we put michael jordan, ken griffey jr, football quarterbacks up on the internet. a fan could read their weekly diary, read their description of their foundation, buy things with e-commerce. so we probably put a couple of hundred thousands into the project and sold the share for $20 million, and that triggered it. that consolidation, that merger was happening. the challenge as could you build the larger empire. we were bought by a firm an indescibable amount of money and they changed their minds. i sat and felt trapped. it caused younger agents to be really dissatisfied. not really with me, but with the whole group, and they wanted to leave. that was the first step. then a series of personal reverses happened in my life. i lost my father to a long, lingering death from cancer. my two boys were diagnosed with an incurrable eye disease. we lost a house to flooding. and had to knock it to the ground. and then my wife and i broke up and my marriage broke up. it felt like there was one thing after another after another. was it going to be a locus plague. i felt like gul