The Daily Zeitgeist - The Trend That Got Away 10/22: PHP Vulnerability, Jaime West, Video Gish Gallop

Episode Date: October 22, 2026

In this edition of The Trend That Got Away, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti discuss how  PHP is completely borked, Jaime West (drunk) on Piers Morgan, the Right’s reality distortion field and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Imagine a 10-year-old listening to any podcast. Jack, also, could I say I was talking like a lunatic because I thought we were looking for some kind of cold open. No, we don't do cold opens on trend. I know. Save for the, save for the main app, bro. Anyway, you all missed me desperately looking for a riff about laser sights. I was just like trying to find a short show title. I just being like, what?

Andrew, you're distracting me. Talking about laser sights. what did ever happen to laser sights? It's a great question. What the fuck? Like that seems like something that should just work. It's the laser shows where you're pointing the dang gun at. But it also shows everyone else.

I think the real life version, it's probably just some AI built into your scope now. Right. Or. Why fire the gun by a human? They don't pair if they hit what they're at. I think that might be more, more. to the point. I don't know, man.

We just kind of more of a spray and prey country at this point. Why spend all that money on lasers when it doesn't matter where the guns is funded? It doesn't matter who we shoot. Just as long as we shoot and people are scared of us. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there,

joining us today on trending is Mr. Andrew Tee. I think I was supposed to have a... I haven't... You don't need it. You don't need a thing for this. This is trends. This doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Do you know how much work I used to put into, I had times composed original lyrics to stuff. And then I, the existence of the discord really fucked me up. It made you lazy. People just do this, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I started lazy.

I started lazy, brother. All right. So this is the episode where we tell the people what is trending. And I'm very excited to hear your take. on whether the internet is over because there is a global cyber security panic happening. Yes. The whole experience has raised the philosophical question of whether the internet is functional enough for us to notice that it is completely broken.

Like I was on a call earlier and we were trying to look at this comedian's Instagram and like a bunch of the clips just said like failure to load, failure to load, failure to load. like, that happens all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But people are like, no, that's happening to me on all Instagram clips today. Right. Across this great city of ours. So, but I, yeah, I just, when something's wrong, I assume, yeah, well, the internet is bad now.

Nobody's paying attention. We've crossed the Rubicon where a massive, like, infrastructural systems failure on the internet is indistinguishable from the main internet. Right. just basic run-of-the-mill bad internet. Yeah, like how could you tell? Even if you wanted to, which you don't. And same with like everybody being like, this is the big one. This, like, your cybersecurity is fuck.

Like, you don't, you don't have any. I'm like, I've, I have no concept of which of my, you know, websites, online activity has been hacked. Like, I just assume they all have at this point. been informed that everything has leaked, uh, every different institution that I've given, uh, you know, private information to.

I'm just assuming at this point that it's all broken, but people are like, no, but this one for real, for real, for real, we're fun. And I'm like, I, you know what? I am not above, uh, underestimating the threat of a game changing catastrophe. I am the one who said the day before, uh, COVID shut the world down. it'll be nice to have like a snow day for the world. So I'm I'm a fucking idiot.

So I'm sure there's all sorts of ways. This is going to be bad that I can't imagine. But I think that's sort of what you're saying, though, is that, I mean, right. I guess the unintended consequences. But like the game, the game has been changed. I guess the question is how much more can the game be changed?

Sure. Yeah. But like, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the largely unfunctional, unable to be, you know, something that's unable to be trusted. That's been the internet for so long. And I guess right, it's, but it's that plus your social security number. Yeah, yeah.

Which shout out to my friend Chris, who, you know, longtime best friend who just, every time we hung out together and he would get a little bit drunk, he would start saying my social security number out loud. It just had it memorized since we were like, 12 and loves to just say it out loud. So I've always- That's pretty good. It is kind of a good bit.

But why did you guys, was it was this, I'm going to say that age, it's because standardized tests, you were like filling out standardized tests forms? I have no, he did, I think he one day asked me what my social security, you know, and he has a photographic memory. Yeah, yeah. And I'm going to say, he just learned it as a bit. And I was stupid enough at, I was at like age 12 to just be like, uh, duh, okay. Hey, here you go.

And then he's like, I'm going to use this for the rest of our lives. Do you think photographic, but like now, presumably the children are suffering from, like, the opposite of photographic memory. Like, even real bright kids are like, yeah, I'm going to say upper bound three, four digits at the top of your ability to memorize something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't know. I still remember my phone number.

I also think photographic memories are bullshit. He has a above average memory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was able to say he had a photographic memory from a young age. All right. Just more on, less on my good friend Chris and his funny bit. Chris,

shoot out to Cruz. So the programming language, PHP, has been found to have a critical security flaw. And I discovered the vulnerability. and then they're like, and we're going to fix it, but somebody leaked to the vulnerability

before they could fix it. And now it's bad. Well, there's also no, like, fixing it. Sure. Right. Yeah, it's not like a easy patch. It's like a glitch in the very fabric. Yeah, yeah.

The language that everything is written in, it seems. Right. So if anything's out there already, if anything's compiled, I presumably, it's just, fucked and like no one's looking at this stuff because wow. Yeah. It's basically, it's like this weird arms rate. AI is being used to find vulnerabilities in the internet that could be exploited by AI. So it's just an arms race that for the sake of having an arms race. Like they're just like, well, everybody enjoyed that during the Cold War. Let's do that

again. I guess the Bandit is just being ripped off. Yeah. Like it's not like, I mean, not to defend AI, but AI didn't create this. Like, this was in there. Sure. No, no, no. Yeah, exactly. And they're just like, we're able to hack at such a high level that we can find it.

Oh, like such a high speed. Sure. Yeah, yeah. A high speed, high guess and chat. I don't know. But this is essentially what AI does. It puts everything in the hands of fewer and fewer people with access to like more and more expensive tools.

Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah. It's just redistributing the power, even more upward. Right. I guess the arms race is less like the AI and finding stuff as much as like how fast is

your bot. Yes. That's right. Right. Right. Right. And that's just straight money. There's actually no other way to do it better than just money. Yeah. You just got to throw money into a furnace that just like burns and burns. Stuff. Just general stuff. They've just invented a massive expense

out of thin air. again, we've mentioned this frequently in the past few months, but were there any other product? We're not labeled AI and just labeled like a software made by a software company that makes it so that nobody and no website is secure ever again. Like people just be like, well, that's, that's not, you're, you're sued. You know, you're like that they would be considered negligent. like there are rules for creating technology that is dangerous and like, you know, going to be bad for

everyone. But because it's an entire industry and because that industry is like propping up a huge chunk of the U.S. economy, we just have to pretend that it's inevitable. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's also like, this is the like a few cracked eggs. Sorry, I was going to say, spilt milk, but this is a few cracked eggs to, in order to build the delicious cake of not, having human employees. Right. Exactly. Right. Which we all can agree that.

Oh, we, of course. I mean, this is a small price to pay for no one ever having a job again. But yeah. I... God, imagine the margins though. Oh. Oh, imagine the margins, Andrew. God. Yeah.

I mean, it's also like... It's just like processing speed and the ability, because it's not like AI knows anything. It just tries everything. And so you just seem to have the money to run an AI so much that it tries the, you know, it locks into finding a security flaw in the basic programming language that runs most websites. Yes.

And we're there. And now, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. People seem the people on X on Twitter seem. seem very concerned about this. I got to start calling it X now that I do my banking there. Here's a question.

I sounded this out yesterday actually on my podcast, which is I think the funnier thing to do now is call it X the Everything app. X. You've got to make sure to throw in the everything out. Think about it. I don't know. I didn't originate this idea. People on X the Everything app seem very concerned about this.

That does sound more authoritative than like worrying. And more like Fuck you, you dumbass. Like, oh, Elon, you thought you thought naming it X? X. The Everything app was cool. Why don't you listen to us say it? And like, just process how dumb it fucking sounds.

X the Everything app is pretty fun. Oh, what are you doing? I'm just sending out an X the Everything app. I've just got to make a deposit in my X the Everything app account. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, this is bad, but I guess it's like, God, the small part of me is like, look, this vulnerability did exist. It was going to be found one way or the other. There's a world where maybe the Band-Aid is just being ripped off. Because the underlying thing had already

happened, like fucking, what, 35, I don't know even know when PHP came out, but like closer to 30 years than not. So this has just been sitting there. So, you know, this was going to be bad. matter what, like today's happens to be our day, but like, if it wasn't today, it was going to be tomorrow.

Have you experienced any, like, outages that have impacted your life in any way? I have straight up not looked at the internet today. No. Good work. I haven't seen any planes falling out of the sky. That's my, that's... Yeah, but look, I mean, that's the, that's the, like, if they found a fucking vulnerability in Ph.P., guess what?

Fucking air traffic control, I'm pretty sure it still runs on, like, fucking Fortran or whatever from like the literal 70s. So like the most basic. Probably probably probably Votivoli's there too. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. All right. We have.

We'll see. I guess we'll see. It is inevitable that we'll see. Get used to buy some pens and a flat file. That's your database. Assholes. And then when we'll get mad about the fact that they've ruined everything and that the society doesn't work,

they'll be like, it's the Islamists. That's true. Under the influence of Islamists. That's true. We have an update on the Jamie West, I believe is her name. The woman who, local Democratic candidate who went on a local media thing and went viral because she was.

Oh, yeah. And so. So she went on Pierce Morgan yesterday and admitted that she, at first he was like, hey, had you had anything to drink, she said, I had a Coors light. I had a beer. And then he said, ah, ah, you had, so that, that would be as in a singular. And she said, what do you want me to say, man? I had three beers, okay? that she was nervous at the time because she was speaking in a room full of Republicans. And she also, like, didn't, she didn't seem explicitly drunk on the Pierce Morgan appearance. She didn't seem not drunk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like she could, maybe she just has a drunk-seeming personality. I will say, as somebody who used to drink too much and try to hide it from other people, I will say I have employed the old three beers gambit many a time. Two beers, nobody's going to believe that that's why you were slurring your words. Three beers is like the line though where people are like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you drink those fast enough on an empty enough stomach.

It could happen. Yeah, you could be a little bit drunk. It could happen and it's not that bad. Yeah. That's what three beers is. Four beers is two, like four beers you're moving over to like, what were you tailgating? Yeah, you had four beers before your fucking TV appearance. How many, uh, sorry, this is a bad question.

How many beers would I need to go in front of a room floor? I, I fucking, maybe I just have a different type of personality. Yeah. I tend to be the type of person that needs to fucking raw dog that shit. Yeah. I don't think this is a good way of dealing with discomfort. I will say something that I've learned for myself. Right, right, right.

while it works for a while. For some people, I would say it works for a while. I would say she is not in the category of someone for whom it is working in the way that she thinks it's working. Like I think she probably assumed that she was coming off less drunk than she was in the clip.

I will also say, so she went on Pierce Morgan. There was like someone who's like a, strategist for Ted Cruz, who was like, you know, paired with her and just being the biggest fucking dipshit asshole, like being like, okay, you know, basically doing the okay, drunky, a symbol to the side of her the whole time. And at one point, they were like, do you commit to not drinking once you, if you win the job? And she said, I don't know. Why don't you ask Pete Hague Seth, who is drinking whiskey as he's,

running an illegal war and then she pantomime taking shots and then said, why don't you ask him that? Which I'm just saying, like, I do think there's a corner for a politician who is a little bit drunk all the time. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is how we beat the Nazis. Yes, right? I mean, yeah, Churchill was kind of drunk a lot of the time. Asterisk, probably not a good man, but I don't remember. Yeah, yeah. Definitely not a good man. Right. Yeah. Grant, Ulysses as Grant was drunk during most of the Civil War.

I mean, sometimes. Everyone, to be fair. Everyone throughout history. Everyone who's on money was wasted. Oh, yeah. When they were sitting for their portrait of the dime. The amount that was consumed during the Continental Congress is like, you can actually look it up. And it's like, it's, it, they're like a punch bowl of rum.

Like 20 quarts of whiskey. Like, they had like a water bubbler of mead, you know? That's just how they were keeping their mouths moist enough to continue to talk. A gentlemanly, that's just a gentlemanly gathering. Yeah. So why did she go on fucking like Pierce Morgan? I don't know. You got to take advantage of that shit, you know?

Yeah. Like, I think it was, I think it was good. Like, because it did also. I, so I don't know if she went on, like, had a couple before she went on Pierce Morgan. Pierce Morgan was like, have you had something to drink before this? She's like, no. I have not. If I see a Republican must have one beer.

Yeah, exactly. That's just the drinking game that is her life. It does seem like, I think it was a good move because you got to see a slightly less drunk-seeming version of her. Yeah, yeah. It raises the question, is she? just this all the time? Calibrate. The question that we were asking about the internet a moment ago. Is it

just this all the time? Isn't it always a little fucked up? Yeah, the bottom. The bottom is fuzzy on quality now. It's just like, who knows? It seems bad, but it seemed bad before. Yeah. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We're going to talk about

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i can't remember who coined the phrase gish gallop but it's i think it was largely because this was also sort of from the days when like debate me was a believe it or not like slightly bro. Slightly more of like a thing. I think it was just partially because it was like born out of like real like formal debates. Yeah. And so the idea behind the Gish Gallup is if you basically the underlying idea, which is, you know, not necessarily tied to this is the idea that like refuting a lie takes like 10 times more words than to say a lie. Right.

So the idea behind the Gish Gallup in, especially in like a formal debate like your timed situation. Right. Time to debate where you have like a certain amount of. But life has become a time of debate. Yeah, exactly. We only have so much attention. We only have so much bandwidth. So if you just lie enough, you can also see it.

I think the modern day like purveyor of this is definitely Ben Shapiro, where he talks so fast and says so many lies that you're still going like, wait a minute, that first thing you said, this is wrong for this, this, this reason. He said five more things already. Right. And like, so you always look like you're losing. and in like formal debate terms, you are losing because you're not refuting enough like stuff.

Yeah. So, yeah, that's the Gish Gallup. Fuck these people. Sorry, go ahead. So, I mean, this is essentially the video equivalent, but this is something that I've, I've been noticing happening more in the run up to the midterms as they have more and more problems with reality, you know, seeming to be stacked against them. Republicans seem to be posting videos claiming,

it says something and then just trusting that no one will actually watch it. Yeah. Because it says something completely different. Yeah. I noticed this with like Benny Johnson when that thing happened where the guy was like. And I think I think you just perjured yourself. But just to be sure. So you were at a Hawks game.

Yeah. Yeah. And then it was like made very clear that he just like got it completely wrong, embarrassingly wrong. but Benny Johnson had already posted the clip being like, uh, this guy just perjured himself. Yeah.

So he did, he just did one where he said, uh, yikes. Ilhan Omar was just asked if she married her brother on live TV. Her answer? Not to my knowledge. What?

She can't even say no. What other person would answer this question like that? Things are about to get bad for Ilhan. And then he links off to a video. Not, cut down of the video that makes it seem like what he just described. When you watch the actual video, she calls the claim that she married her brother an insane conspiracy theory.

And when asked if she's related to him at all, she laughs and says, not to my knowledge. And it's, it like couldn't be a clearer refutation of. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

I, I guess the thing is it's like, this is like the perfect, like polarize like Betty Johnson's like supporters hurts fans

all these mega folks like don't care like she you know so so like it is just sort of like I mean for better or worse

this like kind of does nothing like if you were prepared in any way if you were racist enough to believe that Oana Omar like is actually hedging

about whether or not she married her brother then there's no like helping you. There's no, like, fact that. So, I guess what I mean is, for what it's worth, it is sort of like, there's like not for anyone besides the people who are already.

This isn't a convincer. Sure, sure, sure. If you were open to even the premise of this, you are too racist to be convinced by reality. So it doesn't matter. Right. Yeah. I hope. That's what I envision, but, you know, I don't fucking know. I don't know. Like, it also, you know, came up

with the Amy Acton ad where they, like, ran this ad, with her mom. And then, but, like, if you take the time, they're just, like, really loading up on, like, all their chips are on that people will not give this more than five seconds of thought. Because if you do know the story, so this is an attack ad from Vivek Ramoswamy about his opponent where he has her mom on talking about how she has a problem with the truth. And then when you know the backstory, it is that her mom side of her mom.

with her husband at the time who had sexually assaulted her when she was young. And it's like the horrifying thing where the mom is like clearly a monster. And the thing that like separate caused them caused the rift in the first place is just the most horrifying thing. And like to be siding with the mom is like a terrible. Yeah. Terrible, terrible look. But like they don't that that has all been pointed out.

There are like some right wing influencers who have like apologized. and been like, that's horrible. But he has chosen to, like, double down on that. Yeah. And, yeah, I just, I feel like, you know, nobody has having the time to pay attention to anything so you can just exist in a state of, like, hyper-reality of whatever you want to believe is kind of just our new, you know. It is kind of what you can see everything is about.

Like, I know you haven't seen it yet, but, like, one of the things, one of the questions that's stuck with me, you know. what it's about. And like, one of the questions that's stuck with me is, like, they don't do as good a job building the case against her as they could. Right. Like, they, they kind of assume you're already familiar with that stuff. Um, that, but like, you know, people have been sharing a lot of clips on, uh, X, the Everything

app. That's right. Of her, like, going on 60 minutes and being like, we, we talked to Hopkins, like, doing a, yeah, her voice that is like, bonkers being like we talked to Hopkins and what they told us is that you like we can in the in a drop of blood we can see cancer 17 years before it develops um and then they immediately 60 minutes like we talked to Hopkins and she totally like made that right right not worked with her at all and so there are these like ways to just be like she's no she's she's lying intentionally knowingly Yeah. But the movie is about the fact that she, you know, is about this like hyper reality. Yeah, yeah.

And so instead, I feel like it would take the wind out of the sales of that point too much to like build the case as strongly as they could. And so, yeah, they chose to make it about like, you know, the world living inside the reality distortion field of like, like, con artists, which is what we're all. Yeah, Republican and some Democrats, but just reality now. Like, we're all inside it, you know, whether, like, via stuff like this, where they'll just insist on a reality that we all know isn't true, but like, the media gets swept along, kind of, because they can't spend all their time fact checking. And, like, we make fun of the media for being, like,

like five Pinocchio's on that one, you know, because it's stupid and it sucks. But they are also like, the way they're complicit is like they still refuse to call people liars and like use past track record, right? It's like the reason like it shouldn't be hard to like fact check Donald Trump or portray him even like is just like, so this man having lied dozens of times. We no longer, you know, act as stenographers to the things he says going forward.

Like, that's what you would do in court. That's what you should do. Like, known liar, Donald Trump claims this thing. Yeah, is how every, you know, known liar,

Elon Musk claims this thing. So that is our, that's existence now. Yeah. That is what we're all. Yeah. So, like, yeah,

I mean, he, he doesn't build the case against her as strongly. as you could because that is how... Do you think how reality is? I mean, there's a part of me. So one of the reasons why I think I've been less excited about,

you can see everything than a lot of folks is like, I think I'm a little more weary of the like, you know, quote unquote smart person, like get a load of this buffoon genre of stuff. I think most exemplified by the daily show, but... And it's, you know, whatever, good, great people work on it, whatever. But the underlying message is like, get a load of this cloud. all of Aaron Sorkin is that. Like,

yeah. Like, I'm just like, I personally, that's sort of not my taste because I find it so wildly ineffective. And that is a little bit what you can see everything feels like to me is like a more artful get a load of this clown. Yeah, it is. And it is. I would say, like, the thing I'm talking about is specifically that they take her at her word

in a lot of cases. Yeah, yeah. They are like, get a load of this clown who I may be in. love? Sure. Like, is kind of where, yeah. There's like partially, maybe that's, that does feel like Nathan Fielder's thing is to just like affectlessly yes and until the person has driven themselves into a weird place.

And maybe, I don't know. I haven't seen it. But yeah, to me, that's the thing that I would wonder is like, yeah, but the relentless lies, I don't know. I mean, the other thing is, it's like, yeah, that's the MAGA base. is people who are, like, actually too dumb to understand five seconds of context. Sure. Or not too dumb, but, like, unwilling to.

Yeah, exactly. So, like, I don't know. I mean, to me, I'm just like, my hope is still that these people do not represent enough numbers to continue to rule us, even under the, like, current, basically apartheid that we live under. Yeah. Like, but, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it'll, I think it'll depend on if that we're ever, able to get an alternative that's not the mainstream Democratic Party, you know, running things

via neoliberalism, which doesn't work. And, you know, we'll continue to get worse until we see an alternative. Or not. We might not see an alternative, Jack. We just might, yeah. We just might just continue on this trajectory forever. Forever. And on that happy note, Andrew, thank you so much for joining. Where can people find you, follow you? Starter Check podcast. we changed yo as this racist into a much more psychically manageable podcast where I'm watching Star Trek for the first time.

Hey man. That's, you did the dream. You know? I'm like, could we do an extra icon episode? Just keep going. Think about it, dog. Consider it.

It's a very fun podcast. Everybody should go check that out. And that's going to do it for us this afternoon. We're back tomorrow. with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines while you still can.

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