Celina, Texas Mayor Sean Terry: A Life Of Service

Ron Lyons (00:01):
What city would you be the mayor of, if not Celina,

Mayor Sean Terry (00:05):
You know, I think out in Martha, Texas, you know, they got a beer drinking goat out there, and I think

that's just

Ron Lyons (00:12): That people

Mayor Sean Terry (00:12): Draw there

Ron Lyons (00:14):

Welcome to CelinaRadio.com recorded right here in Celina, Texas, a quiet little dusty sleepy town that has absolutely nothing going on, guys. This is Celina, Texas, and this is also some really fantastic background music today. It's right straight outta Sweden. And there's no connection to this music. And the guest today is just really awesome music, but it's not the best part of today. The best part of today is that I get to spend some time with you talking about Celina, Texas, something we have in common, something we both love something that really pulls us all together as a city. It's just our love for Celina, Texas, right? And today I've got someone on the show that has played a very big part in getting Celina, Texas to where it is right now. And not only that, but on the road to where it's going. And that person is mayor Sean Terry.

Ron Lyons (01:25):

Now you've probably seen Sean do his videos and you've probably heard him on other podcasts, but let me tell you, you've never heard Sean Terry like this before we had an absolute blast and he's a very straight shooting, strong willed, very knowledgeable man. And I, I have just the utmost respect for him coming on the show, doing what he did for the show, doing what he's done for the city of Celina. It's just good stuff. I'll tell you what else is good stuff. Is this weekend, Saturday, July the second from five until 10:00 PM. Celina is having splash and blast out at old Celina park. And I'm gonna be there. We've got a booth set up CelinaRadio.com booth set. We're gonna be recording. We're gonna be doing some podcasting, some broadcasting, and just generally having a really good time getting to meet people, just like you.

Ron Lyons (02:21):

You're also gonna get to have water slides, tons and tons of vendors, really good food, really good music. And then of course at the end of the night, some fantastic fireworks. So come out this Saturday, July 2nd, from five until 10:00 PM, bring the family, bring your friends, bring everybody. And let's have a really good time at the annual splash and blast event. First Aina Texas guys until this Saturday, when you can come out and we can shake hands and say, hello, why don't you sit back and relax. And let's go in a little adventure with mayor Sean Terry. All right, guys. I am here today with mayor Sean Terry, and he was gracious enough to decide to sit down, spend a little time with us and talk a little bit about what's going on in the city what's going on in his life and all the craziness that can be Celina, Texas. So, Sean, how are you doing today, sir?

Mayor Sean Terry (03:28):
I'm doing great, Ron, thanks for this opportunity to kind of, I love talking about the city and my family

and just thanks for the honor for being here. Well,

Ron Lyons (03:34):
Absolutely. And we are in a back room right now. We're actually in council chambers or are kind of

behind it. What, what is this room that we're in right now?

Mayor Sean Terry (03:42):

So this is kind of a multi-use room, you know, we're, we limited on space a lot of times. And so this room is something that our engineers development services uses for pre-development meetings. And then we use them for our breakout room for council executive sessions. So it's kinda used for a little bit of everything.

Ron Lyons (03:58):
So would you say that some of the Celina magic has happened in this room before?

Mayor Sean Terry (04:03):

I think it's just where we hang out and talk, you know, probably more magical back when it was a church, you know, there's old Methodist church. So there was a lot of probably deals that happened back here then, but I think it's just, you know, it's a place where they can come. Developers can come because nowadays when the developer comes in, they bring their attorneys, they bring their development, their own engineers. So you need a space that has plenty of room and we have that back here. It

Ron Lyons (04:23):

Is everything that I see right now is very nice in how things are put together in Celina. So this was originally a Methodist church, you said. And now when you walk in, you see the outside, you see the old architecture and that sort of thing. But when you walk inside, wow, what a completely different feel.

Mayor Sean Terry (04:40):

Yes it is. And we want that. We want it to feel like from the outside, we want to keep our heritage of what it looked like before. But the inside, obviously the new technology and in a place where our employees can come, that they can feel like in a comfort area where they can get their job done.

Ron Lyons (04:53):

Give me an idea with city, just the city, just being as crazy as it is right now, we're experiencing this amazing growth and we're in a, just a fantastic time to be in Celina, Texas. What does the day in the life of the mayor of Celina, Texas look like? What do you do in an average day?

Mayor Sean Terry (05:07):

You know, it varies each day, but right now, really since probably the last six months, our commercial interest has really boosted. So every morning I get up and check my emails, I try to, I don't come to city hall every day because I can meet people anywhere. You know, most of the developers are around Dallas that are moving up this way. And so I get up check my emails. You know, one thing I think people

don't realize mayor and council, our job is to guide the city manager, give him what we think our citizens want. And then he runs the day to day. So it's not my job to be in meetings with staff every day. It's my job to make sure. So if we get a citizen, say they have a trash complaint or something, I immediately forward that email to my city manager and he dictates it where it needs to go.

Mayor Sean Terry (05:49):

And I always like to look like the hero, like all councils should do is basically let city staff fix it and then call him up to make sure it got fixed because our citizens demand customer service we're in that business. And so each day's a little different, you know, depending on after accounts meeting, there's a lot of papers you have to sign. So I typically come in the day or two after council that evening, most of the time and we'll sign all the papers, lot of meetings, a lot of, lot of meetings, a lot of phone calls, you know, technology be, can be a good thing sometimes. And sometimes it can be a bad thing. And, and in, in a case of a mayor not having to be boots on the ground every day, having that cell phone has really changed the lives of how you can communicate.

Ron Lyons (06:26):

So tell me this since you're probably constantly getting text messages and phone calls and, and, and about things like that, and they're important, my trash didn't get picked up all the way on up to, Hey, we've had, you know, a structure fire in the city or, you know, big things like that. How does your family feel about that phone? Like do they ever tell you, Hey, just, you know, what put that aside for a while, quit being mayor and, and just set that aside or do they kind of understand that for a time period as you serve? That's what it, that's how it's gonna be.

Mayor Sean Terry (06:56):

You know, being on the fire department 11 years, they wanted me to put my pager up or my radio up and we had set times to where, okay, I'm not gonna go on a call tonight and then I'd have to sneak off. And, you know, but one time it was only seven or eight of us on the department fire department. And so now my kids are older. I got a daughter that's a senior at a and M I got a son that's gonna be as a junior now at a and M. And so I think earlier when they were kids, they were a little more, but dad put that phone up now they've kind of had their own lives. And my wife, you know, we'll be married 30 years in January. And so she's lived with it. Most of her life, even our early days in marriage, down at a and M I did internships with the DA's office and was always involved. Cause I feel like community service is very important. So we raised our kids that way, but there is times that she'll say, Hey, it's, it's my time now. So you need to put that up and stuff. But when you're passionate about something, as you know, it's hard to turn that switch off.

Ron Lyons (07:45):

Absolutely. And this is a life of service and it sounds like you said, you've been working for the fire department before you've done internships in city government. So give me kind of the quick resume, the, the, the overview. How did you make this professional journey to where you are today as the mayor of Celina, Texas,

Mayor Sean Terry (08:04):

You know, back in high school, I graduated from gunner. My dad was a coach. My mom was a teacher and they had always taught us about being good servants leaders. And so I remember when I was 16 years old, I could join a fire department and I joined in gunner and I remember, you know, having a

pager. And I remember one thing, very vivid. My dad, you know, talking about you get special treatment. Well, I went to we had the pagers in and I was in a classroom setting with my mom as a teacher and my pager went off and I said, mom, I need to go cuz back then in gunner, there was nobody on during the day. Our chief now is the mayor in gunner today, Mark Miller. But I remember going to a grass fire call and I thought I was saving the world, man, I'm driving the truck, stopping, putting the grass fire out.

Mayor Sean Terry (08:47):

And my dad drove by and he goes, if you're late to practice, you gotta run. And I go, dad, I'm helping save the world so to speak. And I remember getting to practice and he ran my rear off after that, but it didn't deter me from wanting to do good. I just knew that, Hey, there's consequences that even come with volunteering. And so I think that journey led me to when I went to a and M on a full football scholarship and I really wanted to stay involved. And during the season, the NCAA, you could not have a job, but in the summers you could. So I would intern with the DA's office. I had some aspirations maybe getting the secret service or something, but it kept me involved with meeting a lot of cool people. Then I met my wife after my freshman year, we got married and her dad and Rick Perry were very close.

Mayor Sean Terry (09:28):

And so we, as athletes would go and help when he was the ag commissioner, then we would go to some of his fundraisers. And that really kind of started getting me interest in politics a little bit fast forward to coming to gunner. I mean, coming to Celina back in 1998 and got immediately got on the fire department. And back then, that's kinda like being in politics. You're in people's houses every day. If they have, you know, CMF their worst or at their best. And so we helped mow the baseball fields. Then you kind of did anything that needed to be done. And so I've always had jobs, whether it's outside sales or the current company I'm with now that always had that servant mind shift too. They allowed their employees to do things. And so Corbit Howard who's actually retiring from the city today, came to me when they opened up a place six on city council, they became a home rural city and he said, Hey, I think you would be good. And so why don't you think about running for city council? So I said, sure. And so I ran and won that year and that kind of started, I never had aspirations to be mayor. I really never had aspirations to be on council. I just had aspirations. What can I do to help my common friend or foe, so to speak that makes their lives easier. And that's kind of what I've always lived on.

Ron Lyons (10:34):

So, so I understand, and, and I do my due diligence before I do an interview like this. And I was told about a time that you, there was, let me see if I can shape this up just right. I, I may get part of it wrong, but there was a water leak. And you went out apparently with someone from the water department, and this is like a big deal. And you actually brought like a camper or something to that. Does any of that ring a bell with you? That's how that doesn't sound like a person who is not interested in helping. That sounds like somebody who's fully committed. So tell me about that.

Mayor Sean Terry (11:09):

So it was a time that we had, where I think we were down to like nine degrees and we had a major water leak out by Morgan lakes and it had to be, nobody had water. And so Joseph was our public works director at the time. And so they were kind of wanting a fire department to be on standby out there with the, we didn't have an ambulance in, you know, that was back when Frisco came, it was Frisco or prosper that ran our ambulance service in, but they wanted one on standby in case they got

hypothermia. I said, well, I got a motor home. Why don't I just bring it out here? We'll keep him a warming station. We'll make coffee. And, and so what that turned out to be was it was kind of funny and it just on a whim, I went home, told my wife, I'm taking it.

Mayor Sean Terry (11:44):

Well, make sure you cover it up. We don't want mud, you know? And wasn't even thinking about that part of it, you know? Right, right. And so we drive it down and it was the old, the only water tear really had at the time or the second one, I guess we had out by Morgan lakes, we had the one downtown in that one. And it was a crappy road that you had to drive down to. And so I drove the motor home down there. We set it all up. Well, Morgan lakes, there was guy Gibbs lived his backyard face there. And so we ended up bringing that motor home down there and sitting in there. And the neighbors started seeing what was going on. So guy brought over his industrial heaters and helped put him in the hole. People from the neighborhood started bringing him over food.

Mayor Sean Terry (12:21):

And it became a community bonding moment to where you really knew, man, this place is special because it's eight degrees outside and we have neighbors standing around this hole. Okay, we're timing you, you gotta get out in five minutes, you get hypothermia. So come sit in the motor home. And so we did that all night and it took about five hours, but we had the whole city back on water by the next morning. And so those are things that it wasn't just me, but the community came together and made a bad situation into something positive that allowed our guys to be in a safe environment and be able to get their leak fixed and go home.

Ron Lyons (12:51):
But you're the guy who came out there with a motor

Mayor Sean Terry (12:54):
Home. I did bring the motor home out there. Yeah. That was one for the ages right there. That was a lot

of fun. And,

Ron Lyons (12:58):

And that story, like I said, is still talked about, I was actually at dinner recently with somebody else in the city and they're like, oh my God, you've gotta ask them about this. It was a good, because it's, it's kind of a, it's, it's a, an idea of who you are as a person. And it certainly takes exactly what we said. You've gotta have a spirit of service. You've got to be willing to go through a lot of stuff when you're in politics and in a growing city like this, I can only imagine that at times it brings a lot of challenges. It

Mayor Sean Terry (13:27): Does. Yes.

Ron Lyons (13:28):

So, so that's, that's kind of the deal and we're not gonna get off heavy, deep into anything like that. We're actually gonna take a little bit of a different route. I'm gonna ask you some, some questions and you, you're not prepared for any of this. I didn't see. No,

Mayor Sean Terry (13:42): I'm not yet. Nope.

Ron Lyons (13:42):
Nothing in advance. So you know nothing about what I'm gonna ask. So I have, but I do have to ask this

first, how nervous are you about the questions I'm about to

Mayor Sean Terry (13:50):

Ask? Not at all, you know, and here's why, you know, I've, I've at a and M I was the punter from gunner. That was my stage name, so to speak. Right, right. And so I remember my sophomore year at a and M a punter is not the most glamorous position, you know? And so RC locum came over to me at our, we had, we played in the cotton bowl three times. So we had a breakfast called it was the a prayer breakfast that we had. And so our quarterback was Cory Puig. He was supposed to be speaking at this. He got sick. And so RC came over and said, Hey, I need you to get up there and speak. And I said, okay, coach, whatever you want me to do. So I get up on stage and I have Lou Holtz sitting on one side of me and I've got Terry Bradshaw on the other.

Mayor Sean Terry (14:29):

Well, I'm trying to write down notes of what am I gonna talk about? Cuz you're talking to a Christian based crowd. You have to be correct on what you say. And Lou looked at me and go, what are you doing son? And I said, sir, I'm punter. I'm here. Just trying to write notes. He goes, if you speak from the heart, you never need notes. Just say, and answer truthfully that you don't have to write anything. So I've taken that to heart my whole life. And unless I'm really talking specific numbers politically where I gotta say, okay, 58% of your water is this or that or whatever the situation might be. I just get up there and go with it. So that's why I usually don't get nervous because unless it's something engineering or analytical that I have to have, I just talk.

Ron Lyons (15:10):

Right. And, and you strike me as the kind of person that kind of takes everything in stride. You're, you're probably a very, very good fit for the city right now, going through everything that it's growing through, it's growing pains because you kind of take it in stride. Am I, am I right about that observation?

Mayor Sean Terry (15:25):

Yeah. A hundred percent. I think you take it in stride. You have to grow with it. I think you can't be, you have to have criticism. You have to have constructive criticism and you have to look at, it's not reinventing the wheel. You have to look at other cities that have done this and be willing to go talk to other mayors and council and city managers and see what's the best fit for you. But also there's certain things that they have done. Great. And there's certain things they didn't, but I think you're right. I think I'm just, you know, we absorb it all in. Then we do what's best for our city

Ron Lyons (15:52):
Right on. Okay. So let's just pretend that Celina doesn't exist, but you still gotta be the mayor of a city.

What city would you like to be a mayor of? If it wasn't Celina? Mayor Sean Terry (16:01):

You know, I think out in Martha, Texas, mm-hmm, <affirmative>, you know, they got a beer drinking goat out there and I think that's just that people draw there. And I think being in a small town, you know, that's one thing that I miss about Celina is everybody calling you for everything for a while. And it gets old for a little bit, but I think out Martha in the west Texas area would be cool to be, you know, kind of the old Western style field where, you know, you got a beer drinking goat and you kind of have a little, you know, old town, old school where the guys still have a place to go drink coffee and you sit down there and talk to him.

Ron Lyons (16:34):

Very, very good. So when I got to Celina, what is now tender was the Bobcat cafe mm-hmm <affirmative> and that's where all the, the senior men would go and kind of collect and, and do that thing. It was still that kind of town and drink coffee and talk. And I just thought that was the best thing ever. And I really hope that it would last forever, but of course, you know, like I always say, everybody wants what we have and you can't fault people for wanting to come here and get it. But how do you feel about all the growth? I mean, are you, are you comfortable with it obviously you've, you've really come to a solid point in your own mind because you play a pivotal role in it, but what do you think about all the growth?

Mayor Sean Terry (17:11):

You know, I I'm, I like small town. Okay. But I also understand as the mayor and our council, we're gonna grow no matter if we like it or not. And, and I can give examples of cities and I won't call 'em out that have said, we're not gonna grow. Well, guess what? I work for a developer and understand both sides of the coin. And so there's li there's laws and legislative things in place that somebody owns that land that wants to sell it to be developed. They can do certain things with it. They don't have to have city input to do that. And so we're in that situation where we have more, more tow road frontage and Preston road frontage in Dallas does, so you're gonna grow. And so I'd rather have manageable growth and light farms kind of help kick that off. Even though they're in a mud, they're not technically in the city today, they came in and past leadership.

Mayor Sean Terry (17:58):

We're able to negotiate things with them to give them sewer and water, but they had to build our standards. And so growth is a necessary evil because it's gonna happen. I would rather for our staff and us control that and I hate the word control, but that's what you're doing. Getting the best houses that are built because our fire and police are gonna be protecting it. And so I wish we could keep it small, but I also believe in property rights. And if somebody wants to sell that property and they want to develop that property, we just want to be there to help them, guide them, to get the maximum best development we can get.

Ron Lyons (18:30):

Absolutely. And I understand that. I think that's, that's part of why you're in the position you're in right now, because it's gotta be somebody who still loves and appreciates the small town and the, the historic value of Celina and all of that that we love and can help manage the growth because it's 100% coming. So we're, we're gonna take a little side step. If you could be in any movie, what movie would you be in? I

Mayor Sean Terry (18:54):

Think Friday night lights would be a cool one with being the old, you know, again coach Hollings head was at a and in when I was there, who lived that life. So I got to hear some internal stuff, right. But I think the Friday night lights of the, the, you know, I love Friday night football. That is to be the best thing in the state of Texas. So I think being in Friday night lights would be cool to be that quarterback role and you know, all the cheerleaders like you and that kind of stuff. So I think Friday night lights would probably be the one I would like to be

Ron Lyons (19:20):

In. It's the line of being such a football town. Don't you feel like we kind of have a little bit of parallel connection with that whole thing. I mean, this is we, we, we love football here. It's oh yeah. It's it's everything. And there's a lot of orange pride out here. So I've always thought that we kind of parallel that in some ways

Mayor Sean Terry (19:39):
We do you exactly. Right. You know, in Kenny Cheney choosing to do his video here and stuff, we have a

lot of similarities to what they had out in west, Texas on that.

Ron Lyons (19:46):
Absolutely. So what did you want to be when you were growing

Mayor Sean Terry (19:49):

Up? You know, I wanted to be secret service. I really wanted to be in Washington protecting the president. I always thought, you know, the, the Bulletproof cars and, and I've had some relatives that were secret service or Texas Rangers. And I always thought that would be an ultimate, great job would be in that realm of secret service and traveling around the world and doing that stuff.

Ron Lyons (20:09):
Right. And you said that your kids are, are how old now?

Mayor Sean Terry (20:13):

So my daughter just turned 22. She is a senior at a and M she'll graduate in December. My son is 20 and he will graduate. I mean, he's a junior at Texas, a and M he'll graduate in 22 years, 2024. They both, you know, grew up kindergarten all the way through. And that was one thing for me. We moved around a bunch as a kid. My dad was a coach, which I've got friends all over, but my kids, my wife grew up in Allen from day one all the way. And so we wanted our kids to be in the same environment and they were in salon at a time where it was small, started growing, but they're both, you know, love the city love growing up here, getting graduating from here, but now they've got their own lives. They're starting to working on and it's, it's still cool for them to want to come back to see the events that we have. But yeah. So my daughter's 22 and my son's 20.

Ron Lyons (20:59):

So what kind of advice do you give them being at that point in their life right now, early twenties. What's the best fatherly advice that you give your kids right now? As far as the, the whole, world's about to open up to them, what do you tell

Mayor Sean Terry (21:13):

'Em, don't get in a rush to grow up and, and that's what I tell them a lot, have fun. You know, we've, we've always said, you know we'd rather for you to volunteer and work somewhere, pay it forward as I always call it, but enjoy life. You know, my son lived through the COVID time. He lived through two ACL surgeries that he had when he was, you know, he was a good athlete, but he had two ACL surgeries in high school. I never had to deal with any of that. I was fortunate. I never got hurt. And so I always tell him to don't grow up too fast and enjoy the time you have now, because this is the best time of your life. You know, I got married when I was 20 and I wouldn't regret it to today, but I think they need to enjoy because we live in a different environment than what we both grew up

Ron Lyons (21:53):
In. If you were to recommend to everybody, a great place to go for vacation, what, what would be your

suggestion?

Mayor Sean Terry (22:02):

Man? I love is Islam. Mahara that's in Cancun. You fly into Cancun and you take a little shuttle over to Isla Mahara island. And the reason I like that is it's a golf cart community. It's only like five miles long and three miles wide. And so I don't like to sit around a lot. I mean, I like to get on the beach and stay for a while, but you can get in that golf cart and you can just adventure all over that island and not have to rely on somebody driving year round. And it's just so beautiful and peaceful, and it's not really commercialized yet. We found families over there. Our friends have been going for 20 something years. We've been going for about five, but they have families over there that you can go pay and actually go sit down and have dinner in, you know, a full Mexican dinner at their house with them at their family, sitting at the table. And so I think it's just a really cool, so laid back, you still have your technology. So cell phones still works, but they have the best beaches and just a place to go and explore.

Ron Lyons (22:53):

And you can literally hop in your golf cart and go all over. And that's very similar. You did your Facebook live today and we're talking about how we somewhat, I guess, city government encourages golf carts and Celina, am I, am I, am I understanding that right?

Mayor Sean Terry (23:07):

It's you get that? If you're in a golf cart, you get that outdoor feeling of kind of why we play music downtown. You get that feeling of homely home, you know, being home and a golf cart gives you that freedom of your, you know, that's why people love convertible cars. And so being able to have a golf cart. So if you live downtown or anywhere that you can, you know, legally drive it on, it helps with parking too. I mean, you'll see downtown on the square, there'll be 15 or 20 golf carts. Think if those same 15 or 20 drove cars, it'd be a lot more packed down there. So I just think the, the golf cart gives you that sense of freedom. And it gives you that sense of family. When you've got your kids on there together, you don't really, you know, you may have a radio on there, but being outdoors, it just gives you that sense of smelling the fresh air going and seeing your neighbors. And that's why we really encourage, you know, follow the rules on golf carts. But you know, salon's gonna be made up of a bunch of communities, but we wanna keep our downtown as the heartbeat, I call it where that's, where they come together.

Ron Lyons (24:02):

What is one of your favorite things about Celina? Celina is so much to so many people you've drank the Kool-Aid, I've drank the Kool-Aid. And so many people have, and we, we love Celina. What, what about it? It just stands out to you. Like what what's, what's just amazing to you about Celina,

Mayor Sean Terry (24:17):

How you could be playing dominoes downtown, and people are gonna come support that. I think in the some people's worst times when they have a tragedy and they post it online, how quickly people are there to, to help out and, and come to their need. A lot of it's anonymously. A lot of times they'll, you know, Hey, get this money to these people. We don't wanna know it came from us. And so I think it's the, the giving and the caring factor that most people in line have to, when they see one of their own that's hurting, they wanna lift them up somehow, whether it's to a church organization or just individually, I think you could be doing anything on the square and they're gonna support you when you do it. And I think that to me is the special thing, you know, simple as light up the water tower.

Mayor Sean Terry (24:57):

We've wanted to do that for years. And that's turned into its own mindset of, you know, my kid's birthday. Can you light it here? Or state championship teams? Like we talked about our baseball team, you know, and, and we've, we've actually had to set standards now because before, if our kids got second or third, we think that's good enough let's and you know, the school's like, Hey, let's put standards in place. So when we do win state, we can do the water cannons over their deals. And, you know, people think that's just easy to coordinate, but it's really not. Cuz say, if you have a major fire in the town at the same time and you leave those people out, you have to have dedicated people come in. It was awesome. When our soccer team got back and we had officers that showed up in uniform that were off duty, they weren't even working, but they believe in that. And I think if we get our people believing and walk and step and step with our citizens, they'll believe in that too. And I think that's one of the most special things about Solana is how people are so willing to step in and help others.

Ron Lyons (25:48):
And if I were to see you on the square we've, we've got quite a few places now to eat kind of centered

around the square. What's, what's one of the places where I might find you eating lunch one day.

Mayor Sean Terry (25:59):

You know, I love all of them downtown. I love Lucy's. I think Lucy's, you know, Lucy's came in when we weren't had enough people really to keep them going and, and Moses taking that over years ago, he has stuck with us and I love the atmosphere in Lucy's. I love Papa Gaos, you know, toaster Walnut the everything we have down here. But I think Lucy's is my go-to place. If I had a go-to place for, for eating lunch.

Ron Lyons (26:22):
So, you know, the next question, what are you gonna, what are you gonna order at Lucy's? What are

you gonna tell people that they should try when you go to Lucy's?

Mayor Sean Terry (26:28):

Man, I like the Buffalo chicken tenders, man. Those things are good and I'm not a spicy eater. So don't let it fool you if you think you don't like spicy, but I love that. And then their chicken fried steak is just awesome.

Ron Lyons (26:39):

I am a hundred percent on board with you for that. I I'm not the haven't done the chicken tender thing, but I think I will, if you recommend that, they're good. So yeah, that sounds good. And I feel like Lucy's, when you go in there and you see all the decoration and the, just the, the whole vibe of the place, it just speaks Celina. Yeah, it really does. Doesn't

Mayor Sean Terry (26:55):

It? It does. And like tinders is the same way you go in there. We've got so many great locations. I hate picking one, but I think, you know, Lucy's and they all do great job giving back to the community, but Moses has stuck with us before it was cool to be in Celinai, I guess. And those guys, I always wanna respect them that made it through the tough times and didn't close their doors.

Ron Lyons (27:14):

I'm gonna rapid fire some questions to you that, that don't require a whole lot other than just a quick answer. And we're gonna get a little insight into Sean Terry real quick here. Okay. Okay. All right. Iphone or Android?

Mayor Sean Terry (27:26): Iphone

Ron Lyons (27:26): Mustard, river mayonnaise,

Mayor Sean Terry (27:28): Neither

Ron Lyons (27:29): Coke or Pepsi.

Mayor Sean Terry (27:30): Pepsi,

Ron Lyons (27:31): Chocolate or vanilla

Mayor Sean Terry (27:33): Vanilla

Ron Lyons (27:34):
Chili with beans or without

Mayor Sean Terry (27:36): With beans

Ron Lyons (27:37):
Pineapple. Okay. On pizza or not. Okay. On pizza.

Mayor Sean Terry (27:40): Okay. On pizza,

Ron Lyons (27:41):
More cream or more sugar.

Mayor Sean Terry (27:44): The same.

Speaker 3 (27:46): <Laugh> <laugh>

Ron Lyons (27:50):
All right. That is awesome. Classic rock or classic country.

Mayor Sean Terry (27:53): Classic country

Ron Lyons (27:55): Ford or Chevy

Mayor Sean Terry (27:56): Ford

Ron Lyons (27:57):
Fruity pebbles or fruit loops.

Mayor Sean Terry (27:59): Fruity pebbles.

Ron Lyons (28:00):
<Laugh> <laugh> you did not know. We were gonna ask these questions. No chewy or crunchy chocolate

chip cookies,

Mayor Sean Terry (28:08): Crunchy

Ron Lyons (28:09): Acoustic or electric guitar.

Mayor Sean Terry (28:11): Acoustic.

Ron Lyons (28:12):

If you, now this is gonna sound like a question I'm not asking. I, I, I practiced this question on somebody and they looked at me funny, cuz the question is first base or third base. I mean playing the, the game of baseball first base or

Mayor Sean Terry (28:24): Third base first base.

Ron Lyons (28:26):
Okay. And beach or mountains beach, 1986 or

Mayor Sean Terry (28:30): 19 99, 19 86.

Ron Lyons (28:33):
Orange juice with or without pulp

Mayor Sean Terry (28:36): With

Ron Lyons (28:36):
Pulp Disney world or Disneyland

Mayor Sean Terry (28:38): Disney world.

Ron Lyons (28:40):
Last thing you Googled was

Mayor Sean Terry (28:42):
How to put up a ceiling fan <laugh> <laugh>

Ron Lyons (28:45):
Put up a ceiling fan. That's awesome. And it's, it's more awesome that you remember Larry curly or Mo

Mayor Sean Terry (28:52): Larry

Ron Lyons (28:53): Whole milk or skim milk.

Mayor Sean Terry (28:55): Neither. No milk.

Speaker 3 (28:57): <Laugh> <laugh>

Mayor Sean Terry (28:58):
I'm very picky if you don't know. Yeah. Well

Ron Lyons (29:00):
You know what? You're very confident in your answers too. And I like that, so. Okay. Silver or gold?

Mayor Sean Terry (29:05): Gold

Ron Lyons (29:06):
Harley, new Harley or new Corvette,

Mayor Sean Terry (29:09): New Corvette.

Ron Lyons (29:10): Fred or Barney?

Mayor Sean Terry (29:12): Fred

Ron Lyons (29:13): Road runner or coyote

Mayor Sean Terry (29:15): Road runner.

Ron Lyons (29:16):
How many episodes of the Kardashians have you ever watched?

Mayor Sean Terry (29:19): Zero

Speaker 3 (29:20): <Laugh> <laugh>

Ron Lyons (29:22):

We're in a tie for that one. Yeah. We are in a tie. Okay. Then let me ask this. How many episodes of the bachelor have you watched?

Mayor Sean Terry (29:29): Zero

Ron Lyons (29:30): <Laugh>

Mayor Sean Terry (29:31): We're

Ron Lyons (29:31):
We're running neck and neck here. I was really hoping to find something you're really interesting, but it

sounds like, yep. Okay. So Yagi do or Cobra. Kai

Mayor Sean Terry (29:40): Cobra. Kai. There

Ron Lyons (29:41):
You go. Well, we're just running neck and neck here. Brown gravy or white

Mayor Sean Terry (29:44): Gravy. Brown gravy

Ron Lyons (29:46):
Brownies with or without nuts

Mayor Sean Terry (29:48): With nuts

Ron Lyons (29:49): Am or FM?

Mayor Sean Terry (29:51): FM sausage

Ron Lyons (29:52): Or bacon?

Mayor Sean Terry (29:53): Bacon.

Ron Lyons (29:54):
Okay. You have to eliminate one letter from the alphabet. Which letter do you take out of the

Mayor Sean Terry (29:59):
Alphabet? Probably Z take the last one. Just do Z.

Ron Lyons (30:02):
Just not use that much. We just, we don't need zebras. They can

Mayor Sean Terry (30:05): Bebras and yeah, they can

Ron Lyons (30:06):
Bebras yeah, we can just go to the oo and look at the Abras so that's right.

Mayor Sean Terry (30:09): Absolutely.

Ron Lyons (30:10):
And if you could be any other, if you could be, if you had to be an animal and not be a human, what

animal would you be?

Mayor Sean Terry (30:17):
I would say probably I like to be a bear.

Ron Lyons (30:22): You like

Mayor Sean Terry (30:22):
To be a bear? Yeah. Be a big old bear. I like guys, you get to sleep a lot and hibernate and I think I'd be

the bear.

Ron Lyons (30:28):
All right. Would you rather have every text you receive immediately read allowed by your phone or take

a two hour bath and a tub full of Lees?

Mayor Sean Terry (30:39):
I'd rather have my text message read aloud. Yeah. Forget the leeches.

Ron Lyons (30:43):

All right. Would you rather have your mouth permanently taste? Like you just smoked a cigar or would you rather get an unstoppable nose bleed every time you get on an airplane?

Mayor Sean Terry (30:53):
My mouth like a cigar <laugh> yeah. I don't like blood.

Ron Lyons (30:58):
Would you rather? Okay. Would you rather get stuck in an elevator? That's one person over capacity for

two hours or have the color skin of a Smurf?

Mayor Sean Terry (31:11):
I'd rather be stuck in an elevator for two hours spoke. I've had a Smurf episode before, so that's a whole

nother story. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (31:18):
On episode two, Sean. That's right. Come back. And we're gonna tell you how he

Mayor Sean Terry (31:22): Becames a SMUR

Ron Lyons (31:23):
Like a Smurf. So would you rather have every piece of plastic you've ever used reappear in your house or

<laugh> I'm not gonna read that one or never be able to use toilet paper again.

Mayor Sean Terry (31:38):
I think the plastic needs to show up at the house.

Ron Lyons (31:41):
<Laugh> that makes perfect sense. I think you're getting the easy ones here. Would you rather have the

wrinkles of a 100 year old or be unable to wear a clothes that cover your belly button for the rest

Mayor Sean Terry (31:53):
Of your <laugh>? Definitely give me wrinkles. I don't let my belly button to show, so let's do the wrinkles

<laugh>

Ron Lyons (31:58):
Oh my gosh. Okay. This one is, is kind of interesting. Would you rather never shower again or would you

rather only be able to walk sideways?

Mayor Sean Terry (32:10):
Boy, that's a good one. I would say probably never shower again. <Laugh> sideways will be. I like to walk

straight ahead too much. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (32:19):

If, if, if this ever happens in real life, will you give me like a warning so I can kinda know the next time we do a podcast instead of being across the table, we may be in separate rooms. Yeah. And just do it remotely.

Mayor Sean Terry (32:30): That's right.

Ron Lyons (32:31):
<Laugh> you know, it's better than, Hey, there's Sean, Terry, the mayor. How do you know it's him?

Because he is walking sideways.

Mayor Sean Terry (32:35):
Well, I just go outside when it's raining. See and say, you know, that's,

Ron Lyons (32:38):
There you go. That's right. See that's why you're the main that's

Mayor Sean Terry (32:41):
Right. What's the definition of a shower. We hadn't gotten into all the legals terms yet. You

Ron Lyons (32:44):

Know, where you solve these issues. That's right before they become big issues. I like that. So now give me an idea real quick. We're we're about to wrap this up, but what, what kind of hobbies do you have? What do you like to do?

Mayor Sean Terry (32:54):

You know, I love going to Texas a and M football. I love watching the football. I love watching the Cowboys and just spending time with the kids. I love motor hoing. You know, we talked about earlier, we like just going and, you know, just getting in the bus as a family and taking friends and just going to places where it's the lake, you, my parents moved to Jacksonville, Texas about a year ago. Got a great place on the lake. We like going down there, hanging out by the water and just, you know, I like exploring things like that. And you know, again, talking about the golf cart, freedom, I have that in my bus. When we get in there, we can drive. And you don't, you don't rely on anything when you get in that bus. Everything is self contained and long as it works, right.

Mayor Sean Terry (33:31):

We've, you know, we're covered. And so I like, I like getting out and doing that. I like watching sports pretty much any sports, but but mainly I love Aggie stuff. You know, I'm on Letterman's board at Texas a and M I stay very involved there. And so just going down there and you know, when you go back to your college town, it feels like you're in college again. So it keeps you young. And so we try to go as much as we can, but I like getting out and exploring that kind of stuff. And just any sports I'm into,

Ron Lyons (33:55):
I kind of feel like somebody may have given you a heads up on the next part of what we're doing on this

podcast in order to wrap it up, maybe not, but I heard that you like fishing is that, is that

Mayor Sean Terry (34:05):
I like a little fishing. I don't fish a hardcore, but I like to go fishing.

Ron Lyons (34:08):

Okay. So here's what we've got set up. I have actually been in contact with the chief of police who you just did a live event on Facebook with yes. So, so chief Collison has agreed to participate in a bit of a challenge with you. Oh, and so, because I was told that you love fishing. I thought I would give you a challenge that has to do with fishing. So if you look right there on that seat right behind us, you're gonna see a child's fishing rod right there. And it's very safe because it doesn't have a hook on it or that's good. Anything like that. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna walk out of this room. We're gonna, we're gonna stop the podcast. We're gonna turn on the camera and we're gonna set up a couple of little buckets for you. And you get to probably stand in in council chambers, or somewhere like that. And you're gonna cast that ride and you're gonna get points for every time you either get it in. Or I'm just gonna say, even if you hit one of the buckets, because I tried it and it's not that hard, but we wanna make it as you know, we wanna make it fair here. But let me tell you, what's writing on this. What's writing on this is that if you actually get past a certain number, if you can accomplish that, then the chief of police is going to bring you lunch from Papa Gaos.

Mayor Sean Terry (35:27): Oh

Ron Lyons (35:27):
Good. But here's the other side. If you don't, if he is able to accomplish more than you then, guess

what? You've gotta take

Mayor Sean Terry (35:38):

Him lunch, lunch. So now we're gonna do this. Is he gonna be here? Do at the same time? Cuz you know, I, I, we got witness. I'm not sure. I trust chief being, you know, he may just have to, he may do his numbers wrong or something.

Ron Lyons (35:48):
You think he's gonna go buy like a kid's rod wheel? Yeah. He's

Mayor Sean Terry (35:51):
Probably practicing. Yeah. He practiced in his pool last night. I bet if you

Ron Lyons (35:54):
Don't end up hating my guts after doing all of this, let me ask you, would you come back and do another

episode of this later down the road?

Mayor Sean Terry (36:01):

Oh absolutely. I appreciate you doing this. It's fun. Being able to sit down cuz we're getting such a fast paced environment and people don't take the time to really get to know any of our elected officials and spend some time we don't get paid to do this. We do it cuz we love the community and you know, I've been doing this, it'd be 10 years in January. I've been mayor and four years before that on council. So it's not like I just showed up and trying to change the world. We're trying to do the best we can to make a, a very good community. And I think we're succeeding based on most of the feedback we

Ron Lyons (36:29):
Get. Absolutely. And how else would anybody know that you like brown gravy's

Mayor Sean Terry (36:34):
Or white gravy's that's right. They wouldn't know that

Ron Lyons (36:36):
If we didn't do that today, how would they know? I agree. All right guys, that is Sean Terry. And there

you go. That is Sean Terry, the hard hitting pull no punches mayor of Celina, Texas.

Ron Lyons (36:56):

And you know what? That was so much fun to get to sit down and talk to him. He is truly a genuine person and just like all leaders out there, just like me when I was in law enforcement, you either love me or you don't and that's okay because there's a mission there's a job to do. And Sean Terry is absolutely fully committed to doing that job. So I hope you enjoyed that. I hope you gain some insight and understand that there's a human being behind every one of our names. That that was just so much fun. I, I, I would do that 10 times over again. I really sincerely enjoyed that. And that's what makes Celina so awesome because starting with Sean Terry, all the way down through the council, the staff, every single person who works in this city, volunteers in this city loves it.

Ron Lyons (37:57):

And so do I. And so do you, and that's why I hope you come to the splash and blast this Saturday from five until 10:00 PM at old Celina park, come over to the CelinaRadio.com booth and say, hello, bring your family, have a good time and enjoy everything that Celina is right now. We all know that the city's growing super fast. So let's get out there right now and enjoy it as it is today. You've got some of the best neighbors, some of the best friends in this town, some of the best people live here. We've got great city governments. We've got just about everything you could possibly ask for in an amazing city. So come out and enjoy that guys. And remember July the eighth, we've got the video dropping of the challenge between the chief and the mayor. And there was a, a mule delivery and somebody's gonna get to name a donkey out at Carla Vargas, donkey rescue after themselves. So it's either gonna be the mayor or the chief's gonna get to name a donkey after themselves. So you know what, that's, that's awesomeness and that's Celina and that's line of radio.com. Share it with your friends, post it on your social media. And most importantly, come on back for the next episode because we're gonna keep having fun and doing awesome stuff. So guys, God bless and I'll see you on the next episode.