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From St. Joe to Hollywood: Robert Maxfield on Sound, Storytelling, and the Novel That Brings It All Home
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What does it take for a kid from St. Joseph, Missouri to spend four decades capturing the sound of Hollywood's biggest stories — and then come home to tell one of his own? This week on The 39/94, we sit down with Robert Maxfield — known in St. Joe as Bobby, known on set as Max, a production sound mixer and boom operator whose credits include Mission Impossible, Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Twister, Hawkeye, and Four Christmases. He's a two-time contributing Emmy Award winner, a Mizzou grad, and a St. Joseph native who traded ski lifts in Colorado for a career behind the mic in Hollywood. In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground: the adventurous spirit that took him from KKJO radio in St. Joe to promotional TV work in Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida before landing on the set of The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking — his first film. We talk about what it was like to work alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman on Twister, to mix scenes with Christian Bale, Jack Nicholson, and Shirley MacLaine, and to witness Tom Cruise arrive on the Mission Impossible 3 set with the energy of a man who runs entirely on rocket fuel and the words "attack, attack, attack." But what brings Max back to northwest Missouri — and to this podcast — is Joe Town, his debut novel. It's the story of an economist who returns to a fictionalized St. Joseph looking for answers and discovers that the data never had them. It's a book about open learning, systems thinking, curiosity, humility, and the kind of community identity that doesn't disappear — it waits. We talk about Joseph Rubidoux and why St. Joe's geography was always its destiny. We talk about what the city has forgotten and what it already knows. And we talk about Max's bigger dream: a TV series that puts St. Joseph on the map the way The Walking Dead put Senoia, Georgia on the map. This one is big. Pull up a chair. In this episode: * How a restless kid from St. Joe became one of Hollywood's go-to sound professionals * Behind-the-scenes stories from Twister, Mission Impossible 3, and Stranger Things * What Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Bill Paxton taught him about showing up * The origin story of Joe Town — and why now is exactly the right time for it * What "open learning" means and why Max believes it's the key to St. Joseph's future * Why the history of St. Joe isn't just something to remember — it's a launching pad Connect with Robert Maxfield: Find him on Facebook to learn whenJoetown: A Town Relearning What It Already Knew becomes available. The 39/94 Podcast - New episodes every Thursday. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@The3994Podcast [https://www.youtube.com/@The3994Podcast] Learn more about supporting The 39/94 Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/cw/The3994 [https://www.patreon.com/cw/The3994] Our sponsors: * North Central Missouri College ncmissouri.edu [https://ncmissouri.edu] * Scooter's Coffee Savannah & St. Joseph scooterscoffee.com [https://scooterscoffee.com] * Wollenman Family's Deluxe Truck Stop woolmanfamilytruckstop.com [https://www.deluxetruckstop.com/] * Gina's Cafe & Catering ginascafecatering.com [https://ginascafecatering.com] * E.L. Crawford Construction elcrawfordconstruction.com [https://elcrawfordconstruction.com]
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