October 1, 2025 • 11 mins
Featuring within the Wednesday October 1, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- We share an amazing story from News Nation's Leland Vittert that helps to illuminate the conflict between Hamas & Israel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's some inspiring here in a bunch of horrifying. It's
one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Inspiring horrifying.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
The fabulous Barry Weiss of the Free Press.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I did at an interview recently.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
With Leland Viddert, who is a longtime Middle East correspondent
for Fox News, and I believe he is with the
News Nation now, is that right. He's recently come out
publicly that he is on the autism spectrum or is autistic,
or has autism, whatever you're supposed to say these days,
I don't know, and and has described how he has
(00:43):
dealt with it and gotten beyond it. Really interesting and
inspiring stuff. I can't wait to read it, as there's
autism in my family more than a little. Really an
amazing guy and really cool. But he was talking to
Barry Weiss about.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The Middle East and God in Israel.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And here's a little snippet of her excellent conversation with.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Him twenty twelve. I'm a foreign correspondent for Fox and
you know, normally you're when you're based in Jerusalem, you're
covering suicide bombings, you're covering protests in the West Bank
of riots in the West Bank on and on and on.
Because of the Arab Spring, I really hadn't spent that
much time in Israel, and the Palestine Israeli conflict was
not a thing those years.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
There's been a couple of.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Gaza skirmishes, but there was the Glad Shalite deal where
there was an Israeli soldier who had been held hostage
and traded from Gaza to Israel for a thousand guys
and prisoners more, including Sinowar and including a woman named Waffa.
And Wafa had been a woman in the West Bank
(01:44):
or woman in Gaza. She had pulled a pot of
boiling water over herself when she was like five or
six years old. The Israelis treat most of the people
out of Gaz who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries.
She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four
or five in Israel, but has a pass to get
in and out of Israel, which very few people in
(02:05):
Gaza did at the time, So she gets recruited to
be a suicide bomber.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
This is in the second into Fada, so mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There's the video of her coming to the checkpoint to
get into Israel wearing her suicide vest, and she'd been
given three target options by the Alaskar Martyrs brigade, a bus,
a cafe, or the hospital that had treated her and
saved her life. She chose the hospital that had treated
her and saved her life. She gets to the checkpoint,
(02:38):
they discover that she has a bomb, or they think
she does. She tries to detonate it, it doesn't go off.
She gets thrown in jail again. The Israeli's treat her,
they help her with her birds, they educate her, they
give her a college degree, and now in the Gladually deal,
she goes back to Gaza. So I go to Gaza
to interview her, thinking this is going to be a
redemption story. It was before Christmas, right that she is
(02:59):
going to say, perfect Christmas, I am going to be
the one to try and forge peace, and I believe
in peace, and I've seen that the Israelis are not
evil that I don't want to kill them anymore. Fine,
So I get into Gaza and I bring with me
an iPad that has the video of her trying to
blow herself up. So we're sitting across from each other
like this She's wearing a he jab in a very
(03:22):
junkie gozzen apartment. It is an awful place in every
sense of the word. And I show her the video
and I said, what are you thinking watching this? She goes, oh,
oh has all this reaction and she goes oh, she goes,
I'm thinking, I almost tasted paradise. Okay, would you do
(03:49):
it again?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In a minute. This is my calling in life.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I said, wait a second.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
These people treated you in all of your burns, they
saved your life. You tried to blow them up, they
still treated you, they educated you, and now you have
a chance at life back here in Gaza, and you'd
want to blow them up. And she goes, absolutely, they
are the infidels, they are evil, They're the enemy. I
(04:17):
can't remember where the jack translation was. And that's when
my mind was made up about sort of the moral
clarity of the Israeli Palestinian debate. Are the Israeli's perfect? No,
But that's what they're up against.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And that is the key point that so many people ignore.
That's what they're up against. And it's funny when people
see deliberate attempts to indoctrinate the young. They have Americans,
they have this inability to absorb it or accept it
(04:51):
or believe it because I think a lot of us
have seen those TV the kids shows from you know,
that part of the world where they each the little
kids that the Jews drink the blood of babies and the.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Rest of that.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it's like they're same street.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right, And then when people like me are trying to
lecture you that the government schools aren't accidentally indoctrinating your
kids to hate America and Western civilization and not know
their own history.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That that's just these silly, woke people who don't really
know it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, it's an absolutely deliberate attempt to capture the minds
of young people. Every evil regime in the history of
the world has known this, They've practiced it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I could bore you to death with examples of it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They do it because it works, but people can't accept
that it's happening in their own country.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, that was quite a story. And you know, not
just the Palestinian Israeli conflict. That's what we're all up
against in terms of the whole radical Islam thing all
around the world. Yes, the people that actually believe no, no, no,
(06:08):
I want the bomb to go off, because then I'm
in paradise immediately, right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, And one of the most interesting things you've ever
brought to the show was that psychological study where they
pointed out that human beings cling to the first thing
they learn about something.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, it's troubling what I feel like. I'm up against
that in my life sometimes myself will you will stick
with the first thing you heard, even when it's been
proven that you were wrong about the first thing you heard.
But the first thing even if.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
The people who told you the first thing you heard
come back and say is they did in the study, Hey,
what we told you is wrong, it's not X.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's why just we apologize it's not X.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's why you go back in a couple of months
and ask those people if it's X or why they'll say, oh,
it's X, definitely X. And so that's one of the
insidious parts of indoctrinating a young girl like this or
the American example, I was giving. How much opportunity did
she get to observe that the reality of the Israeli
people is not ex It's why indeed, but she was
(07:09):
indoctrinated to believe it was the horrors of the evil
Jew and they must be blotted out, blah blah blah.
And she could not. With the most amazing, awe inspiring, kind,
beautiful examples of the actual truth, she could not be
budged from that premise human beings man.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Whoof Wow, that was a that was that was a
good one. That was interesting and troubling. So that's Barry
Weiss's outfit that brought us that the Free press. Yeah,
so she she made a decision or not to make
take that two hundred million dollar offer from CBS.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I wish she would.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Because it's quickly become a media empire. They have lots
of super talented writers. Yes, they put out more.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Pardon me, it's possible that she, being you know, significantly
younger than me, thinks, why would I go to CBS.
I'm building what is the future of media. I'm not
going back through it. It was the big deal fifty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, but they put out more good content.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That you could take in.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, podcasts too, obviously.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, it's it's amazing. She is a go getter and
her wife, that's right, Katie, two women.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Lesbians. Yes, that's what I've been told I was going
to ask this question the other day on the air,
But anyway, I was going to.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Say, Nelly Bowls. Her wife is brilliant writer. I love Nelly.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Where was I? I live in a college down so
I'm at the bagel shop coffee shop Sunday morning, and
I had this thought. Could Doc Martin stay in business
if it weren't for lesbians? That's what I thought. Well,
substantially lower profits.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm not sure they could.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm not sure they could. Attractive young lesbian couples all
wearing Doc Martins big in the punk rock scene, Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, they're I have several Paramis Yo Nazis,
are you, Jack?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I wear them regularly.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But I think I think what really keeps them going
is the lesbian sea.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He's a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I've got to believe that in this era of data collection,
Doc Martin knows like the home address of every single
punk rock loving, neo Nazi lesbian because.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That is their bread and butter, right there?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, those girls are the next quarter profits right there?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Can I play a clip for you guys real quick?
I just need your opinion on it?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Here we go went to a friend's wedding, but it
was a really long day. The wedding took place at twelve.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
When it got to eight pm with no.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Food insight, I was absolutely struggling. I was starting to
get angry, so me and my friend, who asked we've
decided to order a pizza sneakily to the venue. When
it arrived, I slipped outside to grab it and I
shared it with a couple of other people at the
table who were also starving. World War round and now
the bride is furious with me and said if i
's been patient, food was arriving in the next thirty minutes.
She told me that I embarrassed her, but some others
(10:04):
told me it was tacky and disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
M Twelve to eight with no food at a wedding
is a bull Is I would have left? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Or yeah, unless it's like a close friend. What were
they doing for close friend that I'm sticking around? Well,
I wonder, I wonder. It was like, I don't know
if you've ever been to a full on Catholic wedding
where they do the full mask, but two of those
don't last eight hours.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Feed your guests, dumb, dumb, what do you want them
to starve, pass out, crack their heads eight.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That's a long wedding anyways. Yeah, and then food's coming.
Now I'm out. I would believe before I would bring
a pizza into the wedding venue.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
But she did it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well the venue though, I mean, what if it's a hotel.
They rented a ballroom.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
She went out to the lobby, and you know what,
that's commitment to her friend wanting to stick around for
this hllaciously long wedding. The bride's furious.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh oh yeah, well that bride needs to shove it was.
I'm in that scenario, Katie, and you bring it up. Hey,
I'm thinking of getting a pizza. I got a three
word answer for you, sausage and onion.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And one word response done. Thanks, guys, you're a lot
of help.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, I guess that's it.
There's some inspiring here in a bunch of horrifying. It's
one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Inspiring horrifying.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
The fabulous Barry Weiss of the Free Press.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I did at an interview recently.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
With Leland Viddert, who is a longtime Middle East correspondent
for Fox News, and I believe he is with the
News Nation now, is that right. He's recently come out
publicly that he is on the autism spectrum or is autistic,
or has autism, whatever you're supposed to say these days,
I don't know, and and has described how he has
(00:43):
dealt with it and gotten beyond it. Really interesting and
inspiring stuff. I can't wait to read it, as there's
autism in my family more than a little. Really an
amazing guy and really cool. But he was talking to
Barry Weiss about.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The Middle East and God in Israel.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And here's a little snippet of her excellent conversation with.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Him twenty twelve. I'm a foreign correspondent for Fox and
you know, normally you're when you're based in Jerusalem, you're
covering suicide bombings, you're covering protests in the West Bank
of riots in the West Bank on and on and on.
Because of the Arab Spring, I really hadn't spent that
much time in Israel, and the Palestine Israeli conflict was
not a thing those years.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
There's been a couple of.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Gaza skirmishes, but there was the Glad Shalite deal where
there was an Israeli soldier who had been held hostage
and traded from Gaza to Israel for a thousand guys
and prisoners more, including Sinowar and including a woman named Waffa.
And Wafa had been a woman in the West Bank
(01:44):
or woman in Gaza. She had pulled a pot of
boiling water over herself when she was like five or
six years old. The Israelis treat most of the people
out of Gaz who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries.
She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four
or five in Israel, but has a pass to get
in and out of Israel, which very few people in
(02:05):
Gaza did at the time, So she gets recruited to
be a suicide bomber.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
This is in the second into Fada, so mid two thousands.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There's the video of her coming to the checkpoint to
get into Israel wearing her suicide vest, and she'd been
given three target options by the Alaskar Martyrs brigade, a bus,
a cafe, or the hospital that had treated her and
saved her life. She chose the hospital that had treated
her and saved her life. She gets to the checkpoint,
(02:38):
they discover that she has a bomb, or they think
she does. She tries to detonate it, it doesn't go off.
She gets thrown in jail again. The Israeli's treat her,
they help her with her birds, they educate her, they
give her a college degree, and now in the Gladually deal,
she goes back to Gaza. So I go to Gaza
to interview her, thinking this is going to be a
redemption story. It was before Christmas, right that she is
(02:59):
going to say, perfect Christmas, I am going to be
the one to try and forge peace, and I believe
in peace, and I've seen that the Israelis are not
evil that I don't want to kill them anymore. Fine,
So I get into Gaza and I bring with me
an iPad that has the video of her trying to
blow herself up. So we're sitting across from each other
like this She's wearing a he jab in a very
(03:22):
junkie gozzen apartment. It is an awful place in every
sense of the word. And I show her the video
and I said, what are you thinking watching this? She goes, oh,
oh has all this reaction and she goes oh, she goes,
I'm thinking, I almost tasted paradise. Okay, would you do
(03:49):
it again?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In a minute. This is my calling in life.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I said, wait a second.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
These people treated you in all of your burns, they
saved your life. You tried to blow them up, they
still treated you, they educated you, and now you have
a chance at life back here in Gaza, and you'd
want to blow them up. And she goes, absolutely, they
are the infidels, they are evil, They're the enemy. I
(04:17):
can't remember where the jack translation was. And that's when
my mind was made up about sort of the moral
clarity of the Israeli Palestinian debate. Are the Israeli's perfect? No,
But that's what they're up against.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And that is the key point that so many people ignore.
That's what they're up against. And it's funny when people
see deliberate attempts to indoctrinate the young. They have Americans,
they have this inability to absorb it or accept it
(04:51):
or believe it because I think a lot of us
have seen those TV the kids shows from you know,
that part of the world where they each the little
kids that the Jews drink the blood of babies and the.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Rest of that.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it's like they're same street.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right, And then when people like me are trying to
lecture you that the government schools aren't accidentally indoctrinating your
kids to hate America and Western civilization and not know
their own history.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That that's just these silly, woke people who don't really
know it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, it's an absolutely deliberate attempt to capture the minds
of young people. Every evil regime in the history of
the world has known this, They've practiced it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I could bore you to death with examples of it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They do it because it works, but people can't accept
that it's happening in their own country.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, that was quite a story. And you know, not
just the Palestinian Israeli conflict. That's what we're all up
against in terms of the whole radical Islam thing all
around the world. Yes, the people that actually believe no, no, no,
(06:08):
I want the bomb to go off, because then I'm
in paradise immediately, right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, And one of the most interesting things you've ever
brought to the show was that psychological study where they
pointed out that human beings cling to the first thing
they learn about something.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, it's troubling what I feel like. I'm up against
that in my life sometimes myself will you will stick
with the first thing you heard, even when it's been
proven that you were wrong about the first thing you heard.
But the first thing even if.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
The people who told you the first thing you heard
come back and say is they did in the study, Hey,
what we told you is wrong, it's not X.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's why just we apologize it's not X.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's why you go back in a couple of months
and ask those people if it's X or why they'll say, oh,
it's X, definitely X. And so that's one of the
insidious parts of indoctrinating a young girl like this or
the American example, I was giving. How much opportunity did
she get to observe that the reality of the Israeli
people is not ex It's why indeed, but she was
(07:09):
indoctrinated to believe it was the horrors of the evil
Jew and they must be blotted out, blah blah blah.
And she could not. With the most amazing, awe inspiring, kind,
beautiful examples of the actual truth, she could not be
budged from that premise human beings man.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Whoof Wow, that was a that was that was a
good one. That was interesting and troubling. So that's Barry
Weiss's outfit that brought us that the Free press. Yeah,
so she she made a decision or not to make
take that two hundred million dollar offer from CBS.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I wish she would.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Because it's quickly become a media empire. They have lots
of super talented writers. Yes, they put out more.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Pardon me, it's possible that she, being you know, significantly
younger than me, thinks, why would I go to CBS.
I'm building what is the future of media. I'm not
going back through it. It was the big deal fifty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, but they put out more good content.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That you could take in.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, podcasts too, obviously.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, it's it's amazing. She is a go getter and
her wife, that's right, Katie, two women.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Lesbians. Yes, that's what I've been told I was going
to ask this question the other day on the air,
But anyway, I was going to.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Say, Nelly Bowls. Her wife is brilliant writer. I love Nelly.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Where was I? I live in a college down so
I'm at the bagel shop coffee shop Sunday morning, and
I had this thought. Could Doc Martin stay in business
if it weren't for lesbians? That's what I thought. Well,
substantially lower profits.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm not sure they could.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm not sure they could. Attractive young lesbian couples all
wearing Doc Martins big in the punk rock scene, Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, they're I have several Paramis Yo Nazis,
are you, Jack?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I wear them regularly.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But I think I think what really keeps them going
is the lesbian sea.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He's a lesbian.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I've got to believe that in this era of data collection,
Doc Martin knows like the home address of every single
punk rock loving, neo Nazi lesbian because.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That is their bread and butter, right there?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, those girls are the next quarter profits right there?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Can I play a clip for you guys real quick?
I just need your opinion on it?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Here we go went to a friend's wedding, but it
was a really long day. The wedding took place at twelve.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
When it got to eight pm with no.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Food insight, I was absolutely struggling. I was starting to
get angry, so me and my friend, who asked we've
decided to order a pizza sneakily to the venue. When
it arrived, I slipped outside to grab it and I
shared it with a couple of other people at the
table who were also starving. World War round and now
the bride is furious with me and said if i
's been patient, food was arriving in the next thirty minutes.
She told me that I embarrassed her, but some others
(10:04):
told me it was tacky and disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
M Twelve to eight with no food at a wedding
is a bull Is I would have left? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Or yeah, unless it's like a close friend. What were
they doing for close friend that I'm sticking around? Well,
I wonder, I wonder. It was like, I don't know
if you've ever been to a full on Catholic wedding
where they do the full mask, but two of those
don't last eight hours.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Feed your guests, dumb, dumb, what do you want them
to starve, pass out, crack their heads eight.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That's a long wedding anyways. Yeah, and then food's coming.
Now I'm out. I would believe before I would bring
a pizza into the wedding venue.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
But she did it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well the venue though, I mean, what if it's a hotel.
They rented a ballroom.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
She went out to the lobby, and you know what,
that's commitment to her friend wanting to stick around for
this hllaciously long wedding. The bride's furious.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh oh yeah, well that bride needs to shove it was.
I'm in that scenario, Katie, and you bring it up. Hey,
I'm thinking of getting a pizza. I got a three
word answer for you, sausage and onion.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And one word response done. Thanks, guys, you're a lot
of help.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, I guess that's it.
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