Scott Turner Schofield
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167 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Dec
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and some messages will never be posted.
One late night, for example, a frightening call came in from a cell phone, one in which someone seemed to be saying goodbye to their own life.
You need to text him, Trunnell recalls thinking at the time.
It sounded like a kid, and it was a super brief message, and you don't know if it's serious or not.
This is something that might come up, so what do we do?
I texted to check in, but you don't expect the goodbye line to call you back.
I just said, did you leave a message?
I'm leaving the door open.
He never heard back.
Trunnell and Wood say they spend some of their weekends driving around L.A.
looking for working payphones to place stickers on.
It's harder than one might think, and over the last 13 or so months, they found only 20 active phones out of the supposed 149 around the city.
But they're making more stickers and have even incorporated the project into their vacations, leaving one on a phone in Santa Fe, New Mexico, although they have not received a call from it or know if the sticker is still there.
Yet after securing well over 100 calls, they know the goodbye line is filling a void.
Initially, I wanted to hear people's voices, Trunnell says, noting that perhaps the project was a reaction to our social media-driven age as much as it was a throwback to, say, communal phone lines of yore.
I wanted a place where we would get to hear people saying things.
We just didn't have that.
There was no big epic idea.
It's filled in around us.
In a weird way, it was like forums online, but we can do that with voices.
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