Greg Yows of Revolution Rock and Roll – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-78

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode I welcomed Greg Yows to The Survival Podcast. Greg is a great friend to both the show and me personally. Together we wrote “The Revolution is You” our show theme. When asked about himself Greg says, “I am a simple songwriter. The hippies in the 60s had their “protest” bards in the form of Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Janice Joplin, John Lennon, Joan Baez…the list goes on. Now, I ain’t claimin’ to have their skill. But I have just as much passion for my cause. And that cause is making sure my kids enjoy freedom from the … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Well, you pull yourself up, they keep bringing you down.
0:08.0	Are they going to bail you out or just run you around?
0:15.0	They said you should have a house, the American way.
0:25.8	Well, hi, folks. This is Jack Spirica with the survival podcast.
0:29.1	Welcome to an episode of Friday flashbacks.
0:34.5	After 15 years and hundreds of interview shows, we decided to run them as flashbacks every Friday,
0:37.2	beginning with the oldest of them and going forward, there's a tremendous
0:38.4	library of wisdom in all the great interviews we've done over the year. So sit back and enjoy, whether
0:44.2	this is your first time or even your second time around with today's episode. I'm sure you will
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1:22.8	sign up. Now let's get into today's Friday Flashback. And today we are flashing back to January the 11th, 2012.
1:31.1	This was originally episode 818, Greg Gowls from Revolution Rock and Roll.
1:37.2	If that sounds familiar, it's because you hear his song almost every single day that you listen to this show.
1:46.5	Because Greg is the one who wrote The Revolution is You and we did co-write it I guess to a little bit of a degree but
1:53.3	Greg was the primary writer and the guy that performed that that song all the way back well
2:00.6	before even this episode.
2:02.8	We did this.
2:03.6	We then later collaborated on another song that we wrote together called What Have You Done?
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