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Bourbon 'n BrownTown

A conversation-based podcast that fosters radically imaginative dialogues on media, culture, politics, and our various social movements through a liberatory lens. With a Chicago focus, filmmakers and movement workers Caullen Hudson and David A. Moran unpack complex social issues and topics while building relationships with artists, activists, community organizers, educators, social entrepreneurs, and others working towards a better world. Together, BrownTown holds space to listen, learn, and liberate, all while sippin’ on sumpin’ good. Salud!
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Ep. 117 - Whiskey & Watching: "La Plataforma 2" (2024) ft. Alderpersons Rossana Rodriguez & Jessie Fuentes (April 5, 2025)
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Ep. 116 - America: The Last Dance? (March 24, 2025)
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Ep. 115 - New Years 2025: A Retrospective ft. Kiera Battles & Kassandra Borah (February 28, 2025)
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Ep. 114 - Distilling Dialectics at CH Distillery ft. Tyrus Yamagiwa (December 31, 2024)

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Enjoy BrownTown? Work with the team to host an event at your school, organization, or institution! You can also have your brand sponsor the podcast or an episode! Help BrownTown continue to integrate and amplify community voices around political, cultural, and everyday topics to discuss, analyze, and further call to action holistic solutions through a participatory framework. ​Drop us a line if you would like to explore with us. #BnBLive

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BrownTown Episodic Series

SoapBox Action Works

SAW is part of our film production and multimedia model that documents, consults, amplifies, and builds power with movements, grassroots organizations, and other non-profits to tell the stories of their campaigns and struggles through a cinematic lens.
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The Collective Freedom Project

BrownTown and organizers in Chicago, Atlanta, Texas, and California discuss fighting for a world away from police and ICE violence and towards a world with life-affirming institutions, respect for our natural environments, collective freedom and liberation.
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Chicago Drill 'n' Activism

The "Chi DNA" feature documentary and larger cross-platform, multi-media project explores the creation, meaning, perspectives, and connections between drill rap and the resurgence of grassroots activism since the early 2010s through the eyes of the people involved.
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Electoral & Radical Politics

BrownTown dialogues with organizers, activists, and electeds in this ongoing series dialogues on the relationship between electoral and radical politics. As a tool in the toolbox, what is the role of electoralism on the path toward liberation, if at all?

Palestinian Liberation

This ongoing series unpacks the histories, challenges, and triumphs of the struggle for a Free Palestine from activists, scholars, faith leaders, and more.
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BrownTown integrates and amplifies community voices around various political, cultural, and everyday topics to analyze, discuss, and further call to action holistic solutions and dialogue around its many themes through a participatory framework.
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The "We Are More" Series

This campaign and series centers the experiences of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, and pushes back against fear-mongering “tough on crime” rhetoric resurging in the 2022 election season.
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Whiskey & Watching

BrownTown and various politically and film-savvy guests deconstruct, recontextualize, and, dare we say, decolonize popular films, TV shows, and books.

Soundtrack

A collection of sounds from the podcast intros, outs, and broader musical landscape. Enjoy!

Bourbon 'n BrownTown Co-Hosts & Producers

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Caullen Hudson (he/him) is a Missouri native and Chicago-based filmmaker, activist, fitness professional, and Founder/Executive Producer of SoapBox. He centers, explores, and amplifies issues of inequity and how to challenge them with intentionality, creativity and radical imagination.
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David A. Moran (he/him) is a Chicago native and advocate for social justice who uses his incredible skills and expertise to evolve SoapBox to the powerhouse it is today through producing, writing, facilitating, educating, and engaging in the day-to-day operations of the organization and culture.

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Jamie Price (she/her) is a visual artist by day, and data conversion specialist by night. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and obtained her BFA in Photography at NIU, focusing on documentation of life in the Midwest and finding meaning in critical thought and analysis. Supporting in pre- and post-production as well as providing accessibility through transcription work with SoapBox is one seemingly small and yet crucial gesture through which Jamie hopes to help build a more just society. 
Kiera Battles (she/her) is nearing the completion of her master's program at Berklee College of Music. There, she has been begun laying the foundation for her venture dedicated to empowering individuals in the music industry, helping them develop the skills and confidence needed to make a significant impact in the field. As her business grows, Kiera plans to continue pursuing her diverse passions -- whether that's through audio, venue work, making waves in the music industry, or being an absolute menace.
Kassandra Borah (she/her) is a soon-to-be graduate of Columbia College Chicago, where she currently serves as President of the Women in Audio Club. In May 2025, she will be among the first graduates of the college's newly launched Sound Design program. With a deep foundation in music performance and composition, she was inspired to expand her composition, into the realm of audio for visual media. Passionate and driven, Kassandra is excited to launch her career, with a particular focus on sound design for animation and video games.
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“There’s a lot of beauty and there’s a lot of freedom in a way that feels liberatory [...] that’s just being present and not feeling the need to be validated by all of the things that we were told and socialized had to validate us in order to be worth growing up.”
​MATTHEW MANNING | Co-Founder, Gumbo Media

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​Produced by Caullen Hudson & David A. Moran. Engineered by Assistant Podcast Producer, Kiera Battles.
​Logo & graphics by Mia Neumann (re-branded) & Desirae Gladden (original). Transcriptions by Jamie Price. Page header & Patreon photo by Sean Kelly; middle & Sponsorship photo by Andrew Merz); Lizette Garza photo (after Series section) by Jamie Kelter Davis; Caullen recording photo; Caullen, David, and Kiera headshot by Aidan Kranz. above of Ariel Atkins by Jim Vondruska.

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      • Sh*t Talks: Studio Sessions
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      • Defund CPD
      • Obama CBA
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      • 2020: COVID-19
      • 2020 Census
      • Crossroads Fund
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