Another great one PE! Can one call this a pastiche, of old farm talk, and speculative future fiction? And, amigo, have you lived on a farm, or were you raised by serious gardeners? If not, congrats on nailing the priorities of the occupation so well, that you could pass with ease. I hope the voice chooses to behave itself and refrain from giving you further concerns. I’ve never written so many fan letters/comments to anyone. I just keep finding myself driven to say thank you, repeatedly, for the insight and entertainment that you provide. You are totally The Man!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Tom! Glad you're enjoying so many of the stories. If my characters can pass for farmers, it's due in no small part to a few of my colleagues with whom I worked to help develop writing pedagogy for a college-level Ag program. Learned a lot about scientific thinking and farming from them! Now I grow potatoes 🤠
@paulross225
2 ай бұрын
What begat civilisations was farming ,so it could be mooted that farmers were the fathers of civilisation, so who better to cultivate its growth than another farmer? An insightful story on so many levels!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Paul! 🤠
@justfellover
2 ай бұрын
That was very inspirational. It will get me through til the next one.
@dtl2081
2 ай бұрын
Excellent story. Please take care of your wonderful voice.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, D!
@KeithCarmichaelInFL
2 ай бұрын
Can’t wait to consume this content! Thank you so much!!!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Keith! 😃
@bewarethegreyghost
2 ай бұрын
A great tale and very educational gardening info!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Grey Ghost! That's my next channel: Gardening tips with Rowe 🤠
@davidrains3918
2 ай бұрын
Very enjoyable! A great listen and lesson. Thanks!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, David 🤠
@johnnycampbell3422
2 ай бұрын
Having been a logistics engineer, the detail of logistics and relivent markets is really good. Thanks for simplifying the details of such so well. I'm going to use it.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Johnny! I'll tell Julian 😉
@michaelgarrow3239
2 ай бұрын
Mr. Rowe: I grew up on a family farm. In many ways we were still living in the 1930’s mentality. A place in Ohio called the Black Swamp. I wound up building my home in San Diego, California years later. I can relate to this story.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Michael! Glad to hear it 🤠 I did not grow up on a farm but taught a lot of college students who did. It was a great privilege to learn from them.
@bobkoroua
2 ай бұрын
I needed this today 🙏🏽. Thanks P.E
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Bob! Glad it was up for you 😃
@cecile862
2 ай бұрын
As always, listening in the silent dark becomes mezmerising. Your description of those peas rising for one 8 year old boy, with just the hope and concernn of his father as witness, transformed into that gigantic industrial and financial endeavor had me spellbound. My father was a surveyor for the roads department starting in the 1950s, so as I grew, I watched the network of highways and bridges cross the province with a romantic sense of familial propriety. My grandmother grew every shrub, perennial, fruit and vegetable the climate would allow, which means you had me at "pouch of seeds". This listener is a very contented pea.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Cecile 🤠 Glad it hit home!
@laveraparato258
2 ай бұрын
As many have said, we would rather wait for a release than have anyone other than you do the first reading!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Well, to be fair, there aren't any famous voice actors clamoring at my door to take that job off my hands yet 🤣 So I guess I'll keep reading them as long as my voice cooperates.
@jobethk588
2 ай бұрын
Just what I needed! Thank you.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, JoBeth!
@Swarm561
2 ай бұрын
love seeing that fresh PE on my feed
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Swarm! I'm happy that my stories are there 😃
@garfieldparker2080
2 ай бұрын
Rest up my friend. Amazing and captivating story as always ❤
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Garfield! Glad you enjoyed 🙏😃
@rogersmith9563
2 ай бұрын
Very cool story. Seems you might be onto something with your space ladder design idea.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Roger! To be fair, much of the credit for the active support concept goes to Isaac Arthur, who has long been a strong proponent. I haven't ever heard the construction process described in detail, so Julian had to whisper it in my ear from the future 😃
@brianpierce5456
2 ай бұрын
I loved the way you described the construction of the tower. I could visualize it clearly.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
I appreciate it, Brian! 🙏 Those were the paragraphs I definitely spent extra time with both in writing and editing. Glad it paid off for you 😃
@richardburns3543
2 ай бұрын
I always look forward to hearing your stories. Thank you.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Richard! Glad you're enjoying 🙏😃
@ChickRussell
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for another great story
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Chick 🤠
@rainnordrum-im4ms
2 ай бұрын
Good story thank you for sharing🐱👍
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Rain!
@louissablon4849
2 ай бұрын
I look forward to your stories my guy! Thursday has become a much anticipated day for me and your stories never let me down, THANK YOU!!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thank you, Louis! Glad you're enjoying 🤠
@ronbynum7304
2 ай бұрын
Never disappointed. Indeed, another awesome story to save a typically mundane Thursday. Thanks and mind your voice.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Ron! Working on it 😃
@DavidDube-wi4ey
2 ай бұрын
Always look forward to your stories. Sharing with my family. Please keep writing.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, David! Always 🤠
@laveraparato258
2 ай бұрын
I'm liking as soon as I click because Hartsock is my favorite!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, LaVera! Glad you like them 😃
@NewPhone-y9f
2 ай бұрын
More than delightful. Your artful transposition of farming skills and seemingly unrelated frontiering skills was well woven. Typing as a tired, old, diversified small farmer, I can guarantee you that the majority of the populace has no real grasp of what producing food at even just a financially sustainable level entails...never mind profit. I'm getting some new hands in, and this story will be required listening somewhere in their first week here. ❤
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, N! Glad to hear it 🙏😃 I hope it helps!
@chazstewart4865
2 ай бұрын
Hooray, Lunch and a story from "THE MAN"
@bobkoroua
2 ай бұрын
Life is good.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Chaz! Hope it was a good one 😃
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
Enjoyed the story per always, may your prep and hard work cultivate in exospheric rewards Hope your voice hangs in there you are a superb narrator. It is almost as great an asset as your writing skill.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, MrIzzy! It has been a struggle lately. Allergies, I think? Working on it, though, as always.
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit ive heard cold pineapple can help. or all the characters could catch a cold. 😊
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
@@MrIzzyDizzy 🤣🤣 Oh, man! If I get sick I may have to steal that idea! I think it would have to be a comedy, though--maybe a sequel to Top Sushi where everyone catches a cricket-borne illness 😂
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
wild yeah that would be great .
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit Also I have a new community story poll idea. Dark Oxygen! it a new discovery at the bottom of the Oceans. Oxygen not caused by photosynthesis. It is caused by several metallic precipitates. which form trillions of golf ball size mineral balls like nickel, cobalt ,magnesium , and others. They are like mini batteries under high pressure salinity and ph and they have an electrolysis effect that produces oxygen and hydrogen. The thing is there is a big push to mine them with remote giant golf ball picker vacuums . There is some push back from scientist to not do it. Also there are implication of how much the planet was oxygenated by early plants. A couple story ideas. arise from these implications. - did we destroy our Dark Oxygen by mining up the minerals before we understood it, or can we use this form of low level electrolysis to terra form new planets with oceans? . I think this has a chance to be the 1st Dark Oxygen scifi story as well.
@dhu1945
2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the support, D!
@casard5235
Ай бұрын
A good juxtaposition between nature and technology, and some fatherly wisdoms. Very Uplifting. Thank you for this.
@RoweLit
Ай бұрын
Cheers, Casard! Uplifting indeed 😂
@DavidDube-wi4ey
2 ай бұрын
Looking forward to the misfits piece !!!!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
🚀🚀🚀😃
@sanecanadian2351
2 ай бұрын
Great story, love theses ones where humanity is just starting out. Maybe because its the closest to us. I hope your voice gets better.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, SC. Working at it! I love that way of putting it, as I hope that's how a flourishing future space race looks at these crazy days we're in--the just starting out days.
@sanecanadian2351
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit I think we are just in a hiccup in history. Those living in the 1930s must have felt like the world would never recover. Humanity entered the atomic age less than a decade after the great depression. Furthermore, the moon landings were only 30 years after the great depression ended. It isn't hope its logic to say that we will crawl off of earth one day. I love that your stories still have war. Without aliens humanity will continue to fight amongst ourselves. Unlike some over hyped SciFi we are not a utopian society. Someone always has to do the dirty jobs. Have you thought about going down the line of the research into living in space? Before humanity leaves sol I mean. I have always loved the idea of a military lead biodome project. Submariners and SOF guys are the only types I think could truly lead a project like that. There is no room for partisan sub groups. I think squids and SF are the type that could train people to live together in space.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Funny you should mention early colonization, SC! I've got something on the horizon ... Some interesting and fun stuff upcoming near the 100 episode mark, which is approaching fast!!! It is crazy how history seems to stretch and accelerate beyond our perceptions. I have a friend who's an elementary school teacher about my age. And he mentioned to me that he had a mind blowing moment when he realized Sept. 11 was further in the past for his students than MLK was for us when we were kids. Part of that, too, might have been poor early TV tech making it seem like the sixties was so long ago to us when we were kids, but it seemed like ancient history.
@sanecanadian2351
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit Maybe looking into the past has a similar effect to what Arthur C Clarke's 3rd law says. However, instead of looking at advanced tec seeing magic. We see something closer to barbarism in the past. My kids can't imagine what the world was like pre cell phones and smart tvs. Just like traveling across the ocean via boat is hard for us. Culturally I can't imagine our time will ever be interesting enough to emulate in the future. Let alone anyone will fund an experimental archaeology project looking into the 2020s. Going back to Clark's laws though. His first law and lesser known one "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." So, keep your spirits up. There are people alive today that were living when it was believed imposible to break the sound barrier in level flight. Have a great day.
@twistedcitizen5739
2 ай бұрын
Man great story!!! Thank you
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Citizen! 🙏😃
@Katyas-Korner
2 ай бұрын
Yay!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
🤠
@unbentcrayfish
2 ай бұрын
Keep up the great work Rowe! Always love a Heartsock story.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Crayfish 🙏😃 There are a couple more on the way ...
@kathleenenochs9411
2 ай бұрын
Awesome
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Kathleen!
@justfellover
2 ай бұрын
What a lovely surpiise!
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, David 😃
@barrydysert2974
2 ай бұрын
God grant You a speedy recovery !:-) 🙏💜⚡
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Barry 🙏😃
@rlbf1967
2 ай бұрын
Now that is truly a magical beanstalk story! I think Carl Sagan will forgive the reference involving an elephant 😆 Brilliant story and can so vividly imagine the view from the tower!👍
@RoweLit
Ай бұрын
😂 Julian often seems to have elephants on his mind 🐘🐘🐘
@davek1855
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely awesome. Loved it! Thanks Rowe. Let your voice rest if needed.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Dave! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏😃
@justinrahn4720
2 ай бұрын
So tempted to break release order rn... 🤤
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Justin! To add fuel to that fire, I didn't have an order in mind when I started, except for the passage of time. The Hartsock stories do bounce around to different periods in his life. Tough call, though 😃
@CPD432
2 ай бұрын
Predilections? I am not a farmer but one thing i do know is that a farmer usually needs a field or two. Are you a farmers son P.E? Haha; The Field Must Yield indeed. Peas pudding hot, Peas pudding cold, Peas pudding in a pot ___. A bridge too far maybe? Corn Asteroids turn to popcorn as it enters our atmosphere. Whey hey, It's raining popcorn...hallelujah. Dear Bankers, You won't be getting peas but you're certainly on to plums! It so happens that I'm a gardener and awfy familiar with seeds and how to nurture those wee life pods. I'm being a bit of an ass here bro. Just messin'. Quote: anon. No matter how far an ass travels it'll never come back a horse. ☆~~❤~~☆ Oh the joy . Germination ! Enter the ~Exiton Wave~ Nice departure from the usual suspects and as far as Dark Charris 11 is concerned... Well patience is indeed a virtue. My peas ascended to the heavens producing peas to live for. Fart in your spacesuit at your own risk! No violence today. Adios amigo.
@denniskight4227
2 ай бұрын
indeed, no violence today
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Real Genius was what the popcorn asteroid reminded me of 🤣 It's possible the only thing that could save us from such an apocalypse would be Tears For Fears and a worldwide sci-fi movie marathon!
@davek1855
2 ай бұрын
Now I know much more about growing peas.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Dave! Now it's either that or build a space tower 🤔
@ChancellorMarko
2 ай бұрын
These stories are always so well constructed-like, for example, a space tower or a field full of crops 😉 Have you read Paper Menagerie by Ken Lui? It has some fantastic science fiction shorts.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Marko! I have not, but thanks for the recommendation! I'll try to get hold of it for the rare moments I'm not writing.
@kathcon2600
2 ай бұрын
What an amazing story
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Kathcon! Glad you enjoyed it 😃
@jamesrice6096
2 ай бұрын
Amazing!!! From an old farmstead in Ks.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, James! Glad this one hit home 😃
@QbicLT
2 ай бұрын
Thank You ❤
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Saulius!
@4362mont
2 ай бұрын
My persistence needs better rewards.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
I can relate, as I'm still somewhere between peas and space tower on my reward spectrum 😃
@baleygyr
2 ай бұрын
Awesome story! Really happy I stumbled upon your channel, I love the way you design your characters. Keep up the great work! I especially enjoy everything you write about Julian Hartsock. Is there somewhere a playlist of all stories about Julian combined? Would love to relisten to them all together. Greetings from germany
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Baleygyr! I'm glad you stumbled here as well 😃 Thanks for the question: the Hartsock stories are all on the Lifeboat playlist, but soon they're going to need their own ... maybe even with their own cover art and perhaps even on paper! 🤔
@baleygyr
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit oh i would love a printed version of those stories, gonna keep an eye on your bookstore page for that
@mariokajin
2 ай бұрын
Yes, try to be a farmer. One of the most fulfilling jobs but damn you have to be careful when and how you use your time/money. And if you don’t go big, well you’re going to have only peas.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Mario! Yes, I am learning with my potatoes these past couple years 🤠 I'm far enough along that I can grow a decent percentage of my food, but scaling that to the point that it not only feeds the household but pays for it? Much respect to those who can.
@markjames-k7w
2 ай бұрын
Creeped up on me with this one Mark CEN CA 😮
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Mark! Ninja mode activated.
@markjames-k7w
2 ай бұрын
Mark CEN CA 🤣
@karlgru3n654
2 ай бұрын
Your writing is so good that even if read by Gilbert Godfrey, the brilliance would be undiminished. Train an AI to do you? Anyway, just keep writing. I will get some better glasses if I have to read it myself (in your voice of course). Thank you for another stirring story, P.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Karl! I think Gilbert would do a great job with the comic stories, though he might not be the best choice for Julian 🤣 I'm pretty sure there's enough audio of me out there to train AIs on me, probably well enough if you ever get a call from me selling insurance or asking you to join a class action law suit, you should assume it's a scam. The real question is which character calls--Burch, Julian, Clem Aballi, Maicon?
@MichaelMMiddleton098
2 ай бұрын
Sir, this one is a home run.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Michael 🙏😃
@MorganMghee
2 ай бұрын
🎉🎉
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
🙏😃
@lararabb8888
2 ай бұрын
😊❤
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
🙏😃
@MichaelLively-kp9if
2 ай бұрын
Nice
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Cheers, Michael!
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
Also I have a new community story poll idea. Dark Oxygen! it is a new discovery at the bottom of the Oceans. Oxygen not caused by photosynthesis. It is caused by several metallic precipitates. which form trillions of golf ball size mineral balls like nickel, cobalt ,magnesium , and others. They are like mini batteries under high pressure salinity and ph and they have an electrolysis effect that produces oxygen and hydrogen. The thing is there is a big push to mine them with remote giant golf ball picker vacuums . There is some push back from scientist to not do it. Also there are implication of how much the planet was oxygenated by early plants. A couple story ideas. arise from these implications. - did we destroy our Dark Oxygen by mining up the minerals before we understood it, or can we use this form of low level electrolysis to terra form new planets with oceans? . I think this has a chance to be the 1st Dark Oxygen scifi story as well. Another story might be how we can mine ocean planets for metallic precipitates that might make more sense because it might be that metallic precipitates might not have much effect on total oxygen ( we aren't sure yet) and they may already be in off world oceans already.
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
That is kinda mind blowing! My vote would be not to start messing with those golf ball until we're 100% sure the creatures from The Abyss don't live down there. It's probably a better first contact than accidentally dropping a nuke-laden submersible down their trench, but stealing their dark oxygen is probably a close second 😂 Hang onto that idea for me please, MrIzzy, because it's probably going to be a while before I put another poll up. I've got my schedule set for almost a couple months now with the 100th episode approaching, but if you remember it when I start shouting out the next poll, I'll definitely add it! Thanks!
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit my pleasure. and i agree it is not wise to go messing up their environment when we still don't know much about the ocean floor what lives there , what part Dark oxygen plays, how it affects the food chain et al. But $$$$$$ has a way of taking priority.
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit i have thought of a twist on the dark oxygen discovery. related to this space elevator story! Farm it! Allow harvesting of the precipitates if some seeded objects and/or catalyst could increase the rate of precipitation. Which is estimated to be only a cm per million years right now . I'm not saying we could figure like this out anytime soon. but that is sci-fi ideation gold. . Lets say we do figure out that slow release manganese mixed with iron filings with small magnets and oyster shell calcium tablets could make that precipitate at a cm per 20 years( not saying that would work but something might.). Then perhaps we could safely have metallic precipitates operate like tree farms. We could use such tech. both for ,mining minerals and metals, and for generating more oxygen for terraforming planets with water oceans. maybe every square. mile we harvest we plant 20sqr miles of accelerated precipitate farms, making it sustainable. Maybe we could even kill another bird with that stone. Have part of the catalyst also extract and use micro plastics in the water.
@MrIzzyDizzy
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit sorry to be a pest batteries are becoming so efficient - maybe we could just use green energy to oxygenate. maybe ocean current generated electricity. here is a video by one of my favorite youtube green energy thinkers. Not about dark oxygen though he was my first contact with that discovery, it is everywhere now. though no links allowed , the title search should be enough. and it is very short not too technical. - Battery powered flights from Washington DC to LA. No longer a pipe dream? Just Have a Think 573K subscribers
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
@@MrIzzyDizzy Thanks, MrIzzy! I'll have a look when/if I get the chance 🙏😀
@peterlennon1139
2 ай бұрын
This an old one surely?🤔
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
1 day old now, Peter! Maybe we're all getting to know Julian so well it feels familiar 😉
@peterlennon1139
2 ай бұрын
@@RoweLit got bloody COVID now so nothing seems real, sorry. The beginning was very familiar, maybe déjà vu.
@tarajoyce3598
2 ай бұрын
Okay P.E., Colebrook Ohio?🤯 Colebrook, Orwell and Garretsville are very meaningful to me. 😂 We may not be two peas in a pod but two peas in the same row? Perhaps.🫛🫛😅 ❤ 🤗
@RoweLit
2 ай бұрын
Watch out for Julian's great grandparents running around out there, Tara 😂 And, how did you find peapod emojis?! Speaking of 🤯
@casard5235
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@RoweLit
Ай бұрын
Thank you, Casard! Sorry I missed this as it came in, but I am very grateful for the support 🙏
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