Jakob Nowell of Sublime Talks His Father's Legacy, Ensenada, Addiction and Santeria

Zach Sang Show

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4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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With songs like ‘Santeria,’ ‘What I Got,’ and ‘Wrong Way,’ ska-punk band Sublime’s music is a forever slice 90s SoCal, their songs ultimately becoming the soundtrack to pop culture from the era and beyond. Tragically, in 1996 singer Bradley Nowell died from a heroin overdose at 28-years-old before the Long Beach trio made it big.

In the subsequent years the remaining members, Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, joined forces with Rome Ramirez to form Sublime with Rome, but in 2024 they revealed a whole new line-up, making their official live debut at Coachella with Nowell’s son, Jakob taking centerstage on the mic.

The now 30-year-old was just ten months old when his dad passed, a legacy and loss which has and continues to loom large. An artist in his own right as the driving force between emo-glitch-ska band Jakobs Castle, the singer/guitarist hasn’t had the easiest ride, including a troubled childhood, substance issues which has ultimately resulted in nearly a decade of sobriety.

We get into all this, plus he explains how the creative process with Sublime works today, exclusively announcing an album of brand new Sublime album — Till the Sun Explodes — coming early next year and letting us hear sneak peaks of not one, but two new tracks. Turns out the new Sublime cuts are not only a collaboration with Bud and Eric, who he affectionately calls his Uncs, but also Jakob’s peers and pals, including Zac from Fidlar.

We also discuss the possibility of a Sublime biopic, the passing of Jakob’s hairless cat, and his perhaps somewhat surprising stance on drugs, plus so much more.

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0:00.0	Oh yes.
0:05.5	Hello, beautiful human.
0:06.3	Happy day to you and to those you love.
0:08.0	Zach Sancto is here and Allie Gold is figuring out how to wear headphones for the first time.
0:13.1	Your ring looks amazing on your hand, Allie.
0:15.9	Thanks.
0:16.6	It's beautiful.
0:18.4	Happy day to you and to everybody in this room. Hi, Cameron. Hello. How are you? I'm doing okay. You have a nice sage green hat on. Let's keep on calling out all the visuals for the podcast people. Well, I'm letting them know it's a Nike sage green hat. It's very light, and it's trucker in style. Hi, Dan. Hello. How are you I'm wonderful that's good Kelsey you good I'm good you're what you have a shirt that has the WNBA logo on it yeah and you know what I I've never seen that logo before it's an orange uh who is it orange angel angel Reese is she even a basketball for um I actually I actually don't think it's known who it is Yeah, that's WNBA lady. Yeah. I think it is. I think it is a player and I might just be blinking, but. That is interesting because the actual NBA logo is made after a person we know. Right. Not personally, but like we know of him. Do you know him personally? No, I don't know. I don't know personally.
1:11.2	You know who it is.
1:12.0	It's an old player.
1:12.7	It's Jerry West in the NBA and the WMBA is absolutely nobody.
1:16.0	Yeah, right?
1:22.6	That's what, yeah. That's interesting. Let's be real. It was probably a man that they put. Like, we know the way the world works. that was probably a man. They added a ponytail.
1:23.2	There's like a lot of people
1:24.1	like thought it was
1:24.8	Diana Tarasi.
1:26.0	It's not, you know.
1:27.4	I want to know why they decided
1:28.5	to make it after nobody.
1:31.3	And the NBA one is after somebody, right? Yeah. I don't think the WMBA was around long enough at the time. That's, yeah. Now it's been around for like three years. The WNBA logo, the silhouette was designed to be modern dynamic representation of a female basketball player. Yeah. But which one? That's it. All of them are categorized into one and it's right there on her shirt. All of them. That's her. That is the WMBA. Okay. It's her, the guitarist. Hi, Sister Carlos. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm doing well today. You having a good Wednesday?
2:03.1	Yeah, so far.
2:04.1	That's good. I can feel it. I can feel it. There's a lot to discuss. A few sports things to get to. Plus some reality show stuff. I want to talk Halloween with you. Oh, God. And obviously, we have a great show to get to as well. but first on the agenda is this big brother stuff
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