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through it out, but that's not what that rule was about. That rule was implemented to keep it, and not a good reason, but it was to prevent, to make sure that amateur radio could not compete with commercial radio. People who formulated those newer rules in, I think, 1932, wasn't it, or 1938, I forget. They had gotten their cue from Ham Radio because a Ham Radio operator in, I don't know, someplace weird like, you know. It was in Baltimore. I think it was in Baltimore. He was seeking a carbon microphone in the bell of his control, and it was transmitting music. And started this whole trend of people buying radio so they could tune in, the amateur broadcaster. So they rewrote the rules. It's either 32 or 38 to ban amateur radio operas from playing music on the air because they didn't want it to compete with commercial broadcasting. You get what this is.