Reality Life with Kate Casey

Reality Life with Kate Casey

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.

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May 1, 2025 33 mins

Luke Shantz and Steph Sitt, stars of the HGTV show "Betting on Paradise", have opened a hotel called Hotel Amavi in Jacó, Costa Rica on the Pacific Ocean. The couple's journey to open the hotel, which involved renovating a derelict motel, is documented in the show. It also airs on Max and ID Discovery. 

  

They discuss how a life-long love of travel spurred an idea to move across the globe and build their drea...

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Garrett and Nicole McNamara from 100 Foot Wave on HBO, an 8-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee. 

  

Garrett McNamara journeyed to Nazare, Portugal, with one goal: to conquer a 100-foot wave. His ambition drove the sport of surfing to new heights and helped transform a tiny fishing village into the world's preeminent big-wave surfing destination.  

  

  

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Brazilian influencer Kat Torres rose to fame on social media with self-help videos and a wellness subscription service. She also alleged that she had spiritual powers and connected with her followers on a deeper level. In 2004 she became the focus of an FBI investigation, which led to a conviction in Brazil for human trafficking and slavery and sentenced to eight years in prison. She has appealed the conviction and maintai...

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including 100 Foot Wave (HBO), Castle Impossible (HGTV), Hollywood Demons: Stalking the Stars (Max), Southern Fried Lies (Oxygen), and Angi: Fake Life, True Crime (Netflix). 

  

  

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Jim Jordan is a fashion and commercial photographer, entrepreneur, talent scout, and manager. He’s worked with the biggest actors, actresses, and supermodels of the time, including Elizabeth Taylor, Cindy Crawford, Sophia Loren, Farrah Fawcett, and more. 

  

  

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April 25, 2025 25 mins

Director Rachel Reid Holbrook and Executive Producer Joel Chiodi discuss Southern Fried Lies, an Oxygen true crime documentary. 

  

An Arkansas realtor sets her daughter up with the richest guy in town, but when he mysteriously dies, she’s accused of stealing his fortune. Additional deaths and a web of lies ensnare the rural community, leaving a family destroyed. 

  

  

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Kate discusses this week’s episode of The Valley and Summer House on Bravo, and new reality shows. 

  

  

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April 23, 2025 30 mins

Kate discusses Race for the Crown, a Netflix docuseries about how horses, jockeys, trainers and owners fight their way through race after race, all in the name of earning the Triple Crown. 

  

  

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Kate discusses two true crime documentaries. 

  

Who Killed the Lyon Sisters is about two sisters who vanished from a Maryland mall, which launched a 40-year search for the truth. The Lie: The Murder of Grace Millane follows a Tinder date in 2018, a case that held a mirror up to a society with a problem of violence towards women. 

  

  

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love Hotel (Bravo), The Murder of Joanna Yeates (Amazon Prime), The Children of October 7 (Paramount+), Race for the Crown (Netflix), and Battle Camp (Netflix). 

  

  

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Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home at age 14 in June 2002. Held captive she was repeatedly raped, drugged and forced to endure religious rituals by a man and his wife, until earning her freedom in March 2003. She has since become a noted activist and author, launching the Elizabeth Smart Foundation in 2011 and authoring My Story in 2013. 

  

  

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This gripping documentary revisits the shocking 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building, the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history.  

  

Kate’s guests are Amy Downs who worked as a bank teller at the Federal Employees Credit Union and survived the attack, and Walter Lamar who spent 18 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He served as a Special Agent/Supervisory Special Age...

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Erik Arntzen rejoins Kate to discuss The Carters: Hurts to Love You,  a two-part Paramount+ documentary told from Aaron Carter’s twin sister Angel Carter Conrad’s perspective. She shines a light on the their family’s upbringing, from older brother, Backstreet Boy member Nick Carter’s rise to fame, Aaron Carter’s success, his death, as well as the death of their father and two other siblings.  

  

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Kate discusses Hollywood Demons: Housewives Gone Bad, episode four of a six-part Investigation Discovery series. The Real Housewives began as a dazzling display of wealth and luxury, but over the past two decades, tragedy and criminal activity have shaken their glamorous worlds. 

  

 

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Patrick Hickey, co-host of Bad TV podcast joins Kate to discuss this season of Summer House, The Valley, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo. 

  

  

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Hollywood Demons: Real Housewives (HBO/Max), The Valley (Bravo), The Dark Money Game (HBO), The Carters: Hurts to Love You (Paramount+), and The Rehearsal (HBO). 

  

  

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Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TW800/TWA800) was a scheduled international passenger flight from JFK to Rome, Italy, with a stopover in Paris, France. On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT,  twelve minutes after takeoff, the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. All 230 people on board died in the crash. Aboard the plane were Eugene Silverman, 54, his wife, Etta, 53, and their daughters Can...

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Chelsea DeVantez is an Emmy-nominated writer, comedian, and filmmaker. She is also the host of Glamorous Trash podcast. 

  

Chelsea joins Kate to discuss the season finale of White Lotus on HBO, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing on Netflix, and several celebrity memoirs. 

  

 

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Kate discusses the second part of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion, and this week’s episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta. 

  

Kate also discusses Chandra Levy: An American Murder Mystery on Hulu. In 2001 intern Chandra Levy vanishes. Police search the city to find the 24-year-old woman, but a powerful man hampers the search - Chandra's alleged lover, Congressman Gary Condit. Chandra's parents tell...

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April 9, 2025 26 mins

Jody McVeigh-Schultz, director and Paige Bardoshi discuss Spy High, an Amazon Prime docuseries which delves into the 2010 lawsuit filed by then 15-year-old Blake Robbins against his prestigious public school in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Robbins claimed that his school was spying on him, which sparked a wild scandal with alarming digital privacy implications. Digital privacy and the surveillance of children in schools vi...

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