490 - The Acali, AKA The Sex Raft

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

In 1973, eleven brave souls from around the world set out on a small raft for a completely isolated 101 day journey across the Atlantic Ocean - all in the name of science! But when the experiment wasn't yielding the predicted results, the organiser resorted to some pretty questionable practices. Sex, hot people, murder plots and more... this story has it all.

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 11:04 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

The Raft (2018) directed by Marcus Lindeen:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8116574/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/14/mutiny-on-the-sex-raft-70s-experiment-santiago-genoves

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-raft-chronicles-an-extreme-experiment-with-human-nature

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/love-island-the-raft-film-documentary-sex-experiment-santiago-genoves-a8591746.html

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2314372.The_Acali_Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acali

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegraph/20190602/282033328683553?srsltid=AfmBOopPRoBMzuiWYuT_KLdrW3mz5vSG-vriz3z_ZmeLmMOssE9Ih1Gb

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Dave here to let you know that we are doing some live shows in March and April 2025.
0:05.8	Matt is doing his show Bad Boy at the Adelaide Fringe at the Rhino Room where he's also doing a live Who Knewit with Matt Stewart?
0:13.4	Then we're both doing our stand-up shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
0:17.3	Matt is on at Spleen and I'm at the Improv Conspiracy with Sammy Peterson in our show.
0:22.9	Dave Warnocky dates the entire audience. And this is a new announcement. We are also doing a
0:28.0	do-go-on, The Quiz Show, live at the Festival Club, one night only, Wednesday, April
0:34.4	2nd at 11pm. It's going to be huge with great guests from across the festival.
0:39.6	Come out late and hang out with us, even though it's a school night.
0:42.4	It's going to be so much fun.
0:43.5	You can get tickets to all these shows right now at do-goonpod.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On.
1:07.0	My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins.
1:11.2	Hello.
1:12.0	Hello.
1:13.5	So good to be here.
1:15.9	A bit of vibrato there for you.
1:17.6	Oh.
1:18.7	I like that a lot.
1:19.6	Thank you.
1:20.8	A vibrato, vibrato.
1:21.5	Vabrago, because you were bragging about your vibrato.
1:24.9	Doesn't matter.
1:25.6	It doesn't matter, but that was actually really clever.
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