Trump’s AI dirty bombing, frog resistance and roundabout painters – The 20 Weirdest Moments of 2025 – Part 2

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The summer of Flagmania? Donald Trump’s “FIFA Peace Prize” AKA the “At Least You Tried” Award? Albania’s AI Cabinet minister? Ed Miliband, Nuclear ASMR star? The events of 2025 have defied comprehension… but which were the strangest? Regulars Gavin Esler, Alex von Tunzelmann and Jason Hazeley reconvene to complete our run-down of the most jaw-dropping events of a year from hell. 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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0:44.1	Hello and welcome to part two of the bunker's countdown of the weirdest moments of 2025.
0:52.1	I'm Gavin Esler, and I should confess from the start that the ultimate challenge was to find things that outweared the Trump White House in all its glory.
0:55.2	A quick recap. In part one, we reflected on the architectural genius of bulldozing the 200-year-old East Wing of the Weird House, and then we ended with
1:00.4	the intellectual abilities of Liz Truss, someone who is to the art of podcasting, what collar is,
1:05.4	to open water swimming. Now, moving on and sharing the low points and even lower points of 2025 with me, I'm joined again
1:13.0	by two bunker regulars, the broadcaster, historian, and author of Fallen Idols, 12 statues that
1:18.9	made history, Alex von Tunselman. Welcome, Alex. Hi, Gavin. And comedy writer for Charlie Brooker's
1:24.6	screen wipe, the Paddington Films, and anything with TV
1:27.6	intellectual Philomena Kunkin, Jason, Jason. Jason, thank you. Right, let's start with number
1:34.2	10 on our countdown. It has to be flag mania on the streets of England over the summer,
1:38.8	mainly the flag of the patron saint of England, St. George. For the artistically challenged,
1:43.4	the flag of St. George is a lot easier to paint on roundabouts
1:46.4	the Union Jack, I would suggest.
1:48.4	England's Flag mania appears to have started in a suburb of Birmingham with a row over
1:52.7	a 12-year-old girl, apparently prevented from wearing a Union Jack-themed dress at a school
1:57.6	event in rugby.
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