ok, shut up now
They call themselves the "talk to me" folks, and they've done this just about every day for nearly a year. All over New York, day or night, rain or shine, in the subways, in the parks, on the sidewalks or any public place that suits them, they pop up with their lawn chairs and their two-foot-tall sign. They just sit there and let it happen. Talk. Chitchat. Conversation. Even some tirades and a few insults and threats. They are undeterred. They've perfected the art of random, disconnected New York conversation, a narrow specialty they've made their own.
New York's "Talk to Me" duo is hanging it up. They were also featured on an episode of This American Life.