Our first guest in the new year is the executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Kari Watkins, and we talk about how we can engage with students after watching an attack on our federal government my American citizens -- something our state is unfortunately familiar with. OKCNM has released a "Better Conversations" series to help educators and parents facilitate these discussions in healthy ways.

Fried Okra is also joined by Oklahoma State Treasurer Randy McDaniel, who discusses the budgetary process and the outlook for our state's funding after an extraordinarily trying year.