Raft of Passion - Snap Classic

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

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.

This story contains scenes of domestic abuse as well as sexual situations. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.

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

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Snap Classic - Season 13 - Episode 31

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0:00.0	Now, Judgment Studios.
0:07.0	Okay, so I know the past has been glorified.
0:28.2	I know this.
0:30.2	But do you ever think that maybe you missed your moment of history?
0:34.2	A moment you were made for?
0:36.2	I mean, back in the day, Nixon actually called a nerdy college professor, a man of letters,
0:42.2	a scholar.
0:43.2	He called him the most dangerous man in America.
0:48.2	The guy just said stuff.
0:50.2	He said, turn it on, tune in, drop out, and people lost their stuff.
0:56.2	Larry also said that women who seek to be equal to men, they lack ambition.
1:03.2	Same time, black campus, they refused to cower.
1:06.2	Instead, they went up to the California State Capitol, waving rifles and shotguns around the place.
1:12.2	Folk converged on the Woodstock Music Festival and forgot to set up any toilets.
1:17.2	The summer of love.
1:19.2	Almost 100,000 people descended on San Francisco.
1:23.2	The Indians, Janus Joplin, Jim Morrison, War Protests, remember those?
1:28.2	One of those actual War Protests?
1:30.2	Freedom marches.
1:31.2	Realize unironic hippies walking around with unironic hippie stuff, say what you will about
1:39.2	the era.
1:40.2	I didn't let it.
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