PDB Afternoon Bulletin | December 31st, 2025: The 2025 Stories We Didn’t Cover On The PDB

December 31, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: This solo-hosted year-end special deviates from the podcast's standard national security briefings to deliver a lighthearted roundup of 2025's most absurd, viral mishaps, blending wry narration with punchy storytelling for holiday levity. Amusingly irreverent and observational.
The Format: A solo host monologue structured like a casual news briefing but focused on entertaining oddities.
The Key Players:
Just Hosts: Mike Baker, the sharp-witted CIA veteran and PDB host, delivers solo with deadpan humor and insider flair, riffing on bizarre tales to cap the year in self-deprecating, crowd-pleasing style—no guest banter, just his signature mix of sarcasm and charm driving the festive chaos.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:34) **New Year's Eve Intro & Special Episode Format**
2 (01:33) **Drunken Raccoon Crime Spree in Virginia**
3 (03:50) **Nantucket Christmas Stroll Turns into Street Brawl**
4 (07:14) **Teaser for Upcoming Stories**
5 (11:05) **Florida Man Naked Robbery at Lake City Meat Market**
6 (13:07) **Deer with Plastic Bag "Mask" Triggers Intruder Call in Ramapo, NY**
7 (15:08) **Episode Close & New Year Wishes**

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Show Notes

In this special New Year’s Eve edition of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin Mike Baker looks back at the stories from 2025 that didn’t quite make it into the President’s Daily Brief — not because they weren’t real, but because they didn’t fit the daily intelligence picture.

From a drunken raccoon with a rap sheet in Virginia, to a Christmas brawl on Nantucket that left police reports looking more like classified documents, to Florida man staying firmly on brand, and a “masked intruder” in New York who turned out to be something else entirely — these are the strange, true stories that crossed our radar this year.

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