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Charles W.

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Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

So it wasn't just like, hey, it made, you know, make things cheaper and more efficient. It like was literally changing like lives all over the world.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

So it wasn't just like, hey, it made, you know, make things cheaper and more efficient. It like was literally changing like lives all over the world.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

So it wasn't just like, hey, it made, you know, make things cheaper and more efficient. It like was literally changing like lives all over the world.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Totally. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Totally. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Totally. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Comet and Monkey. That'd be a fun cartoon. I'd watch that. Or drug. I'd also take that.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Comet and Monkey. That'd be a fun cartoon. I'd watch that. Or drug. I'd also take that.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Comet and Monkey. That'd be a fun cartoon. I'd watch that. Or drug. I'd also take that.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Just kidding.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Just kidding.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Just kidding.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Yeah. And these were paddle boats, by the way, up until the late 19th century. If you're picturing like your little friendly tugboat in your mind as we talk about all these stories, erase that. And now picture a tugboat with two paddles on both sides. It wasn't like the big paddle in the back, like the sort of fun things you ride around on at Stone Mountain Park here in Georgia.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Yeah. And these were paddle boats, by the way, up until the late 19th century. If you're picturing like your little friendly tugboat in your mind as we talk about all these stories, erase that. And now picture a tugboat with two paddles on both sides. It wasn't like the big paddle in the back, like the sort of fun things you ride around on at Stone Mountain Park here in Georgia.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

Yeah. And these were paddle boats, by the way, up until the late 19th century. If you're picturing like your little friendly tugboat in your mind as we talk about all these stories, erase that. And now picture a tugboat with two paddles on both sides. It wasn't like the big paddle in the back, like the sort of fun things you ride around on at Stone Mountain Park here in Georgia.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

They were paddle wheels on both sides, which seems a little wider and more cumbersome. But that really, really, really made them much more maneuverable and able to to steer in tighter places and to steer in two different directions. Like, right. I got one of those zero turn lawnmowers. You you. Put those things in two different directions and you're spinning like a top.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

They were paddle wheels on both sides, which seems a little wider and more cumbersome. But that really, really, really made them much more maneuverable and able to to steer in tighter places and to steer in two different directions. Like, right. I got one of those zero turn lawnmowers. You you. Put those things in two different directions and you're spinning like a top.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

They were paddle wheels on both sides, which seems a little wider and more cumbersome. But that really, really, really made them much more maneuverable and able to to steer in tighter places and to steer in two different directions. Like, right. I got one of those zero turn lawnmowers. You you. Put those things in two different directions and you're spinning like a top.

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That's right. Shall we take our second break?

Stuff You Should Know
Tugboats: Pushing Their Way Around Since 1803

That's right. Shall we take our second break?