Best Turd Polisher Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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#56. IMAGINE DRAGONS PART II: Whatever It Takes 1:47:45

8d ago1:47:45

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Send us a Text Message. In Part II of our series we take on Imagine Dragons at their biggest, their boldest, their most obnoxious stage. During the mid-2010s this "rock" band brought their thunderous stomp-clap earworms to every observable realm of the human experience. Whether you were simply trying to listen to the radio, watch a football game, o…

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285: Liberty Lobby pt. 2 - Nobody Gets Along with Willis Carto 1:31:11

21m ago1:31:11

1:31:11

Despite his profound unlikeability, the litigious Willis Carto sets in motion some of the most durable fascist institutions in America, particularly the Liberty Lobby and the Institute for Historical Review. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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284: Outlaw Josey Wales - When Clint Eastwood made a Klan Film (teaser) 2:36

4d ago2:36

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Harshing their vacation vibes, Boris and Fritz work their way through the 1976 Clint Eastwood classic, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and wonder how nobody seemed to notice that it came from Klan leader, George Wallace-speechwriter, racist terrorist, and fake Cherokee, Asa Carter of the National States Rights Party. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and tw…

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283: Liberty Lobby pt. 1 - Willis Carto, Professional Turd Polisher 1:32:35

16d ago1:32:35

1:32:35

Boris launches his study of Liberty Lobby with a biographical look at founder Willis Carto's early life, from dropping out of law school through his first failed publication, Right, and up to the foundation of his official D.C. lobbying organization of neo-Nazis and Klansmen known as 'the Liberty Lobby'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter…

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282: Film Club - The Intruder (1962) (teaser) 1:38

17d ago1:38

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Roger Corman and William Shatner take on the White Citizens Councils through their fictionalized depiction of John Casper's time in Clinton, TN during the final years of the Jim Crow era in 1962's The Intruder. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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281: National States Rights Party pt. 1 - "Out-Hitlering Hitler" (teaser) 2:14

20d ago2:14

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Rey begins his study of the National States Rights Party's brutal history. Uniting disparate right-wing organizations like the Klan and the Columbians under increasingly European fascist ideals, the NSRP set the stage for a half-century of fashy freaks to follow. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.…

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280: Mid-Arc Recap to The Long 1950s 1:12:12

16d ago1:12:12

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TENE pod pauses at the doorstep of Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby to collect their thoughts about Arc 5 so far before digging deeper into American fascism's 'Long 1950s'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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279: Fash Fic Book Club - The John Franklin Letters (teaser) 1:24

1M ago1:24

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TENE pod adds Revilo P. Oliver's The John Franklin Letters (1959) to their fash fic library. John Birch Society meets SIEGE in this excruciating predecessor to William Luther PIerce's The Turner Diaries (1978). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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#55. IMAGINE DRAGONS Part I: Mormons, Lawyers, and Casinos 1:49:21

2M ago1:49:21

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Send us a Text Message. Who are Imagine Dragons? Why has their music dominated every mall, stadium, and TV commercial for the past 10 years? Why do old fogies like us find their music so obnoxious?? Perhaps Imagine Dragons are the industry's final attempt to kill rock and roll. Or maybe their music is a sincere expression of their soul and just hap…

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278: Sweet Valle High - Pedro del Valle & Co. 1:36:54

1M ago1:36:54

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The story of Pedro del Valle: marine, general, and fascist. Seemingly connected with all US fascists, from ANP to the Klan, Pedro was into militias and GLADIO-type stuff before they were cool. Music: David Fesliyan. "In Honor", "Land of Fantasy" Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.…

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277: Baj Baj, Bajden! (teaser) 1:30

2M ago1:30

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TENE pod watches the first presidential debate of this cycle, reflects on old anti-USSR arguments about their dying gerontocracy, and checks in on ex-Yugoslav tabloid coverage of the contest. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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276: California Reich, 1975 - Where no one will be Home Alone... (teaser) 4:34

2M ago4:34

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TENE continues their refresher course on the American Nazi Party by checking in on its successor, the National Socialist White People's Party, through the lens of a 1975 documentary film entitled, California Reich (1975). Reading: Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. By Spencer Sunshine. …

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275: Revilo P. Oliver - the Oldfather of SIEGE 1:42:03

2M ago1:42:03

1:42:03

Fritz finally cracks the topic of Revilo P. Oliver, whose nutty ideas connect the mainstream National Review-types of the Cold War to the whackiest communist conspiracy theories of the John Birch Society, as well as the Turner Diaries and even the rudiments of 'SIEGE-culture'. Reading: Matthew Erlich - Dangerous Ideas on Campus (2021) Frank Mintz -…

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274: Europe's Fashy Election and Patriot Fail Valuetains Us (teaser) 2:11

2M ago2:11

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TENE pod peeks in at the European Parliament election results and then suffers through the PBD Podcast's platforming of Patriot Front's Thomas Rousseau. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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273: Legally Blonde - How the U.S. inspired the Nuremberg Laws 1:33:10

2M ago1:33:10

1:33:10

The Nazis regularly cited the United States as the key inspiration for their infamous Nuremberg Laws; Rey explains the many reasons why. Reading: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Whitman Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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272: TNN Coverage of the Ongoing Conflict in Chakfukia (teaser) 1:46

2M ago1:46

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TENE News Network continues its 24-hour coverage of civil unrest in the tiny nation of Chakfukia. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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MINISODE: Live Aid 2:31:00

3M ago2:31:00

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Send us a Text Message. Live Aid - the 1985 worldwide charity extravaganza - has often been called the "greatest concert of all time." So why is it here getting the Polishing Turds treatment? Well, there's more to Live Aid than the iconic Queen set from Bohemian Rhapsody. There's the disturbing, politically-charged famine that inspired the event in…

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271: Destination Honeymoon - Heinlein Does Hollywood (teaser) 1:44

2M ago1:44

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TENE pod watches two Moon films co-written by Robert Heinlein, the big-budget 'hard sci-fi' George Pal film, Destination Moon (1950), and Heinlein's cheaply made and horrible labor of love, Project Moonbase (1953). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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270: Grok Ship Loonies - Heinlein's Harsh Opus feat. Setti (Zock Bock Radio) 2:14:59

3M ago2:14:59

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Setti once again joins TENE pod to grok Robert A. Heinlein's novels, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and their disturbing prescriptions for an unwelcome future. Check out Settembrini's podcast Zock Bock Radio! pesa-nexus (dot) de/category/zock-bock-radio Music: "World of Automatans", "Light Years", an…

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[UNLOCKED] 191: F-Files III pt. 4 - Project Stargate and the First Earth Battalion 1:29:29

3M ago1:29:29

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Originally published: April 8th, 2023 Fritz narrates the rise and fall of Project Stargate, the US 'intelligence' community 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. Music: Legionnaire by Scott Buckley. Subscribe to patreon.…

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269: Robert A. Heinlein - The Future History of Americanism feat. Setti (Zock Bock Radio) (teaser) 2:11

3M ago2:11

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TENE pod is joined once again by Settembrini of Zock Bock Radio to review the life of Robert A. Heinlein, the libertarian militarist 'Dean of Science Fiction' who brought Sci-Fi into the mainstream. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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268: Fear of the Black Dragon 1:24:04

3M ago1:24:04

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Boris examines the pro-Japanese Pacific Movement of the Eastern world and other movements advocating an Afro-Asian alliance in the US and the subsequent attempts by the US government to blame racial discontent on a shadowy Japanese secret society. Readings: When Japan Was "Champion of the Darker Races": Satokata Takahashi and the Flowering of Black…

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267: May Day Reprisa - KoЯndreanu feat. Young Ezra (teaser) 2:18

3M ago2:18

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The boyzies chew the fat over some bizarre clips of contemporary political life in the US, from biblical curses to Tucker's new 'Racial Holy War Soon' fearmongering, before checking out the lineup of a recent fascist rap festival in Turin, Italy. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.…

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266: Amerikanski Civil War (2024) + Tucker Interviews Dugin (teaser) 1:50

3M ago1:50

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TENE pod has a laidback May Day to chat about the recent Alex Garland film Civil War from a critical and Balkan perspective before ragging on Tucker Carlson's debutante cotillion interview for Aleksandr Dugin. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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#54. CHUMBAWAMBA Part IV: Predicting the Future and Torturing James Hetfield 1:56:06

4M ago1:56:06

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Send us a Text Message. It's a brand new millennium. The "Tubthumping" heyday is long gone and most people have forgotten Chumbawamba even existed. But that doesn't mean our quirky comrades are down for the count; on the contrary they're ready as ever to confront this modern tech dystopia with their trademark wit and biting social commentary, in ad…

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265: We Are Rostov! - Invasion, U.S.A. with J. G. Michael of Parallax Views 1:49:56

4M ago1:49:56

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J. G. Michael of Parallax Views joins Boris and Fritz to watch the 1985 anti-communist Cannon Films production, Invasion, USA, starring and co-written by Chuck Norris. They put the film in the historical context of the theme of Red Dawn-style Communist coup fiction beginning with the 1947 comic book, Is This Tomorrow, illustrated by Charles M. Schu…

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263 Eugenics pt 2 - A Bad Thing Done Badly (teaser) 1:36

4M ago1:36

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Rey continues his study of US Scientific institutions' contribution to the Holocaust and follows the American eugenics movement after the war and its massive effort to whitewash its sordid history. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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264: Madison Grant - feat. Alex Roberts (12 Rules for What) 1:12:53

4M ago1:12:53

1:12:53

Alex from the excellent podcast, 12 Rules for What, returns to TENE pod to tell the unfortunate story of conservationist, eugenicist, and human-zoo keeper Madison Grant, his supporters in the U.S. patrician class, and his brief but definitive moment in the Nazi limelight. Subscribe to 12 Rules For What at twitter.com/12rulesforwhat Read The Rise of…

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262: Lawrence Dennis pt. 2 - Framing a Guilty Man (teaser) 2:01

4M ago2:01

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TENE pod wraps up their biographical look at "America's No. 1 Fascist", Lawrence Dennis, the crazy connections he made in his late career, and his turn from celebrated prophet to seditious outcast in the public mind. Reading: The Color of Fascism - Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald …

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#53. CHUMBAWAMBA Part III: Chumba-WANKER!! 1:37:51

5M ago1:37:51

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Send us a Text Message. At long last, it's TUBTHUMPING TIME!! After endless digressions through history, politics, and obscure music scenes we finally arrive at Chumbawamba's era-defining hit. What does "Tubthumping" mean? What inspired its composition? Which creepy pederast mogul pushed it onto pop radio? We're gonna tell you everything you wanted…

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261: Sons of Synarchy - Mexican Fascists in the USA 1:35:08

5M ago1:35:08

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Boris introduces the podcast to Mexican Synarchism, a little-understood contribution to North American fascism that briefly but impactfully held the attention of the press, activists, and some familiar tene pod villains during the 1930s. Featuring: Trio Paloma - Usamljeni Dečak Also, Song: Mexican Mariachi Background Music Music provided by NCM [No…

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260: Lawrence Dennis pt. 1 - From Child Prophet to Fascist 'Brain' (teaser) 2:04

5M ago2:04

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TENE pod gets to know the 'Brain' of Interwar American Fascism, Lawrence Dennis, from his wild beginnings as a traveling 'colored' child preacher from Atlanta at the end of the 19th century, to his racial 'passing' into the highest echelons of political and class rule in the United States leading up to the Second World War. Reading: The Color of Fa…

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259: Terrifying Tales of the Black Legion feat. Lester Glint 1:57:32

5M ago1:57:32

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Lester Glint joins TENE pod to recount the horrifying history of the Black Legion, one of the most important American fash networks of the interwar period, as well as one of the least understood. The Black Legion took over entire towns and government departments, unleashing a stunning period of quiet terror and assassination, all with the backing o…

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[UNLOCKED] 235: Across The Atlantic To The Partisans! 1:18:13

5M ago1:18:13

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episode originally published October 19th, 2023. TENE pod hears the cinematic true story of a group of Yugoslav communists in Canada who traverse the Atlantic to join the anti-fascist struggle in 1942. They survive U-boat attacks, get stranded at sea, and tell off asshole British officers just to parachute themselves into a war and kill them some N…

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#52. CHUMBAWAMBA Part II: Polk Music 1:28:19

6M ago1:28:19

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Send us a Text Message. Our heroes continue their wayward march toward improbable fame, satiating their anarchic through dalliances with new genres of music, including dance, pop, reggae, and a mysterious unheard-of one which we apparently think exists. And of course this being Chumbawamba, we've supplied the necessary historical context for each e…

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258: Nowhere to Rundo, Patriot Fails, and Bite-Sized Banderites (teaser) 2:20

6M ago2:20

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In another TENE pod news update, the boyzies discuss Rise Above Movement founder Rob Rundo's recent legal tribulations as well as those of the Patriot Front, and then follow the Active Club train to a couple of Oregon teenagers and their American Banderite Network of weirdos. Stumptown Research Collective: Terror Tots: Neo-Nazi Youth In Hillsboro O…

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257: The American Gestapo's HUACky Hawaiian Vacation (teaser) 1:42

6M ago1:42

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The TENE Pod film club meets to watch John Wayne's 1952 anti-communist propaganda film, Big Jim McLain, about a psychotic House Unamerican Activities Committee investigator who hunts for commies in one of the US' most picturesque colonies. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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256: American Legion pt. 2 - "Pretty Fashy..." 1:47:18

6M ago1:47:18

1:47:18

Fritz brings his study into the fascistic history of the American Legion to a temporary close with a look at their colorful interwar career, including involvement in a couple of whacky coup plots! Recommended Reading: The Inside Story of the Legion by Justin Gray (1948). American Legion as Educator by William Gellerman (1938). Enforcing Conformity:…

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#51. CHUMBAWAMBA Part I: The Musical Influence of Cornflakes 1:35:00

6M ago1:35:00

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Send us a Text Message. (Okay FINE we'll tell the actual story of Chumbawamba and not a bunch of obscure noisy punk bands you've never heard of!) Before they were pop superstars, they were a misbegotten collection of misfits from the post-industrial wasteland of Northern England. They lived collectively in a dilapidated squat house, sharing all foo…

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255: Eugenics pt. 1 - The American Science (teaser) 2:25

6M ago2:25

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Rey introduces the tight relationship between US Academia and the Nazis through the Eugenics movement, and its near total hold on US scientific institutions up to the second world war and, for some, long afterward. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.By The Empire Never Ended

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254: American Legion pt. 1 - Death to Slackers, Inc. 1:59:41

6M ago1:59:41

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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 th…

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253: Count Annie and his Fascist Man Cave (teaser) 1:53

7M ago1:53

1:53

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.By The Empire Never Ended

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252: Film Club - "Pretty Girl Reporter Exposes Phony Group", the movie (teaser) 1:34

7M ago1:34

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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.By The Empire Never Ended

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#50. CHUMBAWAMBA PART 0: A Crass Course on Anarcho-punk 1:35:57

7M ago1:35:57

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Send us a Text Message. In 1997 a smash-hit single called "Tubthumping" took the world by storm. Its authors were an eccentric eight-piece outfit from Leeds, England who kept insisting that they were anarchists. Media and fans alike were confused: what did this feel-good drinking song have to do with politics? And what were a bunch of radicals doin…

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251: The Columbians, Inc. versus the KKKops 1:40:50

7M ago1:40:50

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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.By The Empire Never Ended

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250: Every Tom, Dick, and Henry - the WASPs who loved Mussolini (teaser) 2:21

7M ago2:21

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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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249: Arc 5 - Back to the F*cking Americans - "It's like poetry, it rhymes" 1:42:44

7M ago1:42:44

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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.By The Empire Never Ended

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MINISODE: We Need to Talk About Viper... 24:51

7M ago24:51

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Send us a Text Message. CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL ABUSE, KIDNAPPING, AND OTHER GRUESOME SUBJECT MATTER. Hey guys. Remember Viper, that insane meme rapper who sang about the virtues of smoking crack? Well recently he's been arrested on some truly disturbing charges. This story is so monumentally insane that we had to talk about it separa…

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#49. WESLEY WILLIS 1:17:14

8M ago1:17:14

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Send us a Text Message. Wesley Willis was truly one of the strangest dudes to ever touch a keyboard. A street artist and independent musician from Chicago's south side, Wesley self-produced dozens of CDs before amassing a grassroots cult following among hipsters and music nerds. Wesley was a consummate "outsider artist"; his songs are basically lit…

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#48 HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2023: A Very Pandering Christmas 1:29:14

8M ago1:29:14

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Send us a Text Message. HO HO HO! We're finally back for our annual Holiday Special! This year we're examining all the ways that Christmas music gets adapted by and tailored to various subcultures in our society. Rednecks, truckers, metalheads, vegans -- they all have their own Christmas songs, and we'd like to pay homage to this shameless panderin…

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