Dapper Jackalope and Affiliates
Podcasts and Books
Nuance Over Narratives
Every family has stories they tell… and stories they don’t.
Skeletons in the Closet: Family Secrets digs into the hidden histories, buried scandals, and unanswered questions that get passed down like heirlooms nobody wants to dust.
Blending true crime, historical investigation, and lived experience, the show explores what happens when families inherit secrets instead of clarity. It’s not about shock for shock’s sake. It’s about how silence shapes identity, how myths calcify into truth, and how unresolved pasts keep echoing forward.
Because you can’t understand who you are until you open the closet and see what’s been standing there the whole time.
Skeletons in the Closet: Family Secrets, by Janet Banister and Robert Vitt
A Skeletons in the Closet Book is coming your way! Tentative release: 2027
Wilderness of Errors, by Robert Vitt
The JFK Assassination, as it has been handed down to us, is a case originating from human error. Errors of judgement, errors of institutions, errors too dark to yet understand.
Those errors did not disappear. They took root in the soil of history. And when our teachers searched for truth, they found that same twising wood, climbing higher, blotting out the sky.
We have inherited a darkness, and wander in a wilderness of errors.
Wilderness of Errors will be released in 2026!
How to Not Start a Cult (Probably), by Janet Banister
We all have one. The office menace. The sports-parent tyrant. The church volunteer who treats a clipboard like a weapon. We accommodate, compromise, and practice calm conversations in the mirror. Nothing changes. Somehow it gets worse.
Here’s why: they’re not broken. They’re rewarded.
They act this way because it works. Fear, obligation, and guilt keep them in charge, and asking nicely never shuts the machine down.
This book isn’t about fixing those people. It’s about fixing the system.
It explores how to build communities where control doesn’t pay, manipulation stops working, and being awful is no longer a winning strategy.
How to Not Start a Cult (Probably), Book and Podcast, will be released in 2026-2027!
