Ep. - 1445 - SATURDAY SERIES: KAREN “DUFF” DUFFY
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Karen “Duff” Duffy, the former MTV VJ, actress, and bestselling author of Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass, Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain Without Turning into One, and Wise Up: Irreverent Enlightenment from a Mother Who’s Been Through It.
Duff opens up about her unforgettable years in the MTV spotlight, her Hollywood adventures (including Dumb and Dumber), and how her diagnosis with chronic pain changed the way she views purpose, humor, and happiness. She shares her philosophy on resilience, creativity, and joy — proving that wisdom doesn’t have to come without wit.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey, and welcome back for this Saturday series episode. |
| 0:10.3 | That to know me is to know that I spent my childhood obsessed with MTV, parked myself in front of the TV for hours. |
| 0:18.0 | You can blame MTV for my obsession with pop culture. So you can imagine how excited I am |
| 0:23.6 | to bring to you today, my guest, Karen Duffy Lambrose, also known as Duff. Now, when MTV first launched in |
| 0:31.8 | 1981, it didn't just play music videos. It revolutionized how an entire generation experienced music, pop culture, and |
| 0:40.4 | celebrity. So suddenly, musicians weren't just voices on the radio. They were icons with a look, |
| 0:46.8 | a vibe, and a story that you could see unfold on screen. MTV became the soundtrack, and really the |
| 0:52.7 | backdrop of the 80s and 90s. |
| 0:55.0 | It shaped fashion, language, even the way we consumed news and culture. |
| 0:59.3 | And at the center of it were those BJs, the video jockeys. |
| 1:03.2 | They were really more than hosts. |
| 1:05.1 | They were the cool older siblings that we all wanted to hang out with. |
| 1:08.9 | They would introduce us to new artists, |
| 1:11.2 | brought us behind the scenes, |
| 1:12.3 | and they made music television feel personal, |
| 1:15.6 | spontaneous, alive, and so cool. |
| 1:18.4 | So one of those unforgettable VJs was Duff. |
| 1:21.8 | Her energy, wit, and charm |
| 1:23.3 | made her a standout face of MTV's Golden Era. |
| 1:27.4 | And this is most important because the network that wants to find youth culture has officially |
| 1:32.6 | shut down. So more than ever, it feels like the right time to look back on what MTV meant |
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