Avoiding Babylon
Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.
As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace. Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said:
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
Episodes
718 episodes
Jeremy Boreing Is Wrong About Integralism and the American Founding
America doesn’t have a “neutral” public square, it has a creed it rarely names. We take on the rising debate over Catholic integralism by reacting to Jeremy Boreing’s interview with a Catholic academic and then pulling the thread all the way ba...
Did Jimmy Akin Just Defend the Golden Calf?
A couple hundred bucks lost in Atlantic City turns into a surprisingly honest gut check: why do some temptations feel instantly disgusting, while others slowly become normal? From that cold open, we move into two listener stories that hit the o...
Did Jimmy Akin Just Defend the Golden Calf? (Full LOCALS Show)
Losing a couple hundred bucks in Atlantic City shouldn’t feel like the end of the world, but it does if you actually respect what work costs and what “easy money” does to your head. That story kicks off a night where we move from personal accou...
60 Years of Nostra Aetate, Adderall, and Novus Ordo Mystics
A single phrase can light the fuse on half the Catholic internet, and we’re watching it happen again. We start with the behind-the-scenes fallout in Catholic media as friendships fracture, platforms rebrand, and old “trad movement” alliances lo...
60 Years of Nostra Aetate, Adderall, and Novus Ordo Mystics (Full LOCALS Show)
Catholic internet “drama” is rarely just gossip, and we prove it tonight. We start with the blowup around a Vatican note commemorating Nostra Aetate and why that document still detonates arguments about interreligious dialogue, mission, and wha...
Elliott Hulse: With Age Comes Wisdom – What I Wish I Knew in My 20s and 30s
Fear doesn’t always feel like fear. Sometimes it shows up as “being responsible,” “being prepared,” or “staying in control.” We sit down with Elliot Hulse to talk about the moment that illusion breaks, and what happens when God starts asking fo...
Elliott Hulse: With Age Comes Wisdom – What I Wish I Knew in My 20s and 30s (Full LOCALS Show)
Fear doesn’t always feel like fear. Sometimes it looks like “being responsible,” stacking money, building the perfect plan, or prepping for the disaster you can’t stop thinking about. We sit down with Elliot Hulse to get brutally honest about w...
E. Michael Jones on Social Engineering and the Synagogue's Influence on Catholic Media
A highway can change more than traffic, it can dissolve a community. We talk with Dr. E. Michael Jones about the argument behind *The Slaughter of Cities*: how urban renewal, redevelopment, and forced dispersion reshaped Catholic ethnic neighbo...
E. Michael Jones on Social Engineering and the Synagogue's Influence on Catholic Media (Full LOCALS Show)
A claim can rack up millions of views, but if nobody can point to the book, the documents, and the footnotes, it floats in midair and gets swatted down the moment it threatens power. We sit down with Dr E Michael Jones to talk about what it mea...
What Really Happened on 9/11? 25 Years Later We Examine The Evidence
The world before September 11 felt slower, smaller, and oddly harder to explain to anyone who didn’t live it. We’re not just talking about flip phones and dial-up, but the way information moved, the way rumors spread, and the way a single day c...
What Really Happened on 9/11? 25 Years Later We Examine The Evidence (Full LOCALS Show)
A single morning can freeze in your memory so sharply that you can still smell the air years later. We start by walking back through 9/11 as people who lived in and around New York, from the scramble to reach loved ones when cell service collap...
A Lawyer Breaks Down the Lone Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Trial
One juror. One note to the judge. One phrase that can blow up weeks of testimony: “refusing to follow the instructions.” We bring on our longtime friend Mark, a working attorney who lives in the world of jury trials, to help us sort out what’s ...
The FBI's SHOCKING Allegations Against Traditional Catholics
A hung jury sounds like a procedural hiccup until you ask what it exposes about the whole system. We start with the Lindsay Clancy hung jury and the obvious elephant in the room: when a case is drenched in TikTok clips, podcast commentary, and ...
The FBI's SHOCKING Allegations Against Traditional Catholics (Full LOCALS Show)
A hung jury is supposed to feel like procedural limbo, but we can’t shake the sense that it’s also a cultural verdict. We start with the Lindsay Clancy case and talk through why a non-sequestered jury in a high-profile trial is basically asked ...
Wicked, Maleficent, and Lindsay Clancy: Satan's War on the Christian Conscience
A jury room can’t fix a culture, but it can expose one. We wrestle with the Lindsay Clancy trial as closing arguments land and the internet picks its side, and we ask the uncomfortable question people keep dodging: what happens when “empathy” b...
Wicked, Maleficent, and Lindsay Clancy: Satan's War on the Christian Conscience (Full LOCALS Show)
A mother kills her children, the courtroom nears a verdict, and the internet immediately starts rewriting the story. We walk through the Lindsay Clancy trial’s closing arguments, why the prosecution’s final framing matters, and how a single pro...
Insanity Defense On Trial (LOCALS Only Show)
A mother kills her children, the internet rushes to explain it away, and a courtroom has to decide what “insanity” actually means. We work through the Lindsay Clancy trial with a focus on the part most people miss: Massachusetts still puts key ...
"Your Father Is the Devil" — Fr. Mawdsley on Knowing Your Real Enemy
A book so controversial the author half jokes he may have to “press publish” live just to see how long it survives. We’re joined again by Father James Mawdsley to talk about Know Thy Enemy, the personal cost of writing it, and why certain quest...
Is There Demonic Influence in Our Technology?
Nuclear weapons, IVF, AI, and the postwar story we’ve all been taught are not separate conversations, they’re one big argument about who (or what) shapes human history. We start with a raw look at how a “content drought” turns into algorithmic ...
Is There Demonic Influence in Our Technology? (Full LOCALS Show)
The modern world didn’t just get “more chaotic” over time, it crossed a line, and we can feel it in our bones. We start with the small stuff that poisons your mood fast: doom-scrolling, gender-war clips, and true crime culture that turns suffer...
Why Women Defend Murderous Moms and Immodest Girlfriends
A mother kills three children and the internet immediately starts bargaining with reality. We dig into the Lindsay Clancy trial, the postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis claims surrounding it, and the unnerving trend of people avoidin...
Why Women Defend Murderous Moms and Immodest Girlfriends (Full LOCALS Show)
A mother kills her three children and a huge slice of the internet responds with language that sounds like an accident. We grapple with the Lindsay Clancy trial, postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and the uncomfortable question und...
Live Calls And Real Talk (Locals ONLY Show)
A live call-in night starts with a simple question: what should we talk about when the usual co-host is gone? Within minutes, the chat pushes us into the deep end, and the calls turn into the kind of unplanned conversation you can’t fake. We te...
E. Michael Jones Predicted This | Cooper on Tucker
A neighborhood isn’t just a place to sleep. It’s a memory machine, a network of elders, a parish rhythm, and a shared story that tells your kids who they are. When that breaks, everything else gets easier to break too.We start with a cl...
E. Michael Jones Predicted This | Cooper on Tucker (Full LOCALS Show)
Something feels off in modern life, but it’s not just politics or headlines. It’s the quiet loss of real community, the kind where you know your neighbors, you share traditions, and your faith is lived with other people instead of consumed as c...