Ep 790 : Kevin Cronin / REO Speedwagon

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🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Welcome to the show my friends.

Today I sit down with the legend Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon.

Kevin has written some of the biggest rock songs over the last 40 years and has sold millions of records including the massive masterpiece Hi Infidelity that came out back in 1980.

Sit down and hear this mans ups and downs over the years with REO Speedwagon right here on a brand new episode of LET THERE BE TALK.

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0:00.0	Episode 790. Can you fucking believe it? Man, 10 away from 800. How are you guys today on this Monday, February 17th? That's me, Dean's Scratchy Voice. Once again, coming home from a long run in Vegas, picked up some kind of fucking casino germ.
0:24.6	Last time I was in Vegas, I almost died by a lecherish root overdose.
0:30.2	And this time, straight fucking casino germ.
0:35.5	Whatever the fuck's floating around.
0:37.2	I don't care. I get sick once every fucking 10
0:39.6	years i just power it through it man because i'm a man i do man shit
0:50.0	welcome to the show how are you guys? Join the Patreon.
0:55.0	If you like, let them be talked, tons of bonus episodes.
0:58.9	Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey.
1:01.5	Also, very important.
1:03.4	I'm about seven, eight days away or so from headlining four nights in San Francisco at the punchline.
1:10.7	Tickets at Dean Delray.com.
1:12.8	Please get the tickets in advance so I can stop fucking Instagram and tweeting about it.
1:19.3	God damn it. Anyway, huge fucking great guests today. I'm swearing a lot today at the top fucking god damn
1:29.5	fucking i got fucking rock and roll on this fucking show i don't know sometimes i listen to the
1:37.2	show and i go how many fucks do i say anyway ario speed 1977, their live record came out, absolutely smashed it on the radio.
1:52.9	You get what you play for.
1:55.9	The big, big rock tune on there was riding the storm out, and that was it.
2:00.4	I was in on some ario speed wagon first
2:04.3	time i caught him was 1980 cruising on the green that's what it was called it was day on the green but
2:12.1	they had a theme for it called cruising on the green and uh it was a 4th of July weekend.
2:18.3	My buddy Greg Hips, Greg, Mother Hips, Greg.
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