How We Used to Talk

Nic Newlin

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Connecting interesting individuals via the remaining international payphone infrastructure for unedited real conversation containing all the sonic action happening around the payphones-just like how we used to talk.

Oct 12

Twenty Year Tokyo Back Alley Catch-up

Twenty years ago I said goodbye to a roommate who was a study abroad student from Japan as he left the university to open an ice cream truck in Tokyo. He was the wildest person I ever met and am positive didn't speak English at the time. I was able to get him to a back alley payphone in Tokyo to talk. Here it is-in all it's awkward glory.He made a mini doc on the payphone and getting it fixed. It lives in my Patreon for now until it's able to be publicly available.
Oct 11

Brotherly Love on Hotel Lobby Payphone

Two brothers talk over a hotel lobby payphone in St. Charles, MO. about AA anonymity, their 24 hour phone free social club and the relentless generational shift in US culture.
Sep 13 · Bonus

Rwandasnippet4 Artist Woes

Artists discuss the shipping frustrations of our current climate on payphones across the globe
Aug 29 · Bonus

Rwandasnippet3

Art is the same in America as it is in Africa. They will always be symbiotic.
Aug 24

Rwandasnippet1

Political pendulum swings on a payphone in Kigali
Aug 24

Osakasnippet1

Clip from my white lotus winter man of mystery from Portugal on a payphone in Osaka
Aug 24

Sanjuansnippet2

Checking in our San Juan Springbreak troublemakers
Aug 24

Sanjaunsnippet1

Clip from our Springbreakers in San Juan
May 1

Kigali, Rwanda-University Corner

Today we connect with an artist in Rwanda I have never spoken to. Him and I have been involved in an international art scheme and will tell you all about it. Also, what it truly is like to make art nowadays.
May 1

Osaka Street Corner

We connect to a payphone on an Osaka street corner in Japan to touch base with someone I met briefly only once in Porto for a coin fueled conversation about Hokkaido's version of perfect peace to Wu- Tang covers just like how we used to talk.
May 1

San Juan Court Spring Breakers

Today we connect to a payphone locked inside the Funciona building in San Juan Court. Photography not permitted (the pictured payphone was outside San Juan Court) but connection was made with first time spring breakers in Puerto Rico for a conversation about being ok with acting your age and falling out of windows.

11 Episodes

Connecting interesting individuals via the remaining international payphone infrastructure for unedited real conversation containing all the sonic action happening around the payphones-just like how we used to talk.

Creator

Nic Newlin
Years Active

2026
Episodes

11
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

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How We Used to Talk