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KJ5, ILQ returning. Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. That's actually in my notes here, the idea of yelling fire in a theater or yelling theater in a fire. Case in point, it actually comes around from an old case. I think it was 2019 is what I have down here in my notes. And what it was is a guy who handed out anti-draft penance during World War I. The court said back then that speech supposed to clear and present danger and wasn't protected. That's where the theater line comes from. But Congress scrapped that standard a long decades ago, 1959. That standard is no longer there. So yelling fire in a crowded theater is not illegal. It is protected by free speech. And like it falls under one of the four Supreme Court rules reasons. So those four things that are great listed and that I reiterated, by the way, those only come from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has a very broad, I think that's the right word, I want to use, a very broad understanding of free speech. And it's the short thing only that's in there. They would rather land on the side of free speech than get it wrong than land on the side of restricted speech. So, yeah, so there you go. And today yelling fire in the theater is not automatically illegal. So if you do it intending to cause panic and somebody does get hurt or anything like that, then, yeah, you can face charges anywhere from disorderly conduct all the way up to inciting violence. I mean, if it goes horribly wrong. But the act itself isn't bad. It's the cause and effect. The cause is you yell fire in the theater. The effect is or maybe somebody gets trampled on, but the effect also maybe nothing. That's why it's not illegal. That's why it's still protected us from speech. George, KB0LAI, what say you? The mic is yours.