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Once in a while on our show, you get to do something totally different, and I got that opportunity. There's a brand new movie coming out starring Andrew Schultz, the fantastic comedian, and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. And by the way, unbelievably approachable. This is the second time I had a chance to meet him. He did a documentary.
50 Cent did for Fox Nation on some type of law enforcement situation. Remember, he got shot multiple times. Went to jail. Very successful rapper has come out. I think he's a big Trump guy.
Doesn't feel he doesn't do any good to come out and say that. Andrew Schultz has got a very successful comedy career. He's an actor and he's got a great podcast too. Together, I didn't even know they knew each other. I thought they were just maybe cursory friends.
I had a chance to interview them for their brand new movie.
So I thought went so well. I thought it would be great to bring it back for radio. Here's my interview with Andrew Schultz. And Fifty Cent. October means a lot of things: the fall, the season.
Of course, you think about Halloween, but the rest of the country is going to be thinking about Street Fighter. The release this month with two of the stars right here: Andrew Schultz and Curtis Fifty Cent. Jackson is with us, guys. Thanks so much for being here. First off, Curtis, what made you think that that video game could be a movie?
Oh man, it was exciting. I came. In contact with the game, just a fan of it in the arcade. Right.
So when it came time to shoot the movie, I was like, "Oh, this is cool." Because you want to play a fighter. Yeah, yeah. I was to play. Describe your character, Balrog.
Well, he's he's the only fighter in the in the series that's a champion. Right.
Actually, is that is that something you want with your character? Yeah, yeah. You would have been champ. Yeah, lists like that. You know, I am Mike.
I am Mike kind of champion. You know, that that if it wasn't boxing, it would have been armed robbery. Like that, that over aggressive guy, right? This that, yeah.
So that why I said that is because you also wanted to be a winning fighter, yes. Sure. Your character Danny Biki, yeah, is not a winning fighter. No, but he doesn't know that. He's boastful.
Yeah, he has no clue. You know, like he's actually. It's kind of like funny lore. He was made to make fun of a video game that ripped off Street Fighter, right?
So they made him as a parody.
So they made him like weak. To make fun of this other video game. But then it kind of caught on with the gaming community because the character doesn't know he's horrible. Like his, his you know Hadouken or Godouken is his his move only goes like two inches, but in his mind he's like I'm just exercising restraint. Like I don't want to hurt that person.
Right.
And and the director told you as his character, do something was really out of your realm. Yeah. Be funny. Yeah. Basically.
Actually, you know what's funny is what they said is they're like, hey, we want you to be in Street Fighter, and I was like, awesome. Am I going to be Ryu or? Like naturally you think. Cool. Right.
I'm like I gotta be one of these guys, and then they're like, no, no, you're gonna be Dan Hibiki, and I was like, who's that? And then then the producer Kale goes, trust me, you're gonna be perfect for it. And I looked up Dan Hibiki, and the description of the character was all confidence, no ability. Like all night, like what about me is perfect for this role? Yeah, yeah.
Help me understand this. You almost wanted to turn it down. The thing is about you guys with this. Do you feel a responsibility to because people in the '90s remember Street Fighter and everything goes back to the '90s. And then I'm finding out about the people that set the trends and they don't come to me for that.
Said the world loves the '90s. They're embracing this again.
So, what was it like for you to go back? You were at the top of the rap game in the '90s, right? Yeah. What was it like to go back there with everything around you? Like, man, it's exciting.
The energy, like. Get going into it. I'm like this. Like Andrew is there. All of these amazing people.
Nigga, you know, Jason or.
So many—Noah Centineo, Kalina playing Chun Li, Orville Peck. I mean, you got Cody Rhodes, Cody, yeah, Roman Reigns. This is my movie. The second he showed up on set, he's like, "Guys, thank you so much for being part of my movie." What he's not going to tell you, but he should, is he? This guy lost thirty pounds without taking the fat shot.
He lost it naturally, right? Thirty pounds through through old-fashioned anorexia, right? That guy didn't eat. How long? Like two months or something like that.
It was like, yep. I trained. I started training like for a month before. I got to say, and I spent thirty days boxing too. Yeah, and that changed because he's topless and they're shirtless, whatever you call guys.
I call them topless. Topless, yeah. I had to be back down in the in the shape. Yeah, yeah. Because I I did the first four or five UFCs because as a broadcaster, not as a survivor.
Oh, really? But I saw those guys, yeah, and they were direct. But the toughest the guy, tougher the guys, the nicer they are because they have nothing to prove. Wouldn't you be nicer now, Andrew? Yeah, is he?
That's why he's nice. Is he nice? Yeah, he's the nicest guy until you you know don't like him because I get the sense you yeah I'm really prejudiced that way yeah I don't like people who don't like me oh yeah that's pretty much natural I do get the sense Andrew you still are a little afraid of Curtis oh fifty yeah I'm not afraid of this guy yeah. I'm not afraid of that guy at all. Look at me!
Look at me! Look at you! No, and listen. The other thing that sticks out with me, and I always wonder, you guys are like many, like they'd say, five-tool players.
So, you're a rapper. That's how you make your name. You also, you're doing documentaries for us, and now you're proving yourself as an actor, Andrew. You're a podcaster with opinions and knowledge, and then you're doing stand-up, top maybe in the world. Oh wow!
I really believe it, and people know it, and you're selling out. Imagine Square Garden. You do that by mistake, and then you go. Let me try acting. Is this like the third most important thing?
At like, where does this rank on the things that matter? It depends on how much they pay. It's all about the money. Yeah, we'll find out later. The next, the next one.
Exactly. Yeah, we got to get a Street Fighter two and Street Fighter three. Of course, it's going to be a sequel. How do you feel about it? Where does this rank?
Where's acting rank? I like, I like creating the the movie and the TV shows. Like to me, that's really fun. And and this process. It was very collaborative.
Yeah. So like Kate Katal and Kale, Katal's the director and Kale's the producer. Like, they were very inclusive of us and like our ideas and you know kind of letting us riff and pitch stuff. And that to me was the most exciting. Like acting is definitely fun, but like actually feeling like you got your fingerprints on a project of this size, you know, is very special.
So I like that. I believe it's going to take over his career. O.U.T.S.M. Award. That's how good he is.
I think he's going to make movies, a lot of comedic stuff too, like that. But he'll go into that space. And there's a, from from from my perspective, I needed as long as I'm not showing up in any of his documentaries. That's the only guy. I.U.
was a nice guy. These projects for me was perfect because it was small enough. My role. Like I was there thirty days. Like I, I can't take a quarter of what I'm doing right to go play on the movie.
But do you know what that's like for him to take thirty days off from being Fifty Cent? Like for the last two decades, he's probably worked every day as Fifty Cent in some capacity. Why was that important for you to diversify and and not just depend on music? Because you can't stay the same, the messaging and everything else. You know, I didn't want to be like like a virgin at sixty three.
You know what he said. You mean like Madonna?
Well, I didn't want to be trying to hold on to that the sexy that way.
Okay, that presentation. First day on set, he goes, "Guys, this is gonna do wonders for my love life." Yes, I'm sitting there. They paid me a lot of money to get back in shape, and I came back looking like 50 Cent.
So, did you not drink? Did you not have any junk food? No, no, no. I was like, I was eating it. You eat nothing.
But you had to build up your muscle too. Yeah, yeah, and like enough to. I mean, it's just eating like fuel instead of eating because it tastes good and it's food. Oh, okay, understood.
So. This is the main thing. As this is clearly a non-actor, you're talking to. Right.
So size. If you go out on stage, you know what you're saying. Your premises, right? Yeah. But now you got to get words, and someone wrote them.
They want you to stick to them, Andrew. For you. Yeah. What it was like looking at dialogue and going, "Okay, I think I got it. I think I got it.
Go." Were you thinking the words, or you just thinking the character? I think I think you definitely think character first, and then also the people who wrote the script were brilliant. Like the script was. Hilarious, you know, and the character doesn't know he's funny though. You know, that's the difference between stand up and acting.
Is like, if you have a good comedic character, he's dead serious. George Costanza is just an emotional wreck all the time. He's not trying to be funny, right? He's like really frustrated.
So that's kind of what I tried to think about, and and they just they were also really cool in letting us riff and you know throw different things out and to me that might lend itself to my strengths a little bit. That's like ten versions of that. Yeah. If you went back to the edits, like, 'cause I watched his day. You do multiple, yeah.
Oh, I watched his performance, and then like, they would let him go, and then things, special things, would happen. Understood, and that's bloopers. We're gonna have some fun bloopers, right? The directors have to put their ego aside, and for an actor, and just let you go. No, because I think everything comes from them, really.
Like they would have great lines that they pitch. Like all the funniest stuff is obviously from them because they created this world. Absolutely not true.
Okay, but they did. They did. What do you what his thoughts around it? What he got in it, and and was. Just performing, right?
Like I saw that, I was like, "Oh, I would have forgot that dialogue and just kept that." Understood. This was more. It was just in it. Interesting. Which brings me to you.
You used to be in the CEO. I'm producing. You used to produce the CEO. I'm involved. Yeah.
I'll be like, yo, lose the line. Put that right there. Right.
It's better. Right.
Like, and then if you talking to the the actual writer, because the the director is is conveying a piece that was developed by a team, right.
So that he's not. Absolutely married to it. When you see something that feels good, just it pops off. I don't be going. We got to keep this.
Yeah, right.
So you have an instinct for, for movies as well. I love I love watching man. I love watching movies, man. And you like it being produced as well. Yeah, yeah.
Cause that's the like for the most part. I'm around cinematography that way.
So lastly, before we go. What do you want people to get from this? I know you want to do a sequel and that'll be great. Yeah, yeah. When people see this movie, what do you want people to get?
I want people to get. Oh my God! Look at how good Fifty is in shape. That's all they want to. That's all they want to say.
That's all I want them. What do I personally like them? What do I personally like them to say? Yeah. Wow, that was amazing.
Right.
You see how he turned into that whole other guy. I told you that guy was. Who's the comedian? What do you want people to take away? I want them to be able to.
For two hours, you know, like I think there is just so much like existential doom in the world. It'd be great to provide that to people. They go into the movie theater and kind of have that experience that we had, and also this just like the most beautiful time I think for us is the nineties. Is like the last time before everything was on camera.
Now everything's a camera phone, or is a camera attached to somewhere. Like we got to live authentically in a really beautiful way without a shot. Shot for IMAX too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's gonna be it. Yeah, go go check out, go check it out at IMAX.
Watch on a big screen. Andrew Curtis, great to see you, and I cannot wait to see you without a shirt on. Yes, clip it. Thanks so much, Brad. Great to meet you.
Appreciate it. See you guys. Always fun.
So Street Fighter, the name of the movie. These guys had a great time. I'm doing it, and so I think it's the whole way to build on that Marvel thing. The whole, you know, superhero situation, the surreal situation, though, is very interesting. And what they're hoping for, flat out, is a franchise.
And by the way, all Fifty Cent talks about is business and money. That's it. They did a whole bunch of stuff together. It was kind of cool. Hopefully, they'll continue to come back.
So when we come back, I'm going to have a chance to talk a little bit more about my book in a more sophisticated way. I got this book out called "United in the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle," and. Tonight I'm going to be at Red Bank, New Jersey, on stage. Going to stream it on Fox Station, but I want to see in person at the Baysy Theater. Joe Pisco was going to come down and sing us and open.
And then on Saturday I'm going to be the Westbury Music Fair in the round. It's going to be great home game on Long Island. I rarely get a chance to do that. Have a chance to talk about history, bring it to life. But it's not a lecture.
It is an entertaining night. And hope everyone joins me and go get tickets at BrianKillme.com. And if you want to get the book, and I hope you do, and you want. Personalized. You don't live in New York.
You are not going to see me. Can't go to any of my events, and they're all listed on my website. There is a lot more over Florida, going for California, going to Alabama. I have a lot.
So if you don't, if you can't do it, you go. Just click on personalization. It goes to my local bookstore. I show up when I can, once a week, and we'll send them all out. I'll personalize and send it out.
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