Celina Tx Police Chief John Cullison, A Natural Born Leader

Radio Dialog (00:00): 10 86.

Ron Lyons (00:02):

You're not doing a lot to dispel that myth about cops and donuts, but that's okay. This is a scientific test. You know, I should have said cops know whiskey. This would been a lot more fun. <Laugh> welcome to CelinaRadio.com recorded right here in Celina, Texas, a quiet little dusty sleepy town that has absolutely nothing going on,

Ron Lyons (00:30):

Guys. Welcome back to CelinaRadio.com. I'm Ron Lyons, and we've got a very awesome show for you today. We've got the chief of police, John Cullison and the Celina police department, public information officer chase Guidera on today. Now these two guys, when you put 'em together in an interview and then give them some sort of a fun challenge, you start to see why Celina is so amazing. It's because of people like this in positions like this that love the community, love the people they serve, and it just comes out. You just can't miss it. It's amazing. Now about that challenge. Yeah. Let's just say it has to do with donuts and I'm just gonna let your mind kind of run with that one a little bit, but it's fantastic. And guess what? There's a video you're gonna want to see that and find out just exactly how much fun we had with donuts and cops.

Ron Lyons (01:36):

And remember this Friday, the video drops of the challenge between mayor Sean Terry and the police chief John Cullison that's right. Remember we did an indoor fishing challenge to raise awareness for Carla Vargas donkey rescue over by Brookshires. So you get to watch the video of the challenge. Then you get to see the loser of the challenge hand, deliver lunch from Papa Gaos to the winner of the challenge. And then you also get to see the winner of the challenge naming a donkey out at Carla Vargas place after himself. Yeah. We're gonna have a donkey, either named chief or mayor or maybe John or Sean or something like that either way. It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be amazing. You're not gonna wanna miss that. So guys splash and blast was this last weekend. It was a fantastic time major turnout out there. And a lot of you came by the booth said, hello. And we recorded a little bit of our conversations with you. We're gonna have some of those little snippets of those conversations on the show today, too. So if you stopped by thank you for doing that. If you didn't go to splash and blast, you're not gonna wanna miss it next year, guys right now, why don't you sit back and relax and let's dive deep into this interview with John Cullison and chase Guidera.

Ron Lyons (03:09):

So guys I am here today with chief John Cullison and Chaz. I'm just kidding. It's not cha I'm. I'm here with the public information officer for the state of Celina and his last name is Guidera and it's very, very, very hard for me to pronounce. So I'm just gonna call him any different name I want to during the entire podcast, chief, how are you doing today.

Chief John Cullison (03:31):
I'm doing fantastic. Thank you. Very,

Ron Lyons (03:33):

Very good. And, and how are you doing Chuck? We are doing possibly <laugh> actually guys, thank you so very much for doing this. It's a, it's a great day in Celina, Texas when the chief of police and the public information officer are willing to sit down with you and talk about everything going on. So it's, it's a, it's a, obviously a huge state of growth that the city of Celina is in right now. So chief, how long have you been running the the police department now?

Chief John Cullison (04:01):
Yeah, so I've been here since last may, so I just celebrate my first year. And it's been an exciting

opportunity so far.

Ron Lyons (04:08):
So you actually live in Celina and you're getting to see all of this craziness go on right now. Tell me what

from a, from a law enforcement perspective, what does that look like to you?

Chief John Cullison (04:19):

Yeah. kind of going back to what you just mentioned about living here. That was an important thing to me. I felt like as police chief, I not only wanted to serve the community, but also wanted to live here. And fortunately that happened and it's a great place, no regrets. This is, this is where it's happening. So to your question, yeah, the growth is incredible. What's nice about it. I think we're doing a good job of doing the right growth patterns. I think we're we're in one of those incredible markets where this place is a place to be. And even first couple times I came here and they talk about the future and they say, Hey, this is the next Frisco, the next Plano. You know, at first you're sort of like okay, that's interesting thought, but once you're in the game and you're here, you're like it's really happening. And I think it's a good thing. I think I do understand some of our long term residents, you know, they're a little hesitant, but what's important to us as a police department, as a city is to make sure that we maintain our downtown heritage. We recognize and respect the people that have been here for, you know, generations in some cases, and really make them a part of the process. And I think as a police chief, I can do that.

Ron Lyons (05:30):

And, and officer Guidera, how is it so modern policing now we actually have a PIO and tell everybody what PIO actually stands for public information officer public information officer. So in, in my old days of law enforcement, we didn't have somebody like that. Somebody would just like captain or Lieutenant would point somebody out and say, Hey, go, go talk to the press. And you just kind of hoped you did a good job. So what, what is it like now being a public information officer for the state of <inaudible>? Like, what kind of things do you do? You do press releases. You do social media. What, what kind of things do you do?

Chase Guidera (06:04):
All the above. A lot of it is social social media related trying to get the information out to the Atlanta

community.

Ron Lyons (06:12):

And is there, do you have anything to do with like say the website or any of those things like that? Is that kind of all within your purview?

Chase Guidera (06:21):
Yes. With direction from the GVS. It is.

Ron Lyons (06:23):
Everything is with direction from the

Chief John Cullison (06:26): TV. Good job chase.

Ron Lyons (06:27):

Yeah. That's right. He's nodding his head. Yes, right now. So Charles, you did good. That was awesome. <Laugh> so, yes. I think that right now with Celina doing what it's doing, there's been quite the evolution from the nineties when I was here early nineties, all the way up to now. I can't believe that many years have passed, but give me an idea of when you first started considering this, you were in law enforcement, in a different city. What give, give us a little bit of your background in law

Chief John Cullison (06:55):

Enforcement. Yeah. So I went to work for the Irving police department back in 1995. And so you can imagine even it's very interesting. And when people, either externally, internally look at policing, they think it's this monolithic slow moving institution. And, and even I thought that as a new police officer, but it's quite the O opposite. It's about it's always changing. And you can imagine even the mid nineties, you already see some evolution we've talked about, you know, for example, even just going from a wheel gun to semiautomatic how we talked to people, technology, all these things have been in place. And I'll tell you what, it's an exciting time to be in law enforcement, but also it's challenging. And you touched on even the PO who would've thought that we had people, a staff that addresses the public via, you know, different platforms such as Facebook and you know, our webpage, but you know what it's has challenges, but it's also a lot of opportunities cuz in the past you can always get your message out.

Chief John Cullison (07:56):

The only message you had was because interaction with each officer on a call, now we can push things out. And a lot of 'em are really good messages to help people out. For example, just last week or this week we sent out, you know, about being careful at intersections, we sent out about staying, staying hydrated. So we're running the gamut and you know what? We have a good falling. I think you'll see if you look at our numbers, it continually increases the engagement we have. And that's a fantastic opportunity by the same token, we all know you can jump on social media and you know, I've, I can be attacked. The city can be attacked. And in this modern environment, we address those concerns. You can't ignore them.

Ron Lyons (08:35):

Right? So, so one of the things that, that came out, I, I guess it just kind of barely started getting popular back in my time was called community policing. So it, it was, it was somewhat foreign to us at the time. And you, you had to make so many citizen contacts and you had to log in or, or, or log out, I guess at different businesses and things like that is community policing for lack of a better term. Is that still alive in living in law enforcement today?

Chief John Cullison (09:04):

You bet it is. And I think if you're any police chief or any organization in law enforcement, you gotta recognize the value value of community engagement, but also law order. And now you see in some organizations that go too far, one way or another, I think you have to have that balance. But the community engagement has be real, has to be legitimate. We have the programs, chase runs a lot of those programs, but the way I explain to each officer, it's one contact at a time, every time we go out and make a contact, whether your car gets broken into, or you just have a question about directions, that's community engagement, you know, we have to put those barriers down sometimes where I'm not just talking to a police officer, I'm talking to a human being. And so that is important, you know? Well, that's what we do.

Ron Lyons (09:44):

Yeah. So like I said, it's, everything has evolved quite a bit. And one thing that is going on in law enforcement right now, that's really, really hard for me to get my, my head wrapped around is the fact that now you can have tattoos. A lot of times in certain agencies that are showing that was a, that was a big no-no. They had to be hidden at all times. So that was one thing having a, a facial hair, a beard having maybe a little longer hair sometimes even piercings and stuff. So it, it you've been in law enforcement long enough. So how do you feel about that evolution on, on that particular topic?

Chief John Cullison (10:20):

Yeah. And like everyone else, we get comfort in knowing what we consistently do. And so even in my early days, it was a class, a uniform every day, you wore all your, your ribbons. You had long sleeves in many cases and you know, everything was perfectly shined and there was definitely was no tattoos and clearly no one had facial hair except for the big mustache, you know, from the

Ron Lyons (10:40): Age. Right.

Chief John Cullison (10:40):

Absolutely. But nonetheless you have to open up to that and there's a lot of good reasons for that. Number one, when we recruit, we recruit from society and in society, those things are acceptable. The tattoos, the beards yes, it's a, it's a change, but I think a very valid point was made by a police chief up in Illinois. He made the observation. He said, you know, when you go to about beards, he said, when you go to see a doctor or you work with an attorney, someone that's in a professional organization, they have beers. Does that mean they're any less professional? And so you translate that into police work. You're not, that's pretty profound, but the but nonetheless, the the tattoos, those are some, I wrote the policy in my previ previous organization. We were very open to that and you know what, we rolled it out and not one word of negativity. Did we get from the residents, citizens, visitors. And so that kind of illustrates it doesn't change if I treat you fairly, if I treat you professionally, I don't think they really care if I have tattoos. And if I have a

Ron Lyons (11:41):
Beer, what else have you seen change in law enforcement from your early days at Irving PD in the

nineties to now, what else has changed Chase Guidera (11:49):

10 codes? We're walking away from 10 codes and just

Ron Lyons (11:52):
Plain English 10, four. I get that.

Chief John Cullison (11:55): <Laugh> copy that. Yes

Ron Lyons (11:57):

<Laugh>. So, so is it just straight to, to plane talk now just to just say it, whatever it is, say it, we, and really how much stuff goes out over the, the computer, the MDCs versus you don't really have to give details like you used to used to 10 codes were meant to help with people who had scanners and not getting too involved in whatever law enforcement was trying to handle, but I don't know that it's even necessary really to have the 10 codes anymore.

Chief John Cullison (12:22):

And one reason too is cuz if I work with any agency, we talk the same language, but also most channels are encrypted. Now it's just for officer safety. You know, we, in a lot of organizations, they put their calls, we let people know what's going on because they still need to know, but there's different avenues than just listening to our calls on the radio. Another thing has changed too. We've seen an increased number of females in law enforcement even when I came on and you as well, there was a little bit of hesitancy to accept that right now. I never hear a peep from people. It's just part of the norm. And actually we as police officers are a lot better when you as, as a profession because having females and males working together, it's a great balance. A lot of female officers have great strengths that we may not have in vice versa. And I'm telling you, it just gives us different perspectives. And also we're on better behavior. <Laugh> true.

Ron Lyons (13:17):

You're you're by default, you're gonna make yourself a better person in those circumstances. Absolutely. I mean, if we're being real and being honest, that's that, it's just the way it is. And law enforcement requires a lot of being real and a lot of being honest and stuff. So we were talking earlier about kind of where Celina's headed and, and, and all that as far as growth, but the, the agency, it sounds like you guys are getting a new police department, new building, maybe things like that. So tell me a little bit about the future for Celina PD.

Chief John Cullison (13:46):

Yeah. That's an exciting part of what I'm doing right now. Our we're working with architects, we're looking to break ground this fall. This is gonna be a fantastic facility and it's for the right reasons. Number one, we should have a professional building that we can operate out of because also the way I see it, our police building is our citizens building. And as a matter of fact, the way we're creating, creating the building is where it's a very open, it's a very comfortable feel. We didn't want to be that municipal barrier. Yes, we have to have safety features, but they're very subtle. But when people walk in our police department, I want them to feel comfortable. And then more importantly, I want my employees cuz they're there 8, 12, 16 hours a day. They need to be function in an environment where they feel comfortable.

Chief John Cullison (14:30):

When we talk about officer wellness, a lot of that has to do with the environment you work in. So we're gonna have a large area where, you know, you can make your dinner, you can take a break, there's gonna be a courtyard and it's gonna be kind of that soft feeling. You can relax because you know, we in this business sometimes go to some very difficult calls and we need that quiet time. Sometimes we need that solitude and we're gonna have that place in our building. But also even when you come here, whether you're a victim or whether you're a suspect, it's a professional organization, we operate just fine with what we have because we may do. But we're growing and we're out growing what we have. That's why we have a trailer next door. And you know, we, we, our guys don't complain about that.

Chief John Cullison (15:12):

That's, what's fantastic too. They're very resilient. On the other hand, this police building is gonna be built for the future, but also we're gonna build a couple of substations in the city because we're 80 square miles. We'll be around 380,000 people. I like being close to the community. If I have one central station, then citizens are a little separated from the police. If I put a station in the Northwest Northeast, then if you have a concern or we have a community event you're right around the corner, you know, it's that safety feature too, because people feel comfortable being close to a police station. So we're excited about the new building

Ron Lyons (15:46):

Chief Eson thank you for doing this and we're gonna move on with chase and we're gonna do a little second challenge. You've gotta get out of here. He's gonna step in and, and he's gonna have a little fun. And so we're gonna have a couple videos up and, and, and guys it's just been fantastic. So am I gonna be able to make it outta here without getting arrested today after this,

Chief John Cullison (16:06): We're gonna check on that.

Ron Lyons (16:10):

So it was at this moment that I was wrapping up the interview, chief Collison had to leave chase guar. The public information officer was about to take over and do the little challenge I had for them, but something happened. And I'm gonna go ahead and share that with you. And I'm gonna sound really surprised on this part because I was now as many of you know, I started my law enforcement career in 1993, right here in Celina, Texas. And I have always had a very strong connection to the city and to the police department. It's, it's kind of where I grew up. It's where I learned so much. So when chief Collison surprised me like this, I, I was literally just floored so much respect to this chief of police and to the Celina police department. Now I'm gonna let you hear that right now.

Chief John Cullison (17:11):

Can I I'd like to leave you, obviously our listening audience. Can't see, but I'm gonna leave you with the challenge coin for the Celina police department. I know we used to be a part of this organization and challenge coins are huge in the military and police world and fire world. And definitely having you be a part of this is fantastic. We just wanna leave you with our token of our appreciation.

Ron Lyons (17:30):

Thank you. So, so very much. I still, my heart still with my first job in law enforcement, which was theina PD. So thank you very much for that.

Chief John Cullison (17:39): You're welcome.

Ron Lyons (17:42):

And so the chief presented me with a challenge going from Celina PD, and you just have to understand in the law enforcement world, in the fire world, in the military, it's a huge deal. Again, I just can't express enough gratitude for this chief and what Celina police department has become to come.

Ron Lyons (18:08):

So thank you again. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna post a picture of this on Solana, radio.com. It's, it's one of the one of my treasures. It's something that I will always, always just be so thankful for. So, so guys enough of the emotional stuff, that's not really where I intended to take all of this, but you know, when you've been in the brotherhood, when you've been in the family of law enforcement, it literally means everything. So I'm gonna fast forward just a little bit. What we did next is take chase Guidera. He's the public information officer, and we literally blindfolded him and put about a dozen donuts in front of him and had him actually go through those and see if he could tell us what each kind was. So we're, we're testing the theory, the cops and donuts are kind of synonymous.

Ron Lyons (19:08):

And let me just tell you this. When I was a cop, that's the stuff that you heard all the time and, and you learn to kind of take it in stride. You get called lots of names. You get disrespected many times. It's, it's a very tough and thankless job. Many times. Now the good news is that people like chase Guidara and chief Collison, and many of the officers that we have at Celina have worked so hard to change that image and to let people know that, Hey, you know what? We're human beings. We have hearts of service. We are servants. And I love it. Now, if you can't see through chase Guidera, setting down and doing a donut challenge with us as example of that, then you're not looking. So here we go with chase Guidera and his donut challenge. I was sitting here with chase. Chase is going to test that theory that cops eat donuts and they know all about 'em and they're kind of cop experts. Okay. So you're gonna sample one. You'll be able to take a buy to one and then tell me to the best of your ability, what kind it is. So are you game for that? All right, let's do this. All right. I wanna see what kind of donut specialist chase is. <Laugh> okay. So I have to ask you before we do this, are you a fan of donuts?

Ron Lyons (20:45): Yes, but I try to

Chase Guidera (20:46): Stay from them.

Ron Lyons (20:48):

<Laugh> we've got a blindfold for you here somewhere. Do you have that blindfold? Okay. Let's see if we can put that on <laugh> you never knew your law enforcement career would bring you to this moment, did you?

Chase Guidera (21:03): No.

Ron Lyons (21:07):
So be honest with me. How are you feeling right now?

Chase Guidera (21:10):
Well, I'm not afraid of the dark and I'm not claustrophobic, so I'm okay right now.

Ron Lyons (21:13):
And, and you're not afraid of donuts?

Chase Guidera (21:15):
No, I'm not afraid of the donuts.

Ron Lyons (21:16):
Okay. All right. Now I'm gonna help you. You saw me clean my hands. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna help you

and you can't see anything. Is that correct? It?

Chase Guidera (21:23): No.

Ron Lyons (21:24):
Okay. All right. So are you ready? Yeah. For donut number one.

Chase Guidera (21:30): Don't hold my hand out or

Ron Lyons (21:31):

Something. Yeah, you can hold your hand out and I'm gonna just lightly set it in your hand. There you go. Okay. Okay. That is your first donut. So go ahead and you can, you can feel it. You can taste it. You <laugh>. Yeah, you can smell it.

Chase Guidera (21:48):
Okay. So this is those professionals would call it cake donut. Wow.

Ron Lyons (21:52):

So you don't even, that's impressive. You don't even need to taste it to know that that's a cake donut right now out of a potential. I'm gonna say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Somehow I have nine donuts here. You literally already one for one? Yes. <laugh> all right. You, are you gonna take a bite to that? Or you want me to take it from you? <Laugh> all right. Now the we at the chief's desk right now, do you think he's gonna complain too much? If I set a donut here, we might wanna leave these when we go <laugh> how do you think he would feel when he comes back? Surprise. There's a stack of donuts and then you're on your desk, chief. Yeah. So, alright, now I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you another one here. Okay? Okay. All

right. So hand is open and there's number two. All right. Whenever you're ready. Yes. And we're definitely gonna have to be doing some hand washing after we're done here. Okay. Going for the smell, going for the taste.

Radio Dialog (22:58): <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (23:01): I think I

Chase Guidera (23:02): It's a glazed.

Ron Lyons (23:04):

Wow. Make that all right. You're you're two for two. Awesome. Two for two. All right. I, I, you're not doing a lot to dispel that myth about cops and donuts, but that's okay. That's okay. This is a scientific test. Okay.

Chase Guidera (23:18):
You know, I should have said cops know whiskey. That's been a lot more fun.

Ron Lyons (23:21): <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (23:28):

Guys. If you wanna see the rest of the nine donut challenge with chase Quiara of the Celina police department, you can go to Celina radio.com/donut challenge and check that out. It's totally worth your time. Chase is an amazingly good sport. He's a fantastic police officer, and we're all very, very blessed in the city to have the leadership of chief John Collison and officers like chase, Guidera, working and serving in this community. Now, as you know, this last weekend, we had the Celina splash and blast event. That's the 4th of July deal. And I promised you at the first of the show that I was gonna give you some little excerpts from people that I talked to out there. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw those in right here. So you can kind of hear how it was now. The, the background noise out there was really, really, really loud because they had live music and that sort of thing, but you'll be able to get the idea. It was a fantastic event and it's very indicative of the kind of city that we live in, the kind of city that Celina is. So check out some of these little excerpts from the Celina splash and blast. Oh my goodness. Who is this? That just walked up and sat down right here next to me.

Speaker 5 (24:52): I'm Wyat

Ron Lyons (24:54):
Well Wyat are you having such a good time out here today?

Speaker 5 (24:59):

Yes. Yeah. So

Ron Lyons (25:00):
Tell me all about it. Like, what have you done so far?

Speaker 5 (25:04):
I've done the water slides over there.

Ron Lyons (25:06):
Yeah. And was that fun? Was it like really tall, real high up there and you slide down real fast.

Speaker 5 (25:13): Yeah. So,

Ron Lyons (25:14):
Yeah. And have you done any food yet?

Speaker 5 (25:18): Not yet.

Ron Lyons (25:19):
Not yet. Oh my gosh. We're gonna

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Have to, I've done dipping dots.

Ron Lyons (25:22):
Oh, you've done dipping dots. Well, that, that counts. I love dipping dots. Do you remember what kind?

You got?

Speaker 5 (25:29): Cookies and cream.

Ron Lyons (25:30):

All right. Awesome. Wyat thank you so much for stopping by. You're welcome. Go have a really good time. Okay. Okay. All right, guys. I'm sitting here right now and guests who walked up, Andy Hopkins. Andy, how you doing

Speaker 6 (25:45):
Buddy? I'm doing great. Thank you very much. I saw that you were sitting here and I had to come over

cuz I think you'd have most people in town and I'm like, get me on that radio. That's Ron Lyons (25:53):

Right. So, so tell me splash and blast. It's amazing.

Speaker 6 (25:56):

Are you kidding me? I pictures paint a thousand words. So I won't, I won't use a thousand, but this is gotta be twice as big as last year. More space, more rides, more vendors. The breeze is nice. So it's not too. It's not too hot. I'll take credit for that.

Ron Lyons (26:13):
<Laugh> I, I knew you brought something good today. So you brought the, the better weather

Speaker 6 (26:18):
That's I brought the breeze. Yeah. All right. And usually some people call it hot air, but let's call it breeze.

Ron Lyons (26:22):
<Laugh>. That's awesome. So tell me, I, I, I bet you probably haven't gone down the slide, but you've

probably tried some food.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
We did, we had some nachos and I think there's probably a, a warm cookie and cold milk in my future

right before the fireworks tonight. So yeah, it's really a special day.

Ron Lyons (26:42):
Absolutely. And this has been fantastic. A lot of different people have stopped by and you probably

know Carla Vargas she's Roman around here. Oh, for sure. And you know

Speaker 6 (26:53):

That the, yeah, there's some of my city council mates are here. The mayor was here earlier. He actually was in the dunk tank, which is nice. There's probably a lot of people that like to take a shot at dunking, the mayor <laugh> I volunteered, but it was too late.

Ron Lyons (27:05):
Oh man. And I missed it too, so,

Speaker 6 (27:07): You know. Yeah.

Ron Lyons (27:07):
Right. But yeah. So are you looking forward to the challenge between the police chief and the mayor

that comes out on the

Speaker 6 (27:15):

Eighth? Oh yeah. And I'm like, I'm like my buddy Jim Skino I'm team, both chiefs and I will donate whichever one wins. So there you go. Like it I'm on record for that. I think it's a great idea. And I appreciate what you do.

Ron Lyons (27:28):
Absolutely. And I appreciate you stopping by. Thank you so much. We're gonna have you on a future

episode and you know, we always have fun, so let's do it. You're not, you're not nervous about

Speaker 6 (27:38):
That time. The radio. So I am not scared. You're

Ron Lyons (27:41):
Not afraid of it. All right. That's very good. All right. Thank you so very much for stopping by and I look

forward to having you on the show very, very

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Soon. Let's do it. Thanks man.

Ron Lyons (27:52):
Oh my gosh. Just as soon as Andy Hopkins walks off, guess who walks up? It's Wendy. Wigington Wendy.

Hey, how are

Speaker 7 (28:00):
You? I'm great. How are you?

Ron Lyons (28:02):
I'm really, really good. It has cooled off a little bit out here.

Speaker 7 (28:05): It has. Thank God.

Ron Lyons (28:07):
It, it has gotten a little bit better. So tell me, what do you think? What do you think

Speaker 7 (28:10):
About it? I love it. I love seeing all the people at Solana out here having a good time, hanging out with

their families here on 4th of July weekend. Really just celebrating freedom.

Ron Lyons (28:19):
That's right. And it's amazing. Look at this. Can you just look out there right now and see all of these

people? This is Celina, Texas.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
This is Celina, Texas. This is amazing. Best place to be on it

Ron Lyons (28:30):

Is. I am in love. You're in love with it. You know exactly how it is. Yep. So, so tell me about today. Have you done any of the food over there? Cause there's all kinds of

Speaker 7 (28:39):
Stuff. Oh yeah. We did crunchies. So we've had our egg, egg rolls, right? Yeah. And we were checking out

the ice cream for later. Right,

Ron Lyons (28:46): Right.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
Outside of that, we really haven't done much else. We grabbed a ranch water earlier. Right. So we're

trying to, you know, support, support all the businesses out here and keep 'em all in care. Absolutely.

Ron Lyons (28:56): I like it.

Speaker 7 (28:57):

I like it. You know, these kinds of events for me are always a great time because I think you get to meet people at their best. They're here with their family. They're having a great time. They're throwing the ball around. I mean, look across there. You can see all these folks out here, hanging out with their kids, really just having the time of their life. And, and to me, that's the best way to measure how we are as a city when people wanna come out here and do that.

Ron Lyons (29:18):
Well, let's just say this, if this wasn't an amazing town. Yep. Doing amazing things, there would be no

one here.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
No, you'd now be here by ourselves. And how boring would that be?

Ron Lyons (29:28):
I, I would, well, it'd be a long podcast, but I I'm, I'm just going say that if I'm grading, how everything's

going in Celina, Texas right now, this is a plus plus

Speaker 7 (29:37):

This is a plus plus this is great. You know whether you're out there dunking the mayor into that pool earlier it was the assistant chief of the fire department Servicon and it was great to see him getting dunked. And he was even letting the kids go and push the button, even if they didn't hit it. So

Ron Lyons (29:52):
I call that winner. Did you, did you take, did you dunk anyone?

Speaker 7 (29:54):

I didn't. I try not to stay, do that. I'm staying neutral. I am

Ron Lyons (29:58):
I'm Switzerland. I would've been happy to throw a ball or two and see if I, but you know, Hey, same

thing. I'm neutral, so

Speaker 7 (30:04):

Right. I'd rather give them money and, and let them all stay a little bit, Dr. But I think, I think given the weather out here today, I think this is a great crowd. I think, I think what we're seeing is just, like I said, it's just people celebrating life and, and I'm excited about that. I'm excited about what we're doing as a town and the fact that we can keep putting events like this on and people come out and they, they just have a great time. So

Ron Lyons (30:25):
Tell me this. You're excited about this. Are you excited about coming on Celina radio.com?

Speaker 7 (30:30):
Oh my gosh. I'm super excited. You know, we

Ron Lyons (30:32):
Do something kind of crazy.

Speaker 7 (30:35):
That's alright. I'm prepared. Let's go. That

Ron Lyons (30:37): Doesn't, that doesn't scare

Speaker 7 (30:37):
You away. Never does. Have you met me? Nothing scares me.

Ron Lyons (30:40):
Okay. I'm I'm gonna come up with something even better now.

Speaker 7 (30:42): I love it. All right.

Ron Lyons (30:44):
I'm waiting. Very good, Wendy. Thank you so much for stopping by and thanks for having me look

absolutely forward to having you on

Speaker 7 (30:49):
The show. Thanks. Have a great evening.

Ron Lyons (30:55):
All right, guys, I am here with guess what? Carla Vargas and you know, Carla Vargas from the donkey

rescue and Carla, how are you doing?

Speaker 8 (31:04): I'm doing awesome.

Ron Lyons (31:05):
Awesome, man. And what do you think about this? What do you

Speaker 8 (31:08):
Think? Gosh, this is crazy.

Ron Lyons (31:10):
Isn't it? Have you ever seen anything like it?

Speaker 8 (31:13): No, I haven't.

Ron Lyons (31:14): There's so many people.

Speaker 8 (31:16): It's awesome.

Ron Lyons (31:17):
Food vendors, all kinds of stuff. And I, I hope that next year you'll come out here and maybe bring one of

the donkeys.

Speaker 8 (31:24): What do you

Ron Lyons (31:24):
Mean? Yeah. Wouldn't that be amazing?

Speaker 8 (31:26):
That would be awesome. Marilyn. Franks, that would love to be

Ron Lyons (31:30):
There. They would have wines going all the way down the side. There there'd be a million people

waiting to see them. So tell me this. Are you excited about the video coming out on the eighth? Speaker 8 (31:43):

I can't wait.

Ron Lyons (31:44):

Isn't it gonna be awesome? That's the, yes, the police chief and the mayor. So right now you don't know who won. So if you had to guess right now, if you had to just take a guess, give us an early guess. Who do you think won?

Speaker 8 (31:59):
Oh, ouch. That's a tough question.

Ron Lyons (32:03):
<Laugh> okay. You gotta pick a team. Which team? Who are you gonna pick?

Speaker 8 (32:06): I'll say the mayor.

Ron Lyons (32:08):

You think the mayor one? Yes. Well, the mayor is supposedly a good fisherman, so that could be the case, but all right, Carla, I'm gonna let you run around here and go find you some food. They've got all kind. They've got some margaritas that you can actually wear around your neck

Speaker 8 (32:24):
Over there. No way they

Ron Lyons (32:25):

Do. They do. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna head over there in just a second. See if I can find one, but okay. Carla, thank you for stopping by. And we look very forward to the video dropping on the eighth and of course we would love to stop by again and see the donkeys. Yes.

Speaker 5 (32:43): Thanks.

Ron Lyons (32:43):

All right. Okay. We'll do it. Thank you, Carla. Thank you guys. I am here right now with somebody who definitely sets the record for the smallest and youngest person on the show today, sweetie. What's your name?

Speaker 5 (32:58): Kennedy.

Ron Lyons (33:00):

Yeah. Kennedy. So your out here is splash and blessed. Are you having a good time? Yes. Tell me what you've done so far. Have you gone on slides yet?

Speaker 5 (33:09): Yes.

Ron Lyons (33:10):
Tell me about it. Tell, was it fun?

Speaker 5 (33:12): Yes.

Ron Lyons (33:13): Like what did you do

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Work? Like we buy some things and we got this.

Ron Lyons (33:23): Yeah. What is that?

Speaker 5 (33:26):
It's a thing when you get hot.

Ron Lyons (33:30):
Oh, wow. That's super nice. And have you had any food out here yet? Maybe ice cream or anything?

Good yet?

Speaker 5 (33:37):
I had pizza and snow cone.

Ron Lyons (33:40):
Pizza and snow cone? Yes. That sounds like my diet. That's what I eat.

Speaker 5 (33:45): What?

Ron Lyons (33:45):
Yeah, I know. It's crazy. Isn't it?

Speaker 5 (33:48): That is crazy.

Ron Lyons (33:49):

Oh my goodness. All right, sweetie. Well, thank you for coming over here and being on the show. Do you know a lot of people are going to hear you? Yes. Is that awesome? Yes. All right. Do you love Celina? Yes. All right. Your name is Kennedy Kennedy. You're awesome. Thank you, sweetheart.

Speaker 5 (34:07): Thank you

Ron Lyons (34:10):
Guys. I'm here with somebody who just walked up a very, very special person. You tell everybody who

you are, sweetheart.

Speaker 5 (34:19): Reese,

Ron Lyons (34:20):
Reese. And how do I know you? Reese?

Speaker 5 (34:24): I'm his daughter.

Ron Lyons (34:26):
That's right. Awesome. So you're here for splash and blast today. Are you excited?

Speaker 5 (34:31): Yeah.

Ron Lyons (34:32):
Okay. How many, how many water slides do we see over? There's like

Speaker 5 (34:35): 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Ron Lyons (34:38):
Oh my gosh. There's so many. I can't even count. 'em All. Are you gonna go out there and get on those

water slides?

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah, but there's super long lines. Super

Ron Lyons (34:45):

Long lines. Okay. Are you gonna eat some food out here today? Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. So it's a little bit hot, but I think we'll make it all the way through. And you know what happens at the end of the night?

Speaker 5 (34:57): What

Ron Lyons (34:58):
Fireworks and it's gonna be awesome. Are you excited about that?

Speaker 5 (35:02): Totally.

Ron Lyons (35:03):
All right. Well thank you for stopping by the booth. And if you listen to Celina radio.com, you know what

you're gonna hear? What youll me talking on the podcast.

Speaker 5 (35:14): Okay.

Ron Lyons (35:15):
All right. We'll talk again in a little bit. You can tell me what all you did. Okay?

Speaker 5 (35:18): Okay.

Ron Lyons (35:19): All right.

Ron Lyons (35:23):

All right, guys, that's gonna wrap it up for this episode of CelinaRadio.com, but don't forget. We've got some amazing shows coming up. As a matter of fact, next week, we've got Cleve and Kim Wickliffe of swirls bakery on and learning all about swirls bakery and how they got to where they're at is awesome. What's even more awesome. Is back in the seventies, there was a game show called the newlyw game on TV. And guess what? Yeah, that's what we did with them. We've played the newly we game. So if you want to hear some hilarious stuff with Kim and Cleveland cliff next week, you're gonna want to check that out. After that we've got Andy Hopkins coming on the show and I don't know what I'm gonna do to Andy just yet, but you can count on the fact then it's gonna be awesome.

Ron Lyons (36:12):

He, he said he was not afraid at all of whatever I was gonna do. So it may be time to pull out girl talk again, or, or who knows, but it's gonna be a good time either way. Andy is a local business owner. He's also Celina city council and has a former career of sorts. I don't know all about it yet, but he was involved in radio. So it's gonna be a fantastic show. Anyways, guys, do me a favor. Tell your friends about this show, share it on your social media, subscribe to the newsletter like us on Facebook. Do all that fun stuff. And we're gonna, we're just gonna continue having fun. But until next time guys, God bless. And I'll see you on the next show.