As I understand he met Oprah when he was helping her with her "mad cow" trial. Oprah was sued by beef producers here in Texas when she said on the air that she wasn't going to eat beef because of the mad cow disease scare a few years ago. Oprah brought him on her show on a regular basis { Tuesdays } and noticed that her ratings went up when he was on. He eventually got his own show.

You can learn a lot watching daytime TV when you spend a week in bed.