Hello, everybody. This is the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. And sitting across from me for the episode today is Press Maxen, who if you've been listening to the show for a while, you will recognize the name as the maestro, the musician who's been doing the music on the show for, I think about four years. We're going to talk about his connection to music, his connection to music in

Paris, his book, Chinatown Trubodore, and even the origin story of how he came to be sitting in

front of me right now. And there's a special sort of different shout-out to other episodes.

This one is being recorded live to an audience of people who, despite the fact

they've left a lot of comments so far, I haven't read through where they're all watching from,

but I assume people are watching from around the world and they're going to be, me and Pres are

going to be hanging around to do a Q&A with them at the end. So that's what you're missing out on

if you're not a member, and I'm planning to do this a lot next with them at the end. So that's what you're missing out on if you're not a member,

and I'm planning to do this a lot next year.

So Patreon members,

substack members, keeping this show going and getting the benefits.

Let's start with a little music before we meet Press Maxon.

Press Maxon.

We've not sat in a studio together before.

We never have.

Okay.

Yeah.

What music did we just play then?

We're throwing it back a little bit to what I think is a pretty popular earful tower track at some point in the last few years. That was the originally penned Red Scooter, a classic that we've used a lot in the past, but I can't, I don't think we've used it in like the last year. Well, there you go. Back on the, back on the DJ tracks. Let's, let's, I think there might be people listening who, who are thinking, press max, and don't know the story, maybe they're new listeners. Let's rewind for, let's put some perspective on this. Your music has been on this show for, we're just trying to figure it out, four years. I'll, I think I'll have my four year anniversary in the spring. Okay. And how many different songs have

been played? I was trying to think about that the other day, and you can actually kind of mathematically

do it. There was 20 episodes of original music in the countdown season. There was 26 episodes in

the alphabet season. Then there was 10 for earful everywhere this past year.

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