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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. 


Reality Life with Kate Casey

Paul “Jack” Fronczak and Tracey Hastings, co-hosts of the investigative podcast The Fronczak Files, about the extraordinary and still-unfolding mystery of Jack’s true identity. Many listeners will remember Jack’s story from Kate’s 2021 interview at the time of the CNN documentary The Lost Sons, which chronicled his decades-long search to uncover who he really was—and what happened to the baby stolen from a Chicago hospital in 1964. That episode remains one of Kate’s most asked-about interviews. 

 

In this follow-up conversation, Jack shares what has happened since 2021, including new investigative leads into the disappearance of his twin sister Jill, insights into the original kidnapping, and the emotional journey of reconstructing a life built on mysteries and missing pieces. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1465 - THE 1964 CHICAGO HOSPITAL KIDNAPPING: TWO BABIES, ONE MYSTERY

Kate discusses what to watch this week including The Shuffle (HBO), The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder (ID), The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo (Netflix, and June Farms (Prime Video). 

 

 

Reality Life with Kate Casey 

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Ep. - 1464 - WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK WITH KATE CASEY

Nicole Paggi is an actress whose career has spanned drama, sitcoms, and daytime television. Nicole began her journey just outside Austin, Texas, later training in both Los Angeles and New York while earning her degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Texas State University. She broke out early with roles on the Fox drama Pasadena, followed by her turn as Sydney Shanowski on the ABC comedy Hope & Faith, and later as Sara Crawford on the UPN sitcom One on One. Her career includes memorable appearances on shows such as CSI, Rizzoli & Isles, 90210, 9-1-1, and a recent stint stepping into the role of Maxie Jones on General Hospital. 

 

In this episode, Nicole talks openly about navigating the unpredictable world of acting—how rejection has shaped her, how stepping away to focus on family shifted her perspective, and why life experience ultimately makes you a stronger, more grounded performer. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1463 - SATURDAY SERIES: NICOLE PAGGI

Kate discusses the season premiere of Southern Charm on Bravo. 

 

Matt Baumgarten, founder and creator of June Farms, an unscripted series now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The series follows the operations of a large event-and-wedding venue set on a working farm in upstate New York. Matt is as a detail-obsessed boss dealing with a young team of event staff whose personal lives sometimes collide with their professional responsibilities. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1462 - SOUTHERN CHARM JUNE FARMS

Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss behind the scenes of Bravocon, and this week’s episode of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City on Bravo. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1461 - REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY

Nancy Salzman, former president and co-founder of Executive Success Programs (ESP), returns for the second part of her first-ever post-prison interview. After co-founding ESP with Keith Raniere in 1998, the company grew into the larger umbrella organization NXIVM—originally promoted as an elite personal development and leadership training community. 

 

In this second part of her conversation with Kate, Nancy speaks openly about the unraveling of NXIVM, the legal fallout that followed, and the personal reckoning she faced as she prepared to plead guilty. She discusses the complex blend of loyalty, denial, and awakening that preceded her arrest; her experience inside federal prison; and the emotional and psychological work required to confront her own responsibility. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1460 - NANCY SALZMAN: PART TWO

Nancy Salzman, former president of Executive Success Programs (ESP)—a company offering personal and professional development programs designed to help people discover, develop, and utilize more of their untapped potential—joins Kate for the first of a two-part conversation. In 1998, she and Keith Raniere co-founded ESP, which Raniere later expanded into the broader umbrella organization NXIVM. He presented NXIVM as an elite self-improvement and leadership training company, but it ultimately became a vehicle for manipulation, coercive control, and the secretive subgroup DOS that led to his federal conviction. Nancy was sentenced in 2021 to 42 months in federal prison for racketeering-related charges connected to her role in the organization. 

 

In this first part, she discusses how she met Raniere, the creation and rapid growth of ESP, and what was really happening behind the scenes as the organization evolved. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1459 - NANCY SALZMAN: PART ONE

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Southern Charm (Bravo), The Carman Family Deaths (Netflix), Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (National Geographic), and Thoughts and Prayers (HBO and HBO Max). 

 

 

Reality Life with Kate Casey 

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Ep. - 1458 - WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK WITH KATE CASEY

Patricia Altschul, the “dowager countess” (The New York Times) of Bravo’s Southern Charm, reveals the exciting adventures of a storied life—from working as an academic and art dealer to her three marriages, to her star turn on the show—offering candid anecdotes, memorable bon mots, and exclusive tales of high society. She is the author of Eat, Drink, and Remarry. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1457 - SATURDAY SERIES: PATRICIA ALTSCHUL

Austin Victoria, one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s hit real estate reality series Selling the OC. Austin opens up about his journey from modeling and acting to selling luxury real estate on TV. 

 

 

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Ep. - 1456 - AUSTIN VICTORIA FROM SELLING THE OC

Jane Latman, executive producer of Capturing a Killer: The Delphi Murders on Hulu, a four-part docuseries examining the 2017 murders of Abby Williams and Libby German—two teenage girls killed while walking along a trail in Delphi, Indiana. The case drew national attention when police released chilling video and audio captured by Libby on her phone, and the investigation became one of the most closely followed unsolved crimes in recent history. 

 

Reality Life with Kate Casey 

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Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey 

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Ep. - 1373 - CAPTURING A KILLER: THE DELPHI MURDERS

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