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Jackalope Tales on Radio Misfits

Charles Mooney, Lisa Umbarger

Jackalope Tales pulls back the curtain on the strange, spooky, and sometimes shocking urban legends that lurk within the music industry. Hosts, and founding members of the platinum selling band Toadies, Charles Mooney and Lisa Umbarger explore the weird and wacky stories behind music’s biggest names. Some legends are too bizarre to be true, while others may have a kernel of truth buried beneath the hype. You’ll never listen to your favorite songs the same way again after you hear the outlandish

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51:42

Jackalope Tales – Witch, Please!

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2025/08/06

In this spellbinding episode, Lisa and Charles grab their crystal balls and dive broom-first into the long, glittering trail of scorched bridges left behind by the one and only Stevie Nicks. From bandmates she’s hexed with silent treatments to fellow musicians she’s publicly shaded harder than a total eclipse, Stevie’s enemies list is longer than a Rumors tour rider.We break down her frosty fallout with Lindsey, that mysterious feud with modern pop princesses, and the time she allegedly summoned a

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53:33

Jackalope Tales – Our Lips Are Sealed

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2025/07/30

This week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa unzip the lip-syncing scandal vault in Our Lips Are Sealed. Charles revisits the Mamas and the Papas’ chaotic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, where Michelle Phillips famously “sang” into a banana—yes, a real banana. But it wasn’t just stoner antics or 60s weirdness. It was a middle finger with a peel, aimed at the man who made her life hell offstage. Then Lisa dives into the tragic saga of Milli Vanilli, two dancers with dreams who thought they’d

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Jackalope Tales – Thy Will Be Don

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2025/07/23

This week, Charles and Lisa dive headfirst into the cigarette-scorched, mob-adjacent world of one of rock’s most feared figures: Don Arden. If Satan had a cigar budget and a talent roster, it might’ve looked a lot like this guy’s.In “Thy Will Be Don,” we unravel the shady empire of the man who managed Black Sabbath with a clenched fist and a loaded pistol. From dangling people out of windows to threatening journalists, Don didn’t just break the rules—he lit them on fire. Oh, and did we mention he

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59:33

Jackalope Tales – Signed, Sealed, Screwed

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2025/07/16

Welcome to Jackalope Tales, the podcast where music myths, legends, and label lies come to life. In this episode, Signed, Sealed, Screwed, we dive into the devil’s fine print—the kind that turned platinum records into lifelong prison sentences for the very artists who made them.Charles tells the truly absurd tale of John Fogerty, the man who was literally sued for plagiarizing himself after losing the rights to his own songs. Yes, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s frontman had to stand trial for

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52:56

Jackalope Tales – Abandon All Truth Ye Who Enter Here

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2025/07/09

Welcome to Jackalope Tales, where the only thing taller than our stories is the pile of lies musicians tell their fans. In this episode, Lisa dives into a Swiss band’s grand hoax: they convinced Phishheads that they were the band Phish themselves—undercover, incognito, and performing as a made-up alter ego. Chaos, confusion, and cult-like devotion ensued. Meanwhile, Charles rips the mask off Ryan Adams’ tangled web of deception: from playing the perpetual victim to the moment the real stories

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Jackalope Tales – Rock Ness

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2025/07/02

Is that Elvis Presley belting out "Jailhouse Rock" from a pulpit in rural Arkansas? Did Tupac really die, or did he just multiply? In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Lisa wades into the swampy legend of a small-town preacher who insists he's the King himself - sideburns, swagger, and all. Meanwhile, Charles dives headfirst into a sea of self-proclaimed Tupacs, from conspiracy-loving club promoters to folks who swear they've got "Makaveli" tattooed on their soul. It's an episode packed with

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52:44

Jackalope Tales – Dial Tone Deaf

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2025/06/25

This week on Jackalope Tales, we crank up the static and tune into two rumors that blew up online louder than a dial-up modem at 3 AM. Charles digs deep into the endless game of social media telephone that turned Bruce Springsteen — a man who’s spent half a century on stage — into a punchline for tour cancellations he never even planned. Did The Boss cancel a ghost tour? Did he retire ten times last week? Charles tries to separate rumor from reality, though rumor seems to be winning.Meanwhile,

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Jackalope Tales – Summer Of Shade, Neuter Scooter

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2025/06/18

In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Lisa and Charles sharpen their shears and take aim at pop industry puppet master Scooter Braun — or as they like to call him, the world’s most polite snake in a thousand-dollar suit.Lisa kicks things off with the sad, weird saga of Lil Twist — the young rapper who went from being Justin Bieber’s BFF to Bieber’s personal fall guy, blamed for DUIs, wild parties, and basically any tabloid mess Scooter didn’t want splashed on his golden boy. Twist did the time so

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Ep 91 - Summer Of Shade - Neuter Scooter

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2025/06/18

Send us a text In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Lisa and Charles sharpen their shears and take aim at pop industry puppet master Scooter Braun — or as they like to call him, the world’s most polite snake in a thousand-dollar suit. Lisa kicks things off with the sad, weird saga of Lil Twist — the young rapper who went from being Justin Bieber’s BFF to Bieber’s personal fall guy, blamed for DUIs, wild parties, and basically any tabloid mess Scooter didn’t want splashed on his golden boy. Twi...

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Jackalope Tales – Peace, Love, & Pepper Spray

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2025/06/11

This week on Jackalope Tales, we dive face-first into the chaos of two music festivals that went completely off the rails—in the best possible way. Lisa takes us back to Lollapalooza ’92, when the Jim Rose Circus was turning stomachs and pushing limits. We’re talking human blockheads, electric nipples, and a backstage challenge between Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, and Al Jourgensen involving a beverage so foul it makes Malört look classy: bile beer—a fermented monstrosity brewed with love (and

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Ep 90 - Peace, Love, & Pepper Spray

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2025/06/11

Send us a text This week on Jackalope Tales, we dive face-first into the chaos of two music festivals that went completely off the rails—in the best possible way. Lisa takes us back to Lollapalooza ’92, when the Jim Rose Circus was turning stomachs and pushing limits. We’re talking human blockheads, electric nipples, and a backstage challenge between Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, and Al Jourgensen involving a beverage so foul it makes Malört look classy: bile beer—a fermented monstrosity brewe...

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Jackalope Tales – Bling Me To The Church On Time

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2025/06/04

Ever wonder what it costs to book a rockstar to sing you into matrimony? Spoiler: it’s more than your house. In this week’s episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa wade through the diamond-studded swamp of celebrity wedding gigs—where the only thing more uncomfortable than the vows is the paycheck. Charles dives into the surreal fever dream that was Elton John performing at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding—a union so strange it practically summoned the antichrist. From liberal icon to right-wing

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Ep 89 - Bling Me To The Church On Time

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2025/06/04

Send us a text Ever wonder what it costs to book a rockstar to sing you into matrimony? Spoiler: it’s more than your house. In this week’s episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa wade through the diamond-studded swamp of celebrity wedding gigs—where the only thing more uncomfortable than the vows is the paycheck. Charles dives into the surreal fever dream that was Elton John performing at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding—a union so strange it practically summoned the antichrist. From liberal icon...

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Jackalope Tales – U.F.O.F.U.

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2025/05/28

In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Lisa and Charles sharpen their shears and take aim at pop industry puppet master Scooter Braun — or as they like to call him, the world’s most polite snake in a thousand-dollar suit. In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa trade earthly logic for alien abduction reports as they dive into the weird world of musicians who claim they’ve had close encounters of the musical kind. Charles unpacks Sammy Hagar’s unhinged belief that extraterrestrials once

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Ep 88 - U.F.O.F.U.

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2025/05/28

Send us a text In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa trade earthly logic for alien abduction reports as they dive into the weird world of musicians who claim they’ve had close encounters of the musical kind. Charles unpacks Sammy Hagar’s unhinged belief that extraterrestrials once hacked his brain like a hotwired van full of tequila. Meanwhile, Lisa peels back the tinfoil layers of Mick Jagger’s alleged UFO sighting, which he conveniently forgot to mention in his autobiography—...

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Jackalope Tales – LL Kool Aid

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2025/05/21

Step right up, cult members and curious creeps—this week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa serve up a double dose of musical messiahs who didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid… they stirred it themselves. Lisa dives deep into the desert-drenched delusion of 30 Seconds to Mars, where Jared Leto traded in eyeliner for enlightenment and accidentally became a shirtless space Jesus to an army of spiritually dehydrated fans. Camp Mars? More like Camp “Run While You Still Can.” Meanwhile, Charles explores

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Ep 87 - LL Kool Aid

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2025/05/21

Send us a text Step right up, cult members and curious creeps—this week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa serve up a double dose of musical messiahs who didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid… they stirred it themselves. Lisa dives deep into the desert-drenched delusion of 30 Seconds to Mars, where Jared Leto traded in eyeliner for enlightenment and accidentally became a shirtless space Jesus to an army of spiritually dehydrated fans. Camp Mars? More like Camp “Run While You Still Can.” Meanwhile,...

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Jackalope Tales – Katy’s Cosmic Cash Grab

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2025/05/14

In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa aim their skepticism skyward and take on the conspiracy theories swirling around Blue Origin’s latest New Shepard rocket flight. Was it really a triumphant leap into the final frontier—or just an expensive bottle rocket launched from Jeff Bezos’s backyard? From claims that the “passengers” were actually AI holograms to whispers that the onboard champagne celebration took place in a Houston warehouse with a fog machine and some clever camera

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Ep 86 - Katy’s Cosmic Cash Grab

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2025/05/14

Send us a text In this episode of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa aim their skepticism skyward and take on the conspiracy theories swirling around Blue Origin’s latest New Shepard rocket flight. Was it really a triumphant leap into the final frontier—or just an expensive bottle rocket launched from Jeff Bezos’s backyard? From claims that the “passengers” were actually AI holograms to whispers that the onboard champagne celebration took place in a Houston warehouse with a fog machine and som...

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Jackalope Tales – Mom Said Knock You Out

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2025/05/07

This Mother’s Day, Charles and Lisa celebrate the matriarchs of mayhem—the moms who made music history by being absolutely terrible at motherhood. In Mom Said Knock You Out, Charles dives into the chaotic parenting of Pattie Mallette, Justin Bieber’s mom, who once thought it was a great idea to leave her teenage son in the care of P. Diddy. Spoiler alert: it didn’t end well. Meanwhile, Lisa unpacks the Pepsi-denying mother who inadvertently inspired the greatest teen meltdown anthem of all time:

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