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Ep. - 1722 - WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK WITH KATE CASEY Sep 21, 2026

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Survivor 51 (CBS), Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test (Fox), Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time (Hulu), and Team Moms: Baseball (Paramount+).

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Ep. - 1721 - SATURDAY SERIES: MICHAEL SWERDLICK CAN’T BUY ME LOVE SCREENWRITER Sep 19, 2026

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Michael Swerdlick, writer of the beloved 1987 film Can’t Buy Me Love, shares the remarkable story of how his first screenplay went from a typewritten script sitting on a shelf to a defining teen comedy. He reveals how Patrick Dempsey was cast at the last minute, the real-life inspiration behind the story, Paula Abdul’s role in creating the African Anteater Ritual, Michael Jackson’s connection to the film’s title, and what he remembers about the late Amanda Peterson. Michael also reflects on his unconventional Hollywood career, his instinct to root for the underdog, and why the movie continues to resonate nearly four decades later.

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Ep. - 1720 - 14 DAYS IN GAINESVILLE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY Sep 18, 2026

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Daniel Levin, director of 14 Days in Gainesville, joins Kate to revisit one of the strangest collisions of true crime and sports in American history — the 1990 Gainesville murders and Steve Spurrier's first season as head coach of the Florida Gators. In August 1990, five students were murdered in their off-campus apartments in the span of days, sending a college town into lockdown just as Spurrier arrived to rebuild a struggling football program. Daniel and Kate dig into the fourteen days that terrorized Gainesville, the massive manhunt that followed, and how a football stadium became the place a grieving, frightened community found its way back to something like normal.

Plus, Kate discusses the premiere episode of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, and Mary Cosby's return to the show after the loss of her son.

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Ep. - 1719 - A KILLER STORY Sep 17, 2026

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Director Matthew Galkin and executive producer Josh Levine join Kate to discuss their HBO Original documentary series A Killer Story, which examines the more than two-decade-long case against Dana Chandler, accused in the 2002 shooting deaths of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his girlfriend, Karen Harkness. Galkin and Levine detail how the story found them through investigative journalist Joe Sexton, who was contacted by Kansas homemaker Eileen Umbehr after she and her husband, Keen, spent twenty years and much of their own resources trying to prove Chandler's innocence. The conversation covers the six years spent filming the series, the absence of physical evidence tying Chandler to the crime, the toll of prosecutorial misconduct on the case, and what it means to document true crime obsession from the inside.

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Ep. - 1718 - THE SECRET LIVES OF MORMON WIVES Sep 16, 2026

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Chelsea Devantez, author, director and host of Glamorous Trash, joins Kate to discuss Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Hulu’s reality series about the Utah influencers behind MomTok. They examine the shortened season, the crisis surrounding Taylor Frankie Paul, the increasingly complicated relationship between friendship and fame, and the deeper questions of faith, marriage, female agency and control at the heart of the show.

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Ep. - 1717 - MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT LOVE IS BLIND UK Sep 15, 2026

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Chris DeRosa is back to discuss two very different experiments in finding a spouse. On Netflix’s Love Is Blind: UK, singles become engaged without ever seeing one another, then test their emotional connection in the real world before deciding whether to marry at the altar. On Peacock’s Married at First Sight, relationship experts match complete strangers who meet for the first time on their wedding day. Chris and Kate break down the Love Is Blind: UK finale, the couples’ final decisions, and the latest marriages, red flags, and drama on Married at First Sight.

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Ep. - 1716 - WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK WITH KATE CASEY Sep 14, 2026

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Dancing With the Stars, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, The Traitors, NOVA: The Battle to Breathe, and Joffrey Ballet: The Next Movement.

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Ep. - 1715 - SATURDAY SERIES: PAUL DAVID STANKO Sep 12, 2026

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Paul David Stanko grew up in a traditional family in Bloomington, Minnesota, later finding his creative and spiritual calling and a loving life partner after years of heartbreak. Then, nearly six decades into his life, an ancestry test revealed that the man who raised him was not his biological father—and that he had an entirely different family waiting to meet him. Paul joins Kate to discuss the discovery that changed everything, meeting his new siblings, and reconsidering his identity without diminishing the father who loved and raised him.

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Ep. - 1714 - CAPTAIN CHARLIE PETERSON: ONE PILOT’S UNTOLD 9/11 STORY Sep 11, 2026

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Twenty-five years after September 11, retired United Airlines Captain Charlie Peterson shares a story most people have never heard: hours after the attacks, with US airspace grounded and fighter jets in the sky, Charlie volunteered to fly a plane carrying United's emergency response team toward the Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — not knowing just how closely his own aircraft would be watched along the way. It's a quiet, remarkable account of an ordinary pilot doing the job he was trained for on the most extraordinary day of his career.

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