In this special bonus episode of Greta Wire, taken from Greta Van Susteren’s NEWSMAX show The Record, Greta is joined again by Dr. Jen Ashton for an important update on GLP-1 medications, the class of drugs commonly associated with weight loss treatments such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro.

Greta opens with a new study from the Cleveland Clinic suggesting that GLP-1 drugs may be linked to reduced tumor growth in patients diagnosed with several obesity-related cancers, including breast, liver, kidney, pancreatic, colorectal, and non-small cell lung cancer. Dr. Ashton explains why the findings are generating excitement, while also stressing that the study was observational and that randomized controlled trials are still needed before drawing firm cause-and-effect conclusions.

The conversation expands beyond weight loss into the broader medical possibilities of GLP-1 medications, including potential effects on the immune system, inflammation, cancer progression, recurrence, prevention, and arthritis symptoms. Dr. Ashton also addresses a major real-world barrier: insurance coverage. While doctors can prescribe FDA-approved medications off-label in many circumstances, insurance companies may refuse to cover them unless they are prescribed for approved indications.

Greta and Dr. Ashton also discuss the financial logic behind prevention, asking whether insurers may eventually decide it is cheaper to cover these medications earlier rather than pay later for complications tied to obesity, cancer, heart disease, and other serious conditions.

This bonus episode serves as a timely update to Dr. Ashton’s previous Greta Wire appearance on GLP-1 medications and why their impact may extend far beyond simple weight loss.

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This episode features a long-form interview with former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who argues that his prosecution was an early example of political lawfare and that his case foreshadowed what later happened to Donald Trump. Blagojevich walks through the Obama Senate-seat controversy, the FBI tapes, the trial, and the evidentiary fights that shaped his conviction, insisting that prosecutors took conversations out of context and blocked material that would have shown he was pursuing political deals for public policy goals rather than personal enrichment. The discussion also examines Patrick Fitzgerald, James Comey, prosecutorial power, judicial bias, and the broader question of whether the justice system has become a political weapon.

The interview also gets unusually personal, moving from the mechanics of his conviction to the emotional cost of prison, family separation, and public disgrace. Blagojevich describes life behind bars, including his prison band, the people he met inside, and the impact his sentence had on his wife and daughters. He also explains how Donald Trump’s commutation and later pardon reshaped his life and politics, leading him from Democrat to what he calls a “Trumpocrat.” The result is part legal argument, part prison memoir, and part political testimony about corruption, redemption, and survival.

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This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with young biographer Solomon Schmidt about his new book on J.K. Rowling, tracing her rise from an impoverished single mother to one of the most successful authors in history. Schmidt explains how Rowling built the Harry Potter series from years of planning, personal grief, and creative discipline, and why her life story is compelling even beyond the books themselves. The discussion highlights Rowling’s difficult early years, including the death of her mother, domestic abuse in her first marriage, repeated publishing rejections, and the extraordinary path that turned Harry Potter into a global phenomenon.

The interview also focuses on the controversy that has reshaped Rowling’s public image in recent years. Schmidt describes how Rowling, once embraced by the political left, became one of its biggest targets after speaking out against transgender ideology, gender-transition policies, and threats to women’s spaces and women’s sports. He argues that her refusal to back down, combined with her immense cultural influence, made her a uniquely powerful lightning rod in the broader free speech and transgender rights debate. The result is both a literary biography and a portrait of how one of the world’s most famous writers became a central figure in one of today’s fiercest cultural battles.

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This Shorty uses the NBA Finals as a jumping-off point to revisit one of the strangest live-TV moments in American history: June 17, 1994, when the Knicks and Rockets were playing in the Finals while O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco chase unfolded in real time. Greta focuses on the sheer absurdity of the moment, describing how NBC kept interrupting or splitting the screen between the game and the slow-speed police pursuit, leaving producers and viewers stuck between a championship broadcast and a possible national tragedy.

The piece is really about memory and cultural shock. Greta explains that for people old enough to remember it, the Bronco chase permanently fused itself to that NBA game, no matter who won or what happened on the court. She closes with a bit of macabre trivia, noting that the Bronco itself still exists and is now displayed in a Tennessee museum, turning one of the most surreal nights in televised sports and crime history into a literal exhibit.

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In this short episode, Greta uses the anniversary of the deaths of Natalee Holloway and Stephany Flores to make a jarring point: the Aruba room once tied to Joran van der Sloot is now being rented out on Airbnb by his mother. She frames that detail not as a curiosity, but as a grotesque symbol of how the case still reverberates, tying together the murders of both young women and arguing that van der Sloot’s violence was never some isolated mystery but part of a much darker pattern. 

Greta also turns the focus squarely onto van der Sloot’s mother, Anita, saying she long knew her son had serious anger issues and still refused to face what he was. She presents her own years of reporting on the case as a relentless pursuit of the truth, points to a recent WhatsApp message in which Anita allegedly calls her a “bitch journalist,” and uses that as proof that the family still resents anyone who forces the reality into public view. The result is less a travel warning than a sharp, personal indictment of denial, complicity, and the lingering ugliness surrounding the case.

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In this episode, Greta sits down with Tito Ortiz for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with the upcoming UFC event at the White House and turns into a primer on the sport itself. Tito explains the difference between UFC as a promotion and mixed martial arts as the sport, argues that wrestling is the foundational skill for success, and walks through the mechanics of the cage, rounds, scoring, safety rules, and how MMA differs from boxing. He also makes the case that the sport is far more technical and strategic than outsiders assume, comparing it to a layered chess match rather than a simple brawl.

The conversation also becomes personal. Tito reflects on his own career, his title wins, his injuries and surgeries, his training discipline, and the way he thinks about recovery and longevity. He talks about meeting Donald Trump, supporting him politically, and why he sees the White House UFC event as a historic sign of how mainstream the sport has become. Greta frames the interview as a conversion of sorts: she begins as a skeptic about UFC, but Tito’s mix of detail, candor, and enthusiasm turns the episode into both a profile of a fighter and a persuasive defense of the sport’s complexity and cultural stature.

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This Shorty is a teaser from Greta, who says she has finally obtained, through a FOIA request, the full documents and videotape from the FBI’s 2010 sting operation targeting alleged Natalee Holloway killer, Joran van der Sloot in Aruba. Greta argues the material shows van der Sloot committed extortion on camera in a setup that should have ended with his arrest, but instead he was allowed to walk away and leave Aruba. She frames that decision as catastrophic, because weeks later he went to Peru and murdered Stephany Flores.

Greta says the newly obtained records are even worse than expected, including handwritten notes stating “no arrest anticipated,” which she presents as proof the FBI never planned to take van der Sloot into custody despite catching him in the act. She positions the upcoming book chapter and Substack release as a major exposé, promising to publish the documents, emails, and video to show how the Bureau’s failure may have directly enabled a second killing.

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This episode is a long-form conversation with Dr. Steven Hatfill about the FBI’s handling of the 2001 anthrax attacks and the years he spent under a cloud of suspicion. Greta frames the interview around a central question: how does the government fail to solve five murders, then aggressively target a man it never arrests, and eventually exonerate him years later without ever truly making things right? Hatfill describes being drawn into the case after taking a polygraph and initially believing the matter was over, only to find himself publicly treated as the prime suspect through leaks, media speculation, apartment searches, and a years-long reputational destruction campaign. He argues the FBI was rudderless, desperate to appear active, and willing to let his life be crushed rather than admit it had no real evidence.

The conversation widens into a broader indictment of institutional failure. Hatfill says the government never properly apologized, that the media eagerly amplified the accusations, and that the entire ordeal made him essentially unemployable for years even as he continued other specialized national security and medical training work. He also questions the official handling of the anthrax evidence itself, suggests the powder was sophisticated enough to imply state-level capability, and raises lingering doubts about whether the public ever got a real answer about where the anthrax originated. What emerges is not just Hatfill’s personal story, but a deeply skeptical portrait of the FBI, the press, and a political system that, in his view, preferred protecting itself over finding the truth.

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In this raw, behind-the-scenes interview, Mike Gilbert — OJ Simpson’s longtime manager, agent, and one of his closest friends for decades — reveals explosive details about the 1994 murders and the Trial of the Century. Gilbert discloses that OJ privately confessed to him, stating, “If she wouldn’t have opened the door with a knife, she’d still be alive,” and explains how heavy doses of Prozac transformed OJ’s personality in the weeks before the killings. He discusses the suspicious golf bag (believed to contain the knife and bloody evidence), the defense’s glove demonstration strategy, Bob Kardashian secretly feeding information to author Lawrence Schiller, and OJ’s emotional breakdown in jail. Gilbert also shares the devastating personal cost of standing by OJ and why he believes the murders would never have happened without the medication. This is one of the most intimate insider accounts from someone who was with OJ from the Bronco chase through the acquittal and beyond.

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This episode is a firsthand account from Belarus, where Greta joins Franklin Graham during his Festival of Hope in Minsk. The heart of the story is how extraordinary the event is: an evangelical preacher is allowed to come into Belarus, preach with the blessing of President Lukashenko, and fill a 10,000-seat arena with thousands more in overflow — all without formal advertising, relying only on word of mouth through hundreds of churches. Greta frames it as more than a religious event; it is also a rare thaw in a difficult and often hostile relationship between Belarus and the United States, made even more striking by Graham’s private meeting with Lukashenko and the decision to have the crowd pray for him.

The episode then pivots sharply from revival to crisis management. Between the first and second nights in Belarus, Graham learns of a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the conversation shifts to Samaritan’s Purse preparing an emergency response. Greta uses that moment to show the breadth of Graham’s work: one hour he is preaching the gospel before thousands, and the next he is coordinating planes, protective gear, water systems, and assessment teams for one of the world’s deadliest outbreaks. The result is both a portrait of an unusual diplomatic-religious breakthrough in Belarus and a look at the speed, scale, and seriousness of the humanitarian work Graham’s organization takes on around the world.

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