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I've Got A Story For You · JLJ This Morning

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  Speaker 1: Okay, kids, sit down, get your coffee. I got my Starbucks.
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  Let's talk about it. I got a story for you guys.
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  I'm here in a hotel room in beautiful Chinatown, Chicago, Illinois.
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  The weather is just like perfect today. I'm here for
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  a whirlwind trip. So I've been in Indiana for two weeks.
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  And I came here And then I'm going to go
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  back to Indiana and finish some work. Then how to California.
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  We're just going to New York. But I have some
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  family stuff that happened. I got to take care of
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  out west and other things. And then in early October,
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  I have a trip to Vancouver for Hallmark Channel for
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  When It Calls the Heart.
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  Speaker 2: It's all tight. Everything's tight. Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight.
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  But I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I've been out of California for two
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  and a half weeks total.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel so good. Oh, my God. I'm so calm.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so just, I'm tired because I've been doing so much,
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  but I'm so calm. I love it. I love seeing
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  other things and the whole thing. So, but I had
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  an experience this morning that I was like, I got
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  to share with you guys. This has never happened to
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  me before in my entire life. It's the craziest thing.
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  Even my phone, because my phone isn't. Charging What I
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  wanted to do this fast chart forces fast charges and
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  slow charges That's what's crazy, yeah, I got really tomorrow morning,
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  so I'm like when do I get up?
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  Speaker 2: What's that okay.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I got like awesome, okay, so here's what happened
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  to me That never before. So I've been to train
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  a quadrillion times. And so folks, just in case you
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  don't know this, there's like the stairs to go upstairs
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  are usually windy and narrow and just crazy. And a
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  lot of them go upstairs. So I do my best
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  if I can. I always have lower level because I
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  have this bad knee and that luggage.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, it's on lower level. Just get it.
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  Usually you just walk in. There's a room. It's less chairs.
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  It's quieter.
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  Speaker 1: Usually older people, but it's like, it's great. So I
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  got that coach seat lower level. We're in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois,
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  which I actually like that place.
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  Speaker 2: It's really fun. I have a hotel there.
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  Speaker 1: I go there now because the roadway in, high roadway
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  in people, if you are watching this, I told you
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  that you do shows, but if you're watching, hello, I
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  love you guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great hotel.
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  Speaker 1: People that go there are a little sketchy, but the
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  staff is wonderful. The rooms are nice and huge and clean.
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  Love the service. So that's my place to go to
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  in Champaign-Urbana, easily.
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  Speaker 2: It was like $ 71. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we get in line, and there's like three openings
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  for coach seating. On these trains, there's no roomettes or cars.
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  They have business class. And if you need help, you know,
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  on there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need any help. I'm just going to go.
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  Because it won't be that far else to get on
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  and sit down. That's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm waiting in line, there's one, and it's crowded,
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  going slow. The attendant there goes, says to me, go
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  in this line. I'm like, go in this line. Hey,
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  go in this line.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I go in the line. It goes really faster.
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  I go up to the guys. I come on in.
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  And so I go in to....
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  Speaker 2: I go in there.
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  Speaker 1: I look to the right, and it's just luggage. There
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  is no seating. It's a small staircase to go upstairs
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  or that, but there's no seating.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm in the... I'm like in the hall with
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  the entrance there, a hallway by the door.
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  Speaker 1: It's where they let me in and out. So I go, okay.
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  So I turn around. It was so weird. It was
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  like just that fast. I guess that was the last
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  one on. They closed the door. He left somewhere. Because
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  sometimes they close the door from the inside.
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  Speaker 2: He goes from the outside. He was somewhere else. The
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  train is taking off. I start banging on the door.
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  I'm like, hello? I can't. I'm in the wrong car.
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  I'm in the wrong car. I need a car.
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  Speaker 1: And from Champaign, Illinois to Chicago is about two and
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  a half hours. My knee was hurt. I had no
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  place to sit.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you've got to be shitting me.
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  Speaker 1: And they haven't checked in my ticket or anything. I'm like,
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  I want my points for my ticket. I want my points.
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  They add up.
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  Speaker 2: I use them. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: I was freaking out. Freaking out. I was freaking out.
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  And I was like, oh, my God. What am I
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  going to do? So I saw a call button. For
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  the attendance. I'm pushing that call button. I'm telling you,
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  for 20 minutes, I was just standing there in pain.
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  No one came to check on me. I was like,
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  if I was dying, having a heart attack or something,
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  no one came down to check on me. 20 minutes later,
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  they come down. The guy who's doing it, he's like,
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  what are you doing here? I'm like, I'm stuck. I'm
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  supposed to be in a lower-low seat. I was pushed
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  to go in here, and I've been calling for somebody
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  to help me. I can't go up those stairs. My
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  luggage and my knee and everything. I mean, this is scary.
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  He could have cared less. Usually the Amtrak people are
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  so wonderful. I have to say, I'm not talking short
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  of Amtrak. Usually they're wonderful. Usually they're so attentive and
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  they're great. This guy was just like, then he goes, well,
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  we're stopping at another stop soon. Let me see if
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  there's any seats for you. I said, there better be
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  one because I paid for it. Because it was a
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  sold out train.
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  Speaker 2: He gets on a mic. On a mic. He gets
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  on a mic. I'm used to that. On his walkie-talkie.
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  Speaker 1: And he finds out there's a seat in the car
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  behind the one I'm in. But it's a long way
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  to that entrance. The door's way down there. Okay. So
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  I get off. So I'm about to get off the train.
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  He doesn't help me get off the train. He's really
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  talking to other people. He says, go back there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm limping. And the guy who attended there is just like,
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  take your time. You're not going to help me.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to help me? I'm just like, wow.
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  Speaker 1: These people just don't give a shit. So I get
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  on that one. I just get in. I'm like, no
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  one scanned my ticket.
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  Speaker 2: No one did it. I'm just like, what do I do?
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  I sat down, and I'm like, okay. It's just weird.
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  I sat down.
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  Speaker 1: No one sat next to me. I had a great seat.
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  We were delayed, so thank God I had a seat.
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  All that. It was just a weird experience. I'm going
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  to say something to their customer service. I'm going to
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  complain about it, because I just think it's just not
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  fair at all. and I just say, it's not that
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  I want a free ticket or anything, but I just
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  want some kind of compensation, like maybe a lounge voucher,
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  to go in the lounge, or like a food voucher
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  or something, it just was so rude, and I'm a
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  regular on Amtrak, and I just want to preface, normally
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  Amtrak is wonderful, even their customer service is the bomb,
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  that's what I don't mind calling them, they're one of
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  the few customer services that I actually like, but that was,
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  my leg was hurting, my leg's still hurting now, So
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  now I'm in a hotel and I'm relaxing for a
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  little bit, but it just, it was pretty dark.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty dark.
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  Speaker 1: I got to put this in my refrigerator. It was
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  pretty dark. So that's my story. I've never had that
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  before to me ever. That was such a weird thing
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  that I really felt trapped. A part of me was like, okay, well,
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  I guess the trip was fast, folks. It's like having
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  sea legs. So I was thinking, okay, resourceful. There's a
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  bathroom that has a dressing room in it. I was like,
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  I guess I could just, I would just sit down there.
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  I could have, wouldn't be comfortable, but I could have
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  eventually sat down. But then I've been riding the train
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  illegally because I didn't, they didn't check my, it was
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  just weird. I just felt so, I felt so weird
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  to be like in basically a cargo car. And I
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  told this person, I can't talk. I'm in a meeting
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  until 4 o'clock. What is he not understanding? I gave
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  him the message. I just told him. I can't talk
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  until 4. Anyway, that's a little story for you guys
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  this morning. My days will get better, of course. It's
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  going to get better. I'm not even doubting it. I
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  love you guys. Have a great day. Share some stories
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  with me in the comments.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.