Upvoted by Reddit
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Description
Every day, hundreds of thousands of votes are cast across thousands of communities on reddit. reddit propels people and ideas to an audience of millions. We created this podcast so we can delve deeper and go beyond those upvotes -- to learn more about the stories that hit our frontpages and left a lasting impression. Hopefully, we’ll gain further insight into ourselves as well as the communities we love that make reddit so special.
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CleanStoryboard: When I Came Out | Six perspectives on coming out, told firsthand from Reddit users—and employees—in a new segment called Storyboard. A special Pride Month edition of Upvoted. If you’re in the Orlando area and would like to donate blood, you can make an... | 6/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean038: Hold On | /u/m3rlino is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss her upbringing, the death of her step dad, moving in with her father, addiction, how she was sent to an all women’s pentecostal discipleship program, the rules of the... | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean037: Reddit in Watercolour | /u/shitty_watercolour is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss his upbringing, how he started doing paintings on reddit, welcoming celebrities on AMAs, how he started getting paid commissions, depression, growing as... | 9/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean036: Willie Barcena | Willie Barcena is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss his upbringing, career, development deals, the art of comedy, experience on cruise ships, couples counseling, and what he hopes for in his legacy. This... | 9/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean035: Real Life First Person Shooter | David Reynolds (/u/DavidMReynolds) and Shaz Abdullah (/u/dartmoorninja) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss game of thumbs, zombies, their church residence, meeting Steven Spielberg, Dartmoor, their trailer for... | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean034: The Story of Matthew VanDyke | Matthew VanDyke (/u/MatthewVanDyke) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss his upbringing; his motorcycle trip through North Africa as well as the Middle East, why he fought in the Libyan Revolution, his experience... | 9/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean033: A Tale of Two Fighters | /u/Minifig81 and Ben Nguyen (/u/Ben10MMA) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. With /u/Minifig81 we discuss how he got into fighting spam on reddit, moderates 138 subreddits, and why he spends so much time on reddit. With... | 8/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean032: The Great North American TIFU | Elyot Grant (/u/elyot) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss how Elyot created Prismata, how he dropped out of graduate school at MIT, his epic TIFU, how reddit came to the rescue, the Prismata Kickstarter, and... | 8/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean031: The Heroine of Heroin | Tracey Helton (/u/traceyh415) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss her depression growing up, how she became addicted to heroin, life as a homeless heroin addict, being the subject of the HBO documentary... | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean030: The Wave | Heather (/u/sailingshort) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss Heather’s upbringing, how she discovered sailing after high school, how she started working on tall ships in New Zealand, how her ship almost... | 8/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean029: Reddit Builds Bionics | Cameron Norris (/u/cameronwevolver) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Cameron’s upbringing, how his interest in bionics developed, working with Wevolver, his offer to help /u/doctorspacemann, how... | 7/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean028: Teeth & Ink | /u/tomato_juice99 and the Shartmander are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. In the story of /u/tomato_juice99 we discuss how he developed teeth problems, reached out to reddit, connected with Dan Noorthoek, the reddit... | 7/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean027: Unidan | Unidan (/u/unidanx) is the focus of this week’s Upvoted by reddit. We discuss how he fell in love with science; his comedic development; discovering reddit; reddit fame; his ban; the aftermath; harassment; what he is currently been up to; and... | 7/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean026: About Last Week | The events of last week are the focus of this week’s Upvoted by reddit. We talk about what we did wrong; our failure in communicating properly with moderators; what we plan to do in the near future; and what we have learned. I am joined by Chad... | 7/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean025: A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes | /u/mach-2 and /u/rhoner are the focus if this week’s Upvoted by reddit. They discuss racism in the united states; the murder of Freddie Gray; racism in reddit; Youtuber, Kain Carter’s video addressing the Baltimore Riots; Mach-2’s... | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean024: reddit Turns Ten | Steve Huffman (/u/spez) and Alexis Ohanian (/u/kn0thing) discuss the founding of reddit. They discuss Tags vs Subreddits; star rating systems; faking users; the debate on comments; the RTM button; how reddit was originally built on LISP; the front... | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean023: Inside The Warlizard Gaming Forum | Warlizard is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss legend of The Warlizard Gaming Forum; The Warlizard Chronicles; the origin of The Warlizard Gaming forum; Warlizard’s greatest pranks; his writing; scorpions;... | 6/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean022: The Button | The Button is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss The Button’s inception; flairs; the reddit office pool on when The Button would end; the data garnered from The Button; the Pressiah; and what happened when... | 6/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean021: A Neutral Net Part 2 | The social impact of the Indian Net Neutrality debate is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. This is the last of our two part series on this subject. We discuss the original TRAI paper, r/india’s involvement in the... | 6/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean020: A Neutral Net Part 1 | The Indian Net Neutrality debate is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss what net neutrality is, how the debate grew in the United States, how fighters of internet freedom mobilized public opinion, how the battle in... | 5/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean019: A Suspicious Onlooker | Alexander Rhodes (/u/Alexanderr) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss his passion for film; getting into the entertainment industry; working as a background actor on Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher; his rise to... | 5/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean018: The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home | /u/Yoinkie2013, /u/motivatinggiraffe, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (/u/GovSchwarzenegger) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted. We discuss Yoinkie’s Ulysses’ Bucket List challenge; the birth of Motivating Giraffe; battling... | 5/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean017: Four Walls and a Roof [Part 2] | Huck and Rin are back for a part two on Upvoted! We discuss how low income travelers use technology; finding love on the road; relationships with family; and an update on Rin’s travels. This week’s outro is Jump That Train... | 5/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean016: Until the Road Runs Out | Sebastiaan de With (/u/caliform) and Stewart Philkill (/u/aye_candy) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted. We discuss Sebastiaan’s upbringing in Holland; how he fell in love with design; moving to the US; getting divorced;... | 4/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean015: A Century After Genocide | John Ohanian, Chris Ohanian and Lara Setrakian join me to discuss the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. We discuss Turkey’s denial of the event; the US government’s unwillingness to officially recognize the genocide; the story... | 4/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean014: To The Moon | Josh Wise and Dogecar are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted. We discuss Josh Wise’s career in racing; Dogecoin; how Denis Pavel came up with the idea of Dogecoin sponsoring Josh Wise; how Dogecoin crowdfunded the sponsorship; how... | 4/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean013: One Farmer’s Fight | Craig Watts and Leah Garces are the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss how Craig got into farming; farmers’ relationships with poultry companies; the conditions of chickens in factory farms; how Leah met Craig;... | 4/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean012: The Surprisingly Complex Life of a Vacuum Repairman | Jack (/u/touchmyfuckingcoffee) is the focus of this episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss his upbringing; the loss of his father; meeting his wife; his battle with drug addiction; his spectacular firing; discovering reddit; how he got started... | 4/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean011: Four Walls and a Roof | Huck (/u/huckstah) is the focus if this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Huck’s upbringing; his impetus for hitting the road; hitchhiking on his first trip to San Francisco; finding work; Hobo Whiskey; how his friends were... | 3/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean010: From Swole of Body to Swole at Heart: An Exploration of Gender | Michael (/u/tgtly) is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Michael’s upbringing; her battle with depression; her relationship with Francesca (/u/Franjane); their fateful psychedelic mushroom trip; Michael coming out... | 3/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean009: Religion, Abortion, a Texan Family & a Pun Show Up at a Rally | Tuesday and Billy Cain (/u/billyjoecain) are the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss the history of Texas’ SB5, Senator Wendy Davis’ historic filibuster, Tuesday’s controversial sign, the social media... | 3/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean008: The Serendipity of Giving | James Harrison and Zachary Meyer (/u/bobandgeorge) are both the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss the history of rhesus disease; James’ surgery at the age of 14 in which he needed a major blood transfusion; his... | 3/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean007: Double Dick Dude | Double Dick Dude (/u/DoubleDickDude) is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss how he decided to come out to the internet; his infamous AMA; his struggles in high school; coping with internet fame; lessons he learned from... | 2/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean006: From Sarajevo to Seattle - Rocking out with Kultur Shock | Val Kiossovski and Gino Jevđević (/u/ginoyevdjevich) from Kultur Shock are the focus of this week's Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Gino’s rise to pop stardom in Yugoslavia as Gino Banana; the Bosnian War; Gino’s production of the musical... | 2/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean005: Three Female Computer Scientists Walk into an AMA | Elana Glassman, Jean Yang, and Neha Narula from MIT join Upvoted for a roundtable discussion on women in STEM. We discuss their upbringings, the public vs private sector, challenges women are currently facing in the field, misconceptions on... | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean004: A Free Trip Around the World With a Total Stranger | Jordan Axani (/u/jaxani) is the focus of this week's Upvoted by reddit. We talk to Jordan about his experiences growing up in Canada; his love of travel; buying tickets around the world on glitch trip for himself and his girlfriend (Elizabeth... | 2/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean003: From Homeless to Hip Hop Social Media Star | DeStorm Power is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to DeStorm about his experiences growing up in the projects; his first encounters with art; moving to New York City to follow his dreams, his period of homelessness;... | 1/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean002: A Career Making A capella Videogame Music | Max Gleason aka Smooth McGroove (/u/SmoothMcGroove) is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to Max about growing up in Oklahoma; falling in love with videogames; developing as a musician; teaching drums, delving into video... | 1/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean001: Could a Unit of Marines Defeat the Entire Roman Empire? | The story of Rome, Sweet Rome and James Erwin (/u/prufrock451) are the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to James about growing up in Iowa; winning Jeopardy twice; writing Rome, Sweet Rome; meeting his manager, Adam... | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean000: Getting sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison, Ask Me Anything | Dante Orpilla (/u/youngluck) is the focus of the debut episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to Dante about the Bottom Dwellerz; losing custody of his son; his drug addiction, his trial; discovering reddit;... | 1/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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