What happens behind the scenes of CBS daytime talk show 'The Talk' from start to finish

10:15 a.m. – Julie Chen gives "CBS This Morning's" Gayle King a little help in a pre-taped segment that will air that afternoon on "The Talk."

Julie Chen did a game segment for "The Talk" with Gayle King called "What's on sale, Gayle?" The "CBS This Morning" co-host and Oprah Winfrey's best friend had to guess the prices of items collected from street vendors and flea markets. If King got six right in 60 seconds the audience would get a prize. But she needed some help.

"She was horrible at it," Chen said. "But I cheated with her. She'd say, 'Five dollars.' And I'd say, 'Say ten.' And she'd say it. We don't want our audience to go home empty-handed. It was just in good fun."

11:28 a.m. – It's called the producer meeting, but the women love to use it to catch up with each other.

A few hours before the show starts, executive producer John Redmann meets with the hosts about that day's topics and gets their feedback and a feel for what they want to say.

"What's funny about this meeting is that it's usually they're talking and gossiping and having fun," Redmann said. "We can't get them out of this meeting. Especially in New York, they all do different things the night before and want to catch up. They genuinely have a good friendship."

12:24 p.m. – Aisha Tyler decides to keep it casual for an interview with WCBS.

“So much fun swinging by WCBS to hang out with Mary Calvi before 'The Talk' on Tuesday," Aisha Tyler told Business Insider. "Since I was still in my 'Talk' robe, we decided to have a pajama party — who cares that it was already lunchtime? We’re grownups and we do what we like. Next up, pancakes for dinner!”

12:49 p.m. – Julie Chen gets her makeup finished.

"This is the key thing women have to know," Chen told Business Insider. "You have to blend your face to look like the color of your neck. So she is bronzing up my neck. Otherwise, you look like you're wearing a mask."

1:42 p.m. – Pre-show meeting.

"I call this the housekeeping meeting," Julie Chen explained of the meeting in which the producers go over the show with the co-hosts.

It's called the "morning meeting," because it usually takes place at 10:15 a.m on the West Coast for an 11 a.m taping. Here in NYC, it takes place later because the taping starts at 2 p.m.

1:45 p.m. – Everyone gets involved in an unexpected call from Ozzy Osbourne during the pre-show meeting.

"We had just started our morning production meeting when Ozzy gave me a call," Sharon Osbourne said. "Everyone got a chance to say hello on FaceTime."

1:55 p.m. – A little more work on the hair before the show.

"This is right before going out on stage," Julie Chen said. "Once we leave this area, we don't go back. Then, they come out to us on-set. My hair, like everyone's hair, falls flat after 20 minutes because I have so much product in it. The product weighs it down. So I have to get it teased and fluffed again."

1:49 p.m. – The audience gets riled up with some help.

Meet "The Talk's" audience warm-up guy, Bill Sindelar. He'll tell some jokes and give the audience a quick lesson on what they'll be seeing and reacting to during the show. It's his job to make sure that they're firing on all cylinders throughout the show taping.

2:00 p.m. – The women make their entrance and the crowd goes nuts.

While in LA, the walk to the set is minimal, but at the NYC studio, it takes the women about four minutes to walk to the set from the meeting, a difference production has to keep in mind. And before the women go on set every day, they do a group cheer. And then, it's showtime.

Julie Chen said, "This is the moment we go on. Five, four, three, two, one, go! This is always the most exciting part of the day, because of the cheering crowds. We're just a little daytime talk show, but we feel like U2 out there. Our viewers are so passionate, you walk out there and you feel like Ozzy Osbourne in a stadium of 80,000 in Germany."

"The volume and the energy of the New York audience is through the roof," executive producer John Redmann added. "You can feel the stage shake. They're excited to see the ladies."

2:44 p.m. – The women know their places, even for quick photos with the guests.

Here, CBS's "Limitless" star Jake McDormand takes a post-interview photo with the co-hosts.

"He's a very good storyteller," Chen said of McDormand. "We always like to do a group shot with our guests right after their appearance."

"They always sit in the same order that they sit on the show," Redmann pointed out. "And they always line up for photos and things in that same order. They're very superstitious about staying in their show order."

2:45 p.m. – There's a crisis.

The pre-taped segment with Gayle King became one of the day's most harrowing challenges. The company that edited the segment was having a hard time outputting the final product. A production assistant literally had to run to the editing facility to get the tape and run it back to the studio.

"We had already started our live show and we had to keep delaying the segment almost to the very end, because the tape wasn't ready," Redmann said. "You just roll with the punches."

2:55 p.m. – Sherry Shepherd has country singer Trisha Yearwood laughing instead of cooking.

"I take my chicken seriously," Shepherd explained.

2:58 p.m. – Julie Chen shares her secret to chopping during the cooking segment.

When Julie Chen has to chop something during a cooking segment, she likes to have a small bowl of whatever needs to be chopped available.

"I need to know," she said. "Do you want them julienned? Do you want them diced? Do you want them thick? Do you want them thin? Each recipe requires it done differently. So I see what the professional has done and I try my best to make it look like that. It never quite looks like that, but it's in the neighborhood."

By the way, Trisha Yearwood brought that key lime cake in for Sherry Shepherd.

"She made it on our show the previous time and Sheryl is still talking about that cake today," Chen said.

3:00 p.m. – That's a wrap.

Aside from the incident with the Gayle King segment, the show went pretty smoothly. In total, the women will shoot five shows over three days during their time in NYC.