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

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 RU-vid 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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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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.

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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Just finished your big three parter and by coincidence you just uploaded! Nice

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

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4:39 Honestly, based of him to refuse to leave his wife behind

This topic is just so random to make a documentary on, and this is why I love RU-vid and channels, like yours. Amazing video

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.

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this is gold. start to finish, concept, execution, background story, dad on a call, etc. etc. it’s got everything.

This was really cool! I'm not from Canada so I've never heard of any of this but it was a really interesting watch and well-made on your part!

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

The algorithm recently recommended you. Really liked your long form videos. Looking forward to seeing more.

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...

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What a great story. Thanks for sharing!

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Interesting story, thanks for sharing it. I actually learned a lot by proxy- was bored and got curious by your mention of the hell's angels, I'd heard about them a lot but never looked into them, so I went down an internet research rabbit hole about biker gangs and found out about the Quebec Biker War which I had never even heard of, amongst other things. Wouldn't have even thought to look into that stuff if I hadn't learned that HAMC had tried buying a nuclear bunker in Canada, of all things. I highly encourage anyone interested in gang history to check out the Nordic Biker War as well; it's a comedic rollercoaster ride of stolen Swedish rocket launchers, failed carbombs, dud hand grenades, and stupidity on all fronts. On the subject of the bunker however, I'm disappointed it didn't get turned into a paintball arena. Now *that* would be fun.

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Great research. I'd never actually heard that rumor before.

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I went to that Diefenbunker before Covid hit. It's a very cool place. I don't know if it's closed down for now due to Covid but he only shows you the3 entrance part that's above ground. There are several floors below that and it's all very cool, interesting stuff.

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I was excited once I saw a time line coming together because I love the graphics.

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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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