Enigma in Sweatpants

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Endless Thread producer Quincy Walters profiles IG Bum, a mischeivous online content creator who has achieved viral stardom. But who is IG Bum when the cameras stop rolling?

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Quincy Walters. Mixing and sound design by Emily Jankowski. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson are the co-hosts.

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0:11.4	let mysteries go unsolved.
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0:20.3	WBUR Podcasts.
0:22.3	Boston.
0:37.3	Hello everyone.
0:41.8	So Quincy, you have what we might call a profile for us today.
0:47.6	A profile of a man that I didn't know until you started talking about a poop bucket video?
0:55.4	That's right.
0:59.4	If you're eating lunch, folks, we apologize, but this also involves my former true urban
1:03.7	landscape love, NYC, where all kinds of crazy stuff goes on right next to normal stuff
1:08.3	like eating lunch.
1:09.3	So if you're in New York, you can probably stomach this one.
1:13.7	Also you might know this guy, or at least no of him.
1:18.2	This is an influencer in New York who has really been on a meteoric rise to fame over
1:23.9	the last few years.
1:25.6	His best known work is this poop bucket video, which went super viral.
1:30.2	It shows a packed New York subway tunnel with people walking from one train to another,
1:35.8	and there's like a metropolitan transportation authority worker mopping the hallway while
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