Scott Turner Schofield
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167 appearances
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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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When you see the likes, the comments, and the shares, even if you're not the one leaving the message, you hear yourself in the goodbye.
Payphones are rapidly disappearing.
Though there were more than 27,000 statewide a decade ago, the California Public Utilities Commission reported that, as of March, there are 2,525 active units in California, with 484 in Los Angeles County.
In Los Angeles proper, only 149 remain.
There are reportedly more outposts of Starbucks in the city than working public payphones.
As the goodbye line is now more than a year old and finding a broader audience, calls have started to stream in from cell phones.
Trunnell and Wood encourage its spread, of course, but it's the payphone calls that hold a special place in their hearts.
You use a payphone in a different way than you use a cell phone.
It's not in your pocket.
It's not connected to a camera.
You go and do this goodbye in a place that's different from where you do most of your business.
You hear a dial tone.
That's the sound of waiting.
Then you leave a message, as if you just dug a hole into the ground.
As long as the stickers have been active, the couple, who have been romantically partnered for about four years, have received a few each week from payphones.
Every payphone number is saved in the cell phones of Wood and Trunnell with various emojis.
One payphone is next to a laundromat.
So we have bubbles and soap bar, Wood says.
You see it pop up and you know what messages are going to come through.
And those messages are?
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