Sep 10, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min · 16 segments
Former Oklahoma state capitol reporters Tim Allen, Chris Casteel and Michael McNutt discuss their careers covering the Oklahoma Legislature and dozens of elected officials, including their most…
I'm going to throw out a question to the group, and you can answer it as you wish in the order that you wish, and then we'll just kind of start going down memory lane.
In the multiple years of experience you had in this building, going clear back as far as Governor Nye, I see nobody here covered Keating.
So if we talk about governor's office, you can spare John Spiewings because you didn't cover him.
there's a lot of colorful characters you've covered and you either covered or worked with and we before the microphones are hot we were already talking about some of those talk about uh so tell just the first thing comes to your mind about one of your favorite stories about one of the characters of the capitol because that would be a great book for somebody to write characters of the capitol yeah tim's leaning in
I'm going to throw out a question to the group, and you can answer it as you wish in the order that you wish, and then we'll just kind of start going down memory lane.
In the multiple years of experience you had in this building, going clear back as far as Governor Nye, I see nobody here covered Keating.
So if we talk about governor's office, you can spare John Spiewings because you didn't cover him.
there's a lot of colorful characters you've covered and you either covered or worked with and we before the microphones are hot we were already talking about some of those talk about uh so tell just the first thing comes to your mind about one of your favorite stories about one of the characters of the capitol because that would be a great book for somebody to write characters of the capitol yeah tim's leaning in
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