You actually prepared for this career.

I wanted to learn how to write stories and go out in the field.

So I would wait after hours and I would pull scripts out of the garbage.

I would prove every shot of that show, every shot.

Just like you do now.

Yeah, I still do it.

Starting at 4.15 in the morning.

Yeah, it's like, still do.

If you knew 19 years ago what you know now, would you have taken this job?

Okay, well, you're on fill into blanks and this is a very special week for me because I'm

getting to interview a very special person.

Now people always wonder really what goes on behind the scenes, what makes the Dr. Phil

Phil show, the Dr. Phil show, what makes it tick, what goes in to putting the show together.

And I've always said only half jokingly that I have this knack for getting these gigs

where somebody does all the work and I get all the credit.

And I'm really not joking when I say that.

And my guess today is going to be proof of that because for the first time ever on fill

into blanks, I'm talking to Carla Pinington.

Now, if you don't know, let me tell you who Carla Pinington is.

Carla is the executive producer of Dr. Phil.

That means she is the boss of the show.

Everybody works for her, including me, all the staff, everybody like two, three hundred

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