00:00Hi, I'm Daniel Flynn out for Rock and Roll Trips. We are at John K. King Books, like the mother
00:06of all bookstores.
00:07Has anybody seen Joel? Joel?
00:10It is I! Ha ha ha! With my book made camouflage cake! Ha ha!
00:18It's a bookstore, Joel, so you gotta bring it down a little bit.
00:20Well, that's right. Okay, kind of like library rules.
00:24I brought my reading glasses.
00:26Oh my god, before we get kicked out of here, let's give you a look around.
00:32Nothing to look at. Thank you.
00:36These are just the books that are on the second floor.
00:38Yes, just the second floor.
00:40First, third, fourth.
00:41We could go to Science and Home Improvement, and also I'm a big fan of Zoology.
00:48I love cotton.
00:49Yeah.
00:50We're here in one of the history sections of John K. King Books.
00:54This sucker is four stories tall.
00:57So, he didn't start out in this building.
00:59He actually started out, like, it was a suggestion from his counselor at the high school that, like...
01:04Because he had a passion for books as a kid.
01:06Right. That's amazing.
01:08Look at you, Joel.
01:09So, and I want to say the 1980s, then he moved the store to the current building that it's in
01:15here on Lafayette.
01:15This was a glove company, and there had always been rumors that, like, this building was moved to its current
01:22location.
01:23And what happened, Joel?
01:25Well, someone actually brought in some photographs of the building and the process of being moved in the 90s
01:29and proved that it is absolutely true that this building has been moved in the past.
01:34How do you move a building this big?
01:36It houses over one million books today.
01:38I mean, I'm sure it was empty at the time.
01:41But still, you know, what do you, like, you know, attaching your trunk to the back of the chain?
01:45I don't think so.
01:45It was probably...
01:47Somebody probably wrote a book about it, Don.
01:49It's on the fourth floor.
01:50We'll have to go check that out.
01:51It's for the brave people.
01:52So, we wanted to check out what is in the highest back corner of John K. King's book.
01:59So, like, I guess, wouldn't you think they would put the book that people are least likely to want or
02:03check into?
02:05And I found this complete pregnancy baby book, and I'm like, you can make pregnant ladies come up here on
02:11the fourth floor in the back corner of John K. King's book.
02:13It's baby bogey, she.
02:16This is your phone.
02:18Stop.
02:18Stop.
02:20You did the stairs up.
02:22But, Nico, you said that there's an elevator behind this door.
02:25So, the buildings are for 100 years old.
02:28How good should I feel about this elevator?
02:31I'm completely confident in the elevator.
02:32I like to call it, like, our little secret rollercoaster, but it's nothing to worry about.
02:38I don't want to come on in.
02:39Nico did say it gets looked at every year.
02:41Check this out.
02:42Oh, my gosh.
02:45We're talking about old school.
02:49So, talk about manual operation.
02:52You gotta, yeah.
02:54All right, which floor are we going to?
02:55The ground floor, please.
02:57All right, let's do it.
02:58Right, we're lazy.
02:59We're totally, we're taking that.
03:01Yeah, yeah, I definitely recommend you on this.
03:04Yeah, yeah.
03:06The line is shorter than Cedar Point.
03:09That's true.
03:10You don't need a fast pass.
03:11We, you are a fast pass.
03:13Yeah, we know Nico.
03:14Right?
03:16So, you can see, as we come up on the, on the next floor, so that would be the second
03:21floor mark.
03:22And then, Nico has to face the back of the elevator in order to see where to stop this thing.
03:28And sometimes, I'll see if I can get it.
03:31Right on.
03:32We believe in him.
03:34Ooh, you look good.
03:35Yeah, you look good.
03:36There's alignment right there.
03:38All right.
03:39Look at that.
03:40Oh, my God.
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