Kevin Cronin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It was a combat level machine gun.
And he's like having target practice.
I'm like, I can't even believe this.
All of a sudden, door closes, gets up, clank, clank, clank, goes back to his seat.
We never met him.
No one ever introduced us.
He never said a word.
So fast forward a
We're in our hotel in Washington, D.C.
Knock, knock, knock.
I look through the peephole.
There's a group of young fans, and they've got a book that looked like a high school yearbook, but it said Department of Drugs, Alcohol, and Firearms.
It was a department of the U.S.
government.
Open the page.
The page, the photo is from the perspective of an unmarked vehicle with agents with their DEA windbreakers on, drawn down in the distance.
There's the airplane with the REO Speedwagon logo painted on the nose.
Turned out they had, during our days off, they had been taking that plane,
We were their cover, basically.
And they were running guns from Mexico.