Choc Christopher And His Dance With Nancy Reagan

Ron Lyons (00:00):

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Ron Lyons (00:44):

All right, guys, welcome to another episode of CelinaRadio.com. And as this little local election season starts to wind down. We have another candidate interview today in the hot seat is Choc Christopher. Today. We're gonna sit down with him, get a little bit of an idea of who the person is behind the candidate. Like we've done with so many so far and hopefully help you gain a little perspective that maybe, you know, you can kind of see the human side of the candidate. And I think you're gonna really enjoy this episode. It was a great opportunity to, to sit down with Choc, Christopher, and learn a little bit about him and yes, the time that he danced with Nancy Reagan. So sit back guys, and let's talk with Choc, Christopher. All right, guys. I am here right now with Choc, Christopher and Choc. How are you, sir?

Choc Christopher (01:44): I'm good.

Ron Lyons (01:44):

Good. And, and right now you're in the middle of doing something pretty big and amazing. Something that not a lot of people get to experience and, and tell us what that is. What are you doing right now?

Choc Christopher (01:55):
Well, I'm actually running for the salon school board place two. I've been on the

school board 18 years. And so that's that's take lot of my time right now

Ron Lyons (02:05):

And, and, and give me a rating. And I asked somebody else earlier, like if you had to rate the experience and I'm talking about this, go round between a one and a 10, a 10 being absolutely amazing. And one being, you know what, I don't ever wanna do this again. What, what do you rate this?

Choc Christopher (02:21):

It's actually interesting. A little difficult for me. This is the first time I've, someone's run against me in 18 years. And so very new to me enjoying the process to a certain extent just like everything else I'm seeing, you know, the side of the world that either I didn't know about or cared or know about or was naive about, but in all, you know, most of it's been all good.

Ron Lyons (02:48):

So I've actually run for office myself and I've done a couple of elections. I've done the political action committee and I've, I've run a lot of campaigns for people. And I know the challenges that it presents and the, the toll it takes on your family and that sort of thing. So God bless you for doing that, putting your name in the, in the hat and putting yourself out there. And we, we absolutely understand what it takes, but the good news is we're not getting into any of the platform stuff or anything like that today. It's more about Choc for behind the scenes, the man behind the campaign. So we wanna know, you know, a little bit more about who you are as a person, but let, let me tell you this people who do want to get out there and find out what your platform is and that sort of thing, is there a way that they can find more about you? Like, do you have a Facebook page?

Choc Christopher (03:37):

Yes, I do Choc Christopher. So obviously I'm out there. So just go to my Facebook page. I have a website for my campaign. It's Choc Christopher for school, board.com. Okay.

Ron Lyons (03:49):

That's good. That's, <laugh>, it's, it's amazing when we're thinking these things up sometimes how we come up with these names, but yeah, no, that's good. It's very, very, to the point and I like that. So I'm gonna do some questions and they're meant to be kind of lighthearted and fun. So tell me this. What well, first of all, do you know when election day is, I guess that's important to tell everybody

Choc Christopher (04:13):
May 7th, Saturday, May 7th, early voting is tomorrow, which is a Saturday, Monday,

and Tuesday's also early voting, but actual election day is May 7th.

Ron Lyons (04:21):
Okay. And, and have you actually been out working around the, the polling places?

Choc Christopher (04:26):
I have actually spent this entire week eight to five sitting in front of college at

college.

Ron Lyons (04:33):
Okay. Well, you know what, that's, that's probably a wise use of your time right now.

How, how has turnout been

Choc Christopher (04:39):
It's today's, which is Friday was kind of, so, but most of the days it's been fairly

steady,
Ron Lyons (04:44):

So okay. That's good. I like that. So, so is a, a dynamic and growing place. Obviously our school system is, is system is critical to the city as a whole. And I believe that you've definitely got your reasons for running. What, what is it that convicts you? So to being on the school board,

Choc Christopher (05:05):

When we moved here, we obviously moved here for a reason. And my three
daughters who all graduated from Lana high school had such a wonderful, incredible experience here. I actually got on the school board in 2003. So in that time I just saw what an experience they had, what an advantage they had, not only they all three went to college, but what an advantage they had in life because of the support they got, the experiences they had. And I just, I just want that for kids, you know, what do people get on the school board for a lot of reasons? Some of'em are good. Some of 'em aren't good, but the reason people stay on a school board, at least in my opinion, is cause they love kids. And it is so hard right now as a child growing up, there are so many issues that I didn't obviously face but they face.

Choc Christopher (06:02):

And so I'm just, I want the kids these days, my grandkids are in salon ISD. Now some of them I want the same experience they had. And what I tell people is our face may a change in salon. And it obviously is it already, it started, you know, a while back and it's gonna continue to change, but our heart and our soul doesn't have to change. We all either moved here for a reason, or you were born and raised here and you stayed here for a reason. And I want that to continue. I want people to, everybody knows there's something different about salon. You hear it all the time. Now that difference may be different for different people, but there are some core things that people wanna move here for. They they've either heard it. They've seen it, they've read it. Those of us who live here like you and me, we know what it is, even though some of some people can't verbalize it. We know what it means. And I want to keep that

Ron Lyons (07:04):
The growth in Celina right now it's coming. Whether we want it or not. But in

general, is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Choc Christopher (07:12):

Well, like you said, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing it's gonna happen, there's all you have to starting Plano, go to Frisco, go to prosper. That's that's, what's coming and there's nothing we can do about it. But what we can do about it is the things that we can control and we can control how our kids are taught, what we expect the things that make this community great. We can keep those. It doesn't mean just because we grow that we can't keep the things that we all live here for moved here for stayed here for.

Ron Lyons (07:48):
Absolutely. And how long have you guys been in the Celina area?

Choc Christopher (07:52):
We moved here in 2001. So I've been here 21 years.

Ron Lyons (07:56):
Been here for some time. So, and, and if you don't mind what is your profession?

What do you do?

Choc Christopher (08:01):
So I work for Hewlett packer, HP and I'm in sales.

Ron Lyons (08:05):

Okay. The questions that I'm gonna ask you, like I said, they're gonna be kind of more fun than, you know, too serious or something like that. So I'm gonna dive right in with the, the very first question. And, and it's something that I've asked almost everybody right now is we've got just a handful of restaurants to go to right now. What's your favorite restaurant? It doesn't mean you don't like the others.

Choc Christopher (08:25):
Oh man. Well, what's so great about all of it is when we first moved here, you had

literally nothing, maybe burger fixings and oh, that's hard to say.

Ron Lyons (08:37):
Give me one of your favorite places. Let's say that what's one of your favorite places

to go eat in Celina.

Choc Christopher (08:43):
I like Tinder. I like Papa Gallo.

Ron Lyons (08:48):
Now you're now you're speaking my lane, which on both of those,

Choc Christopher (08:50):
I like toasted Walnut. Okay.

Ron Lyons (08:52):
Now we now we're three for three. Give me so, so if I go in and I see Choc

Christopher in tender, what are you eating?

Choc Christopher (09:00):

I'm pro I'm pretty, pretty standard. I'm gonna get probably brisket in the beans. I like that. I love, I love the pickles. So that's probably, that's my go-to sometimes I do the baked potato cuz I can get, you know, that's that's pretty good.

Ron Lyons (09:12):

Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that. So are you regular at all? Do you ever go to loosies?

Choc Christopher (09:18): Oh yeah.

Ron Lyons (09:18): Okay. So you go to

Choc Christopher (09:19):
Loosies. Yeah. So I left that one out. So apologize to those guys, but yeah,

Ron Lyons (09:23):

<Laugh>, it's not, trust me. Loosies has received an awful lot of accolades cuz they've allowed me to record in there quite a bit. So they've received some shameless plugs and we all love I'll

Choc Christopher (09:33): I'll plug them. There you go.

Ron Lyons (09:34):

Right on. And I literally just ate there before I came over here. So yes, yes. Very much. So they have karaoke night over there. Something you would do or would never do

Choc Christopher (09:46):

Well, I'll put it to you this way. When we're singing in church, my wife actually will look over at me and like, do you know how bad that sounds? And she will. I've I've gotten the elbow. My, my daughters have leaned over and said basically with their eyes, say, dad, you're embarrassing us. So

Ron Lyons (10:05):

No way, no way. No, no, not gonna happen. And, and, and that has always been my excuse for not seeing in churches because it actually says make a joyous noise until the Lord and mine's not it. So I'm just gonna abstain from that part. So,

Choc Christopher (10:18):

Well see, but my problem is I would love to sing and I keep I tell my wife, I, I said, I cannot wait till I get to heaven because I am gonna sing like a wild man. And it's gonna obviously sound great. So I, I can't wait.

Ron Lyons (10:29):

Nobody's gonna be elbowing you and saying, Hey, watch that. So, okay. Let's let's go on this favorite food at let's just go, let's go. Let's go with Papa Gallos real quick. Give me a,

Choc Christopher (10:42):
Gimme a so lettuces. Okay. Toasted Walnut would be, I love the Pimento cheese dip.

I'd do the waloo burger. Love that. The tomato soup.

Ron Lyons (10:55): Wow. Okay. Yeah.

Choc Christopher (10:56):
Good, good on that. Brisket tacos. Good on those. Let's go to, well, we did tender at

loosies I'm probably BLT, you know, it's stack. They stack it really high mm-hmm

Ron Lyons (11:13):
<Affirmative> <laugh> yeah, no, it sounds awesome. Sounds great. I'm the guy who

just ate chicken fried steak, I'm literally just came from Lucy's..

Ron Lyons (11:21): Absolutely.

Choc Christopher (11:22):
And so yeah, those would be my go-to.

Ron Lyons (11:24):

So, so what I'm finding out about these things is everybody's enjoying these
podcasts. They're enjoying these conversations and a common thing is I learned what this person, so and so light at this restaurant, and now I'm gonna try it. So that's why this is such a critical part of this. We're not meeting in a restaurant, actually. You're gracious enough to have me in your house. And I appreciate that very much, but what do you do for fun? What does Choc Christopher do for relaxation and fun?

Choc Christopher (11:51):

So I am very engaged in the school district. I go to most every event I'm weaving here to go to the girls' softball game. I was at the girls' softball game. I do all the athletics. I I'm. I run the clock for the high school football games for junior high and high school. That's Tuesday win Tuesday, Thursday, Fridays. I am a huge Aggie. I graduated from Texas a and M I have seasoned football tickets. I am such a die hard Aggie. You can look right in there and see so I go to a lot of, lot of Aggie stuff. I'm a fly fisherman, love to fly fish. We had a house in Colorado and I've been going to Colorado my whole life. And so I love to five fish. Don't obviously get to do it that often. But so I have five grandsons. Now we have three daughters. Now I have five grandsons that all live close. Some of them here in Celina. So <laugh> obviously love doing that and that, you know, that takes a lot of my, so you've got

Ron Lyons (12:51):

Your hands full, but it sounds like you're very inclined towards like sports and athletics and that sort of thing. You get a lot of enjoyment out of sports and stuff.

Choc Christopher (13:00):
Yeah. I play golf too. I'm pretty big golf. I don't get to play as much as I want to, but

Ron Lyons (13:03):

That's, that's one thing you and I probably never do together play golf because I, by, by default I automatically have the worst. It's just awful. It's it's pathetic people feel sorry, or me when they see me try. So if you could choose someone historically from time in history and sit down and have a discussion with them, who might you like to sit down with and talk,

Choc Christopher (13:25):

Well, if it could happen, you know, obviously Jesus, I, I think that would be well, it'd be hard to characterize even what that conversation would be because obviously fascinat incredible da da, da, but I, that would be, you know, an incredible discussion. Abraham Lincoln comes to mind.

Ron Lyons (13:45):
Give me an idea of like, what would you ask Abraham, Abraham Lincoln? Well,

Choc Christopher (13:49):

He seemed to be so grounded and so wise with, you know, the whole, the whole place was blowing up all around him, you know, and obviously the only civil war he's ever we've ever had. And somehow, even though, you know, he was assassinated, he, he kind of weathered that or he did the best he could do. And you know, as far as I'm concerned, there's probably no wind situation, you know, one side was gonna lose and it wasn't gonna be good. It for anybody. There's some military guys. I, I think George Patton, would've been an interesting guy to, you know, just if nothing else just be around him, you know, obviously read the book and seen the movie. And the guy just kind of strikes me when I was at a M I was in the core. And so a lot of some military guys really come to mind. But so that, that those guys

Ron Lyons (14:38):
Choose, choose one of those for me real quick. Just pick one, because I want ask a

follow up question. Jesus, where do you invite Jesus to sit down with you and talk?

Choc Christopher (14:47):

I'm always talking to him so he can, sometimes he's in my lap. Sometimes he's on my back. Sometimes he's carrying me sometimes he's walking beside me. Yeah. It's all the time. I, in fact, I don't have to ask him he's right there.

Ron Lyons (15:01):
Absolutely beautiful and wonderful. And thank you. Give me an idea now. Favorite

color Choc Christopher's favorite color is Choc Christopher (15:12):

Solana orange and maroon Aggie maroon.

Ron Lyons (15:14):

So we've got a mixture of the Aggie and the Bobcat going on here. Yeah. Okay. And, and speaking of that, it's something that came up in one of the earlier discussions that I had the pride with the Aggies is, is it's, it's really, you can, you can touch it. And the in Celina for what we have here is huge as well. So speak to that. Do you, do you feel a correlation? Is there similarities between your Aggie pride and your Bobcat pride?

Choc Christopher (15:41):
Oh, for sure. You know, the Aggie saying is from the outside, looking in, you don't

understand it from the inside looking out, you can't describe it.

Ron Lyons (15:51):
Well, that is, that is very, very,

Choc Christopher (15:54):

And that's, that's kind of Celina, you know, it is, you know, people, like I said, people have heard about Celina, know about Celina. And even when we, you know, when you go outside Celina, like when we go to a football game or we go to band competition or anything, when Celina shows up, they know that either they're gonna have, are hands full or we're just different. And in most cases, don't take this wrong. In most cases, we're better because we work harder. We there's a little bit of a, they are so very, I'm glad you a and M and salon are so very similar in the way that it's just, we all love each other. If you meet an Aggie, I mean, can I meet an Aggie? There's a instant bond. Same when Celina, if you meet somebody from Celina, whether they're been here five years, one year, a hundred years. Oh, you're from Celina. Well, and that immediately, even when you're telling people that aren't from Celina, when you say Celina, they say, oh, what about you can, and I, you may not even know what that is, but they, oh God. Yeah. I've heard about you guys.

Ron Lyons (16:58):

And wouldn't you say that all of that is exactly what's driving. You, you can say economics and stuff like that. You can say the housing market, there's a, there's a million things. But I think the biggest draw is exactly what you just said. It's what we all sense, what we all feel. And other people just, they see it. They sense that they get a little taste of it and then they want it. They want to come here. They want the exact same thing for themself. So it speaks to our community into Celina. When you say that,

Choc Christopher (17:25):

Oh, no question about it. When let's say they're moving from, let's say California, that's kind of the, you know, token place that people can, they've heard something, they know it's different. They, they want something different. That's why they're moving. But even people from Plano or Frisco, I mean the, what do you think about

it? Those towns are, they're nice, but they're not Celina. And those people are moving up here, either better schools or, you know, they just somebody's told 'em, they've read about it, heard about it. There is something different. And they want that. They see what we have and they're thinking, man, I want a piece of that. And so it's yeah, it's all good.

Ron Lyons (18:08):
Tell me this favorite movie. If you had to, you probably have several, give me one.

Choc Christopher (18:15):

Oh, I'm gonna kind of give you a genre because My wife won't watch them with me. So I have to have to go the, I have to go in the other room. So I'm kind of saving private Ryan, glad gladiator, Shawshank, redemption, you know, some of those I'm a big, you know, born identity stuff, you know, kind of that kind of stuff. Now, the worst thing is I've been known to watch the notebook.

Ron Lyons (18:44): <Laugh>

Choc Christopher (18:46):
Multiple times and I have lost my man car with a lot of my buddies, but I, I just think,

you know, that is just, you know, I hope I hope my wife and I died that way.

Ron Lyons (18:58):

Absolutely. And, and, and I'll, I'll just go ahead and cash my man card into while we're at it, I've watched it. I loved it. And I'd probably watch it 10 more times. And I don't care. I'm an old cop, I'm an old, all that stuff. And you know what it is. It's awesome. It's, it's how we really hope to be in, in, in our own life. I mean, it's everything right. It's just,

Choc Christopher (19:18):

It's just such a sweetness, you know? And like you say, I mean, you're a cop and it's just, If you you're a man and you can watch it, I'm telling you because there is just a sweetness there, not a, only with the marriage, their marriage, but just, yeah. So,

Ron Lyons (19:34): No, I I'm, I'm

Choc Christopher (19:35):
Informed be sappy. I don't know, but <laugh>, I I'll, I like it.

Ron Lyons (19:39):

No, I think it's greatness. I think it's really good. If, if you could go back to your, let's just say 18 year old self and give yourself some advice or just say something to yourself of what might that be?

Choc Christopher (19:55):

I probably would've. Well, at least going through college, I probably would've applied myself a little more. Now that I'm, now that I'm out and see that those were very formative years. I was raised in a wonderful Christian family. I went to a M my dad was an AIE. My whole family was AIE. So I, you know, that was, that's what I always wanted to do, but I probably would've I was pre-med for two years at a M and I got blown all over campus <laugh> You know, so I ended up business management, but so that tell you something, but you know, it, other than that. Yep.

Ron Lyons (20:36):
So, so here's one that I didn't ask in my last interview. And I, I think it's, it'll be

telling if there is one, what's your favorite number?

Choc Christopher (20:48): 12?

Ron Lyons (20:49): Why

Choc Christopher (20:51): 12Th, man, Texas a, there

Ron Lyons (20:53):
You go. <Laugh> and it's like, I, I know that this guy's, we all have

Choc Christopher (20:58):
To answer all, have to answer that

Ron Lyons (21:00):

Way. He's either, he's either got an answer and it really means something, or he doesn't have a favorite number. Yeah. You know, it's one way or the other. So if, and another question that I've, I've asked a lot, and this is very interesting, as well, as, you know, we all love Celina. We're here for a multitude of reasons. All of them honorable, and we that's, we just love it here. But if there was no Celina, where would you like to live anywhere in the world? Where would you like to live? I

Choc Christopher (21:26): Have Colorado

Ron Lyons (21:28):
Tell me, like, like what's so great about Colorado.

Choc Christopher (21:31):

Well, I told you earlier that I went through my whole life, my, my family had a house in Colorado. I grew, you know, would go there every single summer. I just, it's just so beautiful. So I'm a fly fisherman. I, snow ski. It's just so such a beautiful place. And I think it's just, you know, it's just so much God's beauty there. And I just love it.

Ron Lyons (21:55):
Tell me this. What is something that a lot of people misunderstand about you,

Choc Christopher (22:00):

You know, I'm fairly outgoing and, you know, engaged people. I do that a lot, cuz I, I think that's important, but in reality, you know, I'm for sure not confrontational. I'm, I'm probably most people I'm probably a little shyer than most people think. But I I hide that pretty good. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (22:24):

Yeah. I think you do a good job cuz I, I, I like to do my due diligence, so I went it and did a little research on you and there's a lot of great videos out there you've done. And I thought, well, this guy, yeah, there's he's he is gonna have no problem doing this, which you don't, you're doing super, super well with this. But I would never guess that you had any sense of shyness or anything like that in you at all. So, so you're right. I think that's, I think that's really interest thing. What what's your biggest pet peeve?

Choc Christopher (22:56): Pet peeve.

Ron Lyons (22:57):
Yeah. Something that just drives you crazy

Choc Christopher (23:01):
People that smack their gum drives me crazy.

Speaker 3 (23:06): <Laugh>

Speaker 3 (23:11): That's

Choc Christopher (23:12):
Probably the biggest one. I don't, I mean, that's obviously not that big a deal, but oh

God, I'm trying to look crazy. Ron Lyons (23:17):

I had a I was talking to a guy the other day and I don't even know how we got on the subject, but he told me that his wife hates when people crunch. So when they're in a disagreement, he specifically, he goes and gets crunchy food and eats in front of her and said, I don't, I don't have to say a word. I can drive her crazy just by eating in front of her. And I was like, wow, <laugh>, that's his that's different. So yeah, no, I, I agree with that. Give an idea. What's what jock Christopher's favorite music.

Choc Christopher (23:50):

So I'm a seventies, eighties, rock and roll, you know, journey Fleetwood, Mac, all those I, and what's so interesting and cool. My girls always stood they're in their twenties and thirties and I think it's just a year universal music that everybody loves and oh, you know, when I'm working out, I I've been known to sing while I'm working out to that kind of my stations are, you know, they're all seventies and eighties rock and roll

Ron Lyons (24:17):
Right on. So I know I was a huge journey fan still am a huge journey fan, but you

know the lead singers changed, right? Steve

Choc Christopher (24:27): Perry, he is gone

Ron Lyons (24:27):

No longer, no longer there. And you've got the, the new guy from the Philippines when they, they did a big search, found him. There's a great documentary about that. Are you still equally a journey fan with a modern version of the newer version with a new lead singer instead of Steve Perry?

Choc Christopher (24:44):

So interesting. So, so we were at grand scapes, not too long ago, journey, cover band. I thought that dude was really good. I really, if you played him and I didn't know the new guy, the new Steve Perry is really good. And if I wasn't being real into it, picky listener, I don't know that I could tell 'em apart.

Ron Lyons (25:09):
What do you think about the fact that now all of our old music like that is on the

classic rocks, classic stations oldies now classic.

Choc Christopher (25:16):

Yeah. Classic eighties, whatever you say. But like I said, I know so many young kids and young people that love it and listen to it. So it'll always be classic. I think, I think that's, if you're classic, you're great music because a lot of this stuff's gonna, you know, some of this stuff today, it'll, it'll go away.

Ron Lyons (25:39):

I am with you. I understand what you're saying. So tell me this. Have you ever had the opportunity to meet someone famous?

Choc Christopher (25:47): Yes.

Ron Lyons (25:47):
Tell me who you've met.

Choc Christopher (25:50):

Probably the most famous person I met. And this is an interesting story. So I was in, I told you I was in the core at a M we marched the core. At least the part that I was in, it was it's called the Ross fond. We actually marched in Ronald Reagan's inaugural parade. And I at, at night they have inaugural balls. I actually danced with Nancy Reagan for about 30 seconds. Wow. So we're all in uniform, you know? And so now president Reagan wasn't there. He was at another one, but I literally danced with Nancy Reagan for about 30 seconds. And I, I could still remember what she smelled like. It was, you know, it was just so incredible. Cause I'm thinking, wow, it means more to me now obviously than it probably did back then. But I, I mean, even back then, I knew it was a big deal and man, cuz only about five, five of us got to do it, you know? And there was so, you know, we went up to everybody else, but yeah, it was incredible.

Ron Lyons (26:48):

That's that's an amazing story. I, I like that. That's that's crazy. Ronald Reagan was kind of my first foray into understanding politics and stuff. I remember seeing Nixon on TV, but I didn't understand it. I really stood when Reagan took office and all of the historical things that happened under, you know, his watch. So and I think that leadership is something that we need now and we need it at all levels. We need it as a country. That's a different show and we certainly need it. We certainly need it on a local level. So that's, you know, that's, that's part of motivates you to do what you're doing and motivates me to sit here and talk to you about it. So give me an idea of something. If you have any ideas in your mind, if you drive around town and you're like, gosh, we have this maybe coming and that may, what is something Celina's missing right now? What is something that we need in Celina?

Choc Christopher (27:42):

Well, obviously, you know, what's, it's all coming and you know, obviously the school district, just from a pure financial standpoint, we need some, we need a Walmart as an example, we need a lows cuz once you get those you're you're okay. It's like, if you look at Anna and Melissa and van Austin, you know, if you're up 75 up a big thoroughfare, all those things that just pop up. Not that I want those to come, but they're coming. So you know, give us one or two of those. I I'd take it

Ron Lyons (28:18):

Very good. I like that. That's that's a very, very good answer. Very different than what I've heard so far. So I'm, I'm gonna wrap everything up here, but I'm gonna ask you the exact same question that I've asked almost everybody else. And that is, what do you love about Celina?

Choc Christopher (28:37):

I love, I wanna say everything because when I moved here in 2001, I mean I had heard about Celina, but I really didn't know that much about it. And when my wife and I, so my wife's father was a pastor and one of his old staff people had moved to Bethel Baptist and was, was there and got him to come up and do a revival. And just that little small snippet of Celina to my father-in-law, he came back to Sue and I, we lived in Plano at the time, my wife's name Sue. And he said, man, I don't know what what's up there, but you guys ought check that out. I didn't really act on that until later. But when Sue and I visited up here, cuz somebody said something, you know, I'm talking about and he had said something, we came up here, our daughters had met some friends or something. I, and so when we first came up here, I said, there is no way I am moving up there because back then, you know, there was really nothing there, nothing here, nothing here that I thought was here. Literally I went to my wife and I went to a really big Baptist church. I was chairman of the deacons. I had a Sunday school class with a hundred people in it. My daughters were getting ready to go into high school, da, da, da, da. We came up here and visited the counselor at the high school. And we walked in there and literally, and I wish I could remember her name. We sat down and she said, she said, Mr. Christopher,

Choc Christopher (30:15):

Your priorities, if your priorities are not faith, family and community don't even bother coming here. And I thought, you know what? I like it literally four months later we moved into our house. I mean, it was a total total. And I, I drank the Kool- Aid so fast and hard and man I've loved it ever since. And I just love talking about so cuz I, it just has been so wonderful for my family. My girls, even when our girls that don't live here, they live in McKinney and the colony, they come, they come back cuz you know, they, they were born and raised here and I just, man, I really love everything about it. I'm I'm kind of one of those that says, you know, man, I know what's gonna change, but man, it's keep what we've got. As long as we can.

Ron Lyons (31:02):
Do you feel like I do? I said, no more questions, but I feel blessed to be here right

now.

Choc Christopher (31:08):

I feel so blessed. And, and the way we got here was such an incredible, at least for our was an incredible, it was a miracle because literally barely heard about salon had no inkling to move. Wouldn't even think about in man, like I said, four months to go from that to here. And it's been such an incredible bus. We have so many, well, everything about son is a blessing for

Ron Lyons (31:36):

Us. Thank you so much for your time. I know your time is very, very valuable and I appreciate that. And I look forward to maybe another Guion down the road. I'd love to have you back on and talk about some of those sports and some of the things that you're involved with, all, all of the, the athletics in town and, and, and maybe just catch up on some stuff that we really couldn't cover today. Would you come back on the show? You

Choc Christopher (31:56):
Betcha. Absolutely. I've enjoyed it. Thank

Ron Lyons (31:58):

You. Thank you so much. All right guys, that is jock Chris, and we're gonna go out on a very 1980s rock and roll kind of vibe. It's something that Choc and I share in common, which is our love for eighties music, as you heard. And you know what? I hope you got a little insight. I hope you got a little more behind the scenes and a little better understanding of who Choc Christopher is now, Natalie him, that we've had some fantastic candidates on. I hope you've listened to all of the interviews and I hope that you have found this useful and we still have one left to go. And then we're back to business as usual@Celinaradio.com. So do me a favor and share this podcast on your social media, tell your friends about it and help us get this thing off the ground. We know that Celina is amazing. I know that you're amazing and we wanna make CelinaRadio.com. Amazing. I, where else can you hear eighties music as your background anyways, guys, on that note as always God bless and I'll see you on the next show.