The Empire Never Ended

Boris tells the story of Death to the World , the Orthodox Christian punk zine from California, and its drift from monasticism into fascist politics. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE recounts the 2013 drama inside the Order of Nine Angles that lead to David Myatt passing the reigns to the Tempel ov Blood, all in the context of Myatt's master plan to troll David Icke for attention. Originally aired December 10, 2022 Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Kemal and Fritz rope Rey into joining their 'estuary' of the totally-*not*-a-cult fetishizing the theological and philosophical genius of Dr. Jordan Peterson while preparing for Christian urban combat. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE is joined by Kolya, an anarchist from Siberia, to discuss yesterday's occupation of Rostov-on-Don and the aborted advance towards Moscow by the Wagner Group, as well as some reactions from vastly different corners of Russian social and political life on Prigozhin's short-lived mutiny.   Kolya provided this link to Statements from Three Anarchist Organizations on the Wagner Mutiny .   Subscrib...

TENE discusses the impact of the Unabomber's recent death on fascist scenes around the world and how this impact was presaged already in his infamous manifesto, 'Industrial Society and its Future'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

As they bid a fond farewell to Arc 4, Boris, Fritz, and Rey meet to discuss the 82 episodes that made up tene's nearly year-long exploration into the political evolution of Balkan emigree groups in the US, Yugoslav deep state shenanigans, and the culture of the 'Cold War'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE concludes their look into the late Croatian American leader of the Mexican Mafia, Joe "Peg Leg" Morgan, with a critical viewing of Edward James Olmos' film, American Me (1992), and its violent backstory. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris tells the surprising story of Croatian émigré Joe "Peg Leg" Morgan, one-time leader of the Mexican Mafia in Los Angeles, and explores the rumor of his connection to escaped post-war Ustasha war criminal, Andrija Artuković. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE watches the 1949 anti-communist propaganda film, The Woman on Pier 13 , originally entitled I Married a Communist!, produced by fashy loon Howard Hughes right after taking over RKO studios. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod peeks behind the news of the recent incursions into Russia by Russian fighters for Ukraine as well as the recent wave of mass protest in Serbia following two traumatic mass shootings. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris, Fritz, and Rey conclude the first half of their underworld-spanning adventure, meeting some familiar faces along the way in their hunt for Cousin Franjo. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE relays the story of a little know but powerful organized crime network known as Grupa Amerika. Especially interesting is Grupa Amerika's connection with both the CIA and the Serbian deep state, as well as its origins in SOPO and the Westies. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

One hundred episodes since Boris, Fritz, and Rey discovered that they were in a tabletop rpg, they are drawn back into the Morlak's partisan struggle and forced to leave their pyramid studio.   Music from pixabay (mostly Lexin_Music) and from FesliyanStudios. SFX from freesound.org   Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey describes the history of the Hell's Kitchen-based gang the Westies, and their unlikely boss during the 80s, Boško Radonjić, aka "Yugo". Yugo was simultaneously one of the leaders of the Serbian terrorist group SOPO and the closest friend of the crazy hijacker Nikola Kavaja, and had some even more surprising connections... Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey discusses revolutionary nationalist groups in Bosnia and Croatia of the pre-WWI period, and how this history reflects on the relation of nationalism and imperialism and contributes to continuing misery of our lives - which is not appealing at all. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey summarizes a century of Serbian and Yugoslav history along a thread of obscure groups such as Serbian National Defense, the Black Hand, and SOPO, as well as SOPO's connections to organized crime. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

In their second tamburitzan-themed episode, Boris tells of the rise of performer-cum-Neo-Ustasha political activist Miroslav Škoro in Croatia and his musical education under lovable Pittsburgh tamburitza virtuoso, Jerry Grcevich. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey forces Boris to listen to Neofolk and gives TENEpod some background on its three foundational artists while Boris reviews Douglas Peace's Death in June, Tony Wakeford's Above the Ruins, and Ian Read's Fire + Ice. Spoiler alert: It's terrible nazi music. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris, Fritz, and Rey answer their last round of Patron questions from Arc 4, discussing metal bands, Balkan historical texts, ideal weirdos for future episodes, and jazz, jazz, jazz! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE concludes their look at media representations of Ustashas in Yugoslav television and cinema in the '80s with an analysis of the 1988 film Braća po Materi and its attempt to subtly rewrite the histories of Croatian and Serbian nationalism. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod accepts their first round of patron questions for arc 4, giving their thoughts on BBC documentaries, made-up nonsense games with the podcast's favorite characters, Balkan political geography and history, left conspiracism, future episode ideas, and other weirdness. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE sits down to catch up on some current events, namely the "hard-left" FBI reporting on Catholic traddies, the recent arrest of RAM founder Robert Rundo in Romania, the new hipster nazi zine hitting the front lines of the war in Ukraine, the sudden rise of Albanian white supremacists, and the under-mentioned legacy of the late "godfather of the green berets". Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod an...

The guys finally close the book on the third volume of the fash-files with a detailed look at radionics and psionics, leading, somehow, to the Satanic Self-Help scene and the one and only Uncle Chuckie. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE recounts the violent and doomed coup attempt by neo-Ustashas in the '70s to topple the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia through the vantage point of a Bosnia-made miniseries from the 1980s called 'Brisani Prostor'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz narrates the rise and fall of Project Stargate, the US 'intelligence' community's 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 . Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.