Daniel Coyle

There's definitely that.

And when something flips and we are ready to connect, like we have part of our brains and part of our spirits, if we want to call it that, that are just like poised, waiting for that opportunity to sort of come forth and enjoy other people's company.

Yeah.

I mean, if you had to trade places with anybody on the planet ever, these guys would not be at the top of the list.

I mean, there are 33 of them, sort of hard-bitten, roughneck miners trapped in what's called a refugio, a little room, a couple thousand people below the surface.

Not much hope of rescue.

It's hot for the first hour or so.

It's complete chaos, Lord of the Flies.

People are eating the little bit of food that's there.

And then you flash forward and it turns out that when they were finally contacted, they lowered a microphone down the hole and the miners sang a song together.

And they had formed, the first question they asked was about a truck driver who they thought maybe had been injured by the collapse.

And it turned out the truck driver had escaped.

So these guys were almost literally in a situation that most of us would

describe as hell.

And the first time they're contacted after 16 days, they are singing and, and after having no food, singing and asking about other people.

So how did they do that?

You know, and the answer to that at first was assumed to be, well, they had great leaders.

There was a great leader down there who kind of whipped him into shape and they had a plan and they followed the plan.

But it turns out that wasn't true.

It turns out what happened was that they sort of circled up and sort of surrendered to each other.