WLKY's Vicki Dortch had the pleasure of going to Los Angeles to talk with hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White and got a behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy-winning game show.

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"Wheel of Fortune" is one of the most popular game shows ever.It's been in syndication since 1983 and WLKY has been bringing it to your home for those 32 years.WLKY's Vicki Dortch had the pleasure of going to Los Angeles to talk with hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White and got a behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy-winning game show.View behind the scenes images from Vicki's trip to "Wheel of Fortune"App Users: Mobile VideoIt's a simple game of hangman. Contestants spin the wheel, choose a letter and try to solve a puzzle.Four days a month, Sajak, White, the audience and contestants gather at Sony Studios in Culver City to tape "Wheel.""Well, we only do four days, but six shows each day," White said.They record two Thursdays and two Fridays each month."I come to work about 8:30 in the morning. We shoot first show at noon, but I have hair and makeup and try on a few things," White said.Sajak on the other hand, said we should all be green with envy of his schedule."It's the closest thing you can do in pretending you have a full-time job. In dog years I've only done this show about nine years," he said.The first audience is brought in to watch three episodes, then the crew breaks for lunch, another audience is ushered in and another three episodes are taped after the break."(The wheel) is heavier than you think. When the show first started, we would put shorter players on boxes, but problem is I would walk next to a great-grandmother on the show and I would walk next to her and people thought I was a jockey so now we are on risers and when they go up, I go up and we stay about the same size. But it got engrained in people that I was about 4 feet 3," Sajak said.Luckily for the three contestants, they get several minutes of practice spinning the huge, heavy wheel.The idea is to get the butterflies out and their nerves calmed before show time."It's easy to sit at home and say, 'That dummy, look at what he just did.' You don't know what it's like until you're in the studio. It would be easy for me to mock them, but I try not to. When someone makes mistakes, my first impulse is how to help them, have fun with them. I try not to poke fun at them," Sajak said.There's only one wheel and one puzzle board, valued at $1 million. When they taped the show in Hawaii, they had to ship the wheel and puzzle board over there.All week, Dortch will talk with Sajak and White about the success of the show, her clothes and what they think of each other.