07-02-25 - Story Of 80yo Stewardess Retiring Charges Up John Who Thinks You Shouldn't Be Working At That Age - BO

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona

Episode: 07-02-25
Release Date: July 2, 2025
Host: 98 KUPD | Hubbard Radio
Title: Story Of 80yo Stewardess Retiring Charges Up John Who Thinks You Shouldn't Be Working At That Age - BO

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Introduction to the Topic

In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, host Brady Bogen delves into a controversial and emotionally charged topic: the retirement of an 88-year-old stewardess. The discussion quickly escalates into a broader conversation about ageism in the workforce, particularly in service-oriented roles like flight attendants.

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Discussion on the 88-Year-Old Stewardess

Brady initiates the conversation by expressing his disdain for the news story about an 88-year-old stewardess who recently retired. He criticizes society's celebration of her career longevity, questioning whether older individuals should continue working, especially in demanding roles.

• Brady (01:23):
  "Everybody's losing their minds over this old lady stewardess... If you've got a grandma that's still going to work and humping it every day in her 80s, shut her off."

Brady contends that seeing an elderly individual in such a role is unsettling and raises concerns about the financial and healthcare systems that might be forcing them to work beyond retirement age.

• Brady (02:53):
  "Nobody wants to see 80 or A. I find it sad when 80 year olds are working."

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Listener Interactions and Personal Stories

Listeners contribute to the discussion by sharing personal anecdotes, such as stories of long-term employment and the motivations behind continued work in old age.

• Listener (02:53):
  "My mom was a dental hygienist for 55 years. Now, she would do it two or three times a week, right?"

Brady reacts with skepticism, suggesting ulterior motives like financial necessity or addiction.

• Brady (03:14):
  "She did it for getting money for smokes and wine."

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Comparisons with Other Flight Attendant Practices

The conversation shifts to comparisons with other airlines and their stewardess practices, highlighting differences in age requirements and professional standards.

• Brady (05:24):
  "Nobody likes a person who passes away, but what I really don't like is you work yourself into a grave. That's sad to me."

He criticizes modern airlines for not maintaining the aesthetic and professional standards of the past, referencing Air Emirates and Ryanair as examples of airlines that either uphold or diverge from his ideal image of a stewardess.

• Brady (08:06):
  "The Ryanair calendars... bikini bearing flight attendants... it's like for 25 bucks you could fly anywhere you wanted to go."

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Satirical and Critical Commentary on Age and Employment

Brady employs satire and sharp criticism to underscore his points about ageism and the societal expectations of retirement.

• Brady (13:23):
  "This is the worst job of my life... A squeezer and then a moon pie. Do you want the moon pie?"

He continues to mock the notion of elderly individuals maintaining high-stress jobs, insinuating that it's indicative of deeper systemic failings.

• Brady (14:26):
  "The government wants is a bunch of 80 year olds in the workforce. They like that."

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Concluding Remarks

The episode wraps up with Brady reinforcing his stance against older individuals remaining in demanding jobs, advocating instead for enjoying their golden years and highlighting the negative implications of prolonged employment.

• Brady (16:32):
  "Nobody likes a person who passes away, but what I really don't like is you work yourself into a grave. That's sad to me. Enjoy your golden years."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Brady (01:23):
  "If you've got a grandma that's still going to work and humping it every day in her 80s, shut her off."

• Brady (02:53):
  "Nobody wants to see 80 or A. I find it sad when 80 year olds are working."

• Brady (05:24):
  "Nobody likes a person who passes away, but what I really don't like is you work yourself into a grave."

• Brady (08:06):
  "The Ryanair calendars... bikini bearing flight attendants... it's like for 25 bucks you could fly anywhere you wanted to go."

• Brady (14:26):
  "The government wants is a bunch of 80 year olds in the workforce. They like that."

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Insights and Conclusions

Brady's passionate discourse highlights a tension between societal views on retirement and the economic realities that may compel individuals to continue working beyond traditional retirement ages. While his perspective underscores legitimate concerns about ageism and the potential for exploitation of elderly workers, it also opens the floor for discussions on the value of experience, the need for purposeful employment, and the diverse reasons why individuals may choose or need to remain in the workforce.

Listeners are left to ponder the balance between respecting individual choices to work and ensuring that societal structures support dignified retirement without coercion.

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Note: This summary excludes advertisements, introductions, and non-content sections to focus solely on the core discussion of the episode.

Transcript

[Brady]

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[Brett]

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[Brady]

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[Brett]

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[Brady]

And then there's the other thing that just disgusts me. Everybody's losing their minds over this old lady stewardess. This weekend I saw a story about the 88 year old stewardess who passed away and she was the oldest stewardess in the world and she started when she when they called them stewardesses and then they're flight attendants and then they're like manipulation drink specialists. I don't know what you call them now. Stewardesses. And then she died. She was working like right up till a few years ago.

[Listener]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Is there a single. Let's be honest with ourselves. Sad. The shed. She's gone. Nobody likes somebody dying. She's 88. All that. If you get on a plane and saw a woman in her 80s as the stewardess, are you happy? Nobody wants to see 80 or A. I find it sad when 80 year olds are working. My brain starts saying, oh, they're forced back into the to work because they're they're broke. They're broke and old. And then you start thinking about the health care system and probably had something wrong with her and drained all her cash. Or there's some guy online in Nigeria that swiped all of her money so she had to go back into the workforce and start flying again. No, this lady just annoyed us and wouldn't go away until she was like 80 something. And I don't find that lovely or beautiful at all. If you've got a grandma that's still going to work and humping it every day in her 80s, shut her off. If you've worked the same job since 1957, you've got a nice pension, you've got a nice retirement. Shut it down. Nobody wants to see. Especially in the service industry. If I went to a nice restaurant and an 80 year old came up and waited on me, I'd be like, we're leaving immediately. We're not going to deal with this. This, this is awful.

[Listener]

My mom was a dental hygienist for 55 years. Now, she would do it two or three times a week, right?

[Brady]

She wasn't like humping it full time.

[Listener]

But she did it for 55 years.

[Brady]

And then probably an hour a day, couple of days. She felt like maybe just old, you know, clients and things. Like, she kept doing it because they're like, I don't want a new one. Probably other old people.

[Listener]

She did it for getting money for smokes and wine.

[Brady]

Right? Now, again, Bray, that's what she told your family she was doing. But nobody wants a shaky old lady in their mouth. Well, wait a minute, hold on a second. Let me change that. For dental reasons, she could have been going out doing all sorts of crazy stuff, saying she was. Nobody's gonna ever question Bunny. Gotta go do a couple of mouths. That's what she said when she left the house. But what she didn't realize was she wasn't talking about dental hygienists going out doing a couple of mouths. Dr. Webb come back with her hands all gummy. Ugh, what a day. Where were you, Mom? Doing some mouth. Giving some mouth out, huh? Yeah, that's my dental hygienist mom. Who knows? I just don't find it appealing.

[Listener]

We're on a plane too, which would be tough. You're thinking she's gonna fall her old.

[Brady]

Mummy bones are walking up and down that they should have a mandatory go away age for stewardess. We need to have a throwback time to airlines where they. That's what was so great about setjet. Remember, like one of the things they said was, we're hiring models all world. This place is gonna look good at all times. It's a throwback to when flying was glorious and worked. And that's the other thing is if Your stewardesses are 80 90s years old and you're just basically telling people it ain't a big deal. Flying used to be like, put a suit on, everybody was beautiful. The pilots looked great, everybody looked good. Now it's like, you know, they look like Mormon missionaries. The pilots are wearing those short sleeves, flannel jacket. Nobody cares anymore. There's a guy with a shirt off, somebody with a chicken on their head. Flying some red eye on an airline that just started yesterday. It needs to go back a little bit. But to have an 80 year old stewardess is not. They're making it seem like that's a good thing. When 80 year olds have to work, something's gone wrong in their lives. I don't see that as just cutting out spaces and books and putting cash in it. Exactly. And then it's like, why are you here? That's the first thing I'd say. Why are you used to. I just love it so much. Nobody loves working this much. Lady, what are you running from? Everybody likes their job. Everybody needs a purpose. But what are you running from? You don't need to fly the friendly Dottie.

[Listener]

She'll clean the bathrooms.

[Brady]

Yeah, exactly. She's got to put those gloves over her old liver spotted hands and reach in and get those towels and tampons and everything else. Every. And, and another thing, couldn't have been that good at it. Cuz never got promoted since 1957. The news going on and on about what a wonderful. No, she was a stagnant worker for what is that, 70 years? Come on, have some pride in your life. If you retire 70 years into a job and you never got promoted, that's nothing to celebrate. That's horrible. What a waste.

[Listener]

There's one airlines that's still just like the catch me if you can movie.

[Brady]

With walking with all the.

[Listener]

It's Air Emirates. See those girls walk in in a pack. Yeah, they got their little matches.

[Brady]

I've seen the commercials. I've never actually seen what they really look like, but in the commercials they dress it up pretty nice. You tell that story about when you were in college, there was that dude you worked with, that was it UPS or whatever, the old black guy?

[Listener]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Been here for 30 years. And you got promoted like in like a week. You were his boss, the overnight Package guy. And you're in there working with this dude overnight sorts. 30 years of. Been sorting for 30 years. Brady. I've been. Good to meet you. You could be here. My partner for the next 30 years. Funny you say that. I just got promoted and. Peace out. I gotta go. I'm a daytime worker. That happens to everybody but me.

[Listener]

Congratulations.

[Brady]

Yeah. 30 years in the same position. Now there. Look at that. Some pictures of the. Is this the Emirates? Yes. Yeah. They got those scars on their heads.

[Listener]

Oh, man.

[Brady]

It's some sort of weird religious.

[Listener]

The other one. It's mostly.

[Brady]

I'm fine with that. That's sexy Muslim. Right? That's not the beekeeper outfit. That's a hot Muslim outfit. Are they. That has to be. Right. That's kind of got to be like. It's almost. It's almost skirting the system of like. Yeah, we got to cover our heads, but we can do it like this.

[Listener]

Yeah, it's like combo.

[Brady]

Yeah. That's kind of hot. That's good looking. Are they real though, or are they just models?

[Listener]

I'm just telling you the last time flying like to a Switzerland or wherever we see the Air Emirates come in, they're walking in a pack. They walk in five or six and they have their matching luggage.

[Brady]

And they don't get mad when you call them stewardesses. They're just happier not cutting their hands off. Whoa.

[Listener]

The other one that used to. I told you about this was. It's in Ryan Air. They used to do a calendar.

[Brady]

Yeah, calendars for the hot girls up there in Ireland. Ryanair. Ryan. I think they went out of business, but I don't. I don't look at really old people working in US. I don't think. I think it's sad if you're 80 and you're having a job.

[Listener]

Like.

[Brady]

I get it. Like Tripp is. I don't know how old Tripp is, but he's up there. But he's achieved like a really high status. Like that's tough to walk away from stewardess money. That's easy to like those teachers. 91 years old and I've been teaching the kids. This is terrible. You need. You never got promoted. You must not be good at teaching. Yeah. The Ryanair calendars, I think they cease to exist now because 2014 might be the last year. It was basically the Hooters of air travel. Even though Hooters tried on airline for a while. This was. That was the idea behind it. But they had nice bikini. Bikini stewardesses on Ryanair and their flights were like 11 bucks. Like you could fly because 20 pounds. Yeah. Yeah. Skip over to anywhere up there. Scotland, Ireland and England. It's like for 25 bucks you could fly anywhere you wanted to go. Bikini bearing flight attendants. Nice. Yeah. And imagine that wives stopped wanting to fly on Ryanair because, you know, then they realized their husbands were still virile and alive.

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[Listener]

I don't care.

[Brady]

I'm out. JSX has a decent situation with a few of their. They had the one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen was a stewardess on there one time and and so I mentioned I said it was Kelly Endo were on the flight. I'm like she's stunning. And then some guy when I brought it up on the air is like this is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. She works, sends me the modeling shots of her that I'm like, okay, but they've been hijacked by homosexuals. That whole industry. Oh yeah, that kind of. Hijacked by homosexuals. And that's, you know, they do a great job. I'm just saying it's not so only gay guys flying get to look at the eye candy for flight attendants. But 80 years old in the flight attendant, that's. To me, that's sad. That's a life unlived. And I know if she wanted to do it, why is it so bad? It just is. You just know if you, if you, if Brady's still sitting in here cracking wise with the puns like he did earlier this morning, well into his 80s, A, it would make more sense why he's doing it. But B, it'd be sad that, like, oh, he blew all his money. Nothing worse than seeing pitchers, football players when you're like, why is that guy still with Joe Flacco? Why is he still playing? Mark Brunel played until he was like 44. Bernie Kozar. The reason they do it is because they're. They, they're broke. Somebody stole all their money. There she is. I'm 80 years old. She looked good back in the day, though. Was she hot back in the 50s when she stole for Allegheny Airlines? And Becca, she, she went through it all as a steward. It's like, we're gonna be flying over Ohio today. And let's just make sure that we're nice to our stewardess today. If you want to pat her on the ass, that's just fine by us. Welcome to Easter Airlines. We should be there in a few hours. It's like Mad Men back in the day. And there was nothing better than that. Nothing better than the old way. But now we got all uppity about everything they used to. Stewardesses used to be a target. Maybe she was a throwback even in the air. And like she threw back, you know what I mean? Like all these uppity new flight attendants. But she's like, you can call me stewardess. In fact, I like the cut of your jib. Cause that's what old people say. And then she'd take into that little bathroom and give you an old lady stewardess, you know, hand job in the sky squeezer, nice little air squeezer little lady, just give you a hand job. And she's an old timey stewardess. That's what they do. I mean, pull your trousers out. Let's drop those knickers. And what did you say? I said, that's an Old person Mark for pants.

[Listener]

I got a squeezer and some hard candy.

[Brady]

A squeezer and then a moon pie. Do you want the moon pie? Cause I'm tired. I gotta tell you what with the Parkinson's that might be the best squeezer I've ever had. I can't bring the drinks to you because I'm shaking so hard. That's to me that's sad. But the news is like oh what a wonderful story. This is not nothing. It should be the opposite. That she, you know, invested wisely in the 50s and 60s, bought Apple stock and retired early. That's a good story. Nobody wants this. That's indoctrination really of the brain. And the way we're going as far as like telling you working until you're 80 is really nice. That's a good thing. They keep you in the system working. The bills keep coming in and the system gets paid for. The last thing this is going to go crazy. This is Alex Jonesy stuff. The last thing they want is a bunch of people who do well and get out early. If you keep churning into the system they can keep it alive a little easier. Nothing better. The government wants is a bunch of 80 year olds in the workforce. They like that.

[Brett]

I'll have to get a report on.

[Brady]

The flight attendants in Asia from Toledo. When he gets back is all gonna be lady boys. Are you saying the twinks are taking over here in Thailand? Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. I wonder if they have like old lady boys. But that's the thing about Thai people. No offense to the Thais listening right now I can't tell if you're 12 or 90. I would.

[Listener]

Timeless.

[Brady]

I'd be in jail so fast if they had. That's why they probably don't have laws. That's why it's a lawless kind of sex nation. Because they're like nobody knows how old anybody is. That is either a 12 year old girl or an 88 year old man and or 12 year old boy. 88 year old woman. I don't know what that she's been.

[Listener]

A flight attendant for over 60 years. No, no, no. I just started two years ago.

[Brady]

Oh no wait. That one's the 11 year old. The one directly next to it that looks just like her. 88. Just been working in the air for the whole time. Used to fly a bamboo plane. Yeah. That's why they can't have laws, you know, statutory of this. That's. You don't know. So this I'm guessing The stewardesses are just like all five. One, five, two. And somewhere in an age. I would hate to work at a circus in Thailand. Guess your age. Guess your weight. I don't know. You're. Everybody here is about 88 pounds and you're either 13 or 41. I'm somewhere in between 13 and 41. Oh, I'm 44, damn it.

[Listener]

And you get kicked or punched.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah, it wouldn't hurt, but it's like, oh, he's doing en b on me for a second. It's adorable. Hong Kong foodie here. All right, move on. Next. All right, you are. You're either nine. I think I'm gonna go with nine. I'm 84. Okay. This is the worst job of my life. Take a. Take a plushie. Take it.

[Listener]

88.

[Brady]

Everybody's £88. You've never given a stuffed animal away ever at the Food City. Tie. Step up right here. Guess your weight. Okay, Giant guess of my weight. I'm only six feet tall, but to you, yes, I'm a giant. I'm going to say £87. Oh, he good. I haven't had breakfast yet.

[Listener]

You try, Buddha.

[Brady]

All right, Buddha. You get my weight? I get your weight. I guess 12 ton. No, I'm not 12. Brady's not 12 tons. I 88 pounds. All of you are. I watch boxing. Every time there's a Thai fighter I know, I'm watching the lowest weight class there is. Grown men fighting at £104. What? From Bing Bong Bang Bong, weighing in at 104 pounds. Like, I knew that when you said Bing Bong Bang Bang. And he would. He would weigh 104. And just action packed fights where their fists are feather dusters. Not a single injury ever in the Bing Bong Bang Bong fights. Also hailing from Bing Bong Bang Bong, weighing it at 104 pounds. It's got to be his brother age 81 years old. Oh, it's fair. It's fair. Fight so, so long to that stewardess. Nobody likes a person who passes away, but what I really don't like is you work yourself into a grave. That's sad to me. Enjoy your golden years. You should strive to get out. Ben Roberson says, I flew Lufthansa to Germany a few years ago and there were 12 lady attendants on it. He goes, apparently they have a rule. You have to be a nine and a half or better because it looked amazing. Yeah, because it's not an American airline. American Airlines wives got involved somehow and started to tell their husbands they wouldn't fly anymore. They're driving everywhere. If the stewardesses remained hot. And you notice that transition happened in the late 90s. Women started flying a lot more for work and doing a lot more. And they're, like, looking around going, wait a second. Flight attendants are really hot. I gotta put a stop to that. No man should be able to look at hot women. My husband can't see this. Then I have to start trying. Thanks, Tubbo. Yeah, exactly. That lard butt that wrecked it for the rest of us. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station.