Stewart Brand
speaker
734 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
Stewart Brand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have a 64-foot tugboat that we're finally moving off of, and it's for sale.
If your listeners want to get it.
No, the tugboat, she's a blue water boat.
She's been to Alaska and so on.
But the way we refitted her both as a home and as a working tugboat is that we can cruise around the Bay Area in safety.
This is a wooden boat that was built in 1912.
And you can imagine that there's an enormous amount of maintenance.
I can tell you that if she was in such bad shape when we got her in 1982 that
The guy we paid $8,000 to to get the boat couldn't believe he got away with that much money because he was in terrible shape.
But we brought her back up to a pretty cheery condition.
But, you know, wooden boats are basically made out of celery.
Wood is a wonderfully adaptable medium, but it is, as we know, especially in buildings, water wants to turn it into something that isn't wood and something that doesn't keep leaks away.
So a lot of maintenance.
Well, partly it's because the products are lower and lower maintenance.
And so you don't have occasion, like you did with the Model T, to constantly having to redo things.
Putting in grease, putting in oil, cleaning up this, cleaning up that.
One of the interesting things is that electric cars, when they first were built back around 1900, were very low maintenance compared to the gasoline cars.
And that was a major attraction among many other things.
Then gas went out because they could go longer distances, and there were oil discoveries in the US and so on.
But then once Tesla came along, once again, people realized, wow, these electrical vehicles have way, way less maintenance.
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