Meet Tulsa Mayoral Candidate Ken Reddick

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Speaker 1:
At a time in American history where our personal freedoms and liberties are under attack, local leadership has never had a bigger impact on your life and on your kids’ lives. Think about this. Some mayors and governors are mandating masks, mandating the complete shutdown of their local economies. Shutting down schools, banning praise and worship from church services or banning church services altogether. At a time when your personal rights are under attack, you want to have a local mayor that has your back and on today’s show. We’re interviewing a man by the name of Ken Reddick and he wants to be Tulsa. Oklahoma’s next mayor. He’s running as a Republican and he wants your vote. And now, without any further ado, let’s meet Ken Reddick.

Speaker 1:
That’s a good idea. Some shows don’t need a celebrity and a writer to introduce a show, but this show does two men, eight kids co-created by two different women, 13 moat time, million-dollar businesses, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrive time show [inaudible] in the air, everywhere. Sharing the truth from the boats, Paul Hood. You’re looking good. How are you, sir? I am absolute. Without a doubt. Amazing clay Clark. How are you? Well, Paul, I’m excited that you were here because, um, you and I live in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, you are a CPA. I am, um, you have practices all across the country. Uh, you have clients all over the country and multiple locations in Oklahoma, you serve thousands of clients. And when you’re sitting down and looking at the, the, at the, at the P and L at the profits and loss statements of your clients, yeah.

Speaker 1:
Those things, how long can a business survive? If there’s only L if there’s only losses on a profit and loss statement, if there’s only losses because the business is shut down, if you do the math, you know, you have time to think about, I want to paint you into a corner, but as a CPA, professionally speaking, how long can a business owner afford to continue just losing money? Well, you play, you know, the average business. And I don’t even like using the word average, the majority of businesses might be able to survive 45 days because most businesses are either in a growth mode. So they’re investing money and, and churning, churning the sales and the collections and all of that process. Or they’re just a one or two man shop. And they just they’re spending all day make. So we, we try to help businesses. We consult with businesses a lot to try to have six months, but the reality is, um, you’re talking 45 days at the most. Now we have a thriver here, Jay, I’m gonna see if I can have you hop on the mic real quick. Jay is a chiropractor. He is here from the Nashville Tennessee area where

Speaker 2:
They have a very, a lockdown mayor at a and J hopefully a head for some headphones over there. There’s he has kind of a lockdown mayor, a guy who’s an in, in a fan of a profound shutdowns, keeping them, keeping the city shut down. Uh, and, and Jay is a chiropractor, or as a restaurant owner or anybody who’s doing business in Nashville, how are things looking? They’re pretty bleak, pretty bleak, lots of for lease signs, lots of people. And you can just tell that people have lost their businesses. Um, it’s pretty, it’s, uh, it’s not great. Not great. No. Well, you know, uh, Paul, I mean, you had something you want to add there, Paul. I was just, you know, I just think it’s idiotic. Um, uh, you know, there’s, there’s plenty of people I us took either the day that talks about freedom is, is messy.

Speaker 2:
And freedom is dangerous sometimes because we have the freedom to make choices, but we, you know, we, we have to accept those consequences. And when the government gets involved to take away the risk that we have by taking away our choices, that takes away our freedom. Now, I don’t have a problem with a mask, you know, because if it’s my house and I talked about this, sometime if it’s my house and you walk up and you have muddy shoes on, and I ask you to take your shoes off and you refuse to, you’re not getting my house, but it’s my house to make that choice. And, and it’s your choice to turn around and leave, or to take your shoes off. So when a business says, I’ve got to wear a mask to come into their business, high five that’s America, that’s their choice to require that.

Speaker 2:
And it’s my voice. They want to, it’s my choice to turn and walk away. But when the government comes in and takes away that choice, then, then there’s a problem because they’re taking away our freedom. And just for the sake of safety and it’s idiotic. And most of these people making these decisions, clay is what is what bugs me have never owned a business. They’ve never had to work for a paycheck. They want a popularity contest, pageant a pageant. And, and there all of a sudden, they’re the expert expert on everything there is to be an expert on, and they do not understand our system of economics. Well, what I thought we would do on today’s show is we live in Tulsa and I thought, why don’t we interview a guy who’s actually running for mayor in Tulsa? Sure. And just to listeners out there from coast to coast, notice our mayor has decided to be one of the most progressive mayors in America.

Speaker 2:
Although he’s ran as a conservative lawyer, he actually was in the New York times talking about how he wanted it to be one of the most progressive mayors in the country. We’re the most liberal mayors in the country as it related to COVID-19. But yet he ran as a conservative, never owned a business, he’s doing mandated masks. And so here we have a plan B or maybe planning. I don’t know. We have, we have, we have an option here in Tulsa to vote here for GT bite him or kin Riddick if you’re a conservative. So Ken, welcome onto the thrive time show. How are you? Hey, thank you. I’m good. Hey, I’m going to, I’m going to do is I’m going to tee up a lot of questions here for you in a row, and I’m just gonna kind of get out of your way. Okay. So I’m going to tee up some questions. First question is what’s your take

Speaker 1:
On mandated masks? Just give us your take on mandated masks. Are you in favor of mandated masks? Yes or no. No. And why not?

Ken Reddick:
I don’t think they should be mandatory. I think everyone should be. Everyone should have the right to choose what level of risk they accept into their life.

Speaker 1:
So you’re saying if I’m listening and I’m in the Tulsa area and I want to wear a mask or not wear a mask, you’re okay with that, feel free,

Ken Reddick:
Evaluate your risk, make that decision on your own.

Speaker 1:
Okay. Okay. Next, next thing. Lockdowns, are you in favor of a mandated lockdowns where you shut everybody’s business down and you beg for the government to bail you out? Are you in favor of that?

Ken Reddick:
No. In all fairness, they’re not shutting down all businesses, just all small businesses. You used to go to Walmart. You used to go to Lowe’s and hang out with 500 or your friends and they have their business be up 800%, but it’s the small businesses that they’re discriminating against. So you’re opposed to lockdowns can absolutely.

Speaker 1:
Okay. Uh, now again, this, I just getting into the hot hot button here. So you’re opposed to mandated masks you’re opposed to mandated shutdowns. Correct. How else do you differ with GT buying them? Like, give me a line item where you say he’s in favor of this. I’m in favor of that gig. Let us know how you’re different.

Ken Reddick:
He also favors a more, like you’ve stated a more progressive platform. He’s invited other progressive agents into our city to help, uh, help him build his agenda and, uh, move forward in Tulsa. He’s fully compliant with the mayor’s challenge, uh, fully developed by professors from Harvard and Bloomberg himself. So he’s, uh, he’s completely bought into their agenda and he’s implementing it here in Tulsa.

Speaker 1:
Okay. I’m going to look this up real quick. I’m gonna look up GT bind them. And then New York times, that’s what I’m looking at right now. And I’m going to read some of the headlines for the folks that can actually, um, read this and in public and do a deep dive later. Let’s get it. This is what a GT says. This is the, this is the headline title. He says, I’m a red state mayor. And I ordered my city to stay. And he’s taught, this is the articles, the New York times folks. This is not clay clark.com because I’m a red state mayor. And I ordered my city to remain shut down. So I just want to ask you, um, why do you think he wrote an op ed for the New York times? Why do you think that is there again?

Ken Reddick:
I mean, he’s just buying into their system. He’s bragging about how progressive he can be.

Speaker 1:
D so you’re, you’re saying that he’s bragging about how progressive he can be.

Ken Reddick:
Correct. He was showing support to the agenda, the nationwide agenda to a favor shut.

Speaker 1:
So the actual article is I’m a red state mayor and I ordered my city to stay,

Ken Reddick:
Right. Like that’s big and, you know, ballsy of him to do.

Speaker 1:
Um, okay. So you’re you’re do you feel Ken that he was kind of a bait and switch? Like he ran as a conservative and then it is not that, how would you describe him? So

Ken Reddick:
Registered as a Republican, I don’t believe he ever ran as a conservative. He ran as an ideas guy. He pitched us a lot of ideas. He tried to diversify the sales tax code. He said, we need more, we need more diversification in our sales tax collection. He ran on building partnerships with Tulsa public schools, which is in desperate need of help, you know, $20 million shortfall business next fiscal year. Uh, he just ran on ideas. He ran on building coalitions across the entire community and he hasn’t done any of that. He, I don’t think he bait and switched anyone. I, uh, I saw right through him from the start. Uh, I gave him a chance when he did ask me to serve as his mayoral appointee to the sales tax overview committee. I sat on the committee for a little while and I, I backed down once I saw the true colors.

Speaker 1:
Okay. So you were asked by GT buying them to do

Ken Reddick:
What serve as his mayoral appointee on the Tulsa sales tax overview committee. How did you meet him? Originally? He reached out to me directly after the 2018 election.

Speaker 1:
And, um, so why did he reach out to you directly?

Ken Reddick:
What is your background? I’m a certified project manager and I’m an electrician with the utilities construction background. So he reached out to you, correct?

Speaker 1:
Um, now Paul, I, I, this is, this is a thing we’ve all known somebody a little bit. Jay we’ve, we’ve all met somebody where we think we know who they are. Right. And we’ve all been in that time in our life. I remember I was going on a date with his girl in college. And, uh,

Ken Reddick:
I won’t mention her first name because she’ll she’ll know who she is,

Speaker 1:
But I thought things were going well. We had one day things were going good. And, uh, I’ve been very clear as a college guy. I want to have five kids. I want to start my own business. One. I’m very clear about what I wanted out of this life. And, uh, she kind of was saying these things, but then one day we’re on date two, maybe, maybe date three. I remember her just saying something like, yeah, I, I, I don’t want to do that. I want to do this. And all of a sudden I’m going. I thought this person was a conservative person who wanted to do to be a conservative Christian, you know, build a conservative Christian family. I thought that’s what, who she was, but she switched on me and was telling me, no, no, I just, I’m an ORU. That’s just something you say at oral Roberts university, but I really am more progressive. When was the moment where you realized, uh, Ken you’re going, I can’t, I can’t be down with this. I mean, what was the moment where you said I can’t do this? I cannot be a part of this.

Ken Reddick:
Uh, it was sooner. It was about after my third subcommittee meeting, uh, when they had just shook hands with someone that just came into the room, it was a local contractor. It was a partnership, uh, that Tulsa had had with a local institution. And they said, uh, they were sorry. They were two and a half million dollars over budget. And 90 days behind schedule, the entire committee thanked them for coming in. They said, you know, you keep trucking along. That’s fine. That’s acceptable. And when I went to the mayor’s office to explain what had happened in my meeting that day, uh, they could care less. So once I saw that there was no accountability across the board, uh, you know, I was, I was no longer naive about how I felt about GT.

Speaker 1:
So let’s, let’s talk about this. Um, you said that GT

Ken Reddick:
Has been courting or hanging out with people from Harvard and from Bloomberg or tell us the mayor’s challenge was developed professors at Harvard and, uh, Bloomberg’s administration. So in 2014, they put the mayor’s challenge together. It’s along with the governor’s challenge as well, but it was a data driven, systematic approach to city, government, state government. So they first went to Europe, collected data, implemented policies, tried out a couple things, uh, tested it out all along this hemisphere. And then they moved into the United States and they wanted mayors to get on board. And if you would implement their policies 100% at the end of the year, they would give a way a few million dollar, uh, awards and Tulsa did receive that award.

Speaker 1:
I would like to read something to you guys. I got a little commercial queued up here. That’s coming in here hot and from a fresh Paul, can you see my screen where you are? I can see it. Okay. This is a Fox news article. Can, I’m going to read this to you and you tell me, uh, when, when you feel like you you’ve heard enough, okay, you just, you just listen for a while and you can just take it all in. This is from a Harvard here. And then Paul, you can just tell me what the point where you kind of, where I lose you as a gag, or this is from Fox news and the articles titled Epstein bank rolled Harvard scientists to bioengineer his own human race. Now, this is Epstein, uh, the prolific pedophile. And I’m going to read to you the article.

Speaker 1:
It says report to merge that Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who’s accused of sex of child sex trafficking sought to breed his own human race as funded by Harvard trained and various upper echelon scientists to realize the stream, a lengthy report released by the New York times on Wednesday, revealed that Epstein manipulated his wealthy and educated connections to engage his fascination with genetic engineering and trans humanism or the science of improving the population through genetic modification and artificial intelligence through his new age eugenics Epstein plan to breed his own race using his Santa Fe New Mexico ranch as the ground zero for his community. There, he would inseminate 20 women with his sperm Epstein through extravagant dinner parties, hosted events at Harvard’s program for evolutionary dynamics, which he donated 6.5 million and sponsored conferences on his private Island to attract his associates. Well, among the scientists Epstein consulted with were Nobel prize, winning physician Murray gel, man, who discovered the cork Nobel Laureate and the MIT’s theoretical physicist.

Speaker 1:
Frank Wiltz, uh, Zack. Uh, I read this and I’m saying, I really don’t know that there’s a lot of people in the last five to 10 years at Harvard that are in leadership that I want to spend a lot of time with. No. Uh, have you, do you feel the same way kinda am I, if I lost my mind? No, you’re correct. Yeah. I, I mean, do you, I mean, is that worrisome to you, Paul is that worries, but clay, it goes back to that these people want a popularity contest. They’ve never accomplished anything in their life. Uh, economically it’s, it’s kind of like, you know, if we’re looking at the present United States, if I own a country, I could, there’s

Speaker 2:
Probably not a single president Republican or Democrat over the last 20 years that I would hire to run my company. Other than, than Trump he’s got experience now, is he a politician? No, but the local people, it and I was talking about this with my kids the other day that the people that run for office, and I’m not including Ken here is most of the time or people that, that either have inherited money that they’re there, like your nosy neighbor that, that calls the cops every time you, you know, you, maybe you got a blade of grass on their side, they have nothing better to do, but they’re the ones that are making decisions. And for them to make decisions, though, they’ve got to be led and they’re led by these ultra liberal think tanks, like at Harvard, like Epstein and all they do is they just Institute that because they Institute that to be able to get, um, to win a next popularity contest.

Speaker 1:
Yeah. Okay. So I want to read this to you. This is a headline from the Tulsa world, a kid. And you tell me if you, if you’re, if you’re down with this idea, this has been in Tulsa world. Uh, it reads here, mayor bite him says he’s taking Obama’s advice about asking X S experts, questions in a crisis, getting mayor by him says he’s taking Obama’s advice about asking experts in a crisis, uh, April 16th, 2020. What do you think about that?

Speaker 2:
I can imagine what Obama said. He probably said never let a crisis go to waste.

Speaker 1:
You’re a pretty direct guy. So now we find ourselves going, okay, well, we, now we know, um, how you differ from, from GT. I’d like to get into what you’re in favor of. So I’m on your website, kin Redick for mayor.com. Ken K E N Reddick, R E D D I C K for mayor.com. And I’m going to read off some of the things on your site and you can kind of break them down for me. Okay. It says you’re in favor of cutting taxes, absolutely. Building coalitions, better schools, safer neighborhoods supporting our city’s finest. Oh yeah. Uh, okay. So, uh, my final question, then we’ll get into your, your points here. Are you in favor of defunding the police? Are you saying, Oh, let’s defund.

Speaker 2:
No, absolutely not. I want to relieve the stress on our police. I want to relieve them of their burdens of everyday work and let them go home. Feel a little bit safer about serving their community. You’re not a big fan of defunding the police. No, absolutely not. I want to create, uh, organizations that help serve the police and alleviate them of the common burdens they receive every day.

Speaker 1:
You’re not a big fan of defunding the police. Is it Paul? I don’t know if this guy’s gonna win. He’s not in favor of defunding the police. Uh he’s. He’s not in favor of mandated masks, not in favor of mandated shutdowns. Uh, I don’t know. I think there’s a lot of people out there that just want to be perpetually shutdown. They liked the idea of wearing masks and they love the idea of not feeling safe. I don’t know if you’re going to get the votes of the people, the radicals out there. I mean, Jay, aren’t you down with having no police being forced to be in shutdown and wearing masks. That sounds a lot like utopia to me. I mean, seriously. I mean, I mean, I’m wondering, I’m wondering at this point how we can win. I mean, there’s a lot of listeners to say, I really want to be shut

Speaker 2:
Down. I like poverty, you know? So I guess if you’re not in favor of poverty, you’re not in favor of lack of safety. Ken might be your guy. So here we go. Ken cutting taxes. How do you plan to do that? I’m going to cut taxes by removing the city sales tax on groceries. Hmm. How’s that gonna, how’s it going to work? Walk me through if you, if you get rid of it. Okay. What’s the tax rate approximately like 9 cents or something in the city of Tulsa. It’s 8.517 in the city’s portion of that is 3.6. Okay. So you decide you’re going to go ahead and reduce a sales tax on groceries. Correct. How are you going to make up for the budget shortfall? What do you do? I believe that it will cause an economic, uh, an economic surge throughout the city of Tulsa. People will come here to save pennies on the dollar if the grocery store, and they will shop at our restaurants, it will stop shopping our strip malls and, you know, stop for gas, stop for lunch.

Speaker 4:
Wait, that sounds like a businessman thinking competitively against the surrounding towns. That sounds a little bit too much like,

Speaker 2:
Like our system of economics, there can be careful be careful. I want to empower the business owner and in the city of Tulsa and I believe that’s one way to do so. How much would you lower the taxes if you could, in terms of like actual as much as I could, I’d remove the city’s portion of the sales tax on groceries 3 cents, 3.6 cents on the dollar. Okay. That’s fair. Okay. Now, uh, let’s talk about better schools. Okay. Um, apparently like in Chicago right now, it’s really popular to not have school at all. Uh, J or then I have in school, in Nashville, it’s going to be online at this point in time. It sounds like. Yeah. So apparently people are in favor of not having school. So let’s talk about this, uh, better schools. Uh, it’s controversial because a lot of there’s like, you know, Chicago’s in favor of having no schools, uh, New York, no schools.

Speaker 2:
Um, let’s talk about this better schools. How are you going to make schools better? Uh, so Tulsa public schools is a separate entity from Tulsa, municipalities, the city of Tulsa. So I bout all you really could do is make them beholden to the city of Tulsa. You’d have to attach it to a performance standard. So we could have a grant writer and allow them to come in for underperforming schools and offer mentorships counselors, afterschool programs, anything that we believe that would help drive the performance of that student in a positive direction. Okay. I’m going to open it up now for kind of a Q and a here, almost like a round table. So Paul could ask you questions. Dr. Jay could ask you questions and then Ryan wimpy can ask you questions. These are business people. Okay. Uh, also, you know, dads, uh, you know, fathers, you know, so we’ll start with Paul. Paul. You can ask Ken any questions you want, Ken’s running again against mayor GT bind. I’m sure. Lot of times I get GTS name confused. A lot of times I want to say governor Whitmer, but then I realized, well, no, he’s not. He is not governor Whitmer. He is GT bind and slip. I find myself wanting to say, these are things I want to say. I do have GTS a new campaign music for this, this, this next reelection camp. And let me queue it up here. [inaudible]

Speaker 1:
Beautiful for comrade GTS

Speaker 2:
Right there. This is his new theme song, so,

Speaker 1:
Okay, Paul, so you know where I stand, but what questions would you have for Ken Reddick about running for a mayor of Tulsa?

Speaker 2:
So what I would want to know Ken is have you, have you sought people out because here’s the problem when you start, it’s kinda like when you’re raising kids or you’re running a business when you actually base decisions based on facts and, and not feelings because GT buying them and all these, most of the politicians out there, they get elected based on feelings, and then they really don’t do anything. Right. And so how are you going to bridge that gap for business? People like me that says, all right, this guy is, is electable, but can actually step forth and say, this is why we’re doing what we’re trying to do. I’m glad you asked. That’s a good question. So my background is project management and, uh, I have to staff a room on every decision with subject matter experts. So my skill set is bridge-building.

Speaker 2:
I know where all the camps are at and I know how to get there. And I specialize in building bridges and connecting everyone. So I very rarely bring my biases into my decision making skills. Therefore I have to still accomplish, you know, uh, coming to a resolution on many issues. And I do that collectively. I build coalitions, you know, every day. But see, we hear that from the other side. So are you saying coalitions, like I’m a one plus one is two, and this is why we’re doing this. Not we’re doing this because this group over here is yelling the loudest, because the problem, one of the big problems we have is you’ve got five or six people that will get together that have nothing better to do today than go down and yell and scream it at city council. And they think that’s representative of what, of what? And they don’t really care what’s wrong or right. They care. Right. I want to get reelected. So that’s what I’m talking about is, so when project management, you’re going to treat this, you’re going to treat the city of Tulsa, more like a business, correct. And making decisions based on facts and what benefits. And one plus one is two versus whose feelings is going to get hurt in the hotel and will be statistically driven. I like that.

Speaker 1:
Statistically driven. You’re talking about using facts. Yep.

Speaker 2:
Oh no, come on, man. If he doesn’t listen,

Speaker 1:
If you’re going to be on, if you’re going to be the next GT, you can’t be looking at facts, right? This whole crap about you’re saying we don’t have to wear masks. You know, you can’t be on team GT. You can’t follow in the footsteps. Paul GT has big shoes to fill big shoes. You can’t be filling you can’t be taking over for him. And, and kind of continuing his legacy. If you’re going to not mandate masks, not mandate shutdowns, not listen to Obama. I mean, GT Binah Tulsa world says that he’s listening to advice.

Speaker 2:
GT vine, I’m writing an op ed in the New York times. I mean, you, you fall short of being the next GT GT. You know, again, he may be a good guy. I’ve never met him, but he he’s like all politicians that I’ve ever known. And that it’s, it’s like his, uh, his pic or, or our city doctor making all these decisions has virtually Bruce darts and medical Bruce dart. Well, yeah, if I was trying to run a hospital, maybe, but not anything with medical with, with, you know, if I’m going to talk administrative, he can come in and talk to me about how to put processes in with, you know, dr. Bruce dart got his a, a doctorate online. Yeah. I saw that now that he’s not a medical doctor. And he apparently is also not aware of how economics work. He goes, because Paul, again, if a business is shut, it might not be open.

Speaker 2:
It might open. Somebody needs to think about that. Again, the problem is, again, as he’s, he’s pandering to people that for feelings, but the reality is this is fricking America. It’s it’s. If I want to force you to wear a mask, to come into my office, you don’t wear a mask or turn around and leave. If I don’t want you to wear a mask, then don’t come in. If you feel like you need to wear a mess, this is, this is freedom is messy. And we get to, we get to choose what we want to do. And the only reason he’s doing this is because it’s feelings, feelings, feelings, and, you know, if you don’t want to be around people, then you stay home. Quit trying to tell me to stay home the whole deal. All right. So, Jay, again, you’re, you’re coming from Nashville. Um, and this is a guy running for mayor of Tulsa. What questions would you have them going? Gonna let Ryan wimpy hop on here to interrogate our potential next mayor of Tulsa.

Speaker 5:
So, alright. As an outsider looking in, right? I don’t live here. Um, I was actually surprised to see, you know, in a fairly red state, a progressive mayor in office, it seems like for the, for the people who voted for her, maybe on the fence between going between another progressive and more conservative business-minded man, like yourself, what would you tell those people? How are you going to get their vote to go for, you know, what makes as a small business owner, a lot of sense from what you’re talking about. And I met you just recently, right? So how let’s say, I’m the guy on the fence? What are you going to tell me to get you? Get my vote?

Speaker 2:
I’m going to tell you politics need to be local. Uh, if you’re, if you’re implementing data driven, you know, statistics, like he States that he is it’s, where’s the data coming from. How does that help Tulsa? If you’re collecting data from socialist cities in Europe and Eastern West coast and implementing those policies here, uh, politics or regional. Okay. All right. Now I’m Ryan wimpy. I’m uh, Ryan wimpy. He’s the founder of a tip top canine. He is a, a, not a pro Ken Riddick, nor is he an anti Kenrick, but he is a, uh, a father. You know, he’s a business owner. I’m sure he’s got some tough questions us. I’m gonna have, I’m going to have Ryan

Speaker 1:
Hop on the micro quick here. And then Andrew, get yourself psychologically prepared here at their own little mini town hall with a mayoral candidate, uh, Ken Renick. And I wanna make sure I’m on the same page here, Paul, if he wants to fill the shoes of GT. Yeah, so far he’s doing a poor job because he’s, he’s certainly not going to mandate masks. He’s not going to mandate shutdowns. He’s not going to try to woo and win over the New York times. He’s not going to be listening to the advice of Obama. He’s not going to be talking to Harvard for advice on how to run Tulsa. Uh, you know, so, so far I would just say this, he only will get your vote if you’re in favor of freedom. That’s right. Just freedom. That’s it? I mean, if you’re out there saying I want more, you know, if you’re down with the GT theme song, if you want more socialism or communism, you’re not gonna, you’re not going to get the, are you okay? Tend to not get the communist vote? Oh, absolutely. Okay. Ryan, what questions would you have for the potential mayoral? He’s wanting to run for mayor of Tulsa here. You got a big election coming up soon. What questions would you have yet?

Ken Reddick:
Well, um, so it’s popular right now for a lot of the politicians to be hard on police, which, um, one of our facilities is actually next to a kind of shady motel. And I really, really appreciate the police keeping us safe, um, throughout Tulsa. And so like what I know mayor buying him wants to pull lots of like restrictions on Tulsa’s finest, and then he’s also down to use national guard and other stuff like that. So what, um, what’s your opinion? Like what, what are you wanting to do with the Tulsa police? And as far as like, um, restrict, putting extra restrictions on them that make them scared to like enforce stuff, if that makes sense. Right. So our stance, uh, we want to stay in shoulder to shoulder with our frontline, uh, workers. Um, we, we fully support our local police department, our local law enforcement agents.

Ken Reddick:
We’ve met with the FOP. We’ve met with many officers from the TPD. We were receiving a lot of support from the Tulsa police department. We, uh, we do not like GTS idea of implementing a new oversight committee over the police department. We believe that it is only, it’s only it’s one and only purpose is to undermine publicly the police department and to turn maybe the public against them on a pretty serious issue. And in, in times of Ferguson syndrome and PTSD and issues across the board, these police don’t feel safe eating in their own communities. So they need to have a public servant. They need to have a leader at city hall that says, I stand with the police, I’m in full support of them and we’re moving forward with our agenda.

Speaker 1:
Okay. So you’re, you’re in favor of supporting a strong police department

Ken Reddick:
Law and order. Cause I don’t want our police officers to be afraid if someone is using a deadly force against them to pull their gun. Right. Right. So I feel like that’s great. We literally have had, um, next to one of our facilities, uh, there was an officer involved shooting where someone drew down on him. Right. And so with all the restrictions and someone drew down on a police officer and the police officer literally drew down, what I mean, he said, Hey, I’m not getting out of the car. And he pulled a gun on the officer and it was on body cam and everything. Uh, this was

Speaker 1:
Two years ago, but we really I’m really appreciate them. And when I see some of the other cities, even like in Dallas, um, and some of those places now they’re like, Oh, if someone comes at you with a knife, you can’t pull your gun. Well, that’s just gonna make sure these cops are just waiting and they’re going to call for tons of backup. And I would want them to be bold. Like, Oh, I appreciate the cops, you know? Right. Yeah. It’s, it’s, it’s becoming a, an actual, you know, life risk for police officers. They’re second guessing themselves in the field all the time. Uh, there was a female officer a very recently that, you know, she survived her attack, but it was, it was brutal. And sh her statement afterwards was there was no way she was pulling the gun on the, uh, the black, the black gentlemen. That’s crazy.

Speaker 2:
Well, you know, and now I can’t, I don’t think you’re saying, are you saying that you’re okay with, uh, just given a police officers, um, just total authority to do anything they want because there’s bad police officers. You’re not saying that, right. You’re saying that they, you, you hold them to a standard, but also they’re out there every day, Dylan, with the worst of the worst. And so they got to have the freedom to do their job.

Speaker 1:
I have some offensive ideas. I hate to do this, but here we go. Um, I have employees who work on our team, different companies. And I consult a lot. Now, according to the us chamber of commerce and Ryan, you can disagree. Cause I know you are the most optimistic guys ever. I am. Sometimes I feel like you’re a little negative. You don’t even watch CNN, but sometimes, okay. So I’m gonna, I’m gonna share it again. I, um, I rebuke those words, but um, the, uh, the facts remain CBS reports that 75% of employees do steal from the workplace. Not, not mine, right? Certainly not mine. Nobody. We know just other people and other planets are stealing, but we know that 75% of employees are stealing according to the CBS news world report U S chamber. We also know that 85% of employees are lying on their resumes. According to inc magazine, I have found throughout my lifetime, the vast majority of police officers are at a higher caliber of character than the average man. Oh, I see. I said it, you get it and say it, can I set it?

Speaker 1:
I’m happy with myself. I’m just saying the level of background checks that it takes to become a police officer and the police Academy in that, the training that goes into it. I mean, they’re not going to just give anybody a handgun. So I’m saying on average, I find that the average police officer is a good guy. Sure. He’s a good lady. Now, there are bad PR bad people. True. But statistically, I think there are more of the average employees I’ve employed. I, if I had to pick clay whine up all of your former employees and all the police officers, and we’re doing like a pickup game of business and you say, pick the people, least likely to steal I’m going with the police officers, right. Because I’ve hired a lot people,

Speaker 2:
Uh, Ryan, I mean, do you think the police officers as a general rule are high care? Cause in general, we’ve trained a lot of, a lot of police officers own German shepherds and a lot of those type dogs. And so we’ve trained a ton of Tulsa police officers, Tulsa County, sheriff, um, broken arrow police department. And a lot of them are very, very, very high quality people. I rarely do I ever encounter like a scammy police officer. Now, occasionally some of the guys that are just in the, in the jails that work in a private penitentiary, sometimes those guys can be like power trippy. But as far as the actual police officers in our Tulsa area, um, broken arrow, like we’ve literally trained a ton of them. And they’ve all been really, really nice people. Can I can, I want, I want to get me, they’re taking a hard job for not that much pay it’s okay. Andrew is Andrew has some questions for you. I’m sure. We’ll get we Andrew, on the mic here for a second. Andrew, um, also has no connections to Epstein also no connections to communist. China also is not in favor of he’s. He sounds like a bad guy. He’s not in favor of mandated masks. He’s not in favor of mandated shutdown. It’s probably a shady character. Uh, Andrew, how old are you?

Speaker 6:
Uh, I, uh, I just turned 22.

Speaker 2:
Do and have you had jobs that you’ve held in, in the Tulsa area? Yeah, absolutely. What jobs?

Speaker 6:
Um, I have worked in a Tulsa Hills area. Uh, so I used to work over there and uh, I worked at Chick-fil-A.

Speaker 2:
Oh, good for you. Yep. Okay. All right. So what questions? Right? What questions do you have here for Ken Reddick? Who made may, may just be the next mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Speaker 6:
Yeah. So I’m one kind of related to that is I, you know, there’s a lot of people who spend a lot of time in Tulsa, a lot of time in the area, a lot of time, you know, that those, whatever the mayor does affects them greatly who can vote

Speaker 2:
For the Tulsa mayor. You have to be a registered voter inside Tulsa city limits. Okay, perfect. Having a little mic. And if you’ve recently moved here, you have until July 31st to still qualify for the August 25th elections, July 31st. So do you have, can you hear and register? Can you not be alive and Melina ballot? You can do it. We discovered that is an issue. Really? It is an issue, absolutely people who are not alive vote. Correct. How do you know this to be true? Well, you know, you’ve seen the data and I was standing in line, uh, recently for the primary elections and witnessed a gentleman, asked the polling station worker. If he could have his sister’s ballot, he was told to go get his sister’s ID and then he could have her ballot. You watched it happen. I saw it happen while I was standing 18 feet back, three people. Okay. Jeez. So your website again, one more time. There can, people want to learn more. They want to get involved with what’s your website, kin Reddick for the number for mayor.com. Uh, one more time somebody is driving right now. Somebody is that they need, they need adequate time to write down your web address. They’re driving your car. They’re also doing some sort of a self help guided meditation, Christian it’s like Joel Osteen mixed with Mongolian monk music. There was a lot on right now. They’re they’ve got a box fan turned on.

Speaker 7:
You know, they got that going on. They’re watching Cubs, reruns, cause there’s no going on a lot of distractions. They’re at a bomb testing site and there’s a lot of bombs going off in the background. There’s her cousins playing Gallagher. There’s just a lot going on right now. What’s your web address? One more time.

Speaker 2:
Ken Reddit for mayor

Speaker 7:
Kim Reddick for mayor.com. Ken, I appreciate you being on the show right now.

Speaker 2:
I really do hope you win. Thank you. You got my vote. Appreciate you are a great American. And uh, I just, I really want to get the truth out there. Thank you for being here. And uh, are you competing against anybody beyond GT? Are you competing against, is it basically the communist party versus you and GT or maybe GT is part of the communist party? I don’t know. I mean, right. So the socialist party showing up too, they’ve got quite the candidate and Gregory Robinson, Gregory Robinson, local activists, turn politician. He’s hoping. So really? I mean, it’s, it’s uh, it’s it’s it’s you, uh, it’s Ken Reddick versus Beavis and Butthead. Correct? We’re polling second, first and second. We’re pulling second name recognition and we’ve pulled first and second, our internal polls in actual conservative and independent support. Are you, have you been on Pat Campbell? No, we have not.

Speaker 2:
We’ve reached out, but we’re still waiting our turn. Apparently. Are you even promised to turn? No. No. Okay. Yeah, we didn’t take a really good 45 minute interview. He’ll be at my office tomorrow. Four o’clock you make that happen? Do you guys exchange numbers and we’ll see if we can do it. Absolutely. If you don’t win, I mean, it’s just what, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s again, it’s a popularity contest and GT bind him. His, I I’d like to meet the guy. I want to know what is he done for him to work for me? What has he done to run a business? What has he done to create economic growth? What is the New York times? This is doable, whatever. That’s great, but you know, it’s, he fits the mold of a politician. You don’t, you have an uphill battle. So you’ve got to get out and you’ve got to let people know that, you know, you’re you’re for facts, you’re for you’re wrong versus right. You’re for the government helping given a hand up, not a handout and creating an opportunity for people, people to be successful in this city. Um, versus, you know, if you meet their mold and their friends and their popularity, um, then, then you’ll be successful and it’s it’s uh, um, good luck. Alright.

Speaker 7:
Three, two, one, boom.