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>> You just heard from
a Spanish mountain climber.
Her name is Beatrice Flamini, who emerged after spending a year and
a half in a cave, 230ft underground.
And guess what?
She didn't want it to end.
She enjoyed it.
She wanted it to continue.
She was even, like, a little annoyed that they came to get her.
Now, the 50 year old woman left the cave in Southern Spain shortly after 9 AM.
After being told by supporters that she had completed this feat
that she embarked on November 21, 2021.
So Flamini's first words after exiting the cave included asking
who would be paying for a celebratory round of beers.
I mean, everything I've heard about this woman so far is on point.
I kind of love her.
In brief comments to journalists, she described the experience of
being cut off from the world as excellent, unbeatable.
She then asked to be excused,
as she needed her first shower in more than 16 months.
Now, I do not want to dwell too much on the no shower in 16 months part,
because that is literally the only part of this story that seems unappealing to me.
But living in a cave away from everyone else for a year and a half sounds pretty
freaking glorious, and I'm glad that I'm not the only person who thinks so.
>> Yeah, so I had a friend who did this kind of thing, but
he did it recreationally for like, meditation.
So he went and found a cave, I believe, in Virginia somewhere, and
he went and stayed there with no lights, no nothing for 30 days,
just barely enough food to eat, and it was to meditate and to find himself.
And so I asked him at the end, so what'd you find out?
I'm genuinely curious.
That's kind of an amazing experiment to do.
And he's like nothing.
I tried really hard, but I really couldn't come up with anything.
And I was like, wow, didn't see that coming.
But in your case Anna, you're not really trying to find yourself or
anything like that.
>> No, I know myself.
>> Just wanna run away from the world.
>> Yeah, exactly.
Except I would like to make some amendments to this whole lifestyle,
so I don't know if my husband would wanna come with me.
I would ask him to.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind him coming.
>> The pause there was epic.
>> No, cuz I was thinking about,
is there a portion of the cave that can be divided for alone time?
Because close quarters, you might need a little bit of space.
I get that. But I would definitely miss my husband.
I know that for a fact.
That's why I bring him up.
But you think I wouldn't bring Charlie with me?
I'd die.
Of course I would bring my dog with me, so that's the only thing that I would change.
By the way, look, humans are different.
[CROSSTALK] But Christian gets it.
He gets it, he gets me.
He knows.
Humans are different.
Dogs are so innocent.
They're not gonna annoy you.
Dogs only make you happy, right?
Whereas humans annoy you time to time, even someone you love deeply,
like how I feel about my husband.
Obviously I love him, but if we were in tight quarters for a year and
a half with no escape, I'm sure it's not that he'd get on my nerves.
I'm pretty sure I'd get on his nerves and vice versa.
Come on, let's keep it real.
>> Yeah, I'm kidding around.
The whole point of this exercise is not to have another human being with you.
So you just throw the asterisks on, like, okay, if I wasn't married, and
then you move on with the rest of the conversation.
I'm just messing with you.
Of course, if you bring someone else,
that defeats the whole point of hiding in a cave, right?
And no, Charlie doesn't.
Yeah, I get why you want to bring Charlie and we'll put another asterisk there and
let you cheat on that because it's not like you're gonna talk to the dog and
the dog is gonna talk back and interact with well, never mind.
>> Doesn't talk to me, but we communicate.
And I definitely talk to my dog all the time.
I tell him he's my special little prince multiple times a day cuz I'm a weirdo.
Anyway, moving on.
We don't need to delve too deeply into my personal life cuz I sound like a weirdo.
But why don't we talk a little more about Flamini here?
Because you might be wondering, okay, well, what was this all about and
how did she deal with the whole need for sustenance issue?
Well, her pursuit is actually part of a project called Time Cave that
was designed to study how someone would fare going solo underground for so long.
She used two cameras to document the experience and
also place the recordings at an exchange point in the cave.
Her teammates didn't communicate with her, but
what they would do is drop off food and
other necessities at the retrieval site and picked up whatever she left there.
Yeah, so she says she spoke aloud only when recording videos,
wanting to respect the silence of the cave.
She said, quote, I didn't talk to myself out loud, but
I had internal conversations and got on very well with myself.
Which is great, because look, I think one of the issues that a lot of
people have is we have so much stimuli and so many distractions that people
have a difficult time just sitting still and being with themselves.
And clearly this woman's very comfortable with who she is because she's got no
distractions.
She's literally living in a cave underground and has no one to talk to or
no one to think about except for herself.
So that's really interesting.
And a group of psychologists and researchers and physical trainers with
timecave studied the recordings, but didn't have any direct contact with her.
The other thing that I should note is that it is alleged that she has hit or
set a new world record in terms of the amount of time spent living in the cave.
It hasn't been confirmed yet, but
at least Spanish media is claiming that at the time being.
>> Yeah, so look,
the reason why this story is interesting is because of what Anna said.
We are bombarded with stimuli.
So it's not just family anymore, it's family and friends.
And that development happened a long time ago, I hope.
And then it was family, friends in business.
And we used to live in like, little villages where we knew twelve people, and
those were the only twelve people we knew.
And every once in a while, my God, a stranger would come in on horseback.
And that was like the most exciting thing that happened in three years.
Now we got Instagram and TikTok and YouTube and Facebook and TV bombarded with
like all nonstop interactions with people wanted or unwanted.
So, hell yeah, a lot of us wanna go hide in a cave, right?
And so look, I'm not as extreme as Anna, and
so I would love to do it for a couple of days.
And then, me, I'd start bouncing off the walls of the cave and
not only talk to people, but tell people my opinions.
>> Exactly.
No, you would lose your mind.
And look, honestly, I'm partly joking.
Do I really wanna live by myself in a cave for 500 days?
No, probably not.
But I will say that it's healthy to crave solitude,
and it's also incredibly healthy to want to unplug from technology.
So one thing that I've been doing lately, because I just need it,
I crave it is I'll go to, let's say, a Korean spa.
They don't really have good internet connection, so
if I'm tempted to get on my phone, I really can't, which is great.
And I'll take a color, like an adult coloring book.
And in the communal room, I'll just kind of relax and
color before getting a massage or whatever treatment I schedule to get there.
And it's just nice to be in a world that's just so
different from what I experience day to day with the constant messages,
constant phone calls, constant me, me, need, I need your attention.
I need this, can you do that?
It's nice to get a break from that.
And it's nice to be alone with your own thoughts.
>> Yeah, so last things here.
I do this in the most ironic way possible.
I used to do this every year, but with a family it's much harder.
But I still do it as much as I can, which is I go to South Beach once a year,
and that's why this is deeply ironic.
South beach is my cave, but I don't interact with anyone.
I don't go to clubs, clubs look at me, right?
[LAUGH] I don't go to any of the places that people normally go to in South Beach.
I just get a hotel room.
Usually it's cheapest, one that looks at the water, and
I just look at the water for two, three days, and I'm plugged for everything.
Don't talk to friends, don't get into emailing and business, etc.
And it used to be a week, then it was for five, four days.
Now we're down to, like, two days, if I'm super lucky, right?
But you got to do that every once in a while because you need a refresher.
You need to give yourself some sort of balance.
And for me, and I don't know how you're gonna take this if you're gonna like it or
you're gonna think it's obnoxious, but I recommend it to all you guys.
I kind of like myself, so I don't mind spending time with me, right?
And that sounds funny.
And like I said- >> No, I freaking love myself,
I love spending time with myself.
It's the best person to spend time with.
No, I hear you.
Go ahead and hate on that, I don't care.
>> Yeah, guys, you're supposed to like yourself.
There's nothing wrong with you, okay?
With the people that tell you that are stressing you out sometimes on purpose,
but largely because they have preconceived notions that are in their heads,
not your heads.
That's why it doesn't match.
So give yourself a break and go into a cave for 500 days or less.
>> And final thing I'll say is she was kind of annoyed when they came to get her
after the 500 days were up.
She had read 60 books, and apparently she was in the middle of reading yet
another book when they came to get her, and she said, quote, I was sleeping, or
at least dozing, when they came down to get me.
I thought something had happened.
I said already?
No way.
I hadn't finished my book.
Imagine being underground in a cave for 500 days.
This whole experiment is over.
The team comes to get you, and you're just like, I'm still reading my book, okay?
I'm annoyed that you're coming to get me.
It's amazing.
>> No, yeah.
Anna, she's definitely your spirit virtual twin.
No question about that.
>> Yeah- >> And
she's like a wonderfully salty lady, so God bless.