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Speaker 1: Our special guest is the creator of Will Packer Production,

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Speaker 1: and his movies Check Me Out Now has gross more

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Speaker 1: than one billion world wide. He's also a New York

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Speaker 1: Times best selling author. But more importantly, he is my

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Speaker 1: other boss on the own network, where I am the

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Speaker 1: host of the best dating show on TV. Ready to love, y'all,

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Speaker 1: put your hands together and welcome my other boss, the

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Speaker 1: one and only mister Willpackeray.

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Speaker 2: When around out his favorite boss, y'all were gonna tell him,

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Speaker 2: we can tell he ain't gonna never know. Come on, Tunder,

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Speaker 2: you can say it. I'm your best boss, brother, Come on, now.

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Speaker 1: You are my best boss.

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Speaker 2: It's over. I know that's right. I'm your only boss. Now,

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Speaker 2: you didn't messed up. I got ready to love Jesus

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Speaker 2: cracking man that you will always I appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Y'all happy, Hey man, Let's get to it. Man, Let's

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Speaker 1: let's take care of some some ready to love business.

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Speaker 2: All right, so I know where you're going. You know

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Speaker 2: where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Come on. I kicked off the new season of Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: introduced all of the datas all right. We got the

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Speaker 1: fans hooked. Week after week they tune it in.

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Speaker 2: It stuck to the.

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Speaker 1: TV like glue. Then I shut it all down last

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Speaker 1: week's episode when I told all the fans that Ready

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Speaker 1: to Love Philly was taking a hiatus until this summer.

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Speaker 1: The fans, you know, you know, they're not happy.

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Speaker 2: Will please? My social media is on fire and not

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Speaker 2: they look for me. Wow. And reality is that it

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Speaker 2: is a network decision, not Tammy and I. But when

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Speaker 2: you have a show that this big, and y'all know

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Speaker 2: we are now the number one and longest running black

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Speaker 2: dating show on all this television, that's like and all

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Speaker 2: prompts to my brother Tommy and all seriousness, because we

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Speaker 2: have such an incredible fan base and Tommy, you have

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Speaker 2: built this over all these seasons. And sometimes networks, when

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Speaker 2: you have a show that is successful like this, they

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Speaker 2: do things to maximize viewership and heighten and to extend

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Speaker 2: the viewership and the height. But here's what I will

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Speaker 2: tell you. Okay, we're coming back August one, and you

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Speaker 2: will not be disappointed. I promise you. You're gonna see why.

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Speaker 2: And it is something that the network is behind and

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Speaker 2: it is so excited about it, and so they did

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Speaker 2: extend it. So for all my already loved friends, we

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Speaker 2: appreciate y'all sticking with us, but we're coming back strong.

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Speaker 2: August first, exactly at the end right there, August one, yep. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: and gonna be here before you know it, and we're

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Speaker 2: gonna come back strong. So we appreciate y'all, I think,

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Speaker 2: but you got to show that doing well. Sometimes, as

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Speaker 2: I said, networks they want to extend that. The viewership

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Speaker 2: is very, very strang They make these decisions, and so

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Speaker 2: Tommy and I just have to roll with it. It

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Speaker 2: ain't on time. It they don't meet, and it certainly

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Speaker 2: ain't on the fast because y'all have been supporting us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break when we come back. I

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Speaker 1: want to hear about this New York Times best selling book.

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Speaker 1: That's what I want to hear about.

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Speaker 2: Oh, let's get into it, baby, I'm ready. Right after this.

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Speaker 2: You're listening Stave Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: We are back. We still got my boy will pack on.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not my boy, my other boss. Bad.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Miss that title.

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Speaker 1: Put some speck on it. Put some speck on it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, man, come on, bring me up to speed.

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Speaker 1: You tell me about this book. The title is who

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Speaker 1: Better Than You? The art of healthy arrogance and dreaming big. So,

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Speaker 1: first of all, congratulations, you are now a New York

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Speaker 1: Times best selling off it's so big, up so much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank y'all. It's still amazing, like people are loving

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Speaker 2: this book. So I wrote this book, and it is

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Speaker 2: anational book, inspirational book, right, It's a book to let

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Speaker 2: everybody know that you deserve success. That is what it's about.

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Speaker 2: You know. I've been in this game for thirty years now,

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Speaker 2: and I've worked with some of the most successful people

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Speaker 2: in the world. And the most successful people all have

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Speaker 2: something in common, and it is that they have this

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Speaker 2: supreme confidence I call it healthy ergance, that not only

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Speaker 2: could they be successful, but they will be successful, and

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Speaker 2: they deserve success. And I want people to know that

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Speaker 2: you can unlock that too. No matter who you are,

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Speaker 2: no matter where you are your life or career, success

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Speaker 2: is out there for you. So I wrote a book.

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Speaker 2: In it, let me tell you, it's fun of y'all.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling stories that I've never sold before from all

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Speaker 2: my decades in Hollywood. I'm talking about Beyonce, Kevin Hart,

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Speaker 2: I even got to see Harvey story in there. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna tell y'all, I don't worry about how. When we

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Speaker 2: first released Think Like a Man, opening weekend, we were

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Speaker 2: supposed to make about twenty million dollars and I called Steve.

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Speaker 2: I was so excited. I said, hey, big oh, I

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Speaker 2: got you, cousin. We made the budget back of the

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Speaker 2: movie and the opening weekend, and he said, well, let's

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Speaker 2: tie it. You know, how come you know what it's

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Speaker 2: gonna make for the whole weekend. And I realized, I say, okay, Steve,

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Speaker 2: you don't understand how the movie business work. Let me

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Speaker 2: explain it to y'all. Okay, we estimate what the movie

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Speaker 2: is gonna make based on what it makes on Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Now you stick to what you do, Steve. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: do what I want to say in this part of

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Speaker 2: the business. You know, I'm telling Steve, and Steve you

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Speaker 2: know how he is. He said, oh, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: well I'm right, and that's what you own it. You

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Speaker 2: have to be with that number. But I just feel

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Speaker 2: like you can get high here. But you know whatever,

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Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. Man. Gone here. Now, y'all, don't

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Speaker 2: tell see if I did that bad and pressing up when.

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Speaker 1: You let it let him know, but have his check though,

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Speaker 1: makes so he got his check.

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Speaker 2: That's all he kept. He started with that when he

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Speaker 2: heard the moment I say, hey, the movie came out,

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Speaker 2: he's doing well, Well, where is my check? That's what

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Speaker 2: he said. Where can I get paid? Because I need

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Speaker 2: to know. But what he did was he actually lit

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Speaker 2: a fire under me because I realized that it wasn't over.

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Speaker 2: And one of the things I talk about in the

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Speaker 2: book is that you gotta always work hard to the

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Speaker 2: very very end. It's not over until it's over. And

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Speaker 2: when Steve said that to me, I actually said, you

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Speaker 2: know what, Steve is right there estimating based on what

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Speaker 2: we made on day one, but we still got Saturday

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Speaker 2: and Sunday for the weekend. I called all the actors

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Speaker 2: that Friday night. Half of them was drunk. Y'all. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna tell you Michael Oh, Michael Eally was on that wine.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you that right now. You know he's

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Speaker 2: so many. He was at home with his land Cross

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Speaker 2: and a cigarette, sitting on wine, something about well, I

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Speaker 2: ain't going nowhere. I said, like, wake up. We got

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Speaker 2: to go out and promote this movie some more. But

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Speaker 2: he lit a fire under me, and do y'all know

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Speaker 2: the movie was supposed to make twenty some millions by

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Speaker 2: the end of that weekend, after us continuing to push

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Speaker 2: hard and open the thirty three million that we had.

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Speaker 2: We were one of the first movies to do that.

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Speaker 2: You see people do that now where they go out

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Speaker 2: and pop up that movie theater surprising pieces. We started

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Speaker 1: Man, you have always gotten your hustle on. You never

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Speaker 1: just stop. You just keep pushing, key pushing. You have

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Speaker 1: never I've never seen you not getting your hustle on.

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Speaker 2: You have to write. Even with this book, it's a

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Speaker 2: new muscle for me. It's something different, and sometimes it's

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Speaker 2: hard for people to do something different. Right it's somebody

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Speaker 2: listening right now in a job, but they want to

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Speaker 2: do something different and they're afraid to make the change.

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Speaker 2: I call that the power of the pivot, and that

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Speaker 2: is what I wrote this book for people who are

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Speaker 2: ready to start something new, do something that's hard or challenging.

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Speaker 2: You have to be willing to take the leak, to

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Speaker 2: take a risk. That's the power of the pivot. Everybody

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Speaker 2: has that power. You gotta believe in it. You've gotta

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Speaker 2: know that you deserve success. You gotta build that confidence muscle.

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Speaker 2: It's like you build any other muscle. You gotta work

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Speaker 2: at it, and you gotta work at it day by day.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. That right there is my of a

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Speaker 1: Boston who better than you. The Art of Healthy Arrogance

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Speaker 1: and Dreaming Big is available anywhere books or so, mister

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Speaker 1: Will Packer.

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Speaker 2: I love you, man, I love your family. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for having me. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.