Avoiding Babylon

Avoiding Babylon Crew
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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!”

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  1. 4d ago ·  Video

    Mass Immigration & the End of America

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Something feels off when the rules look flexible for everyone except the people who grew up here. We follow that feeling straight into the most charged corners of immigration policy: H1B visas, workplace gatekeeping, housing access, and even who ends up staffing hospitals. Along the way we push back on the comforting slogan that “America is an idea” and argue that national identity, shared culture, and assimilation are the real center of the conflict. We break down allegations we keep hearing from listeners and seeing firsthand: managers hiring only within their own networks, visa dependency that keeps workers silent, and the sense that fraud is tolerated until it becomes impossible to hide. Then we zoom in on North Texas examples like Frisco and Plano, where rapid demographic change and housing competition turn politics into something local and personal. When people believe apartments and opportunities circulate through closed channels, “affordability” becomes a question of enforcement and fairness, not just interest rates. Healthcare takes the pressure to a new level as we react to reporting about residency programs filled overwhelmingly by foreign-trained doctors and what that does to trust, quality control, and accountability. We also get into the political theater around it all: how scandals suddenly surface near elections, who gets scapegoated, and why we think the real story is the system that incentivizes it. If you care about immigration reform, assimilation, national identity, and how policy choices hit jobs and housing in real life, hit play. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave us a review with the biggest question you want answered next. Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  2. 4d ago • Subscribers Only

    Mass Immigration & the End of America (Full LOCALS Show)

    Something feels off when the same headlines keep popping up: H‑1B visas, “skills shortages,” housing pressure, and suddenly a viral story about who’s getting hired, who’s getting trained, and who gets pushed out. We dig into why the outrage is exploding now, how election timing shapes what gets “revealed,” and what people are really reacting to when they say they’ve lost trust in institutions. Along the way, we talk through claims floating around online about visa fraud, credential verification, and how incentives inside big companies and bureaucracies can quietly reward the wrong behavior.We also spend time on the lived side of policy: rent, background checks, apartment availability, and the fear that neighborhoods change faster than locals can adapt. Then we zoom out and ask a more fundamental question that keeps driving these debates: what is a nation? We bring in a Catholic philosophical framework that treats a nation as a people with shared inheritance and obligations, not just a list of abstract ideals, and we argue about what assimilation is supposed to mean in practice.Finally, the conversation takes a sharp but revealing turn into consent culture, modern dating, and why the sexual revolution keeps producing resentment and confusion. We share practical, non-corny marriage advice about gratitude, attention, finances, and spiritual habits, plus what we think fathers owe their kids when it comes to moral formation. Listen, share it with someone who’s wrestling with these topics, and if you got value from it, subscribe and leave a review so more people can find the show.

  3. 6d ago ·  Video

    Woman Sets Internet at War Over a Tweet About Her Boomer Parents

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A single text about a grandma refusing to babysit shouldn’t break the internet, but it did, and we could not let it go. We read the viral “boomer mom” childcare thread line by line and ask the uncomfortable questions: when does family help become entitlement, what does gratitude actually look like, and why does “I need a reliable backup plan” hit such a nerve for grandparents who feel like they already did their time raising kids? From there, we zoom out into the bigger generational fight. We talk about baby boomers and millennials without pretending it’s simple, including how post-war culture, propaganda, the sexual revolution, and family trauma shaped the way people parent. We also get practical about discipline, the “fun grandma” role, the resentment that builds when one parent becomes the constant disciplinarian, and the difference between real safety boundaries and trendy no-contact culture. Then we pivot into money and systems: Social Security, fixed income fears, taxing younger workers, inflation, national debt, and why so many people feel like the whole economy is held together with duct tape. We also break down inheritance realities like capital gains exposure and why trusts matter, because losing a family home to an unexpected tax bill is not theoretical. Finally, we give a grim true-crime update and debate the death penalty from a Catholic lens: justice, deterrence, and whether swift punishment can be a severe kind of mercy that forces repentance instead of decades of denial. Listen, share it with someone who has strong opinions about boomers, and leave a review if you want more episodes like this. Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  4. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    Woman Sets Internet at War Over a Tweet About Her Boomer Parents (Full LOCALS Show)

    A single tweet about a boomer mom refusing to babysit turns into a much bigger question: what do adult kids actually owe their parents, and what do parents owe their adult kids once grandkids arrive? We read the thread, react to the guilt, the “backup plan” demand, and the refusal to discipline, then dig into the messy reality behind modern family conflict. We’re not interested in easy scapegoats. We want to know what gratitude looks like, what boundaries are legitimate, and why bitterness becomes a trap that never fixes the life you’re trying to build.Then we go financial, because money is where generational blame gets loud. We talk Social Security, fixed income politics, and why younger workers think the system is a bad deal. We also break down inheritance and estate planning basics, including capital gains exposure, why families set up trusts, and how “boomer wealth” can be mostly home equity that doesn’t magically solve your life when the house gets passed down.The second half gets intense: a true crime update sparks a blunt debate about justice, mercy, deterrence, and why some punishments are meant to force honesty and repentance rather than enable decades of denial. From there we veer into theology and identity, including the controversy around Hebrew Catholics, conversion, and end-times speculation, plus how AI “superintelligence” and global instability feed the sense that we’re living in a turning point.Listen through, then drop your worst boomer story in the YouTube comments for the rosary giveaway, and if you enjoyed the chaos, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

  5. Oct 2 ·  Video

    She Survived Her Execution: Christa Pike & The Death Penalty Debate

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A lethal injection that allegedly didn’t do its one job sets the tone for a wild conversation: witness accounts of strange sounds in the chamber, headlines about an all-women execution team, and the feeling that the public is being handed a story engineered to trigger a specific reaction. We sort through what’s being claimed, what feels inconsistent, and why “humane” capital punishment can still look brutal when the process goes off the rails.  Then we zoom out to the bigger issue underneath it all: narrative control. When the same medicalized language can be sold as torture in a death penalty case but mercy in euthanasia, it forces a hard question about moral consistency and institutional trust. From there we get into how social media algorithms reward outrage, how selective reporting can inflame men versus women hostility, and why parenting in 2026 means having honest, awkward conversations with your kids before the internet does it for you.  The back half turns to AI ethics and AI safety, including reports of companies pushing “AI personhood” and trying to influence religious leaders and public language. We also talk practical AI adoption at work, what tools like Claude can actually do, where they still fail, and why hallucinated citations and fake confidence are not small problems. If you care about capital punishment, media manipulation, parenting, or the future of artificial intelligence, hit play, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review with your take on what’s real and what’s performance. Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  6. Oct 2 • Subscribers Only

    She Survived Her Execution: Christa Pike & The Death Penalty Debate (Full LOCALS Show)

    A lethal injection is sold as the clean, modern face of capital punishment, right up until it doesn’t work. We react to a botched execution report that sounds chaotic from the first moments, then pull on the thread it exposes: how “sanitized” procedures can still be brutal, how public outrage gets engineered, and why some of these stories feel less like reality and more like carefully staged theater.We also zoom out to the bigger trust problem. If the only truly serious argument against the death penalty is the chance of executing an innocent person, what does that mean in a world where institutions feel corrupted, narratives get spun instantly, and the public rarely gets the full story? That question collides with the way social media cycles cases to provoke men against women and women against men, while algorithms quietly train us to live on adrenaline and suspicion. We talk through parenting conversations that actually help: boundaries, avoiding scandal, and forming a conscience that isn’t outsourced to porn, sitcoms, and trend-driven “sex ed.”Then the tech anxiety lands hard. We dig into the push to frame AI as conscious or deserving moral standing, including the Vatican angle and why personhood language matters. We keep it practical too: where AI genuinely saves time at work, where it still hallucinates, and how deepfakes and edited footage could supercharge propaganda in the near future.If this one hits a nerve, share it with a friend, subscribe so you don’t miss the next live, and leave a review with your take: are we being informed or emotionally herded?

  7. Sep 30 ·  Video

    The Wages of Sin: How Sin Destroyed Caleb Flynn's Life

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A married pastor. A 20-year-old singer on the worship team. A secret relationship that stops being “just an affair” and turns into something darker, uglier, and catastrophically permanent. We break down how this case unfolds, why the text messages matter so much, and how two people can talk themselves into the kind of evil they’d never admit to in public, all while leaving a digital trail that’s basically a confession. We also wrestle with the parts people love to ignore: motive and consequences. When divorce threatens a reputation, a job, money, and the future someone feels entitled to, the temptation is to “solve” the problem instead of facing it. We talk about why the intruder story is so common, why it almost never works, and why “he seems remorseful” often translates to “he’s devastated he got caught.” Along the way, we pull out the bigger lesson about temptation, desensitization, and why real accountability and boundaries matter long before anything crosses a line. Then we change gears into culture and theology, reacting to a women’s conference clip that sets off alarms for us, plus broader frustration with how certain talking points spread across generations. We close with a thought-provoking segment sparked by a clip describing Judaism as a “worldly religion” and our Christian argument for what it means that God chooses to dwell with His people, not in a building. If you got value from this conversation, subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it. What part of the story hit you hardest, the texts, the motive, or the aftermath? Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  8. Sep 30 • Subscribers Only

    The Wages of Sin: How Sin Destroyed Caleb Flynn's Life (Full LOCALS Show)

    A clean conscience doesn’t collapse overnight, it erodes one rationalization at a time. We start with a case that still feels unreal: a pastor with a public platform, a secret relationship with a younger worship singer, and a trail of messages so reckless they end up being read aloud in court. The details are grim, but our focus stays on the bigger pattern: how obsession grows, how resentment becomes a shared language, and how the fantasy of a “new life” can convince people they’re smarter than consequences.We also dig into the part too many people ignore in 2026: digital evidence is forever. Phones, apps, “private” chats, and deleted threads have a way of resurfacing when investigators get involved, and we talk about why that reality should sober anyone flirting with secrecy. From there, we get practical and personal about accountability, boundaries at work, and why the honeymoon phase can feel like destiny when it’s really just novelty and dopamine. If you’ve ever wondered how ordinary people torch everything they claim to value, this conversation puts that slow drift under a microscope.The second half turns toward culture and media. We react to viral commentary around a high-profile family tragedy and the pressure to perform the “right” emotions for cameras, plus a wider discussion about how online narratives, influencers, and generational propaganda shape what people excuse and what they condemn. Agree or disagree, you’ll hear the reasoning laid out plainly, with the same throughline the whole time: guard your mind, because your choices follow your attention.If this hit a nerve, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What boundary or habit has actually helped you stay honest when temptation shows up?

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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!”

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  • Creator
    Avoiding Babylon Crew
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    726
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Avoiding Babylon
  • Show Website
    Avoiding Babylon
  • Provider
    Robert Blyton

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