# The Six Triple Eight (Teaser)

An episode of [Black Men Can't Jump \[In Hollywood\]](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1023264209), 5 Mar 2026, 17 min.

Audio: https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/a76104a3-1200-4ce6-8109-874a5a06e5f4/stream.mp3

This week, James and Jon are covering The Six Triple Eight (2024), written and directed by Tyler Perry, based on “Fighting a Two-Front War” by Kevin M. Hymel, starring Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Dean Norris, Sam Waterston, and Oprah Winfrey. Together, they discuss what they’d do on the admin side of war, Jerah being out sick, Bond songs' success rate at The Oscars, the music of Diane Warren, and much, much more! Listen to the full episode on Patreon or Red Circle's Exclusive Feed! SUBSCRIBE FOR EXCLUSIVE CONTENT AND OUR FULL BACK CATALOG OF 400+ EPISODES: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/7655b7ec-dc57-47c9-ab96-1a8fa02f6573/exclusive-content JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BMCJ FOLLOW BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP \[IN HOLLYWOOD\]: https://www.threads.com/@blackmenpodcast https://www.instagram.com/blackmenpodcast BUY BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP \[IN HOLLYWOOD\] MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/black-men-can-t-jump-in-hollywood Produced by Skyler Hanrath Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

## Transcript

[0:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Welcome to Blackman, can't jump on Patreon.
[0:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Patreon, steady.
[0:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That's throughout, is that?
[0:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Those are breasts.
[0:15] \[SPEAKER_02\]: This is Mary, and this is Martha, and these are tennis!
[0:19] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Oh, whatever.
[0:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Whatever the name is for names here.
[0:22] \[SPEAKER_02\]: That was right.
[0:23] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Are they?
[0:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Mary and Martha?
[0:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No, you don't like that.
[0:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Those little things, you know what's in front of me?
[0:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Those little things, you have.
[0:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: These are, you know.
[0:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: uh... at least I thought it was so funny they made her character kind of like the bad guy a lot which I was like that's the most delightful person he thought it was very strange anyway first of all we just let's just acknowledge that uh... there's only two of us here right now usually where the six triplet
[0:59] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Oh, that doesn't even drag you away, it's usually where the six triple 8 to what?
[1:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah.
[1:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Do you see more than two?
[1:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: No.
[1:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Okay.
[1:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Well, I guess it works.
[1:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I guess I'll accept it.
[1:21] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Because why not?
[1:22] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Because I don't see there's nothing else.
[1:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: This is all we have.
[1:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Wow.
[1:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I mean, here's the thing.
[1:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This is all we have.
[1:29] \[SPEAKER_02\]: So they're technically three of us host the podcast right don't start doing math Man, that's not gonna make any sense So normally there's three of us.
[1:43] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Okay.
[1:43] \[SPEAKER_02\]: How does it okay?
[1:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No, I think that's never worked normally.
[1:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There's three of us right.
[1:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Oh, yeah, but and you know
[1:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It typically, you know, a podcast you have one person who is a producer, okay, okay, now we're up to now we're up to four, right?
[2:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Okay, then there's the audience, and that's fine, the audience, how many audience the audience is collected, the audience's collective is is five is fine, okay, and then of course our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is there, so that's six.
[2:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: So we're the same Lord and save it.
[2:23] \[SPEAKER_02\]: That's not everybody home.
[2:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You wrote the audience in.
[2:26] \[SPEAKER_02\]: That's not everybody's Lord and save it.
[2:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: So whatever you want to, whatever, whatever name you want to give.
[2:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But that's the six, but we're a triple.
[2:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Okay, fair.
[2:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I'll take that.
[2:43] \[UNKNOWN\]: Okay.
[2:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And then eight is what we rank at a 10 the pot of 10.
[2:48] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah, we're late.
[2:50] \[SPEAKER_02\]: That's how I guess is it.
[2:52] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I don't know how to feel I did feel so when you said it when you said it I felt something and I was like I don't know if I should feel offended that we aren't a 10 out of 10 or if you're being generous
[3:05] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'll live in a generous.
[3:06] \[SPEAKER_02\]: No, which one it is.
[3:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I'm not just real.
[3:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Wow.
[3:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: All right.
[3:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Listen, this is, this actually is a film review podcast.
[3:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: We, we typically review the film's leading black actors.
[3:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: We talk about them the concept race and diversity in Hollywood.
[3:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Uh, three of us typically host this, uh, the voice you're listening to right now that honestly,
[3:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I'm not going to go to war you're just not you're just not I think it's not over for me no part of you would ever okay now and when I say that I I specifically mean fighting will I will I engage in some of the administory of duties of of war okay so you so you're saying you know if
[3:50] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You know, depending on the cause, depending on the cause, exactly.
[3:54] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You would, you would, you would contribute on an administrative level on a clerical, like, you know, if there's a, if you want me to file something, if you want me to say real.
[4:06] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah.
[4:07] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I mean, this is they was on the, they was there.
[4:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: So that's, yeah, you know, I can be on the home front, you know, like I can be receiving the package.
[4:16] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah, you know, the tan and the tan and the tan.
[4:18] \[SPEAKER_02\]: So long as that's not where the handing out the letters, if that's not where the fighting is actually happening, prop, yeah, maybe.
[4:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: All right.
[4:29] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I forgot to say that my name is Jonathan Brilla.
[4:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I was where I disrupted it, but yes, okay.
[4:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And that's okay.
[4:35] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And this, and this voice, who would probably like not be involved in any capacity, this is James the third.
[4:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And Doraz, not here.
[4:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No.
[4:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He's not feeling strong.
[4:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He's sick, which, which it immediately means, yeah, he wouldn't be a part of this, he wouldn't like,
[4:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He got, he got a little pop and he's not here like, come on, he says they show them coffin.
[5:01] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They zoomed in on everybody coffin.
[5:03] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They was like, I'm sure we saw that they was sick and they were still working.
[5:08] \[SPEAKER_02\]: So yeah, they simply honk it not clarify because my voice is also the voice that would like strongly consider, you know, strongly consider.
[5:18] \[SPEAKER_02\]: What was you going to be considering again?
[5:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I would also only be considering like clerical administrative, yeah, yeah, like, you know, now I can't be behind in the mean lines I can't be murdering people I can't know I can't I can't and then like I don't know if I can be in charge of too much, you know, right, because I think it would overwhelm me.
[5:41] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But I guess I'm ignoring that there's an element of training that gets you to like being ready to withstand certain things.
[5:52] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Well, yeah.
[5:53] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm not giving myself that credit of that.
[5:55] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm just sort of thinking in advance.
[5:58] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You know, I don't know what level of like basic training or whatever I could do.
[6:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: So.
[6:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: these issues through violence that just feels like uh... it's it just doesn't like it can't be the way it can't be the way out the miss this movie started and i was like
[6:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: This can't be the one, this is the most movie war, the war movie, this is the most movies made about war, there is, and it's starting to, this is the war that most war movies are about.
[6:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And then, but this started, and I just went, they don't need to be, certainly don't need to be doing all this.
[6:53] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This is pretty much the only if you really think about it.
[6:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This is really the only war that feels ultimately that people are like we had to fight this war and it's it's hard to argue that we didn't have to fight it in some capacity now what we did in it you could easily argue not necessary sure right
[7:25] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah, and it also sort of feels like they were like, I ain't gonna talk too much about this, but it all sort of feels like they were like
[7:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: This is where we can drop it and, you know what I mean?
[7:36] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Like, it just sort of feels like they were like, for as much, those are real people who lost their lives and complete areas destroyed.
[7:45] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But it was like very much like them being like, this is where we will test it and you know what I mean?
[7:53] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Like it was very like, we have decided that this is where it's gonna be and we won't do it anywhere else and we will stop and we have stopped.
[8:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: You know, hundreds of percent now.
[8:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This isn't a political podcast, but certainly not you know, we are reviewing we are viewing the film the six triple eight Directed by Tyler Perry.
[8:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yes, right also.
[8:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Oh, that's a question.
[8:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I don't know.
[8:21] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yes, of course.
[8:21] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're in my town of Paris and direct.
[8:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Oh, it's someone there.
[8:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Maybe did a book.
[8:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This is versus.
[8:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah, it's based off of.
[8:29] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah, yeah, it's an adapted screenplay.
[8:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Okay, but it obviously based off of real life as well.
[8:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yes, yeah, they have my she was at the end of this.
[8:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I was like what yeah, I couldn't believe it the book was called fighting a two front war Which yeah, yes, and stars carry Washington That's what we've cameo by Oprah.
[8:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: We also have Dean Norris in this as the racist bad guy Who's our general who's an American general?
[9:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Ebony Obsidian?
[9:07] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yeah.
[9:08] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Well, he was great.
[9:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: What?
[9:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: A lot of Jackson.
[9:11] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Oh, she was on assist.
[9:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It was like, here's a movie.
[9:15] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah.
[9:15] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah.
[9:16] \[SPEAKER_02\]: He was like, hey.
[9:18] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Here's a movie, real quick.
[9:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Oh, wow, her credits are, well, we've seen her and if it feels she could talk, but her credit, I mean, Wu Tang's American Saga, she's in, well, that episode's that, have any work in?
[9:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I never saw hunters, he's in six episodes of that.
[9:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I know people like it.
[9:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: You also have, what's that, it's Shanay?
[9:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Oh, sorry, Shanice Shante, who played Johnny May.
[9:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yes.
[9:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: What was I gonna say?
[9:48] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh, just that, you know, it is, by the way.
[9:53] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Women's history month, got out.
[9:56] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Hey, by the way, side board.
[10:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Black history month, John signed it.
[10:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And also, okay, we're gonna war again.
[10:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What do you know?
[10:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What do you know?
[10:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What do you know, America's bombin' around.
[10:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What into you know it?
[10:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What into you know it?
[10:15] \[SPEAKER_02\]: As we speak.
[10:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And I, and I, and I just, I got to say, I have like a little, like a small get together from my, from my 40th.
[10:26] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And that was maybe the second thing somebody said to me.
[10:29] \[SPEAKER_02\]: So yeah, they, right, said happy birthday.
[10:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And then it was like, but also let's talk about Iran.
[10:36] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And what?
[10:39] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And we did.
[10:40] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And we were both miserable, but we talked about it.
[10:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Right, we had to.
[10:44] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Yeah.
[10:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This movie is a Netflix film.
[10:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I believe it came out right out, right out on Netflix.
[10:53] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was released December 2024, a budget of 70 million, which is pretty high for a Tyler Perry.
[11:03] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Keep your.
[11:04] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I would say.
[11:05] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah, and what was it?
[11:06] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It was all of the it was all of the period costumes.
[11:10] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It was June VFX.
[11:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It was, I mean, you know, how much went to, I mean, this is a pretty stacked cast like every white person is famous.
[11:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Right Sam Waters thin is in it, but he's barely in it.
[11:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Susan surrounded is in it, but she's not in it a lot Right, but yeah, I don't know.
[11:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I mean like I'm sure the yeah VFX took a huge part of it and there's a lot of people like there's a lot of
[11:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: actors.
[11:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There's a lot of actors in this.
[11:46] \[SPEAKER_02\]: A lot of people.
[11:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A lot of people.
[11:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A lot of people.
[11:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And yeah, no, they don't, um, I think that was like, that's a result.
[11:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: You need, you need large crews.
[11:53] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You need large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large large
[12:15] \[SPEAKER_00\]: who I don't know who that is.
[12:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: He looks white to me.
[12:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Which is, there's something wrong with that, but I'm pretty sure she's white.
[12:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But, you know, Tyler Perry can be like, yo, yeah, no, there's certainly nothing wrong with being white.
[12:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[12:53] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That's just texted me, I'm actively mad that you said you would do administrative work for the military and war.
[13:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No, you shall not be.
[13:03] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Think she's taken.
[13:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I think she's thinking current administration.
[13:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That's not what I'm saying.
[13:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah, she didn't hear my side of it where I added if you believe in the cause.
[13:16] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Tell her that she didn't hear.
[13:18] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Your headphones are all you didn't hear me say.
[13:22] \[SPEAKER_02\]: but also hilarious that Tesla heard that and also needed to reprimand you.
[13:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And then she wanted me to, she wanted me to note that her saying the journey, but the nomination and the win if this didn't win, but if it had won, the songwriter is the person who gets that.
[13:42] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Oh, usually,
[13:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the artist is just one of the one of the people who write it, but not the case for this.
[13:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Okay, like, you know, when like Billie Eilish won for Bond and for Barbie.
[13:56] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah, I was going to say her and her brother, but forgot to Apple.
[13:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah, you want to.
[14:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Got, she's a two-time Oscar winner.
[14:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He really, yeah.
[14:03] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I can't.
[14:04] \[SPEAKER_02\]: The thing is, I can't believe it, but it is also like you also want to be surprised at the same time.
[14:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah.
[14:10] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I mean, she's very young.
[14:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It's pretty nuts.
[14:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Yeah.
[14:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: No, yeah, extremely.
[14:15] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But she was out here, but she was dropping in bangers.
[14:18] \[SPEAKER_02\]: He was dropping in bangers.
[14:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Both of them songs is bangers.
[14:22] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Okay, what was I made for?
[14:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: And then the bond one, which I can't sing right now.
[14:28] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But it was very, it had all the bond stuff I needed to have.
[14:35] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They all do though, right?
[14:36] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Like do that.
[14:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They all sort of, you know, you can sort of put almost almost every time, almost every time like a bond.
[14:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I mean, every bond song I think is pretty much nominated and like a lot of times they win.
[14:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Did I another day win though?
[14:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Cause that ship was fire.
[14:53] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That's a good question.
[14:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I don't know.
[14:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Wait, is that how it went?
[15:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yes, it was techno.
[15:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Oh, wow.
[15:03] \[SPEAKER_02\]: That was, that was, that was what was going to happen to me.
[15:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah, that was what was going to happen to me.
[15:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It didn't, but you don't think sure it's nominated.
[15:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Okay, yeah.
[15:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Well, what you just saying definitely shouldn't have won.
[15:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I think it should have.
[15:14] \[SPEAKER_02\]: No, I think it should have.
[15:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Well, good.
[15:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This producer's guy there also mentioned that Diane Warren has famously been nominated for best original song upwards of 20 times and has never won dog.
[15:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Why they keep doing this 10 billion shout here.
[15:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Like, I already got two in the bag.
[15:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I already got two in the bag.
[15:37] \[SPEAKER_02\]: it's like when they threw the Oscar at him and him, but then they gave it to three six mafia shortly thereafter for doing the exact same thing because they were like, I think we have to.
[15:49] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They were like, they were like, they were like, we did just give it to him and him for doing basically this.
[15:56] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I guess we'll give it to three six mafia.
[16:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That's so real.
[16:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That song wasn't even an nominated.
[16:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Oh.
[16:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Dang.
[16:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Anyway.
[16:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: We're uh...
[16:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: I feel like we're stalling.
[16:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: We are.
[16:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This film has a 53%- Sorry.
[16:21] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Excuse me.
[16:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Excuse me.
[16:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: 56% on Rotten City.
[16:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yeah, you go.
[16:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: 56%.
[16:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: 72% audience score.
[16:30] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Mm-hmm.
[16:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Obviously, it came out on Netflix.
[16:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: So.
[16:44] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I mean, can't jump.

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