The Empire Never Ended

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.

Originally published on January 29, 2022. TENE dusts off the Fash-Files and looks into two mysterious close encounters of the third kind. Fritz offers a fresh look at the famous stories of the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter of 1955 and the Lovette-Cunningham Incident at White Sands, New Mexico in '56. He examines the social and political environment in which these stories were popularized and argues...

TENE pod continues their look into fashy ruling class woowoo following JB Rhine's ESP lab at Duke into the first steps on the path to Project Stargate alongside the Golden Age science fiction fandom created by John W. Campbell and Astounding Science Fiction. Praise Mighty Jorth! Cool sci-fi sounds from freesound.org Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE examines Operation Gvardijan through a TV show from 1983 in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia called "Traps" (Zamke), an unusual docudrama about OZNA, Yugoslav Security Service, and their successful operation to capture ninety Ustasha stay-behind terrorists after WWII. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz analyzes the history of 'psychokinesis' and its creation by rich folks playing with ghosts and trying to make it sound scientific in an attempt to discover the new "Laws of Nature" that will help them stop communism. From 18th-century psychic churches and societies to the founders of American psychology and science fiction, tenepod eventually finds itself in the ESP labs of J. B. Rhine. Subs...

In part two of the Mahmut Muftic story, the tene squad examines Muftic's wide-ranging links to Western intelligence agencies through the lens of the CIA's broader support for the Muslim Brotherhood and (ex)Nazis. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod finally cracks open MKUltra with the hypnosis research of Mahmut Muftić for Dr. William Joseph Bryan, Jr., taking Fritz down a rabbit hole of ancient Egyptian alien spirits, psychic surgery, and 'Mexican mushroom cults' through the life and career of superstar CIA asset Andrija Puharich. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris introduces tenepod of Mahmut Muftić, the enigmatic Ustasha who forged an unlikely alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood and Croatian National Resistance in the 1960s. 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 examines the activities of post-war Bosniak collaborationists going from the Levant and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to the SS clerics behind one of Chicago's oldest mosques. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE is joined by Cal to introduce the basics of contemporary Hungarian fascism following the recent arrests of anti-fascists on the annual 'Day of Honor', remembering the defeat of Nazi and Arrow Cross forces at the hands of the Red Army. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

From deep in the dusty TENE pod archives (May 2021), an exhaustive review of Ryan Fleming's book, "Scithain", a sort of sequel to the Drakon Covenant's (much shorter) founding text. Featuring Nazi Ryan's disgusting history, Skyrim NPCs, Vampire King Aurthur, Satanic Neanderthals, and of course, Werewolves! Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris examines the life of Ante Pavelić's bodyguard, Ustasha Adolf Pilsel, through the eyes of his son Drago, an anti-fascist liberation theologist who tried to get his father to face his past. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.