Reality Life with Kate Casey

Pamela Colloff, reporter for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, joins the show to discuss her debut book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast (Knopf). The book examines Paul Skalnik, a con man and jailhouse informant whose testimony helped convict dozens of people, including James Dailey, a Vietnam veteran sent to death row for a 1985 murder...

Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing.  She is the co-author...

Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing.  She is the co-author...

Herb Baumeister lived a quiet family life in a nine thousand square foot estate in Westfield, Indiana, while authorities believe he secretly targeted gay men at Indianapolis nightclubs during the 1990s, luring them back to his property where he killed them before dying by suicide in 1996. Director and executive producer Alex Jablonski returns for a second conversation, this time about the follow u...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has given us everything great unscripted television requires. Underdogs. Heartbreak. Redemption. Kate breaks down why this tournament deserves your attention, from Cabo Verde's improbable run to Erling Haaland rewriting Norway's history, and why it is citizens, not world leaders, who are bringing the world together right now.     Reality Life with K...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo), Big Brother (CBS), The Man Will Burn (HBO), and Miguel Ángel Blanco: The 48 Hours that Changed Spain (Netflix).     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.vanit...

After twenty-six years in the Coast Guard and a hard-earned retirement in a Margaritaville-branded community in Daytona Beach, Florida, Emily thought her next chapter was set. Then she noticed her husband's niece had vanished from his brother's Facebook page. What followed was a discovery that the seven-month-old had been placed in Florida's foster care system, and the beginning of an eighteen mon...

Kate discusses the Prime Video documentary Gloriavale and the new Paramount+ series Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal, both diving into the closed Christian community on New Zealand's West Coast.     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...

Anna Peele, author of Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island, returns to break down what is really going on behind the cameras this season, from how Casa Amor gets cast and edited to how production handles a crisis when it hits. Whether you have been watching since day one or are just catching up, this is your guide to what makes this season different.   &nbs...

Carlos Alonso Ojea, director of Abandoned on Hulu, the real-life mystery of three siblings—aged 2, 4, and 6—who were discovered at a Barcelona train station in 1984 with no identification and no memory of who they were or where they came from.     Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this&nb...

Sarah Galli, host of Andy’s Girls podcast joins Kate to discuss the final part of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo.     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/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch Lis...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion: Part 2 (Bravo), Abandoned (Hulu), Worst Neighbor Ever (Netflix), and Love Is Blind: Argentina (Netflix).     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.co...

Ellen Skrmetti is a comedian, author, and viral storyteller from Ripley, Mississippi, now based in Birmingham, Alabama. She first broke through with her "If the Queen Died in the South" series on Instagram, followed by her beloved "Hey Jesus, It's Me" videos, short, sharp sketches about faith, family, and Southern life that have been viewed millions of times. Her debut book, Hey Jesus, It's Me, is...

Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, returns to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.      Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this ...

Ruby Wrenn, co-host of Bad TV podcast, joins Kate to break down Million Dollar Nannies on Hulu.   Million Dollar Nannies (Hulu / Freeform) follows a group of eight young, elite nannies, including an ex-Kardashian-Jenner family nanny, a New York City "manny" with a social media following, and a professional dancer. They head to Ibiza to launch a luxury childcare agency catering to th...

Rebecca Gitlitz is the two-time Emmy-winning director of Chris & Martina: The Final Set, the new Netflix documentary about Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. The film traces their legendary rivalry, eighty matches over sixteen years, sixty of them finals, fourteen of them Grand Slam finals — and the unlikely friendship that emerged decades later when both women were diagnosed with cancer. Th...

Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo.     Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey Insta...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion (Bravo), Next Gen NYC (Bravo), Chris & Martina: The Final Set (Netflix), Love Island (Peacock), and Would You Rather: Decide to Survive (Prime Video).     Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this&nb...

At 38 years old, Katie Delimon opened a DNA test expecting to confirm what she'd always believed about her heritage. Instead, she discovered the man who raised her wasn't her biological father, and that the truth had been hiding in plain sight her entire life. A man her family called "the beach guy," someone she'd actually described as "creepy" in her first memoir, turned out to be her biological...

Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.     Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Van...

Kate breaks down the post-Summer House reunion special about the aftermath of the West and Amanda affair and scandal.     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/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecas...

Patrick Hickey, co-host of the reality TV recap podcast Bad TV, joins Kate to break down the season finale of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island and the latest drama on The Valley.     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/culture/sto...

Jessica Dimmock, director of Maternal Instinct, a Netflix true-crime documentary that explores the chilling 2020 case of Taylor Parker, an East Texas woman who faked an elaborate pregnancy and violently murdered her pregnant friend, Reagan Simmons Hancock, to steal her unborn baby.     Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com&nbs...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (Netflix), Love Island (Peacock), Real Housewives of Rhode Island Finale (Bravo), and Million Dollar Nannies (Hulu).     Reality Life with Kate Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Twitter: https://...

Former Rhode Island police officer Scott Naso shares the story of his late wife Sherry, her battle with breast cancer, their journey to parenthood with daughter Laila, and the devastating discovery he made after Sherry died from a brain tumor in 2024 — when symptoms her own parents (both doctors) had dismissed as medication withdrawal turned out to be something far more serious. Scott opens up abo...