The Empire Never Ended

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 and twitter.com/tenepod.  

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.