So, we have a new hero to talk about today. His name is Ryan Wedding. That is a name that sounds like a movie star or a guy who sells you life insurance. But Ryan was a snowboarder. He was in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. He was a big deal for Canada. He wore the jacket. He did the jumps. He was supposed to represent the best of us. But it turns out that sliding down a hill on a piece of wood was not enough for him. He wanted more. He wanted the kind of money that you do not get from winning medals. He allegedly decided to trade the cold snow of the mountains for the white snow of the streets. And he did it in a big way.

The FBI and the police in Canada finally caught up with him. They say he was running a group that moved sixty tons of cocaine a year into Los Angeles. Think about that number for a second. Sixty tons. That is not just a little bit of trouble. That is a mountain of drugs. It is enough to make every person in a large city act like a crazy person for a long time. It is a massive amount of work to move that much stuff. It takes trucks and ships and a lot of bad people. And this guy, this Olympic athlete, was supposedly the boss. He was the kingpin. He went from being a guy people cheered for to a guy the police wanted more than anyone else. It is a classic story. It is the kind of story that shows how greedy people are. It does not matter if you are famous. It does not matter if you have a medal. You always want more.

The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, called this group one of the most violent and prolific drug groups in the world. That is a lot of big words for 'they killed people and sold a lot of junk.' The government loves to use big words to make themselves sound important. They act like they are winning a war. But let's be real. This guy was doing this for a long time. If he was moving sixty tons a year, he did not just start yesterday. The police were late to the party. They always are. They let him build a whole empire, and then they have a big press conference to tell us how great they are for stopping him. It is a joke. They are not heroes. They are just the clean-up crew who showed up after the mess was already made.

And what about the people who buy this stuff? Everyone likes to blame the guy at the top. But the reason Ryan Wedding allegedly had a job is because people are bored and sad. They want to feel something, so they buy the powder. The Left will tell you we need to help these people with more programs. The Right will tell you we need to put them all in jail. Both sides are wrong. People are just going to keep doing what they do. You can lock up an Olympian, but ten more guys are waiting to take his spot. It is a circle of stupidity that never ends. We act shocked every time, but it is the same story every year. Only the names change. This time it happens to be a guy who was good at snowboarding.

It is funny to think about a guy in an Olympic uniform talking to cartel bosses. It is like a bad movie. But that is the world we live in. Everything is a bad movie now. People think they can do whatever they want because they are special. Athletes are told they are special from the time they are kids. They think the rules do not apply to them. Ryan Wedding thought he was faster than the law. He thought he could outrun the FBI just like he outran other snowboarders. But the law is like a slow turtle. It is slow, but it eventually gets there. And now he is in a cage. Canada must be so proud. Their big star is now the face of a drug ring. It just goes to show that you never really know who people are. You see them on TV and think they are great. But they are just people. And people are usually pretty bad.

This whole thing is just another example of how much we love trash. We love the drama. We love to see someone fall from a high place. We love to talk about how much cocaine he moved because it makes our own lives seem less boring. But at the end of the day, nothing changes. The drugs will still flow. The police will still have press conferences. And athletes will still think they are gods. We are all just stuck in the middle of it, watching the same show over and over. It is tired. It is boring. And I am sick of it. But hey, at least he didn't win a gold medal in 2002. Imagine how much more arrogant he would have been then. This is just humanity doing what it does best: being greedy and getting caught. It is the most honest thing about us.