Ep1 - Competency

Welcome to A People's Perspective. I'm Jim Perrin, and tonight we're going to talk about a couple things. And one thing is there's a lot of competent people walking around. We meet in every life, everyday life. We go to the grocery stores, we go to malls, we go shopping, we have neighbors. People have jobs.

There's a lot of confident people that do good jobs. They love their job. They do good at it.

There's also a lot of people, unfortunately, in this country who are in pink. They don't do a good job, they don't like their job, and they don't care about that job.

So I want to delve into that a little bit about the competency of the people. All right, have all the degrees and be qualified, say you go to school and you come, you get your degree, whatever, your master's degree, your bachelor's degree, whatever they get.

You're going to be qualified for just whatever profession you're in. Let me make it clear, that doesn't make you competent. Okay? Just because you have a degree does not mean you're competent. It doesn't mean you're incompetent. It just means you're qualified. But there's a difference.

There's a lot of people don't have degrees.

They didn't even go to college. Working class, a lot of working class people didn't go to college. And that doesn't make them incompetent any more than the person who has the degree. So I want to talk about that. I have a special needs kid. He's got autism and some other immune deficiencies. And he's had a lot of doctors, some very good and some not so good. And I'm sure they're all qualified because they all— they're doctors. They all went to medical school and they all got degrees.

Again, some are good, some are bad. I've seen a lot of incompetent doctors and they can make a difference. But like I said, people in the world, they run across us all the time.

And I don't have to tell anybody, for example, like you go to school and get a degree, you want to be a weatherman. For example, what? Oh, my production manager says I can't say weatherman. What is it? It's meteorologist. I'm sorry, that's the politically correct term of these days. So if you're a meteorologist, I don't have to tell you that my dad used to say that's the only job you can screw up 60% of the time and still keep. Okay. So we all know about the weather and they predict this and that, but it half the time, I mean, they're all wrong.

All right, right. So that doesn't make them— that just makes it a tough job, perhaps. I don't know. But I'm saying is there's different professions. Like, like everybody goes to the hair salon, for example. They all got that— they're licensed. They have a license to cut hair. You go in, you want to be big. Place to get your hair cut. That doesn't mean you're going to get a good haircut, okay? There's good ones and there's bad ones, just like in everything. So with all that said, I have one little story I got to tell you before I switch over to what I want to— my point.

My mom worked at a hospital years ago, years and years ago. And she got hurt really bad lifting a patient. Her back got hurt and she went to the doctors and she talked to a surgeon and they said, you need surgery. So she was going to go get surgery. And on the day of her surgery, she was going out with a guy at the time. She'd just been divorced and going out with a guy. He was a pilot. And he was in the waiting room, and then he talked to the doctor, and he said to the doctor, he said, he said, what are the odds about this operation? All right, what kind of operation is it? How difficult is it? And he said, they're real difficult, these ones, when you start going into the spine in the back. It's, it's about 50/50. Now, my mom's boyfriend— I won't say any names— Mike Riley, he was a pilot. And he said, he said, I'm a pilot. He said, and I fly out of Minneapolis, Minnesota to Denver, Colorado all the time. And if I tell you, if you get on my plane and you ask me what the odds of getting to Minneapolis to Denver, and I tell you 50/50, you're gonna fly with me? The doctor said no.

There's a true story. Long story short, she didn't get the surgery. He took her doctor in to get 9 hours. It took a few months. But she's been fine, no back problems ever since. And that's been— I don't want to age myself, that's a decade ago, and she's still doing well. She's probably playing back nine down in Fort Myers right now. But I want to switch over now to Pete Hackett, our Secretary of War. I want to talk a little bit about him. I grew up in Minnesota, grew up Just up the road from him. He grew up in Forest Lake, Minnesota, about 30 miles north, northwest, I mean. And good little town.

But anyways, to get back to him, is he qualified? I don't know if he's qualified. I have no clue. I don't know. He doesn't have a degree from there. I don't remember any class that said Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense. That you could sign up for. My production manager over here, he says he went to college, he's younger than I am by a good 25, 30 years between there and when he went, he doesn't remember any courses on that. So I don't know if Hexeth's qualified or not qualified. The question I'm saying, is he competent or is he incompetent? My production manager, My producer and my technician, they're all of the same. They're all of the same mindset. They all, they all think he's unqualified. Okay, maybe he is. Like I said, I don't know. But is he competent? The first thing he got into office, he had a little screw-up with that Signal Can't line, and the reporter got in there, and it was a big controversy. I don't know if you remember that when he first took office. But there was a little leak in the system, and— but everyone blamed him. And of course, they always blame Trump. But the thing is, he didn't come up with that system. Biden used it, and even it goes back— Obama used that same exact signal system. Okay, so was that an oversight in his? Yes. He screwed up a little bit. Sure, I'm sure he did. But here's the thing. What do you— what do you— what people don't tell you His recruitment is nearly at an all-time high. Not since World War II has recruitment been up. And as far as the morale with the troops, they'd follow Pete Hexet to hell and back. They love the guy. The morale is up. They're not having to go through the DEI training, all the other crap. They're good fighting fighters. They're fighting machines is what they are, what they're supposed to be. They're supposed to keep us safe. They're supposed to be able to kill. They're supposed to be able to defend the people who can't defend themselves. That's what they do. And that's what they've done all along, ever since we took over in this— back in the 1700s, then we formed our country. That's what they've done since George Washington first started the Secretary of War, by the way. Got changed in 1947 out of the— some kind of security act. I can't remember the exact—

you'll have to forgive me on that. I can't forget, but it was 1947 when they first appointed the very first Secretary of War. Until that, it was the entire cabinet that George Washington set up. Okay, the actual first Secretary of Defense was in 1947. Pete Hegseth is actually the only 28th Secretary of Defense. Just so you knew that. I know, I was shocked to see there was only 28 Secretaries of Defense, but like I said, that hasn't been around since it started in 1947, the actual office of an individual holding that office. Okay. Like I said, I can't say if he's qualified, whatever. But like I said, I do believe the man's confident.

And I believe when I shift gears here in a minute, and I'm going to, the reason I'm going to go over to Iran, we're going to talk about that a little bit. But just wanting to say that if I was going into battle, a guy like Pete Exeth, he'd— I'd want him right by my side every single time. Okay, so that's all I'm going to say about that. And like I said, there's competent and incompetent people in every walk of life. There's incompetent grocers, there's incompetent— there's competent good people at good jobs that do a great job at everything from raising kids to running the country. There, there's good and bad in every single walk of life. So you can't have it both ways. There's one, one and the other go hand in hand. So that's all I'm going to say about that tonight. And now I want to switch over a little bit and I want to go ahead and talk a little bit about what's going on over in Iran. Now, just full disclosure, some of you conservatives out there— and I'm a conservative— but some of you conservatives may not like some of the things I'm about to say. Okay, but I want you to know, full disclosure, I voted for Donald Trump 3 times, and if he figures out a way to run in 2028, I'll vote for him again. Okay, so don't think I'm not a Donald Trump supporter, President Trump supporter, because I am. All right, I believe in what he's doing. I believe in everything, but I'm going to be a little bit critical of him tonight. I believe that he heard from his advisors that there was a nuclear possibility of them getting a nuclear weapon over in Iran. They have the enriched uranium, and I think he acted accordingly, saying they can't have that. And the whole world knows that. And even though a lot of people don't want to admit that, even the Arab countries don't want to say it out loud, but deep down in the back, they behind the scenes, they're rooting that we don't let them have a nuclear weapon because it is detrimental to everybody in the world, especially in that region over there.

Okay, which is—

so let's go ahead and say, let me tell you that I agree that what he did, and I liked— I cheered on the bombings. When he started hitting their bases and hitting their military structures and took out the first, uh, Ijo, and then took out the first tier of leadership, and they took out the second and probably the third.

I don't know if they're on the fourth or the other. I don't know. But the thing is, would that not just mean they pick up right where the other regime left off? Would the other leaders not know? They're all the same. They're all religious. They can't make a deal.

And President has tried really hard to be diplomatic and give them a little ceasefire, and then they keep screwing around just with little drones and stuff, and we have to strike them back. And then we get a ceasefire for a week, and then there's a deadline, and then all of a sudden there's a 60-day, and there's a— we've been over there, it seems like a long time. I don't know how many days, 120 days, 130 days as a date. I don't know, somewhere in that area though. And to me, we've been over there far too long already. All right. And that's what I'm critical of a little bit. And just recently, like last night, he's— he ramped up some strikes because they knocked down an Apache helicopter. Thankful the two pilots survived. They were in ocean and were rescued. But the point is that we had to strike them back. And now I'm of the mindset that we should just go ahead and finish the job, take them out, because until the regime is down and gone, the people are never going to rise up. And I'm going to talk about that in a little bit too. Because it has comparison to our, to the United States of America. Okay, but here's the thing. I saw the president, he was on Fox and Friends this morning, and he told Ainsley Earhart, he said, I don't think that the American people are ready for me to strike and to bomb the bridges and take out their electrical grid and bomb Cart Island and this kind of stuff. And she said, I think the 80 million, 70 million, 80 million people who voted for you, I think they're behind you on that. I think they are. See, and I agree with her, not with President Trump on that. I agree with her.

She made a good point to me because I don't want us over there no more. Finish the job and get the heck out of there. Okay.

If you got out of Obama, into oblivion.

And that's what we got to do, because you think they're going to make a deal. They're not going to make a deal.

They sign some kind of—

okay, they signed a big deal.

They're not gonna— the chances of them honoring that are slim to none. They haven't done it since 1946, since 47 years.

Ronald Reagan, last one to take any action over there. Every other president's talked about it. There's been that in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran. They've all been problems over the last 47 years. Trump's the first one with the stones to go in and take care of what needs to be taken care of. And this ceasefire thing is waiting and saying that you're your own hearing aid, American people.

That's what's bothering the American people. I think we need to finish the job over there. I don't think we need to take Karg Island. I think we need to destroy it because that's 80% of their income. And I know that hurts the Iranian people, and that's what we don't want to do.

They're on our side.

There's 99 million of them.

And I just say, for Christ's sake, for Christ's sake, There's 9 million of them there, okay? 9 million. We didn't have that many people in our revolution. We took our country. We did it through back channels, whatever. They don't even have weapons. Get them a couple of weapons. They want their country. They're going to have to stand up and take their country. They're men, after all. They're going to have to stand up and take their country.

Would there be bloodshed?

Sure, there always is when you're at some kind of conflict or battle or war. There's always bloodshed. That's just the way it is. But if they want their country in a good country where they're peaceful and peaceful to their allies all over the region, and they're not trying to kill Israel or the death of Israel or the death of the United States and little state and big state and all that crap. Then let them take over their country.

So we need to bomb the crap out of them and get out of there because our president needs to come back here with his mind and focus on the economy because there's a lot of American people hurting out there. He talks about we're the biggest, largest exporter of oil in the country, in the world. Okay, great. How come her gas is almost $5 a gallon?

It's over $4 a gallon. Per gallon. Yeah, we were bitching about it when Biden was in office. I remember all the Republicans saying, oh, that's terrible. Donald Trump, oh, that's terrible. Guess what? Now it's that thing again. And it's just a temporary glitch. It's been a temporary glitch for about 3 or 4 months. It's going on several months now. And that's enough. We should be paying $1.87 for the light. And we're exporting all our energy and our oil and gas. Then stop. Stop exporting it. We got millions of dollars according to the State Department coming in from China and investing in us and all these other countries. India's investing and everybody's investing their money in the United States because it's a hot country.

I've heard that a lot of times.

It's a high-cost country.

Where's all that money?

You got $17 trillion coming in. Where is it? Why do I need to export oil and gas? Why don't we keep it for ourselves? I don't care if Spain gets any United States oil and gas. I don't care. Let them get it from Iran.

Let them get it from Russia.

Let them get it from Venezuela. I don't care.

Put our gas prices down.

That'll lower the food prices.

'Cause it lowers the diesel and the trucks deliver all the groceries. That brings every prices down. Not to mention the gas prices, the electric bill that people pay. And there's people out there and they're not the upper class working like the elite, like Elon Musk. He, he's not bothered by it. I got that. But the average person out there, the average working person, The ratchet person who goes to— does the 9 to 5 and has a family to support and a mortgage and has to pay all these prices to feed their family, they are having a hard time. They're not living the good quality of life as they should be, not in this country. And if the economy is fixed, then they can start to ease their belt a little bit, have a little bit of extra money, go on vacation, buy the extra GI Joe for their kid. That kind of thing. That's not too much to ask. If we don't fix this, if President Trump— and here's my warning to all Republicans— if Donald Trump doesn't fix this economy, I'm telling you, it's going to be a landslide. The Democrats are going to take over the House, and they're most likely going to take over the Senate. Now you might— oh no, they won't. Yeah, just wait and see. If everybody's still struggling right around the midterms coming up, and they're coming up. He better go ahead and fix this pretty soon, or we're gonna be right back to Democrat control in both chambers of Congress, and we're going to go through impeachment after impeachment. Now, I don't know anybody who wants that. Maybe some on the left do, but I know no Trump supporters want to see that. And that's up to Trump right now. That's not up to anybody else, or that, that's not up to Iran. They've been so far hoping they can drag this thing out to keep us over there, to put pressure on us from the American people. And I'm telling you, I'm feeling the pressure, and other people are feeling the pressure too. So he needs to get over, like I said, fix this thing and just go ahead and take out their bridges. Take out their electric grid. Take whatever else you got to take out and keep the— open that horn, the Strait of Hormuz. Keep them, keep the Navy over there and open up that so the shipping lanes can go through. We can do that military. They don't stand a chance after we take out everything. They don't stand a chance at stopping our Navy that's— that can guide the vessels and all the ships through carrying oil and whatnot.

Okay, so that needs to be done. That's my message on what I'm talking about there.

So this is, uh, pretty much—

I've talked about a lot of different things, but tonight I'm going to just cut it short right there. Join us at anywhere you get your podcast at and don't forget to subscribe to us, and we'll see you next week. Thanks.