554 - Five Hundred Days In A Cave
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This week we look at the weird history of competitive cave sitting (people seeing how long they can stay in a cave without contact with the outside world), culminating with Spaniard Beatriz Flamini's 2021 world record attempt to spend 500 days in a cave. Recorded live at the 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:40 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/the-woman-who-spent-five-hundred-days-in-a-cave
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/cave-dwellers-human-adaptation
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/22/worlds-oldest-cave-art-discovered-in-indonesias-muna-island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_dweller#Modern_examples
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/04/michel-siffre-caves-time-dies/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-06/history-of-ngilgi-cave/100586144
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go One. |
| 0:17.8 | My name is Dave Warnacky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart live at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.1 | Here we are. |
| 0:28.2 | Hooray. |
| 0:30.8 | So exciting to be here. Thank you so much. |
| 0:34.2 | At the end of the festival. It's the last day of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. |
| 0:38.2 | Some acts have done 22 shows. |
| 0:40.1 | We have done two. |
| 0:41.7 | This will be three. |
| 0:43.3 | We were not doing Easter. |
| 0:44.8 | We will not work on Easter. |
| 0:46.4 | It is a marathon, not a sprint. |
| 0:48.3 | It's been very tough. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you for your compassion. |
| 0:52.8 | We are exhausted. |
| 0:54.9 | So let's try and get through this together, shall we? |
| 0:57.1 | I've done a 12 run. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah, yeah. A split show. |
| 1:05.6 | Surin's not a lot of heavy lifting. |
| 1:08.8 | There's a lot of time in your show where you're just going. |
| 1:15.4 | Jess came last night, so that is 100% true. |
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