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The BrainFood Show

The Very Real Bear Soldier Who Fought in WWII

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

⁠⁠In this episode of The Brain Food Show, which is partially a continuation of the last, we discuss the bear that was officially a member of the Polish army, how he came to be such and what became of him after WWII ended. We follow this up by discussing the interesting origin of the Live Long and Prosper Vulcan salute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brett Connors, host of Advantage Connors, an ongoing conversation between myself and my pop's tennis legend Jimmy Connors.

0:08.4

Each week we talk about the worlds of tennis, golf, gambling, and anything else that pops into our head.

0:13.4

We love to interview athletes, comedians, and friends.

0:16.3

Listen to new episodes every week on IHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:26.6

Welcome to the Brain Food Podcast. In this one, this is, I don't want to call it a two-partner because today's episode is really different to the one in the previous episode.

0:35.2

Are you feeling too chipper today? Are you looking for something to really bring you down?

0:39.7

Please go back and listen to our last podcast episode

0:42.6

where we just asked about the guy who volunteered to be in Auschwitz

0:45.6

and his heroic, but ultimately, well, I don't want to spoil it

0:49.8

in case you didn't hear last week's episode.

0:51.6

It's depressing but inspiring at the same time. This is amazing. And it's a person we should all learn about because people do something like this. They should be talked about, I feel like. So yeah, go listen, learn. I completely agree. Whenever I hear someone who doesn't want to go and see something like depressing or miserable or read something that's an important part of history because it's just too miserable. I kind of like,

1:12.2

I agree, but you should because it also puts things in context, you know, because a lot of things,

1:19.0

you know, just like with everyday life, it puts everything in context. You're just like, yeah.

1:23.4

Off the air. We were complaining about going to the grocery store and it's like, oh, God, I got it, USA, I got about going to the grocery store.

1:27.8

And it's like, oh, God, I got it. USA, I got to go to the grocery store. It's so busy because it's 4th of July to Moran. I'm doing a barbecue. And it's like, it's not that bad. Just come on. But, yeah, it's a fantastic way to put things in perspective. Yeah, I've got to go to that grocery store that has like every food imaginable at my fingertips for cheap.

1:47.2

Yes.

1:47.9

We are. It's a fantastic way to put things in perspective. Yeah, I've got to go to that grocery store that has like every food imaginable at my fingertips for cheese.

1:47.2

Yes.

1:47.8

We are, we are horribly, horribly spoiled.

1:50.3

Today, though, if you are listening to this from the future and you've stacked up all our back episodes and you were made miserable by last week's episode, today a fighting bear.

2:00.4

I feel like this is where we did that

2:01.5

Roosevelt episode and then it was like, and then what was he doing? It was something about

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