Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: November 21, 2025 (Transcript)

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Hi, this is Bob Barney with the Friday wrap-up of The Plain Truth Today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. It’s Friday, a week before Thanksgiving. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, and we will have special programming for Thanksgiving. We always do on The Plain Truth, and of course, since we’ve started these broadcasts, we do special things for Thanksgiving Day. I usually always put up Rush Limbaugh’s Thanksgiving Day special that he used to put up on his radio show when he was alive. Describing really what Thanksgiving is all about. And we’ll do that again. We always put up Thanksgiving. Is it a godly holiday? Is it okay to follow Thanksgiving? People listen to this program know that I talk against Christmas and Easter and Halloween. How about Thanksgiving? And all the answers, we’ll have that up next week on The Plain Truth Today, as well as theplaintruth.com. Just keep going there every day, and you’ll find out about it.

First subject I wanted to get to was a Plain Truth Today broadcast that we did, I believe, Wednesday or Thursday. And it was what’s actually left of Iran’s nuclear bunkers. Because one of the things that I said a few days after the Iranian raid is, we did not do what we claimed we had done. We had a bunch of people there high-fiving each other, but we probably did not effectively deter Iran from building their nuclear weapons, and I believe that they’re not that much further away than they were before the strike. And it really hasn’t brought any peace to the Middle East. Of course, you know my idea that there is never going to be peace in the Middle East in your lifetime until you see Jesus Christ touched down on this earth. But here is part of that broadcast that I played on the podcast about what was left of Iran’s nuclear bunkers, and I think it’s quite telling, to say the least. Iran insists that their core facility is still intact, but it’s not like they’re exactly letting inspectors in to vet that claim. The Iranian regime’s official statements dispute the damage. For example, Hassan Abedini, the deputy political head of Iran’s state broadcaster, said they already evacuated the three sites a while ago, saying, quote, Well, the Iranians claim they were able to move all of their enriched uranium to a safe place before the U.S. bombing this weekend, but General McKenzie pointed out to me that it is very difficult to move radiated material around without being detected. Some evidence of this comes from Israeli officials speaking to The New York Times. They said it appeared that Iran had moved equipment, including uranium, from the site ahead of time.

What you’re seeing here, where you’re not seeing on this radio broadcast, but what you’re seeing here on the video, if you wanted to go back to the plaintruthtoday.com and you can see this, what’s actually left of Iran’s nuclear bunkers. And you can see the video of literally, I don’t know, 20, 25 trucks, 17 trucks, something like that, lined up outside the place, one of the nuclear sites that was destroyed by our air things about a week before that happened. And so many Israeli intelligence people have slipped to our media that all of the nuclear weaponry that they were working on had already been moved out of all those facilities at least a week or two earlier. Satellite images from Maxar confirmed the 17 trucks arrived before the attack and then left. These dump trucks could also be trying to fill in the tunnel entrances to prevent damage from the bomb. Usually in battle damage assessment in BDA, you’re looking for how many enemy were KIA, but in this case, amazingly, the Iranian Red Crescent reported that no human casualties from any of the American strikes because all these facilities had been evacuated beforehand. So that’s where we’re going to wrap up that story. Do we have the Iranian nuclear program on hold? Did we set it back for years to come or was it more hype from our Pentagon than it was reality? And I don’t really have the answer. I’m going to tell you that right now. But my gut feeling is we did not do the damage we thought we did. And there was no regime topple. And I don’t know if Trump even wanted a regime topple.

He wants to make peace in the Middle East to get a peace prize. Another story of the week, and we’re not going to dwell on it, was it was the funeral this week, as a matter of fact, yesterday, Thursday, of Dick Cheney, the former vice president under George Bush, and who really ran the 9-11 operations the day that it happened because Bush was on Air Force One away from the Capitol and he could not really get in communication well. And so it was Cheney who took over the full command of the presidency. It’s not a very unknown secret. I mean, it’s well been documented that he ran the show for at least one full day before George Bush could even get back. But anyway, he died last week and today was his funeral. Donald Trump was not invited, of course. They did not get along. And I don’t know if anybody from the White House was sent as a representative or was allowed to, but that funeral went on today. Going on to the next story I wanted to talk about is this economy, because as I have been pointing out, our economy stinks and it’s not getting any better. In fact, there was a story that I put up on the message board, I believe it was about three days ago now, in a headline, and it was written by the New York Post. And the headline was, the Trump economy is far from Reagan boom and Wall Street’s top CEOs are pushing back on the president’s rosy outlook of how great this economy is.

He goes on to say, last week, some of the nation’s top CEOs talked and laughed with President Trump while enjoying dinner at the White House, chewing over the United States economy that the president claims is headed for growth, not seen since the days of the 1980s. But privately, most of these executives were wondering if the president really knows the score. Tax cuts, deregulation, drill, baby, drill, can do wonders to joke with growth. They all agreed that. But the tariffs are what is the problem with this growth. And we said, again, yesterday’s Wall Street semi-crash and the day before that even, and just the bear market we’re kind of in right now. Wall Street doesn’t want to be in a bear market. It’s just that it keeps getting little tidbits of bad news from stock markets and from Bitcoin and from everything you could imagine. And so people just don’t necessarily like what they’re seeing and they’re getting out of their stocks. They’re getting out and they’re going into cash. Cash, the dollar is strengthening. And that’s one thing that’s kept gold at about 4,000 and not going up, even though we’re in an inflationary country right now, economy. But the dollar is getting strong because people are pulling out their money from their 401ks, their IRAs, and they’re putting it into money markets at 2, 3.5%, 4%. But because they figure they can’t make much money that way, but they can’t lose if this market goes down 20, 30, 40%, which some people claim they think is going to happen. This economy simply is not what people think that it is and what the president is trying to tell that it is.

And it really got bad because Fox News, Bret Baier, hit Donald Trump when he gave a stony faced numbers on Wednesday, it was Wednesday of this week, against a backdrop of relentless claims from the administration that the financial prospects for the average American has never been better. Well, I don’t think too many of you believe that. It is the average Americans, however, who are complaining that your groceries, housing, utility bills, healthcare costs have all gone up since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. A staggering 60% of the respondents said that grocery prices had increased a lot. And a further 25% said they had increased a little. So that’s 85% of the people know they have kept increasing. Trump, however, seems to disagree with them. Of course, Trump doesn’t go grocery shopping and said that during his diplomatic tour of Asia, that groceries are down except for beef, beef, which is going to be going down now that I lifted the tariff. And I mentioned this this week in one of my broadcasts. If the tariff doesn’t cause inflation, then why is Trump lowering the inflation on bananas, on beef and on other food items in order to get their costs down? Obviously, he had to admit right there that his tariffs have caused prices to go up. It’s just another thing that’s going on with this administration that he did not do the first time around. And that is because he had advisors the first time around that just simply did not tolerate some of the things he tried to say. And that’s the plain truth. He had a different set of advisors. Now he’s got a bunch of yes people around him that will do whatever he says to do and feed his ego.

And the last thing we need to do is feed Donald Trump’s ego, because that’s what’s getting us in trouble. And so the economy continues to stumble along. Now they’re wondering if there’s going to be rate cuts. And I don’t think there’s going to be a December rate cut. We’ll have to find out for sure. But it’s just, it’s bad news. And going into that, after this message, I’m going to come out with a Economist article, basically calling for a world Armageddon in 2026. Don’t know if I agree with it, but we’ll be right back. Hi, ThePlainTruth.com is the one place to go to, to find out what this news is of the day, what it means for you, your family, what God has to say about it if he does, and what you can do to prevent whatever is happening from happening to you and your family and your loved ones. That’s going to ThePlainTruth.com every day. Thank you very much. And basically the article is pointing to the idea that the world is going to have a very shaky 2026.It’s not probably going to go that well. President Trump hinted at being open to sending military strikes to Mexico, to Colombia, in order to stop what he claims is drug trafficking. Sending chills across the region and against many experts who says the saber rattling not necessarily going to help world peace. The president made comments during a press conference on last Monday, I think that was actually two Mondays ago, as he hosted a meeting with President Gianni Infantino at the White House. And he went on to say that he would launch strikes on Mexico to stop drugs. It’s okay with me, whatever we have to do to stop the drugs.

Well, one of the things we could do to stop the drugs is stop the demand for drugs amongst the American citizenry. And the problem here is that the people on drugs, mainly a lot of them live in the inner cities or in small country towns where all the factories have closed down. There is no work and people feel hopeless. And when you feel hopeless, you turn to the bottle, you turn to drugs, you turn to things that harm your body. And there is no easy fix. And stopping the influx of drugs is not going to stop people from finding ways to get high. The magazine ended by saying that they think 2026 is going to be a watershed year. They didn’t say this, but like I can tell you right now, it’s a watershed year like 1968 and 69 were. They were years that really symbolized the radical 60s going into 1970s.And it was the time that America really found itself in almost a civil war. I’ve been predicting for a long time we’re on the verge of a civil war now. I could actually imagine the United States breaking up into different countries, liberal countries like the Northeast and California and the center of being another nation, a more conservative. I could see us becoming like the Balkans and becoming two or three different countries before this is over with. I don’t think that’s going to happen. I said, I could, I think I could perceive that it could happen because there is such a division in this country that this division that we do have is going to lead to some sort of a revolutionary civil war.And that’s bound to happen. And I don’t know who’s going to be the winner of it, but I would say it’s going to be the central government. They’re going to get really tough and more citizens’ rights are going to go away and more slavery and loss of liberty is going to be the result.

And speaking about slavery and the loss of liberty, another article that was on the message board this week was, who can stop Europe’s right-wing madman? I’m not going to get in and read in parts of the article because it’s kind of confusing. I do recommend that people go back and go to the message board and read this article, but read all of the articles that we have, both on the main page of the Plain Truth, these podcasts, as well as the message board about my continual warning, always watch what’s happening in Europe. Because if you know the Bible, you know where the anti-Christ is coming from. You know where all of the end time action is going to take place. First of all, it’s the Middle East and there is going to be a king of the South, which is like a United States of Islam, a one nation with many countries being conquered, like Saudi Arabia. This is why I was against sending them F-35s, by the way. If this guy gets assassinated or deposed and then a radical Iranian type right-wing takes over that country, we have just armed them with aircraft that can down any Israeli aircraft trying to defend itself and maybe take a few of ours out as well. I just do not think we should be giving away such weaponry to what could be potential enemies, because if you read the Bible, you know that the king of the South is a great Muslim, United States of Islam, Muslim, jihadist nation, or kingdom, I should say. But to the North is a revised Holy Roman Empire, most likely led by Germany, but possibly Italy, but it’s going to happen. And the anti-Christ and the false prophet, which is the Pope, is going to come out of this union and it’s going to be the end time beast of the Bible. And so if you want to know where all of it’s going to take place, you want to know where your destiny, what tomorrow’s headlines are going to be when right before Christ returns, you know who the players are. The United States by then is going to be into captivity.

We’re going to be into a type of slavery and a loss of liberty because we are not going to be the world power at the end of the times of man as we are today. And we’re seeing this right now. We’re seeing many presidents, but especially this president, allowing Japan to rearm, really forcing Europe to arm themselves, and Japan with arms and a nuclear bomb, or many of them, H-bombs, that is, and Germany. These people, there was a reason that our leaders in the 1950s did not want these countries to have an army, a navy, or any nuclear weapons, because they knew they were within a second away from becoming a right-wing type despotic type government that could cause World War III and end humanity as we know it. Of course, we know that’s not going to happen, by the way, because we also believe the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24, which says, if he did not return, no flesh would be saved alive, talking about most likely nuclear holocaust. But he said, for the elect’s sake, and that’s Christians, by the way, for the elect’s sake, those days will be shortened, and it’s Jesus Christ himself coming to this earth that’s going to be the one shortening these days. Do not forget that. And that is really the message of theplaintruth.com and the Plain Truth Podcast that we do, that there is good news coming after all of this bad news, and the good news is really the return of Jesus Christ to this earth, the rule, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and our God. God the Father does not come back to this earth or come to this earth for a thousand years.

The entire millennium happens, and only those who survived through the tribulation and those Christians that are reigning now as spiritual beings, brothers of Christ, brothers and sisters of Christ, are going to be alive, you should say, during the time of the millennium. After the millennium, when the great judgment of all the dead who are not Christians takes place, after that time comes a new heaven and a new earth, and then God the Father comes to live with us as well. Well, I’ll be right back for the conclusion of today’s Friday wrap-up after this brief message. When you visit theplaintruth.com or theplaintruthtoday.com every day, you will learn about what is the news of the day and if God has anything to do with it or any predictions about it and what it could mean for you and your family. That’s theplaintruth.com. It’s a place to go to every day to get to the message board, to get to Your Health Today, to get to the main page of the Plain Truth with many very good stories, and as well as these podcasts. That’s theplaintruth.com. This is Bob Barney for theplaintruth.com. Please visit us every day. Thank you. And we’re back for the final third of the Friday wrap-up. One of the more disturbing stories of the week is this woman that was riding on a Chicago subway and she was put on fire, lit and put on fire, burned by a convicted felon of over 70 arrests. And it turns out that this prosecutor that wanted to put him away forever was ignored by an Illinois judge. The warnings that the man who is now accused of setting that commuter on fire was likely to attack again, but was allowed to walk free, as court records show. Lawrence Reed, 50, was released on an ankle monitor after assaulting a social worker in August.

That’s what happens when you send social workers, by the way, instead of policemen, to family problems. Despite the prosecutor’s warning, Cook County Judge Teresa Gonzalez, that Reed had a lengthy rap sheet, he was arrested 70 times. And his next crime would likely be much more violent. She allowed him to walk free. Reed went on to be hit with a federal terrorism charge this week after he allegedly poured gasoline on a 26-year-old woman at random and set her ablaze on the Chicago transit system Monday night. He approached the victim, who has not been identified yet, and repeatedly yelled, burn alive, bitch, according to a criminal affidavit in federal court. Investigators obtained additional security footage from Reed, allegedly filling the container with gasoline at a gas station about 20 minutes before the attack occurred. According to the transcript obtained by the CWB Chicago Times, Melania Gonzalez released Reed, the judge that is, released Reed in August, saying, I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to. This is one of these EOE DEI judges. If you go to the story on the Plain Truth message board, take a click, take a look at the judge, and that just looking at her will explain why this happened and why she herself should go to jail for Mel Feasance in her job. She should be held accountable. Maybe if our leaders were held accountable for the things that they do against the American citizenry, maybe there would be a difference.

They shouldn’t be immune to everything. This horrific attack, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote, is exactly why we need communities to take safety seriously. And blue cities, and this is the Plain Truth here, does not allow this to happen in America today. The U.S. attorney confirmed on Wednesday that the latest attack Reed is accused of was completely random. He did not have a victim planned out. When you look at this guy’s mud shot with one or two teeth in his mouth and the dreads and everything else, you can see what a creep. We watched the video and the different angles of the video. And what we could say is this young woman was on her phone. And this is another thing that I would like to point out here about the other girl who was stabbed in Charlotte and who died, the Ukrainian girl who sadly died from her stab wounds by another maniac who should have been put away long ago. But in both cases, we read how these two victims were on their phone. And I don’t know if you notice this, but when you see people on their phone, they are completely possessed by that phone, and they do not know anything that’s going on around them. They are totally oblivious to everything that goes on around them. They do not even see if somebody is walking up with a knife or a gun or anything going on because they’re too focused on the phone. And I see this all the time. And it really bothers me that people nowadays spend more time looking at their phone than their surroundings, which is a dangerous, dangerous thing to do. And I’ll continue here. We watched the video at different angles. And what we can say is this young woman was on her phone, going through her phone, minding her own business.

And I would add not really paying attention to her surroundings when Reed approached her and began throwing gasoline on her. I’ve seen the reports that there was an altercation or that there was some kind of disagreement or argument that took place. Those statements are incorrect and false. He had no interaction with the victim until he threw gas on her and set her on fire. Surveillance footage also shows the woman sitting in the train car before Reed allegedly poured gasoline over her body. In a horrifying chain of events, the victim attempted to fight off her attacker while Reed allegedly tried to set her on fire. She was seen running to the front of the train car to escape before her attacker ignited the bottle in his hand, according to the affidavit. And you can see some of the pictures on the story. Reed then allegedly ran to the front of the car and watched his victim as her body was engulfed in flames. She was attempting to extinguish the flames by dropping to the ground and fled the train car when it stopped. The victim collapsed when she arrived at the station and multiple witnesses attended to her while she waited for emergency responders. Her family put out a statement. We would like to thank everyone for their prayers. Reed was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and appeared to be wearing the same clothes he was seen in the night of the attack on the train. The complaint also noted that he had fire-related injuries himself on his own hands.

I wish he burned them off to a peg. Reed is accused of setting fire to the woman around 9.24 p.m. on Monday, which is outside the hours he was allowed out of the house with his ankle monitor. So nobody was even monitoring his ankle monitor. In September, his records show that the judge increased the hours he was allowed at home, but Mondays were not included on that list. I do not know the woman’s name. We don’t know her condition, how bad or serious this is, but I would say if you’re doused with gasoline and set on fire, you’re in bad shape. Well, that’s the wrap-up for today. I want to get into what weekend beholds. As you know, tomorrow is the real Sabbath day. It’s not Sunday. We say this every Friday during the Friday wrap-up, but Saturday is the Sabbath day of the Lord. It’s the day after the creation week that God blessed the seventh day of the week, which is our Saturday. He blessed it, and he sanctified it, and he made it holy, and we are to worship the Lord and to take a day off from our regular work every seventh day, the Sabbath day, and that is tomorrow. Tomorrow morning’s program is one from me, and it’s called the first lie of the Bible. You know what the first lie of the Bible was? I know a lot of Bible-thumping Christians who think they know the Bible quite well probably can’t answer the question right, but the very first lie ever given in the Bible is found in the very first book of the Bible in the very first two chapters or three chapters of the Bible, and that is the devil, in disguise of being a serpent of the time, coaxed Eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when she said they were not to eat of it.He says, who told you that? And she said, of course, God told her that, and he says, did God say that? Oh, he’s got to be wrong. You can’t surely die. When you eat of it, you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

And so she was tricked, and she ate from it, and guess what happened with that very first scientific experiment? She died, and so did Adam because he followed along. That is the first lie of the Bible, the lie that you have an immortal soul that goes either to heaven or hell when you die. It’s an absolute lie.It is not found in the Bible, and the churches that teach it, teach it to their own destruction. Then, you know, 7-11 p.m. on Saturdays, we always have an entertainment, and we’re back to an audio book, an audio story, and not an actual visual story, and the name of it is called White Magic. It’s a short story by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I believe that’s the same woman that wrote Little House on the Prairie. That’s it. Michael Landon made it into a TV series. And it’s about a woman desperate to win a guy in a love triangle that she’s in, a little bit of magical there. It’s a pretty good story. I think anybody will listen to it.I think it’s 36, 38 minutes long. It goes really fast, and for those people who like to listen to stories or audio books or old-time radio like I do, I do it in my car when I go to work. I listen to the old-time radio shows. This will be a nice change of pace from what we usually have, and of course, you know, next Wednesday will be the Western Wednesday night. We’ll find something for that. Saturday, I’m sorry, Sunday at 7-11 a.m., we have one show for the whole day.

I haven’t, again, I don’t really pick a show out now until the Sabbath day, Saturday, until I really realize what’s the best wrap up of the week that we can have on a Sunday show. And then by Monday, we go back to our normal three days, I’m sorry, three times a day. I’m really tongue-tied this afternoon. I guess a long week. But anyway, three times a day, 7-11 a.m., 7-11 p.m., and of course, noontime at 12-01 p.m. There’s three shows a day, Monday through Friday. I’m usually at the noontime show, but sometimes I’m at a 7-11 short or sometimes Best of Bob at 7-11 p.m. But I find the stories that we pick for that Plain Truth Today podcast very timely, very informative, and usually stories that most people are not aware of what the real truth of those stories are.So, I hope everyone has a safe and blessed weekend, and I do hope you look into following the Sabbath day and reading the Bible for yourself and finding out that God is real, and God’s got a message for you. You just have to find out what it is. So, until Monday, this is Bob Barney for ThePlainTruth.com and The Plain Truth Today, saying thank you for listening. We appreciate you. Please tune back in again. Bye-bye.