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.
Credits music is "Don't Look for me Now" by Neha Sin. (open.spotify.com/artist/0J5KI...)
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 KZbin Audio Library.
My Patreon: / bobbybroccoli
My twitter: / bobbybroccole

[@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 KZbin 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

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I don't think you need to split it into three parts next time. Mega length videos do quite well nowadays! Dan Olson's video "The Problem with NFTs" as well as Quinton Reviews' "The Failure of Victorious" are two examples of recent monster length videos that I love.

[@BobbyBroccoli]

That is true! But for me I need that breather in between videos. They are quite effort intensive. But also, I've specifically written the story to be paced in 3 parts. At least for the next project 3-parts is ideal

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@@BobbyBroccoli hey man, I am a fellow electrical engineer from Quebec! Just wanted to say hi and that i look forward to your next series! cheers

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​ @BobbyBroccoli Just watched your series on this Hendrik dude and french crypto weirdos, WOW! and I thought that programming was full of crooks and cargo cult voodoo - it's like some people don't get the big picture and just wanna LARP.. anyway great content! thanks! :)

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Love your work, can't wait to see more.

[@brockwarkentin410]

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

[@BobbyBroccoli]

Thanks for letting me know! Really glad he enjoyed it

[@azovac]

This update made my day :) Sorry to hear about your grandpa, Brock.

[@faranocks]

o7

[@Honey_Daddy]

Sorry to hear about that. Wishing you and your family healing.

[@huyxiun2085]

Sorry for your loss, glad he had a bit of fun with this still!

[@couragefox]

1:35 "It begs the question" *lifts shovel* "where did it come from" OH MAN HE IS GOING TO SAY "LETS DIG IN"! "Let's......" *digs shovel into ground* HE IS GOING TO SAY THE LINE HE IS GOING TO SAY "DIG IN"! "..... find out" OH

[@bakedbeings]

Did he get to the bottom of it?

[@Unpleasntguy]

Because snow shovels aren't for digging

[@nyxie2877]

@@UnpleasntguyCourse they are. They’re for digging snow

[@charlesclark3840]

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.

[@edomeindertsma6669]

Posting to watch.

[@yurineri2227]

that seems like too much of a conspiracy to me, the owner could probably have offered prof that Hells Angels were interested in it, and I find it hard the government would have not even asked for that when we are talking about a million-dollar purchase

[@charlesclark3840]

@@yurineri2227 We are talking about the same government that made these nearly pointless bunkers in the first place, right? There was no "proof" mentioned in any of the news reports. If he had "proof" he'd go to the government; instead he went to the media and instigated a FUD based panic buy back. There is no "conspiracy" when only one person is in on it; that is just a scam.

[@yurineri2227]

@@charlesclark3840 it's possible, I just think it's less likely, cuz of Hanlon's razor and all that...

[@smokingsix]

In late 90s and due to disarmament talks ( START & START II ) US government made several nuclear silo sites redundant and subsequently sold off these properties. I dont know what would have made this specific sale so much different? If the government did buy back this bunker, there must be more to the story than Hells Angels trying to buy a building ( after all it is still just a building albeit it having the building underground rather than up above ground ) .

[@markeyboi6545]

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.

[@marikroyals7111]

Right, they could have used the space to store servers as that's what happend to a bunker in Nova Scotia when it was sold.

[@GeezerRay]

They considered flooding the bunker (the one in Carp) to be used for scuba diving. Just one of the suggestions. A friend and neighbor was instrumental in getting it preserved as a museum instead. Also, it was used in filming The Sum of All Fears movie.

[@DevinDTV]

this is why you pay taxes, so they can build shit, sell it, buy it back, and then destroy it for no reason

[@williamwinstrop3918]

It was not torn down. It was turned into a museum. What are you going on about?

[@markeyboi6545]

@@williamwinstrop3918 The video said is was demolished. I think you're talking about a different bunker mate.

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[@BobbyBroccoli]

The Race for Staten Island and Wurtz's first Blender video were big inspirations

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[@BobbyBroccoli]

Currently yes! The Schon series was Google Earth which I have a tutorial for.

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[@andrewmackay1026]

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.

[@BobbyBroccoli]

Haha glad you liked it!

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

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

[@usernameusername4037]

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.

[@joyshokeir1593]

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.

[@Darkfry]

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

[@dobrev_p]

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

[@wiesorix]

So you're confused about the snow shovel, but you don't have questions about the weird bag he's carrying?

[@guy-sl3kr]

@@wiesorix It's full of all the snow he shoveled, duh

[@AutisticPotato7]

Lol

[@weirdofromhalo]

Yes, we should all ignore the puns.

[@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.

[@olgagaming5544]

You can always go there and check out :)

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@@olgagaming5544 yooo you been there?

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[@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?

[@BobbyBroccoli]

I think the yearbook was a 50th anniversary edition and that was his old photo from when he attended. He and his family are shown much older in a family photo on another page (sometime in the 90s or 2000s after he'd have bought the bunker)

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[@Indigochan]

Fun fact there's a Diefenbunker in my hometown in BC! When I was an undergrad I was told it was constructed because Diefenbaker was pals with a local official (can't recall who, probably the mayor) and would visit regularly... except if you google it, they started to build building the bunker is underneath before Diefenbaker was elected which raises the question of who came first: the diefenbunker or the diefenbaker. Just goes to show how cold war secrecy can generate generations of rumors!

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"Let's ... Find out." What an underrated joke

[@BobbyBroccoli]

Okay see everyone is giving me credit for this joke but I swear to god this was completely unintentional. The shovel gag was written in the morning of filming

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I thank you for subtitles. Many KZbin channels do not have captions. For this, I say thank you

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Haha good to know those posts actually do something

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Your ability to find these fascinatingly obscure tales is awe inspiring.

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I wasn't expecting you to have only 15k subs. Keep making videos in this quality and you'll get really big.

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Welp, 25k now two days later.

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Nearly 40K now!

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@@135791max 40k a week later lmao thats crazyyyy

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Same thoughts. This proves the algorithm is such bullsh!t, he said on a comment he's been on KZbin for 8 years and is he is only blowing up now? His videos are 😚👌🏼he just needs some exposure.

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35 in 2 weeks!

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Love it when I binge a whole channel subscribe and there’s a new video the next day.

[@MikePWJr]

You set up the joke, grabbed the shovel and crushed our hearts... *Let's dig in*

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Awesome content, keep it up!

[@TheSillyshyguy]

The Bunkers were never built to take a direct hit. In the old days, Soviet guidance systems were poor and likely unable to target a Bunker and hit it. They could survive reasonable near-misses and protect against fallout. I've worked at several of these bunker installations including CARP from the '70s to the late '80s. Great video BTW.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

But their nukes were so big to compensate for the poor guidance, so there wouldn't be much room for a near miss

[@ablokenamedgeorge]

Great videos mr Broccoli

[@laurao6314]

I grew up near Red Deer and when I saw this title I was like, yeah that doesn't sound far off (love that it was in my backyard haha). Honestly the Hells Angels were a pretty normal part of life in the area, I can't say I ever met a member but you'd see them on the highways and stuff. The town I lived in was a favourite vacation site for them and you could often tell when they were in town because there were helicopters circling. Also side note but apparently there was another bunker for government officials under my old college which was also in the Red Deer area. I heard rumors that they used it for student housing at one point but I'm not sure about that one...

[@froggy4576]

Great vid mr broccoli love watching all your videos with my wife

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Good stuff man

[@quille9879]

Cool that you live in Ottawa! I've enjoyed watching your videos, really love video essays. I actually grew up in Stittsville and still live in Ottawa, but never knew about the Diefenbunker until I heard about it on CBC radio during the pandemic. Kinda neat, I'll have to go there sometime!

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Neat! Professional documentary film work. Less so with the audio but I don't think that would be possible on site lol. Grateful for the normalization of volume. That's better than most

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Awesome video!! I love your documentaries, they're so entertaining and professional😄 Although tell me, what's the symbolism of the snow shovel? Digging for facts? That went over my head😅 Keep up the great content, you've got me and my family all as new subscribers👍👍👍

[@JessicaGorehamPenney]

This video is amazing. I went to museum school at algonquin and touring the carp diefenbunker was an extremely memorable class trip for me!

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I was here when you were small!!! Best of luck from Atlanta!!!

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Found this on my main page, good luck mate