Healthy Arrogance, Oscar Slaps, and Other Billion Dollar Secrets with Will Packer

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Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We always hear about confidence being the key to success, right? But what about straight-up ARROGANCE? Well, today Will Packer is here to break down what he calls “healthy arrogance”—and how it helped him produce TEN number-one movies, including “Ride Along,” “Think Like a Man,” and “Stomp the Yard.” He’s getting into everything from the time Oprah missed his film’s premiere, to Oprah naming his new book, “Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big,” one of the best self-help books of 2025—talk about a full-circle moment! Plus, we’re spilling some tea on a WILD Kevin Hart party, and going behind the scenes of the Oscars the year Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.

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0:09.5	Now, let's start the show.
0:15.9	No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling,
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0:22.6	Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the bad because money always involved.
0:26.6	No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense.
0:29.6	Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and ken.
0:31.6	So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only want this is...
0:35.6	You know it's your girls. Baby, this, this is Kiki.
0:40.8	Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah.
0:47.5	Hey mom.
0:48.8	Oh, hello, you looking so beautiful today.
0:51.4	Thank you.
0:51.9	I feel like I messed up because it's so cold outside. I was too
0:55.1	focused on being cute. I had to run up in the building. Girl, it was so damn cold. You don't win by
1:00.0	five shades lighter. I put on my big coat for real, and it was so much ice outside. I was
1:06.3	afraid I was going to fall. You know, when old people fall, it's disastrous. I hate to laugh because it actually is so true. Yeah, you know, you break something at a certain age, it does not heal properly. Oh, my gosh. So I'm glad I was tip-toin. We rebuked that. Amen. I'm talking to somebody today who were both a fan of his work. Okay. Will Packer. Obviously, we've seen his movies.
1:28.7	They're huge, you know, made a lot of success. So love that for him. But he has a new book out.
1:34.3	It's called Who Better Than You, the Art of Healthy Arrogance and Dream Big. And all my life, I feel
1:41.2	that you've had a healthy amount of arrogance that we also can call delusion, but it's helped us to get what we are. So I think it brings up the opportunity to re-examine what we consider to be arrogant. And I like this healthy concept because it really is just saying that if you can actually do it and if you're willing to humble yourself to do the work, then you reserve the right to have arrogance about how
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