Liz Truss unleashed, Your Party and demolishing the White House – The 20 Weirdest Moments of 2025 – Part 1

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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From Trump remodelling the White House along the fake gold New Jersey steakhouse aesthetic to the shambolic launch of Your Party (splitting the party before there’s a party to split?) 2025 has set new standards in bafflement. But which are the supreme moments of weirdness? Regulars Gavin Esler, Alex von Tunzelmann and Jason Hazeley set out the most bizarre, unnerving and occasionally enchanting moments from a year we can scarcely believe. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Gavin Esler with Alex von Tunzelmann and Jason Hazeley. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to what's now become an annual tradition for all the family, the 20 weirdest
0:13.7	moments of the year, in no particular order, as chosen by us at the bunker. I'm Gavin Esler.
0:20.0	How was 2025 for you? How will we remember the
0:23.1	highlights of a year in which Donald Trump celebrated his return to power by demolishing
0:27.9	part of the White House, along with his already successful demolition work on American democracy,
0:32.6	civil rights and the US relationship with Europe? In Britain, 2025 was the year in which opinion polls suggested
0:39.9	the most popular and uber alas patriotic politician turned out to be Nigel Farage.
0:46.0	Imagine the national sense of shock when we discovered Mr Farage's friend and colleague Nathan Gill,
0:51.5	who he never met, well, only occasionally actually quite a lot,
0:54.6	the one-time leader of Farage's Reform Party in Wales, turned out to have a side hustle involving
1:00.3	bribes from the Kremlin. And so welcome to the bunker's 20 weirdest moments of 2025. Our
1:06.8	format is simple. We're going to talk through the first ten of the strangest, least
1:11.0	comprehensible and most emblematic moments of the year in today's edition. Then do the next
1:16.3	ten in part two. And trust me, separating the weird from what has simply become normal in the
1:21.7	world of 2025 was quite a task. So now, sharing their fondest memories in part one of the weird year that was,
1:29.7	I'm delighted to be joined by two bunker regulars,
1:32.5	historian, broadcaster and author of Fallen Idols,
1:35.7	12 statues that made history, Alex von Tunzelman.
1:39.1	Hello, Alex.
1:39.8	Hello, Gavin.
1:40.8	Also with us, he's a comedy writer for Charlie Brooker's screen wipe,
1:44.7	the Paddington Films, and anything with TV intellectual Philomena Cunk in it.
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