Scott Turner Schofield
speaker
167 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Dec
Scott Turner Schofield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, this payphone works, the stickers read in blocky text against a red and white backdrop.
The instructions continue with the line, Someday these will be gone, like you, me, and everyone else.
Prior to inviting readers to leave a message before it's too late, people are calling.
Goodbye is such a part of life, says Trunnell, a documentary filmmaker who started the experiment with wood last year.
It's all us coming and going, coming and going.
We all share that.
And it makes it less lonely, less scary.
Not that it makes it easier.
Calls do range in tone.
At a payphone in Hollywood, someone says goodbye to their best friend.
At downtown's Pershing Square, two women say goodbye to payphones, lamenting the loss of anonymous calls.
A woman reaching out from Altadena's Chaney Trail sings a song, urging people to say goodbye to anyone, anything, cause you never know when it's your time.
And it's not the same without you, says someone from West Hollywood's Plummer Park in an ode to a lost pal.
The anonymous messages are edited and posted on social media for all to hear and share.
Those who wish to keep their messages private are instructed to say so on the call.
They are snapshots of grief and our desire to connect, but also audio logs of loneliness in Los Angeles.
Payphones, or the neighborhoods they're in, rather, have personalities, and while messages have spanned the spectrum from light to heavy, they're almost all rooted in a desire to tap into a broader community.
We learned that loss and grief is a process, and mourning isn't something that's purely private, Trunnell says.
It's deeply communal.
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