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I have got the most incredible story of, I don't know, how would I describe this? An everyday Aussie hero that I had to drag out this guy Saturday night. So I'm in an Uber and I'm going to this pub to dinner, right? And as we're going into a pub car park, I said to him, I'll jump out here. Otherwise, it's going to be a nightmare for you getting out. He goes, oh, don't worry. It's like late 60s. Let's call him M. He goes, oh, don't worry. I want, uh, I once, uh, due to an unforeseen circumstance, to take control of a Greyhound bus. And I did a 13 point turn in an emergency. and I go, oh right, are you a bus driver? He goes, no.

And then I go, oh, right, are you a bus driver? He goes, no. And then I go, oh, what happened? He goes, oh, it's quite a story. And don't you need to get out now? I went, no, no, no, tell me what happened. So he's on a Greyhound bus, right, going from Adelaide to Melbourne. Because this guy, M, is first aid trained level three. So he's a high level first aider. That's not his job. He used to work for the government, okay, in the

family law division. But anyway, he's a first aider. The driver, he can see, isn't very well. So M gets

up and says, hey, you okay, what's going on? The driver starts to tell him,

and M says, I think you're having a heart attack. And so he says, pull over. But so it's a down fire. I'm just feeling it, but he goes, no, I think the DO says, you need to pull over right now. Pulls over and then things get a lot worse. He is having a heart attack. So because he's first aid trained, he managed to sort of, you know, start to know what to do.

They're in triple zero and they go, where are they'd give a location?

He goes, he's first aid trained, he managed to sort of, you know, start to know what to do. They're in triple zero and they go, where are they're going to give a location. It goes, it's going to take us a little while to get there. M decides that he will drive the Greyhound towards the hospital, right? He's got a bus license that he's never used. Just for shits and giggles, he thought he'd take one. Passes. No, I'll never have to use that one day. But there's a big difference between a bus and a greyhound coach. So he had to, suddenly, he's doing the right thing. He's stepping up as an everyday leader in a desperate situation. He then realized, these are really big. I don't know how to, they've got to turn it to go towards the hospital. He had to do a 13-point turn driving this greyhound coach towards the hospital and the ambulance crew were talking on the phone to somebody else to say, if we can meet you halfway and gave them the location. Wow. So they do. He

hands him over to the embos. They saved this guy's life. Really thanks to M's quick decisions.

The fact that he was someone who had, you know, basic first aid. Isn't that incredible story?

Wow. I'd have drawn out this guy, Em. I said, that is an incredible story. I said,

so what happened. And he goes goes why i got a letter of

a commendation from the greyhound bus company i thought it's going to be from like the mayor or something

but it really made me think how many people would be alive if we knew basic first aid i almost think

it should be part of like even take any driver's test or something like that. It really made, we've said this before, but now I've listened to his story and that, I wouldn't know what to do. No, me neither. I got to admit. I'm really in a desperate situation, which could happen at any moment in our lives. But I'd like to, I think that we as a team should commit in the next couple of weeks to learning basic first aid. I'm down.

Because actually, even here now, do we even know where the DFIP thing is? No. Yes, I think it is near the toilet, but I don't know for sure. I didn't even know we had one. I wouldn't know how to use it. No, no. I wouldn't have a first clue. Yeah, none of us would. No, we need to. But one incredible story.

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The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. No, we wouldn't have a first clue. Yeah, none of us would. No, we need to. But one incredible story.

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