Sonic Youth and Murder, with Jake Brennan
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Over the course of their relatively short career, Sonic Youth absolutely rocked the music world, creating timeless songs and art that remain deeply relevant in the modern day. Yet as special guest Jake Brennan, the legendary creator of Disgraceland, reveals: there's a dark, disturbing story behind the cover art of their breakout, mainstream album Goo. Join Jake as he breaks down the horrific story of the serial killers informing this art... and teaching Ben, Matt and Noel why neither the band nor the artist understood it at first.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, |
| 0:08.9 | history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:11.4 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:16.9 | A production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. |
| 0:34.5 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:36.3 | They called me, Ben. |
| 0:40.4 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:42.5 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:43.6 | You are here. |
| 0:47.4 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:50.7 | We're massively excited for this one, fellow conspiracy realist. It is a unique, disturbing blend of music, history, crime, and murder that we were not |
| 0:57.2 | aware of. We don't even want to spoil it. We've got to welcome our special guest, returning guest, |
| 1:04.5 | friend of the show, the legendary author, producer, creator of, get this, folks, the most |
| 1:10.6 | downloaded music podcast on the planet |
| 1:13.2 | disgrace land. That's right. It's Jake Brett in. Jake, how are you doing, man? I am floating on |
| 1:19.5 | clouds after that intro, Ben. That was incredible, man. That was the ethereal noise clouds. No, |
| 1:27.2 | we're talking a little, you know what we're talking today. I don't want to spoil us. They're dangerous, man. Be careful. Those things hold charge. They do. We're not blowing rainbows. No, I know. Wow. We got to tell you, Jake, as soon as we got into the world of Iheart, as soon as we started, you know, just growing a little more, because we're the, We're the old how stuff works kind of nerdy boys. And we heard your name. |
| 1:47.4 | We heard about... started, you know, just growing a little more because we're the old, um, how stuff works kind |
| 1:45.1 | of nerdy boys. And we heard your name. We heard about disgrace land. We like started learning |
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