Reality Life with Kate Casey

Dani Sloane, director of the Netflix documentary series Taken: Natalee Holloway, discusses the eighteen-year-old whose disappearance during a graduation trip to Aruba became an international story. She explores Natalee's life and ambitions, her mother Beth's relentless search for answers, Joran van der Sloot's eventual confession, and the media coverage that shaped public perceptions of Natalee, her family, and her classmates. Dani also shares how the series came together and what it reveals about the people behind the headlines.

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love is Blind (Netflix), Unprotected: Murder in Galicia (Netflix), Taken: Natalee Holloway (Netflix, three episodes), and The Kardashians.

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Tom Schulman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Dead Poets Society, joins me to look back on the 1989 classic that still has generations standing on their desks. Set in 1959 at Welton Academy, an elite Vermont boarding school, the film follows John Keating (Robin Williams), an unconventional English teacher who urges his students to seize the day, inspiring a group of boys, including painfully shy Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) and aspiring actor Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), to revive a secret poetry club and find their own voices against the expectations of their parents and school.

Tom shares the teachers who inspired Keating, the agent who loved the script but didn't think anyone would make it, the first version of the movie that ended with its sets burned to the ground, the improv session that unlocked Robin Williams's performance, how the unforgettable "O Captain! My Captain!" ending took shape, why Todd is the character most like him, and the night he accepted his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay from Jane Fonda. This episode includes discussion of suicide as it relates to the film's storyline.

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Chris DeRosa joins Kate to discuss episodes 9-11 of Netflix’s Love Is Blind: Boston, breaking down the family and apartment visits.

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Who killed baby Tegan Lane, or is she still alive? In 1996, Keli Lane walked out of a Sydney hospital with her two-day-old daughter, and no one has confirmed seeing Tegan since. Keli was a water polo standout from the beach suburb of Manly, a police officer’s daughter with Olympic dreams, and she had hidden multiple pregnancies from her family, her boyfriend and her teammates. In this episode, Kate walks through the case pregnancy by pregnancy, from the social worker who noticed a gap in the records in 1999 to the decade-long search for a man named Andrew Norris and the murder trial that convicted Keli with no body, no witness and no cause of death. She also covers how a 2022 law has kept her behind bars past her parole date. The case is the subject of Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane, a three-part documentary that began with a letter Keli wrote from prison, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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Jane Lipsitz, executive producer, and Trymaine Lee, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, discuss The New Stanford Prison Experiment, the six-part Netflix series in which thirty volunteers enter a prison facility and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They explore the controversial 1971 study that inspired the series, the safeguards behind this new version, and what unfolds when ordinary people are given power over others.

Kate and Trymaine also share a personal connection: both attended the Milton Hershey School. Kate explains why the series reminded her of her own experience there, bringing a personal perspective to questions about authority, conformity, belonging, and individuality.

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Brian Moylan joins Kate to break down this week’s Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Orange County, New York, and Potomac. They discuss the drama, shifting alliances, and whether the franchises have become more about power within the cast than the women’s actual lives.

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of (Netflix), Love is Blind (Netflix), The One About Matthew Perry (Netflix), and The Mob (Hulu).

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Angelo Pizzo, the screenwriter of Hoosiers and Rudy, returns for part two of a conversation about two of the greatest sports films ever made. Angelo reveals the movie star who first agreed to play Coach Norman Dale, and the unlikely producer who cried through the script and finally paid for the film after a year and a half of rejections. He also opens up about working with Gene Hackman, who arrived on set convinced Hoosiers would end his career. He discusses the half hour that had to be cut from the film, how Jerry Goldsmith came to score both movies for almost nothing, and why Rudy’s theme became one of the most recognizable pieces of music in sports. Angelo also shares the casting of Sean Astin, Ned Beatty and Jon Favreau, how Bob Knight inspired Norman Dale, and the story behind his newest and most personal film, Bloomington.

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Chris DeRosa joins Kate to discuss episodes 6-8 of Netflix’s Love Is Blind: Boston, breaking down the vacations, realizing their fiancé may be a hoarder, and meeting their potential new in-laws.

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They were Miami royalty: twins Oren and Alon Alexander and their older brother Tal, sons of Israeli immigrants who built a security empire, became the most famous luxury real estate brokers in the country, and Oren’s wedding was even featured in Vogue. Behind the private jets and Hamptons parties, prosecutors say, they lured, drugged, and raped women for more than a decade, and in March 2026 a federal jury found all three guilty on every count. Director Emma Schwartz returns to discuss her Peacock docuseries The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers, which she filmed in real time as the case unfolded.

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In November 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe left work in Lincoln, Nebraska, for a second date with a woman she’d met on Tinder. She never came home. The woman she knew as “Audrey” was Bailey Boswell, who lived with her boyfriend, 51-year-old Aubrey Trail, a longtime con man. The investigation that followed uncovered a gold coin fraud scheme, a pattern of control over other young women, and Aubrey’s claims of supernatural powers.

Kate is joined by Brian Biegel, director and executive producer of Hulu’s three-part docuseries Swipe Right on the Devil, and executive producer Christopher St. John of Imagine Documentaries.

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Producer Aliza Rosen joins Kate to discuss You Can See Everything, the documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim that follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, in the weeks before she reports to prison. They also discuss Aliza’s new investigative podcast, The Gilded Rage, hosted by Lauren Malloy. The series begins with a woman’s allegation of a decades-old sexual assault and leads to unanswered questions surrounding the 1985 death of Sherri Clark, an 18-year-old University of Colorado Boulder freshman whose death was ruled an accident. Aliza explains how the investigation came together and why Sherri’s family continues to seek answers more than 40 years later.

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love is Blind: Boston (Netflix), Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (Netflix), Swipe Right on the Devil (Hulu), and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (Bravo).

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Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter of two of the most beloved sports movies, Hoosiers and Rudy, shares the stories behind their creation. Hoosiers follows a troubled coach, played by Gene Hackman, who leads a small Indiana high school basketball team toward a state championship. Rudy stars Sean Astin as an unlikely Notre Dame football hopeful whose persistence becomes an enduring story of determination. Angelo discusses casting real basketball players, fighting to hire Dennis Hopper for his Academy Award–nominated performance, and the real Rudy’s relentless campaign to get his story on screen. He also reveals how Rudy brought together future collaborators Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, and why these films about ambition, redemption, and second chances continue to resonate across generations. Part one of a two-part conversation.

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Chris DeRosa joins Kate to discuss the first few episodes of Netflix’s Love Is Blind: Boston, breaking down the singles, the connections forming in the pods, and the early red flags. They share their first impressions, question who seems ready for marriage, and debate whether you can fall in love sight unseen, or simply fall in love with what you want to hear.

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Mariana van Zeller, the Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, joins Kate to discuss Super Scam Me, her National Geographic documentary in which she goes undercover as the target of a romance scam. She explains how scammers build trust, exploit emotional vulnerability, and use fake military identities, AI, money mules, and cryptocurrency to deceive victims. Mariana also discusses working with a former hacker to track down her scammer in Ghana—and confronting a man who continues to insist he loves her even after his deception is exposed.

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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.

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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 Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story, from Lightbox producers Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn. He discusses how a cold case cop reopened an investigation on the word of a ghost, Dorothy’s complicated life and painful relationship with her mother Grace, who founded the cemetery, and how Hurricane Katrina wiped out crucial evidence and left lasting scars on the community. Phil also explains why every local has a story about that land, the eerie thing that happened to his camera on the property, and whether the “haunting” was a ghost or guilt.

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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).

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