Episode 1730 · Reality Life with Kate Casey
Ep. - 1730 - TEAM MOMS: BASEBALL
30 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 1730 · Reality Life with Kate Casey
30 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
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: when does supporting your child’s dream become chasing one of your own? Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair…
by Kate Casey · English · Film & TV
Daily podcast about unscripted television. Kate Casey interviews the talent, producers, and directors of reality shows, documentaries, and docuseries. Saturday episodes tell incredible person stories.
E1733 · 3 Oct 2026 · 46 min
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, why school became his refuge, and how he found his own path. Tom also discusses taking in his nephews after his sister’s death, the heartbreaking decision to pursue an open adoption, and learning to love…
E1732 · 2 Oct 2026 · 45 min
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 Casey What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 YouTube:…
E1731 · 1 Oct 2026 · 37 min
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 prosecutors said he had hired the man to kill Sharon for life insurance money. Dan spent nearly twenty years following the case, including a death sentence, a reversal by the Nevada Supreme Court, and…
E1729 · 29 Sep 2026 · 50 min
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 support his family to starting over as a record executive and working with Enrique Iglesias and a new generation of Latin artists. Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List:…
E1728 · 28 Sep 2026 · 19 min
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/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group:…
E1727 · 26 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
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 CaseyWhat to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.comInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseycaTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=enFacebook Group:…
E1739 · 10 Oct 2026 · 51 minNew
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 central to HBO's The Vow. In this conversation, they discuss what she has learned since leaving, how she and her husband Nippy have made it their life's work to help survivors heal through their podcast A…
E1738 · 9 Oct 2026 · 29 minNew
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 before Martin passed away. We discuss Martin's painful relationship with his father and how it surfaced in his art, his friendships with Fred Willard, Norman Lear, and Steve Martin, and the emotional moment…
E1737 · 8 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
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 night the "Brat Pack" was born and the article that haunted the cast for decades. Carl also shares the surprising true story behind John Parr's hit theme song, which was inspired by Paralympian…
E1736 · 7 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
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 Studios, to fetching gazpacho for director Joel Schumacher, the mentor who would become his co-writer and, at times, his tormentor. He reveals how a blizzard drive from Cleveland to D.C., a laundry…