The questions have always been about human functioning, how to live better lives.

But this year we've had additional questions from you of what the hell is going on in this country.

Well hey everybody, welcome to Fill In The Blanks. I'm actually recording this on Labor Day.

The day before I'm dropping it to you, so happy Labor Day everyone, even though it's over when you're listening to this.

This is kind of special for me because it's been a long time since I've been able to just sit down and talk to you, just myself without a guest.

There's a reason that I'm doing this. It's not because I didn't have a guest this week. I have lots of guests.

But I wanted to talk about something really important to me and that is that this coming Monday, we're launching season 21 of Dr. Phil.

That is of course very special for all of us at Dr. Phil, but it's special for some other reasons.

And I'm going to tell you why right now, because I think this is going to be probably the most important season of Dr. Phil in 21 years.

Important because of you, not because of us.

And I'm going to pull the curtain back and give you a little insight into how Dr. Phil works.

By Dr. Phil, I'm not talking about myself in the third person. I'm talking about Dr. Phil, the platform.

You see, every year we shoot and have originals on until the end of May.

And then every summer we work really hard to look at what we've been doing and to reinvent ourselves, focusing on how we can respond to and connect to our community.

And to connect with you, our viewers better and better.

How we can tell our stories better, how we can deliver our message better.

We've always let your questions drive our content.

We let you and your male, your comment, your questions determine what stories we do, what topics we pick up on, what we focus on.

So if you ever wonder, why are they doing this show? Why are they doing that topic?

It's because of the male we get, the comments we get.

So if you see us doing something or you see us doing it maybe two or three times, it's because we're getting so much input from all of you.

So we've always let you determine what our content is.

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