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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Recent Episodes

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Ep. 111 - Palestinian Liberation: Anti-Zionism & Jewish Solidarity ft. Brant Rosen & Lesley Williams (September 16, 2024)
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Ep. 110 - Democratic National Convention: From 1968 to 2024, Pt. 1 ft. Bill Ayers (August 18, 2024)
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Ep. 109 - Existential Quandaries on Hope, Relationships, & Resistance to American Hegemony ft. CA Davis (August 5, 2024)
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Ep. 108 - Whiskey & Watching: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (2022) ft. Alderpersons Rossana Rodriguez & Jessie Fuentes (July 1, 2024)

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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.

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.

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.

Soundtrack

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

Live Recordings & Events

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.

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.

Whiskey & Watching

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

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?

Bourbon 'n BrownTown Co-Hosts & Producers

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.
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.

Assistant Producer &
​Podcast Engineer

Kiera Battles (she/her) began her audio journey during her junior year of high school as part of a vocational program. Later, Kiera pursued her BA at Columbia College Chicago in Interdisciplinary Studies: Audio Arts with a focus in Live Sound and Music Business. She now works in the industry doing two things she enjoys while she pursues her MA in Music Business at Berklee College of Music to gain the tools and knowledge to later start her own company.


​Transcriber

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. 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. 

“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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