Reality Life with Kate Casey

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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