Student Debt on the Joe Rogan Experience
3 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Feb 2019 to Oct 2022 · updated Jul 12, 2026
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- Joe Rogan (1)
- Bernie Sanders (1)
- Andrew Yang (1)
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“These people are $150,000, $200,000 in the hole, and some of them actually wind up getting their Social Security docked when they're in their 60s because they …”
Rogan claims many student loan borrowers are $150,000-$200,000 in debt and some have their Social Security benefits garnished in their 60s over unpaid student loans.
“That will cost $2.2 trillion... We do this through a tax on Wall Street speculation, which will bring in $2.4 trillion. We bailed out Wall Street 11 years ago.”
Sanders claims cancelling all student debt and making public college tuition-free would cost $2.2 trillion, fully funded by a Wall Street speculation tax projected to raise $2.4 trillion.
“if something devastating happens to you in any other form you can file for bankruptcy but you never escape your student loans no matter what happens to you”
Yang claims that unlike other debts, student loans can never be discharged in bankruptcy no matter what happens to the borrower.