02-25-25 - Couple Flying From Melbourne To Venice Had Woman Die In Seat Next To Them And John Wants To Fly Next To A Corpse Now

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: February 25, 2025
Title: Couple Flying From Melbourne To Venice Had Woman Die In Seat Next To Them And John Wants To Fly Next To A Corpse Now
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Release Date: February 25, 2025

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Introduction

In the February 25, 2025 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD, host John Holmberg and his co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo delve into a bizarre and unsettling airline incident. The episode explores the peculiar experience of a couple whose flight from Melbourne to Venice was disrupted by an unexpected death in adjacent seats. True to the show's reputation, the discussion is laced with humor, candid reactions, and thought-provoking questions about air travel etiquette and airline procedures.

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The Unfortunate Flight Incident

Brady Bogen kicks off the discussion by recounting the incident involving Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Collin aboard their flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Venice, Italy, with a layover in Doha, Qatar. Mid-flight, a woman collapsed and died in the aisle next to them, turning the long journey into an extraordinarily tense and uncomfortable ordeal.

• Brady (00:35): "Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Collin were on a flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Venice, Italy... When a woman collapsed in the aisle next to them and died."

The hosts express their disbelief and imagination of being stuck next to a deceased passenger for an extended period, emphasizing the psychological impact such an event can have on fellow passengers.

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Navigating the Aftermath

The conversation shifts to how the airline handled the situation—or rather, mishandled it—from the perspective of the affected passengers. Brady highlights the lack of adequate response from the flight crew, forcing the couple to endure the presence of the corpse without proper measures.

• Brady (02:33): "The husband, Mitchell, didn't get to move. He asked to switch seats, but they said no. He's traumatized and has lawyers ready to sue."

John Holmberg questions the airline's protocols, suggesting alternative ways to manage such a dire situation.

• John (09:13): "Couldn't they have strapped that broad into the jump seat near the cockpit? But then I guess Dead Face would be looking at you, staring at you."

The hosts humorously speculate on movie-like solutions, proposing the use of hidden compartments or segregating the deceased to minimize passenger discomfort.

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Humorous Takes and Personal Experiences

While the topic is grim, the hosts maintain a light-hearted tone, sharing personal anecdotes about long flights and the quirks of airline travel.

• Brady (07:22): "I've never been on a plane that long. I don't ever want to be on a plane that long again."

This blend of humor helps to navigate the discomforting subject matter, making the conversation relatable to listeners who have endured tedious or awkward flights.

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Notable Quotes

To capture the essence of the episode, here are some standout moments with timestamps:

• Brady (01:24): "You're flying forever. You don't realize you're going into the Pacific or the Indian Ocean... it's just a big blob in the middle of nowhere."

• Brady (04:42): "He's traumatized. Of course he is. He's got lawyers that are gonna try to make him sue for sitting next to a corpse that long."

• Brady (06:09): "It had that little Shriners Teddy."

• John (09:37): "Couldn't they have strapped that broad into the jump seat near the cockpit?"

• Brady (11:28): "I have seven kids. Want to see all the pictures ever of them? I have over a hundred thousand."

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Insights and Discussions

The episode not only recounts the incident but also opens a dialogue on airline policies regarding in-flight emergencies of this nature. Brady and John debate the practicalities and emotional toll of such events, questioning whether current protocols are sufficient or need reevaluation.

• Brady (05:45): "Is there a doctor on the flight? ...You see an old lady laying dead in their thing."

• John (07:51): "On the way to Australia. I've never been in a plane that long."

These discussions highlight the fine balance between maintaining order during emergencies and ensuring passenger comfort and safety.

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Conclusion

The February 25 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness masterfully blends a serious incident with the hosts' characteristic humor and candidness. By dissecting the ordeal of Mitchell and Jennifer Collin, John Holmberg and his team provide listeners with both an entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of in-flight emergencies. The episode underscores the unpredictable nature of air travel and the importance of robust airline protocols, all while keeping the conversation engaging and relatable.

Listeners are left with a mix of amusement and contemplation, pondering how they would react in such an unusual and distressing situation. As always, Holmberg's Morning Sickness delivers a memorable morning show experience that challenges, entertains, and keeps audiences coming back for more.

Transcript

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[Brady]

The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Oh, my God. As human of the year, I have to tell you this story that just popped up here. This. This is awesome. Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Collin were on a flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Venice, Italy, via Doha, Qatar, Cutter. When a woman collapsed in the aisle next to them and died. That isn't a small flight. Anywhere from Australia to anywhere is too goddamn far. You're flying forever. You don't realize you're going into the Pacific or the Indian Ocean unless you're flying to Jakarta or, you know, somewhere in Japan. And even still, it's just so far from everywhere.

[John]

But you're going not even halfway from here.

[Brady]

What's that?

[John]

I don't think Japan's even halfway to Australia from here.

[Brady]

From here.

[Mitchell]

Oh, no, no.

[Brady]

If you're coming from. I'm talking about Australia to Japan. Even if you're starting in Australia, everywhere Australia is. Is far from everything. And it feels like everything's like three hours even when you're there. It's like, where do we have to go? We have to go from Sydney to Cairns. How long is that? Three and a half hours. That's like Miami to Boston. You're like, you forget this thing is just a big blob in the middle of nowhere, but it's great. So these guys get on their plane from Melbourne and they've got to go to Venice. Well, in the middle of the flight, lady drops dead right next to him. And they're like, can we move? Like, no flights full. They put her in the seat next to them and put a blanket over and just. You're flying with the corpse for a while. They're gonna fly with this corpse. That would be the best flight ever.

[Jennifer]

No.

[Brady]

Didn't you say that they put a.

[John]

Dead lady in the island?

[Brady]

Dead lady? I had. They laid her down. She died on the flight from Dallas to Phoenix. And that was. Trust me, when there's a dead corpse within a couple feet of you on a plane, suddenly your flight feels like you're in a headwind. It can be from here to Tucson. It's going to feel like the longest day of your life. Yeah, it's just a. Please land.

[Jennifer]

What did you have to do, step over to go to the bathroom or something?

[Brady]

Nobody's allowed out of their seats. So she was in the aisle for a minute, and then they popped. They got her back up for a minute, but then they had to lay her down again. I moved to the row behind me after she died on me. And then they got her laid down on the seats, and her feet were out, and they're like, we got to get her level. And somebody moved her to the floor. It was a dentist doing the work. Because they didn't have any doctors.

[Nathan]

I thought maybe they had a hangover.

[Brady]

It was. It was like, is there a doctor on the flight? And you've never realized that when they say, like, that's a real thing, that they'll go, do we have a doctor on the flight? And everybody goes, oh, no. Because, you know, the only reason you'd ask is because something terrible's happening. You see an old lady laying dead in their thing. But. But again, on my flight to Australia, I had to sit next to a lady. Check that. I checked every day to see that the row I was in had an empty seat in the middle. And I'm like, nobody's gonna buy that middle seat going to Sydney at all. And I can fly. It's almost like being first class. I'll have this space last minute. Like, the day of the flight, this lady books. So I had to sit three across for 18 hours. It's brutal. If she'd have died, we could have done whatever. She'd have been a pillow. Or halfway through, you'd been like, all right, she's not gonna notice. They just put a blanket on her. That's even better. Nudge her up against the corner like a pillow and lay down. That's the bench. He's not gonna pull a brady.

[Brady's Friend]

So what work are you in, Chief?

[Brady]

Oh, no. 18 hours of chatty Cathy or start dropping ass. Yeah, sorry. It's 18 hours.

[Brady's Friend]

You're gonna get a few of those.

[Brady]

But they sat her right there. The wife actually got to switch seats, but Mitchell, the husband, didn't. He said he asked to move one seat over in an empty seat, and they said no. There's a few spare seats, but they said, no, you can't move, you gotta stay. He said he's traumatized. Of course he is. He's got lawyers that are gonna try to make him sue for sitting next to a corpse that long. What are they supposed to do if there's a panel for corpse?

[Nathan]

I've seen it in the movies.

[Brady]

Have you? What movies? Have you seen the corpse get dropped into them?

[Nathan]

Not the corpse, but they open up a panel.

[Brady]

Sure. Air Force One. What other movies?

[Jennifer]

Just throw her in the can and lock the door.

[Brady]

Now there was that option.

[Nathan]

There's usually that little.

[Jennifer]

Usually a couple bathrooms almost that little.

[Nathan]

Closet in between first class and the. You know, that puts the. Like if a guy's wearing a coat. A hanger closet.

[Brady]

Yeah, you just hang her up. Guy said that the biggest problem was while the flight was going on, the blanket would slide off her face and he had to pop it back. I was like, it was a dead body. But it wasn't that dead. I mean, Nathan Sutherland, It's a pretty weird flight he'd still be on. Oh, it's weird, but it's a great. Look, there's a certain time when you have to just say, I paid for this story. I get it. A lawyer can get in your ear and start saying these things. Know you're entitled to a million dollars for having to sit next to a fresh corpse. But it's not like they were dragging them out of the morgue and she was like unfreezing. She was alive when the flight started and she was still warm.

[Nathan]

Was there any release or anything like that?

[Brady]

I don't know, Brace. I'm wondering.

[John]

Those are the details you ask.

[Brady]

Well, I'm wondering like if she jerk him off. What?

[Nathan]

No, no, no.

[Brady]

On the corpse I see fluids and.

[John]

Sure, I think it takes a while.

[Brady]

No, Brady, the man did not release on the corpse. That's illegal. But there's nothing.

[Jennifer]

Blade and spray her down just in case, right?

[Brady]

Yeah. Give him some air freshener and go. If it starts to be weird, hose it. Maybe she pooed. There's a chance of that. Your body lets go. Anyway, there's. They said that the seat, the blanket, they had a little body bag thing. But the blanket was on there and it kept like kind of exposing her.

[Jennifer]

So she used the adorable blanket that she got when she made her donation.

[Brady]

It had that little. Shriners. Teddy. Mitchell and Jennifer are clearly shaken up, but they say they're trying to enjoy their time in Italy the best they can. You are enjoying life more Than anyone in the world. You are telling everyone in Italy your story. It's. You told. TMZ has it a day later. You won't shut up about this.

[Jennifer]

You're going to Italy. Get used to dead people around you.

[Brady]

Don't worry about it. You're gonna be sitting next to some dead down. And ironically, you went to Italy to visit, like, graves and old stuff. You love dead, old things. That's why Italy exists there.

[Nathan]

You think he took the neck pillow? Like, you're not using this anymore.

[Brady]

She doesn't need any extras. And you get her peanuts. Like, when that lady walks by, it's like, can we get peanuts? You gotta ask her too. She's the paying customer. I get her peanuts and her meal comes. They plop that down. I got two meals they can stretch out.

[Jennifer]

Use her tray for all your other stuff.

[Brady]

And I know from my experience, flying from LA to Sydney, Australia, and that God forsaken forever flight, they keep you busy as can be. Like, you try to sleep, but they're waking you up like every couple hours for another meal. They don't want you, like, bored and getting up, like, to try to keep that thing going so you have snacks and drinks. It's crazy booking his flight right now. Oh, my God, Brady, you would love it. I think I got five meals, like, meals.

[Nathan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

On the way to Australia. I've never been in a plane that long. I don't ever want to be on a plane that long again. But it was.

[Nathan]

It was three just to England.

[Brady]

Five meals, five movies, and there was still six hours to go.

[Jennifer]

Did you fly business or were you like.

[Brady]

Well, the coach. I coached.

[Jennifer]

I was.

[Brady]

I was not in a position to fly any other way. So we coached. It was 1999. It was before 2001. So, like, there were empty flights sometimes. So we. We tried to choose one. That was an odd time.

[Jennifer]

Oh, nice.

[Brady]

So there. But that lady, this little woman from New Zealand sat next to us hidden.

[Mitchell]

Dead for your first time.

[Brady]

Oh, no. Are you gonna talk to. I hope she dies. Anyway, they're trying to talk to Qatar Airlines. Like, dead bodies on a plane. I should be so lucky. I pray that the person next to me on a plane dies. Please let this person drop dead immediately. Especially if they do that weird sit down and then their head turns to look at you and measure you to see if you're one of them or not.

[Brady's Friend]

I have seven kids. Want to see all the pictures ever of them? I have over a hundred thousand.

[Brady]

No. My proudest moment ever was on that plane. From Chicago. That lady sat next to me, so we weren't even like two seconds. She plopped her ass down in first class.

[Mitchell]

So what is it you do for a living?

[Brady]

And I just turned my head and I stared at her. Didn't say a word, just stared at her. She made some weird noises and didn't say another word. It was all I could do, not just burst into laughter. I don't want to talk to you. I don't need to be. I hate airline chatty Kathy's.

[John]

John, Couldn't they have strapped that broad into the jump seat near the cockpit? But then I guess Dead Face would be looking at you, staring at you.

[Brady]

The whole way, having a body bag up front, like on stage. But why can't you stick her where the stewardess is and put the stewardess in one of the chairs? I know you don't call them that anymore. Serving wenches is what they prefer. But you put them in one of the chairs and you buckle the living in with the living and you plop her up by that door. No one can see. It is kind of a jump seat, but where the stewardess has to sit by the phone. And every time the thing dings, that stewardess can hear it. So you just move, you shuffle.

[John]

You don't like Brady said. We've seen it in movies. Take one of them carts out and just shove her in that space.

[Brady]

Or make the offer.

[Mitchell]

We've got a corpse on the flight if anybody'd like to sit next to it. We'll give you one free voucher. Raise your hands. Oh, my. Everyone, the entire plane would like that. All right, well, we'll just parade her around.

[Brady]

Can I throw a finger in it?

[Mitchell]

You can't touch the corpse, sir. No, you cannot. Mr. Sutherland, please.

[Brady]

Boom.

[John]

John, can you get your old friend Strong Bear on the horn? Because I got to know if her ghost is stuck in the sky or is it just on that plane.

[Brady]

Or was she like Amelia Earhart and she died doing what she loved? That's a good point. Is that her perk? I don't know if that matters. I don't think that's a thing. She's stuck in that tube forever. Stong Bear has spoken.

[Mitchell]

All right. The corpse is asked to be moved again. I know that sounds strange, but we put her next to Mr. Bogan and she's rather die again.

[Brady]

Can I eat them chips? Yes, you can have her thin chips, Mr. Bogan.

[Mitchell]

But please.

[Nathan]

Oh, they're gonna take care of us.

[Mitchell]

Stop with the flatulence. The corpse is complaining.

[Brady's Friend]

She really stinks.

[Brady]

It's not me.

[Brady's Friend]

I tried to blame the body for the farts. I like to fart on planes. That's why they call it the death tube.

[Brady]

No, that's why you call it the death tube.

[Brady's Friend]

Those farts recirculate and you breathe it in over and over.

[Brady]

Brady's the Smokey Bear of farts. Only you talk about farting this much on a plane. It's 918. We got hot releases coming up in a little bit. But if you're on a plane and you plan on dying, let me know when you're flying because I love that opportunity. Sitting next to a corpse is better than a living person, that's for sure. Some stranger slopping to him eat their chicken. We got the hot releases there. Next it's 98.

[John]

It's not weird.

[Brady]

It's pretty cool, actually.

[John]

No membership fee.

[Brady]

I have heard enough of this.