#1331 - Alonzo Bodden

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Hello, Alonzo.

Alonzo Bodden (0:05)

What is up, Joe?

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Good to see you, my brother.

Alonzo Bodden (0:07)

Man, it is so good to be back.

It's my first time seeing the new joint. It's absolutely amazing.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Yeah, I thought you had been here, the new spot.

Alonzo Bodden (0:15)

No, like I said, you were building this when I did the last one. And this is, when you said you could do everything here, it's like, yeah, this is the bunker. I don't live that far from here.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Come on down.

Alonzo Bodden (0:25)

So when the bomb hits, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to Joe's spot.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Well, if you live in the, if you're in the neighborhood, you want to use the gym. It's always open.

Alonzo Bodden (0:32)

Thanks.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Come on down.

Alonzo Bodden (0:33)

I'll bring canned goods.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Bring water. Bring water purifiers.

Yeah. If the shit hits the fan, Bernie had me nervous. Bernie Sanders was just here. He had me nervous.

Alonzo Bodden (0:43)

About?

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Climate change. Whenever someone brings up climate change, it's like a bill that you didn't pay. You're like, ah, fuck.

Alonzo Bodden (0:49)

Yeah, it's real.

And okay, so now I'm going to do my first shameless plug for my new special. Oh, it's out.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

When is it out now?

Alonzo Bodden (0:56)

It's August 23rd on Amazon Prime.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

You're one of the new wave of Amazon specials. I'm very excited about this.

Alonzo Bodden (1:03)

Yeah, they're testing the water, so it's good to be in. So it's called Heavy Lightweight, and I call it that because I do some heavy topics, and then I mix it in with lightweight shit, because that's like if you do all heavy, like it's, wow, that was depressing. And you know, and I talk about the climate change thing, but it's like, to be honest, like look, I'm a black man, 57, I got what? Like, 10 years left, I don't give a shit.

You know what I'm saying? Like statistically, God bless you millennials, I wish you luck, but I had a good run. No kids.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

By the way, you look amazing for 57

Alonzo Bodden (1:37)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

But it don't crack.

Alonzo Bodden (1:39)

Well, and this is what I talk about, right up until the day it does, right? So like, literally, right till the day before I die, look great, and then, what happened? Some bitch died. From what? Black.

Been black his whole life, shit just caught up with him. He got fucking diabetes, sickle cell, and high blood pressure in the same day.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

A wave of malady.

Alonzo Bodden (1:59)

But no, but the climate change thing is real, but I think the big problem is, it's slow. It's not dramatic. So people, it's easy to not think about it because, you know, yeah, the ocean's rising, but it's an inch a year.

Which, you know, I may not, that may not be exact, but you know what I mean. It's not a lot. Right, so people don't, people don't see it with the urgency. And I think that's why you have the young Congress people talking about it, because they're like, hey, this is going to be in our lifetime, right? But then you have the older generation where it's like, eh, you know.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

It's interesting. I'm pretty sure, and we should check this, make sure this is correct, and I think we learned about this from Randall Carlson, that the increased CO2 rates also increases vegetation, because vegetation and greenery, they use carbon dioxide, the increased rates, actually, this is like one of the greenest times ever.

Alonzo Bodden (2:59)

Yeah, but I wonder how does that offset versus the, there's less land for these plants to grow on, you know what I mean? So when you look at rainforests, jungles, things like that.

SPEAKER_3 (3:11)

It's the opposite of that.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

What does it say?

SPEAKER_3 (3:13)

That it makes it harder for them to grow.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

What article says that? Is there any articles that say that's not the case?

Because it seems like that's not something Randall would lie about. He was talking about how this is like one of the most green times ever and the increase of forest and green trees.

SPEAKER_3 (3:36)

Honestly, I guess I'm seeing both of them then. So the very first things that pop up are high carbon levels make it harder for plants to grow from think progress, second thing, increase carbon dioxide levels and air restrict plants ability to absorb nutrients from science.gu.se, it's another country, I think Sweden, then NASA says...