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Who's gonna win Bedlam on Saturday.
We found ourselves a running back of that.

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But I'm a little more neutral now
so but ever sooner everybody that's gonna

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be gonna be a great game,
and probably the last one. And in

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a few years, man, I'm
gonna do so many cool things. As

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governor, I get to represent our
state all over the country in Washington,

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DC. And but Sarah and I
we had no idea when I became governor

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that was gonna make us a better
parent. You see, we've got six

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children, and our son just joined
the army and we're so proud of and

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we went to a swearing in ceremony. And so when you swear into the

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army, you promise to obey the
President of the United States, that defend

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the Constitution from all enemies foreign and
domestic. And then here's my eighteen year

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old son, because he's also joined
in the Oaklahoma National Guard, with his

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hand in the air. He promises
to obey the commands of the governor of

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the state or go So I have
obviously been wearing him out with that one.

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Go polish my boot, soldier,
and go watch my trill. He's

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been rolling his eyes as dad.
But also I know they recognize some of

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the representatives in here, but I
just want to re recognize them and tell

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you how much I enjoy working with
your representatives. Here. You've got some

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of the best in the entire state
in the room. So we've got Representative

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Little Pack in the House, true
conservative, not from Bartlesville, but Claire

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Moore. All right, we'll give
my break, we'll welcome it to Bartlesville.

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And then we've got Senator Daniels in
the House. Does such a great

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job representing representing Bartlesville. You guys
are lucky to have her. And then

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we've got represented Kine. Thank you
so much for being here. Okay,

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John came the fourth, right,
Yes, his son I'm nicknamed you Sinko

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is sinking with the house anywhere.
He's the fifth. The John Kane family,

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they're very original because John came the
fifth. He named his son guess

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what, John Kane the sixth.
So no love the Kane family. They're

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great. And then thank everybody.
It's Judd and the House represents strong.

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Okay, there we go, there
we go, thank you. Well what

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presenting. I just left Oklahoma City. We had a great press conference.

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We were talking about I declared November
Family Month. I don't know if anybody

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saw it. I know you guys
just wait around and watch these government press

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conferences, but it was really important. We're just talking about families in Oklahoma,

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and I want you to know that
Oklahoma is the best place to live,

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to work, to raise a family. We're now top ten and people

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moving to Oklahoma. Yea, for
the first time ever. I mean,

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I'm a fourth generation Oklahoma. We've
never had this type of momentum and had

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people move into our state more than
any other state. And so you know

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what state we get most people from
them, California. I'll get Californians in

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here, Okay, Bartlesville. I
guess it's good for the real estate business

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and businesses, restaurants. But the
first thing I tell these California people when

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I meet them that come up to
me at these events all over the state,

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we just moved here, California Governor, can we get a picture?

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And I said absolutely. But here's
the deal. I had to wait eighteen

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years to vote in Oklahoma. I'm
going to make you wait eighteen years.

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Okay, I'm just joking. If
you're reporting, it's just a joke.

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But they very quickly they're like,
no, Governor, here's the deal.

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We're moving here because of your pro
family, pro business attitude. We saw

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how you handled COVID. I was
one of the few governors in the entire

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country that refused to do a mask
man date state wide. Yea, because

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here's the deal. I don't believe
that you put the Constitution in the attic

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just because somebody in Washington, d
C. Tells us to Okay. And

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so we believe in freedoms in Oklahoma, and we believe in in capitalism.

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We believe in equal opportes for everyone, and we want to set that stage

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for our states. That's why businesses, we want to deregulate, get government

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out of the way, and let
you guys go thrive. But that all

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starts with a strong, healthy workforce. And I just want to brag a

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little bit on some of the things
that we've got accomplished this past session.

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And the biggest thing I believe is
our school choice plan, and I want

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to tell you about it. First
off, we have put more money in

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public education in the five years I've
been governor. Then listen to this twenty

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five years before I got here,
all Right, if you add that up,

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we get another six hundred and twenty
five million to public education. Because

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here's the deal. I believe that
we all really want the same things.

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And I remind people, let's let
Washington, DC play politics. We're Oklahoma's

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let's make Oklahoma the very best state. That's why you hear we talk about

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top ten all the time. And
when we boil it down to these four

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things, we all want the best
education for our kids right and want the

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best opportunities for them. And I
want to make sure they have the best

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teach teachers, and that's when we
gave our teachers a wonderful payroads last year.

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And we want more school choice and
more options and more schools. That's

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a good thing we want just to
finish that thought. We want the best

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healthcare system, we want the best
infrastructure roads and bridges, and we want

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the best economy. And we can
all agree on that, whether you're a

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Republican or Democrat, or you live
in rural or urban Oklahoma. So that's

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what I'll remind our legislature. Let's
just keep focusing on these four things and

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everything else that can take care of
itself. But education wise, we believe

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in powering parents. We want to
put parents in charge of their kids' education.

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And here's where this kind of came
from. During COVID, most schools,

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I'm sure Bartlesville was open the whole
time. Maybe they closed for a

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week or two, but they were
pretty much open. Most schools in our

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states were. But Tulsa Public Schools
was closed for three hundred and fifty five

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days. He might remember that.
I hammered them every day, all right,

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like, hey, they're closed again. We got to open it up

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because let me just tell you something. If any of you were governor and

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you had to talk to the moms
and dads and single parents that called your

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office and they were like, Governor, this is not fair. My first

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graders getting behind. They're not learning
how to read on zoom. We don't

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have a good internet, I have
to go to work during the day,

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I can't have a nanny, and
my neighbors are all in school. So

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we opened open transfer, so you
can transfer now to any public school in

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the state, regardless of your zip
code. We also now passed a refundable

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tax credit because so every single parent, everybody in this room has between five

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thousand to seven thousand, five hundred
dollars now to go to a school of

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your choice. And that is amazing
because school choice should not be just for

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the rich. It should be for
every single family. And we passed something

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that now every other state around the
country is starting to lookout, and we

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think it's the best school plan in
the entire country. The other thing,

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when I think about school choice,
I'm thinking about more options because I want

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every kid. Our goal is to
kid every kid college ready or career ready.

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And what I mean by that is
when they graduate from high school,

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about fifty percent of the kids go
on to higher ed. And we need

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more engineers, and we need more
doctors, and we don't need more lawyers,

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but we but we also need more
amp mechanics, and we need more

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plumbers and electricians. And I tell
young people when I talked to him,

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I said, guys, have y'all
have been a Grand Lake? And everybody's

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like yeah, And I said,
you know who's got the biggest boats on

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Grand Lake. It's not the doctors
or the lawyers. It's the plumbing contractors,

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the roofing contractors, the electrical contractors. And so we set up this

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special school in Norman, Oklahoma.
I went to Norman High School, and

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we were going to do it as
a charter school, but Norman got so

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excited about it that this part of
Norman Public schools now and its aid two

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year program that when you're a junior
in high school, if you decided you

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want a career in aviation, you
want to be an AMP mechanic, or

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you want to be a pilot,
you could start going to this special high

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school and by the time you graduate, you're an AMP mechanic. That is

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amazing. Didn't that what education's about
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That's all we're trying to do.
So American Airlines just right south of

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here, right down the road,
they've got five thousand employees. And you

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know what the starting salary is for
an AMP mechanic there. It's over seventy

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thousand dollars a year. Okay.
I went home and told my son,

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I said, you can become an
AMP mechanic. It's a great job.

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And I asked the executives when they
told me that, I said, how

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many of y'all started on the shop
floor as an AAP mechanic. About a

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third of the room raised their hand. So that's not the end of Oklahoma

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is the place to be. Oklahoma, the American dream is alive and well,

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you can become an AAP mechanic.
Then you can go back and get

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your bachelors. We're trying to create
these pathways. Then you can become CEO

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of American Airlines right here from Oklahoma. And so we're excited about that,

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saying love. Charter school. Santa
Fe South is a charter school. I

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love to brag on my dam.
You've ever heard of it? That's in

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South Oklahoma City. How many kids
do you think go to Santa Fe South

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charter School? Guess about four thousand, six hundred kids. Okay, I

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had no idea before I became governor
and started looking into this. But you

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don't have to go to a charter
school. You can go to the public

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school. But six hundred parents are
deciding this is a better opportunity for their

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kids. Why would the government stand
in the way. We want those parents

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to have more options. Dove Science
Academy focuses on stem They've got one in

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Oklahoma City, one in Tulsa.
So we're opening more schools, more charter

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schools, more specialty schools like that. Aviation school in Norman, and I

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just want to encourage the businesses in
the room. If you have special needs

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and you want to make sure that
you've got a pipeline of employees, I

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want you to work with the career
techs, or work with the community colleges,

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or work with your high school to
start getting those kids ready for whatever

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skills they need. Your employers.
That's how this thing should work. And

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I'm telling you we have to sometimes
push the education community because there's probably some

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educators I'm defending in here, but
you have to sometimes push higher ed right

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to start designing those programs. I'll
give you a perfect example. When I

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first got elected, the hospitals and
they came to me and they said,

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Governor, we need more nurses.
I was like, no problem, I'm

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the governor. I can help you
with that. So I go meet with

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I go meet with the Health Science
Center at OU and I'm like, guys,

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we need more nurses. How many
of you guys training And they said,

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well, we need two hundred and
fifty this class. And I said,

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okay, well they need more.
I mean how many applications did you

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get And they said, well,
we got five hundred and fifty and I'm

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like, well, why don't you
accept them? And they're like, well,

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Governor, you don't understand. There's
something called faculty the student ratio,

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because I'm just telling them to put
some other desks in the classroom, right,

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And they said, well, you
don't understand. But in business,

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have you ever noticed you have to
ask about three quotquestions deep otherwise you get

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spun in a circle. So I
keep asking questions, I keep pressing,

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I keep calling Texas A and M
what's your student faculty ratio? And I

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keep digging. My favorite press conference
I've done as governor is about two years

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ago with OU Health Science Center,
Joe Harris, the president. We have

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six hundred applicants the owe You nursing
program and guess how many weeks at it?

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Six hundred. That's exactly right.
So every year now they text me

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with all the different outlets, a
huge deal. So you are the people

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we have to get involved. Get
involved those education communities, help them design

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programs. I'm telling you they need
that help from the business community. You

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guys are the business community. You
know what jobs are you need right here

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in Bartlesville? Unless align that better
because workforce it's all about workforce. And

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workforce and education just go hand in
hand. So I put Lieutenant Governor Matt

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Panel. He's doing an amazing job. I assigned him as our Secretary of

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Workforce to try to align this.
We want to make sure we transform and

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every kid is college readier, career
ready. But the other thing I wanted

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to share with you is a little
bit of our philosophy on smaller government,

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lower taxes. Who's for smaller government, lower taxes? Wow? O day,

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We've got some good and the taxpayers
in here. It sounds like good.

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You know, here's the dealing.
Our faith is in God, it's

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not in the government. All right. You can't pass more laws in Oklahoma

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City that are going to fix some
of these issues. We need smaller government,

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lower taxes. We need government.
You have a way. That's why

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I set up being a neighbor,
because I believe our churches need to be

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a neighbor and solve some of these
social issues where government can't work. We

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have to have people walking beside people. So I've asked, you've probably seen

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it. I called the legislative back
for a tax cut, because here's the

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deal we have right now. The
largest savings account in our state's history.

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Did y'all know that five point four
billion dollars? So we've got five point

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four billion. Hear me on this, because sometimes people try to confuse the

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citizens and say, well, Governor's
DIDs trying to cut our taxes, and

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then what are we gonna do?
How are we gonna pay for services?

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How are we gonna pay for four
billion dollars? If you all heard that

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saying you know governor's trying to I
would never suggest that we cut revenue below

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expenses, okay, but if we
have extra revenue above expenses, I'm gonna

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ask the citizens what should we do
with that? So I'll give you an

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example. If we spend ten billion
and we bring in eleven billion, there's

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a billion dollars extra. So we
can do a couple of things with that

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billion. We can either raise expenses
okay, a billion dollars if we can

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save the billion. Well, if
I save the billion, you're gonna be

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saying, Governor, how much savings
do you need? You already got five

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billion? Or we can give some
of that back in a tax cup.

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A quarter of a point tax cup
is only eighty eight million the first year,

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which is for half a year,
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million on a full year. Don't
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all that. It doesn't make sense, but that's what they're helping. But

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it's about two hundred and forty million
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So what I'm saying is, when
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let's continue the momentum as the most
business friendly state. Let's give a quarter

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of a point back, and over
time we can step that down to zero

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as we have as we have growth. Here's an example. We've been on

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a path for zero for some time. We used to be your income tax

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in tech in Oklahoma was at seven
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Did y'all know that? So we
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at four point seventy five. And
if you look at revenue, our revenue

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is going up. Every time we
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We continue this momentum. So that's
that's basically what I'm asking the legislature to

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do is just start. As we
have access revenue, let's just do let's

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give some of that back because only
makes sense. The biggest challenge that I

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see in the state of Oklahoma is
the McGirt decision. And I don't know

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if anybody's have you all has everybody
heard of them? A gert decision at

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this point? Okay? Well,
the reason I think this is one of

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the biggest challenges is whose land is
it? What are we gonna do?

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Who can prosecute the crimes? Do
we all pay the same thing? Do

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we all pay taxes? We're all
Oklahomans, And I want to give you

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an example, because taxes, whether
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or its income tax, those are
for public services. Right and so right

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now there's a struggle. Case is
before the state Supreme Court, not the

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US Supreme Court, but our state
Supreme Court. The miss struggle is an

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Indian, Okay, I've got to
always preface it. I'm an Indian.

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Okay. We love our native heritage. Okay, I'm Cherokee. My grandparents

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grew up in just South Washington County. They were dairy farmers. This great

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part of our heritage. All six
of my children are Cherokees. Okay.

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So an Indian that lives in Tulsa, a regular fee, simple house in

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a neighborhood in Tulsa is saying that
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All right, it's before the state
Supreme Court. I think they're gonna do

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the right thing. But let me
give you that example. What if they

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say that that she doesn't have to
pay state income tax? So now you

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have a case. Kevin Stid comes
back to Tulsa after finishes being governor,

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and I don't pay have to pay
state income tax, but a single mom

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of a different race does. That
makes no sense. We all drive on

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the same roads, we all go
to the same schools. We need to

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stand up and say this is nonsense. We're all Oklahoma's here. Okay,

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So they're trying to federalize Bartlesville easier
to Oklahoma Tulsa saying this is a reservation.

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Let me explain a reservation different bid. I've talked to the governors in

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other states that have reservations. Arizona
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Navajo Reservation, all right. So
the Navajo Reservation is truly land held in

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reserve by that tribal government. It's
a federal territory. Nine accent of the

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people live there are all Navaja,
all right, And It's true that a

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Navajo person living on the Navajo Reservation
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That's absolutely true. But what's also
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is the state of Arizona. They
don't build roads on the reservation. They

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don't build schools or hospitals or airports. Their highway patrol doesn't patrol the reservation.

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It's not the state of Arizona.
That's not what we want. That's

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why I keep saying, guys,
we have one hundred and sixteen years of

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history of Tulsa and Bartlesville. This
is not a reservation. Okay, we

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cannot apply the same rules to Tulsa
and Bartlesville as we do to a true

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reservation in Navaloe. That's what I
am fighting. And you'll hear of Stiff

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just hates the Indians. That's not
true. I love Oklahoma. I am

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not going down in history as the
governor. That doesn't tell you the truth

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of what I'm seeing happening to our
state with all these different court battles that

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are happening. So that's basically I
believe what the biggest challenge is the opportunities

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is are really coming I mean we, like I said before, we're top

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ten of people moving here, and
I'm excited about the opportunities. We have

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to fix some of these jurisdictional problems, and i can talk about that for

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a long time, but I'm gonna
move on. Permitting reform is something I'm

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pushing with President Biden. We are
a great oiler gas state. I know,

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We've got Phillips in here. We've
got we're the pipeline capital of the

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world in Cushing, Oklahoma. I
just visited toured Cushing, this Plains Capital

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Plains Company and planes. They have
more storage oil storage there than any other

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place in the nation. Okay,
It's like a hundred million barrels of oil

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is stored in Cushing, Oklahoma.
It's unbelievable, largest commercial storage in the

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country. Because of that, I've
been pushing the Biden administration. I'm trying

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to get a critical mineral storage for
Oklahoma. So I'm trying to unplug from

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the from the grip that the Chinese
have on us. With critical minerals in

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Oklahoma can be this place to be
for critical mineral research. We just landed

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us a rare earth, which is
a mineral to magnet manufacturer, first one

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in the western in the sphere,
it's gonna be in still Water, and

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then Bartlesville. You guys just landed
Blue Whale, which is a It's gonna

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be ninety jobs. It's a huge
deal, and it's because of our regulatory

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climate that they know they can get
these new processes done. They're gonna be

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taking batteries and extracting all those rare
earth minerals out of those batteries, which

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is something that you guys should be
really proud of. If we create that

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cluster for this new emerging industry,
I think it's gonna be it's gonna be

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big time jobs for us in the
future. So as long as we stay

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in business friendly, lower taxes,
family focused, freedom loving, I believe

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we're going to continue to grow as
a state. So and Bartlesville is a

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special special place. Every time I
speak here, I remind Bartlesville because I

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get to see everything in the state, you know, from guamand into all

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seventy seven counties and I speak all
over. I was just in a lot

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in last week at their chamber event, and people ask me where it's cool

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places around the state, and I
always tell them there's something really really special

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about Barblesville, the people, the
culture that you guys have here, and

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Phillips is a big, big part
of that. We love Phillips here.

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But thank you guys so much for
having me and thank you guys for being

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engaged in what's happening in Barblesville today
in Oklahoma. So God bless you,

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thanks for having me today