60 km we
31:10talked about that >> um that you know they were bringing a lot of girls there um for sex services and so those could be those girls. So, I am going to I have to figure out how to do it in like an ethical way. Um, but try to, you know, get in touch with those collective groups of people who search for missing people in Mexico and see if maybe those girls are them. I had someone try to like find who they were like social media pages and we couldn't find anything. [snorts] >> Yeah. I I wonder also as well because it's the same that was running the kidnapping pregnant women too.
31:46>> Yeah. But also important to keep in mind that at this place like there was a ton I found a ton of um bottles of lube and Viagra. Um so if it was like just men there I mean unless they were gay but there's the photos of women >> kidnapping women bringing them back.
32:05Yeah. That's crazy man.
32:07>> And like Go ahead.
32:09>> You look at the pictures of those girls like they're not from like high socioeconomic backgrounds. No.
32:13>> You know it's like a it's a >> Yeah. a looks like could be a victim of >> Yeah.
32:22>> Do we have, by the way, I forgot to ask you this earlier. Ever since they arrested La Diablo to take down that ring, do we have evidence that things like that with, you know, trafficking babies and stuff is still continuing?
32:36>> Uh, no. It seems like it that was like that extortion ring that was operating it and a few other young women like even some minors have been arrested for also working with her.
32:47>> Oh god.
32:49>> Yeah. They were the ones responsible for a lot of like the >> So they would lure them. Oh, that's horrible.
32:55Death penalty. That's horrible.
32:59What about, you know, since Trump came in, obviously the border is tighter, so that was part of the reason they're finding new rackets to make money. How how is the border right now as it pertains to like >> even just CG&J getting in or CJNG getting in drugs to America? Are they just getting creative with different ways to do it or is their volume severely impacted?
33:27>> It's not severely impacted. It's about the same. Um numbers spiked again in November, >> but that's also just that doesn't really mean anything in my opinion. Like that that that just happens. Um >> it just happens.
33:39>> Yeah, like seizure numbers spiked. But I never really trust seizure numbers and I did like a whole Substack article on this because just because like they caught more or they caught less doesn't mean that the volume that's actually being trafficked is any different. You know what I mean? So to me like when I look at seizure numbers like I rarely report on it because I just don't think that it has any really like substantial ground to say like oh my god they're trafficing so much more just cuz you know maybe for that month a bunch more a bunch of more operations were deployed by BP or something like that. And also,
34:09you could look at it the other way if you wanted to, but I think it has the same problem as what you just pointed out in this direction. And that is it's like, oh, well, that means they're getting more of it and they're catching more of it, but it's also like, like you said, what's the real volume that they're even going after each month and what's getting through that they don't know about valid.
34:26All right, real quick. Now, I got to go to the bathroom, but let's come back and talk to Ryan Wedding because that [ __ ] was crazy. I'll be right back.
34:33>> All right, we're back. So, since you and I last talked, Ryan Wedding, as you alluded to earlier, was caught, as I'm I'm going to have you do a review of just like who he is for some people who may be unfamiliar or need to be refamiliarized with it. But [cough] you did say that you didn't think he would get caught.
34:49>> I didn't.
34:50>> But he apparent there, you know, there were there was a lot of like misin like did he surrender himself or was he actually caught, how it went down, what the agreement was. So, let's start with who he was and then what happened here.
35:06>> So, Ryan Wedding uh was a Canadian Olympic athlete uh who then became a bouncer. He's actually from the same city as me. He's from Vanc Well, he's from Thunder Bay, Ontario, but then grew up um just outside of Vancouver.
35:19>> Apple don't fall too far from the tree.
35:21>> And he comes from [gasps] [ __ ] off. Um >> Hey, you're covering it. He's doing it.
35:28I know. We honestly aren't that different.
35:30>> That's right.
35:30>> Um >> [laughter] [clears throat] >> you're going to go around that corner.
35:39I don't know if I want to do anything.
35:41[laughter] >> And he's from actually a really prominent family in Canada. They had a ski resort. Um his dad is an engineer.
35:50Uh and then they moved to BC to Kquitlam, which is like a suburb right outside of Vancouver, which is where he went to school. He was in like gifted programs. Super smart kid growing up.
36:00Obviously skied really well cuz he went to the Olympics. He went to Salt Salt Lake I think 2002.
36:06>> That's right.
36:07>> Uh don't think he placed um and then ended up working as a bouncer at a nightclub in Vancouver where he made a lot of contacts with Hell's Angels criminals. You know how that goes. It's like textbook.
36:20>> That is textbook. um starts trafficking, goes to Southern California for like kind of one of the bigger drops of the beginning of his career, gets caught, goes to jail or you know, drug trafficker university.
36:33>> That's right.
36:33>> Um makes amazing connections, starts gets connected with the Colombians, the Americans. This is also the time when marijuana is still illegal and British Columbia, where he was living, has some of the best marijuana in the world, BC Bud. So he gets makes all the contacts, starts doing this trafficking. Fast forward.
36:54I mean, I could go on and on, right? Uh or he Yeah. So then he goes to Mexico, aligns himself very well with the Chapitos of the >> like the late 2000s kind of deal at this point.
37:06>> Uh-huh. Uh aligns himself really well with the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel.
37:11>> Now, why did they bring him into the inner sanctum? this gringo from Canada. Obviously, like you said, he has access to, you know, BC bud, but they got a lot of bud.
37:23>> See, I have a lot to say about this because obviously I had been like studying wedding very thoroughly >> and I think, okay, for the cultural aspect and the trust uh actually, let's start with his intellect. He was very smart. I think that he was very good at making contacts with the Chinese, Colombians, and Mexicans. Um, and then the Hell's Angels. And so he was able to really prove that he could up profit. Um, trafficking under the radar, moving a lot of product, basically the textbook way to move up the ranks in the drug trafficking world.
38:04Aside from that, I think in a sense um like he was kind of like me in a way where he knew how to just assimilate into the culture.
38:14>> Uh he got along with these people. Uh he knew how to chat with them. He married a Mexican woman. Um they had kids together.
38:23He was also very violent and had a really big ego which can take you a long way obviously in this world. Um, and he knew how to take people out that he was worried about. And so the Chapitos really trusted him because he made a lot of money. He had or has a very high IQ.
38:45And this is someone that they knew could connect them with the right people and keep u operations running and and make it even more lucrative than they already had. He was a good nexus for North America, >> right?
38:58Um, >> at what point did he start becoming like a >> a top dog?
39:03>> Not even just that. We There's like 40 or 50 murders that are allegedly attributed to him. And that's >> I think it's a lot more. Yeah.
39:10>> Yeah. Right. At what point did he cross that Rubicon and start becoming a dude ordering people's heads off?
39:16>> I think pretty early on. [clears throat] >> Yeah. I think it was pretty early on in his career where he wanted people to know not to cross him, not to [ __ ] with him. Um, and I think that it got to a point where even the Chinese were scared of him. And the Chinese do business very differently than the Mexicans. They're very low-key and they're very money oriented and ideological oriented. Yeah. Oriented.
39:41>> Ideologically. Um, and so I think when he put out a hit on a Chinese person was when there was some sort of, you know, realization that, okay, he is not to be crossed.
40:00>> Who was the Chinese guy that he put a hit on?
40:05>> Oh, we're not saying.
40:07>> No.
40:08>> Okay.
40:09>> Yeah. Is it someone?
40:12>> It's someone weird that I got from a source.
40:20>> Got it.
40:20>> That's you know um in that same world.
40:25>> Mhm.
40:26>> That I cannot dime out.
40:28>> All right. Did the guy die? Did he put the hit on him and and the guy died?
40:31>> Yeah. He was murdered.
40:32>> Right. So the hit happened. Meaning >> was it someone I don't know if you can say this. If you can't, no problem. Is it someone directly connected >> uh >> like Chinese government?
40:43>> I don't know. I that I actually don't know.
40:45>> Okay.
40:46>> Um but there was supposed to be some business that was done and it just didn't work out >> right.
40:52>> Anyways, um wedding, you know, he has his family, but he also has a lot of nexus in Colombia. uh he starts working with this one woman who's basically a madame who uh helps him run business and take out hits. He starts dating uh this girl Dianiela. She was I think actually working for the madame as a prostitute. They get together. He almost uses Dianiela like as a honeypot in a lot of circumstances to, you know, be friends with so and so's girlfriend so that we can get close to them and see where they really stand or take out a hit on them. Um, Daniela has really bad opse.
41:36I mean, a Colombian BBL baddy probably isn't going to have great opse. Okay, [laughter] no hate, but honestly, just like >> No, it's a fair point.
41:46>> Yeah. So, >> she looked good, though.
41:48>> She did. Edge is a baddie. Um, >> we have a lot of those in Columbia.
41:52>> Batty behind bars.
41:53>> Yeah, >> that talent.
41:55>> That'd be a great series. If anyone wants to pick that up, I >> bars. Actually, I might watch that.
42:02>> I think a lot of people >> feel pretty good. Def's work on it.
42:05>> Hey, that's my idea.
42:06>> Baddy behind behind.
42:10>> Yeah, something. We'll come up with it.
42:12>> Yeah, >> that's my idea, [ __ ] Hey, listen.
42:15You just said it on the Julian Dory podcast, so we now own the IP, but please continue. [sighs] >> For the love of God, whatever. Anyways, so Ryan Wedding becomes a big target for the United States, and to my knowledge, the United States had actually been tracking him for a while and knew where he was. But for the Mexicans, he wasn't a top priority.
42:42And there needed to be obviously cooperation in order for them to get him.
42:47>> Why did the Mexicans not have a top priority on a gringo who had come across the border their place? I would think that would be their guy be like, "Oh, easy.
42:57>> Great fall guy, right?"
42:58>> Yeah. I don't know what it was, but uh I I I think that also Ryan had a lot of really powerful people on his payroll. M >> and so that kind of kept the attention off of him or people were like wary of going after him and he was known to be very violent. Now here's the thing. Um his last like residence was literally in a very high-end gated community in Mexico City out in the open effectively.
43:32>> Yeah. And that's one thing we know about wedding. He [clears throat] had a very big ego. I'd also like to clarify that that whole Instagram page that came out about him, >> it was AI. It's not real.
43:41>> And everyone was like, >> he fell for that.
43:44>> Everyone, the Mexican president fell for it.
43:47>> She did, but she didn't.
43:48>> In her morning press conference, she said, "Of course, he gave himself up. He posted a picture of himself in front of the embassy."
43:55>> And then tried to blame it on Meta for not putting an AI sticker on it. God, that was so obviously AI, >> bro.
44:05>> It was like, "Hello, my name is Ryan Way." [laughter] I mean, I could see them writing it in Pakistan. It was, you know, [laughter] >> oh my god, it was so brutal. And then I got a ton of hate cuz I was like, if any of you believe that this is real, I mean, the one photo he was wearing like a Hublau and it's upside down and I'm like, my guy wedding would never be caught dead in a hublau. He's a Rolex guy. People were like, "Shut up."
44:30>> What was And they do put out a [ __ ] hilarious tweet about that. I forget what he said.
44:35>> Him and I were going back and forth that whole time.
44:37>> He was like, "I have He said, "I have something to sell you." But it was funny as [ __ ] >> He's like, "If you think this is real, I wish I had it, but I can't remember it."
44:45>> He's so funny. And he gets so much [ __ ] >> Oh, it's awesome.
44:48>> And when him and I collaborate, people are like, "Why would you have him on?"
44:51>> He's hilarious.
44:52>> He's so funny. Like, how can I not?
44:53>> Funniest and the nicest guy ever. I love Jeff.
44:55>> He's super nice. Yeah.
44:56>> Great dude. He know. And really like, you know, no one's perfect with stuff.
45:00He covers a lot of different things, >> but he's not an idiot.
45:03>> But Jeff knows his way around a lot of [ __ ] man.
45:07>> For sure. Like I'm impressed with his with his cartel knowledge on stuff. But anyway, you were saying so he becomes at some point there in the 2010s, he's like a topish dog kind of deal. And he got on to the FBI 10 most wanted in the last few years, right?
45:23>> Yeah. And I had been talking about it and everyone's like, "Nobody knows this guy." And I'm like, "Well, you're about to >> do now."
45:28>> And now they do. And everyone was like flipping out about it. And I was like, "I [ __ ] told you guys."
45:33>> Yeah.
45:33>> Sorry. Now that's my age showing. I told you >> right now. Does Cash Patel pay you in cash or a check in the mail? [laughter] >> It's like a massage transfer through his girlfriend.
45:43>> Oh, [laughter] >> what is that? Why was that like the worst thing I've said?
45:53>> No, it's funny. We might get sued now. I was This is a joke.
45:56>> Oh, cuz she does sue people for that.
45:58>> It is a joke. She would never be involved in such endeavors, >> but she is.
46:03>> Damn it, cat.
46:03>> People down.
46:04>> I'm I'm trying [laughter] to trying to help you out.
46:07>> I'm also a girl who likes medium ugly guys, but sister. [laughter] >> Okay, >> let's be for real.
46:13>> That's a bridge, too. Just saying. One is going one way, the other guy's going another. That's all I'm saying.
46:19>> [gasps] >> I can't believe that was the most out of pocket thing that you thought I said cuz but she actually does take legal action.
46:25Huh?
46:25>> She does. Who' she sue?
46:28>> I think C be No, she su She sued a podcast.
46:30>> Su Candace Owens. Was that it?
46:32>> No, >> she Oh, who's the guy? One >> France sued Candace Owens.
46:38>> Who Who do Who' she sue? Uh, specifically Kyle Sarafin. I don't know who that is. Elijah Schaefer. I don't think I know who that is either.
46:47>> And Samuel Parker. Samuel Parker.
46:50>> I thought that was a meme account.
46:51Samuel Parker. Isn't that like the fat meme?
46:54>> No, he's a former Utah Senate Republican party primary count.
46:57>> I'm thinking of someone different. Okay.
47:00>> Podcaster.
47:01>> Yeah. Yeah. So, Oh, that's we're we're just making jokes here, >> bro. If I sued everyone for who came at me saying some [ __ ] like this >> that you can't that's >> grow a backbone. Get a hobby. Okay. Like literally less embarrassing if you download Candy Crush and play it for 4 hours a day. Come on.
47:21>> If I was her, I would have leaned into it, but then you can't.
47:26>> That one you might not be able to lean into, [laughter] but like just let it go.
47:29>> Like, it's not a big deal.
47:31>> It's so much >> You're not marrying the guy for love.
47:34>> And also like, you know, oh my god. See, you're on the same page with me.
47:38>> I mean, >> come on.
47:40>> Look at him >> and like listen to him. [laughter] >> [ __ ] bro. the videos of him with the hockey team.
47:46>> Dude, him doing that presser after Ryan wedding being like, "Yeah, we got him."
47:51And you can't even hear him cuz he decided to do it on tarmac. I'm like, >> "Just shut up."
47:56>> Oh [snorts] my god.
47:58>> And the way he tried to make it seem like like he caught him red-handed.
48:02>> He's got to be in front of every camera.
48:04Anytime they do something about >> Bro, everyone in the FBI must have been like, "Shut up."
48:10>> Yeah. And like when you the FBI was so broken to be very clear when he got in there. There were so many problems in there. It's not to say every agent's bad or anything, but there were so many rogue cells in there. But like, you know, [ __ ] [snorts] with him running it.
48:25I get it if there's people who have been there a long time, even if I don't [ __ ] like them, who are like, come on, man. Like, it's just it it we're watching incompetency >> in public at at at every turn. And so with this one, like you said, he comes out, wasn't he like on the plane with him or something? Like coming down with him?
48:42>> They literally rode the plane back together and I can almost guarantee you he was like, "Bro, like I know you're a criminal, but like mad respects, bro."
48:50[laughter] >> Bro, like that [ __ ] Daytona. Oh my god. My authorized dealer just like put me on a wait list.
49:01>> Can we get a selfie?
49:02>> 100% he did. 100%.
49:04>> God, >> you think he didn't take a [ __ ] selfie with wedding? Oh, I'll see you in Valhalla, brother.
49:08>> Oh my god. Oh, that's so good.
49:11>> Bro, you're [ __ ] >> I'm going to miss him when he's gone cuz it is a lot of fun to make fun of him.
49:15That part I'm going to miss.
49:16>> It's entertainment.
49:17>> He's not even a moving target. He's just still, but you don't know where to aim cuz this guy's looking at the fractals and that one's, you know, >> it's like, whoa, [laughter] wait a minute. It gets you all disoriented and [ __ ] Like when they put you in those like fake drunk goggles, you're like, where is he?
49:32>> Yeah. I almost feel like they probably just captured him so Cash could have a little like shindig with him.
49:36>> That's right. So, what happened though?
49:37Like, what do we know and what are we unsure of that led up to this?
49:41>> I'm I'm actually sure about exactly what happened.
49:44>> Let's put it on the record, Katarina Schultz.
49:46>> So, um he was basically strong armed by the US government into surrendering himself.
49:51>> And how did they do that?
49:52>> Um there was something close like personal to him that they used against him. I can't say it. Um, and he uh said okay and and gave himself up.
50:03>> Did he have any kind of agreement with them for certain punishments that would be offered?
50:08>> I don't know, but I'm under the impression that yes.
50:11>> So maybe he's like, all right, I can do 20 years. I'll tell you what you want.
50:14>> Yeah. Okay.
50:15>> Um and so some people were saying like, oh, the chapitos betrayed him, gave him up. That did not happen. Uh people were saying, oh no, he didn't surrender himself. They actually went in and grabbed him. But no, it was he he did surrender. [snorts] Um, and obviously like Cash Patel was in Mexico City when it happened. Uh, they tried to say like he was going for something else. When the [ __ ] does Cash Patel ever go to Mexico City?
50:45What are you laughing at?
50:46>> No, I No, it's a good It's a good point.
50:48I I don't know why Cash Patel would be in Mexico City.
50:51>> She vacations in Tel Aviv.
50:53>> Yeah, [laughter] you're not letting up.
50:56>> [gasps] >> I can't help it.
50:59>> I appreciate it.
51:00>> Oh, cuz then I do. You don't have to do it, right?
51:02>> No, I we've done it and it's just funny to hear someone else do it.
51:05>> Yeah.
51:06>> I mean, come on.
51:06>> I always have to say like, don't sue me.
51:08It's It's just a joke. But >> you can [ __ ] sue me. I don't give a [ __ ] >> I know you don't. Don't >> I live in Mexico. What are you going to do?
51:14>> Yeah. Come get you.
51:15>> Extract me.
51:16>> That's right. I mean, maybe >> be a [ __ ] great story.
51:19>> Maybe that would help your brand.
51:21>> Yeah. Msad just distracted me from Mexico and it it was Msad in the shape of Cash Patel.
51:28>> In the shape of Cash Patel.
51:29>> Yeah.
51:30>> How Hindu of you. [laughter] >> Okay. All right.
51:33>> Is he even Hindu?
51:34>> I don't know. This has gone too far.
51:36>> It's not a personal cash. You're funny.
51:38>> I'll just never forget him going on Shawn Ryan's show and saying, "If I were put in charge of the FBI, I would turn the Jay Edgar Hoover building into a [ __ ] museum day one." It's like, no, you won't. Did he go on Sean before or after me?
51:52>> Before.
51:53>> Yeah. Yeah, he went on before he got into the administration and everything.
51:57>> When I went on Sean, he makes you sign a wall and I if I had seen Cash's name, I just would have put in in brackets like Msad lover.
52:05[laughter] >> Brought the spunk today. [laughter] >> I appreciate it. Well, I also know that like especially I mean, you know, I I it was it's mostly this operation, the wedding operation that where I was like, "Shut up, Cash." Like, I know a lot of people, especially a lot of girls that I know were like, "Fuck Cash after the whole um hockey room thing."
52:28>> Oh, the cr was the cringiest. I don't know if I've ever had in in the at least in the past year more secondhand embarrassment for a public figure than watching that video. That was like watching the kid whose parents locked him up and made him play like one of his six instruments to get into college for 18 years and then he gets there and he's like, "All right, guys, let's go hard."
52:50>> It was Oh my god.
52:52>> Yeah. And I know like a lot of my girlfriends were like, "Uh, ew." Like, and now I [ __ ] hate him. And I'm like, >> it took me ladies, >> where you been?
53:00>> You ever heard of a guy named Ryan Wedding?
53:02>> Yeah.
53:03>> You You see him walk off the plane with cash and that FBI agent next to him?
53:06Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, [snorts] so yeah, uh Ryan did surrender.
53:12Um and >> that caught everyone off guard though, obviously.
53:18[laughter] >> Yeah.
53:21I thought I um I thought they were going to kill him.
53:25Yeah. I didn't think that they were gonna um arrest him. I thought they were going to kill him. And I actually have reason to believe that. That that was >> Yeah. If he shows up to surrender outside of a police station, they can't just blow him away.
53:38>> No, they weren't going to do it like that. They if he surrendered, they were going to get him. But I thought that they were going to just >> throw him out of the plane on the way to America. [laughter] >> No, I I thought that maybe, you know, >> hypothetically, he would be maybe No, you know what? I'm not going to say it.
53:57>> Okay, you'll blue balls us. That's all right.
53:59>> Yeah. Sorry. I can't >> I understand. Especially because with the wedding stuff, I've had so many like uh sources that I've been talking to that are just like super close to it, right?
54:08>> That I just don't want to lose any of that.
54:10>> Where is he right now?
54:12>> In uh California.
54:16>> Do we have like a upcoming court date where we're going to >> Should be.
54:21>> Yeah. Let's pull that up.
54:22>> Yeah.
54:23>> And it's federal court, right?
54:24>> Uh-huh.
54:25>> So there's no cameras in there.
54:26>> No.
54:27>> I [ __ ] hate that.
54:28>> Me, too.
54:29>> They got to change that. It's crazy.
54:30That's court in Canada, too.
54:32>> He first appeared in the United States Federal Court on Monday, January 26, 2026, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
54:40>> Appear in court again on February 11th, and his trial is scheduled. Whoa, that's a fast trial. Trial's beginning March 24th.
54:48>> Yeah, >> they just arrested him. This is like an international criminal drug conspiracy.
54:55And the trial started. That's a trial.
54:57>> Yeah, speedy trial, baby. That took the words out of my mouth, Steve. Very constitutional. [snorts] Nothing's happening there. That's weird.
55:05>> FC's [clears throat] been like 12 years.
55:08>> Yeah. Yeah. And also like Diddy was got all kinds of [ __ ] because he was moving up his trial and pushing it for it to happen early and it happened 10 months after he was arrested and that was all here.
55:20>> This was right away.
55:24>> Yeah.
55:24>> What are we missing, Katarina Schultz?
55:28I don't know. I'm I'm curious to see if he's going to dime people out. I know that he was pissed off that his ex- right-hand man, Andrew Clark, who's also in jail, um dimed him out, like gave a lot of information on him. He sang like a canary. Um I don't know if he will.
55:43His lawyer, Columbbo, said that he's not talking. He's not talking. But I think >> his lawyer is not actually named Columbo.
55:49>> It is. It's And he's a very famous lawyer.
55:51>> Come on.
55:52>> His he's he's like a mob boss lawyer.
55:54Really? Jeff with a name like Columb. Of course Jeff knows him. With a name like Columbbo.
56:00>> Come on.
56:02Peter Paul.
56:03>> Yeah. What's Ryan Weddings lawyer's name?
56:08>> Anthony Colomo whose grandfather Joe Columbo was a law. Wow. You can't make that [ __ ] up. This is Joe Columbo's grandson representing him in court. Your honor, my guy is [ __ ] innocent. Okay.
56:21He never did a goddamn thing. Nothing.
56:25And he's not saying [ __ ] to the prosecutors.
56:29Oh my god. That's awesome.
56:31>> Mhm.
56:31>> I thought that was a joke.
56:33>> No.
56:37>> Yeah, that's him. Oh [ __ ] Okay. So, we're monitoring the situation.
56:41>> That's all we're doing.
56:42>> Okay.
56:42>> Yeah. Has there been any >> But I did want to clarify like his capture because like everyone so many people are like no they they he did not surrender. He did.
56:52>> He did. He did >> but the pictures were fake obviously.
56:55>> Uh yeah that Instagram is so fake.
56:56>> What has been on the ground with his business operations? Have we seen any reverberations from that?
57:03>> Um I don't know but a lot of people around him have been caught right. He had this lawyer in Canada who was basically sending him voice recordings of meetings with his adversaries to tell to he was this Canadian lawyer was advising Ryan wedding on who to take out and he's been arrested. He was extradited to the US actually.
57:23>> Can we pull that up? The lawyer was [ __ ] diamond out people to get hit.
57:26>> He was recording meeting with Ryan's adversaries and then sending Ryan the recordings be like, "Yeah, you got to kill this guy."
57:32>> Yo, that's a Canadian salt Goodman right there.
57:34>> Oh yeah. No, literally we need that show.
57:36>> Yeah, I know.
57:37>> He's got like [ __ ] corny ass commercials. Gets off from the camera, calls him up, be like, "Yo, whack that guy."
57:42>> No, literally that's what was happening.
57:44I think he's already extradited to the US.
57:46>> Sometimes real life is just even better than the movies.
57:49>> No, it really is. I say that all the time.
57:51>> You can't even make this [ __ ] up.
57:52>> Reality is way more shocking than fiction. No, wrong.
57:55>> Well, that's definitely not. [laughter] >> That's his girl.
57:58>> That's his girl. Business ain't a booming then, pal. I mean, come on.
58:04She's a corpse. Oh my god. Whoa.
58:09[laughter] >> Whoa. Listen, that's me, not you. Don't worry about it. I'm making >> No, it's just so funny that parrot a car. [laughter] Why' >> you say it?
58:22[gasps] >> What is so funny about that? [laughter] >> That's not what I was expecting.
58:27>> He's an Indian guy.
58:30>> Somewhere Tyler Olivera is going look.
58:33See, [laughter] told you. All right.
58:35Deepac Paradakar, a Bmpton based lawyer, often referred to as the cocaine lawyer.
58:41We have our show name. Let's work on the script. De was arrested in November 2025 for his alleged role in a drug trafficking and murder conspiracy.
58:52[laughter] >> Oh my god.
58:58>> Oh my god.
58:59>> Led by former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding. We take murder very seriously here though in all seriousness speak.
59:05It's very bad that he >> he was see advising murder.
59:08>> The US Department of the Treasury and Department of Justice accused Parrot car of violating legal ethics by allowing wedding and his associates to eavesdrop on privilege communication and assisting in a plot to kill a federal witness.
59:22Whoa, that's dark.
59:24>> That's dark as [ __ ] Yeah. Paradikar is alleged to have to have advised wedding to murder a federal witness, telling him, quote, "If you kill the witness, the case will be dismissed."
59:38Whoa.
59:39>> Mhm.
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