Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: December 19, 2025 (Transcript)

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Hi, Bob Barney and it’s Friday wrap-up time again. Another week’s gone by and we’re still on location in sunny Florida. It’s not always been sunny but it’s actually gotten to be pretty good weather in the last week.

We came down here, left a lot of snow in Virginia and we came down here and two very cold conditions where we are here in Florida and it’s been warming up a little by little and we have been getting some sun and so the first thing I really wanted to talk about is there’s more airstrikes against boats, supposedly drug boats and I am not still sure of that and I looked at a map today on TV and it was on News Nation of all the different, I think it’s like 30 boats now that’s been destroyed. Some of these boats are a thousand miles in the Pacific from Venezuela and then I’m saying how do we know what a boat a thousand miles in the Pacific and why would a drug boat be straight west of Venezuela nowhere near North America a thousand miles out in the Pacific? It doesn’t make sense to me and I don’t believe a lot of this makes sense to me and I’m very concerned about some of the things that I’m seeing and I understand a lot of people who want to give Trump as much credit as possible and as much leeway as possible and I was one of those even after he did the tariffs which I knew was bad for my business personally but I understood at first if if there was a purpose to all this and there’s not. What we are seeing in my opinion and I know there’s going to be a lot of pushback and people that I know and I really respect and like are going to disagree wholeheartedly but I think we’re seeing the beginning of a man with megalomania with a man like a Nero Caesar who thinks so highly of themselves it’s called delusions of grandeur where everything has to do with themselves and when you have is tragic murder of Rob Reiner and his wife by their own son and I will tell you I am no Rob Reiner fan whatsoever he’s a liberal he was a very liberal moronic person in my in my opinion but the idea that the President of the United States comes out and says well he basically what he said is we deserve what he got because he was an anti-trumper a never trumper really so I’ve voted for Donald Trump in 2016 I voted for Donald Trump in 2020 I voted for Donald Trump in 2024 I gave Donald Trump’s between my wife and myself we gave him over six thousand dollars worth of donations to get re-elected in 2024 and if I now talk against him I deserve to be killed by my own kids is that the message we should have is it a message that we find out that Donald Trump is secretly plotting and this is the plain truth my friends you can start googling this looking it up he wants to put his image on a dollar coin no president no living being is to be put on any American coinage do you know for the first I don’t know 75 80 years of this country it was not any person allowed on the face of a coin including George Washington who was then dead because our forefathers saw that as Caesar-like idolatry on a coin whose face is on this coin you remember that story from the Bible Caesar’s face then rendered to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God Christ said but you notice the idea the emperors megalomaniacs put their images on coins kings like the king of England and the king of France put their image on coins but Americans did not even put their president’s image on coins and it wasn’t until after basically the 1850s and 60s with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln we started seeing presidents show up or dead people or famous people they had to be dead first show up on our coins and on our dollar bills and and our currency but it was it for some 80 some years before that practice even happened and now we’re finding out he wants to put his image on a coin while he’s still president for 70 for I’m sorry for 2026 for the 250th anniversary of this country he wants to have an anniversary dollar legal tender dollar coin with his image on it if that is not megalomania I don’t know what is and I’m sorry if I offend people but that’s what it is you got to see a Caesar for what a Caesar is and a Caesar is anti-god a Caesar is not the person we want to have as a president right now and like I said I voted for this man three times I became well off because of this man’s first time around and I am not beholden to any human being on this earth I’m only beholding to the God of the Bible the God who saved me from my own sins the God who has promised me eternal life and a God who has told me to follow no man to worship no man and to idolize no man but to only follow and worship and idolize Jesus Christ and God the Father and that’s what I intend to do and if that separates me from all those Trumpites out there these ever Trumpers who who want to worship Donald Trump as Jesus Christ and that’s what I see when you start putting your images on coins you put your images on everything you are you are trying to be a godlike figure now I find out this week that Donald Trump now wants to make an arch of triumph in Washington DC an arch of victory a Donald Trump arch like Caesar did when he returned from his victories Donald Trump is trying to recreate the Roman Empire well I got news for you Donald Trump is not the Roman Empire’s emperor and the United States is not the Roman Empire we’re like the modern Romans maybe because we’re destroying ourselves as they did but Europe is going to take that mantle away from Donald Trump Europe is the Holy Roman Empire in the making all over again the resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire is going to happen maybe in our lifetime I’m not sure that I’m not one of those who tell you when the end of the world is going to be I just know it’s going to be because the Bible says so but the the beast of revelation the Antichrist is coming out of Central Europe and it’s either Germany or Italy in my opinion both have good reasons why it could be either but Italy and Germany and all of Central Europe will be a part of the king of the north the beast government talked about in Daniel chapter 11 and the idea that Donald Trump thinks he’s going to make America into this great colonial empowered empire like ancient Rome he’s he’s a megalomaniac and he’s suffering from delusion as all megalomaniacs do and I’m sorry but that could also be a sign of dementia because I’ve listened to and read quite a few articles from quite a few psychologists and psychiatrists and and neurologists doctors that are on record although you don’t see it published too many places but you can find it if you search on record saying he’s showing very very decisive signs of dementia and of megalomania caused by dementia where someone their whole life kind of has delusions of grandeur but they were able to control it in their business life but once they get in dementia like an alcoholic once they get dementia what ends up happening is they start living out publicly the life they had in their mind secretly you know Donald Trump’s very own chief of staff Susie Wiles and a and you can see this on the Plain Truth we have the story up there from Vanity Fair she was interviewed now for the last year every week it seems like and she compares Donald Trump this is the current chief of staff of Donald Trump and she compares Donald Trump to an alcoholic now we know Donald Trump doesn’t drink and doesn’t do drugs and he doesn’t smoke but what does she mean well her father was a severe alcoholic and what she says what happens with alcoholics is they get on this high and especially when they’re drunk and they think they can do no wrong and they think nothing can happen to them that’s why they drive a car off a cliff at 100 miles an hour thinking they can’t die because they become mentally impaired when they’re impaired when they’re an alcoholic and that’s what she said Donald Trump is this is the current chief of staff and if that doesn’t worry somebody I don’t know what should now she still thinks he has great things to do and great things he still can do but I am saying right now unless somebody other than Susie Wiles which by this article looks like she does stand up against him and probably will find the firing squad because of it but unless more of Trump’s cabinet starts to stand up to him and push back some of his moronic orders then we have a failed presidency we have a another impeachment and I think a removal this time possibly we will also see the imprisonment of a lot of his family for some of the graft and corruption that’s going on around this administration and I’m sorry again you don’t want to hear that but that is what’s going on read for yourselves the money that is being raked in by the Trump family businesses and when the Bidens were doing this everybody wanted to see them put in jail but now all of a sudden when you mention this they say well the Bidens did it the Obamas did it the Clintons did it so it’s okay that Trump does it think about that if it was not okay that they did it it shouldn’t be in your mind at least okay if Trump does it I’ll be right back visit theplaintruth.com every day to figure out what’s going on in today’s news does it have anything to do with you and your family or your future or your past theplaintruth.com tries to bring you today’s news in the light of biblical prophecy as well as what God may have to do with it and the Bible does have a lot of predictions 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County where former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family died in a plane crash in Statesville Garrett Mitchell a close family friend confirmed that Biffle and his family died in the crash this morning that includes his wife Christina his daughter Emma and his son Ryder Mitchell said the family was flying to Florida to visit him the Statesville Regional Airport confirmed the crash at about 10 15 this morning right now we know the FAA will lead the investigation and the NTSB should arrive tonight we also know the Statesville Airport will stay closed while this investigation plays out again breaking news in Iredell County former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family died in a plane crash in Statesville that was very sad for myself and my wife for that matter because we had a lot to do with racing and we had a website in the past called racewrap.com and it was a very large racing website and Greg Biffle was one of the good guys and and did a lot of good and for those of you that do not follow NASCAR out there and wonder about Greg Biffle and his family he became quite famous last year after Hurricane Helene’s aftermath in North Carolina when all that destruction happened and FEMA just messed up the entire search and rescue on their own part and Greg Biffle and his helicopters came to the rescue of many many people and he was the hero of that store that storm and that story and I’m going to play you that right now another outtake about Greg Biffle last year and what he accomplished and why I especially find it very sad what happened to him yesterday.

As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida communities that were hit hardest by Hurricane Helene are still struggling to recover over a week later western North Carolina in particular. Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle is among those making a difference using his personal helicopter to deliver supplies like food and water to people stranded especially in hard to reach mountainous areas. For me it’s people helping people.

Our motto in this country is you know we don’t leave an American behind and and I had the opportunity in front of me to help more people and bring awareness and it kind of snowballed. NASCAR legend Greg Biffle who also has 20 years experience as a helicopter pilot says he first felt called into action when he got word of a family stuck in a vacation rental with supplies dwindling and no I was at my shop Saturday morning doing a few things and a friend of mine sent me a text hey do you want to go fly today and a link to a Facebook message with a family that was stuck up in Banner Elk in an Airbnb and before that moment I had no idea I knew some people were without power the storm came through we had a little bit of damage here some tree branches down and whatnot but I absolutely had no idea and I don’t think the rest of the world did on how devastating this storm was. And that was just the beginning of his helicopter relief missions the first of more than 30 he estimates so far.

He says he’s one of more than 70 private helicopter pilots flying critical supplies into areas unreachable by larger aircraft. Biffle has shared most of his missions on social media including this incredible moment where he spotted a hurricane survivor from the air a man stranded in the mountains waving a mirror as a distress signal and I just caught it out of the corner of my eye but the gentleman had taken the mirror out of his bathroom off the vanity wall and that’s how he got my attention. He says it was one of the most challenging landings he’s ever performed as a pilot.

We were in about 4,800 foot elevation mountain peaks and he was down at the very bottom of this ravine what was a very steep entry down into this ravine what looked like a fairly large grass area had power lines two sets of power lines going across it with some tall trees at the beginning of it so I made about five recon descents down into this area the problem is it was so steep on either side once I’d committed to getting down into that elevation I didn’t have enough power to get back out with the amount of goods and cargo I had on board so my last time in and I told my my co-pilot that was with me I said I’m gonna I’m gonna try and land this time um gives me goosebumps when I think about it but I was committed I had to land and get the stuff out of the helicopter in order to be able to get out of the bottom of that ravine a harrowing moment for Biffle but a lifeline for those stranded in a hard to reach stretch of the Carolina mountains in the initial days after Helene hit you know these these people um are are in dire straits and they were they were so happy that we were able to get them formula and diapers and and things they needed and a and a woman around the corner needed insulin the the people came running across the river people were running up into that field and they were wet up to their chest and I could see them soaking wet they were coming to get any kind of supplies they could get water food NASCAR has deep ties in North Carolina Biffle is a 19 time winner in the NASCAR cup series and a nominee for the 2025 NASCAR hall of fame he says he and his former teammates feel a special responsibility to pitch in especially as the scale of the need grows I keep finding places that that are so isolated and so ravaged and damaged these folks here yesterday said the power the power company told them it could be three to five months before they have power back on the substations gone every power pulls down the lines are gone the roads are gone the bridges are washed out the railroad tracks completely gone non-existence they’ve got a long road ahead of them uh winter is coming supposed to be in the 30s this week so warm clothes heaters generators those are still the biggest need as we’re as we’re these are mountainous areas they’re going to have what 12 10 12 20 inches of snow in in less than six weeks five weeks so and no power till the spring it’s it’s going to be tough and Greg Biffle says he’s committed to helping however he can well that was a late story on the late Greg Biffle his entire family was killed along with him in an airplane crash that obviously he was piloting into Statesville airport airport and it’s very sad indeed because he was a good guy and I had heard on the radio before I did this show or actually on TV before I did this show that um they were planning on going to Jamaica and helping victims down there as well in the next several weeks and um shows you that he had a commitment to help people you know some of these people that make a lot of money you know they’re sports people they came from regular people like you and I they came from the the middle class and they understand even though they get rich racing and uh they in investments and stuff like that they have this idea they have to give back and a lot of these good guys they don’t get the credit they deserve and unfortunately when they die hopefully they will get the credit they deserve guarantee you one thing God Almighty will give him the credit he deserves in a world to come which will happen at the resurrection when Christ returns I’ll be right back after this brief message about theplaintruth.com theplaintruth.com is the one site to go to to find out today’s news what it means for you your family and your future that’s theplaintruth.com please visit there every day you can go to our message board you can go to these podcasts or you can go to your health today and find out what you need to do to help you and your family get 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people doesn’t seem to have all the the ties tied together and yet they commit suicide they always are committing suicide here we can’t find them or people they get like in the Donald Trump assassination attempt just doesn’t seem to be the right people that they have but anyway just to go there but they did catch the guy or so they claim so we’ll have to just keep on following that idea what is going on there and if they really truly got the right guy but they’re saying they do and they seem to be confident about it so we’ll see it led from it and the the tip came from a tipster by the way the last story is about the apparent problem still between Tom Holman and Kristi Noem and there’s a story we have on the Plain Truth about that and I just tell we’re running out of time here on the wrap-up but it’s not a secret that Tom Holman is not happy with what the direction of ICE is going under Kristi Noem’s directorship he realizes that too many innocent I was gonna say innocent lawbreakers and they’re the people that came here illegally but they are working they are not doing crime they are the majority of the people being rounded up and deported and he sees that it does not it’s not going over well with the American public she’s just trying to run for president in 2028 or vice president and she’s just a failure in the job and there is a rift there and her boyfriend Corey Lewandowski is should even have his job what he’s doing it’s just total fraud on the government right there as it is but that’s a story that we have to keep watching because there is problems within the Homeland Security Department and Kristi Noem is the reason for those problems and they’re not soon going to disappear so the White House by the way did seem to back up Tom Holman and not Corey Lewandowski or Kristi Noem and I think that might be a sign of things to come and just to go into the White House a briefing room they released a a briefing on the situation and they totally support supported Tom Holman and it goes like something like this Abigail Jackson White House spokesman the American people are grateful for Tom’s critical work securing the border and making America safe again he is an invaluable member of the administration and will continue to be so there has been many reports just to on a side note here there’s been many reports many reports that Holman and Ice Barbie Kristi Noem have not agreed on almost anything lately because of the fact that Holman behind the scenes has been very critical of the arrests that they have made of non-criminal illegal aliens as you know if you listen to this program I have had a problem with the direction of Ice under Kristi Noem where she’s trying to deport as many illegals as possible maybe as a bid to run herself for either president or vice president in 2028 on the ticket and she’s more concerned about her prestige than what is right for America the American people voted for closing the borders which Tom Holman has done and to deport criminal illegal aliens first before we worried about the illegal aliens who are here working every day paying taxes and social security that they will never get anything out of and there is a problem with these people probably but that is not what the American people really signed up for when they voted for Donald Trump trying to secure the border like everything else it seems to have happened since the election this administration has kind of gone overboard and Tom Holman realizes that the American people was turning against him and his agency because of these arrests of people that did not deserve to be arrested at this time we need to get these criminal illegal aliens out of the country as well as all these Muslim Islamic terrorist sleeper that we know came over that border when Biden was president and we haven’t heard very much about that in the past and we need to well that’s the Friday wrap-up for today I want to get into this weekend’s program remember tomorrow is the Sabbath day not Sunday it’s the Sabbath day is Saturday and that’s the day that God really requires us to worship him and to think about him and take a day off of rest and do no regular work so the Sabbath morning 7 11 a.m tomorrow morning we have a special show that’s called read the first chapter or the first verse actually the very first verse of the Bible in the original Hebrew and it is a Hebrew scholar who will go word by word of the first verse of the Bible and explain what the words mean one of the things I do not think he gets into that we did in the plain truth about I don’t know eight seven or eight years ago maybe one of these days I’ll redo that story is how there is a alpha and omega type and it’s called the alpha tau or I can’t remember exactly what it is off the top of my head right now but he mentions it in his statement that there is this this note that’s there that is never read it’s like a comma but it’s not it’s two words and it means the beginning and the end which is the name that Jesus Christ uses to describe himself in Revelation he is the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end and so this uh Hebrew alphabet puts in those two letters the first letter the alph and the tau the last letter between every time it mentions God in that and everywhere else many places else in the Bible which is a hidden secret message that Jesus Christ is the God doing the speaking but that’s another story but it’s a very good read or listen to watch to it’s a YouTube video on the very first verse of the Bible explaining the original Hebrew because there’s a lot of misconceptions about really what it says there that being said on Saturday night tomorrow night at 7 11 p.m we usually do a tv show a short one or an audiobook or some kind of uh some kind of entertainment show and tomorrow night that show will be a Ray Bradbury show from the 1950. In 1950 he wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains and it’s an interesting story especially now in these days of AI it’s about which you will find out when you are listening to this short story it’s about an automated house this guy who wrote some twilight zones by the way for the original twilight zone Ray Bradbury was very forward thinking it was a story about a house that was like an AI house that cooked breakfast for the family knew when to turn on the air conditioner knew when they were coming home to unlock the doors from automatically knew one to clean the stove knew one to do everything and unfortunately the family was killed by a nuclear war and the family no longer exists and you’re seeing the day or the last day of that house’s existence carrying on like normally with its artificial intelligence making breakfast for the family and trying to do everything that it was programmed to do but I and I won’t give away the secret to the story but something unfolds and that house finishes that day not completing its mission and that’s a forward look into the future which today doesn’t look that forward looking to us does it with this AI would with all the things the houses are being programmed to do now you can do a lot of things from your phone or you can pre-program a lot of things you can have Alexa do a lot of things and things like that and that’s tomorrow night’s Ray Bradbury short story I think it’s only 20 minutes or 18 minutes so it’s very short but uh it’s something that when you listen to you got to think about where we are and how this man knew about this some 75 years ago think about that 75 years ago he was thinking about the problems we have today and then of course Sunday 7 11 a.m we’ll have a weekly wrap-up show I don’t have that playing planned right now but you’ll see what it is Sunday morning 7 11 a.m and it’ll be like a weekly summer summary type story and then we go back to the three strokes a day Monday through Friday 7 11 a.m noon 7 11 p.m Monday through Friday and I’ll see you back Monday this is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth today brought to you by theplaintruth.com saying thank you for listening we hope you have a safe weekend and a happy Sabbath and we do hope you discover the Sabbath and follow it and until Monday Bob Barney again saying bye-bye friends