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September 22, 2025 12 mins

Let's face it, there's NO good place to have one, but a comedian in the U.S had to stop the show due to a medical emergency in the crowd- luckily, audience members jumped into action and helped the person. This got us thinking- have you ever witnessed someone have a medical emergency? So we opened up the phone lines and got a contender for call of the year. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fits and with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey what about this Fits?

Speaker 3 (00:04):
You've heard about people dying on stage in comedy shows,
but there was an actual emergency when a guy, Drew
Lynch was on stage doing his set.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
He couldn't believe it when things turned serious. Listen to this.
So he's on the stage and all of a sudden,
he looks into the crowd.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh, hey, everything okay?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh no, oh no.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Is there a medech in the house at all?

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Some room goes.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh it was what he's had to do. Yeah, heart attack, Yeah,
heart attack. So he had to stop the show. And
then you can see just to the side of it,
everybody's gathered around. How good is that to you?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Someone someone yelled out call and then somebody yelled at
I'll be your second, like I'm your back up person
to help when your hands tire. When they were giving
this guy compressions. So from that moment, like if you were,
if you can imagined being the comedian on stage, he's
trying to work.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Out what to do.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Is that the end of the show or does he
continue on with the set?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Does he say sorry about that?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Isn't it timing with stuff like that? How lucky. I mean,
you think to yourself, how.

Speaker 6 (01:26):
Embarrassing that you've got a crowd around you, But how
lucky you are to have people there that can get
onto it straight away. But if you if that happened
to you with nobody around and no one to yell out.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
To, it could cost you.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
I had a very good friend of mine who had
a mini stroke in the bathroom whip and luckily his
wife was just about to take the kids to school,
like we were talking seconds away, and he was trying
to yell out to her but struggled, and what he
was doing one side of his body for work, he
was using the other hand just to slam the bathroom

(01:59):
door because he couldn't really yell out to her, And
she just heard what the hell's going on there, and
she walked into the bathroom and he's on the floor.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And he was saved. So this guy.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Then, Drew Lynch, the comedian, gets up and he got
emotional and was really moved by how phenomenal the audience
was at getting around this guy to save his life.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
That was incredible, Dude, Lake, I know we're here making jokes,
but you guys all really just came together in a
really cool way. Dude, you see that guy's late man?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
How God is ants?

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Do you know the rest of the show?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You do? I don't think you do.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
He then he then posted a photo of him visiting
the guy in hospital. So the bloke survived, the audience
had saved him, Tommy, you reckon, we go for it.
Thirteen to twenty five ten. Does anyone had a heart
attack listening to this show?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Where were you? What were you doing? I mean, no
doubt your laugh? Tommy? Is that safe to go with
a phone?

Speaker 7 (03:04):
Like?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Mainly just the bosses at nover.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I think they'd have a heart attack most morning. I would.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
I'd love to hear from someone who was first hand,
was right there when someone was having a heart attack?

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Did you save somebody's life by being there?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Get involved? Have you got a story? Don't be shy?
At thirty twenty.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Four teen, Megan and Kira away who had the heart attack?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was me?

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Actually was as a cardiac arrest and I was front
row at the Adele concert in twenty seventeen. Oh level,
I went face down. Fortunately there was a cardiac doctor
three rows behind who gave me CPR. I was in
a comba for six days at Westmead Hospital. I tell
my family to get my fans in order i'd be

(03:47):
a vegetable. So I was out for eight minutes. I
think the longest sinning one's ever been out. Twelve eight.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
My god woke up and.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
This doctor comps me, says, do you remember what happened?
You had an SVT. I said, oh, my god, is
that's actually transmitted? They said not, it's a super ventricular
attack of cardia. So i went into arrest from a
rare rhythm. And I'm still best friends with the doctors
who saved me, and I made worldwide news and should

(04:18):
have been a vegetable. Here I am seven years later,
fully recovered with fantastic hearts that had no heart disease.
It was just an arrhythmia. And then they said, look,
this only happens to elite athletes. I was a bit
chubby at the time, and I said, look, could I
be an elite athlete and not know it? We rule?
I love you in ninety klos we ruled that out

(04:41):
real quick man made a full recovery and still friends
with the doctor got flowers off Adele.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
I was going to ask me, did you hear from
adele at all.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
I swear to God, I did. Look, it was really
unfortunate that that hello from me.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
From the other side.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Well, I'm laying they're dead in the stadium, They're at
a bloody home bush and that song playing. I blocked
the constant world me out, but she did. She sends
flowers and her pr rang my daughter and said, look,
we can't get through because the media. The hospital blocked
the media because it was reported that I died. Get

(05:25):
I'm going to terrorize all my loved ones till I'm.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
A hunt me.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Has it changed? Has it changed your habits since?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Like?

Speaker 4 (05:34):
How are you now?

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Well? I dropped about I dropped about thirty care lies
like it wasn't weight related like they promised me. I
was just chubby, you know, I was just a normal
chubby My daughter was paramedic and still isn't expected me
to die. She because the chances of surviving a cardiac
arrest outside of a hospital are like four percent. So

(05:57):
the fact that I woke up and asked for a
one tom soup, she said her brain's fine, because I
also thought I'd be brain dammage. It's changed me as
much as that I'm a grandmother now got a beautiful grandson.
It's changed me in as much as you know what,
I don't swept the small things I've got. I saw
a psychiatrist for a long time because of the when

(06:19):
you die, your mental health suffers. And she said, you
need to think of the rock analogy. And I'll share
this with all your listeners. You put your five big
rocks in a jar, and they're the things that matter
to you. Your husband, my husband is a saint, your husband,
your kids, you're really close, friends and other things that
are important here. And you hang on to those and

(06:41):
then you just trickle some stands and they are all
the things that just don't matter. You just got to
get on and think, you know this matters. And now
I'm still a bit of an asshole. I thought I.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Morgan was.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
One of those big rocks. Did you think one of
those big rock rocks might be a one tongue suit?

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Certainly was with extra barbecue pork and also holidays. I
could just love a holiday. What my rock for a bit?
Like she questioned my rock? But the first few, I said,
our trip to Europe. Think I might buy by myself
a husky? Should know you've got the rock analogy wrong.
You've got to.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Put your important things.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
In their first. But look, I'm I'm perfectly healthy now.
But thanks to a really good medical team and Kerry
Packer instigated that every ambulance get to decise. So I
came back to life on the way to Westmeads and
I am still being a bit of an asshole.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
That is that is one of the greatest stories I
have ever heard.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
We're asking you, did you witness a heart attack?

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Jocelyn's given us a call from Canley var have you
saved the life Jocelyn?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, so I actually saved a kid from drowning.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
My my god, what happened?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, so we went. This is about fifteen years ago.
I was like in my early twenties and a couple
of girlfriends and I used to go to Bent's Basin,
which is out out west towards Waraganda Dam. It's like
a big lagoon and basically we were some bathy on
one side and on the other side there were a
few kids, like maybe sixteen seventeen, jumping off some cliffs

(08:26):
and decided they'd swim the length of the lagoon from
one side to the other. Obviously, one of the boys
decided that he did a swimming as well, but he
was not a very good swimmer. So halfway through the swim,
he starts drowning, like in the middle of this lagoon,
and mind you, this is a national park, so there's

(08:46):
no lifeguards, no nothing, and I'm just watching, We're just
watching from the other side, and I'm going to my friends.
He's not going to make it. He's like he's losing
that he's drowning, and his friends are screaming trying to
get somebody to help. And I've I've jumped in and
I swam to the middle of the lagoon and I'm
basically trying to get these kids calm down, and he's
taking me under, you know, doing the whole honey. How old?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
How old?

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Josh?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, he was probably like six, sixteen, seventeen. I was
like twenty one, twenty two. Like I've been around water
all my life, you know, We've been learning how to
swim since we were kids. So I just I was like,
I pushed him off, and I was like, you gotta
calm the hell down. I was like, I can't fuck
help you, Sorry, can't help you. But I like, basically

(09:34):
he put him on his back and he's managed to
calm down and float. And then that between me and
another friend of his is we've just like you know,
put our hands under his shoulders and just dragged him
all the way like floating onto the other side of
the damp, the lagoon, and that's where like he was tail,
like he was in and out of consciousness.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Put him Oh my god, my.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Fingers in the throat trying to get all the water
out because he swallowed a whole bunch of it. And
I was just like I got to get out of here.
I was just so emotional. I just like, I don't
know if I should stay or not. And they were like, oh,
we call the ambulance, thank you so much, and the
kids were the kid was like, I was like are
Uk And he was telling me his name. I don't

(10:16):
even remember it from I guess the shock of.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
It all that is amazing. Just Charles in Avalon Beach.
When did you come to the rescue jars?

Speaker 7 (10:25):
God, I volunteer. It was surf life saving. So I've
a lot of my friends have directly helped people with
heart attacks over Mine was probably twenty years ago. I
was working as a sailing instructorate in Turkey and I
have have a nightclub and a guy got stabbed and

(10:45):
he got she got stabbed in the chest, and then
he turned to run away and he got stabbed in
the back as well. So I came across him, sat
on the street and helped sort of apply So I
had Thursday training and supply pressure. And then because we
were in Turkey, they weren't going to get an ambulance
out to him, but we actually had to carry him

(11:06):
through the streets while I'm holding sort of front and
back to stop bleeding, and then get into a taxi,
then get him to a hospital where they could they
could actually sort of deal with him. So it was
pretty I was only eighteen at the time.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Did you have did you have a couple of mates
with you?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I mean, how do you carry somebody while trying to
keep pressure on the front and back of a bleeding body?

Speaker 7 (11:31):
Yeah, no, it was funny. There was actually a British
nurse there and she wanted to sit him down and
apply pressure like as you would and get the amblers
to come to him. And then there are a bunch
of guys around who wanted to rush him through the streets,
and I just kind of went sort of took control
of the situation, even I was only eighteen and and said, look,
this is where we're going to fly pressure and get

(11:52):
him through the streets. And so people helped carry him.
But it was like he could you could see the
life training out of him as we got further and
for it. So I'm pretty pretty certain he didn't make it.
I actually stay with him until the next morning, but caught.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Up with him.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Caught up with him since Charles.

Speaker 7 (12:12):
No, no, no, I did.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
I didn't.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
I didn't know we were. He was on holiday, so
he was gone.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
H Charles, it would have been nice if you did
a Christmas card every now and then. I would have
thought could have been could have been a couple of
doughnuts or a fruit basket in it.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
My god, Charles, you're a hero. Thank you about it.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
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