Fuck the game!

Alright, let's do this.

How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what the fuck-knicks?

This is Mark Marin, this is WTF, the podcast.

Thank you for joining me.

Right out of the gate.

What's going on, man?

Women, people, children, animals, how's everything going?

Fill the animals.

Today is John Ridley, a day here on WTF, John Ridley is a screenwriter, won the Oscar

for 12 years of slave, and I knew he was writing movies a long time ago, he's written a lot

of movies, but what a lot of people don't know is he was a stand-up comic, and I remember

him very clearly as a stand-up comic, Mr. John Ridley, and I've always wanted to have

him on because it's rare.

I mean, I don't know how many Oscar-winning former stand-up comics have I had on this show?

How many?

I should know the answer to that.

But his journey was a unique one in my mind.

From being a guy who I knew at the comic strip in New York, I remember some of his jokes

even to a guy that wrote several movies, a lot of television, and then won an Oscar, an

Academy Award.

I've been trying to get him on for over a year, and finally we sat down and did it, it was

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