Reality Life with Kate Casey

Chris DeRosa is back to discuss two very different experiments in finding a spouse. On Netflix’s Love Is Blind: UK, singles become engaged without ever seeing one another, then test their emotional connection in the real world before deciding whether to marry at the altar. On Peacock’s Married at First Sight, relationship experts match complete strangers who meet for the first time on their weddin...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Dancing With the Stars, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, The Traitors, NOVA: The Battle to Breathe, and Joffrey Ballet: The Next Movement.        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.c...

Paul David Stanko grew up in a traditional family in Bloomington, Minnesota, later finding his creative and spiritual calling and a loving life partner after years of heartbreak. Then, nearly six decades into his life, an ancestry test revealed that the man who raised him was not his biological father—and that he had an entirely different family waiting to meet him. Paul joins Kate to discuss the...

Twenty-five years after September 11, retired United Airlines Captain Charlie Peterson shares a story most people have never heard: hours after the attacks, with US airspace grounded and fighter jets in the sky, Charlie volunteered to fly a plane carrying United's emergency response team toward the Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — not knowing just how closely his own aircraft wo...

Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the season premiere of Real Housewives of New York City, including Carole Radziwill’s return, the new cast members and the shifting friendships within the group. They discuss the good things that have come out of filming Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityf...

Liz Farrell, investigative journalist and cohost of COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller , discusses more than two years of reporting on Mica’s life, marriage and death. Liz explains what the Netflix documentary Death of the Pastor’s Wife did not cover, including the history of JP Miller’s father, the Rev. Wayne Miller, the family’s churches and the religious compound known as...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, two women who lost their fathers at the World Trade Center are opening up about grief, memory, and justice that still hasn't arrived. Jessica Trant was 19 when her father Dan Trant, a Cantor Fitzgerald bond trader and former NBA draft pick, called from the 104th floor of the North Tower to say goodbye. Elizabeth Miller was six when her father Doug...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of New York (Bravo), Frontline: The Man Who Knew (PBS), The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Hulu), A Killer Story (HBO and HBO Max), and Daughters of 9/11 (CSB).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fai...

Alice LaCour, former federal prosecutor, litigation partner at Hilgers Graben, and co-host of The Prosecutors podcast, joins me for a conversation that spans her immigrant childhood in a small Georgia town where she didn't speak English until kindergarten, her path through Yale Law School and two federal clerkships, her work on Supreme Court confirmation teams, and the day she went into labor mid-...

Kate discusses Leah Remini joining the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and why her humor, candor, history with Scientology, and willingness to confront uncomfortable subjects could make her an ideal Housewife. She also reviews Netflix’s Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly , in which Australian academic and breakdancer Rachael “Raygun” Gunn recounts her unlikely path to the Paris Olympics a...

Trisha Addicks, sorority recruitment consultant, founder of It's All Greek to Me, and author of The Rush Bible: Secrets to Crush Sorority Recruitment and Find Your Forever Greek Home, joins Kate to examine what television, documentaries, and social media get right and wrong about rush, from MTV's Sorority Life to RushTok to the Max documentary Bama Rush, in which Addicks appeared.   &nbs...

Brian Moylan, author of The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives and Vulture’s Housewives Institute Bulletin, joins Kate to discuss why Real Housewives of Orange County has become such a frustrating show, from the endless cast trips to how little we see of the women’s actual lives. They also break down the latest episode of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th, Ne...

Lily Fletcher, producer of Hulu’s Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel , joins Kate to discuss the shocking murder-for-hire case at the center of the four-part docuseries. Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was murdered in 2014 amid a bitter custody battle with his former wife, Wendi Adelson. Prosecutors ultimately connected the killing to members of the wealthy Adelson f...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love Island Reunion (Peacock), Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel (Hulu), Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks (HBO), and Earle Meets World (Netflix).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity...

Richard Elliott, a deputy manager in residential childcare in England, talks about his mother's childhood inside a Catholic convent and, later, a Catholic laundry in the north of England during the mid-twentieth century. Richard describes his mother's four years of separation from her family and her sisters as a child, her return home, an attack by a boyfriend at fifteen that led to her being sent...

The story of the Kissel brothers, two wealthy siblings murdered on opposite sides of the world within three years of each other. Robert Kissel, a Merrill Lynch executive in Hong Kong, was killed by his wife Nancy in November 2003 in a case that became known internationally as the Milkshake Murder. Less than three years later, his older brother Andrew, a Greenwich, Connecticut real estate developer...

John Henion, director of Netflix's new documentary Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young, joins the show to unpack the rise and fall of the Texas Longhorns legend, from his childhood in Houston's Hiram Clarke neighborhood, raised by his mother and grandmother while his father was in and out of prison, through his legendary run at Texas under Mack Brown, and into the conflict-riddled NFL career that...

Chris DeRosa joins Kate to discuss season 3 of Love Is Blind: UK on Netflix. They break down this exceptionally attractive cast, the hilariously dramatic music, the differences between the UK and American versions, and the couples heading toward the weddings. They discuss Ciara’s expensive expectations and habit of stirring the pot, Jack and Faye’s chances of making it down the aisle, Ryan’s myste...

Alexa Berger is producer of Netflix’s three-part documentary series Death of the Pastor’s Wife . The series tells the story of Mica Miller, a 30-year-old pastor’s wife from South Carolina whose April 2024 death was ruled a suicide. Mica grew up deeply rooted in her faith and met John-Paul “JP” Miller, a pastor sixteen years her senior, when she was 13. Years later, the two married, and Mica became...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Death of a Pastor’s Wife (Netflix), Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young (Netflix), Love is Blind: UK (Netflix), and Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip (Bravo).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: htt...

Kyle Bylin was switched at birth with Jeremy Morrison in a small North Dakota hospital, and did not learn the truth until he was 36 years old. The discovery came after a years-long trail of Ancestry DNA matches that did not add up, leading him to Morrison's biological aunt. That connection confirmed it: Bylin and Morrison, the only two babies born at Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota,...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced plans to return to the United Kingdom, moving their family to a private, non-royal residence outside London after six years in Montecito, with Archie and Lilibet already enrolled in British schools for the September term. Kate is joined by Kinsey Schofield, creator and host of To Di For Daily , a royal-focused podcast with a pop-culture perspective, an...

Kate Casey is joined by Mary Payne Gilbert, host of Pink Shade, to break down TLC’s The Double Lives of Suburban Wives . The show follows suburban women who appear to have conventional lives as wives and mothers but also work in the adult-content industry, including platforms like OnlyFans. The show explores how they navigate sex work/content creation alongside marriages, motherhood, friendships,...

Matthew Hamachek and Erica Sashin, directors and executive producers of Apple TV’s The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, join Kate to discuss their three-part docuseries chronicling the extraordinary 40-year run of UConn women’s basketball under Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma. Featuring intimate access, never-before-seen archival footage, and interviews with generations of UConn greats including Sue Bird,...

Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, a forensic and reproductive psychiatrist specializing in maternal mental health, joins Kate to discuss the Lindsay Clancy trial and what we need to understand about postpartum psychosis. Dr. Friedman is the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and Director of Forensic Psychiatry at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical...