joining us is dick parsons currently a senior advisor at providence equity partners that's a private firm that specializes in media. dick, thank you for being with us it's been far too long since we've gotten to talk with you on air. how are you? >> i'm reasonably well, becky, you and the gang >> we're doing okay. we're hanging in there you know, dick, i've been thinking a lot about the roles that you take on i always think of you as a states man because you're somebody who came into time warner and took over as chairman and ceo in 2002 after that disastrous merger with aol then you took over at citigroup and then i think back to 2014 when you were the interim ceo at the l.a. clippers and had to come in there after the owner, donald sterling, was forced out of the nba, banned for life after his company made racist comments you are a guy who fixes and heals and i just wonder as you look at where our country is right now where you look at businesses, how you would go about fixing and healing what you see happening. >> that's a big question, becky. there's probably actually the right se