The Empire Never Ended

Boris and Rey examine the activities of South Slavs in America during WW2, stretching from rifts in the Serbian community in response to Ustaša genocide to the success of the popular front in the form of the United Committee of South Slavic Americans and (failed) attempts to join the partisans in the old country. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE examines the under-recognized 1940s horror film, Cat People, the story of a young Serbian immigrant working as a fashion designer in New York who is struggling with a dark secret. Her home village in Serbia suffers an evil curse whereby the women become terrifying werepanthers when their passions are aroused! A classic film with a very shaky handle on Serbian history and culture. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris rediscovers two forgotten stories from the history of Southern Slav working people in the United States: the Serbian Orthodox Church's struggle against its socialist congregation and the Soviet Union's frustrated attempt to bring America's Balkan proletariat into the party line. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Kemal joins TENE to discuss American folk hero, Joe Magarac, a Hunky literally made of steel. They contrast his heroic image against that of the industrial laborer as laid out both in tragic journals and whacky Tamburitzan sketch comedy c. 1930. Kemal also breaks down the controversy surrounding Liberty City folk-hero, Nico Bellic, of Grand Theft Auto fame. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Welcome to Arc 4! TENE lays out the general idea for the coming months, and introduces some key figures, mutual aid societies, and publications from the Yugoslav diaspora's anarchist/socialist scene in the early 20th century. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Live from Azle, Texas, Dale Sinister and Dale Diablo host the popular Dale Sinister's Satanic Hoedown. Featuring special guests, arts and crafts, and diabolic jokes for the whole Black Lodge to enjoy! Music by AlexGrohl from Pixabay Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

In what definitely counts as a legitimate episode, TENE spends way too much time with the recent reunion of neo-nazi James Mason and TV exorcist Bob Larson as they pretend to disagree with each other. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The TENE film club meets again to take on the dreaded Black Legion! The boys watch two films, Legion of Terror (1936) and Black Legion (1937) starring Humphrey Bogart, as well as two radio plays, an episode of True Detective Mysteries (1937) and another entitled "The White Legion" (1938) on the original superhero serial, The Shadow. They compare these representations to the actual white supremacist terrorists and examine how each piece of media reflects the political culture of interwar America in its own way. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE looks at the successors to the Tempel ov Blood, the Satanic Front, and attempts to situate them in the mess of nazi vampires, nazi sith lords, nazi ninjas, nazi satanists, and FBI informants that makeup whatever the O9A is devolving into in the US. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE meets again with Mark Bray to discuss his latest book, The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (2022), covering the events and figures surrounding the Trials of Montjuich in turn-of-the-century Spain, the resulting developments in policing and statecraft, and the anarchist movement of the period. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.