{"podcast":{"title":"The Eastern Border","slug":"the-eastern-border-1102925","podcast_index_feed_id":1102925,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/cfd8aed5-6d63-4b2f-b325-46e4b5665583","website_url":"http://theeasternborder.lv/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6100808131fd81f125b34da8/show-cover.jpg","author":"Kristaps Andrejsons","episode_count":742,"summary":"A podcast about the politics and the history of the eastern Europe - including, but not limited to the current state of Russia, politics of the EU, history of the USSR and the region in general. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T22:19:30.944993+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-eastern-border-1102925"},"episode":{"title":"2.15 The Z-Files","slug":"2-15-the-z-files","published_at":"2026-03-16T21:13:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-eastern-border-1102925/2-15-the-z-files","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-eastern-border-1102925","url":"https://shows.acast.com/theeasternborder/episodes/215-the-z-files","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/theeasternborder/e/69b8725e7ebe44dc8b27d56c/media.mp3","summary":"Greetings, comrades, and welcome back to the bunker. Today, we’re broadcasting live from The Eagles—just 22 kilometers from the Russian border—and stepping straight into the geopolitical Twilight Zone. Usually, we analyze the collapse of the Russian Empire using logic, economics, and military strategy. But the Russian elite has officially abandoned reality. The cognitive dissonance of losing a war to Ukraine has broken their imperial brains, and the Z-Swamp has devolved into an incoherent, Roswell-level conspiracy cult. Evita joins me to wade through the absolute darkest, most radioactive ideological rot the Russian internet has to offer. In this episode of The X-Files of the Z-Swamp: 🛸 The Ultimate Tinfoil Hat: Z-intellectuals seriously hypothesize that the Kremlin is secretly run by Ukrainian sleeper agents. 🛸 The 60km Kill Zone & \"Big Meat\": Russian armor gets vaporized by autonomous drones while the home front blames the confiscation of Siberian cows on shadowy corporate meat monopolies. 🛸 Schizophrenic Prayers: Hardcore nationalist Vladimir Kvachkov drops to his knees to pray to Tsar Nicholas II... and then prays to the ghost of Joseph Stalin to build the \"Orthodox Russian Soviet Union.\" 🛸 Navigating by the Stars: The digital Iron Curtain falls as Moscow shuts down mobile internet, forcing residents to navigate the capital by looking at the North Star. 🛸 The Telegram Mutiny: Frontline troops threaten a mutiny as military police send them to penal meat assaults just for using unapproved messenger apps. 🛸 Imperial Impotence: Solovyov screams at the Central Bank, the BRICS bluff collapses, and an Archpriest tells the dying peasantry to stop going to doctors and just pray it away. The truth isn't out there. It's drowning in a puddle of its own madness right next d…","meta_description":"Greetings, comrades, and welcome back to the bunker. Today, we’re broadcasting live from The Eagles—just 22 kilometers from the Russian border—and steppin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2913,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-eastern-border-1102925/episodes/2-15-the-z-files/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-eastern-border-1102925/2-15-the-z-files.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}