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CJP #58: Kyle Gauck (CT-2) · Coconut Justice

• Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Welcome back everyone. I have been practicing all week, all week to let you guys know that Kyle Gauck is back. running for Connecticut 2, the ⁓ congressional district for Connecticut. Kyle, welcome back to the show. Hey, what's good? Kyle Gouk is a US Army veteran. He earned his MBA from University of Connecticut. He's a local business owner with ideas to improve healthcare, strengthen local businesses, and create safer, stronger communities for the next generation. That's why he's now running for Connecticut's second district seat in the United States House of Representatives. Kyle Gauck: Nailed it. Thanks man. It was a good time last time, so I was like alright, I'll do it again. It was a good time. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): That was a blast. It was a blast. We had so much fun. by we, ⁓ C4 Explosives is here, everybody. Cefore X. Plosives: Boom, you already know what time it is. Good to have you back, Kyle. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): C4 Explosives joins me in this conversation with Kyle Gauch. Before we get into it, remember to go to coconutjustice.com to get you some clothes that I think would look good on you. Let's go. Kyle Gauck: Thanks, man. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, ⁓ much is happening since last we spoke, my friend Kyle, ⁓ all hell's breaking loose. And was it just a couple minutes ago, you released ⁓ something about what's happening and I ran on your Instagram. You want to pick up on that? Kyle Gauck: Yeah, so well this morning, so today's April 7th, right? And this morning Donald Trump put a truth post social post out that said Something to the effect that we're gonna end an entire civilization of people to where they'll never be able to come back ⁓ I'm not saying that for you know, let me just pull up the truth social posts and I'll already verbatim because it's disgusting like it's legitimately disgusting A whole civilization will die tonight Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Seriously. Kyle Gauck: Never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. We'll find out tonight one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world. The Commander in Chief everybody! Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): So how much diving have you guys done in this matter? Like, how much research have you done to figure out why we're here and why we're doing it? Kyle Gauck: as far as. into being in Iran. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: It's honestly, there's not much research you can do because none of it's going to be public. Right. But the truth is, and we all know the truth, the truth is that we're here for the oil. Right. So my, my assumption is that so Donald Trump went after Venezuela, right. Which has the largest oil reserve in the world. That wouldn't shock me. ⁓ but so he, he went after. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And apparently he might be running for office out there. Cefore X. Plosives: ⁓ shit. These are great world languages. Kyle Gauck: Venezuela which has the largest oil. I don't think all reserve but like the repository unrefined underneath their land right in the world So now he controls this entire hemisphere worth of oil because we took Venezuela's oil and that's why he's leaving You know, he didn't free the Venezuelan people of the dictatorship He put somebody in charge of the dictatorship that will do what he wants them to do, right? ⁓ And so now what's he trying to do? He's trying to control the oil on the other side of the world now too. And that's the Strait of Hormuz, which is why we're going into Iran and trying to take Karg Island. Because if we can control the Strait of Hormuz, which is the rest of the world's oil outside of what we produce here in the... the states, And North America, South America produces, right? Then he's going to be like ⁓ a world king. I think he thinks in his own head. And so I think that's why we're there. I genuinely think that's why we're there. And he had mentioned talking about putting a toll on the Strait of Hormuz. America putting a toll, the U.S. on the Strait of Hormuz. What? Like, are you kidding me? This guy is so Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Cefore X. Plosives: Is that like a crossing guard? It's like a- Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): We're going to make you pay to use your land. Kyle Gauck: Yeah! Cefore X. Plosives: It's like a crossing guard going out on the expressway and saying, wait, stop, pay the toll. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, what's the password? What's the password? This this guy is he's a lunatic. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): For real. So now let's talk a little bit about why we need to confiscate oil. ⁓ It's my understanding that, well, it's obvious that AI data centers, as well as automobiles, but the struggle of today is who can get to whatever level of AI faster. And so that takes a lot of energy. And energy is created by burning oil. ⁓ And from what I understand, Kyle Gauck: It's H-E-I. ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Iran and probably Venezuela were giving Russia and China a discount on oil and we were playing, we were paying market price. So if you can save money, if a country can save money on Kyle Gauck: Doesn't surprise me. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): energy, you can take that money and invest it into scientists and developers and engineers and all that stuff. And not just that, but you can build out your infrastructure and all that stuff. Right? Kyle Gauck: Or you can give it back to your billionaire buddies and tax credits. Yeah. So it's, it's, it's AGI is what everyone's trying to achieve. Like that's the ultimate goal, which is artificial general intelligence. So basically it's, it's not just artificial intelligence where it continually learns based on inputs and mistakes. ⁓ but the general part is what's important because that is the common sense. portion that human brains have that computers don't have that everybody is striving for. And so they're called it's called AGI artificial general intelligence. And that's what like Sam Altman and all these other major AI players. That's what they're aiming to get. And the first one to get AGI supposedly will end up ruling the whole world. Like that's the thought behind it. But I mean, you're right. These data centers take a mass amount of energy. And when we talk about like, how are we funding them? Right. Oh, that's right. We're funding them. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. We are, yeah. Kyle Gauck: You and I, yeah, and not the data centers, not the AI companies. No, somehow they were legally able to make a deal with the energy companies to where they just pass the buck on to us and our bills, which makes zero sense to me whatsoever. But it was legal and it was done. And so now everyday Americans are paying the bill for these data centers that are going up everywhere, which is insane. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. I had a conversation the last the last recording I did was with ⁓ ⁓ Eric Jones, he's running for Congress here in California for ⁓ and he Kyle Gauck: Nice. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): he has, he's, he's leaning more towards technology. He comes from the tech industry, I believe, from what I understand, he's, he's a tech guy, even though he's, he's, ⁓ he's come up as in hedge funds and stuff like that. he his platform is talking or it's trying to focus on the good parts of AI and how AI can help us. Kyle Gauck: Okay. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And I said, ⁓ What are the goals of these AI companies? know, what are they? Are they trying to take over government? Whatever, whatever. He said that it's a corporation. So their main focus is making money. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-mm. Kyle Gauck: I don't know that I believe that. Normally I would, right? I'm big against corporations. Like every policy I have is against corporations and their profit gouging. But for artificial intelligence specifically, if you look at them on the balance sheet, they are negative by the hundreds of billions, right? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: Like they can't, they cannot find a way to dig themselves out of the hole of how much money they have in flux, right? From investors, how much money has been spent basically versus how much money they're getting through subscription based models, right? ⁓ and now advertising with things like ChatGBT. ironically, I just finished my MBA last December and AI was a big part of it. And the AI industry was a big part of it. And we talked all the time about how the AI industry is getting funneled hundreds of billions of dollars while it's making tens of millions. The math is not math-ing. They're not making money and they're not going to make money for, at this rate, 50, 60, 70 years. So why are they then doing what they're doing? And the idea is, just like you said, control governments. Because whoever controls AI, whatever country has the best AI is going to end up controlling a lot of the world. ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: from every aspect to it, right? From the way crypto is mined, which is a huge thing, right? From the way jobs are performed, what economies are going to boom and do the best, what industrial, like you can replace so many things with AI and the combination of AI and robots, you can replace so many more things. And so I think like, it's really, it's a race, it's a space race, right? It's a race to be the best. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Cefore X. Plosives: So like they're trying, you know, AI on the surface level, it's like as as workers, as we are, you know, we're trying to be efficient. Right. And so then they're taking away the the common man job. Right. ⁓ And then you think they're saving money. And then on the flip side, they're getting investors to pull in their money while they're selling magic beans. Right. So all these people like if this is something 50, 60 years down the road ⁓ to get to where they're a global power, or pretty much the, I guess the hub of where you have to go to for everything, then they're gonna scheme money as quickly as they can, because that's what they do. I just got a, there was a YouTube commercial, and one of my commercial breaks for Phoenix Energy, and you can gain 19 to 13 annual in bonds. And I'm like, and this guy's just promoting his little Ponzi scheme here, and I'm just like, people are buying into this left and right. You know, the same people that are buying these maga gym shoes and these whatever, and they're just dumping more of their hard earned money. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And everybody who's got an account with these quick, get rich quick schemes, all these betting apps and all that stuff, like everyone is trying to get rich quick. Kyle Gauck: Yep. Yep. Nope. If it did, we'd all do it. Right? If it's too good to be true, it's definitely too good to be true. Back away. Back away quick. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): That shit don't work. Yeah. Definitely too good to be true. Yeah, so then. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, I, like I said, and I will admit this to anyone who asks, I can see the benefit of AI. ⁓ I can see, as a filmmaker, I do animation, I do special effects, I do motion graphics, I do all that stuff. Kyle Gauck: ⁓ for sure. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I can see it being a benefit. I would never do an AI animation. I'd never do, I never do a film just front to back AI. That's not how I want to live my life, but I can see, I can see where scheduling comes in handy. I can see where, it'd be cool. It'd be cool if the government had a form of AI that would help people do legal things like apply for copyright, ⁓ do things like apply to be a corporation and walk you through the steps that you need to do that or be like a supplement to the people that are actually running in the government. Kyle Gauck: file their taxes. Cefore X. Plosives: with that being. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): But the part that makes me nervous is all the other stuff that we keep talking about the facial recognition stuff, the controlling your bank account stuff. And I called, I didn't call him out. I brought this up during my conversation. The video comes out tomorrow, Wednesday, April 8th. My conversation with Eric Jones comes out. And I think it's an important one ⁓ because for those folks that are a little bit timid or a little bit trepidatious about technology doing this stuff. You need to pay attention to how they talk and how they are trying to convince you. You know? Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Yeah, I think, I think AI has a lot of helpful use cases, right? A lot. In fact, I'll give you a good example. When I started my small business, I had no idea where to begin. And you go look at government websites and they're trash. It's just, they're so bad. Connecticut's not any better. And so, Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Duh. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. Kyle Gauck: I literally went to AI and I was like, hey, how do I start a small business? Like give me step by step, what do I do? And it literally linked me to every page I needed to be on and every form I needed to fill out to register with the state. And it was super helpful. Like it has its use cases for sure. ⁓ think where, so I'm, this is a fun fact. I'm also an actor. I lived in New York city and I act for a few years. And one of the big, Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Right. Good to know. Kyle Gauck: Concerns with sag is ⁓ Replacing actors with AI right? It was one of the largest strikes that that sag just had I don't if you guys had it out there in LA you probably did I know it was big here in New York and This is about a year ago. And now you've got a movie with I'm trying to remember his name But the guy that that was in Top Gun ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ yeah. Yeah. the young one. Kyle Gauck: ⁓ He was He was basically the the antagonist in the original top gun with Tom Cruise gosh, why don't I forget his name? He played Iceman. Yeah Anyway, he passed away like a year a year or two ago Val Kilmer. Yeah, there you go. And and they're doing an entire Val Kilmer is in an entire movie as the lead actor that's coming out this year and it's 100 % AI Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Iceman. Cefore X. Plosives: ⁓ Val Kilmer. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Balcomer, that's the one. Kyle Gauck: And it's going into theaters. And obviously, like, Val Kilmer's family signed up for that. And Val Kilmer actually signed up for it before he died and said, yes, I'm willing to let you do this. ⁓ But how wild is that, right? And so when you talk about AI and the facial recognition, Palantir and what they're doing with it, right? And I think one of the big reasons that Chad GPT and Claude and all these other grok, the reason that they're willing to lose money on all of us. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: is again, because they're all reaching for AGI, that artificial general intelligence, and they can use every one of our inputs and every one of our, you know, hey, that's stupid, don't say that again, or that's the wrong thing to say, you know? They can use all of that as a feedback loop to itself for free. So we are helping them achieve that goal every time we use AI. ⁓ So it's, the monetary cost is not just, hey, are we making money off this person using our AI system? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: but it's also, hey, we are growing our business and we're becoming more efficient and having a stronger model than everyone else because people are using it for free. Cefore X. Plosives: How crazy is this? That is what a business does, right? They're not looking for short-term gain. They're looking for like a long-term investment. Total opposite of everything going on in the country right now. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Wild. And it's AI of all things doing that. And, know, the 50, 60 years, that could be like, Cefore X. Plosives: Right? they were talking about eight to ten. I heard at least really Kyle Gauck: That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It's exponential. The growth year over year has been exponential. So that is going to come down drastically. Right. And eight to ten. I believe it. Right. It's this was like two years ago. We were talking about it was 50 to 60. But it's exponential. Right. These models are learning on themselves over and over and over at a rate that none of us could have predicted originally. Right. And so so that eight to ten in a year will probably be four to six. Right. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): easily. Cefore X. Plosives: only a matter of time until we can't control it anymore. Kyle Gauck: There you go. Yeah. And, know, when we talk about like, okay, the whole underlying reason we're here is because I'm running for Congress. What is Congress doing? Genuine question. What did Congress do when it came to regulating social media platforms and big tech? What'd do? They walked ⁓ Zuckerberg in front of the world on C-SPAN, gave him a slap on the wrist and said, don't do it again, three or four times. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Right. Cefore X. Plosives: Yes. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): What is Congress doing? Kyle Gauck: And he's still doing it. out there in California, you guys just had a trial where he was found guilty. Zuckerberg was found guilty for the tools that they're using. So was YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok. They just settled. They didn't want to go to trial, but they're found guilty for their algorithms that are A addictive and B causing dystopic depression among young women. ⁓ And it's just it's crazy that Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): so long as you do. Kyle Gauck: we as a country still have not regulated social media. And we talk about having keeping these elder people in Congress, right? Because they're doing the right thing and they're legislating based on the right thing. But it's like, no, they're legislating based off their lived experience, which is prior to my generation's lived experience by a long shot, right? They're not my parents. They're my parents' parents that are legislating. And so they couldn't get social media under control. How the hell are they going to get AI under control? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Kyle Gauck: Right? We need to put people in office that have the lived experience of the advanced technology of today so we can regulate the advanced technology of today. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah, I've been. Cefore X. Plosives: They can't even get 12 off their microwaves. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, I and I and I'd like to remind people I've worked there. I've worked in Silicon Valley. I've worked in Hollywood. I've worked in advertising all the things. ⁓ 85 year old person doesn't have the stamina that these younger folks do. Kyle Gauck: Nah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): these 20 somethings, 30 somethings, 40, 50 somethings. These kids don't sleep. This is what they do. This is what they love doing. And if they can make money and change the world, they get off on that. So if you're busy, you're having dinner at 430 because you got to go to bed by six, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. And again, this is the elder states have been talking. When it comes to eight to nine o'clock at night, don't mess with me because I'm getting ready for bed and I'm about to land this plane. Don't call me. Kyle Gauck: Facts. Facts. Cefore X. Plosives: You Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Unless you are on fire, do not. As a matter of fact, if you're on fire, call Bernard Daler. Don't call me. Kyle Gauck: You're right. ⁓ Even if you're in California, call the guy in Florida. He'll know what to do. that or he'll make a cool video about it. Now, was that very smart? Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. He'll be there. ⁓ Hey Carlos, we were really tired. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): There we go. See all that smoke that's coming off your skin? Kyle Gauck: Yeah, that's not good. Cefore X. Plosives: Hey, Kyle, so with your stance on AI, are you getting any pushback from any of your party? No, actually your party, just the people that you're there, because you know that. Kyle Gauck: No, we we've done I'll say I'll say this. Do you guys you guys have an NBA? Okay, I'm gonna give you one right now. You ready? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): do it. I'm going to update LinkedIn right after you make this comment FYI. Cefore X. Plosives: Arise. Kyle Gauck: Be fast. Do it. Be fast, be quick, be quiet. Okay? That's how you're successful in business. Be fast, be quick, be quiet. Okay? So the idea is to move as fast as possible, bring whatever you need to bring into market as quick as possible, and then do it before anybody notices you're doing it. So be quiet. And so we have run, I mean, ironically, I... Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: did my MBA just before I started to run for Congress. So it was all fresh in my mind. So I ran this camp. I've been running this campaign as if it's a business and it's worked, right? We have not been a threat to anybody. And so nobody in the party has messed with us until recently where they just realized, ⁓ shit, there's a tidal wave of Kyle coming and I can't stop it. Right. Which is what we were talking about before we, before we launched where people in the party are trying to throw curve balls at us and pull support from us. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Hell yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: Okay. Kyle Gauck: but that's because, because we were fast, we were quick and we were quiet and we didn't tell anybody. just under the radar met with delegates, met with town committees, met with everybody we could until we were too big of a force to be ignored. ⁓ and so, and so no, we haven't got any pushback on AI. So we, have, ⁓ I'll be honest, no one really asks us about our AI policy. We have an AI policy, obviously. ⁓ we want to regulate the shit out of it, but then also. we have policies to use AI as well, right? So it's to us, it's we wanna take advantage of the benefits of AI, but we also need to make sure it's regulated and we're protected from it. And when I say the advantages, so like we are a massive manufacturing community, my district. ⁓ so we are going to offer grants for manufacturers, small and medium, mom and pop shops. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: that want to upscale their employees to work with and alongside AI. Now, to give them a competitive edge in manufacturing across the globe so we can become manufacturing powerhouse again in this district, which we used to be. So the idea here is if you are going to replace your employees with AI, you don't get a grant from the government and we're not going to help you. We're not going to help you develop new products to help you branch out and expand your business. But if you use, if you use AI and you upskill your employees to work alongside AI to make you more competitive, right? And make your business stronger ⁓ and your, your manufacturability better. Then we will offer you a grant for that. So you can expand to new product lines and expand your small business. Right? So we have programs like that where we're going to use AI to help people. ⁓ But you know, again, it needs to be regulated and people's, people's livelihoods need to be protected. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): text. Kyle Gauck: And I don't know, how do you tax AI? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I don't know the companies somehow the companies that are making all this money off of it. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. mean, to me, I see it as like an Excel. Like it's a tool that is very smart. Excel is smarter than I'll ever be. That's for sure. ⁓ And so like it's a tool that is very smart and very useful when used in the right application. ⁓ The only difference between Excel and AI is Excel used in the wrong application. You get the wrong answer. Right. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. Kyle Gauck: AI used in the wrong application can really hurt people, right? Cefore X. Plosives: Well, we've talked to ⁓ Matt Gromlich, right? He's a teacher. He's running for Congress for my Johnson seat, right? So he's a teacher. Yeah, Louisiana. So he's a teacher. he, all of his students were, you know, he'd ask questions and then they, they, they, they, they asked chat GBT and they find the answer. Well, okay, this how you find the answer. But well, what's wrong with the answer? Like you, it's like, gave you the answer, but make it an open ending, you know, like, okay. Kyle Gauck: Louisiana. Mm-hmm. Cefore X. Plosives: expand on it. Like, why is it wrong? Or how can you do this better? Use it as a template and a tool rather than just the answer, the end goal, right? So I think that's, I think that's, I think having given grants for that is amazing. Like, you know, use it while it's here, because it's not going away. So obviously, use it to your advantage and build your business. Kyle Gauck: It's not. And the other side to this is we have to understand that we have to leverage this as a tool. We have to. can't just throw our hands up and say, AI bad, go away. We can't do that because the rest of the world is not going to do that. we cannot, America can't be left behind. China is going to dwarf us. They already dwarf us in manufacturers right now. But they're going to dwarf us to where we will never recover if we just throw our hands up and say we're not going to use AI for manufacturing and they can, right? And they are. We will never be competitive on the world stage again. We will become a country that is not an economic powerhouse whatsoever in the next 10 years if we don't use AI as a tool. So it needs to be used as a tool. just needs to be used appropriately. I watched that movie you told me about Mountain Head after our last Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: meeting and the whole movie is about how like the dude releases AI video and people are using AI video to cause other people to do things around the world right ⁓ crazy just craziness so it's dangerous and it needs to be regulated Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Right? Right. Right. that's the question is, if you let a private company build and maintain AI. ⁓ they'll have a lot like social media. They have the keys or they have the decision-making power to exactly what Elon did with X. Now you can be a Nazi and you can do all these weird things. But if you go in with, you know, with hugging trees and patience and love for all, like you get bullied and it's okay. Kyle Gauck: Mm. Yep. Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): So do we need to as a country invest in AI? Like maybe go around and collect all of these AIs and build our own US AI? Kyle Gauck: You know, that's not a terrible idea, if I'm being honest with you. I actually really like it. ⁓ I like the idea of having a general public AI. It's government funded, I would... Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, that way you can maneuver your like if you get a if you get a speeding ticket AI will help you get through it, you know. Cefore X. Plosives: . Kyle Gauck: Yeah, I would say I that you can't stifle innovation, ⁓ And you need competitiveness in the space. while you could have a basic AI that's available to the general public via the government, but you still want to leave the space open for companies to compete to become the best, right? That's what's going to innovate. That's what's going to cause the best products to emerge and the best tools to emerge. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: So I don't think you could just, I don't think we should anyway, just round up the companies, take the AI and use it for public good. ⁓ I think we should use an AI type thing for public. There should be a government funded AI for the American citizens to use as a public good. ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, and it doesn't need all the bells and whistles. Like if I'm trying to save a trip to the DMV, I don't need to make AI videos. So those modules we don't need. Kyle Gauck: Exactly. Right. No, it shouldn't produce videos. It shouldn't produce photos either. mean, it could be very simple, large language model, right? It helps you get through everyday tasks. It helps you circumvent, you know, difficult government websites and, and, and issues, right? It can also work as like a pseudo therapist, right? I mean, I know a lot of people that use their AI for therapy, mainly because they can't afford therapists these days, like it's, it's Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): VA went through their cuts. That's why I talk to you guys. You guys are my therapists. Kyle Gauck: It's wild, Just- Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah Kyle Gauck: Nice. I'm sorry, I'm not licensed, so whatever you do is on you. Just so we're clear. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah Cefore X. Plosives: You sign a waiver. Kyle Gauck: That's right. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, I don't know. AI is wild. I think it's cool. I'm a tech guy myself, so I think like new and emerging technology is really cool. ⁓ But I worry about the misuse. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, and that's it for me. A hammer is super useful, but in the hands of the wrong person. Kyle Gauck: It's bad. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): It's bad. you know, and yeah, it just, and I don't know. Well, I guess with something as big as AI and something as big as ⁓ the education level of the United States citizens, that's where, that's where I start to freak out because we have a lot of people that, that are easily convinced to attack the Capitol. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, so one of the things that we want, which the Republican Party would never agree to, ⁓ but the one of the things we want to do is a universal education standard pilot program. So basically, We would take some of the poorest schools, some of the wealthiest schools, and some of them in the middle schools from around the country as a pilot program. And we would say, here's a basic learning standard that all your students must adhere to and learn by the time they graduate. Now, we're not going to tell you how to teach it. We're not going to tell you to stay on a strict curriculum. If a student needs to deviate, they need help here and there. You should do those things. ⁓ But by the time they graduate, they need to be at this proficiency. I don't care if you're in Alabama in the poorest district. I don't care if you're in, you know, Washington state or Connecticut or Colorado or California in the wealthiest district. I don't care where you are. And the reason for this is it's trifold, right? How can we say we're the beacon on the hill? Well, we don't have the smartest people in the world because we don't value education in this country like other countries do. We should have a universal standard of education. Also, you shouldn't be able to buy your way into a public school that's better. If it's a public school, it should be a public school. We have a huge disparity between public schools in this country because it's based on the local income tax of that town. And so you have very wealthy clusters who have public schools that surpass private schools and education standards. And then you have public schools that are in lower income areas that do horribly and they graduate people who still don't know how to read. And so we want to, when we talk about education, we want a universal education standard pilot program ⁓ that implements an education standard that can be met without the use of emergent technology. And that's not to say we want to remove laptops and Chromebooks and iPads from the classroom. That's not the intent here. ⁓ Sure, use them if you want them, use them if you got them. But the intent is that no longer can some wealthy area outperform poor areas just because they have technology. You don't need a fancy laptop to learn two plus two. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm. Kyle Gauck: You don't need an iPad to ⁓ do what's Pythagore Theorem? A squared plus B squared equals C squared. You don't need a laptop to do that, right? And so it would be a base standard of education that every student must meet by the time they graduate and it would be non-based on emergent technology. Cefore X. Plosives: Wow. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: It's crazy because like my daughter, she's 13 and she doesn't know pretty much ⁓ at public school education without a laptop. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, I bet. My daughter's kindergarten and she gets one starting next year. And I'm what? Cefore X. Plosives: And you know... That's it. And I remember, you you have seven classes, you got seven books in your bag and you're breaking your back. You know, not saying it has to be to that degree, you know, but there has to be a, there has to be, it's a tried and true method. can work, you can funnel through a book and learn something, right? Not just try to find the shortcut. When I train people, don't teach them the shortcut. I teach them how to do it. And then why the shortcut exists is, Kyle Gauck: Yep. Mm-hmm. Yep, teach them into fish. Cefore X. Plosives: If they can't, that's it. They'll eat forever. So take away someone's laptop or technology and they will probably cower in a corner. Kyle Gauck: Yep. Yep, I will say technology is helpful in that like ⁓ I for example, I have really bad ADHD come at me and and I have dyslexia come at me Donald Trump so, you know, I for me like reading is a nightmare reading is a nightmare for me ⁓ I do it don't get me wrong. Like I I have several degrees I needed to read to get them ⁓ but when I can audiobooks All day like I Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I'm like you, letters move on me. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: It's a right. move on me. And then like and also with my ADHD even sometimes like I have ADHD medication that I take ⁓ most of the time not every time because my ADHD makes me forget to take my ADHD medication. But but but most of time I take it and even when I'm on it sometimes I'll go to read something and I'll be three or four paragraphs in and I'll be like wait I don't I was just thinking about how much fertilizer do we have to put on the grass or something like that or you know I mean did I plug the hole so and then I'm like ⁓ I got to go back. Cefore X. Plosives: You Kyle Gauck: three or four paragraphs, because I just read all that and I didn't know I read any of it. It's so bad. So like for me, technology is good. Like I'm reading a book right now by Steve Weir. It's the new movie that's out, The Hail Mary Project. So my wife and I want to see the movie. So we got the book because we heard the book was phenomenal. And so my wife bought the book to read the book. And I was like, I bought the audio book to listen to the book. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ yeah. Kyle Gauck: So like, mean, that's like, and I also have, maybe it's the ADHD, but I also have an extremely, ⁓ there's a word for a scientific word, but it's like a hyperactive imagination. So like when, when you close your eyes and you picture a horse, can you see a horse at all? Yes or no. Right. You can. Okay. What's the detail of that horse? Is it, is it blob or is it a blob of a horse? Is it an outline of a horse or is it like extremely detailed? Can you see the muscles and the hair fibers and like, you know what I mean? Can what does it look like in your brain? And everybody's different. ⁓ And for me, I have an extremely detailed imagination like when I close my eyes and picture a horse I can see they're in a pasture with flowers and leaves and you know, the wind is blowing and like there's I Have extremely detailed and not everyone does that. So for me listening to audiobooks I'm watching this this 12-hour movie play out in my head. It's pretty cool. Anyway, so technology can be good I'm not saying take technology away, but I am saying Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. Kyle Gauck: to learn basic things that we need to know for life and to make us have a basic education standard in this country. So half of the country is not reading at a third grade level, right? We can do that and we should do that. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): teaching folks how to research because all this technology is great. If you're just a dumb dumb with the iPad, it's that doesn't help. We need you to learn how to leverage that iPad. And just the simple fact that kids don't have to carry eight books in a backpack anymore. You can have it in an iPad or something like that. That's that's amazing for for our bodies if nothing else. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yep. You can't command F your way through life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's great. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, no, it's it is great. I think you're right though kids need to learn how to research and i'm I do worry that like we talked about ai again that they're gonna use ai to research and then they're not gonna have any skill or ability to research without paid subscriptions to things Which is very upsetting I don't know. I don't know what the future looks like man. It's so dystopic Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. It and I think I think it like what Eric Jones said. He said, I have kids. So we have to get it right, because I'm worried about my kids. So we're at the precipice of that. We're at the precipice of if we do this wrong, or if we have the wrong people in office. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): That is going to dictate what the world looks like. That's why we don't know because it's so new and everyone that's in charge right now. They're in their 70s. They're in their 80s. They're getting close to 90. Right versus I understand that younger generation comes off. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): as detached and they come off as complainers and they come off as all this stuff, but they've been surrounded with all of this. So they look at the world in a completely different way. And I trust that a young person understands how and where we can go just a little bit better than some old dude with orange makeup. Kyle Gauck: You know, and it's not even just him. It's Congress, the average age of a Congress member, 64 years old. What? That's the average age. Isn't that crazy? And like, it's you've got what's his name? Maxwell Frost, who's like 24. That's the only reason it's like 64, because he's skewing it so far down. It's the median is probably like 70. Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): who's literally going nuts. Cefore X. Plosives: That's absurd. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): That's bananas. That's bananas. Cefore X. Plosives: Probably 72. Yeah. Kyle Gauck: craziness, absolute craziness. And these are the people that are legislating our laws. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): that's that's 20 years older than me. So when these people were born, a lot of them were probably born outside in a barn or something like that. Think of that. Think of that. When they were born, little house in the prairie and shit was like on first run. Cefore X. Plosives: in a manger. Kyle Gauck: 70 years ago. Yeah You know what I think about it just it's absolutely fucking wild and it'll it'll it'll blow your mind It's like a hundred and twenty years ago that we invented indoor plumbing It wasn't that far back. It was like it was like 1920s Right. So like not everybody had indoor plumbing like you had to go outside to your outhouse if you were lucky enough to have one and poop into the ground Right Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. Or if you're from Europe, you just poop in a jar and throw it out your window. Cefore X. Plosives: That's probably why Mitch... Kyle Gauck: Pshhh! Cefore X. Plosives: That's probably why Mitch McConnell leaves office to go to the bathroom. Kyle Gauck: He's gotta go find the outhouse. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): He's got to, he's no, he's done pooped his pants. That dude, he hits pause in the middle of a question. Cefore X. Plosives: Ha ha ha! Kyle Gauck: Yeah, no, he's leaving to go get cleaned up. His diaper's full. Cefore X. Plosives: He's like, this microwave only has the same channel. Okay, will somebody change the channel? Kyle Gauck: Yo, who baked a burrito? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Hahaha Kyle Gauck: you Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ Talking about horses, he's got to go make his own soap. Kyle Gauck: It's crazy, man. It's crazy. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, it's bananas. It's bananas. Cefore X. Plosives: You know what's crazy? You know what's crazy is that I just saw a couple articles where ⁓ ICE was at ⁓ a Marine graduation ceremony and they took family members at the ceremony. I saw one where a guy just married his wife and he was about to get deployed and Kyle Gauck: Yep. Cefore X. Plosives: and they were going to get their paperwork ready and their ⁓ military housing in line, and they took his wife. How? Kyle Gauck: They don't care. They don't give a shit about service members. They don't this administration doesn't care about veterans They don't care. One of the first things they did was like yeah Doge go ahead and cut 83,000 jobs from the VA that's one of the first things they were cool with and like so I Have I have I had I don't really use it anymore, but I had a podcast called disorder support Before I started running Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): They don't. They don't. They don't. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. and they kept cutting. Kyle Gauck: And it was under our TikTok channel. And it was basically we would only interview veterans and it was all about disorders that come from serving. So PTSD or other things of that nature. ⁓ And we would interview veterans to help other veterans understand they're not alone out there and there's there's resources to help and blah, blah, blah. Right. So it was very pro veteran, my follower base on that account. And veterans are majority Republican. So after I started ⁓ Running on a different i had a different tick tock account for my campaign platform so I started posting a couple videos where I would just just slightly toe the line outside of republicanism right ⁓ and posted on the tick tock the disorder support tick tock just to get republicans to start agreeing with like some democratic policies and The one thing that they drew the line on I could not get them to agree with me on was cutting the jobs from the va We actually had veterans because they had to defend Donald Trump Neil and Musk We actually had veterans in there that were like, ⁓ you know if there are wasted jobs anyway We don't need that many people at the VA and I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Are you kidding me right now? So like they'll yeah, they don't care about veterans and veterans shoot themselves in the foot You know what I mean by voting Republican? Yeah, you've got the the PAC act which Carlos you're probably familiar with the PAC act but Cefore X. Plosives: ⁓ my goodness. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): don't. Yeah. Yeah. To prove a point. Kyle Gauck: It's the act that's given all of us, the veterans, the benefits that we have today. We wouldn't have them without that act. That act was passed under Joe Biden in 2022. And it was voted on by 100 % of the Democrat party. And I think it was four Republicans out of 200 and change. Four of them voted for it. But yet all these people are like Republicans are the party of the veterans. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: And it's like, go look at their voting records. Tell me that they are. Because every time a vote comes up that's pro veteran or helps veterans in any way, they vote against it in the name of fiscal responsibility. Come on, man. But you can send $40 billion to Argentina. You can kiss my ass. One of our policies that we have that I'm really, I have a lot of veteran policies, but one of the ones that I'm like really staunch and big on is matching. I don't know if I said this last time we were on, but matching 100 % disabled veteran pay to congressional pay. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, they're not. Kyle Gauck: Did I say that last time? Yeah, I'm Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, you did, but you can keep going. This is a different video. Cefore X. Plosives: We'll talk about it. Kyle Gauck: I mean, I'm big on it. I think, you know, the people that are a hundred percent disabled came back and gave nearly all right. You know what I mean? They, they have trouble in everyday and we pay them pennies. We pay them scraps. You know mean? I think the going rate, a buddy of mine's a hundred percent disabled from PTSD and he has a bunch of other problems with his body too, but the PTSD alone got in there and he got, he gets like $3,700 a month. Which isn't nothing, but like, lives in New York. What does $3,700 a month get you? Your rent is $2,000. Your car payment's gonna be $600. The average is even higher. Yeah, the average is even higher, right? Your groceries are $400. Right there, you're out of money. And you haven't paid insurance. You have no miscellaneous. You have no savings. You have nothing, right? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And that's for a small place. And because of PTSD, you might not qualify for all the jobs. Kyle Gauck: Right. Or they don't want you because of it. Right. Even though they can't say that out loud. so I think I think that whenever Congress members get paid, their service is not more important than the service of those veterans. And so I believe that we should match the congressional pay to the 100 % disabled pay and then tear it down from there. Right. Because wherever you fall on the disability scale is based on how much money you get paid. Right. So like a buddy, I have another buddy who's 10 % disabled. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-mm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, exactly. Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: And he gets like $178 a month. Are you fucking kidding me? That you know what I mean? $178 a month for having a disability from serving your country. $100 and $78 a month. That's insane. That is just, that is. But we can throw money at Argentina and Israel and it. Cefore X. Plosives: slap in the face. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And this is the thing that I think ⁓ people get frustrated with. And I've been slowly but surely trying to speak to more of you guys about this so we can figure this one out. At least from my vantage point, we have all this money and we're just doing all kinds of things with all this money. And we supposedly put money aside for the veterans and we supposedly put money aside for homelessness. We supposedly put money aside to help people how to learn and all this stuff, right? But it never quite gets to where it needs to get to. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, we talked about this last time. There's a bunch of third parties in the way that end up consuming the cash before it gets down to the actual level. And I honestly, I thought it was a great idea when we talked about the homeless population, right? And how to get them housed and just give them a credit card, a direct cash, direct direct line of cash that they can choose to spend how they want to spend it. And I guarantee you majority of them are going to do the right thing. They're when we say the right thing, they're going to go buy food with it. They're going to go buy shelter with it, right? They're going to get their life back on track. ⁓ Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. And to help support that, again, the money situation, instead of making ICE the fourth largest army that we sick on our own people, instead, why don't we take that money and invest it in things like social workers and therapists? So then that way we can Kyle Gauck: in the world. Mm-hmm Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): help guide these people instead of forcing them with a baton into a jail cell, why don't we get a therapist or a social worker and pay them to then guide these people? Kyle Gauck: Yep. Yep. Yep. part of, part of our, I'll get to that in a second. Why we don't do that. And it's a very disgusting answer, but part of our policy on universal education standard, the pilot program on our own is courses on emotional awareness, right? And emotional intelligence. And we also want to legislate laws that force every school to have a therapist on staff that students can go visit anytime they want. ⁓ Because it's important, right? It's important that we, especially our young men, are being left behind when it comes to emotional awareness and emotional intelligence. And you can see it in the quote unquote loneliness epidemic that we have going on, right? Women don't want, and I don't blame them, women don't want to be around men. Men are, we're... Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: We're shitty. We're assholes, right? If we haven't put in the work ourselves to be better, why would they want to be around us? don't like, you know what I mean? I don't blame them one bit, right? You know, I don't blame them one bit. So anyway, we, part of our policy is... Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, we're just hairless gorillas. Yeah. Kyle Gauck: is we want therapists in every single school that the students have full access to whenever they need it. And then also emotional intelligence awareness classes. But going back to why we don't do that and instead we just beat them with a baton and throw them in jail, and that's because we have a private jail system that is a for-profit jail system with free legal slavery, which is repulsive, right? But that's exactly what it is. You can force inmates to do labor for pennies on the dollar Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. Kyle Gauck: literal pennies you can pay like 13 cents a day there is a minimum but i think it's like 13 or 16 cents a day right to do a day's worth of labor literally building products for the outside world that the prison system gets to sell themselves it is a for-profit system with free ⁓ legal slavery and that's why we that's why we don't do it Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Crazy. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah, they're not making license plates anymore. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And yeah, no, they're making panties. They're making all kinds of stuff. Cefore X. Plosives: the You they could probably get them the mind bit. They they can mine mine Bitcoin They can you know they can they can start doing some shit Whatever they want them to do Kyle Gauck: They're probably making microwaves. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. And this is the thing that's, and this is the thing that's frustrating coming from the inner city of a large city. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): the underfunded, not funded neighborhoods that we come from. We ask you for books, we ask you for knowledge, we ask you for opportunity, and you give us the opportunity to get beat up by a baton and to get ushered into jail. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep a hundred percent Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): When it comes to jails, when it comes to cameras, when it comes to tanks, it's, it's the, the, the, no ceiling is too high. But when it comes to books and therapy, all of a sudden we don't have money for that. Kyle Gauck: ⁓ yeah. Mm-hmm. We ain't got money for it, but we got money for a ballroom. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ a ballroom, three wars, a jet. Kyle Gauck: You know, what people don't think about is, yeah, $400 million Qatar jet that's gonna cost us what, $100 million? So retrofit. What people don't think about often is the background dollars spent, right? The stuff happening behind the scenes. And it's to the tune of like, it's the guesstimate, right? But it's supposed to be to the tune of like several hundred billion dollars in legal fees spent by Our tax dollars, the Trump administration defending himself and the Trump administration in court from all the lawsuits, from all the illegal shit they're doing. Our tax dollars spent to defend him. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And then how much has he actually made off of threatening a lawsuit and or winning said lawsuit? Kyle Gauck: or suing himself as the government. Right. What? It's just. Cefore X. Plosives: So, yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): or suing himself. Yes. Cefore X. Plosives: Get a hundred mil. I want a hundred mil today. I'm going to sue myself. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I'm going to sue the FCC for Andrade Mill because someone didn't say the thing that I wanted them to say. Kyle Gauck: It's just wild. It's just crazy It's so insane and then like he said what two days ago He said that Brendan Carr is a true patriot and he's gonna do the right thing He's talking about pulling the licenses from other platforms now who aren't giving him good news and it's like It's free press a thing or not Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Ain't that a bitch? And they made those news outlets sign some weird pledge thing that you're only going to give the information that we... That's literally state-sponsored media. Kyle Gauck: Oh, I didn't see that. ⁓ is that the Pentagon stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: the machine for sure. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Even Fox wouldn't sign it. Even Fox Entertainment wouldn't sign it. You know? They're not a news network. They're an entertainment network. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. They are crazy. Cefore X. Plosives: What do you guys think about all these Lego videos that Iran's putting out? Kyle Gauck: You know, I I'd be honest with you. I keep meaning to make a tick tock on it. So I'm you brought it up They're starting to make me sick, right? Because they were kind of comical and funny in the beginning But then they made one about how we spent a hundred million dollars and how pathetic we are for trying to get one pilot back And i'm like no like that's a dude. That's a real person You know that we're really trying to rescue who can't give a shit what the money costs I mean, he should have been there in the first place, but i'm not just gonna let you capture and kill him You know what mean? And like Iran made a video, a Lego video, making fun of us for spending a hundred million dollars and what a waste of money just to get one man back. Right? And ⁓ so like it just, it just proves that like as funny as they are, the Iranian government still has slaughtered like 40,000 plus of its people a year for trying to fight for democracy. Right? The Iranian government's still not good people. You know I mean? They're still really, really shitty, terrible people. ⁓ You that doesn't value human life whatsoever or freedom or democracy. So like That's not to say we should be in Iran. We shouldn't be in Iran because they don't have a nuclear weapon They're not a threat to us. You know what mean? ⁓ But the Lego videos I'm kind of getting tired of them Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Now they are. Now they are. Because I think they're doing that because they want this fight. They want this fight. Kyle Gauck: ⁓ yeah, no, they do want this fight now. They're a threat to us But they're a threat to us just simply because of the orange Cheetos ego, right? If he was just like, you know what? You're right. This was a terrible decision It's not going anywhere. Let's back out reopen the straight-up moose. Everybody go home, right? It would be over and we wouldn't lose any more lives and and and they wouldn't be a threat to us because why would they be at that point, right? like but The more we go in there and attack them Cefore X. Plosives: He's just baiting them in. That's it. That's all they're doing. Kyle Gauck: They've got nothing to lose, They've got nothing to lose. the... Right, exactly. They don't care about their country, right? They kill their own statesmen. Cefore X. Plosives: Right. They're already killing our own people, who cares? Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): They don't. And more than that, everybody's been picking on him. Everybody's been threatening to do away with Iran. And finally you get to the point where you're fuck it, bring it. Bring it. You just killed our top dog. That's it. That's the line. You crossed it. Now you want it. You found it. Now what are you going to do? Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Yeah. You know, in- And you know the worst part is is they're just defending themselves But they're defending themselves against us, right? They're killing our servicemen and women, right? But they're in self-defense, which is the most disgusting part. Why are we there? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. So yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And that's the part that it should drive you crazy. Cefore X. Plosives: it in this narrative, we're the bad guy, right? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, we're trying to save our people and everybody's like, yeah, America, we defend ourselves. Wait, we started this shit. know, Netanyahu let the cat out of the bag and said, hey, we want a pipeline to go through Israel. So hey, America, they're talking shit about you. You know what I'm saying? And the one thing that kind of drew the line for me, started to draw the line for me with those Lego videos when they started draping Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Cefore X. Plosives: coffins with the American flags and started bringing those out. And that really, oh man, that kind of switched the gear on me to being, hey, this is comical. I dig anything that goes against Trump, but that kind of like, was a kick in the nuts, man. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, yeah, I mean we can't forget like as funny as they are this is real Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): It should. It should. We have a lot of young people that are getting sent into the lion's den. This is not going to be easy. This isn't easy and we've been hiding behind aerial attacks. You mean to tell me they've been knocking down our birds. They've been sending, they've demolished all of our ⁓ bases out there. Everything is gone. And now they're telling you that we're waiting for you to bring people so we can blow them up too. And that's why those caskets with the American flags should wake your ass up. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): because all those caskets are poor kids. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, yeah enough, I'm kidding. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, me. That would have been me. Kyle Gauck: Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, it's funny you mentioned that the military for anyone who's not aware is full of poor and minority kids like that's what it is like they my wife grew up in a very affluent area and They never had a recruiter at her high school never once right me I grew up in a dirt poor area and there was a recruiter at my high school every three days, right do the pull-up contest ⁓ So actually they didn't I went to college first ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah! No. How'd they get you? How'd they get you? Cefore X. Plosives: out of, Kyle Gauck: I was like, f*** that, enjoy it. Are you crazy? then I was working three jobs and I was in school full-time and I was just dead. I did it for like two years and I was just dead to the world. So I did 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. at AutoCricket, which was a auto insurance company. I do data entry for them, just basically taking leads off the internet and putting people's information into databases. And then from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. I worked at an elementary school as an aftercare counselor. And then Thursday Friday Saturday night. I overnight drive through McDonald's and then Monday Tuesday Wednesday night I went to class till 10 p.m So I was I was dead, dude I did that for two years and I was dead and I was like something's got to give and I'm still poor So I'm like, you know what fuck it. I'm joining the army. I'll have one job and they'll pay for my college I won't have any more debt So yeah Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. For me, was 16 years old walking home. was a senior in high school. Hey, when do you graduate? said, you know, whenever, June, July, whenever. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): He's like, ⁓ cool. You ever think of joining the army? I said, nah. He said, you tired of being poor? I said, I'm listening. Cefore X. Plosives: Got ⁓ Kyle Gauck: Got him Got him, you know, it's so funny to you you go in and you think you've got all this money now because you're making money and you look back and it was like $21,000 a year is what I was making before taxes before taxes and I thought I was so rich dude. I was like, oh I could buy the world Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ it was so little. Yeah, it was so little. Yeah. Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: I took the ASVAB and then after that I was like, nah, I'm out. They tried to get me though. I'm like, you know what? My mom said no. Like I gotta go. Kyle Gauck: Meh. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I did too. ⁓ no, I didn't. Kyle Gauck: My mom said no. My mom was like, my mom was like, go, go, go now. What are you waiting for? Get the fuck. And I'm sorry. I lived with her. You know, I had my own place. She just wanted me gone. Cefore X. Plosives: Get the f- Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And let me tell you, after I came back, so I was 17 when I left. I was 20 when I came back. And I was working as the ⁓ assistant manager at Payless as I was going to college. And I'm in there fixing shoes and shit. some recruiter walks in and he sees me, he says, hey, you ever think about joining the army? I said, I did once. He said, ⁓ yeah, what happened? I said, I became a veteran. Kyle Gauck: You interested? No. And I'm not interested in doing it again. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): He goes, he goes, ever think about going back? I said, if you don't get the hell out my store. Kyle Gauck: Facts. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah Kyle Gauck: You know, did, I did when I first got out, like I was going to college and life sucked. I was still poor and yada yada. You know what I mean? Like, cause you don't, you don't plan ahead and the army does a terrible job turning you back into a civilian. Right. So like, I was like, I was thinking about going back in at one time. Right. Right. I was thinking about going back in at one point, ⁓ and being as an officer. Cause I was like, ⁓ that's a cush job. Like that'd be much better. But thankfully I didn't. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): They don't. They're like, all right, cool. They pet you in the back. See you when I see you. Kyle Gauck: Thankfully, I didn't. My girlfriend at the time, who is my wife now, talked me out of it. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, my ASVAB score was so high that they wanted me to my ASVAB score. got a 119. ⁓ Kyle Gauck: ⁓ hell yeah, that's great. That's really good. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. And, and they said, they said, ⁓ they said, God damn, you made the whole van look like a bunch of rocks. It said, you should, you should think about ⁓ joining the like going in as an officer. I said, you got to talk to my mom about that. Cause like officers, they get you for like eight years. I was 16 when I was talking to these knuckleheads and my mom was like, ain't no way you're going to be gone for eight years. Nope. Cefore X. Plosives: Not me. Kyle Gauck: You ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well... Nice. ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): So I shot missiles for three years. Kyle Gauck: ⁓ Yeah, no, that's that's great as a 92 alpha so logistics and supply ⁓ So I I had I scored a 114 On the as web. Yeah, and I thought that was good. Fuck you. I was so proud of that Cuz like after so so Mike so, know after 111 you can do anything you want in the military There's no job off limits to you Unless your mom doesn't want you to but you Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): What was your MOS? 92 alpha Yeah Nice. Cefore X. Plosives: You Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ yeah, I'm a beast. Unless your mom doesn't want you to. My mom was like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Kyle Gauck: There's yeah, there's tears though like so if you score X amount of points You can only have X amount of jobs, right? And then as you score higher you can have different jobs that require more intelligence because it's it's a straight-up intelligence test and so it's 111 is the threshold to have any job you want in the military 119 is high as fuck. I Had a 114 and I was so proud of that dude. I was so proud of that. Yeah, I saw I was Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, hell yeah, that's a good score. I like to flex a little bit because there's, you know, ⁓ how do I say this? People look at my face and underestimate me. Kyle Gauck: Good for you. Flex Ono. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And, ⁓ and, know, sometimes I get into conversations and you get some of these guys that are a little high on themselves and they're like, ⁓ yeah, ⁓ yeah, I got a, you know, 89 or whatever. Ooh, that's cute. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, yeah, that's adorable you should you should You should say 89 is not bad man. I'm not dogging you. Okay. I see I've seen people that got like 50s I've seen people got like 50s. I think I saw something I got like a 30 but so so so ⁓ You should see speaking of like people underestimate people you should see it like I'll go to I'll go to quote a job, right? And I'll go to this guy's house and or woman's house or whomever's house, whatever Cefore X. Plosives: think that was my score. I was right around there. I wasn't great. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): 89 is not bad. Yeah. Yeah. Kyle Gauck: And I'll be like, you know, quoting them for, let's say a built in or something like that. And they just assume like blue collar workers have no degree, no education. And then we get to talk and then they find out I have a master's degree from Yukon, which is like one of the toughest schools in the country. And they're like, huh, you do this. I'm like, yeah, because this is way better than anything else I've ever done. I worked for the corporate world for a long time. But yeah, no, people just like to be like a carpenter and have a master's degree. People are like, what the fuck? You know what mean? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah Yeah. Yeah. What was your did you have? You said you got an MBA, but do you have like a specialty within that degree? Kyle Gauck: It's so thrown back and I love it. No, so, ⁓ it was marketing. but I ended up canceling the, the specialty because it would have taken another like six months to graduate just because of the way that like they weren't offering the classes I needed for another two semesters. So it's like, I would have had to put the degree on pause for two semesters and then go back to, you know what I mean? I was like, I'm not doing that. It's Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, it's. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ yeah. And you might as well just stop. If that's the decision, you might as well stop. Because six months not in school, it's hard to get that rhythm back. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, plus I have like four degrees. to me it was like, so I went to school before I joined the army. And then I went to school when I was stationed at Fort Campbell at Austin P. I studied public relations. And then I went to school, I got out, I went to school for mechanical engineering. And then I finished that, I went to school for acting and directing. And then I finished that then I went to school for criminal justice management. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): This guy. Kyle Gauck: And this is all paid for by the military by the way, I don't pay a dime I didn't pay a dime and then I went back and got my bachelor's I mean my master's Yeah, and now I'm like why not? Let's go to law school Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, and that's just it, right? Like people say, if you give people things, they're not going to stay motivated. That's not it. That's not it. If you give someone like us the opportunity, we're going to come in and we're going to make things happen. Kyle Gauck: Not at all. No. Yep. And not only that, like I'm not taking my business degree that I was given the opportunity to get for free. I'm not taking it and just squandering it as some middle manager in some massive corporation. I'm using it to start a business, you know? Like I have, you know, and maybe it's dreams of grandeur, but I have a plan to make this a multinational woodworking company. Like right now, because I'm running a campaign, I'm just taking on small, like small jobs here and there. But like I have a mass manufacturing plan to be like, it's called Gauck Homes and it's a complete custom furniture company that can ship all around the world, right? And mass manufacture custom-made products. Like, I'm not wasting my master's degree, if that makes sense. But, no, I agree. Cefore X. Plosives: Absolutely. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, no. I think that's wonderful. And again, the proper personality types. If you give the opportunity, the opportunity to education, the opportunity for success, the opportunity, all those things, the majority of the population is going to prove to you that they are ready, that they want it, and that they are going to do a good job. The vast majority of this country will do that. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: And on the flip side, the unfortunate part is the people that have been beaten down so much because of lack of opportunity, they wouldn't know what to do with opportunity or what it would look like if it was presented to them. Kyle Gauck: It was presented, they don't see it. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): that's where these social workers that we keep talking about, that's where they come in handy. The country, the government should be the scaffolding for the country. If we're building doctors and engineers and carpenters and business people, we need to be the scaffolding to make them successful. If we have as a country, Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: Yep. Yep. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): If we have homeless people, have drug addicts, we have all these things, that's us failing them. They don't have the tools to participate in this culture, in this country. So you need to give them guides to bring them in. Some people will thrive if you give them an AI. Some people will thrive if you give them a face to talk to. Everyone is different. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Yep, if I went to school now my life would be so much different because people actually understand like dyslexia and ADHD and like giving people more time to take a test or to Understand material differently than you know what I mean then was traditional Right, right Yeah Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): or even present the material differently. You know, because that again, the difference between reading and listening. Cefore X. Plosives: Like my, Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. So there's there's this I'll be honest. I did use AI when I was in grad school There's this AI called notebook LM. That's by Google. I don't you guys have heard of it notebook LM so basically you take your your subject material and you you upload it to notebook LM and then it populates a podcast of two people talking Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Like a two person podcast. It's a man and a woman. And they just talk about the source material you gave them. And you can, yeah. And you can give it instructions. Like the instruction that I always gave it was like, I'd give it the chapters that I need to read for that week for a specific course. Right. And then I'd be like, you are an MBA professor and you want to pull out the most important things based on these topics, you know, whatever the topic was for the week. ⁓ you know, so you can, you know, help your students. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And it'd be an MBA professor. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): That's crazy. Kyle Gauck: Right and then it would it would it would pull out what was most important or what would be most important in an MBA type setting versus just Talking about the material that was given to you, but it's it's it's crazy, dude You can put anything in there. You should definitely check it out and it'll turn into a podcast a Literal podcast you can take an entire book throw it in there and it'll turn the book into a podcast for you You start headphones and listen to the podcast It's crazy. Yeah, it's called notebook LM and then I think Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): That's outstanding. Cefore X. Plosives: No shit. Kyle Gauck: I think my wife was saying the other day that they have a new feature now. Well, they will create a PowerPoint presentation for you. ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Oh, you lost me there. PowerPoint. Please go get keynote on Apple, please. Kyle Gauck: So it's basically, but see, notebook, notebook LM is, know, I try to my iPad and I just nevermind. We don't need to go there. So notebook LM I love because it's AI sure, but it's really geared towards learning and different types, different media of education, right? It's not, it's not a super advanced, super expensive Google. Right. That's not what it is at all. It's it's just give me what materials you have and tell me what your best method of learning is and I will feed you back that material in that method of learning. And that's what I love about it. It's really and that's that's what I say. Like A.I. has good use. Right. There's as a tool. This is it. Right. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. You can't let. whether it's AI or books or whatever, if you can hear my voice, don't let people convince you that you're lazy, that you can't do it, none of that stuff. Start developing that little chip on your shoulder that says, ⁓ no, watch. Kyle Gauck: Yep. Yep. Yep. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-mm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): We're there, we're there. Like AI, to me, AI levels the playing field. Kyle just got done saying he went to school to be a director. I went to school for animation and film. ⁓ Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ADHD, there it is. What were you just talking about? Kyle Gauck: AI. Cefore X. Plosives: AI. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): before that, two sentences before that. Kyle Gauck: I don't remember. PowerPoint? Notebook L.M.? Cefore X. Plosives: PowerPoint. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. It's something in there. just. Kyle Gauck: Learning Media. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): It was it had something to do with learning and definitely not retention because holy cow that just jumped out of my head just that quick. Kyle Gauck: My masters. Cefore X. Plosives: But none of us could remember it. That's a... We gotta rewind. Kyle Gauck: Thanks. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ At the end of the day, don't let anybody tell you that that you're not able to accomplish what you really want to accomplish. and as long as it's not disruptive or just destructive, like some of the powers that be or or any of this technology that has that has Kyle Gauck: Yeah, yeah. So, so it was. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): whether it's a paywall or it's just not achievable by people who aren't rich. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): To improve society, all these people, like when you look at my face and you think I'm gonna steal your TV, if you think that's a problem here, then we need to invest in those communities so they can buy their own goddamn TVs. Stop letting people talk you into dumb shit. Kyle Gauck: That's not what I think, but go for it. Yeah. Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): educate yourself, get hooked on education. And I'm not talking you don't need to be a genius in history that we already got out of tons of those knuckleheads. Be a genius in team building, coaching. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): If you want to be an actor, it's there. ⁓ this, think this is what I was going to say. We went to school for directing and all that stuff. AI levels the playing field. So I don't see Kyle, I don't see normal people as competition. I see Disney. Kyle Gauck: You know what, B- competition. love that. That's good. You should. Yeah. Yeah. They're one in the same. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): as my competition. I see Pixar as my competition. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Yeah. One of the things things pastor says to me is like, don't you don't pray to, you know, bring yourself bring the goal down to you, you pray to get strength to race to the goal, right? So it's, you have to, you and you gain that through your experience and using using the tools around you to better yourself and AI or whatever the be or conversations like this building communities. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Basically, yeah. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: I love that. That's good. Cefore X. Plosives: Reaching constituents, building that team, your ⁓ constituents on, know, that Mitch McConnell is and watching TV when he looks at the microwave. You know what I'm saying? Like, man, this thing keeps spinning. Kyle Gauck: Mitch McConnell's got a tube TV. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): He's like, ⁓ must be stuck on C-span. All I see is myself. Kyle Gauck: Hello. Cefore X. Plosives: With another TV on top of the TV. He's got a TV on top of that tube TV. Kyle Gauck: Right facts. Yeah, I so I Say like if you want something just go do it like I'm I'm I will say this out loud and very proud I am dumb as a box of rocks. Like I am NOT smart Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Not with the 114, shut your lying ass up. Kyle Gauck: And I have that's it's a common sense test. You know what I mean? It's not an education test. Like I'm dumb. I used AI back in the early 2000s. So like, but seriously, like I'm not ever the most intelligent person in any room ever. And that's totally cool with me. You know, you don't remove the barrier to entry that you need to be like. Cefore X. Plosives: You He used AI. Kyle Gauck: I thought I'd never get accepted into a master's program I got into the eighth hardest master's program in the country that uses Harvard's curriculum and I passed I graduated you know, mean like It just removed the barriers to entry because they're not real somebody else can put them there Just so you feel like you can't do it You know what? I mean just go and like when we talk about acting if you want to if you want to be an actor Just drop everything go be I mean don't leave your kids at home and abandon them but you know I mean like if you have the time and space go do it like it's it's Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): You have a phone. You have a phone. Don't stop. Stop comparing your work to people that are doing it day in and day out. You have a phone. You can write a script. You could just do that. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm, or have been doing it for 20 years Speaking of I wrote a script one time for SNL and they rejected me and it was a damn good script I was so upset about it. Oh, yeah, it was like during It was like during that catfish when when they were had that new show come out that new catfish show If you if you guys remember that was a long time ago But yeah, I wrote it I wrote a catfish script for SNL and I was like damn this is bomb and I sent it in and they're like Yeah, we're not accepting this. Fuck you It's so good No Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): ⁓ for real? Cefore X. Plosives: Bring it to the table. Let's go. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Do they accept scripts like that? do they? It's the right. It's the comedians that write the scripts, right? Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, they also have writers on staff too, but yeah, I think they get to write their own stuff. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I know a couple guys that can help you bring that script to life. Kyle Gauck: Dude, I don't even know if I could find that script I mean, maybe it's so old that was god. That's 10 plus years ago That's a while ago Cefore X. Plosives: to get Jerry to make a cartoon? Jerry, no joke. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Jerry, no joke. ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's an animation veteran. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. animator. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, it's fun. It's funny when people find out that I was an actor Because that you can't find it like you I have an idea IMDB page So like you used to be able to find it if you randomly would Google me But like now it's so far buried under all the congressional stuff and all the new stuff that no one ever finds it anymore But they're just like they don't they don't expect it Cefore X. Plosives: So you, you Joe and Andrew really need to do like ⁓ something. Make that, make that skit come to life, man. Do like some improv. That'd be amazing. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I know, I feel like flying out to Connecticut. I got a bunch of film equipment, I'll come out. ⁓ Like, we can chop it up real quick. Kyle Gauck: Do it. Do it. Let's do it. I'm not script writing though. Let's do a whole AI script, you know? Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Nah, that's it. I love writing. love shifting my brain into writing mode and then just seeing what comes out. And that for me, I wouldn't use AI for that just because that's who I want to be when I grow up, if that makes sense. It's like if you want to be an illustrator and you're using AI to make your pictures, like imagine Dawud Anyabwile being like, Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, that's fair. Cefore X. Plosives: Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: Drawings, yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, I'm going to make all my comic books using AI. Like, no son, it's never going to happen because that's what he wants to be. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. No. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I wanted to ask you, ⁓ did you decide to run for Congress? Kyle Gauck: You know, that's a great question. I actually got asked for the first time the other night, what was the pivot point that like had me run for Congress? And no one had ever asked me that before. I like, I was taken back. I had to sit there and think about it. And I think it was, it was a combination of things. like, obviously January, I remember where I was on January 6th, 2021, right? That is a day. I remember where I was on 9-11. 2001, right? And January 6 plays the same in my head. Like I will remember for the rest of my life where I was and watch, you know, the riot storm the Capitol. I don't think I'll ever forget that day or that time or exactly what I was doing at that day and that time. And as a veteran who's like lost friends, you know, in the name of the idea of democracy, right? ⁓ A lot of friends, you know. People came back that I know missing limbs severe PTSD committing sue. I don't know you can say that on a lot of themselves, you know all in the name of this idea that we have that we love that we fight for and for this one man to try to overthrow that just to keep power like That flipped something inside of me on January 6, right? But I didn't decide to run at that point, but that just flipped something inside of me. It's like I don't know ⁓ this anger, if you will. So then, then 2024 rolls around, right? And I was so sure Kamala Harris is going to win. Like I was so sure she raised over a billion dollars in like four months, had a bomb campaign. Everybody was tracking it. Like we were good. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: And then it's like four o'clock in the morning and I'm up watching the results and they announce him as the winner. And I just like my world flipped. You know what mean? In that moment. And I think, I think it was a combination of those two events. Cause like, I will never forget that moment either. Right. I will never forget how I felt like just this sinking feeling of, you know, the future for my daughters is in jeopardy. Right. The future of this country that I love is in jeopardy. The future of everything that my friends have fought. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Kyle Gauck: sacrificed so much for is in jeopardy. And I'm a fighter. I've always been a fighter. So that was kind of when I stood up to fight. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): I love it. Yeah, I love it. Because yeah, we do. And that's the thing. I know that I say things like I joined the army because I was tired of being poor. But when you're in the when you're in the army and you're exposed to the importance of your job, of your duty. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah, man. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): And now I got more skin in the game than the actual president does. Kyle Gauck: ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. The kid that joined and dropped out of bootcamp has more skin in the game than the present. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): You know? So... Yeah. Kyle Gauck: We had this, I'll never forget, we had this kid, I felt so bad. He like quit a week and a half or two weeks into bootcamp and they made him stay with us until we graduated. And then they sent him home, which is fucking brutal. Cause then at that point you're just like, I should have just stuck with it. You know what I mean? And like, They put him on suicide watch the entire time. So it took away his shoelaces. He was always in PTs ⁓ You know, no belts no nothing and like had to have rotating guard shifts on him and and like they did this just to for I don't remember how long basic is but they did this just to embarrass him like the entire time that we were in basic and Like I felt bad man, cuz that sucks, you know Cefore X. Plosives: Talk about PTSD, you know, that'll... Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah, he what that dude will never forget that. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, that kid's got more skin in the game than donald trump No, and he's still got more skin in the game donald trump. I have more respect for him than I do for donald trump I have more respect for the person that's like, yeah I thought about joining and then decided not to I have more respect for that person in a veteran sense that I do for donald trump Who's just like i'm not joining you kidding me. I'll do anything I can to get out of this Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yeah. Yep. We said this last time. ⁓ They taught us about Jody in basic and then they put him in office. Kyle Gauck: Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. Cefore X. Plosives: He did what his grandfather did too though. He loved Germany to come over here to dodge and then he begged to go back. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, I heard that. Germany. fucking wish he hadn't. Wish he just stayed. Let it be Germany's problem. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): You Cefore X. Plosives: in German. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Kyle Gauck, I know you have to leave, ⁓ go ahead and take last few moments. Let Connecticut know that you're here and let them know about your platform and then let them know where they can find you online. Kyle Gauck: Yeah. Cool, so ⁓ my name is Kyle Gauck. I'm running for Congress in the second district of Connecticut because I actually give a shit on my current rep. You can find more about us on my website, kylegauck.com. Fun fact, I'm the only one in the world, so you can just Google me, K-Y-L-E-G-A-U-C-K, and it'll come up. that's also the website, kylegauck.com. You can follow us on all of our socials. ⁓ Yeah, that's pretty much it. ⁓ We love donations, we love volunteers, and we have a free weekly newsletter. We love sharing what we're doing. So please sign up for all three. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Awesome. Thank you, sir, for coming off the campaign trail for an hour and a half and sharing your ⁓ vision and your story with us. You're an impressive young man. And I just, have fun talking to you. Like, it's a lot of fun talking to you. Cefore X. Plosives: ⁓ yeah. Kyle Gauck: Thanks, dude. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. Kyle Gauck: Yeah, no, it's a time. I'm telling you, come on out, both of you, come on out to Connecticut. We'll film a little movie. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): and a couple rap videos. Hell yeah, let's do it. Cefore X. Plosives: That's what's up. Kyle Gauck: And I'm down 100 % and that's freestyle. There's no AI there. I'm down with that one. Cefore X. Plosives: Yeah. There we go. You're down for, you're down. All right. That's what's up. My man. ⁓ Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Ha Kyle Gauck: Hell yeah, I'm down to freestyle. used to do, used to do, I grew up thinking I was that. Cefore X. Plosives: Let's go. Ready for some bars. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Yes, sir. Kyle Gauck: Come on now, you can't stop this. Alright guys, thanks again, this was great. Carlos Gomez (Coconut Justice): Ah, and with that everybody, we're out. Cefore X. Plosives: Appreciate you, man. Peace.