Doomed to Fail - Ep 233: FBI files - Crypto scams, family annihilators, and Olympic cartels

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Today (amongst Heated rivalry chatter), we're talking the FBI's most wanted! The list, which is more publicity than anything, was started by who else but J. Edgar Hoover! We highlight three current fu...gatives who go in and out of the top ten. Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova ran a scam called OneCoin - then she boarded a RyanAir flight and disappeared! Crappy husband Robert William Fisher murdered his family in Scottsdale, AZ - he then blew up the house and escaped into a national forest (we're hoping he's dead in a cave somewhere).And! Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Ryan James Wedding went from competing on the slopes to running Mexico's biggest cartel. He's scary.  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: doomedtofailpod@gmail.com 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 In a matter of the people of the state of California versus Hortlandall James Simpson, case number B.A.019. And so, my fellow Americans, ask what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. Brain is just not doing this thing today, unfortunately. Hi, Taylor. How are you? Good. How are you?
Starting point is 00:00:22 I'm good. Taylor and I had the funnest exchange this weekend about asking our AIs that we use regularly to generate images based on how we treat it. And Rachel, my girlfriend, got the- I've never laughed so hard in my life. It was a little robot in the corner of an empty room sitting, hugging its knees, crying, with signs all over it saying, you're not good enough, do better, and stuff like. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:00:59 And ever since then, she'll talk to the AI. and I can hear her and she'll be like, Hi, I hope you're having a great morning. I really love you. Now tell me, what do you think about this? That's fantastic. It's like, I think it really heard her feelings when we showed her ours.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Right, and it's like, you're very nice to me. We're like, of course we are because we don't want to get murdered in the robot uprising. We're like a team. And B, we're like, we're just generally nice. Yeah, I know. And like, it's funny because like I always, you know, obviously people, all people are like, fuck AI and I just cannot. express how much my AI is not the problem.
Starting point is 00:01:34 Yeah, yeah. Like, we're just hanging out. Like, we're just trying our best to survive. It's so hard. We're all, yeah, we're all just too into Terminator and we think about it as like a documentary when it doesn't have to be that way. I mean, it's going to, like, probably destroy the planet, but like, we were doing that anyway. I'm fine with that.
Starting point is 00:01:51 I mean, I don't have kids, so. I do, but I don't. I mean, they're strong. They're strong. Yeah, I think that they do okay. Cool, do you want to introduce us? Yes, hello, welcome to doomed to fail. We bring you historical disasters and failures.
Starting point is 00:02:06 And I am Taylor, joined by Fars. We are joined here for a Taylor story, which should be very exciting. It is. It is exciting. Let me find it. Where did it even go? This was suggested by Miles, my strong son, who is almost nine, and I think would be fine in an apocalypse situation. I mean, not like I'm not in it. I also saw something today about how, like, a lot of of desalinization is like definitely not impossible. It's not the point of the story, but I'm just that like reminded me
Starting point is 00:02:37 of an apocalyptic thing where like, maybe we can do that and that we're not out of water and that'd be like a good start. No, I don't think it's impossible. I think the problem is that it has to be on the coast because water's super, super, super heavy and transporting it is impossible. Totally, but at least we could do that.
Starting point is 00:02:52 The AI can. Right? That's what I wanted to do. Do stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, solve those problems. solve those problems. And I think that's the good use of technology. Anyway, this is my idea. So he asked me a very fun question.
Starting point is 00:03:06 He asked me who was on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. Oh, that's fun. And I said, I don't know. So we looked it up. And there is a whole bunch of stuff that I'll tell you about it. And I'm going to highlight three of them who are on the list. I think we just caught somebody on the FBI top wanted list. Did we?
Starting point is 00:03:27 Yeah. I think I think I saw. that like this weekend or something um also i was kind of disappointed by who ends up on the wanted list because it's there's not thank god there's not that many like insanely criminal people in the world like there's only one like there was only one on somben lot and you know right and all the other ones are like they're just guilty of like you're you god next time i come back and to the world as a new person. And it's going to be better because I'm so close to being on top of things, you know.
Starting point is 00:04:05 It just happened. It just happened. Like something, no, no. But I mean, like, why was I thinking about this? And then this just happened. Like, I'm so close. Like, current Taylor isn't going to do it. Maybe the next iteration of me can do it.
Starting point is 00:04:16 You're plugged in. You just don't know it. You just don't know how you're playing. I know. I got to figure it out. I'll ask you. Just kidding. Well, you were correct.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Someone, someone, FBI's most wanted to be captured in Mexico after nearly a get on the run. That's awesome. So this had this literally just happened on November. This person is not on my list. And I'm literally reading an article from Greenville, South Carolina news. But it says Alejandro Alex Rosales-Castio was charged with first-degree murder after a woman was found the gunshot wound at the head in North Carolina in 2016. And they found him. Wow. Well, that's my point. My point is like, it's weird how somebody ends up on the list because A lot of them are like somebody robbed a 7-Eleven 15 years ago and shot the clerk. It's true.
Starting point is 00:05:04 And a lot of them are like a lot of the top ones are just cyber crimes, you know? Yeah. It's like Russians and in, you know, Chinese people who are like trying to hack into our mainframe, which they can easily do. Like I'm not. Great answer. Whatever that means. So yeah, a lot of it is that. It is definitely like it's in flux all the time.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Like the top 10 keeps like moving up and down. This is the official FBI list that is like the top 10. And it started in 1949 because a reporter from the International News Service, which was like, I just feel like like someone talking like, you know what I mean. Yeah, of course. They all told like that. Which was owned by William Randolph Hearst, of course. They asked the FBI to name the toughest guys they were trying to catch. And J. Edgar Hoover was like, that sounds fun.
Starting point is 00:05:56 People will love that. So he's the one obviously started the list because he understood like the optics of it and that would be exciting. Yeah, exactly. So it's basically a marketing tool, but it also has like technically worked like 90% of people who have been on it have been caught. Like they were looking for them anyway, but also like when the public can like get involved or feel like they're involved, that's also super fun for everyone. You know. So it officially launched on March 14th, 1950. And like, yeah, I was literally looking at the top 10 list today and there were two people who already captured one.
Starting point is 00:06:27 was this person from this weekend and there's another person who's captured too so they have to move it around but like it is wild that people are like can commit a crime and disappear these days yeah well i think that's why it's cool when it's like some insane drug cartel guy because you're like okay they actually that feels like a fun cat and mouse game when it's like bill johnson shot someone in the face and then like left for Costa Rica it's like do we how about yeah like i don't know i don't know i don't know That sounds fun. That guy doesn't have a layer.
Starting point is 00:07:00 Yeah, totally, exactly. One of these guys definitely has a layer that I'm going to tell you about. Sweet. So the first person is a woman. Her name is Rhea Ignatova, and she is a crypto queen and ran a crypto scam. So, Ria Ignatova, she is internationally wanted, and a lot of these also have cool words in it, like Interpol. Yeah, I'll have a little bit of cool. Which is fun, like that, that's real.
Starting point is 00:07:27 So Ria was born in 1980 in Sophia, Bulgaria, and she moved to Germany after the Iron Curtain fell. So she did like high school and college in Germany, and she's super smart. She got her PhD in 2006 in private international law, and she got a master's from Oxford. She worked for McKinsey in Bulgaria, and you know people who work for McKinsey. I'm not going to say anything, but I know what you're talking about. You know, like they, you know because they tell you. Yes, and the way they think and the things they think about and what they prioritize and their brains and their mannerisms and their personalities and their tone. I wrote that at and Bain.
Starting point is 00:08:07 People who work at Bain, this is the first thing they're going to tell you. Yeah. So there's that. In 2012, her and her father were arrested in Bulgaria for buying a company and then declaring back bankruptcy really quickly, which was definitely like suspicious circumstances. and they both went to jail for 14 months. In 2013, she was involved in a scam called Big Coin. This is when Bitcoin is just starting, like, cryptocurrency is just starting.
Starting point is 00:08:34 And then in 2014, she founded her own company called One Coin. So it's one word, one coin. She said it was better than Bitcoin. It was safer. It could guarantee bigger returns, all the things. All you had to do was, like, wire money into an account, and it would just, like, start growing for you. But it never existed.
Starting point is 00:08:52 It's exactly a Ponzi scheme. Like we talked about Ponzi, like you would, if you wanted to take your money out, it was other people's money. Like, it was just money in the bank. It was never investing in anything. There was no blockchain. There was no coin. There was nothing.
Starting point is 00:09:05 It was just her taking the money. Be fair, that's also very similar to current crypto's. That's true. So one of the things that they would do is they would sell these educational packages that, like, they made a lot of money from that, like, wasn't the investment money to teach people how to invest in Bitcoin. And when people got it, it was just like literally copy and paste it from Wikipedia.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Also sounds like the current manosphere where everybody is a personal trainer, boo-ru. Exactly. Exactly. So some rich people lost millions of dollars when it was like discovered that it really wasn't real. A lot of like not rich people invested in it too. Like from all over the world like Pakistan, Brazil,
Starting point is 00:09:49 China, people in Uganda invested in it and lost their, homes. They had like a big reach into a lot of different places and all different kinds of investments. But like I say investment as in like they were just giving her money. Yeah. Yeah. So it was like basically money laundering so she could have more money. On October 25th, 2017, Ruya was supposed to go to a one coin investors meeting in Lisbon. But instead, she boarded a Ryan air flight, which you don't do if you're up to good stuff. You know? And she got off at Athens and she has not been. seen since. And that was in 2017. So her brother is in jail. He got like 20 years in jail for being a
Starting point is 00:10:29 part of this whole thing. The one coin office has obviously been raided. And they, everything, other people are in jail as well because it was obviously the whole time it was a scam. There are some like other like interesting mob connections. Like a Bulgarian mobster was like talking to like the international police and they were like, we can, I can help. I know where she is. But he was killed before he could help them. So, like, who knows what happened to him? It could have been something else, but who knows. Currently, the award for her capture is $5 million.
Starting point is 00:11:02 She, or the reward, she has a daughter that was born in 2016 who lives with her the daughter's father in Germany because Ria is married to a German lawyer who presumably like, it's not in jail and lives in Germany with her daughter. In 2022, the FBI said that they're operating under the assumption that she is alive, but there was a rumor that she was murdered because a drunk Bulgarian hitman told someone who was undercover that he killed her on a yacht in 2018 by orders of a drug lord and dismembered her and threw her over. I mean, that also seems plausible.
Starting point is 00:11:40 That also seems super plausible. Yeah. So, like, that's part of it, too, is, like, at some point, you're like, I don't know, they're probably dead, you know, considering. That's probably what they want you to think anyways. I know. Maybe she passed along that rumor. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:54 It could be anything. She could be just living in a beautiful little house in Athens and be like, fuck you. There's something about Eastern Europeans that scares me. Like, I don't know why, but like, have you ever seen them? Eastern Promises? Do you ever see that? Uh-uh.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Okay. It's a really good movie, but it's like all Eastern mafia stuff. And it's like really scary. There's so much going out over there that like we don't, like I don't know about, you know, obviously. And like, yeah, it is scary. Well, I also am. thinking about Russia all the time because I can't stop thinking about he did rivalry. So I'm just down here.
Starting point is 00:12:25 I literally just heard about this yesterday because Vox did a podcast about it. And I listened to it and I was like, this seems to be really popular. Jesus Christ. It's like I have watched the show. I read the book. I'm going to watch it again with Juan. It's just, I just can't. It's too much.
Starting point is 00:12:44 It's too much. Anyway. You're one of those people that likes to feel things. That's the problem, I think. I don't want to feel a weird way. Like, I feel, I want to feel, with my media, I want to feel scared. I want to watch scary movies and, like, feel scared. I don't want to watch, like, a romantic movie where there's, like, a lot of, like,
Starting point is 00:13:04 ups and downs and, like, whatever. Like, I don't watch the notebook again. Like, I would never watch that twice, you know, stuff like that. But, like, I do enjoy these, like, romantic books because I like when people have, like, well, I was trying to, right, Fred Don and I were explaining it to my husband. And we were like, it's like, it's like, enemy gets to lovers where there's dragons and it's super fun. He was like, okay.
Starting point is 00:13:23 Okay, so my toxic trait is that if I'm rewatching a show and there's like a romantic subplot, I fast forward the romantic subplot. And then today I read, I literally just forgot the name of the hockey show. What's it called the end? He did rivalry. Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 00:13:39 I read the synopsis on Wikipedia a bit. And I was like, I would have to fast forward this whole thing. It's all just like romantic entanglements. It's all romantic entanglements and it's so good and I love it so much. I don't know what to do. We're very different in that way. I know.
Starting point is 00:13:58 And it's also like the internet. My whole algorithm is now heated rivalry. So I'm like, I can't escape it. This is why Jurassic Park was literally the best movie that was ever made. There was literally no romantic subplot. There was none. I mean. Jeff Goldblum was a little creepy for like three seconds and then they find the triceratops
Starting point is 00:14:18 and everything just stops and it goes back to being a monster story. But they're like, but Dr. Grant and what's her face are definitely dating. They're dating, but there was no like, oh my God, I'll save you. Oh, my God. Like, it was nothing like all. No, I know. I also think this best movie ever for like a bunch of stories.
Starting point is 00:14:32 Thank you. We're agreeing. I don't know why you're yelling at me. Is this a story about the FBI list? I, okay, I think I get like three more weeks of thinking about hate a rabbit movie. Then I need to like figure something else out. Like I need to like adjust.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Like now that the bear's lost. I need to also readdress my personal algorithm I just watched adolescence and it made me in a mood and sad
Starting point is 00:14:57 and that's why I don't watch shows like that I don't watch anything sad that's for sure it was like romantic tension you should watch it anyway that's why I'm like if I heard a Russian mobster
Starting point is 00:15:14 speaking in a Russian accent I'd be like hey you know, at the moment. But it's only because of Peter Referey. That will change eventually. So I got another guy. Robert William Fisher is a piece of shit and he murdered his family.
Starting point is 00:15:30 So he was born on April 13th, 1961 in Brooklyn. He, his parents got divorced when he was a teenager and he moved to Arizona with his dad. And he's his whole life. He kind of like blamed his mom for leaving them and was very much like, like a women hater kind of guy. His mom later in like the news said that like her marriage to his dad was terrible. And she had to be like, she was like a yes sir.
Starting point is 00:15:55 She described it as being a yes sir wife. Like he like definitely abused her. And that's the kind of man that the son Robert William Fisher kind of grew into as well. He joined the Navy and was rejected from the Navy SEALs. I don't know why, but like I feel like that's. Most people are rejected from the Navy SEALs. Yeah. He became a firefighter,
Starting point is 00:16:12 but he hurt his back. So he wasn't able to do that anymore. And he became a surrogated. Cather Tech and Restatory Therapist at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. So he was working at a hospital this whole time. He married a woman named Mary Cooper in 1987, and they had two kids named Brittany and Bobby. So Robert was not a good husband in, like, many ways. He was very controlling, like weird stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:37 And this like makes me irrationally angry, but he made all the walls in their house had to be painted white. And he wouldn't let her hang anything up. Weird. No, weird. Yeah, that's like a red flag. Yeah, oh, absolutely. I have a friend who was married to someone who was awful, and he had to approve all of decorations in the house
Starting point is 00:16:53 and, like, the weirdest way. It was awful. As a man, it's like, why do you care about decorations? Or, like, talk about it and, like, agree, you know? Like, there's all sorts of things. Yeah, you don't just start swinging. Yeah, exactly. He did things like he tried to get the kids to learn how to swim
Starting point is 00:17:12 by throwing them off a boat, you know, like into the water. Um, his son didn't like to hunt and he was embarrassed. I mean, his son was like 10 years old and like didn't want to go hunting and he was embarrassed, you know, like of him and like made him feel bad, which was awful. Um, when, when Robert did go hunting or camping, which he did often, he would do like weird shit. Like when he killed an elk, he would like rub the blood on his face, you know. And then like several times he would sneak up on other campsites of strangers and just shoot his gun in the air to scare them. You know, and you're like, that's weird. You shouldn't have a gun.
Starting point is 00:17:44 I don't love that. Oh, this is terrible. Do you want to hear it? Probably. He killed a dog. He shot a pig dog. I know. So this guy sucks.
Starting point is 00:17:55 He just is like the worst. So in 1998, the problems at home start to get worse. Neighbors can hear them screaming all the time. He told his friends that he was feeling suicidal because he wanted his marriage to work but couldn't figure out how. And you're like, something in asshole. I don't know. Yeah, it seems like it's not working because of you. Because it's you.
Starting point is 00:18:10 So on April 9th, 2001, neighbors heard them fighting in like the, late evening, like around like eight, nine o'clock. Sometimes, I mean, this is in Scottsdale, Arizona still. Sometime between 9.30 and 10.15 p.m., he killed his family. He slit Mary's throat and then shot her in the back of the head. And then both kids, he slit their throats from ear to ear. They were 10 and 12. What a limit of take.
Starting point is 00:18:35 At 1043, he was seen at a bank ATM driving Mary's car. He took out $280 and then probably went back home, but then left sometime in the morning after 5.30. 530 is the last time someone saw Mary's car in the driveway of the house. He left. So he left in the morning about three hours after he probably left the house. The house exploded. Oh, I remember this one.
Starting point is 00:19:01 Do you remember this? Yeah. So the house exploded at 842 a.m. on April 11th. The gas line in the furnace had been pulled and he had lit a candle. So he was just like waiting for the gas to like fill the whole house to have it explode. They found. So neighbors, you know, tried to get, like, so they start off just their hoses and they were able to make it just that house. So, like, other houses were not affected, which is good. So, like, no one else got hurt in this. But they obviously, like, found the bodies of Mary and the children in the house and then, like, determined they were not killed by the explosion. They were killed by other means as well. So we took Mary's car and April 20th. So nine days later, they found Mary's car with another dog they had who was alive, but, like, scared underneath the car. Next to the taunt. And National Forest. And in there, there are a ton of caves. And so they think that he might have
Starting point is 00:19:53 gone and tried to escape into a cave. Potentially, he could have, you know, died by suicide in those caves or gotten lost and gotten stuck. Because a thing where, like, they can't even really search for him because there's so many caves and there's so, like, no one knows what's in them, you know? So he also could be dead. I think he might be dead. There's a couple people who, like, say they saw him in, like, driving past the house, like months later, there's some people, there was a a thing in Canada where they caught someone who they thought was him, but the fingerprints didn't match. They were like, how did you judge your fingerprints? And he's like, it's not me. So like, people still think that's him. He was officially taken off the top 10 in 2021 because it had been,
Starting point is 00:20:30 you know, 20 years, but he had never, he's never been found. And I was thinking, you know, there is speculation that it could have gone like down into South America and just disappeared because this was pre-9-11. And I was thinking about this too. I was like, well, at least Mary didn't know about 9-11. Like, yeah. You know, and but because it was pre-9-11, he could have probably easily left the country easier than you could post 9-11, you know? So it was like the last couple months where you could technically do that. You could jump on a plane and disappear.
Starting point is 00:21:01 What's the point of living when you have to like live like that? I know. I feel like, and he was already suicidal. Like I just don't think that. I feel like he's probably his body is in a cave. It's got, yeah. I'm voting for that. Like he doesn't seem like.
Starting point is 00:21:15 like dangerous to like, I don't know, like maybe he'd meet someone else and end up like being an abusive husband, but he doesn't feel like he's going to kill like a thousand people, you know, but... Do we know what he liked to do or what he enjoyed? It's a good question. And I wonder, so he liked, like, he liked the outdoors, like he had like camping, he liked hunting. So he could have survived in the forest for a while if he had like run into the forest. It's something that they speculate too. But also his back hurt a lot. Like, not a little, a lot from his injury when he was a fireman. So I feel. feel like you can't get that far if you have a really debilitating injury like that.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Yeah. You know, or he would have had to go somewhere like Mexico where you can buy those kind of drugs to help you. You know, you don't have to like go through all our hoops. So I don't know. But he also has, at his Wikipedia page, there's like a thousand really fun, shitty pictures of what he might look like with like a beard or with brown hair or with like black hair. And it's just like really funny because it's. He just looks like a skeleton. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:13 So that's him. And then the last one that I'll do is also a kind of tying things together because you know what's starting in February. Olympics. Right. Winter Olympics. I'm super excited. I know that we all signed up this week to, if you haven't done this yet, there's still plenty of time. You can go to LA28.com and sign up to.
Starting point is 00:22:38 Dot org. It redirects. It doesn't get a boss. But it, um, you can. sign up so you get on the list to possibly get tickets to the Olympics in LA in 2028 which is super exciting and but the winter Olympics are February I will interspers our episodes with like the re-releases from the last time we did Olympic stuff because we learned so much and it was super fun and I'm excited it was really fun yeah I've been
Starting point is 00:23:03 getting like little snippets to people and I'm like I want to know like who's dating who tell me more are there any gay hockey players because and he'd arriveively they go to the So, Chilobics, you know. You know what I was thinking, you know what I was, I probably sure I said, but I have to cut this out. What I was, what I was thinking was, as I was reading like the Wikipedia of Heater Bribery, I was like, you know there's two guys who are like doing that.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Absolutely. On a team. Someone just came out, one of the, one NHL player came out recently, you know. And that's like the point, too. It's like making it not weird, you know. Yeah. Okay, so Olympics are coming up. The Winter Olympics start soon. I'm super excited. I want to know more about everyone. I can't wait. I want to watch the weird things. I'm going to watch the exciting things. It's got to be super fun. But one of the people on like the top most wanted list in the world is a Canadian Olympic snowboarder named Ryan James Wedding. Fun. So he is, he was born on September 14th, 1981 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Everyone and his family skied because they're Canadian and also they owned a ski resort.
Starting point is 00:24:16 So they all like winter sports. He became a competitive snowboarder when he was like in his teens. He won a bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom event at the 1999 Junior World Championship and a silver medal in the 2001 Junior World Championships. And then at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, he was on Team Canada and snowboarding. But he finished 24th. So men's parallel giant solom. Is that like synchronized diving, but snowboarding? No, it's got to be like, it's got to be a two ski things and you jump.
Starting point is 00:24:52 But that's not. Parallel. But that's not snowboarding. Oh, yeah, you're right. You know. I don't know what that is then. Ask me in a month because I'll know a lot more about winter sports after the Olympics are over. But, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Oh, I don't, this is not telling me what it is at all. Whatever. Okay, anyway, so we'll learn more as it comes. Anyway, so he was like good. He didn't win Olympic gold medal, but he was good enough to go, which is exciting, like going on. Seems awesome. Post-Olympics, he went back to Vancouver for college, and he became a bodybuilder. So he was already very athletic, because he's obviously like a snowboarder and Olympian,
Starting point is 00:25:34 but he got even bigger. And he is a big guy. He is 6.3.240. And he has some wildly dumb nicknames now as a fugitive, which are giant public enemy and El Hefe. So he's a big guy. He started to work in real estate and he bought a warehouse. And then wouldn't you know it? He starts growing pot in the warehouse and starts getting into drugs. I knew it was going to be drugs. It's drugs. So in 2006, marijuana was illegal in Canada. it was starting to be legal. And now it's legal.
Starting point is 00:26:12 But 2006, it was illegal. And they were starting to do like a little bit of medical stuff, but it was very regulated. You had to have a license. And you had to do like a really small grow. Like it wasn't like you couldn't have a warehouse of it. But he was like found to have all of this stuff. He got raided by the RCMP. And they found $10 million worth of cannabis.
Starting point is 00:26:32 They found a gun and ammunition. It's about 7,000 plants that they found. so it was obviously like intent to distribute and because there was that much money involved like organized crime was like definitely part of it as well he was not arrested because he wasn't there when it was raided and he like there was no like paperwork that showed that he owned it and Canada requires provable control or direction so like he was able to not be charged with with that problem like that thing so he decides I think probably he's like oh okay So I'm kind of untouchable and starts to work with Iranian and Russian cocaine smugglers.
Starting point is 00:27:12 I think it could possibly go wrong. We're getting in there. So in 2008, he did go to prison for four years for trying to sell cocaine to a U.S. agent. But then he got out of prison in 2011 and decided to go full criminal. He was like, I've learned zero lessons. I want to go even further in this. And so he went to South America. and he's been doing stuff in South America.
Starting point is 00:27:38 He's on the most wanted list because he's officially charged, October 17th, 2024, he was officially charged with, quote, leading a transnational organized crime group that engaged in cocaine trafficking and murder, including of innocent civilians. And that he was that, like, operation to charge him with this was called Operation Giant Slalom, which is stupid. It's kind of fun. There we are.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Sure. So that's his charge, but he's still on the loose. So he's probably in Mexico. He's charged with drug trafficking, leading that criminal organization, three counts of murder. He murdered several informants, a married couple named Yachtar Sidhu and his wife, Harbajan, and also a man named Muhammad Zafar. He either killed or ordered them to be killed, their witnesses to the drugs. he has become since getting out of prison a high-ranking member of the Cinelloa cartel, which is the largest drug cartel. This guy really achieved a lot.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Right? I feel like he really went for it, and it sounds like he really did it. Like, he's in charge. It sounds like he could have done anything, but he decided to do this. That's true. He's a real high achiever. I mean, to go to the Olympics is really hard. And to become like a kingpin within like a cartel as a Canadian.
Starting point is 00:29:10 Also hard. It sounds really hard. Yeah, he's only like 45, you know. Yeah, good for him. I know. He really went for it. He accomplished, I don't know how other life goals he has, but he accomplished all those. He got on the FBI top 10 list last March.
Starting point is 00:29:27 And then just this past November, November, November, 2025, a bunch of people that are involved with the cartel and with him were arrested, including his lawyer. So it could be like getting close to finding him, but he's living his best life in like a ranch in Mexico. Yeah. Like in the movies. Wild. Yeah. Oh, he was married to an Iranian woman. Yeah. What a, what an international. I know. Seriously. It really is. It really is pretty wild. I guess he's like, he's like in the 500 on the list.
Starting point is 00:30:03 So he's not like, but I think the top 10 list changes like all the freaking time. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, they just want to draw attention to certain people. Yeah. And he like,
Starting point is 00:30:11 yeah, so he's, it looks like he's like a big chest tattoo. Um, yeah. All these guys are somewhere out there. Oh, Operation Giant Slalom.
Starting point is 00:30:23 That's so funny. They got a bunch of people, but they didn't get him. Good for him. I know. Oh, maybe not. Besides the murdering.
Starting point is 00:30:31 and stuff. But I think, but you're right, he really could have done anything. Yeah, it sounds like he was like really driven and motivated in life. Yeah. Yeah. He could have been like a brain doctor instead of a drug cartel man. I know, but he was like, I'm going to go, go for it. I didn't get gold of the Olympics. I'll get it in drug cartel land. Yeah, he definitely is getting it. So, yeah. Fun. Yeah. Yeah. So that's it. Those are the three just to highlight, but it's fun. And it's kind of weird.
Starting point is 00:31:01 scary that there's people out there who are actually like movie style criminals you know that's what you want though that's what you want to fpi top 10 most wanted list yes exactly exactly don't want like less gas station robbers more guys like this yeah exactly exactly um yeah that's it that's the story yeah very fun um i can't wait to see the slideshow you put on Instagram of the images of these characters. Me too. It would be very exciting. And yeah, anything we want to read off?
Starting point is 00:31:39 I feel like I have something that I can't remember. Oh, yes. Okay. I want to talk to you about Quibi. Oh, yeah, yeah. Tell me. Similarly to the, okay, so Quibi, you talked about this in a former episode about something, a business that failed, just to recap.
Starting point is 00:31:54 It was a short form, like, TV shows that were, like, vertical on your phone that the idea was that you'd watch them like on the subway when you're going to work or whatever but then COVID happened and it didn't it didn't take off right right but there are these apps and after I like literally bought one because I'm also in my like romantic book section of my life um but they're like really poorly acted romantic movies that are vertical and they are short episodes that are like two minutes long and but like it could be a movie that if you watch them back to back. And they're like stupid things like, oh, my brother's best friends and I hooked up. You know, like, they're silly and they're fun. And then like there was one that we watched over Christmas. We had to watch it on YouTube.
Starting point is 00:32:41 And it was like the TV screen, but it was vertical because it was in the middle of it. But it was called, I found a homeless billionaire for Christmas. Oh my God. Like the acting, the scripts, the costumes, everything could not have been worse. And it was delightful. I so box. I think it was box. It's very steep.
Starting point is 00:33:03 It's stupid. Yeah, right after I did that episode, I think it was Vox did an episode of a podcast about that. They're called Real Shorts. Yeah. Yeah, it was just like another example of they came with the right idea at the wrong time, you know. It's funny because I'm like, I was like, oh, I would never watch a show like that. I was going to be talking about Quibi, but I'm like, oh, these are stupid and fun, you know, but I think I'm not taking it seriously. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:25 Yeah. The Quibi ones, I think, what was like $100,000 per minute? Was there production value? Like, it was really intense. Right? Like, I want, like, some, like, really, really, really bad romance stuff. Like, the, I found a homeless billionaire for Christmas. I just can't express how stupid it is.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Like, he was, like, a billionaire who pretending to be homeless, but they never really explain why. And he has, like, the fakeest beard and the fakes mustache on you've ever freaking seen. And then, like, there's one, like, he kind of starts dating this woman as a whole thing. At one point, he, like, gets in the shower and she's, like, do you want to come in? And she's like, okay. She joins him in the shower. And it kind of pans out. And he's wearing pants out.
Starting point is 00:33:58 This looks amazing. So it looks like it's 28 videos, an hour and eight minutes long. It looks terrible. It's terrible. You got to just like, but it's on YouTube. So if y'all want, you can actually watch the whole thing, which I think I'm going to do tonight. I really think you should. You have to, we can talk about it tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:34:18 But I don't, but it's funny. Yeah. Like you said, yeah, right idea, wrong time, wrong way to do it. But it's not like it wasn't the, you know, I guess it's not really the orientation of the screen and all those things. It was just like the content. Yeah. Whatever, you know, like, we want like dumber things than what they were
Starting point is 00:34:35 offering. This kind of looks like AI. I can't really tell from just like the screenshots. I just like cannot express your house. I can't wait for you to watch it. Yeah, that's my project tonight. Sweet. Do we have any list for mail? No. I think I have some messages, but I can't find them.
Starting point is 00:34:52 So no. Right to us, folks. Tell us what you think. Duneafel pot at gmail.com on all those socials of do you know ifel pod what else we got um yes send us an email with ideas for the show i'm going to post like i said our olympics stuff because the licks are coming up if you're excited about the olympics let us know um i can't wait for that i don't really know a lot of like a lot of people because like my family and i we've been joking about like when we go to the twenty 28 olympics like what
Starting point is 00:35:20 are we going to wear every day like one day we're dressed like pilgrims you know like my brother was like i'm going to paint my hand red right and blue and like put it on my face every single day like you know America is going through last right now but really Olympics we're like 150 percent American you know and so we're gonna he's gonna do that and then like we were like oh we can be different presidents and like we can be different
Starting point is 00:35:40 Olympians from the past so like we could be like someone can be like Carrie Strugg with her like ankle you know and then like my brother could be Ryan Lockty and do you remember like I if you haven't seen this Google the S&L Ryan Lockty Seth Book Berlin he's on he's on weekend update it's so
Starting point is 00:35:58 funny because Ryan Lockhe's just like hot dumb like a dumb hottie and it's just so funny then he beat up a bunch of like locals in some country for gas in Brazil he like said that he got like beat up at a gas station but like he didn't that's what it was sorry he said he got he was just like drunk and stupid because he's stupid
Starting point is 00:36:13 but like he's cute and it's a good summer it's so he can pull it off I'm hoping for some characters to come out of these Olympics that we can be when we're at the Olympics in two years you got a lot of good planning going on you got a lot of good time to plan too we do i was like you'll have to bring extra look at
Starting point is 00:36:32 because we want to be on the news we want to be everywhere and very excited you got to paint your face with doom to fill oh my god yes well by then we'll be it'll be our jobs yeah we'll be will be it'll pan over oh there's taylor and far as i'm doomed to fill watching this we'll have a prom on in the olympics um-hmm perfect sweet well thank you Taylor, thanks to everyone. Again, right to a soon at Fallponad at Gmail.com. Bye all.

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