Yeah, and then I guess, like, the, the sec- second part of it is, like, w- when they say it's a co-op, what does that mean?

It means truly, and as conspicuous more that it was founded by Chicago Theological Seminary students, and there was a reason for that.

(laughs) Yeah, like, they did wanna buy course books at the, um, at the prices that retailers got them wholesale, and so the thought was, um, I forget their names, but, um, we have, like, pictures of them.

It was like A Cavanaugh something, um, but these two guys, uh, just, you know, if you were a student at Chicago Theological Seminary, um, or even, like, a student at one of the other divinity seminaries nearby, you just, you put in an amount of money and you were part of, like, you got your course book cheaper, you know? And, uh, under, like, a specific manager who came, like, a couple decades after that, like, then it really became, like, this is the neighborhood bookstore.

This is part of, like, as they say, like, the intellectual sort of cultural life of the university.

But yeah, at one point it was a cooperative because, like, you, you were a member and you got your course books cheaper, um, because you, you know, had a certain amount of shares in the books, but yeah.

It was a think smarter, not harder kind of scheme.

Oh, Jesus.