The Empire Never Ended

The Empire Never Ended
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Feb 15, 2024 • 1h 60min

254: American Legion pt. 1 - Death to Slackers, Inc.

TENE pod begins its study of the American Legion, America's largest veteran's organization, examining the shifty characters that pieced it together from a world war they themselves pushed, and from the First Red Scare. Recommended reading for part one: For God & Country: The American Legion, 1919-1941 by William Pencak (1989) The Inside Story of the Legion by Justin Gray (1948) Music: "In Honor" fesliyanstudios.com All others from pixabay.com and archive.org Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Feb 10, 2024 • 2min

253: Count Annie and his Fascist Man Cave (teaser)

Boris tells the tale of 'Count' Anastasy Vonsiatsky, and his ANP-like larp through the world of Russian fascist emigrees from his man cave in 1930s USA. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Feb 7, 2024 • 2min

252: Film Club - "Pretty Girl Reporter Exposes Phony Group", the movie (teaser)

The boyzies review and analyze the 1947 film, Violence!, directed by Jack Bernhard and co-written by Stanley Rubin, and (very) loosely based on the downfall of American neo-nazi group, The Columbians. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Feb 1, 2024 • 1h 41min

251: The Columbians, Inc. versus the KKKops

Rey introduces America's original neo-nazi organization, The Columbians, and narrates their misadventures in Atlanta, Georgia, and their conflicts with the local KKK in their role as the Atlanta Police Department of the late 1940s. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jan 25, 2024 • 2min

250: Every Tom, Dick, and Henry - the WASPs who loved Mussolini (teaser)

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 Child, and founder of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, Henry Luce. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 43min

249: Arc 5 - Back to the F*cking Americans - "It's like poetry, it rhymes"

Boris, Fritz, and Rey kick off Arc 5 by introducing the themes of the coming arc and challenging each other to dig up and connect the many strange details of their previous U.S. arc to get frosty for this next batch of fashy weirdos. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Dec 21, 2023 • 1h 28min

246: Slavic Native Faith II - Gitler in Gumanoid form in Giperboreya

Boris revisits the fundamentals of "Slavic Native Faith" in Russia and the antisemitic works of Valery Yemelyanov. And Pagan metal. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Dec 13, 2023 • 2min

245: F-Files IV pt 2 - Group 69 Battles Aum Shinrikyo for the Astral Plane (teaser)

Follow Group 69 on their psychedelic battles on the astral plane, defeating the Black Ninja, pacifying NATO, and making bizarre acquaintances along the way with Sufi warriors, mysterious Thule society holdovers, and other Jinn and Aliens. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Dec 9, 2023 • 1h 26min

244: F-Files IV - Group 69, Psionic Warfare with Serbian Characteristics

Serbia in the 90s was a very weird place made all the weirder by Group 69: a 'psionic warfare' unit attached to the Serbian military, waging a holy war against NATO in the Fifth Dimension. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 51min

243: Fascism in Irish History and the Dublin Riot w/ Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

TENE is joined by historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc to discuss the November riot in Dublin through a historical framework of fascism in Ireland. Find Pádraig's historical work at mercierpress.ie/authors/padraigogoruairc/ Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

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