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Bourbon 'n BrownTownA 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
BONUS - Help This Garden Grow, Episode 1 (September 14, 2023)
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Ep. 97 - Progressive Latinas in the New Chicago City Council ft. Alderpersons Rossana Rodriguez & Jessie Fuentes (August 18, 2023)
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Ep. 96 - Advertising in the Activist Resurgence (& So-called "Wokeism") 3.0 ft. Justin Stillmaker (August 11, 2023)
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Ep. 95 - Home (July 31, 2023)
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Ep. 94 - Police Abolition 2.0 ft. District Councilors David Orlikoff & Ashley Vargas (July 14, 2023)
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BrownTown Episodic Series
SoundtrackA collection of sounds from the podcast intros, outs, and broader musical landscape. Enjoy!
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Whiskey & WatchingBrownTown and various politically and film-savvy guests deconstruct, recontextualize, and, dare we say, decolonize popular films, TV shows, and books.
Electoral & Radical PoliticsBrownTown 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?
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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.
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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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Assistant Producer &
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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.
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.
