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0:00What if you woke up 10,000 years ago
0:03with your crush? You wake up because
0:05something is poking you in the cheek.
0:08It's a spear. On the other end of it,
0:10there's a man with a beard down to his
0:12chest wearing an entire deer. Behind
0:15him, 11 more people. Same beards, same
0:19deer. And they're all staring at the
0:21girl next to you. Ellie Novak, front row
0:24in history, class rep, color-coded
0:27notes. Last week, she lent you a pen.
0:29You still have it. Right now, she's in a
0:32white puffer jacket with sunglasses on
0:34her head, and she's holding your arm so
0:36hard it hurts. Here's how you got here.
0:40School trip this morning to a cave full
0:43of prehistoric paintings. Somehow on the
0:46bus, you ended up sitting next to Ellie.
0:48You still don't know how. On the cave
0:51wall, there were hundreds of red
0:52handprints 10,000 years old. The guide
0:56pointed at two of them, small side by
0:58side. These were made by children, she
1:01said. And this one is wearing a ring.
1:04Nobody has ever been able to explain
1:06that. Then the lights went out. Ellie
1:09grabbed the wall. You grabbed Ellie. And
1:12when you opened your eyes, there was no
1:13class, no guide, no lights, just the
1:17cave, the smell of smoke, and the spear.
1:21By the end of this video, you'll know
1:23whose hands those are.
1:26The man with the spear says something.
1:28It sounds like a cough with a question
1:30at the end. Ellie whispers, "Do
1:32something." So, you do what you always
1:35do in an emergency. You take out your
1:37phone. It's at 4%. Of course, it is.
1:40It's always at 4%. It shows you the time
1:44and dies. Ellie's phone is at 100.
1:47Ellie's phone is always at 100. She
1:50turns on the flashlight. 12 grown adults
1:53fall over backwards at the same time.
1:56Then one of the kids, a tiny boy with a
1:58runny nose, crawls forward, puts his
2:01whole face in the light, and laughs.
2:04That's Pip. He's about six. He's missing
2:06a front tooth. And from now on, he
2:08follows Ellie's phone everywhere like
2:10it's a puppy. The tribe takes you to
2:13their camp. Huts made of branches,
2:15bones, and skins by a river. Smoke
2:18everywhere. Dogs everywhere kind of.
2:22They look like wolves that made a deal.
2:25In the middle of the camp, there's a
2:26small old woman with white hair down to
2:28her waist. When she talks, everybody
2:31[music] stops. You call her the boss.
2:34The boss pokes Ellie's jacket. It goes
2:37and puffs back up. She says something to
2:40the others and points at the sky. They
2:42think Ellie is wearing a cloud.
2:45Then she takes the sunglasses off
2:47Ellie's head, puts them on, and looks at
2:49the sun. She keeps them. For the rest of
2:52the month, [music] the most important
2:53woman in the stone age walks around in
2:56pink sunglasses. Then she holds up her
2:58hand, curved like a thin slice of moon.
3:02She opens her fingers into a full
3:04circle, and she points back at the cave.
3:07"It takes Ellie 4 seconds." "We can go
3:10back," she says, "when the moon is
3:12full." Tonight's moon is a thin little
3:15slice. That's a month. No Wi-Fi, no
3:19bathroom, no parents, no chargers, and
3:22the girl you've liked since sixth grade.
3:25Ellie puts her phone on airplane mode
3:27and battery saver. 98%. She says, "We
3:31only use it if we have to. You use it 40
3:34minutes later." Around the fire, Pip
3:37taps the screen and the camera opens.
3:39Selfie mode. These people have only ever
3:42seen themselves in puddles. Pip has
3:44never seen his own face clearly in his
3:47life. He touches his nose. [music] The
3:49phone touches its nose. He sticks out
3:52his tongue. The phone sticks out its
3:54tongue. He screams so loud the dogs
3:57leave. 5 minutes later, the whole tribe
4:00is in a line. The big guy with the spear
4:02takes the longest. His name sounds like
4:05Duga, so you call him Doug. Doug is 2 m
4:09tall with a scar from his ear to his
4:11shoulder. He checks his best angle and
4:14fixes his beard three times. Then Ellie
4:17shows them photos. A pizza. The boss
4:20tries to take a bite of the phone. Then
4:22a dog in a hot dog costume. That one
4:25they get. They laugh until they cry.
4:28Doug laughs so hard he has to lie down.
4:31For the rest of the month, every time
4:33Doug sees a dog, he points at it, says
4:36hot dog in English, and laughs all over
4:39again. 91%.
4:43Night one. Here's what nobody tells you
4:45about 10,000 years ago. It's cold every
4:49night. No heating, no blankets. The
4:52tribe stays warm by sleeping in one big
4:55pile. Kids in the middle, dogs around
4:57the edge. You and Ellie end up in the
5:00pile together. back to back under a bear
5:02skin that smells like a bear. Then she
5:05whispers, "Are you awake?" "No." "Look
5:09up." Through the smoke hole in the roof,
5:12there are stars. At home, you can see
5:15maybe 20. Here, there are so many it
5:18looks like a mistake. Like somebody
5:20spilled salt on the sky. That pale
5:23stripe across the middle is the Milky
5:25Way. You've lived under it your whole
5:27life and never seen it once. Nobody's
5:30ever going to believe us, she says. I
5:33don't believe us, you say. She laughs
5:36very quietly into the bare skin.
5:39Sometime in the night, her hand ends up
5:41holding a fistful of your hoodie. You
5:44don't move until morning.
5:47Day two. Eeka. You wake up at sunrise
5:51because everybody does. There's no
5:53snooze button. There's a dog standing on
5:55your face. And there's a girl sitting
5:58right next to you, very close, looking
6:01at you. She's your age, dark hair
6:04braided with shells, a necklace made of
6:06teeth, a spear taller than she is. She's
6:10obviously the coolest person in [music]
6:12the tribe, and she's looking at you like
6:14you're the most interesting animal she's
6:16ever seen. Her name is Eeka. She touches
6:19your hair. Nobody here has ever seen a
6:22haircut. She runs her hand through it
6:24like she's checking if it's real. From
6:27the pile, Ellie says, "Okay." Then Eeka
6:30finds your zipper. To Eeka, a zipper is
6:33fireworks. Up, down, up, down. She calls
6:37the whole tribe to watch. The boss tries
6:40it herself very seriously, nods once,
6:43and walks away. That's as close as the
6:45boss gets to applause. Behind you, Ellie
6:48zips her own jacket up and down loudly.
6:52Nobody looks. That's when Eeka takes off
6:54her necklace, puts it around your neck,
6:56points at you, and says one word. Tamu.
7:01The whole tribe goes, "Ooh."
7:04You don't know what tamu means, but you
7:07know what ooh means. It means the same
7:10thing in every language in every
7:12century. What does tamu mean, says
7:15Ellie? I don't speak caveman. Ellie,
7:18then give it back. You try. Eco won't
7:21take it. Ellie doesn't talk to you for
7:23the rest of the morning. She just walks
7:25next to you very fast. So, her jacket
7:27goes swish swish swish all the way to
7:30the river. Day three, no school. There's
7:34no school 10,000 years ago. For about
7:37one day, that's the best news you've
7:39ever heard. Then you find out what you
7:41do instead. You work. Everybody works
7:45from sunrise until dark. Pip is six and
7:48he can skin a rabbit faster than you can
7:50open a yogurt. There's no weekend. The
7:53fridge is a hole in the ground with a
7:55rock on top. The boss is the oldest
7:58person in the tribe and she might be 45.
8:01Nobody has ever brushed their teeth and
8:03their teeth are perfect because there's
8:05no sugar, not one gram. Your dentist was
8:09right about everything. And there are no
8:12bathrooms. There's a bush. It's a nice
8:14bush. It's the official bush. It has a
8:17view. Ellie holds out for a day and a
8:19half.
8:21That afternoon, the women teach you
8:23which berries and mushrooms are good,
8:25which ones make you sick, and one little
8:27blueberry that looks exactly like a
8:29blueberry and will kill you before
8:31sunset. You can't remember any of them.
8:34You put one mushroom in your mouth, and
8:36Eeka knocks it out of your hand so hard
8:38it lands in the river. Ellie remembers
8:41all of them. First try, 31 plants, like
8:45flashcards before a history test. The
8:47boss watches her for a long time. That
8:50night, she gives Ellie the best spot by
8:52the fire. All those years of color-coded
8:55notes. First time in history they've
8:58actually saved somebody's life. Day
9:01five, 62%.
9:03Ellie plays a song, a loud one, from her
9:06gym playlist. Through a phone speaker,
9:08it's tiny. To the tribe, it's a
9:11thunderstorm in a box. For 10 seconds,
9:14nobody breathes. Then the whole tribe is
9:18dancing around the fire to [music] a
9:19song about a nightclub 10,000 years
9:22before anybody invented one. The boss
9:25doesn't dance. She taps one foot, very
9:28small. You see it? Eeka grabs [music]
9:30both your hands and dances with you. She
9:33dances the way she hunts fast and she
9:35doesn't let go. Ellie dances with Pip.
9:38She looks at you over his head for the
9:40entire [music] song. 49%.
9:43Ellie puts the phone away. She says it's
9:46to save battery. It's not to save
9:48battery.
9:50Day six. You want to learn fire. The
9:53tribe never lets the fire die. When they
9:56move, they carry it inside a horn packed
9:58with moss like a pet. But Eeka shows you
10:01how to start one from nothing. Two
10:03stones, flint and a shiny gold one. She
10:07strikes [music] them. A spark drops into
10:09a nest of dry grass. She blows and it's
10:12fire. 10 seconds. You strike them for an
10:15hour. You make four sparks and everyone
10:18lands on your shoe. Pip laughs so hard
10:21he gets hiccups. You know Eeka can just
10:25do it, says Ellie. No, because here's
10:28what you haven't told anybody. On night
10:31three, the fire went low and Ellie was
10:34shivering so hard you could hear her
10:36teeth. And there was nothing you could
10:38do. You're never doing that again.
10:42Day nine. Night. The fire in your corner
10:45has gone out. Ellie's asleep with her
10:48hands pulled inside her sleeves. You
10:50pick up the stones. Your hands are
10:53covered in cuts. Strike. Nothing.
10:57Strike. Nothing. Strike. A spark lands
11:01in the grass and stays. You blow until
11:04you see stars. The grass catches and a
11:08little fire starts to grow right in
11:10front of Ellie's face. She opens her
11:13eyes. She looks at the fire. Then she
11:16looks at your hands. She doesn't say
11:18anything. She takes your hand, turns it
11:21over, and puts cherry lip balm on the
11:23cuts. It stings like crazy, [snorts] and
11:26you smile like an idiot.
11:29Day 11. Doug teaches you to hunt with a
11:32spearthrower, a stick with a hook that
11:35makes the spear fly twice as far. Right
11:37now, it's the most advanced weapon on
11:40the planet. You throw it, it goes behind
11:42you. The tribe has never seen anyone
11:45throw a spear backwards. They're
11:47honestly impressed. Then, Eeka hits a
11:50piece of bark the size of your hand from
11:5230 steps away. She turns around, looks
11:55at Ellie, and holds out the
11:56spearthrower. It's a challenge. The
11:59whole tribe goes quiet. Here's something
12:02nobody at school knows about Ellie
12:04Novak, except the girls softball team.
12:07She's the pitcher. She does a full
12:09softball windup in a puffer jacket
12:1210,000 years before softball. The spear
12:15goes straight into the bark right next
12:18to Eeka's. The tribe loses its mind.
12:22Doug carries Ellie around the fire like
12:23a trophy. Eeka looks at the two spears
12:26for a long time. Then she nods at Ellie
12:29once the way the boss does. They're not
12:32friends yet. They're more like
12:34co-workers.
12:36Day 13, the real hunt. The hunters have
12:40found orox. Imagine a cow. Now make it
12:43as big as a car. Give it horns as long
12:46as your arm and put it in a bad mood
12:49forever. You creep through the tall
12:51grass against the wind. You've never
12:53been this quiet in your life. Your
12:56teachers would be so proud. 30 steps,
13:0020. Then the biggest Orox lifts its head
13:03and looks straight at you, and you
13:05freeze. Your legs just stop listening.
13:08It charges. You feel it in your feet
13:11before you hear it. And just when you
13:13can see its eye, Doug hits you from the
13:15side. You both go flying into the grass,
13:17and the horns go right through the place
13:19where your stomach was a second ago.
13:21Doug stands up and looks down at you.
13:24You think he's going to be angry.
13:26Instead, he touches the scar on his
13:28neck. He points at you. Then he laughs,
13:31pulls you up, and slaps your back so
13:34hard you cough. He froze too once.
13:38That's where the scar is from. That
13:40night, there's meat for everyone. And
13:43Eeka gives you the best piece, the bone
13:45marrow. In the tribe, that's what you
13:48give to the person you like the most.
13:50Ellie has been eating roots for 13 days.
13:53She gave you the marrow. She says she
13:56gives everybody stuff. She gave Pip a
13:59stick.
14:01Day 16. Eeka wants to show you
14:04something. She walks for 2 hours and you
14:06follow. Ellie comes too to make sure you
14:09don't fall off anything. At the top of a
14:12hill, Eeka makes you lie down in the
14:14grass and she points. Down in the
14:17valley, there's a herd of mammoths. Real
14:20ones, eight of them, and two babies who
14:23keep tripping over their own feet. One
14:25of the big ones picks up a whole bush
14:27with its trunk and shakes it like a
14:29towel. The tribe doesn't hunt them. Eka
14:32says a word that means grandmothers and
14:35touches her chest. There aren't many
14:37left. In a few thousand years, there
14:39won't be any at all. Nobody, you know,
14:42will ever see one. You look over at
14:45Ellie and she's crying. Not loud, just
14:49tears going sideways into the grass.
14:52Eeka sees it, too. She reaches over and
14:55wipes Ellie's cheek with her thumb. On
14:57the way back, Ellie and Eeko walk
14:59together, and you walk behind. They
15:02don't speak the same language. They talk
15:04the whole way home.
15:07[music] Day 18. Ellie finds out what
15:10tamu means. By now, she knows water,
15:13bear, and Pip, put that down. She points
15:16at the river. Tamu. Pip shakes his head.
15:20Then Pip picks up the thing he loves
15:22most in the whole world. Ellie's phone,
15:25hugs it to his chest, and says, "Tamu."
15:29Tamu means mine. Ellie walks over to
15:32you. She takes your face in both hands,
15:35and turns it left and right like she's
15:37checking it for damage. Then she points
15:39at you, then at Eeka, and says, "Very
15:43clearly in front of everyone, not Tamu."
15:48The whole tribe goes, "Woo!"
15:51Doug has never been happier in his life.
15:56Day 20. It rains for 3 days. The river
16:00turns brown and fast. The tribe moves
16:03everything up the hill, even the fire in
16:05its horn. Eeka is carrying the horn
16:07across the stream when the bank breaks
16:10under her feet. She goes in. Everyone
16:13screams. Ellie doesn't think. She rips
16:15off the white puffer and throws it into
16:17the water as far as she can. It floats.
16:20Of course, it floats. It's basically a
16:22cloud. Eeka grabs it and it holds her up
16:26long enough for Doug to reach her with a
16:28branch, for you to grab Doug's belt, and
16:30for the whole tribe to grab you in one
16:33long line, pulling like a rope. Eka
16:36comes out coughing, shaking, and holding
16:38the jacket and the horn with the fire
16:41still going inside because of course she
16:44didn't let go of the fire.
16:46That night, Eeka braids Ellie's hair
16:49with shells. Ellie gives Eeka her hair
16:51tie and the cherry lip balm. Eeka puts
16:54the lip balm on her eyebrows. Nobody
16:57corrects her. Eeka keeps the jacket.
17:00Ellie spends the rest of the month in
17:02your hoodie. You both act like that's
17:04completely normal.
17:07Day 22. Eeka gives up. She sits down
17:10next to you by [music] the river. She
17:12looks at you for a long time. Then she
17:15looks at Ellie, who's trying to [music]
17:16teach Pip to do a high five. Pip keeps
17:19missing. Ellie keeps laughing. [music]
17:21Eeka looks back at you and she knows
17:25before you've even said it to yourself.
17:27She takes the necklace off your neck.
17:30She walks over to Ellie and puts it
17:31around Ellie's neck instead. She points
17:34at Ellie, then at you, Tamu. Then she
17:38picks up her spear and goes hunting like
17:40nothing happened. Behind Ellie, Pip
17:43finally lands the high five. Nobody sees
17:46it.
17:48Day 25, the bear 11%.
17:52Every night, Pip asks to see the hot
17:55dog. And every night, Ellie says,
17:57"Tomorrow." That night, all the dogs
18:00wake up at once. Something big is in the
18:03camp. It's a bear. A brown bear standing
18:06up, taller than Doug, right next to the
18:09meat. And Pip is asleep at the edge of
18:11the pile, the closest one to it. Ellie
18:14grabs the phone, flashlight, full
18:16brightness, right in its face. The bear
18:19stops. Nothing in its whole world shines
18:22like that, but it doesn't leave. It
18:25drops on all fours and takes a step
18:27toward the light. 8%.
18:30Then Ellie does the smartest thing
18:33anybody does in this entire video. She
18:36opens her alarms. She picks the worst
18:38one, the school one. The one that sounds
18:41like a fire truck falling down the
18:42stairs. Volume all the way up. For 3
18:46years, that sound has dragged Ellie
18:48Novak out of bed every morning. Tonight,
18:51it drags a bear out of the camp. You can
18:54hear it for a long time, still running.
18:573%. Doug looks at the phone like it's a
19:00god. And Pip, who slept through the
19:03whole thing, wakes up, rubs his eyes,
19:05and asks if he can see the hot dog. 2%.
19:08Ellie shows him the hot dog. The screen
19:11goes black in the middle of his laugh.
19:14Pip keeps it anyway. He carries it
19:16everywhere in a little bag made of skin,
19:19like it's sleeping.
19:22Day 27. Two nights left. You and Ellie
19:25are on the hill above the valley. The
19:27moon is almost full. So bright you can
19:30see your own shadow. Can I tell you
19:32something? She says in the cave when the
19:36lights went out. I didn't grab the wall.
19:39You wait. I was aiming for your hand.
19:42I've been trying to stand next to you
19:44all day. I swapped seats with Jessica on
19:46the bus. I had to give her my good gum.
19:49You've been thinking about that moment
19:51for 27 days. You thought it was an
19:54accident. You thought you were the only
19:56one. You still have my pen, she says. I
20:00know. I know. You know.
20:03You don't kiss. Pip is sitting right
20:06behind you holding the dead phone,
20:08watching you like it's the best show
20:09he's ever seen. So Ellie just takes your
20:12hand. She points at you and says the
20:15only word she ever really needed to
20:17learn. Tamu.
20:20Day 29. The full moon. The whole tribe
20:24walks you to the cave. Nobody says it's
20:26goodbye. Everybody knows. Inside, the
20:30boss mixes red powder with water and
20:32puts it in her mouth. She presses your
20:35hand flat against the wall and blows the
20:37red all around it. When she lifts your
20:39hand away, it's still there. Your hand
20:43on the wall. Then Ellie's. Ellie never
20:47takes off her grandmother's ring. The
20:49red goes all around it. Two small hands
20:53side by side. One with a ring. You've
20:56seen them before. This morning, 10,000
21:00years from now.
21:02Eeka goes last. She puts her hand above
21:06yours and the boss blows the red around
21:08it. Doug hugs you so hard your feet
21:11leave the ground and says, "Hot dog."
21:14It's the only English he knows, so he
21:16uses it for everything. Pip holds out
21:19the phone to Ellie with both hands. She
21:21closes his fingers around it. Tamu, she
21:24tells him, and Eeka touches your hair
21:26one last time and smiles like she knows
21:30something you don't. The boss pushes her
21:32pink sunglasses up on her head and puts
21:34out the torch. Dark. Ellie's hand finds
21:38yours on purpose this time, and the
21:42lights come back on. The guide is in the
21:44middle of a sentence. Nobody has ever
21:46been able to explain that. Somebody's
21:49eating chips. For them, the lights were
21:51off for 2 seconds. Your hands are red up
21:54to the wrist. So are Ellie's. She's
21:56still wearing your hoodie and a necklace
21:58made of teeth. On the wall, two small
22:01hands side by side. One with a ring. And
22:05above them, a third hand. You didn't
22:07notice it this morning. It's a little
22:09bigger than yours. And around the wrist,
22:12there's a thin line where the red didn't
22:14reach. like somebody was wearing a hair
22:16tie.
22:18Ellie puts her hand over her mouth.
22:20Here's the part you think about later on
22:23the bus. Eeka, Doug, Pip, the boss. For
22:28you, it was this morning. For them, it
22:31was 10,000 years ago. You were a story
22:34they told around the fire for years. Two
22:37strange kids who came out of the cave
22:39and scared off a bear with a box that
22:41screamed. Somewhere under 10,000 years
22:44of dirt, there's a phone at 0% in a
22:48little bag made of skin. On the bus,
22:50Ellie sits next to you. She doesn't need
22:52to swap with anybody this time. Jessica
22:55moves without being asked. She holds
22:57your hand the whole way home in front of
23:00everyone with red hands. Your best
23:03friend, Nate, turns around in the seat
23:04in front, sees it, and opens his mouth.
23:07Ellie points at you. Tamu, she says.
23:11Nate has no idea what that means, but he
23:14knows exactly what it means.
23:17So, if you woke up 10,000 years ago with
23:20your crush, would you come back when the
23:22moon was full, or would you stay by the
23:24fire under all those stars? Tell me in
23:27the comments. And if you're watching
23:29this with your phone at 4%, charge it.
23:32You never know where you're going to
23:33wake up.
23:36>> [music]

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