Reality Life with Kate Casey

Patrick Hickey, co-host of the Bad TV podcast, joins Kate to discuss the latest episodes of The Kardashians and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Orange County, New York City, and Potomac.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca   Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.co...

In 1985, Dorothy Thompson, owner of the Azalea Pet Cemetery in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, was found dead in the Mississippi River, and her murder went cold for decades. Then in 2009, a man told detectives that Dorothy had appeared at the foot of his bed wrapped in chains, and that he knew who killed her. Director Philip Cairney talks about HBO’s haunting new three-part docuseries The Pet Cemet...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love is Blind: Boston (Netflix), Super Scam Me (National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu), Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald (Netflix), and Tyson (Netflix).       Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca   Tik Tok: https://www.tik...

Sarah Edmondson, the NXIVM whistleblower whose courage helped bring down Keith Raniere, returns to Reality Life to talk about her new book, A Little Bit Culty: Navigating Cults, Control and Coercion . Sarah spent twelve years inside NXIVM and recruited more than two thousand people before she was branded in the secret group DOS and went to authorities and The New York Times. Her story became centr...

Neil Berkeley, director of Netflix's Who Is Martin Mull? , joins Kate to talk about the comedian, actor, musician, and painter best known for Clue , Mr. Mom , Fernwood Tonight , and Roseanne , whose true passion was painting. Neil explains how the documentary began with Bob Saget, stalled after Saget's death, and found new life when he stepped in to film Martin alone, with no crew, just months bef...

Carl Kurlander, co-writer of St. Elmo's Fire, returns for the second half of Kate’s conversation about the making of the 1985 Brat Pack classic. Carl reveals how close Madonna came to playing Jules, why a real-life friend refused to lend his name to Emilio Estevez's character, and the scientific embarrassment hidden in Rob Lowe's famous St. Elmo's Fire monologue. He sets the record straight on the...

Carl Kurlander, co-writer of St. Elmo's Fire, joins me for the first of a two-part conversation about the true story behind the 1985 Brat Pack classic. It all started with a summer job as a bellhop at the St. Elmo Hotel in Chautauqua, New York, and a waitress named Lynn he couldn't stop thinking about. Carl takes us from an 18-page short story he mailed to her, to a freak scholarship at Universal...

Bonnie Lou Gower and Kara Robinson Chamberlain join Kate to discuss The Serial Killer Connection , the three-part Investigation Discovery docuseries exploring their extraordinary connection to serial killer Richard “Marc” Evonitz. Bonnie was married to Evonitz before learning the truth about his crimes. Kara escaped his captivity at just 15, providing crucial information that helped authorities id...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including The Serial Killer Connection (ID Discovery), Lorne (Netflix), Who is Martin Mull (Netflix), The Pet Cemetery Murders (HBO), and The Kardashians.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca   Tik Tok: https://www.tikto...

Tom Bross, author of the three-part memoir series Don’t Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid — Tightrope , Lightning Crashes , and Wheel in the Sky —joins Kate to discuss growing up in a family that traded a conventional Midwestern life for California’s hippie counterculture. He shares how his mother’s pursuit of freedom left her five children navigating instability and abandonment, w...

Kate reviews the latest episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County , Salt Lake City , and New York City .     Director Jeff Cameron joins Kate to discuss Miller Night Football on HBO, revisiting Dennis Miller’s unexpected run on Monday Night Football and the collision of his cerebral comedy with live sports broadcasting.        Reality Life with Kate C...

Dan Slepian, Dateline senior investigative producer and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Letters From Sing Sing , joins Kate to talk about the new Netflix documentary The Widower: 'Til Death Do Us Part . Thomas Randolph had six wives, and four of them died. In 2008, his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, was shot in their Las Vegas home after a Mother's Day dinner. Randolph claimed he killed the intruder, but...

Chris DeRosa joins Kate to review Team Moms: Baseball on Paramount+. The series follows seven families at a Scottsdale baseball academy where the boys train for a shot at college and professional baseball, while their parents clash in the stands.  Kate and Chris discuss the academy’s reported $30,900 annual cost, the parents who keep the drama going, and the question at the heart of the show:...

Gerardo Mejía played one of the high school football players in Can’t Buy Me Love before becoming an international star with “Rico Suave.” He joins Kate to talk about his family’s move from Ecuador to Los Angeles, how dancing led to acting and music, and why he spent his own money making a music video before he had a record deal. He also shares what happened after the hit, from struggling to suppo...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Amazing Race (CBS), The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part (Netflix), Miller Night Football (HBO), and The Swan: Behind the Mirror (Hulu).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/cul...

EPISODE OVERVIEW:Deadline:Friday September 25th, 2026 at 10:00 P.M. MSTBaked-In Ads (Y/N & Amount):NOEpisode Title:Ep. - 1727 - SATURDAY SERIES: MICHAEL SWERDLICK PART TWODescription:Michael Swerdlick returns to tell more stories about the making of Can’t Buy Me Love, pilots hesold, and wild experiences in the business including working with the Olsen Twins. Reality Life with Kate Casey What t...

Carlos King joins Kate Casey to discuss The Real Housewives of Orange County, The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca   Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en &nbs...

Director Erin Lee Carr joins Kate to talk about her Hulu documentary The Swan: Behind the Mirror , along with former contestants Kristy Garza from season one and Kari Bravata from season two. The Swan premiered on Fox in 2004 and promised women a total life makeover: three months of plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry, therapy, and fitness training. The contestants were isolated from their familie...

Kate discusses Taylor Frankie Paul’s decision to leave Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives , the reality series following the women of MomTok as their friendships, marriages, faith and scandals play out both on television and social media. She examines how Taylor became famous, the toxic feedback loop that helped grow her following, and why leaving the show may not be the same as leaving fame....

Allen Salkin, host of the 12-part podcast Gerbil from The Hollywood Reporter, digs into the six-year investigation behind Hollywood's most unkillable urban legend. Allen walks Kate through his old-school reporting process — LexisNexis searches, FOIA requests, tracked-down eyewitnesses — and goes deep on the Philadelphia Gerbil Panic of 1985, when KYW anchor Jerry Penacoli was hit with the same rum...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Survivor 51 (CBS), Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test (Fox), Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time (Hulu), and Team Moms: Baseball (Paramount+).          Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: http...

Michael Swerdlick, writer of the beloved 1987 film Can’t Buy Me Love , shares the remarkable story of how his first screenplay went from a typewritten script sitting on a shelf to a defining teen comedy. He reveals how Patrick Dempsey was cast at the last minute, the real-life inspiration behind the story, Paula Abdul’s role in creating the African Anteater Ritual, Michael Jackson’s connection to...

Daniel Levin, director of 14 Days in Gainesville , joins Kate to revisit one of the strangest collisions of true crime and sports in American history — the 1990 Gainesville murders and Steve Spurrier's first season as head coach of the Florida Gators. In August 1990, five students were murdered in their off-campus apartments in the span of days, sending a college town into lockdown just as Spurrie...

Director Matthew Galkin and executive producer Josh Levine join Kate to discuss their HBO Original documentary series A Killer Story , which examines the more than two-decade-long case against Dana Chandler, accused in the 2002 shooting deaths of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his girlfriend, Karen Harkness. Galkin and Levine detail how the story found them through investigative journalist Joe Se...

Chelsea Devantez, author, director and host of Glamorous Trash , joins Kate to discuss Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives , Hulu’s reality series about the Utah influencers behind MomTok. They examine the shortened season, the crisis surrounding Taylor Frankie Paul, the increasingly complicated relationship between friendship and fame, and the deeper questions of faith, marriage, female...