That Time a Biker Gang Tried to Buy a Canadian Nuclear Bunker

This is a story about a Baker, and the Bikers who wanted to buy his Bunker. Let's explore the mysteries of the Diefenbunker.

Many thanks to the Diefenbunker staff who let us film there instead of telling us to leave.

Other songs used are (in order): Long Road, Absolutely Nothing, Stranger Danger, and Empire Seasons from the Youtube Audio Library.

[BobbyBroccoli]

Howdy everyone, thanks for watching. This was an in-between project I came up with in late 2019, and had to delay for...obvious reasons. Moving forward you can expect maybe one or two short casual videos without a ton of fancy animation to tide things over until my next big 3-part doc. That monster project is well underway and I'm very excited about it. It's longer than Schön...by a significant margin.

This month has been a pretty exciting one, I've been doing Youtube for 7-8ish years now and yet I've doubled my subscriber count just in January 2022 alone. I am extremely grateful and all I ask is that you be patient, learning Blender on the fly is difficult lmao

[brockwarkentin]

just thought I would share some sad news, my grandpa died in August. But thankfully I was able to show him this about 3 months before that happened and it made his day.
thanks Bobby

[couragefox]

1:35
"It begs the question"
*lifts shovel*
"where did it come from"
OH MAN HE IS GOING TO SAY "LETS DIG IN"!

*digs shovel into ground*
HE IS GOING TO SAY THE LINE HE IS GOING TO SAY "DIG IN"!
find out"

OH

[charlesclark]

The verified fact is that the former owner of the bunker *claims* that the Hells Angels offered to buy the bunker for a huge sum of money. He then used that claim to scare the government to buy it back for almost as much. Perhaps that claim deserves some scepticism.

[andrewmackay]

Hey Kevan, it’s uncle Andrew. That was excellent. I live in carp and loved the background that there was many more bunkers had no idea.

[markeyboi]

Imagine wasting millions of dollars to... demolish a bunker that could've been repurposed into something useful. If they really didn't want the hells angels to own it, they could've just refused to sell it to them, or rezone it to be a commercial operation, or many many other options besides paying to destroy history.

[DarkkestNite]

you're like if cgp grey merged with bill wurtz and i am HERE for it

[usernameusername]

Thanks for this! Just updated that paragraph in the Wikipedia article to use the Nanaimo Free Press one (actually a republishing of a Canadian Press article) as a source.

[ChristopherMHeaps]

The “government database” you were looking for is called the land registry. It would have given you your private buyer’s name.

[joyshokeir]

I lived around Penhold a few years ago and the bunker story is something of a local legend. Thank you for digging through the rumors to get to the truth.

[rbtmckone]

Love the documentaries, keep up the good work.

[MarsCBG]

Despite living in Ottawa my entire life I've never actually been to the Diefenbunker so it's really interesting to learn the history of the apparently many Diefenbunkers.

[Darkfry]

You finding the missing piece in the comments of a random tour video frickin killed me

[hotcyder]

Great Vid! Love the merging of your old to-camera style with the newer Blender stuff, and a what an interesting story that stemmed out of a small annecdote.

[ovydka]

i've spent the past 2 or so hours watching your videos while painting and what can i say, your content is amazing. thank you for providing such high qualityof entertainment :)

[Hansgame]

i found your channel yesterday and i dont know why you dont have 1 mil. subs, but your videos sir, are over the top entertaining + educational. please never stop making them.

[elijahdschultz]

Hold on. This dude’s high school yearbook says his nickname was Bunker. Did he buy the place while he was still in school? Or is this one of the most fantastic bits of nominative determinism of all time?

[kiaanderson]

Dude, you are going places, seriously. Also congrats on like 3k subs in a day!

[DomyTheMad]

i absolutely love it when a content creator goes "oh this video might not do well but i want to show my viewers how i lost my mind diving down a rabbit hole for like a year or two, idfk i lost count at some point"
it's so satisfying to hear someone sum up their hundreds or thousands of hours spent deep-diving into one nice video

[dobrev_p]

We're all collectively ignoring the snow shovel, are we? OK, cool.