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Yeah, that's kind of fun. Well, I looked it up, and it was commissioned and put into place, like I said, in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. And their mission at the time was to make communication services available to all Americans. The radio regulations, the telephone and telegraph oversight, and public safety and standards. You know, emergency communications, so forth like that. Bring order to the airways, fairness to the phone lines, and accountability to those who profit from public communications. I don't know if they did a very good job of that, at least when I was growing up. It would cost a fortune you'd call across the street and it would be a $10 bill. You cannot find, let me see here. I asked who it went after first. The first find out there. And they couldn't find any definitive record to show it. Over time, it used its forfeiture fine authority to penalize broadcasters and other communication entities for violations such as indecency issues, or spectrum or telemarketing violations, etc. So they were fighting telemarketing back then when they got the first phones in. In fact, they didn't keep good records back then until the late 1970s and on, when major fines and public controversy began. So even though they were established in 1934, they really had no public records to show what the hell they did until 1970. Is that not crazy?