Powered by SoapBox Productions and Organizing, Bourbon ‘n BrownTown is 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 toward ...
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Barbells, Bolts and Bourbon is a podcast that brings to light principles that we already know and translates them to wellness and wealth in our nation. The show is hosted by Joe Moore, who interviews guests who have found success through training, building, and enjoying life.
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Twilight Decoded is a podcast where four long-time fans discuss Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga Series in vivid and excruciating detail! Now re-watching The Vampire Diaries from the beginning!
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Ep. 111 - Palestinian Liberation: Anti-Zionism & Jewish Solidarity ft. Rabbi Brant Rosen & Lesley Williams
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BrownTown invites Rabbi Brant Rosen and Lesley Williams of Tzedek Chicago, a proudly anti-Zionist intentional Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity, and solidarity. In this installment, they discuss this current moment in the struggle to Free Palestine with special regards to Brant and Lesley's positionality as Jewish faith le…
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S2E3 "Every Mother's Son" and S2E4 "Live and Let Die"
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S2E1 "Rebirth" and S2E2 "Alive and Kicking"
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Ep. 110 - Democratic National Convention: From 1968 to 2024, Pt. 1 ft. Bill Ayers
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BrownTown is honored to be joined by an OG in the game -- activist, organizer, and professor Bill Ayers. The gang discusses the similarities, differences, and peculiarities of Chicago hosting the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and in 2024. Bill bears witness to the socio-political context leading up to the 1968 Convention while they analyze…
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E21 "The Battle of New Orleans" & S1E22 "From a Cradle to a Grave"
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Ep. 109 - Existential Quandaries on Hope, Relationships, & Resistance to American Hegemony ft. CA Davis
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BrownTown gets philosophical with return guest CA Davis, multimedia storyteller and creator of a LATTO Thought, an audio docuseries revolving around the history of race in America. Halfway through 2024, the team discusses intimate journeys of introspection in the context of fractured and generative interpersonal relationships, current events, and c…
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E19 "An Unblinking Death" and S1E20 "A Closer Walk With Thee"
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E17: "Moon Over Bourbon Street" and S1E18 "The Big Uneasy"
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Ep. 108 - Whiskey & Watching: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (2022) ft. Alderpersons Rossana Rodriguez & Jessie Fuentes
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BrownTown takes on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (2022) with Alderhomies Rossana Rodriguez (33rd) and Jessie Fuentes (26th) in the first for Whiskey & Watching installment of 2024! BrownTown and the return guests breakdown the film and its predecessor’s social impact and commentary on imperialism, geo-politics, science and spirituality, diaspori…
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E15 "Le Grand Guignol" and S1E16 "Farewell to Storyville"
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E13 "Crescent City" and S1E14 "Long Way Back From Hell"
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Ep. 107 - Creative Jobs, Life Balance, & Working towards a Liberatory Future within Capitalism 3.0
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BrownTown on BrownTown. Once again, our comrades build on previous discussions from 2019 (Ep. 39) and 2020 (Ep. 59) on the interrelationship between working within and outside of the movement media landscape while balancing a healthy personal life, financial well-being, and everything in between. The duo situate what recent growth means for SoapBox…
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E11 "Après Moi, Le Déluge" and S1E12 "Dance Back from the Grave"
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E9 "Reigning Pain in New Orleans" and S1E10 " The Casket Girls"
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Ep. 106 - Independent Media Creation in the Age of Spin (& Memes) 2.0 ft. Camila Cuevas
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BrownTown talks memes, mass mobilization, and more with Camila Cuevas (AKA @ComradeCami), Chilena expat living in Florida, USA. She uplifts liberation struggles and provides social movement resources through memes and social media via what she calls "thirst-trapping the masses into class consciousness." The team dissects our current moment in the s…
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The Originals S1E7 "Bloodletting" and S1E8 "The River in Reverse"
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The Originals S1E5 "Sinners and Saints" and S1E6 "Fruit of the Poisoned Tree"
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Ep. 105 - Bring Chicago Home ft. Dixon Romeo
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BrownTown chops it up with Dixon Romeo, Executive Director of NotMeWe and organizer with the Bring Chicago Home campaign. On March 19th, 2024, Chicago voters have the opportunity in the state primary elections to restructure the already existing, one-time Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT) "on properties when they are sold to create a substantial and …
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Ep. 104 - Voter Guides, Electoralism, & the 2024 Cook County Primaries ft. Stephanie Skora & Raeghn Draper
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BrownTown sits down with co-authors of the "Girl, I Guess" Progressive Voter Guide, three-peat guest Stephanie Skora and newcomer Raeghn Draper to talk all things 2024 Cook County Democratic Primary Elections. From ethics and attitudes in long-form opinion journalism to new endorsement standards surrounding Palestinian liberation, the gang situates…
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E3 "Tangled Up In Blue" & S1E4 "Girl in New Orleans"
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Twilight Decoded: The Originals S1E1 "Always and Forever" and S1E2 "House of the Rising Son"
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Ep. 103 - New Years 2024: A Retrospective ft. Kiera Battles
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BrownTown on BrownTown. BnB audio engineer Kiera Battles is back with her behind-the-scenes insights on the podcast as the team discusses the episodes of 2023. Last year brought the continuation of the Whiskey and Watching series, a host of episodes surrounding the 2023 Chicago Municipal Elections, a resurgent discussion of #NoCopAcademy in the mid…
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Ep. 102 - Palestinian Liberation: In This Moment ft. Muhammad Sankari
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BrownTown invites Muhammad Sankari from the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) to discuss this current moment in the struggle to Free Palestine. The gang frames Israel's genocide in Gaza and assault on the other territories in historical context with regards to the long history of resistance struggles across the globe. #FreePalestine. Origina…
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Ep. 101 - Hood Empathy & The Chicago Creative Wave ft. Isiah "ThoughtPoet" Veney
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BrownTown shares space with frequent collaborator, Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney, photographer, A&R, organizer, and overall creative from Chicago's South Side. ThoughtPoet and BrownTown unpack the Afro-futuristic and "hood empathetic" themes of his photography work, his and SoapBox's collaboration in the "One Million Experiments" film, lessons from the…
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 5 The Return: Nightfall Chapters 25-32
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Ep. 100 - It's a BnB Celebration! ft. Samantha Grund-Wickramasekera & Camille Williams
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BrownTown on BrownTown. Join Caullen and David as they celebrate BnB's 100th episode with guest hosts and homies Samantha Grund-Wickramasekera and Camille Williams. Sam is a long-time listener and SoapBox board member while Camille was one of the first podcast guests. As collaborators and friends of BrownTown, they have seen the podcast and SoapBox…
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 5 The Return: Nightfall Chapters 17-24
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 5 The Return: Nightfall Chapters 9-16
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Ep. 99 - Whiskey & Watching: "I Like It Like That" (1994) ft. Ricardo Gamboa & Mia Carbajal
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BrownTown again chops it up with the Hoodoisie fam, co-host Ricardo Gamboa and Executive Director Mia Carbajal for "Whiskey & Watching." The team deconstructs the darling 90's comedy-drama "I Like It Like That" (1994), the first large studio film directed by a Black woman. The film centers around an Afro-Latina woman in the Bronx whose life is turn…
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 5 The Return: Nightfall Chapters 1-8
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 4: "Dark Reunion" Chapters 9-16
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BrownTown shares space with Chicago Southsider and former #NoCopAcademy organizer Freedom X as they reminisce about the height of the campaign and discuss what the new feature documentary means to them in this moment. Come see the film this #NoCopTOBER and be on the lookout for future screenings at Linktr.ee/NoCopAcademy and SoapBoxPO.com/NoCopAcad…
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Ep. 98 - Coalition-building & Water Solidarity ft. Avalon Betts-Gatson & Tommy Hagan
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BrownTown talks water access, water solidarity, and abolition as presence with Avalon Betts-Gatson and Tommy Hagan, organizers with the Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois (CDI). From indigenous land back struggles to fighting for clean drinking water for incarcerated peoples, water is the most basic human right. The gang gets meta discussing organiz…
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 4: Dark Reunion Chapters 1-8
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 3 - The Fury Chapters 9-16
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BrownTown is delighted to -- for the first time -- share a new series from our movement media fam over at AirGo. Help This Garden Grow is a new six-part podcast documentary series telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Ha…
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Twilight Decoded: The Vampire Diaries Book 3 "The Fury" Chapters 1-8
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Ep. 97 - Progressive Latinas in the New Chicago City Council ft. Alderpersons Rossana Rodriguez & Jessie Fuentes
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BrownTown chops it up with Alderhomies Rossana Rodriguez (33rd) and Jessie Fuentes (26th) in the inaugural recording within the Harambe Studios at the SoapBox office. Chicago City Council is now the most Black and Latine, the most queer, the most politically left, and with the most female leaders in the city's history (and in some cases, currently …
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Ep. 96 - Advertising in the Activist Resurgence (& So-called "Wokeism") 3.0 ft. Justin Stillmaker
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BrownTown sits down with the original "Ad Man" Justin Stillmaker to reflect on the role of advertising as propaganda, its attempts to co-opt social movement language and optics throughout the past half decade, and the odd trajectory of the term "woke" (and the right-wing obsession with hating it). Now in 2023, with unapologetic anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Bl…
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Twilight Decoded: The Struggle(The Vampire Diaries, Book 2), Chapters 9-12
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BrownTown on BrownTown. As SoapBox (the film and movement media hub that powers Bourbon 'n BrownTown) moves into its first-ever office, Caullen and David discuss their journeys finding and curating spaces to call home, personally and professionally. BrownTown affirms housing as a human right while examining Chicago and America's dialectical relatio…
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Twilight Decoded: The Struggle(The Vampire Diaries, Book 2), Chapters 1-8
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Twilight Decoded: The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, Book 1), Chapters 13-16
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Ep. 94 - Police Abolition 2.0 ft. District Councilors David Orlikoff & Ashley Vargas
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BrownTown breaks down the relationship between police abolition and state-sanctioned police accountability measures with newly elected Police District Councilors David Orlikoff and Ashley Vargas. The guests square their PIC abolitionist organizing roots with the new accountability structure, Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability…
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Twilight Decoded: The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, Book 1), Chapters 9-12
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Twilight Decoded: The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, Book 1), Chapters 5-8
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Twilight Decoded: The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries, Book 1), Chapters 1-4
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Twilight Decoded: TVD S8E15 "We're Planning a June Wedding" and S8E16 "I Was Feeling Epic"
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Twilight Decoded: TVD S8E13 "The Lies Will Catch Up To You" and S8E14 "It's Been a Hell of a Ride"
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Ep. 93 - Coalition-building, Growing Solidarity, & #StopCopCity ft. Chelle Sanders & Jasmine Burnett
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BrownTown virtually visits Atlanta and chops it up with Chelle Sanders and Jasmine Burnett, organizers with #StopCopCity. Chicago’s #NoCopAcademy and Atlanta’s #StopCopCity movements are part of the same struggle: to end violent policing, protect the environment and defend Black and brown lives. As similar as they are, only years apart, they also b…
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