but anyway, he really was our guardian angel, all the way up to the sale of viacom.nd we had to pay him back. we paid back every penny that he invested into b.e.t. david: b.e.t., you and your then-husband ran it for roughly 20 years, was it? sheila: mm-hmm. david: and then you decided to sell it to viacom for a nice very nice price at the time? sheila: well, i didn't know it was going to go for that, i just remember being in times square and i saw the tickertape, and i saw that b.e.t. was sold for $3 billion, and i was like this is perfect, let me call my lawyer. [laughter] david: so, you sold it. you split up the proceeds. sheila: yes. david: later you decided you would try to spend some time in a place called middleburg, where you had bought a house. middleburg was not the most welcoming for african-americans, was it? sheila: no, not at all. david: where did the idea come from to build a resort hotel there? sheila: well, read the book. but anyway. [laughter] it was a town i fell in love with. first of all, i had to buy a gun shop that had a confederate flag in the