Raft of Passion - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Eleven attractive, young people set sail across the Atlantic in a raft as part of a radical group experiment. And a boy falls in love with a girl… and her fungus.
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Vintage Spirit
Did you ever think that you missed a moment of history? A moment you were made for? Glynn explores an era that had a spark.
Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
Raft of Passion
Mary needed to get away from her husband. A handsome stranger offered her a way out. All she had to do was participate in the strangest group experiment of all time.
Thank you, Mary Gidley, for sharing your story with Snap. Mary just released a memoir titled Point to Point.
You can learn more about the Acali experiment in the incredible documentary The Raft. Hear from Mary and other participants as they relive the experiment on a life-size recreation of the raft. The Raft opened in theaters in the U.S. in 2019 and begins streaming on digital platforms in the U.S. on May 19, 2020.
Special thanks to director Marcus Lindeen.
Produced by John Fecile, original score by Leon Morimoto, artwork by: Sanaa Khan.
Linda, Loretta, and Me
What happens when boy meets girl and fungus? This is a story about love and spores, from one of our favorite podcasts, Love Me. Be sure to check out producer Jonathan Zenti’s podcast, Meat.
Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime, and Jonathan Zenti.
Snap Classic - Season 16 - Episode 33
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Shana Shealy. I've been a producer on Snap Judgment for nearly a decade. And years ago, I started following a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, documenting their epic battle for their own place on their own terms. |
| 0:23.6 | I got totally sucked into this group's drama and I couldn't stop. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, we're finally bringing that story to you. |
| 0:32.6 | A tiny plot, a five-part series about scarcity, survival, and the one thing people in this group |
| 0:40.0 | wanted most. Control over their own lives. A tiny plot, a story told by the people who lived it. |
| 0:49.2 | A tiny plot is out now. Listen on Snap Judgment. |
| 1:09.3 | Thank you. is out now. Listen on Snap Judgment. Okay, so I know the past has been glorified, hyped up and all that. |
| 1:15.0 | I know this. |
| 1:16.0 | But did you ever think that maybe you missed your moment of history? |
| 1:20.9 | A moment you were made for? |
| 1:23.1 | I mean, back in the day, Nixon actually called a nerdy college professor, a man of letters, a scholar. |
| 1:30.2 | He called him the most dangerous man in America. |
| 1:35.1 | Bigot, the guy just said stuff. |
| 1:37.0 | He said, turn on, tune in, drop out, and people lost their stuff. |
| 1:42.6 | Leary also said that women who seek to be equal to men, they lack ambition. |
| 1:49.0 | Same time, Black Pamphers have refused to cower. |
| 1:52.0 | Instead, they went up to the California State Capitol waving rifles and shotguns around the place. |
| 1:58.0 | Folk converged on the Woodstock Music Festival and forgot to set up any toilets. |
| 2:03.7 | The Summer of Love. |
| 2:05.3 | Almost 100,000 people descended on San Francisco. |
| 2:09.1 | Jimmy Hendrix. |
| 2:10.5 | James Joplin, Jim Morrison, war protests. |
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