The Empire Never Ended

TENE pod's Boris and Sal Falcon attend this year's Great Kurultáj Pan-Turanist festival in Hungary, and discuss their surreal experiences surrounded by horses, whips, throat-singing, and quite a few fascists. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Originally aired Jan. 25, 2024. Arc 5 kicks off with a look at American ruling-class adoration of Mussolini and Italian Fascism in the inter-war period, paying special attention to US Ambassador to Italy during the March on Rome, Richard Washburn Child, and founder of Time , Life , Fortune , and Sports Illustrated , Henry Luce. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod takes a lesson from James Stewart Martin's nearly-lost 1950 book, All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System , to get a fuller sense of the American ruling class' relationship to inter-war, wartime, and post-war fascism in Europe, as well as Nazi capitalists' attempts to set up fallback position...

Despite his profound unlikeability, the litigious Willis Carto sets in motion some of the most durable fascist institutions in America, particularly the Liberty Lobby and the Institute for Historical Review. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Harshing their vacation vibes, Boris and Fritz work their way through the 1976 Clint Eastwood classic, The Outlaw Josey Wales , and wonder how nobody seemed to notice that it came from Klan leader, George Wallace-speechwriter, racist terrorist, and fake Cherokee, Asa Carter of the National States Rights Party. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris launches his study of Liberty Lobby with a biographical look at founder Willis Carto's early life, from dropping out of law school through his first failed publication, Right , and up to the foundation of his official D.C. lobbying organization of neo-Nazis and Klansmen known as 'the Liberty Lobby'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Roger Corman and William Shatner take on the White Citizens Councils through their fictionalized depiction of John Casper's time in Clinton, TN during the final years of the Jim Crow era in 1962's The Intruder. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.  

Rey begins his study of the National States Rights Party's brutal history. Uniting disparate right-wing organizations like the Klan and the Columbians under increasingly European fascist ideals, the NSRP set the stage for a half-century of fashy freaks to follow. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod pauses at the doorstep of Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby to collect their thoughts about Arc 5 so far before digging deeper into American fascism's 'Long 1950s'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod adds Revilo P. Oliver's The John Franklin Letters  (1959) to their fash fic library. John Birch Society meets SIEGE in this excruciating predecessor to William Luther PIerce's The Turner Diaries (1978). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The story of Pedro del Valle: marine, general, and fascist. Seemingly connected with all US fascists, from ANP to the Klan, Pedro was into militias and GLADIO-type stuff before they were cool. Music: David Fesliyan. "In Honor", "Land of Fantasy" Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod watches the first presidential debate of this cycle, reflects on old anti-USSR arguments about their dying gerontocracy, and checks in on ex-Yugoslav tabloid coverage of the contest. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE continues their refresher course on the American Nazi Party by checking in on its successor, the National Socialist White People's Party, through the lens of a 1975 documentary film entitled, California Reich (1975). Reading: Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. By Spencer Sunshine. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/t...

Fritz finally cracks the topic of Revilo P. Oliver, whose nutty ideas connect the mainstream National Review-types of the Cold War to the whackiest communist conspiracy theories of the John Birch Society, as well as the Turner Diaries and even the rudiments of 'SIEGE-culture'. Reading: Matthew Erlich - Dangerous Ideas on Campus (2021) Frank Mintz - The Liberty Lobby and the American Right (1985) C...

TENE pod peeks in at the European Parliament election results and then suffers through the PBD Podcast's platforming of Patriot Front's Thomas Rousseau. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The Nazis regularly cited the United States as the key inspiration for their infamous Nuremberg Laws; Rey explains the many reasons why. Reading: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Whitman Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE News Network continues its 24-hour coverage of civil unrest in the tiny nation of Chakfukia. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod watches two Moon films co-written by Robert Heinlein, the big-budget 'hard sci-fi' George Pal film, Destination Moon (1950), and Heinlein's cheaply made and horrible labor of love, Project Moonbase (1953). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Setti once again joins TENE pod to grok Robert A. Heinlein's novels, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land,  and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and their disturbing prescriptions for an unwelcome future. Check out Settembrini's podcast Zock Bock Radio ! pesa-nexus (dot) de/category/zock-bock-radio Music: "World of Automatans", "Light Years", and "Midnight Crawlers" by Eric Matyas : www.sound...

Originally published: April 8th, 2023 Fritz narrates the rise and fall of Project Stargate, the US 'intelligence' community and army's special unit of psychic remote viewers, as well as a brief look at Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion, made famous by the film, The Men Who Stare at Goats . Music: Legionnaire by Scott Buckley. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod is joined once again by Settembrini of Zock Bock Radio to review the life of Robert A. Heinlein, the libertarian militarist 'Dean of Science Fiction' who brought Sci-Fi into the mainstream. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris examines the pro-Japanese Pacific Movement of the Eastern world and other movements advocating an Afro-Asian alliance in the US and the subsequent attempts by the US government to blame racial discontent on a shadowy Japanese secret society. Readings: When Japan Was "Champion of the Darker Races": Satokata Takahashi and the Flowering of Black Messianic Nationalism by Ernest Allen Jr. | Waiti...

The boyzies chew the fat over some bizarre clips of contemporary political life in the US, from biblical curses to Tucker's new 'Racial Holy War Soon' fearmongering, before checking out the lineup of a recent fascist rap festival in Turin, Italy. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod has a laidback May Day to chat about the recent Alex Garland film Civil War from a critical and Balkan perspective before ragging on Tucker Carlson's debutante cotillion interview for Aleksandr Dugin. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

J. G. Michael of Parallax Views joins Boris and Fritz to watch the 1985 anti-communist Cannon Films production, Invasion, USA , starring and co-written by Chuck Norris. They put the film in the historical context of the theme of Red Dawn -style Communist coup fiction beginning with the 1947 comic book, Is This Tomorrow , illustrated by Charles M. Schulz of Peanuts fame, and the original 1952 film...