Friday’s Wrap-Up with Bob: August 15, 2025 (Transcript)

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• Hi, Bob Barney here for another Friday wrap-up. It’s Friday time again. We’re looking forward to this weekend and by the end of the show, we’ll give you what’s gonna play over the weekend for tomorrow’s Sabbath show,
• 0:11tomorrow night’s book or short story that we always do or small video or TV show. And then we probably will give you an idea for Sunday, but I do not as of yet have a Sunday show planned, but maybe I’ll think of something in the recording of this show for Sunday as well.

• 0:33But the first thing I’m gonna get into was Monday’s news. We’re gonna start back from the beginning of the week and this AMD, Nvidia deal with Donald Trump, where now he’s gonna give them a license to sell our most advanced computer chips to our so-called enemy, China, if they give him and his government
• 0:54a 15% kickback. You know, this sounds like we’re dealing with the mafia here. And so now it’s okay for the American citizens to be put at risk selling Chinese military the chips they need to bomb us. This is what we were told by all these conservative Republicans, these MAGA Republicans who were so mad at all the corruption of the Bidens and the Obamas and the Clintons, and we are
• 1:18now going to do the same thing. And we did a show on this, I believe it was Wednesday, and I hope you go back and you listen to the show. I think it was called Fascism, Corruption and our National Security – Bob Barney Details America’s Death Spiral – The Plain Truth where I get into it and I play the different recordings from different shows that talked about the topic and I could not
• 1:41find one who could find anything but a little problems with this whole idea that we can trade national security, if that is the case, for 15% kickback. But then again, let’s say it’s not national security and we’re charging the 15% kickback for doing something, then we lied. The Trump administration has lied about calling it national security when it wasn’t. There is no two ways out of this and it’s just something that I think that we as Trump supporters, and I think a lot of the people listening to me probably are Trump supporters, probably a lot of them
• 2:19are not listening to me now because I have become unglued on Donald Trump because I will call a spade a spade. I am not beholden to any man. I’m beholden to God the Father and God Jesus Christ and that’s it. I’m not beholden to any advertiser. The Plain Truth takes no advertisements. We never will. I run out of money, the show goes off, the website goes down. That’s up to God. It’s not up to me, it’s up to God. But going on to this idea that we’re for sale, our news organizations are for sale, our businesses
• 2:54are for sale, and our government is for sale. And it’s what is the reason why America is in decline. And America is a dying empire. We’re going down the road to oblivion and unfortunately, you know when this happened to England and it did happen to them after World War two, actually leading into World War two, when this happened to them, there was the United States of America, a great God-fearing nation ready to take over the reins from England and move us forward. Who’s gonna follow us? China? India? No. It’s gonna be
• 3:34the EU. It’s gonna be a unified Europe and it’s gonna be a Europe that’s gonna turn out to be the worst monster that the world has ever seen, and you can read all about it in your Bible, it’s called the Beast of Revelation. The 10 nation kingdom that comes out of Europe, the Holy Roman Empire, given its power by the Catholic Church, and you’re gonna find out
• 3:57what it’s really all about when you’re the worst government that will ever be on the face of this earth and be the one in power when Jesus Christ returns and defeats that government and that beast called the Antichrist. So that’s what’s gonna follow us.
• 4:12We don’t have a good country gonna follow us like we followed England. And England, when they lost their handle and they went into oblivion, which they are today, the United States of America was there to save the world. There’s nobody here to save the world after we’re gone and our leaders, including Donald Trump, is making sure we’re gonna be gone. So I’m gonna go on
• 4:35to the next topic which is still a problem and that was Tuesday’s inflation report. I know the media is trying to pass it off that it was a decent report. It wasn’t that bad of an increase in inflation. It was only two tenths or three tenths of a percent increase but it was a increase in inflation and there’s just no other way you can you can talk about it. It was an increase in inflation and right now the cost of price, or I should say the cost of goods that you buy, because of the Biden administration,
• 5:09after COVID, went up 25, 35, 40%. We are still at that 35, 40% inflated number that when you go to the grocery store, or you go to get gasoline, or you go to pay your rent or your mortgage, or your insurance bills,
• 5:26that high level has not gone down any, and it’s just gone up. And it’s going up, they say, 2.7 to 3.1% a year. That is staggering when you think of the government itself thinks we should have no better than a 2% inflation. Well, if we had a 30% inflation under Biden,
• 5:47and I’ll go even lower, if we had a 20% inflation under Biden, which we did had much more than that, and you do the 2% per year thing, in the four years of Biden we had 10 years of inflation. Think about that. The Fed would say it should take 10 years to inflate by 20%. Well, I think we inflated by at least 30% during those four years,
• 6:13which means those four years really equaled 15 years of inflation. So we should really be in a deflation if the economy was running strong. I believe if we got rid of the income tax, we went to a fair tax, and I think
• 6:28if Donald Trump was like the Donald Trump of 2017, which I don’t believe he’s going to be in the rest of this administration, I actually believe this is a lost presidency and a lost chance for America. And it’s actually a noose around our neck, what
• 6:42he’s doing with these tariffs. But if we got rid of the tariffs, we’d practice the economic programs of Ronald Reagan, and what is sound economic sense, we would have a boom in this economy, and we could have grown ourselves out of our national debt.
• 6:58We could have done many, many things with a high GDP and become the leader of the world again, which we are not being today. All one really has to do, and I pointed this out on the program earlier this week, is look in the Bible and look about inflation. Or you can go to a search engine and write inflation, revelation of the Bible, and or inflation and the four horsemen of Revelation. And you will see that the four horsemen of Revelation and you will see that the
• 7:25third horsemen of Revelation is inflation. It’s the pestilences and the problems that caused by inflation when your dollar no longer can feed you and inflation makes dollars more and more dollars needed to buy the same amount of goods. Go back to ancient, not ancient, but go back to Germany 1930 and 33 where it took a wheelbarrow of German Deutschmarks to buy a loaf of bread. I actually have a 10 million dollar German coin from then, a coin that was 10 million, and I believe I have a hundred million dollar
• 8:06Note paper note from them and that’s what you needed to get by one month That is the inflation today’s Zimbabwe and I have this as well has a 1 trillion dollar bill a 1 trillion dollar bill Because it takes like several trillion dollars to buy a home and this is what inflation does and inflation is a curse from God by not following the will of God. We want a hundred and fifty years as a nation without any any inflation whatsoever and since the 1920s and World War one era and this big spending government on both parties,
• 8:46we’ve seen nothing but stagflation, inflation, and the loss of the middle class. You know, if you’re a grandfather like I am, and a father, mother, grandmother, you have to really wonder what kind of society, what kind of world are we leaving for our children? We have turned our back on God, and I think that’s provable, and that’s what a lot of what the show is about, because God is news, and God is a part of the news,
• 9:13and the news is that God is not happy with the people of America. All you have to do is read some of the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and some of the minor prophets prophets and what God talks about a nation who no longer listens to their Lord and listens to their God, obeys his commands and his commandments and his statutes and regulations, dishonor his Sabbath days, and follow
• 9:41pagan false religion, worshipping of a false Christ, a false God, Baal worship as it’s called in the Old Testament, false Christianity as Paul calls about it in the New Testament. And we are taking this nation and driving it into the ground
• 10:00and we’re destroying the world that we could have given to our children and grandchildren, a better world, and we’re destroying the world that we could have given to our children and grandchildren a better world and we’re actually making a worse world where people are not gonna live as long because of the food they’re eating and because of the chemicals in their life. People are not going to be as healthy, people are not going to be as happy because every scientific proof you can
• 10:21ever come up with shows you that people who believe in God are happier than people who are atheists and then the promoting of the gay and I don’t like to call it gay because there’s nothing gay about it it’s queer lifestyle is another thing that leads to suicides these people are not happy nor should they be happy I’m not saying we should hate the people I’m not saying that it is not a problem for those people and they’re stuck without hope
• 10:48because they are stuck without hope unless they can find God who can help them work their way out of any type of sin. God has all the power of healing and God can help anyone get back to God’s presence if they’re only willing to try and listen
• 11:05it’s not gonna happen overnight an adulterer don’t stop overnight a sinner don’t stop overnight and a Homosexual does not stop overnight, but if they admit their sin It’s like an alcoholic once he admits. He’s an alcoholic he can move forward. I’ll be right back after these words about The Plain Truth.
• Hello, Bob Barney again for theplaintruth.com, the place to go to to find today’s news in the light of what God has to say about it. When you compare today’s news with the Bible, some of today’s news has nothing to do with the Bible, a lot does. That’s theplaintruth.com where you find the Message Board, Your Health Today, and these podcasts on theplaintruthtoday.com.
• 11:46Thank you for listening. Well, we’re back with its Friday wrap-up and we’re going to get into the next subject. I think yesterday’s program, if you listened to the noontime program, you might want to go back if you didn’t. I was talking and I actually did last night’s program, I’m sorry, yesterday’s noon program the night before. I did it Wednesday night’s program, I’m sorry, yesterday’s noon program the night before. I did it Wednesday night to catch up because it was like a generic thing, and it was talking about the inflation number and
• 12:13how people just do not understand what’s happening. They don’t want to see the truth. They want to be an asterisk with their head buried in the sand. And you listen to all these so-called experts, I call them the lying prophets of Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Isaiah, the people that you watch on these business channels, they’re going to lie to you because it’s to their interest to push the stocks, to push the stock market, because like a bookie, they make money
• 12:41if you make money or if you lose money. They make money, whatever you do, they’re getting their cut right then. And so they’re telling you things not to worry about things when you should be worried. There’s all kinds of evidence out there that we are in trouble economically and that these tariffs that Donald Trump put into effect against the whole world is coming back to bite us. The idea that we’re gonna make 30 extra billion dollars a month off of tariffs
• 13:09and nobody’s paying for those tariffs, well we found out yesterday that that was bogus. Now I did the show before yesterday’s show, I’m sorry, before yesterday’s news came out about the PPI, I did the show Wednesday night because, like I said, it was going to be a generic show and I just wanted to get it up and put it up there and have Thursday done for I could have a day, you know, a little restful day.
• 13:39But anyway, to make a long story short, we put the show up and it was so timely because by the time it played noontime, the news of the PPI, that’s the price index, the producer’s price index came out showing that we had the highest inflation in three years to producers. Now I and my wife own a company, we’re producers, we’re a manufacturing company. We have been seeing the effects of these tariffs for months, but we haven’t passed them on to the consumer because we were hoping, stupidly maybe, that these tariffs would go away. But they haven’t gone away. They’re gonna eventually have to go away
• 14:18once the entire American economy tanks, and it’s going to tank. So the next few days and the next few weeks you’re going to be hearing more than you want to hear news about this awful economy. So I had a show yesterday and I hope you go back and listen to it if you didn’t, predicting that these people are lying about what’s happening to this economy. There is all kinds of signs out there from the unemployment numbers to the participation
• 14:50force because unemployment means nothing if people aren’t looking for a job but they’re out of a job. And when you have a 62% participation rate, meaning only 62% of eligible workers are working, that tells you we have an unemployment rate of around 38%. That is higher than the unemployment rate during the Great Depression. And this has not changed since the days of COVID and Biden and now under Trump.
• 15:17And everybody’s poo-pooing that idea. They don’t even talk about it. They say, oh, we only have a 4.2% unemployment. That’s basically zero. It’s nonsense. There’s a lot of people who don’t want to work. They don’t have to work in this welfare state of ours, this declining empire that we were a part of, we all shared in the glory of, and now we’re
• 15:36watching the demise of as I’m pointing out. But yesterday was a shock. It was a shock on Wall Street. I don’t know why it was a shock. I knew it. I’m not on CNBC. I’m not on Fox Business. I’m not on Bloomberg. Yet I seem to know a lot more what’s going on with the economy than these so-called experts.
• 15:55Can I tell you why? I can tell you why right now. I know more about these so-called experts because I’m in the business world every single day of my life and they’re not. They’re just people like, they’re like a college professor. They talk about the world but they don’t experience the world. They’re in this little, this little capsule, this little spaceship of their own and they don’t even feel anything.
• 16:17They’re making their million or two million dollar a year salaries or more if you’re a top star and they are totally, totally protected against what you and I and the average middle class person goes through. They don’t even understand Wall Street, I mean Main Street.
• 16:34They don’t even understand Wall Street for that matter. But they don’t even understand Main Street or Real Street America. They are living in their little encapsulated life, just happy as all can be that things are going their way and they’re going to sit there and they’re going to hawk you to get into the
• 16:49stock market even if it crashes because they don’t care if you lose all your money. And that’s what’s happening. The middle class of America are going broke. That is why other nations have to buy our debt because Americans cannot afford to buy government bonds and government debts anymore because we just simply don’t have the money. We’ve been taxed to death. We’ve been screwed to death by our
• 17:13leaders, our evil leaders at that, and it’s continuing even under the Trump world. And I got news for you. I have said this and i supported donald trump in twenty sixteen twenty twenty in twenty twenty four but i’d believe i am watching a very very corrupt administration here on administration for sale and it’s really does bother me because now we have what was i thought our last hope
• 17:39uh… selling out to everybody around the world donald trump truly wanted to make America great again, why does his sons go all over the world investing in properties all over the world and building golf courses in Scotland, Kuwait, Eastern Europe? Like I predict, we’re gonna see a few of those pop up in China, and then China is gonna have a 25% tariff, and China
• 18:02is gonna be the end result winner of this so-called trade war. And America is gonna be in worse shape before this trade war started than we were three years ago. And it’s terrible news for Americans
• 18:18who really do care about this country. I really do care about this country. But mainly I care about the middle class of this country, the people who keep this country afloat, and they’re sinking, and they’re sinking fast, and America is in trouble. And I’ll tell you right now, unless something happens real soon, America’s going to stay in trouble. I’m just afraid, I’ll tell you this right off the top of my head here, I’m just afraid that
• 18:41this is just the beginning of the woes of the American economy and the future of the American middle class and American people. And it does, like I said, it’s very disturbing. I’ll be right back. Hi, Bob Barney again for theplaintruth.com. Please go to the plaintruth.com every day, go to Your Health Today, go to the Message Board, go to these podcasts and find out what’s going on and really what is causing what is going on and the real reasons for it without the filtered news that you’re watching paid for by
• 19:12their advertisements. Remember, there are no advertisements on theplaintruth.com. We take nobody’s money, we are beholding to no one, and so therefore you’re getting the plain truth without filters. Well we’re back and about the last thing and by the time you hear this I don’t think we’re gonna hear anything back before noontime and I’m doing this in the morning so but there’s the big meeting between Trump and Putin today and we’re gonna find out what
• 19:39happens I don’t know very much is going to happen. They’re both gonna say great progress was made and there’s all gonna be kinds of hoopla, but I don’t think much is gonna happen. I hope I’m wrong. I would love to see the war end in Ukraine. I hate to see all these people suffering and dying needlessly, but I think Donald Trump found out that his arrogance about he could end this war in just one day just did not turn out. And that was the beginning in my mind when back in January and February that I realized that Donald Trump’s presidency this time around had some problems
• 20:19coming. I don’t think he handled Putin very well at all. I do believe he thought he could handle Vladimir Putin and that they were friends, which was very naive on his part. And I believe that he thought his great negotiating style was going to win the day. And it was a very bad miscalculation for a lot of people who have died since. And the plain truth of the matter is, is Mr. Putin is a monster. He’s an idiot and I think he’s going to end up going a very horrible
• 20:53death himself and he’s going to put his nation into great jeopardy with the re-emergence of Central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire, which he has no clue about. He’s supposed to be a great historian, but I don’t think he knows his history very well. But I do know he’s a killer. He’s a mafia type boss.
• 21:11And anyone who thinks, like George Bush II, said I can look into his eyes and I could see his soul, he was a fool, he was a complete idiot. His presidency was absolutely a disaster for America. Only Obama and Biden were worse. And Donald Trump thinking that he had some kind of
• 21:28a magic spell over Putin I think is going to be wrong. I hope there is a way that Putin realizes that the war has to stop because Trump can offer him some good things for Russia and for Putin if Putin only had a brain to understand it.
• 21:48Because Putin might be able to wiggle his way back into the G10, G7, G10, whatever it would be if Russia got back into it, and become center stage on the world play again. He liked that. He liked when he’s as arrogant as Donald Trump. And he would like to be back in the modern world again and be a leader and go into all these countries and and having people worship him like Donald Trump wants. But if if Donald Trump played his
• 22:14cards right today, I think if he did, I think he could end this war because he could show Putin a better result for his ego than winning a war with a country that has been destroyed. And that’s all I have to say about that. I just, like I said, I’m very sad when all the deaths and tragedies happen, especially when we talk about children. Children do not deserve the parents and the leaders of this world. Parents, and I won’t even the parents and the leaders of this world. Parents, and I don’t want you to say parents, the leaders of this world, the
• 22:50evil rulers of this world, decision-makers of this world, are the worst thing that has happened to children since the dawn of ages, because children are ultimately the worst ones to have to pay the price of stupidity. And that’s what we have running the world the price of stupidity. And that’s what we have running the world today is stupidity. We don’t follow God, we don’t follow God’s principles, and therefore we fall into the same history repeating itself over and over
• 23:17and over again. But we’ll see, we’ll talk about this probably next week, maybe even as close as Monday. Now this weekend, we’ll go over the weekend show, we always do that. This weekend, starting tonight, I’m gonna say this weekend starting tonight, I’m gonna have a 7-Eleven short show
• 23:36previewing tomorrow’s Sabbath morning show at 7-Eleven a.m., which is Garnert at Armstrong Armstrong and it’s the true gospel and tonight I’m gonna introduce some of the people who do not know who Garner Ted Armstrong is. He’s been dead now some 23 years or so but he was a voice that many people knew in the 1960s. I’ll give you a little a little caveat that people who may listen to old country and western
• 24:05music, I know a lot of younger people don’t, but I don’t know how many younger people listen to the show. But Garner Ted Armstrong, one of his best friends for many years, was a very famous country and western singer, probably one of the most famous of all time, Merle Haggard. They used to go hunting together. And when Garner Ted Armstrong died, Merle Haggard gave an interview saying he was probably
• 24:27the most influential person behind Johnny Cash in his entire life. And that’s a story on its own. And someday I might do a story all about Garner Ted Armstrong and mistakes he made and also how I think he changed the world of how someone should look at our world leaders, history, and the future. Because I think he was one of the most intelligent people, and I say this over and over again,
• 24:53that I’ve ever talked to, knew, and I actually did some work for him, wrote some stories for him back in the day. And I think he had some faults when it came to doctrine because of his father, but for the most part the man had a very rapid brain and this man could talk off the top of his head with facts, figures, and he was phenomenal. No one I ever known could do what Garnerted Armstrong could do and he could do it with a perfect voice. He had a mesmerizing voice.
• 25:25He didn’t sound like one of these Southern evangelist types, you know, trying to rob all your money from you. He had a sense of humor like I just have never been able to duplicate, nor have I heard anybody else have his sense of humor. So tonight, in this little 7-Eleven short show,
• 25:42I’m gonna play just a little bit of tomorrow’s show showing that sense of humor and sarcasm, and it’s really good. So I hope you listen to tonight’s show, and if you do, I guarantee you, you will wanna listen to tomorrow’s 7-Eleven AM show.
• 26:00The Sabbath show for tomorrow is the Sabbath, and we believe that we should follow the Sabbath. Saturday is the Sabbath. Now tomorrow night we have a short story and it’s a short story. It’s not a video or anything like that and it is a fairy tale. It’s a fairy tale written by Oscar Wilde and it’s something children could listen to at least at least if they’re five or six or more and
• 26:24it’s still great for adults to listen to, at least if they’re five or six or more, and it’s still great for adults to listen to. It’s only about 25 minutes, so not going to take a lot of your time. And it’s called The Devoted Friend. And what we’re going to find out about that fairy tale, it’s not very good of a devoted friend.
• 26:40And how many people in our life, and hopefully we’re not one of these so-called devoted friends that we see in this story, but how many devoted friends in our life turn out to be like this story’s devoted friend? And it’s a tragedy of a little story and it’s a great fairy tale and there’s a good message and meaning behind it and I hope everybody listens. And that’s 7 11 p.m. tomorrow night, Sabbath night, Saturday night, 7.11 p.m. The Oscar Wilde short story, The Devoted Friend.
• 27:11And in Monday, I’m sorry, Sunday morning, 7.11, we only have one show always on Sunday. It’s our 7.11 a.m. show. You can watch it all day long because you can just go to the computer and listen to it today.
• 27:23I mean, not today, but Sunday, Monday, forever after it’s put live. And it is called, Why America’s Economy is Weaker Than Anybody Thinks. Well, I’m not anybody here because I already know that we have a weak economy. I know we are in trouble. We are in trouble and we have leaders and we have people on TV and the news shows and the business shows all lying about the problems facing America. The $37 trillion debt is burying us and so is the lazy Americans refusing to work with
• 27:5638% of American workers who are eligible to work, are staying home sitting on their butts, or working under the table for cash, costing this money trillions of dollars in productivity. And we could work our way out of this debt. If we had politicians cutting spending and doing what is best for this country instead of thinking about themselves, and we had politicians who were not corrupt, next week we’re gonna have a show, it’s gonna shock everybody, about politicians, congresspeople, making tons of money on Wall Street
• 28:31because they have insider information and how they’re all secretly selling their stocks right now. What do they know that they don’t want you to know? They get on these business shows, oh, the Trump economy’s, after you’re a Republican, that is, oh, the Trump economy is the best we’ve ever seen. This man is
• 28:48like God. But they’re selling all of their stocks. But they’re not telling you that because they’re liars. They’re cheats, they’re liars, and they’re frauds. That’s the plain truth. And that’s the plain truth for this week. We’re at our week with our Friday wrap-up. Bob Barney wishing everyone a very safe and happy weekend. I do hope you follow the Sabbath day or you start looking into following it because that’s what God wants you to do, and that you stay safe, you enjoy yourself, get a little bit of rest, and we’ll see you back here again Monday on
• 29:21theplaintruthtoday.com. Until then, Bob Barney saying thanks for listening. theplaintruthtoday.com. Until then, Bob Barney saying thanks for listening. Bye-bye.