Eddie Cawlfield, Possibly The Coolest Attorney In Celina, Texas

Ron Lyons (00:00):

But because the other one involved drawing a face on your hand and having a conversation with that <laugh> oh, wow. Well, you wanna surprised to know I'd do that about three times a week. Well, you know, it happens. <Laugh> welcome to Sina radio.com recorded right here in Sina, Texas, a quiet little dusty sleepy town that has absolutely nothing going on, guys. I am so totally kidding about that. Of course, this is so Texas and we have everything going on here. Now I'm Ron Lyons. This is CelinaRadio.com and we intend to have a good time. So put on your seatbelt and let's get started.

Ron Lyons (00:50):

Guys, welcome back to another episode of CelinaRadio.com, where we are once again on the heels of a fairly busy week, we just finished Cajun Fest on Saturday. And that was so much fun. I know you went because I met a lot of you. If you didn't go, you really missed out on a good time and you need to make plans to go next year. Now I'm not personally into crawfish and that sort of thing, but I am into Sina and Sina spoke loudly this weekend with Cajun Fest, lots and lots of great people and tons of fun. So we'll have a video from that up on my YouTube channel pretty soon. But what else happened? Well, there happened to be this little podcast with somebody named Alexis Jackson, and that thing just took off and went nuts. So if you haven't listened to the podcast with Alexis, she is the executive director of the EDC, and we kind of ventured off the beaten path just a little bit with her and found out that she's got a real thing for James Bond.

Ron Lyons (02:01):

So if you haven't seen all of the marketing and stuff going on with that, you're, you're kind of missing out. I'm having a blast with kind of poking fun at Alexis over her James Bond deal. She's gonna probably never watch another James Bond movie again, thanks to me. But anyways guys, we've got another fantastic episode today and we've got somebody that you will probably recognize the name and you may have even met him before. His name is Eddie Cawlfield. He is an attorney who offices on the square right here in Celina. And I know what you're thinking right now. I don't really want to hear an interview with an attorney. Trust me, you do, because I did something to Eddie that he did not expect. And it's something that probably most podcasters would never do. So anyways, you're gonna love this. We, we laughed so much that I literally had tears in my eyes and I think you're gonna enjoy this as well. So sit back and enjoy my interview with Eddie Cawlfield. All right, guys, I am here today with Eddie Cawlfield of the Cawlfield law firm. Am I saying it right?

Eddie Cawlfield (03:20): Yes, perfectly. Absolutely.

Ron Lyons (03:21):
Eddie. How are you doing today?

Eddie Cawlfield (03:22):
I'm sensational. Thank you. How are you?

Ron Lyons (03:25):

I'm I'm real. I'm really, really good. I'm better now that I'm here and sitting down with you for this podcast and it came up recently that we needed to do this and we're gonna have some fun. We're

gonna talk a little bit about, you know, kind of how you got here, what you do, stuff like that, but I've got something that you don't even know about right now. That's gonna make this even more interesting. So first of all, let's just do a little bit of who you are and stuff like that. So you're located on the square, probably one of the most premier places in Sina right now. You've got your, your office set up here. What kinda law do you do?

Eddie Cawlfield (03:59):

Primarily? We do estate planning, which probably sounds a little bit fancier than it actually is. But that deals with wills, power of attorney documents. Just briefly as an example, even if someone who is graduating high school, they're 18 and they're leaving, they commonly don't think about maybe designating their parents as their medical power of attorney in case something happens where they're living at that point. So power of attorney documents. I have a good number of clients now who are small business owners in the area and doing title work in my office. We deal with real estate and title work locally as well. So I, you know, some folks might call it boring stuff. Well it really says that I know how to party. That's really fun and interesting to me. I <laugh>, I really do know how to party <laugh> but that's primarily what we do now. If somebody calls and it's something we don't do I'll know somebody probably locally or at least nearby who handles that area of the law, which we, every day, at least once a day, we get a call for something we don't do and we just refer it out. Sure,

Ron Lyons (05:09):
Absolutely. And gimme an idea. How long have you been an attorney?

Eddie Cawlfield (05:12):

Let's see, I I've been licensed. This is, it'll be, it'll be eight years in June as a second career for me. It was always a bit of a dream to go to law school as silly as that might sound. And so, yeah, I was, I took the bar exam in Fe its offered twice a year. I graduated, well, I graduated on time, but I finished a semester early. And so I was able to take the February exam and then got those results and then was sworn in early in, in June of 2014 and went to work right away.

Ron Lyons (05:49):
And here you are. So gimme a night, you said a second career. What, what was the first

Eddie Cawlfield (05:54):

Well, I, I, my, my wife and I and a close friend. In fact, he was the best man in our wedding and he's been with a wonderful close friend for 35 years. We all worked at a company and we left that company and started another company out of our garage down in Dallas. And it just slowly grew. It positioned me to be able to leave that company. It really took off after I left. I think they needed me to get out of the way <laugh> and it, and, and so we, it was a, it was, you know, it was a staffing company that really grew and it's really big now it's big, you know, sizable now. And yeah, but it always been a dream, I suppose, like I mentioned to, to go to law school and my wife and I were sitting around the kitchen table at our home in Dallas.

Eddie Cawlfield (06:50):

And she had known that and, you know, just said, she said, you know, if you're gonna do it now would be the time to do it. And you know, you it's gonna take three years, but the time's gonna go by anyway. And I, you know, this will sound a bit, you know, silly, I suppose, but I it really was a dream and I wanted

to, I want to do it. And I wanted to be able to, to look by kids in the eye and one day and say, you know, if you have a dream, you may not pull it off, but do everything you can do to at least go for it or give it a shot. I wanted to be able to at least tell them with some credibility about that. And so yeah, did it, and and it's been wonderful. It, it really has been, it's been a dream. Yeah. It really

Ron Lyons (07:38):
Has. Well, congratulations on that. That's, that's quite the, the path to get to where you're at right now.

And, and let me ask this, do you have a website? Do you have Facebook? Do you have all those things?

Eddie Cawlfield (07:50):

Oh, absolutely. Our website is Cawlfieldlaw.com. I am not terribly technologically savvy or with social media, but you know, some of the folks who work here do handle that we do have a Facebook page. I, I would imagine. And it's dedicated to the Cawlfield law firm, if you were to be, if you were on Facebook and did some type of a search for the Cawlfield law firm, it would be on there. I'm pretty sure we've got an Instagram page. <Laugh> if that's even what that's called <laugh> okay. That's a Cawlfield law. Yes. And in fact, I did some videos last year through the chamber, and those would, those would be out at some point, which would have all that stuff on there too. I would imagine.

Ron Lyons (08:33):
All right. Really awesome. So we're not gonna probably find you like cutting edge TikTok stuff, right?

Eddie Cawlfield (08:38):
No, no. I, I mean, I suppose if I did, it would be only because it, it had gone extremely viral by accident.

Ron Lyons (08:44):
Right, right. Yeah, no, I could happen. And that might not be the best thing in the world,

Eddie Cawlfield (08:48):
But no, probably not. And I, no, I, I have a lot of useless apps on my phone. One of them is not TikTok.

But I imagine at some point, you know, somebody will have to teach me about TikTok or,

Ron Lyons (09:02):

Well, I was, I was corrected recently. I was doing something and they were like, oh, you're still doing Facebook. And I was like, of course, I'm still doing Facebook. And they're like, Facebook is for old people. You need to be on TikTok. So I, I, I ventured into T to land for a minute and ran right back out. Yeah. So I just, I think I'm gonna stick with the safe stuff. I think I'm gonna stick with Facebook, so

Eddie Cawlfield (09:21):
I am old. So maybe that's where I'm right. Where I belong in Facebook. You know, if it's for old people

Ron Lyons (09:26):

Then if, if you're old and we're right there together. So give me an idea of what you did in, in law, if I'm remember, right. You might have been done like defense attorney type work at some point, is that correct?

Eddie Cawlfield (09:39):

Indeed. When I I I'd gotten connected while I was in law school with a friend of my wife's from college. She went to Texas tech and long story short. We were actually at the OB office and bumped into he and his wife as I was beginning school. And he was very kind and said, Hey, well, just, you know, get back with me. And we we'll, we'll see if we can maybe help you out while you're in school, learning some things. And so I worked with him over the breaks and in the summers and really just fell in love with the work that they do. They're one of the largest now and, oh, I suppose most preeminent criminal defense firm in Colin county now. And they work all in the area, but got a taste of being in the courtroom from the jump and just absolutely loved it and they're good people.

Eddie Cawlfield (10:28):

There's a lot of fun. And so did that quite a bit. You know, life sort of takes you in some different paths. And I don't wanna get too far off in the weeds, but my wife had gotten you know, she had, she had had some health issues cancer diagnosis. And so you know, in order to be in the courtroom regularly you really have to be all in and I needed to be more all in at home. And when it came back in 2018, I really quit working for about a year and just needed to, while I'd always done some of this stuff that I'm doing primarily now I needed to make that a bit more of my professional focus so that I could be in a bit more in control of my own schedule.

Ron Lyons (11:13):

So you and I have a connection in that sense in that I was a police officer. So I probably put some of the people in jail that, or the types of cases I filed. Let's put it that way that you may have defended. Certainly. So do you have anything at all that was kind of interesting. Let me tell you about one that I had, and then you can kind of weigh in on what you think about this. I had without naming any names or anything like that. I had a DWI arrest that I made one time. And when we actually got into it was a, I think it was a trial by jury when we actually got in there, the defense attorney was asking me while I was on the stand. If I knew that his client, the person who was driving was legally blind, <laugh>, I, it caught me by surprise because I've heard all the other things, you know, slight diabetes, you know, I'd taken, I was tired, you know, all the different things, but I never ever heard the defense put on that. The reason for the impaired driving was because she simply couldn't see. So have you, what do you think about that?

Eddie Cawlfield (12:26):

Well, I, I think it's genius from a defense perspective you know, you have to be, you know, intoxicated, there's other elements of that particular crime that have to be met. And I suppose it's, you know, I don't know that it's illegal to drive wild blind. I, you know, it might not be I, I just recently had to renew my license and since I'd done, so I now am required to wear glasses. And so it's got that restriction on there. So it's probably a crime for me not to have that on there, but that's a really and, and you know what, I suppose that they were just asking if you happen to know that or not, they were, maybe they weren't saying they were blind

Ron Lyons (13:05):

And, and you know, how it goes. My, my only answer that I'm allowed to give on the stand is either yes or no. So if I say, no, I didn't know your client was legally blind, then that sounds like, well, there you go, sure. Case closed. And if I say yes, which wasn't the case, then I would be purging myself or lying on the stand. So it, it was a difficult situation. And thankfully there's a prosecutor who comes back to kind of

clean up the mess later. But do you recall any crazy cases or have you ever had to turn someone away for something that was just like, you know, no, that's just too far out there.

Eddie Cawlfield (13:43):

Oh, you know, every case is interesting, I suppose, you know, people are interesting. And when you're doing a lot of criminal defense work, you know, there's not, there's not much you could tell me now that would move my needle. No, I mean, I, there was one I had that it's sort of, again, obviously not mentioning any names, but not terribly far from, from here in this general area, had somebody who had had of all places flipped a car and rolled it in the parking lot of Kroger on three 80 over in Prosper. <Laugh> there was nudity

Eddie Cawlfield (14:19):

Fire alcohol, as you might imagine. And, and that was really sore of some of the more tame stuff in that entire story. And that one, that one went on for a while, as you might imagine, there's multiple stories and mul there's multiple sides to every story.

Ron Lyons (14:36):
So Eddie, how long have you been in the Celina area?

Eddie Cawlfield (14:41):

Well, personally my wife and I lived in Celina for most of 2009, and then it, it just made more sense to live back in Dallas. And so we moved back to Dallas and then where we live now, we, we bought the lot where we live in 2012 and then moved into our house in 2014 professionally. I, I really set up shop and got going you know, early early-ish 2019.

Ron Lyons (15:11):

And, and there's always things going on down on the square that it's just a very, very popular place and the city puts on lots of events. So have you come out for any of those things, like if they have Halloween on the square or they, they do the Christmas event, or maybe any of those things, have you, have you gone to those? Do you guys attend those at time?

Eddie Cawlfield (15:30):

Absolutely. I, I really am. I feel so lucky to, to have an office on the square. I mean, I, I don't live terribly far from here, but I, it's just a wonderful feeling. It's sometimes difficult to describe being on the square. I'm very appreciative, very, very lucky,

Ron Lyons (15:48):
Absolutely things have changed so quickly. It's just very, very dynamic. And you're getting to see that

you've got a front row seat right here.

Eddie Cawlfield (15:56):

Oh, I do. And, and, you know, if you're facing, if you're facing Lucys my office to the left, there's this, this at and T building over to the right. But, but on that building the at and T building, there's old photos from when this downtown was packed with people 60 to 80 years ago where this place was really, really a, a popular place to be, which when I moved here and even up and until 2018 or so this was a, I mean,

it, it was a ghost 10 down here. We schedule now around the lunch hour, but it's, it's sort of amazing in a short period of time, how just how regular regularly people visit the square Friday night markets are now become a staple. There's a waiting list. My understanding to become a vendor at those things. There's, you know, always a waiting list to get into these restaurants around here. And it's, you know, for folks who, and there's a lot of people who are new to this area who don't know any different. And to just to see how this has changed just in the last few years is it's really a lot of fun.

Ron Lyons (17:06):

It's pretty amazing. And speaking about all the different places now that we have to eat on the square on any particular day, if I walk into one of these local restaurants, which one might you be in, and, and they're all great. So I'm not, you know, we're not playing favorites here or anything like that, but what, what does Eddie Cawlfield like? <Laugh>

Eddie Cawlfield (17:22):

Well, I, I do try to spread it around and I as it's weird or Tinder is closed on Sunday and Monday, but I, but I, if I'm in the back part of my office, I can smell the, the smoker cranked up on Tuesdays. So usually on Tuesday, I'll hit tender for whatever reason late in the week, I'm, I'm hitting the catfish next door at loosies. You know, I'll, I'll mix in the toasted Walnut. I really do. I, I hit 'em all and I, and, and I, and I, so weirdly, I think, I think about it that I, I kind of thought, well, I went there the other day. I should go here this way this day. I don't really know why. I just, maybe I just spread it out a little bit. Every once in a while, just zip down to Hey Sugars, <laugh> get a fist full of chocolate covered almonds or whatever, whatever they've got going there.

Ron Lyons (18:19):

I, I I'm guilty of some of the same things. I actually just started doing this low carb diet thing. And, and also in my past is also having been a fitness person, owning gyms, doing all that stuff. So it's tough for me because the, the little girl, my daughter still loves to go into hay sugar. And so I have to go in there and be very, very good. Or if we go to Papa Gallos or something like that, you know, I don't get to participate in all of the fun of eating and Sina has so much fun eating now, and it's just getting better and better and better, but speaking of fun and things like that, what does Eddie Cawlfield like to do for fun?

Eddie Cawlfield (18:57):

Ooh I've got three kiddos it just 12, 10 and eight. And so most of the stuff that we do together is fun. I really, really enjoy that. We've we decided to, to take the plunge of, of putting in a swimming pool a couple years ago, it's taken about that long. So that has been fun for us,

Ron Lyons (19:21):

Right, guys. I really hope you're enjoying this episode of CelinaRadio.com. And I also hope that if you might be a good fit to be on this show, that you'll go to CelinaRadio.com and down on the very bottom of the page, there's a link that says register is a guest. If you'll fill out the form that pops up, then somebody will be in contact with you very soon. And if you're a good fit for the show, then we're gonna have you on your very own episode. I'm gonna borrow some of the things that I took from the candidate interviews that I did. And if you've heard some of those, you may already have an idea of some of the things I'm gonna ask, but I'm gonna give them to you a little differently. I'll give 'em to you more rapid

fire. So first thing that comes to your mind, and some will require a little bit of explanation and then onto the next. So, all right. If you could hang out with someone from history, who would it be?

Eddie Cawlfield (20:22):
Oh, my word. I'm a history major in college let's go presidential Abraham Lincoln. He was also a lawyer.

Ron Lyons (20:34):
Okay. Abraham Lincoln. Yes. You're gonna bring him to Sina. Where are you gonna hang out with

Abraham Lincoln?

Eddie Cawlfield (20:41):
He looks like a brisket guy. <Laugh> we're going to Tender first. Okay. probably a big bowl of beans.

Okay. To then to, you know, some banana pudding

Ron Lyons (20:55): <Laugh>

Eddie Cawlfield (20:56): Well, that's for me.

Ron Lyons (20:57):
Oh, I got, I got, so you're gonna hang out with Abraham Lincoln and have some banana pudding.

Eddie Cawlfield (21:03): Oh yes,

Ron Lyons (21:03):
Absolutely. I love it. I think that's fantastic. So that'd be awesome. You know, something out of every

one of these interviews kind of becomes the thing. So, you know, I'm not saying that's it, but

Eddie Cawlfield (21:13):
We we've established. I'm a lot of fun, Ron.

Ron Lyons (21:16):
Well, all right. Now, actually that is awesomeness right there. So favorite movie,

Eddie Cawlfield (21:21):

It's a com it's it's Rocky two. Rocky one, one best picture. Rocky two is my favorite movie of all time. So yeah, I mean, that's the short answer. Yeah, no, that's most, without question, the first thing that, that pops in my mind

Ron Lyons (21:37):
And, and no hesitation on that. So,

Eddie Cawlfield (21:39): No, that's a no, that's

Ron Lyons (21:41):
The awesomeness. And is there any significance because I remember Rocky three being, so

Eddie Cawlfield (21:46): That's PL Lang, right?

Ron Lyons (21:47): Yeah.

Eddie Cawlfield (21:47):
That's when they jumped the shark a little bit, although I still think that's a fine film. Four man, let's see.

But it starts to slip after that.

Ron Lyons (21:57): I,

Eddie Cawlfield (21:57):
You know, it was very powerful me as a kid. I, you know, it was always loved sports and I it was a

redemption story. Just that music when he gets back to training again man, I just,

Ron Lyons (22:10):
Oh, it's good stuff. Isn't

Eddie Cawlfield (22:12):

It? I, I, to this day, I, I still I'll. Oh yeah. It holds up for me. Yeah. You know, I try to get my kids to it and you know, they'll fight through the karate kid, the original. But I haven't gotten 'em to really hang with me with all

Ron Lyons (22:25):
Of you. Can't get 'em into the, no, I understand. And I, I faced the exact same things. I've said it before,

but,

Eddie Cawlfield (22:31):
But I have to be careful with movies with my children. Uhhuh PG a few years ago is not the same PG.

Yeah.

Ron Lyons (22:37): Very different.

Eddie Cawlfield (22:37):

You can't throw your kids in front of grease.

Ron Lyons (22:40): No, no, no,

Eddie Cawlfield (22:42): No. Isn't that

Ron Lyons (22:42): Crazy

Eddie Cawlfield (22:43):
In that? Oh, my work happened. I know. I know. Yes. Yeah. I remember as a third grader, let's crank up

grease. Absolutely.

Ron Lyons (22:50):
And now when you hear the words oh yeah. Wow.

Eddie Cawlfield (22:53):
But I was also sitting, you know, in the back window of the car with no seat belt in third grade too. So I

suppose things have changed

Ron Lyons (22:59):
At all a hundred percent. So if I were to go out and get in your vehicle right now, turn it on. What radio

station, what kind of music or what, what kind of station will you have on,

Eddie Cawlfield (23:09):

You know, what it's well, if you can fight through the goldfish crackers that I'm sure <laugh> it'll be that it'll be the ticket sports radio. Okay. I, I that's, yeah. Yeah. I've always now I do. I, I love music. If I'm listening to music it's really my wide varied. I mean, I like Neil diamond to M and M <laugh> to

Ron Lyons (23:32): Wow.

Eddie Cawlfield (23:33):
Old school country Anita baker, air supply. I mean, all of it. I really, I really like a lot of different things.

But I I'm usually listening to the ticket. I really am. Yeah.

Ron Lyons (23:45):

I like that. And, and that's people sometimes make fun of me from my musical taste because I won't go all over the place too. But so I can totally relate to that, but it's, it's awesomeness. Does does music speak to you at all or is it not, not really is just background to you?

Eddie Cawlfield (24:03):

No, it, it really does. Sure. It there's some songs that, oh, I, I just sounds sort of cheesy, I suppose that just kind of really pump you up. Mm-Hmm <affirmative> there's this song called it's fight song by Rachel Platon. Yeah. This is my fight

Ron Lyons (24:20): Absolutely

Eddie Cawlfield (24:21):

Mean it's ridiculous that a 53 year old man has got a fist in the air as that song is going. We took our kids, some quality parenting here took our kids to the Jonas brothers. And they've got some some certified bangers they have, oh my God. In fact, I was in summer moon, the coffee shop on the square two days ago. And leave before you love me. I, and I caught myself. It was playing in there and I'm really getting after it. I'm

Ron Lyons (24:45):
Like, that's so awesome. Settle down, sir.

Eddie Cawlfield (24:47): <Laugh> talking to myself,

Ron Lyons (24:51):

Something that you don't didn't know that we were gonna do. And I see the look on your face right now. I just slid a box in front of both of us. And this happens to belong to my daughter and it's a game and it's called girl talk. So what I thought I would do, like, what else do you do with an attorney? Because that might just by default be a little bit more of a drag conversation. You're not exactly out fighting fires or throwing bad guys on the ground. Right? Sure. So this came to mind. So you and I more specifically you,

Eddie Cawlfield (25:26): Oh, lovely.

Ron Lyons (25:27):
Are gonna play girl talk. Don't smart

Eddie Cawlfield (25:30):
Around my wheelhouse. I've got a 12 year old girl or an eight year old girl.

Ron Lyons (25:33):
So I'm gonna open this up. What

Eddie Cawlfield (25:35):
Makes you think I haven't played this before?

Ron Lyons (25:37):
You may be a pro addict? No, I'm not a hundred percent

Eddie Cawlfield (25:40):
Sure. I cannot say that I've ever played girl talk.

Ron Lyons (25:42):

Well, you're gonna, you're gonna be surprised. I, I actually went through and made sure that there were no two crazy questions or, or anything like that. So what it is is basically there's a little, there's a little wheel here. I've gotta get that situated down there and a little pointer here. And essentially what you do is you spin this little wheel. It's gonna stop. And when it stops, it's either gonna be UN truth or dare. And then there's corresponding cards.

Eddie Cawlfield (26:10):
Oh, lovely. We're playing truth or dare.

Ron Lyons (26:11):

So we're basically well, in, in a sense, but in a, in a very adult non-ad adult way. So let me let me see if I can get this little Juul set up for you, the, the little spinner deal. And yeah. So this is probably unlike any interview you've ever done. Am I right?

Eddie Cawlfield (26:29):
Sure. I've all, I've only played spin the bottle during interviews. <Laugh> never girl

Ron Lyons (26:34):
Talk. Yeah. Never girl talk. I'm actually gonna take these cards out and set them on the table. Like this.

I'll let you be responsible for your destiny, with the spins, but I'll pick the cards up.

Eddie Cawlfield (26:45):
Feels like I lost that chance a few minutes ago when

Ron Lyons (26:48):
We started just, just to prove that there is no setup here. I'm not gonna mix the cards.

Eddie Cawlfield (26:53): <Laugh> no, of course. Yeah,

Ron Lyons (26:56):

No. If you went to your more than welcome to mix them up there, they're they're in no particular order. I did. I did take out. I knew from playing it with my daughter, that there are some cards, there are some dares. I saw one card and you're supposed to take the socks of the other person or another person in the room and make a hat out of them. But we're not gonna do anything like that today. As much as I'd love to see any Cawlfield with a sock hat on,

Eddie Cawlfield (27:21): We

Ron Lyons (27:22):
Probably where that's that's, that's probably for video and not for audio. So you wanna, you wanna

Eddie Cawlfield (27:28): Give this thing a spin?

Ron Lyons (27:29): I don't see.

Eddie Cawlfield (27:30):
I want to, no, not even close.

Ron Lyons (27:33):

I, I see, I see a little bit of nervousness here and that's probably not common for Eddie Cawlfield. So give a, give that a little spin and let's see what we get. Okay. All right. He's taken it. He's given it a very massive that's.

Eddie Cawlfield (27:46):
I'm an emergency client runs into the building. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (27:49):
A very, okay. What did we get? Where's the point?

Eddie Cawlfield (27:52): Looks like

Ron Lyons (27:52):
A truth. Okay. It looks like a truth. Okay. do you want to read it or you want me to read it to you?

Eddie Cawlfield (27:58):
Well, why don't you read it to me? I'm sure that I can read right now.

Ron Lyons (28:01): I'll

Eddie Cawlfield (28:01):
Read, but I feel like I've been punched in the face.

Ron Lyons (28:04):
Okay. This is not bad. If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?

Eddie Cawlfield (28:09):

Oh, man. Well, I'm glad you didn't ask me this when I was 15. Yeah. If I were invisible for a day you know, I, I think I would just get in a car and drive and freak people out. <Laugh> that? There's a car cruising around that. Nobody driving it. Yeah. I'm not as much fun as I used to be.

Ron Lyons (28:31):
You might, you might be able to create some work for yourself, cuz there'd be an awful lot of accidents

and stuff happening if there's

Eddie Cawlfield (28:37):
Oh, that's true. I could, I could you know, drive around and then just gently sprinkle my cards around

town. There you go. And let the near the near the accidents,

Ron Lyons (28:45):
You would definitely make the news and nobody know who you were. So GI give it another spin and

Eddie Cawlfield (28:49):
Let's see. Oh we can't. We can't stop there. Huh? Oh

Ron Lyons (28:52):
Dear. Oh, we have a lot of cards to get through, so.

Eddie Cawlfield (28:55): Oh, lovely.

Ron Lyons (28:57):
All right. So we gave it another very masculine spin. Let's see, we end on here. Oh, another truth,

another truth. Oh, well that's probably gonna be easy then. Do you believe in the five second rule?

Eddie Cawlfield (29:11):
Oh yeah. 15, 20 seconds. <Laugh> if it's decent food, I might see it two days later. <Laugh> yeah, no,

that's fine. Yeah.

Ron Lyons (29:21):
So we're, we're definitely learning an awful lot about Eddie Cawlfield. So can I make the third spin?

Eddie Cawlfield (29:27): Oh, Bowman.

Ron Lyons (29:27):
All right. I'm gonna, I'm gonna spin it. Let's just see I'm I'm hoping really this

Eddie Cawlfield (29:32): Lands off there. I know this is

Ron Lyons (29:33):
Rigged. Yeah, no, it looks like you got another truth. Did

Eddie Cawlfield (29:36): You? Oh yeah, I

Ron Lyons (29:37):
Did. Yeah. He got another truth and, and we are literally playing girl talks, so. Alright. I think I already

knew the answer to this one. Borrow this

Eddie Cawlfield (29:44): Game.

Ron Lyons (29:45):
<Laugh> this, this one. I think I could answer for you. What's something that makes you nervous. And I

think it might be playing this game right now. Oh yeah.

Eddie Cawlfield (29:52):
Yeah. And I think it's doing a podcast with Ron lines.

Ron Lyons (29:55):
That's what it is. Nobody's ever gonna be on the show again and be like, what are you gonna pull out?

And what are you gonna do?

Eddie Cawlfield (30:00):
Yeah. No that <laugh> yeah. Yeah. That's probably a fair enough answer.

Ron Lyons (30:06):

That's that's probably right. Give it, give it another spin. Let see what we get. See if we can get something crazy here. It's not like those haven't been already. All right. What did we get? You're an attorney. It's right on the line.

Eddie Cawlfield (30:19):
If I'm being candid with the court that appears to have landed on the dare side of this.

Ron Lyons (30:24):
Okay. <Laugh> you know, what am

Eddie Cawlfield (30:26): I under oath

Ron Lyons (30:26):
Here? Lots and lots of integrity in this. So I like it.

Eddie Cawlfield (30:29): <Laugh> oh dear.

Ron Lyons (30:34):
You can already just tell from my slightly evil laugh

Eddie Cawlfield (30:38):
Is where is where this guy will soon fake a heart attack. Take it all the way. If I could get the office staff

to call 9 1 1 <laugh> ahead of time now about to be wheeled outta here.

Ron Lyons (30:49):
You must hold your tongue and say she sells seashells by the SEAHO. <Laugh> she? She sells

Eddie Cawlfield (30:59): Hold my tongue,

Ron Lyons (31:00): Hold your tongue and

Eddie Cawlfield (31:02):
Perfect. You mean with my fingers?

Ron Lyons (31:04):
Remember? Five second rule. You're okay

Eddie Cawlfield (31:06):
With this. Oh yeah. Oh for sure. Yeah. I, this is the hand I use to pick up food off of the floor.

Ron Lyons (31:10): Perfect.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
See, please. <Laugh> tell, please fell by the P

Eddie Cawlfield (31:21): Four.

Ron Lyons (31:22):
I probably completely cover that up with my laughing. Well, let's

Eddie Cawlfield (31:26): Hope

Ron Lyons (31:26):
I literally have tears in my eyes. That is the well good,

Eddie Cawlfield (31:29):
Good as you should. You should be very sad right now.

Ron Lyons (31:32):
No, actually it's hot. Yeah. This hot. Okay. How about we do this? We'll limit it to three more spins. Just

three

Eddie Cawlfield (31:39):
More, more. Oh gosh. I'm gonna, my wrist is three

Ron Lyons (31:42):
<Laugh> all right. And there's a good spin. I'm guessing. You're hoping for a truth question. Oh dear. And

you got a dare.

Eddie Cawlfield (31:50):
It's like we were due for a couple of days.

Ron Lyons (31:52): We were, we

Eddie Cawlfield (31:53): Lost statistics. Toret

Ron Lyons (31:55):
Back in. All right. This one is gonna require that you have your cell phone with you. Do you have your cell

phone with

Eddie Cawlfield (32:00): You? I, I do not phone

Ron Lyons (32:01):

If you don't. Okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna hand mine across to you and I'm gonna flip it around. So it's on, it's on selfie mode right there. And your actual dare was let's see if I can, I'll read it right off the card. Make a silly face and take a selfie.

Eddie Cawlfield (32:19):
Is, is the fact that I'm wearing children's <laugh> headphones. Does that not

Ron Lyons (32:23):
That just adds that just adds to it. Yeah. All right. Give us your best silly face. Oh

Eddie Cawlfield (32:27):
My best silly face. <Laugh> I want you to know when, when people take family photos and they say let's

do a serious one than a silly one. I hate doing a silly one. <Laugh> yeah.

Ron Lyons (32:36): You're an attorney.

Eddie Cawlfield (32:38):
Yeah, I know. But everybody just does the sort side tongue out of their mouth. And

Ron Lyons (32:42):
You're the one that still looks the same, right? Yes. Yeah.

Eddie Cawlfield (32:45): I'm

Ron Lyons (32:45): Not doing

Eddie Cawlfield (32:46):
That. Yeah. I'm the one who that guy looks like. He used to be fun. <Laugh> he's not fun anymore.

Ron Lyons (32:51): Yeah.

Eddie Cawlfield (32:52): Oh gosh.

Ron Lyons (32:54): <Laugh> that's perfect.

Eddie Cawlfield (32:57): Oh, is it?

Ron Lyons (32:58):
Yeah. I didn't. Yeah, that was greatness. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have two

Eddie Cawlfield (33:03): Spins left. Yeah. Okay.

Ron Lyons (33:04):
Here we go. <Laugh> all right. Let's see what we get here. We are

Eddie Cawlfield (33:10):
On no. Now we're back three to three.

Ron Lyons (33:12): What? Three? The world.

Eddie Cawlfield (33:13): Three dares in a row.

Ron Lyons (33:15): Yes.

Eddie Cawlfield (33:16): Wow.

Ron Lyons (33:17):
It can't, it can't be bad. It

Eddie Cawlfield (33:19):
Can't instant. Oh no, no. In a minute here I'm gonna be shirtless

Ron Lyons (33:22):
<Laugh> no, I assure you that won't

Eddie Cawlfield (33:25):
I guess that wouldn't necessarily be a girl talk game.

Ron Lyons (33:28):
Yeah. All right. You, I noticed while ago, when you're talking about that power ball song, that you

actually have a really good voice. You have a great, oh,

Eddie Cawlfield (33:37): My word.

Ron Lyons (33:38):
You have a great singing voice. Oh no. And the good news is, and you love music. So, so I, I believe that

there's enough evidence to support moving forward on this particular card

Eddie Cawlfield (33:50):
We're working into ruling on that

Ron Lyons (33:51):
We literally have, is this sidebar time here? Oh, without what?

Eddie Cawlfield (33:55):
A matter of fact, I might sneak out the back

Ron Lyons (33:57):
<Laugh> I I have by preponderance of the evidence. No.

Eddie Cawlfield (34:01): Okay. Fair enough.

Ron Lyons (34:02):
I don't have to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt. So you must hold your nose pinched to shut and

seemed about 15 seconds of your favorite song.

Eddie Cawlfield (34:14):

Oh, my word. <Laugh> it was gonna reveal something else about me. If this is what is, is allegedly my favorite song. When people ask me my favorite song, I will tell them and so if you'll indulge me briefly, it's the first concert I ever went to in July 5th, 1983. It was journey's concert. Wow. journey didn't they weren't always cool. I was way ahead of things. They were cool at the time the place was packed, but then they kind of got kicked around for a long time and then they made a, you know, a comeback. And so I, I think my favorite song is don't stop believing <laugh>. So now that doesn't necessarily mean, I know the lyrics without some prompting from the song alongside me. But I suppose if this is what the rules call for,

Ron Lyons (34:59):
This is what the rules call for. And you are a rule follower,

Eddie Cawlfield (35:02):
So, oh, without question. And I'm a rule follower. Okay. And

Ron Lyons (35:06):
Think of the, think of the good point. The good point of this is this is your next, last one. You only have

one left.

Eddie Cawlfield (35:11):
Oh, that's the good part. Oh,

Ron Lyons (35:13): <Laugh> yeah.

Eddie Cawlfield (35:14): That's what I thought.

Ron Lyons (35:16):
Okay. All here we go. This is Eddie Cawlfield doing his impression of its journey.

Eddie Cawlfield (35:21):
And if anybody who, the one person who in my family, who's still listening to this. This would go ahead

and be the time to shut her on down.

Ron Lyons (35:29):
And here we go, guys. Yeah, just a small town girl living

Speaker 4 (35:37):
At a low, saw the midnight train going in.

Ron Lyons (35:48):
<Laugh>. That is amazing. And here's is it? Yes,

Eddie Cawlfield (35:53): It is. And, and

Ron Lyons (35:54):
Here's, and here's, what's so crazy about that. Even with you benching your nose shut you're way better

than me. So that's awesome. This right there.

Eddie Cawlfield (36:02):
No, I'm not. I, no, that's that was that's the most embarrassed I've been in about three hours. <Laugh>

yeah,

Ron Lyons (36:11):
But there's still hope to get more

Eddie Cawlfield (36:13): Embarrassed. I don't know if I'd call it

Ron Lyons (36:14):
Hope with our last spin or you might get off lucky with a very easy truth. Let's see. Yeah.

Eddie Cawlfield (36:20):
I think we both thought now this gonna end

Ron Lyons (36:22):
Last spin with Eddie Cawlfield determining his own destiny right here in the court of public opinion.

<Laugh> please. It's a dare. Isn't it? Well,

Eddie Cawlfield (36:33):

I'll let you be the tie breaker there. I'll let you be the tie breaker. If you look directly overhead Uhhuh, I think that is split right down the middle

Ron Lyons (36:40):
Let's let's let's let me lean over and take a look. I think that's about as down the middle as you could get,

so I'm gonna let you choose what

Eddie Cawlfield (36:47):
Do you choose? Well, I'll do one more spin

Ron Lyons (36:49): About that. Okay.

Eddie Cawlfield (36:50): We're we'll do

Ron Lyons (36:50):
You're literally gonna live on the edge. We'll

Eddie Cawlfield (36:52):
We'll break. Yeah. I told you I'm nuts.

Ron Lyons (36:54): Yeah, you are

Eddie Cawlfield (36:55):
Crazy, man. Oh, that's clearly a dare.

Ron Lyons (36:56): It's clearly a

Eddie Cawlfield (36:57):
Dare. That's go back and answer your left. So take that other option about me getting to pick <laugh>

God leave.

Ron Lyons (37:03):
Oh my gosh. <Laugh> well

Eddie Cawlfield (37:06): Lovely.

Ron Lyons (37:08):

Oh, this is gonna be good. And we're very lucky that there are a few items on the table right now because <laugh>, I, I, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be so nice. I'm gonna say, do you want this car? Do you want the next one? I'm not gonna

Eddie Cawlfield (37:20):
Tell you what it is. I saying I don't want it.

Ron Lyons (37:21):
Okay. That was good because you were gonna have to do a very quick makeup tutorial using items on

the table.

Eddie Cawlfield (37:28):
I'm fought my way through that. I've had, I've had my nails done many times.

Ron Lyons (37:31):

<Laugh> okay. I don't think you want this one either. I'm just gonna put the second one back down and ask you to go ahead and do the makeup tutorial because the other one involved drawing a face on your hand and having a conversation with that. Oh, So you wanna surprised?

Eddie Cawlfield (37:47):
No, I'd do that about three times a week.

Ron Lyons (37:49):
Well, you know what happens?

Eddie Cawlfield (37:50):
So this is an audio tutorial of makeup.

Ron Lyons (37:52):
That's right. The very, very

Eddie Cawlfield (37:53): Quick one and huge

Ron Lyons (37:55):
Anything on the table right here.

Eddie Cawlfield (37:56):

So, oh, well, you know, I mean, I see some sunglasses here that, well, there, it's a piece of cardboard sunglasses that I hope are not mine. They're part of this game here. I suppose I could use those to grab some some blush.

Ron Lyons (38:09): There you go.

Eddie Cawlfield (38:10): And then

Ron Lyons (38:11):
Tell us how you apply that.

Eddie Cawlfield (38:12):
I would, I would take that liberally circularly on each of my cheeks.

Ron Lyons (38:17): That's nice

Eddie Cawlfield (38:19):

There, the technique flip this around to some eyeshadow Uhhuh I'm I'm more of a, like a, a sky blue, right. With some sparkles in it. Very, very eighties. Yeah. And I would probably also liberally affix that to my eyebrows. Right. yeah. And I'd you know, maybe yeah. I'd, I'd figure out some way to get some eyelash extensions. Wow. Going, and then

Ron Lyons (38:41):
I'm a little concerned right now. You're really good at this.

Eddie Cawlfield (38:44):
Yeah. Yeah. And I'd yeah, I'd finish it off with a healthy slathering of Carmex <laugh>

Eddie Cawlfield (38:51): And then yeah. Yeah. We're

Ron Lyons (38:52):

Good to go. Right. Well, there you go. And that is Eddie Cawlfield playing girl talk. Yeah. And being a fantastic sport. He was concerned that still am <laugh>. Yeah. But for a different reason now <laugh> that this might not be the most exciting conversation and you know, what it turns out to be the most exciting conversation. So Eddie, I I've, I'm gonna wrap everything up with asking you one last question, because everything on this podcast is based around Celina. Tell me what you love so much about Celina.

Eddie Cawlfield (39:26):

Oh, you know, you've already figured out I talked too much, so I won't go on and on, but oh, the mere fact that you and I are sitting here, I suppose, is what I love about it. Just people just, just having folks in the area who, who, who do do these things for Celina you know, just, that's just a small slice of it. You know, there's the, the trite cliched answers of, you know, I really like the people. And that's very, very true. I, I love the, the, the, you know, the obvious proximity, you know, where, you know punk Carter told me once what he loves about it is that he's 45 minutes from the rest of the world. You know, he's out here, but he's 45 minutes from the rest of the world. Cause he's talking about the airport, so we're not far from anything, but when you get out here, it feels far, which I really, really like.

Eddie Cawlfield (40:21):

And I think that is because of the people. You know, I said, I wouldn't go talk to too much and I'll wrap it up with this. When I, when we moved in, we moved in on a Saturday, November 1st and my wife had

had her first chemo treatment of what has now been more than I can count on two days earlier on that October 30th. And we moved in and some neighbors had known about it. Some of our now neighbors had, and they, and they had just shown up at the door with, with pizza, with food for us. And that was our, my, I knew, I kind of knew we were home at that point. And it's really always been the same way. The people, the fact that there's a lot of stuff coming here and this downtown has turned into a professional home you know, is all wonderful too. And things that I love about it. But I am, you know, just been very fortunate to, to who've encountered a bunch of people who have been really good my personal good people. And I'm, you know, that's a really long winded way of saying that. And I, I appreciate you list still listening to me. Well,

Ron Lyons (41:23): <Laugh>

Eddie Cawlfield (41:23):
My, my grandmother, who's still

Ron Lyons (41:24):

Listening. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know what, thank you. I, I knew from the time that I, I actually saw you in an EDC meeting and you walked in, I think you may have had a bow tie on and I was in, in, in, or, or you had some bright colors on you. You got my attention.

Eddie Cawlfield (41:42):
I'm not a bow tie guy. I might have had oh, a jacket that was maybe a little bit slightly off there,

Ron Lyons (41:48):
There was something that caught my attention to, then we all had to go around the room and say who

we were when you said who you were. I was like, I'm gonna talk to that guy.

Eddie Cawlfield (41:56):
That guy likes to play girl talk <laugh>

Ron Lyons (41:58):
Yeah, I actually did not know that, but

Eddie Cawlfield (42:02): Yeah, he learned something,

Ron Lyons (42:03):

You know, it's evidentiary, I didn't either search here and this is what we've uncovered. So I am going to submit this podcast to the court of the city of Sina, the, the people out there. And I think they're gonna love it. And thank you so very much for doing this. And I always ask this question and I I'm afraid to ask you

Eddie Cawlfield (42:23):

<Laugh> no, I would not do this again.

Ron Lyons (42:24):
<Laugh> okay. Asked and answered <laugh> all right. I may appeal that decision to you. No,

Eddie Cawlfield (42:32):
I would. I yeah, no, of course I would. No, it's actually been quite pleasant. Yeah, it's really been great. A

lot of fun and I, I really do appreciate you.

Ron Lyons (42:44):

All right, guys, that was Eddie Cawlfield and Eddie's office is located downtown Celina on the square. Now I would say, definitely stop by if you have some legal need. And as he said in the interview, if he's not your attorney, he knows how to make a recommendation to the right person for you. But I would definitely stop by just to say hello and get to know this guy. He is absolutely awesome. And thank you Eddie for doing the show. That was just fantastic. I normally talk about something funny that happened during the interview, but brother, everything in the end of that interview was hilarious. I literally not even kidding about this. I had tears in my eyes. It was absolutely fantastic. So what did you think about the show? If you will go to Sina radio.com and down on the bottom right hand side of your screen, there should be a blue button hit that blue button, and you can leave me up to a two minute voicemail and tell me what you thought about the show, or if you have some suggestions for a future show or something like that, leave that message.

Ron Lyons (43:54):

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