We all watched this video together some weeks ago…Īmory: Okay. Quincy: And then this man who appears to be an unhoused person gets involved. And there’s like an Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker mopping the hallway while commuters go by. It shows a packed New York subway tunnel with people walking from one train to another. This is an influencer in New York who has really been on a meteoric rise to fame over the last few years.Īmory: His best known work is this poop bucket video, which went super viral. So if you’re in New York you can probably stomach this one. But this also involves my former true urban landscape love NYC where all kinds of crazy stuff goes on right next to normal stuff. On a man that I didn’t know until you started talking about a poop bucket video?īen: If you’re eating lunch folks we apologize. And hello producer Quincy Walters.Īmory: So Quincy, you have what we might call a profile for us today. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.īen Brock Johnson: Hey Amory. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to exclusive bonus content. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. Mixer and sound designer: Emily Jankowski Show producers: Dean Russell, Nora Saks, Grace Tatter, Megan Cattel and Quincy Walters "Did a Man Poop in a Mop Bucket in NYC's Subway?" (Snopes)Ĭo-hosts: Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson."NYC homeless man poops in a mop bucket" (YouTube).While the skit was a collaboration with a fellow comedian, watchers said it was a commentary on NYC's lack of public bathrooms or evidence of Mayor Bill de Blasio's inefficient leadership.īut who is Tino when the cameras stop rolling? How did this stand-up comedian, who has experienced homelessness, come up with this alternate ego? And how is Tino handling his rise to viral superstardom? Quincy takes us into a day of the life of the comedian in this episode of Endless Thread. In 2020, he sent NYC netizens into a tailspin when he filmed a video pretending to defecate in a mop bucket. His bit? Portraying a homeless man, filming short videos for TikTok and Instagram getting up to various antics, all while wearing his notorious gray sweatpants. That shirtless man is comedian and content creator, Esteban Tino Romero – who goes by Tino, or his social media handle IG Bum. Then, a shirtless man in sweatpants swaggers into the frame and swings from the handlebars, dropping coins from his pockets as he flips upside down. But instead of a fistfight, the men battle it out in a dance off. The tape is ripped from TikTok and pofsted for the world to see: a group of muscular men shouting each other on a NYC subway car. Earlier this year, our producer Quincy Walters stumbled upon a viral video on Twitter.
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