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hey this is the christian o'connell show podcast all right before we get into the rest of today's show, this is the only story, the only

thing that we should be talking about today.

And trust me, the moment you hear this story about a young Australian called Austin Appleby,

an incredible name and an incredible young man, this is a heroic story, the lights of which I've never heard before, from someone who's 13.

If this was a grown-up, it would still be extraordinary.

But the fact it's a young kid who's 13.

I'll just play the news story, and then we can talk about this.

But I urge you right now, whatever you're doing, and I know you're busy right now.

Stop what you are doing actually and just turn this story up.

It is incredible.

And no matter what you've got going on in your life right now, this just does.

It retunes you to the awe and wonder of what people can do. But this is a young kid.

He's a 13-year-old Australian. Have a listen to this. A brave 13-year-old boy is being praised for

saving his family from an ocean ordeal. He swam for hours, then ran for kilometres to raise the

alarm after they were swept out to sea.

Barely visible against the fury of the sea, this is where a 13-year-old boy made a near

impossible decision to leave his family in order to save them.

I was really scared. I was just thinking in my head, like thinking I was going to make it through.

Stranded four kilometres off the coast in WA Southwest for more than eight hours

after rough seas swept them out while kayaking on Friday,

Ostenap will be braved fading light and dangerous waves for four hours to get back to shore.

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