Eli McCann, attorney and writer, went viral on TikTok for his heartfelt videos celebrating his beloved teacher, Mrs. Yates, and his story sends Kate down memory lane to her own fifth grade classroom in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where a small but mighty teacher named Helena Graham delivered one unforgettable piece of advice that changed the course of her life. This episode is a love letter to the teachers who saw something in us, said the hard things when no one else would, and shaped us in ways we are still discovering decades later. 

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Hoyt Richards was one of the world's first male supermodels, a Princeton graduate and 1980s fixture in the pages of the biggest fashion magazines in the world. However, behind the glamour was a secret life he could barely explain to himself. At 16, he met a charismatic Manhattan socialite named Frederick von Mierers on a Nantucket beach, and what began as a mentorship slowly became something far more controlling: a New Age spiritual group called Eternal Values, built around von Mierers' claim that he was an alien reincarnated from the star Arcturus, sent to Earth to save a chosen few before the apocalypse. Hoyt lived a double life for over two decades, jet-setting by day, sleeping on a mat in von Mierers' apartment by night, before he finally walked away. 

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Elli Hakami and James Hobbs, the award-winning documentary duo behind Talos Films, join Kate to discuss their series Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders, a documentary series that dives into the dark, real-world crimes and deadly deceptions that lurk behind curated digital feeds and viral internet fame. 

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Ruby Wrenn from Bad TV podcast joins Kate to discuss Calabasas Confidential on Netflix and Summer House on Bravo. 

Calabasas Confidential is a reality series about a tight-knit group of friends, exes, and rivals returning to hillside SoCal luxury and unfinished drama after college. 

Kate also discusses her new Vanity Fair article, which can be found in the episode notes. 

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Kate Casey dives into Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden. In March 2020, Burden was at her family's Martha's Vineyard home navigating the early days of the pandemic when her husband of twenty years announced, without warning, that he was leaving her. In the memoir, she revisits their marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was, and reckons with her own family history and the expectations placed on women in the face of betrayal. 

Kate breaks down this week's episode of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island. 

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Michael Jackson: The Verdict (Netflix), Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult (HBO), Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal (Paramount+), Love Island USA (Peacock), and Earth, Wind & Fire (HBO). 

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Everyone has a ghost story. Maybe it's the door that closed by itself, the cold spot in the corner of the room, or just that feeling you can't quite shake. In this episode, Kate sits down with her close friend and medium Jonathan Mark — who works with both grieving families and law enforcement on unsolved cases, to talk about some of the places that have stayed with her. 

From a college dormitory in central Pennsylvania with a notoriously haunted closet, to her mother's childhood home on the Main Line, to a house in Paoli where a four-year-old girl delivered a message no one could explain, to the West Chester home where she grew up. Jonathan looks at photos, shares his impressions, and opens up about what he believes is really happening when the living feel the presence of the dead. 

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Zach Heinzerling, the Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated director behind Netflix's new four-part documentary series Rafa. The series follows Rafael Nadal across the final year of his career, from his 2024 return through his retirement, while reaching back across two decades to tell the fuller story of one of the most decorated and most physically punished athletes in the history of tennis. The series goes beyond the 22 Grand Slams and 14 French Open titles to reveal what it cost to win them: a rare, incurable foot condition called Müller-Weiss syndrome, diagnosed when Rafa was just nineteen; years of aggressive medical intervention that left him with perforated intestines; and a 2022 Roland Garros run played on a foot deadened by nerve-blocking injections. For the first time on camera, Rafa removes his sock and shows the foot itself — an image he had guarded from the public for twenty years. 

The series also explores the formative role of his uncle and longtime coach Toni Nadal, whose tough-love methods shaped Rafa from the age of three; the anxiety and ritual beneath the on-court persona; and the rivalries with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic that defined a generation, including the now-famous Laver Cup farewell where Rafa and Federer sat side by side and wept. 

Featuring testimony from Federer, Djokovic, John McEnroe, and the family, coaches, and inner circle who have stood beside Nadal his entire career, Rafa is less a highlight reel than a portrait of a champion in negotiation with his own body — and an answer, or an attempt at one, to the question of why he kept playing long after that body told him to stop. 

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Kate unpacks the Summer House on Bravo, and Sarah Fraser of The Sarah Fraser Show joins to catch up on the Duggar family issues. 

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Executive producer Mark Infante and pro pickleball star Anna Bright join Kate to talk about PARTNERS, the six-part Prime Video documentary series following the meteoric rise of the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA), the league that, in less than five years, has gone from scrappy upstart to the center of an international phenomenon. 

Anna Bright is a former Division I tennis standout at UC Berkeley turned top-ranked PPA and MLP pro, known for her aggressive style, lethal two-handed backhand, and high-profile partnership with world No. 1 Anna Leigh Waters. She gives a rare inside look at life on tour: how the sport actually works, what sets it apart, the wild financial transformation of pro pickleball, and the rivalries and romances that make the league must-watch TV. 

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Brian Moylan is back to help Kate break down The Valley, Summer House, and Real Housewives of Rhode Island on Bravo. 

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