Call's a media.

What's cold my opening?

This is Behind the Bastards, a podcast that is now introduced slightly differently. We are going to talk about a little bit of history,

me and Margaret Killjoy, and then we're going to throw back to the start of the episode.

Uh, Margaret, what do you know about Prussia? How do you feel about Prussia?

I couldn't put it on a map because it doesn't currently exist.

It's one of those like things that became Germany, right?

Yes, it is the center of the things that became Germany.

Okay, wait, and Bavaria is like the southern part?

Bavaria is the southern part and the Bavarians and the Prussians,

most people would now just be like, well, they're all Germans,

but for a very long time that would that would get you

shot you know like it was a very serious and even up until like when the Franco-Prussian

War started there were a lot of debates about like these you had these different

Army Corps that would have divisions of Prussians, divisions of Bavarians, and the fact

that they were fighting well side by side was this huge deal. Like that's what

welded Germany into being. There was a lot of

Prussians were like, well Bavarians won't stand under fire, you know? There was a lot of

debate about that and the Prussians were, it's funny you're like, I couldn't point it out on a map.

Today I would guess Prussia is most often referenced when people misspell Russia.

But like, for most of the last couple of hundred years,

it was a really big deal.

...