Quincy Walters was a producer for WBUR Podcasts. Before that, he was a general assignment reporter in the newsroom for three years.
A Floridian, Quincy got his start in public radio in his home state where he was a reporter and backup host.
Prior to COVID, he played trumpet in the Cambridge Symphony and was a benchwarmer for the Boston Lightsaber Stage Combat Club.
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Happy Freaky Furby Friday
Dig into the creepy and paranormal corners of Furby internet — yes, that creepy-looking toy that came out 25 years ago! From haunted Furbys, cursed Furbys to ones that hunt......
Find A Grave: Social media icon
In this episode, we go to an historic Boston cemetery to try out findagrave.com — a volunteer-generated database of millions of graves worldwide. We had a hard time finding anyone...
The genre of influencers NBC's 'To Catch a Predator' spawned
NBC’s 'To Catch a Predator' captivated millions of viewers as it followed a vigilante group called Perverted Justice, which has a goal to thwart pedophiles searching the internet for minors....
Meet the Gen Zs archiving the Muzak of the Twin Towers
On this 22nd anniversary of 9/11, join Endless Thread in an episode where teens and young 20-somethings collect the seemingly innocuous sonic artifacts of the original World Trade Center people...
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#BlackFaeDay: When Black fantasy enthusiasts celebrate magic
In this episode of Endless Thread, we look into #BlackFaeDay. What we find isn't a hashtags to riches story, but a fairytale from the internet about the magic of Black...
Endless Thread gets to the bottom of 'creepy' Glo Worm lullaby
When Endless Thread sound designer Matt Reed discovered an eery, unrecognizable lullaby on his baby son's musical Glo Worm plush toy, he needed to know what it was. When he...
Aftershocks online: How social media responds in the wake of a natural disaster
From a Twitter user predicting a catastrophic earthquake just days before a 7.8-magnitude quake hit Turkey, to mysterious lights in the sky that can help geologists better forecast earthquakes, Ben...
'Good Bot, Bad Bot': Episode IV
In the fourth episode of Endless Thread's series "Good Bot, Bad Bot," Ben Brock Johnson and Quincy Walters share a cautionary tale about Tay, a Microsoft AI chatbot that has...
Listener beware… it’s ‘Goosebumps The Musical’
“Goosebumps” book fans and musical theater fans, unite! In this episode, Amory and producer Quincy introduce you to “Goosebumps The Musical” and find out what it might take to get...