1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: So I's reading this article the other day from Daily 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Wire talking about the Biden administration, and what they found 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: is that it's led by lawyers, academics, and community organizers. 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: The top sixty eight individuals in the administration have spent 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: an average of two point four years in the business world. 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: You look at someone like Joe Biden, He's been in 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: Congress and government for almost fifty years. Look, these people 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: are communists, their agenda driven there intentionally destroying the country, 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: but they also don't know what the hell they're doing right, 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: And in a large part it's because you have all 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: these people he has surrounded himself. He is someone who 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: has only been part of the problem all this time. 13 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: They're not used to fixing the problems. They think in theories, 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: not in practicality. So we're going to have someone on 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: the show who thinks in practicalities, who has had to 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: execute for a living, and that's Oklahoma Governor Kevin stid. 17 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: He started a company at age twenty seven with a 18 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and a computer. Now this company has over employees. 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: They do business in forty two other states. He's also 20 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: done things like appointing the first chief operating officer in 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: state history of Oklahoma, really looking at his job as 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: an executive like a business guy, bringing a different approach. 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: They are, you know, leading in terms of economic growth, 24 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: doing great in that arena as well. So he's been 25 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: really successful as a governor, I think because of an 26 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: outsider approach. So we're gonna get into that with him, 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: in that sort of fresh way of looking at problems, 28 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: the importance of that as well. We're also going to 29 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: get into Joe Biden sort of flirting with this idea 30 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: of a climate emergency. What are these policies doing to 31 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: the country, what impact are they going to have, and 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: what impact are they having. We'll get into that with 33 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: him as well. He's also, you know, Oklahoma is also 34 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: leading the way and banning abortion as well, so we'll 35 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: get into that in so many other issues. Also, the 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: governor is a member of Cherokee Nation. He's the first 37 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: tribal enrolled Native American to serve as governor of a U. S. State. 38 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: So what does he think of Elizabeth Warren's cultural appropriation? Right, 39 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: He's a real Cherokee, not like Elizabeth Warren. So we'll 40 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: get his take on that and so much more. Stay 41 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: with us here's Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt. Excited to have 42 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: you on. I met you a few weeks ago and 43 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 1: just really enjoyed getting to know you. So I said 44 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,839 Speaker 1: to myself, let's get him on the podcast. Well absolutely great, 45 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: Great to meet you too, and thanks for having me on. 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to chatting with you. Absolutely. I mean, 47 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: there's obviously so much going on in the country. It's, uh, 48 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: it's sort of crazy these days. Did you like, do 49 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: you ever just think to yourself, is this real life? 50 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: You know? Absolutely? Uh. I was in a business world 51 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: for for twenty years before I ran for governor, and uh, 52 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: you know, it's just amazing to be governor at this 53 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: time in our history, when when it seems like the 54 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: left is just getting crazier and crazier and and they're 55 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: policies and and and I think it's gonna be a 56 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: red wave come November because people are people are sick 57 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: and tired of the mandates, the dictating, the lack of 58 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: common sense that's happening right now in our political uh 59 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: you know, in the political world. Well, and I wanted 60 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: to get into that, and and I want to get 61 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: into uh, you know, sort of looking at a different 62 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: angle as a business guy going into politics. So you know, 63 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: to that point you talk about common sense. I think 64 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: one of the big problems with this administration. The Daily 65 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: Wire had this article a couple of weeks ago, and 66 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: basically what they found is the Biden administration is essentially 67 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: led by lawyers, academics, community organizers. The top sixty eight 68 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: individuals in the administration have spent an average of two 69 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: point four years in the business world. You look at 70 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, someone who's been in Congress for something like 71 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: fifty years. So in otherwise, our government is led by 72 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: people who have never actually had to put anything into practice. 73 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: They have not had to execute. How much of a 74 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: problem do you think that is? I mean it is 75 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: a huge, huge problem. We elect people to run billion 76 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: dollar budgets. I mean, from my perspective at a state level, 77 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: this is what I told Oklahoma's is we normally elect 78 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: these career politicians and this is a big CEO role 79 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: to run a twenty two billion dollar budget, thirty thousand 80 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: state employees. And from a state level, this is this 81 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: is like running a business. We want to be a 82 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: top ten state. We want to have the best services, 83 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: we want to have the most proactive government, um. And 84 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,799 Speaker 1: we want to have the most efficient government for the taxpayers. 85 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: But you elect people that have never you know, signed 86 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: a check or never set a vision or set a strategy, 87 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: or hire the right people and and held meetings and 88 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: made sure that people are are being held accountable all 89 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: throughout the organization. And and so we start out behind 90 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: the eight ball by the people that we choose to 91 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: lead our different states and and and then you take 92 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: it to the to the um the hundredth degree when 93 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: you talk about the President United States. But when you 94 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: have when you have your team around you, I have 95 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: to hire people smarter than me and put them in 96 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: the right positions that know more about their different fields, 97 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: and then and then hold them accountable, set the vision 98 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: for the team, and let them go run. But when 99 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: you when the President United States is hiring these academics 100 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: and and these folks that have no common sense and 101 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: they've never actually been in the business world and and 102 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: and lead people, and it's all theory for them, and 103 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: it's all just uh um, you know, it's it's it's 104 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: these these activists basically community organizers, and it's just so 105 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: far removed from what we know happens on main street 106 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, or in Tennessee, or in Texas or in Florida, 107 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: that we really don't understand what's happening in Washington, d C. 108 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: And we can go through the policy on energy. Uh, 109 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: when we look at the border, I mean, all the 110 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: things that are concerning Americans. Uh, they're just not being 111 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: intellectually honest with what it's going to take to solve 112 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: these problems. And and they're just they're just activists. But 113 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: even just having a baby formula shortage, I mean, and 114 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: we had to get baby formula air lifted in from Europe, 115 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: you know, States of America. I mean, it's it's mind blowing. 116 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: I mean, the look at go back, I mean we've 117 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: it's been a year now, but look at the exit 118 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: from Afghanistan when Trump was in office. We didn't lose 119 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: one service member, and we had, you know, a very 120 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: small contingent, about two thousand soldiers left there. We had 121 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: a we had the base there, and and the way 122 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: that they predict and telegraph and say we're gonna exit 123 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: on this day and and uh, and we left all 124 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: that equipment, the billions of dollars. None of this makes 125 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: sense to a normal average American and what we're seeing 126 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: and and and people you know, holding onto those airplanes 127 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: for dear life because they knew their freedom was being 128 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: taken away from them, and just that that none of 129 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: that had to happen. Uh, if we had somebody there 130 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: thinking about Americans and what that looks like and how 131 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: to do that in the most to fishing effective way. 132 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: And instead we've got activists or somebody that's uh, that's 133 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: that's pulling the strings up there, uh, to make a 134 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: political point, and it's just that they've lost all common sense. 135 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: Well and even just exiting, uh you know, the back 136 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: roum air Force base or air base before getting your 137 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: people out, like, none of it. It's just to your point, 138 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: it's just terrible execution. It's almost mind numbingly dumb. And 139 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: the sad thing is that it got thirteen service members 140 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: killed and we left Americans behind, which is unfathomable that 141 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,679 Speaker 1: American president would turn his back on his own people 142 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: to that degree. I think that was actually probably the 143 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: big shift in his pulling numbers of people, just saying 144 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: the way he viewed them in in the fact that 145 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: he would leave us behind, our us Americans. That's right. 146 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: I mean we we UH Oklahoma, we took in some 147 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: Afghanistan refugees and I actually took my family. We had 148 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: dinner with this uh, this Christian family that uh we're 149 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: going to be persecuted. And they were telling me their 150 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: story how they literally would have been killed had they 151 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: remained in Afghanistan. And so I went to their house 152 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: this church. Um, we had a couple of churches here 153 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: in the Oklahoma area that took them in and put 154 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: them up and and we all set on the floor 155 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: and they had a traditional UH dinner for us and 156 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: and uh I brought my kids with me and we 157 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: got to meet their family, the mom and the dad, 158 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: and their and their kids, and we just had the 159 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: best time. Uh. And they were just thanking us for 160 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: opening up and and helping rescue them out of that situation. 161 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: And they were telling us the oppression from the Taliban 162 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: and what happens whenever we pulled out, and it was 163 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: just heartbreaking stories to hear. And that was a firsthand 164 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: experience that I had with my family, and and to 165 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: meet that family that was saved, it was just it 166 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: was a great experience for us. I certainly have empathy 167 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: for the refugees but how do you make sure they're vetted? 168 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: Because I just I don't trust this administration to to 169 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: get that job done efficiently. Well, that's that's something that 170 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: hunter percent agree. We have to know. You know, we 171 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: can talk about the border security, we have to know 172 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: who those folks are coming in. But in Oklahoma, we 173 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: we reached out to the ones that our servicemen, we 174 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: Oklahoma National Guard, our our military personnel that fought there um, 175 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: and we tried to open up Oklahoma to the folks 176 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: that had been helping our service members while they were 177 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,599 Speaker 1: stationed in Afghanistan. So that's kind of the approach that 178 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: we took. Quick commercial break back with Oklahoma's Governor Kevin 179 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: Stitt on the other side. You know, so we're talking 180 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: about we're talking about having a business perspective just really 181 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: helps the shape or any sort of you know, I'm 182 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: of the mindset I only want either governors or business 183 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: people elected to president moving forward. But I think that's 184 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: why President Trump was so successful, even just foreign policy, 185 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: a completely new approach to looking at government. But the 186 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: challenge with that is, you know, you've got guys like 187 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 1: you or Trump who are are successful, and it's like 188 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: do I want to run? Do I want to engage 189 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: in this battle? You know? So why did you decide 190 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: to run? You know? So a little bit of my story. 191 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: I grew up in Oklahoma, fourth generation Oklahoma. Dad was 192 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: a pastor and and uh, I'd been in the business 193 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: world after college. I started a company with a thousand 194 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: dollars in a computer and and grew that and today 195 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: we have sixteen hundred employees, new business all over the country. Um. 196 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: And I was just so tired of seeing my state 197 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: struggle and not when compared to what other states were 198 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: And and we were having teacher walkouts, and we had 199 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: billion dollar budget deficits, and state agencies were losing money. 200 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: And I looked at at who was running and it 201 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: was just more of the same, just these career politicians 202 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: and and and I started doing research, and I realized that, 203 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: you know, our founding fathers, they never thought that politics 204 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: was gonna be some career profession. They thought you would 205 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: be a successful business person or farmer or pastor, uh rancher, 206 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: and you would leave your private sector job and go 207 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 1: serve your state or your country, and then you'd come 208 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: back to the private sector. So uh, you know, I 209 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: looked around and there was ten people running and none 210 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: of them have my profile. And I and I felt convicted. 211 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: I felt like, Uh, the Lord kind of put it 212 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: on my heart and and so I raised my hand 213 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: and and I had zero name. I d everybody's like, 214 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: who is this guy? Because I was not involved in politics. 215 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: But Trump had kind of inspired me as well. I 216 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: saw him come out of nowhere and win the presidency, 217 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: and I thought, Hey, if we want, if we want Oklahoma, 218 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: the state that I grew up in and love and 219 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: where my grandparents lived, um to be a top ten state, 220 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: then we're gonna need something different, a fresh set of 221 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: eyes and a fresh business approach to running state government 222 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,199 Speaker 1: more efficiently. And and I raised my hand and I won. 223 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: And uh, it's been four years. I'm running for re 224 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: election this year and and it's just been an amazing journey. 225 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: Today Oklahoma now has the lowest unemployment we've ever had 226 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: in our state's history. We're top ten UM. We have 227 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: the largest savings account we've ever had in our state history. 228 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: We're number four in the country when you look at 229 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: our revenue to savings UM. So just I cut taxes 230 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: last year, we're top ten. And migration people moving to 231 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: our state. UM. So it we could not be going 232 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: better for for our state, and I just want to 233 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: keep that momentum going for for another four years before 234 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: I stepped back to the private sector. You know. And 235 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: I saw that you appointed the first chief operating officer 236 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: in the state's history. Is that correct? That is correct? Um. 237 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: And so you know, again, most people, and this is 238 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: what I see the president doing right now, they put 239 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: their campaign people or whatever as chief of staff. Uh. 240 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: But but we you need you need to actually hire 241 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: and recruit for what they're gonna be doing. So we 242 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: are stated never had a chief operating officer and I 243 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: got that from um uh, some other governors that have 244 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: done that in other states very successfully. So I hired 245 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: a business person to come in and run our cabinet 246 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 1: and all thirty three thousand state employees. And so that's 247 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: kind of our approach we've taken. And so we want 248 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: to run uh that more efficiently because at the end 249 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: of the day, these are big state agencies, whether you're 250 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: building roads and bridges or tourism and you're building parks, 251 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: but you've got accounting functions and you've got um, you've 252 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: got you know, accounting HR you've got all the personnel. 253 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: You have to have the right lieutenants there in place, um, 254 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: to make sure that you're driving efficiency and holding people 255 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 1: accountable and running state government and thinking about the taxpayer. Nobody, 256 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: the more I get into this job, nobody advocates for 257 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: the taxpayers. It's always these big industries that higher lobbyists 258 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: that then push different policy. And so every day I 259 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: wake up saying, what am I who is advocating for 260 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 1: the taxpayer making things more efficient for them? And so, uh, 261 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: that's kind of my job as governor here in our state. 262 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: How do you find time to be governor with six children? 263 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: I've got a fantastic life that that helps me out 264 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 1: a bunch and um, but in all seriousness, that's that's 265 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: kind of my you know, I believe you have to 266 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: keep your priorities straight in life. You put God first, 267 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: then your family and then your job. And so I 268 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: always try to prioritize that and and um, anyway gonna 269 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: gonna Uh it's difficult, but but everybody has those same challenges. 270 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: Every working mom is is trying to balance how does 271 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: she be a good mom and having to work as well. 272 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: And so you do the best you can and try 273 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: to be present when you're home, trying to turn off 274 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: the cell phone at a certain point. Whenever I'm driving down, 275 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: driving home, I'm saying, okay, now I've got to click 276 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: into dad gear and and husband gear and and uh, 277 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: but I can show you when I get home. It's uh, 278 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: you know, my wife's like, you're not the governor. Here, 279 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: go take out the trash. So uh, it's certainly you're 280 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: just dad at home. Smart woman's Um, you know, so, 281 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: I what did to ask you? So there was this 282 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: uh you know it was floated. Hasn't happened yet. Uh, 283 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: you know, who knows By the time this areas, maybe 284 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: it happened that Joe Biden is flirting with the idea 285 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: of declaring a climate emergency. We've already seen the consequences 286 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: of their their green agenda, with gas prices, with food shortages, 287 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: rising costs all around. You can look at countries like 288 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: Sri Lanka facing societal collapse because of green policies. There 289 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: is a brief chemical fertilizer ban in two thousand one, 290 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: and then you look at crop production for two two 291 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: season decreased by they're looking at you know, over inflation 292 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: on track to hit. What kind of devastation would those 293 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: kinds of policies further bring here in America? Well, I 294 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: mean it's it's simply they don't understand basic economics and 295 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: supply and demand. And I'll give you so. In other words, 296 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: it would absolutely hurt America, hurt our security. It would 297 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: cost everybody would pay for pay for that at the 298 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: grocery store, at the gas pump, everything would cost more. Uh. 299 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: It would literally, um, you know, set our country towards bankruptcy. 300 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: And so you I want to talk about energy policies. 301 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: I think it's very very important for people to understand. 302 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: And when you go back seventy three, every se every 303 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: single president it's nineteen seventy three, whether they're Republican or Democrat, 304 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: had an energy independence policy. In other words, they said, listen, 305 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: let's make sure that we meet the needs and demands 306 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: of Americans with our own resources, with our own companies, 307 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: and chill to buy the administration and day won an office. 308 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: They cancel the Keystone pipeline, they make it impossible to 309 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: drill on federal lands. They attack the oil and gas industry. 310 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: And here's the problem though, supply is this, I mean, 311 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: excuse me, demand is the same. So in other words, 312 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: we we all are still heating our homes, our businesses, 313 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: we're all driving to to work, and we're taking our 314 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: kids to piano lessons of the soccer practice. So if 315 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: demand is the same and you choke off supply, what's 316 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: gonna happen. Prices are gonna go up. And their solution 317 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: is simply, well, we'll buy oil from Russia. Which I 318 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: sent a letter to President Biden in February and I said, 319 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. We have to stop buying oil from Russia. 320 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: They finally agreed with us in March and put a 321 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: band on that. Then he goes over with some apology 322 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: tour and ask Saudi Arabia to increase a production. They're 323 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: they're they're draining our reserves. It's like a one day supply. 324 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: We're an oil and gas state in Oklahoma, and we 325 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: we have the resources in our country to meet the 326 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: needs of Americans. We're number four in oil production number 327 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: excume me number six and oil production number four, natural 328 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: gas production. But here's something that people don't realize about 329 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: our state. We're number two and wind energy production as well. 330 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: So we have no problem with alternatives. But We're gonna 331 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: let the free market decide and dictate, uh, you know, 332 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 1: what the needs are of our country, and we're not 333 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: going to have We're not gonna be blind to the 334 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: fact that we don't need natural gas and we don't 335 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: need oil to meet the needs of Americans. While we're transitioning, 336 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: and while we're exploring other forms of energy, we can 337 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: it can all of the above can work together just fine. 338 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: But this administration will not have an intellectual conversation about 339 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: the need for natural gas and oil. Well, you know, 340 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: and it's agenda driven, right. I mean, you can even 341 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: go back to Obama's at energy secretary was talking about 342 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: how we need to drive up prices because if you're 343 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: trying to get people to stop using fossil fuels, you 344 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: make it as painful as possible. And that's essentially what 345 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: they're doing. But it's at the cost of so many 346 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: Americans hurting right now financially as a result. And fossil 347 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: fuels shouldn't be this boogeyman. I mean, fossil fuels have 348 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: made the world a better place and made our country 349 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: a better place, have made our lives better. And you know, 350 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: I'm of the mindset I'd like to keep my apartment 351 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: at seventy degrees and not pay an enormous amount for 352 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: for gas prices. Well, that that's exactly right. And I 353 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: think it's important that we educate when I got around 354 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: to high schools and colleges and we're talking about, you know, 355 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: energy and what does a what does a robust, reliable 356 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: energy grid look like? When you plug in your cell phone? 357 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: Where does that come from? When you plug in your 358 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: your tesla or your electric vehicle, where is that energy 359 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 1: coming from? Right? Well, I've got to back in February. 360 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, there was a polar vortex. 361 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: In other words, it was like a super cold weather 362 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: for two weeks here in oklahom them in Texas, all 363 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: the way through the Midwest, and um, the wind turbans 364 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: were frozen in Oklahoma, so we couldn't get any energy 365 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: off that. A lot of times the well heads were 366 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: frozen in Oklahoma. We couldn't get gas to our electricity. 367 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: So Cole literally saved the day. We went from less 368 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: from five percent of our of our electricity generation from 369 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: Cole to fifty during that two week period. So I 370 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: tell young people, if it wasn't for coal. You could 371 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,719 Speaker 1: not have watched TikTok for two solid weeks and and 372 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: they kind of look at me like what, And I'm like, 373 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: here's the deal. When you plug your cell phone in, 374 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: that generation has to come from somewhere. So in Oklahoma 375 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: normally comes from wind, which is great. Natural gas is 376 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: a big producer, but you can't be relying on one 377 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: form of energy. You have to have an all of 378 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: the above approach to make sure that we have a 379 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: reliable grid or people actually die when you have these 380 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: type of situations. So we have to we have to 381 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 1: continue have these conversations about out natural gas, about what 382 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 1: generation looks like, and how to have a robust grid 383 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: in the United States. Well that'll get you the TikTok 384 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: vote to the young people. But you know, and you 385 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: can look at California where they've had ruling blackouts as well. 386 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: I mean, my understanding is that I think we only 387 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: derive about eleven percent of our energy needs from renewable work. 388 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: Clearly you know, not there. And and you know, again, 389 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: fossil fuels aren't some uh you know, they've they've made 390 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: our lives better, and we should want to make our 391 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: lives better as a country. You know what, like just 392 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: broadly looking at this administration, Uh so far, you know 393 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: what do you think, Oh it is, it's been. It's 394 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: been a disaster. Um. You know, I hear when you 395 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: think about inflation being at forty year highs. These are 396 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: all self inflicted wounds that we're having as a country. 397 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: And it goes back to these their policies, um that 398 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: you know, I've never seen anything like it in my lifetime. 399 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: I mean I was too young to remember the Carter 400 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: Carter years. Uh goodness, we had Reagan came in right 401 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: after that and saved our country. And we need that 402 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 1: type of turnaround. And I think Americans are uh more 403 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: and more going to move over to our side of 404 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: the aisle because they can see, um, what's happening with 405 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: the left. And so I'm really excited to see what 406 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: happens in November and then again in two Yeah, you know, 407 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: Biden's at approval rating with Hispanics right now. I mean 408 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: it's pretty you know, I think we'll even though they're 409 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: trying to lie to us, they're telling us we're not 410 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: in a recession. They're telling us that these climate policies 411 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: are good, breadlines are good you know, food Georges are good. 412 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: Oh this different stuff. We're seeing it with our own 413 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,479 Speaker 1: eyes and we're paying for it and saying it with 414 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: our you know, our wallets as well. Just a real 415 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: quick break. Stay with us now. I wanted to ask you, 416 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: what are you guys doing on abortion since the overturning 417 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: of reverse Wede and that Dobbs decision. Yeah. Well, first off, 418 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: the first thing we did was we banned abortion in 419 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: the state of Oklahoma. And I've been called the most 420 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: pro life governor in the in the in the country, 421 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: which is great. I'm I'm happy to have that title 422 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: because in Oklahoma, we believe in life, and we believe 423 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: that life begins at conception. And um, unlike what the 424 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: left tries to tell you, the Supreme Court did not 425 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: ban abortion in Oklahoma, in Oklahoma or in the United States. 426 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: They simply said this is a state issue, which it 427 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: absolutely is. And I'll be the first to admit that 428 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 1: every state is gonna do things differently. Colorado, for example, 429 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: they just did they allow abortion on demand all the 430 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,479 Speaker 1: way up to birth, Okay, And they're more aligned, if 431 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 1: you think about it, with North Korea and China than 432 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: most of the European countries, for example. So every state's 433 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: gonna do things differently, and we can now have an 434 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: honest conversation about, um, what do each state want to 435 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 1: do and when does life begin? France, for example, people 436 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: don't realize this. France bands abortion at fourteen weeks. Denmark's 437 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: I think like twelve. So most European countries are twelve 438 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: to fourteen weeks. UM. Some people say, hey, heartbeat started 439 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: six weeks, so we're gonna stop it in six weeks. Oklahoma, 440 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: we believe it begins at conception. So that's what the 441 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: four million people in Oklahoma believe. So that's what we did. 442 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, it's certainly not a minute 443 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: before the baby is born, like Colorado wants to do. 444 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: And that's the most grotesque thing that I can even 445 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: think about. But these states, California, New York, some of 446 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 1: these states that are going to be paying people to 447 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: fly to their states for abortion. It's just not what 448 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: we believe in Oklahoma. And you know, that's what our 449 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: constitution is designed for. Is we have fifty different independent 450 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: democracies and our people um overwhelmingly support life in Oklahoma. 451 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: And that's who I represent and that's kind of uh, 452 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: and that's how we're gonna do it in our state, 453 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,199 Speaker 1: and we'll see what other states do. Yeah, I mean 454 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: Biden wants to talk about extreme Democrats align themselves with 455 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: North Korean China when it comes to abortion. I wanted 456 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: to get your take, you know, after or what happened 457 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: in Uvaldi. Obviously Congress. Congress went right to to taking 458 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: guns despite the fact that the Second Amendment is enshrined, 459 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: and you know, we we need to have the right 460 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: to defend ourselves and against tyranny as well. But I 461 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: know that you're working on school safety. You talk a 462 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: little bit about what you're doing in Oklahoma, not on 463 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: obviously you don't want to take away guns, but on 464 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: school safety. Yeah. Absolutely, well, first off, and I think 465 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: you said that very well. That's exactly what the Bill 466 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: of Rights are for. That's what our Constitution is about, 467 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: to protect from whims or one person in Washington, d C. 468 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: Trying to dictate a mandate. We have the right in 469 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: the United States, based on our Constitution, for certain things, 470 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: and one of them is the right to bear arms, 471 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: and and um, you know, but when I saw Uvaldi happen, 472 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: I pulled all of my team together in the Department 473 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: of Public Safety and my commissioners, and and I said, 474 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: I do not want to see that happen in Oklahoma. 475 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: So I signed an executive order that kind of laid 476 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: out seven seven points and one of them was a 477 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 1: active shooters situation for all of my municipality. So I 478 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: wanted to bring in all of the local police forces 479 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: to make sure they know what the latest tactics are, 480 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: that they have all the equipment that they need, that 481 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: they make sure they have the communication down and they 482 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: know exactly what to do. The other thing is we 483 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: wanted to use technology. So we put a panic button 484 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: UH technology on a cell phone on every single teacher, 485 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: so it's programmed and so they could with a push 486 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: of a button, all the first responders without any middlemen, 487 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: just immediately know exactly where to go. We geofence those 488 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: locations UM and and then also behavioral assessments one of 489 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: the plans. One of the points was behavioral threat assessments 490 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: for UH, for the law enforcement, for the teachers. There's 491 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: other other things we're doing on on technology and monitoring 492 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: social media and things that don't want to I don't 493 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: really want to get into, but we're doing that across 494 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: the state as well. Uh So, really just trying to 495 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: be a proactive, uh to make sure that we are 496 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: as eighth as we possibly can, and we have the 497 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: latest training techniques, uh for our for our for our 498 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: police force, and and for our school systems. Well, I 499 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: interviewed John Whtt with the Crime Prevention Research Center, who 500 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: sort of studies these things for a living, and he 501 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: had talked about, you know, one, he's always happened in 502 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: gun free zones, and then secondly, it's not good to 503 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,879 Speaker 1: have school resource officers that are obvious because you know, 504 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: those are the first people they try to take out. 505 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: But I wanted to ask you, so you're a member 506 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: of the Cherokee Nation, the first Tribalian rolled Native American 507 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: diservi as governor in the United States, not not in 508 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: the way that Elizabeth Warren. What what do you what 509 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: do you make of Elizabeth Warren? Uh, you know, sort 510 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: of using that lie to her career advantage. Well, I 511 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: mean it's it's pretty pretty funny to us, and I 512 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: think most Americans how she would do that. But yeah, 513 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: I actually have my card and and uh, my great 514 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: great grandfather was was on what's called the dolls rolls, 515 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: and so, yeah, we're proud of our heritage. We're proud 516 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: of our Native American heritage. But you know one thing 517 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 1: that I think sometimes goes too far is UM you 518 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: know this this movement to to um to you know, 519 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: pay different and pay different races or um try to 520 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 1: you know, UM start incentivizing one race over another race. 521 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: I think that stuff is nonsense. We need to have 522 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: a level playing field. We need to make sure that 523 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: everybody has every opportunity to be successful based on their 524 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: hard work, based on their merits, based on um, you know, 525 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: their education. And so again, I'm not a person that 526 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: thinks that we should single out one race over another race. 527 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: And I just think that's fundamentally Unamerican to uh to 528 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: try to to do that. So I'm proud of my heritage. 529 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: It's who I am, and it's and it's UH and 530 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: like everybody, we're all proud of our heritage and and 531 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: UH and what folks went through. But it's time for 532 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: us to have one set of rules and make sure 533 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 1: that we're all UM have have success based on our 534 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: merits and are hard work. Well, I can assure you 535 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 1: if I lied about it, I would be canceled and 536 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: would not have this podcast. But you know, different rules 537 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,479 Speaker 1: for them than than there are for us. But before 538 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: we go, is there anything else you'd like to leave 539 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: us with? You know, one thing that you said that 540 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: that I wanted to jump on is the Hispanic community, 541 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: the Asian community, African American community, all the different minorities, 542 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: the Native Americans and and sometimes Hispanic For example, if 543 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: if people think that they are automatically on the left 544 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: side of the aisle or the Democrat, what we're finding 545 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma is they are flooding over to the to 546 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: the Republican side because they believe their values are what 547 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: our values are. They're super entrepreneurial, they're hard working, their 548 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: family oriented, their god fearing, um. They love. I signed 549 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: this bill called the Save Women in Sports Bill, and 550 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: it's simply just said that in Oklahoma, we're gonna protect 551 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: women's works, girls sports, we're gonna protect athletics, and we're 552 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: gonna make sure that girls playing boys girls sports and 553 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: boys playing boys sports. And the Hispanic community just loves that. 554 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: They just can't believe that anybody on the left would 555 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: think that's normal to have a high school boy playing 556 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: in a in a girl's sports. So again, to us, 557 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: it's common sense. The Washington Post interviews me as soon 558 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: as I signed that bill, and they tell me, oh, 559 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: you're signing these controversial bills, and I'm like, well, first off, 560 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: they're not controversial in Oklahoma. Uh. In Oklahoma, we know 561 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: the difference when a boy and a girl, and I'm 562 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: gonna make sure I protect girls sports. Uh. And so again, 563 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: I I just think it's important that we make sure 564 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: we reach across all the different minority communities saying hey, 565 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: we have the best plan, we have the best policies. 566 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: We want to make sure that you are successful, that 567 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: we have less government, that we allow you to go 568 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: be successful, live your life. And we have freedom of religion, 569 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: freedom of speech. And we've got all that in Oklahoma 570 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: and our party. And I think the Left tries to 571 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: dictate a man eight uh too much to their way 572 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: of thinking. And I think there it's backfiring on him. 573 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: I think so too. And it sounds like common sense 574 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: to me. So thank you for doing the Lord's working 575 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, Governor Kevin Stett, Thank you for joining the 576 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: truth with Lisa Booth. Thank you, thanks so much, Lisa. 577 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: That was Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma. I really enjoyed 578 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: that conversation. I hope you guys did to appreciate him 579 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: approaching governing like a business, having that different perspective, and 580 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: that's probably why he's been so successful there. 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