California on the Joe Rogan Experience

“Do you know how much the drug companies alone spent to defeat that effort? They spent $131 million on one ballot item in one state.”

Sanders claims drug companies spent $131 million to defeat a 2016 California drug-pricing ballot measure (Prop 61).

“Brown bears have been extinct in California since the 1800s.”

Rogan claims brown bears (grizzlies) have been extinct in California since the 1800s.

“Well, they've had massive results. They've increased the homeless population dramatically. If you pay for something, you get more of it.”

Carlson claims California's homelessness spending directly caused a dramatic increase in the homeless population, framing government aid as the driver.

“And these people that are running this homelessness initiative or whatever the fuck they call it, they're making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, some …”

Carlson claims homelessness-initiative operators are personally making up to a quarter million dollars a month.

“But when they did that study where they said that they had no data, like, how are you? What? You can't say whether or not it's doing anything? Well, how'd you …”

Carlson claims California spent $24 billion on homelessness while a state audit found no data on outcomes.