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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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Love is Blind: Boston (Netflix), Super Scam Me (National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu), Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald (Netflix), and Tyson (Netflix).

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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 Little Bit Culty, and why smart, ambitious people can be drawn into high-control groups one reasonable-seeming step at a time. She also talks about the red flags everyone should know, the long road of recovery, and what she hopes readers take away from the book.

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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 his wife, Wendy, learns what Martin said about her on camera. Neil also previews his next Netflix film, Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story, made with Judd Apatow and out October 23.

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