a headline for that hour, that minute, the next day, that, you know, this was a problem that was going to take some time to fix, but of course the media can be very impatient and you were the guy taking the questions. >> well, you're absolutely right. they want information every day. there's a 7 by 24 hour news cycle that needs to be filled but some of these things take a period of time. it took -- from the day the rig sunk, it took 85 days to build that capping stack, put it on and have it be successful. every day people wanted to know what would happen. sometimes there were delays because of weather. >> you were a pretty unflappable guy, but you can tell me now, was it frustrating to be in that situation where you didn't have a lot of progress to report and the press wanted answers? >> there were a lot of press sessions where i got repeated questions about details i would give and give the same question the next kay. >> this was complicated stuff. we had to learn about top kill and junk shot and all this exotic terminology. >> well, we had a call-in line