Sage Steele Confuses Dana White for Joe Rogan in Interview

Veteran sports commentator Sage Steele is embarking on a new journey with The Sage Steele Show. The brand-new podcast debuted March 26 as a part of Bill Maher's Club Random network, and her first guest for the inaugural episode was UFC president and CEO Dana White. Toward the end of their interview, however, Steele apparently forgot who she was talking to. 

For her last question, Steele asked White a simple query: "What is Joe Rogan's dream?" White tilted his head and repeated "What's Joe Rogan's dream?" Steele replied "Joe Rogan, Dana White" and realized she'd mixed up the two names, then chuckled and tapped White's leg in apology before asking the question again with a correction: "What's Dana White's dream?"

White didn't immediately answer and wanted to confirm what just happened. "Did you just think I was Joe Rogan?" he said after taking a sip from his mug. Steele fessed up, admitting "I totally did" as she smiled and dropped her head. 

"She just called me f--kin' Joe Rogan!" White said to someone off-camera before turning back to Steele. "You just called me f--kin' Joe Rogan!" Steele implied that she knew the difference between the two and that it was just a slip-up. 

White acknowledged how similar he and Rogan look today, but the UFC head was quick to point out that he's been rocking his hairstyle—or lack thereof—longer than Rogan has. "I was bald before Joe was ever bald, okay?" He later stated plainly that he flew in for the interview and sat down with her for two hours only to be mistaken for someone else. "I flew here from Vegas and she thought she was interviewing Joe Rogan," he said. 

Steele, for her part, explained that it wasn't necessarily the bald look that tripped her up. "Joe Rogan and Dana White are literally the only two people that I have the [utmost] respect for because of how you freaking stood up and support others, so forgive that [mistake]," she said. 

As for the answer to Steele's original question, White reflected on his health journey in recent years and examined how he views his life and his career. "I'm always trying to be better than I was today. Tomorrow I want to be better than I am today. So how do I achieve that? I set these short-term goals, whether it's a year, two years, three years, depending on what it is in my life or my business," he said. "I guess my dreams would be to reach these goals that I set for myself and my life. That's it."

"It's not that I dream. Dreaming doesn't get you anything. Setting goals gets you everything," he concluded. "Dreams don't accomplish anything. Goals do." 

White laughed off the name mix-up and shared that people on the street come up to him all the time to take photos with him thinking he's actually Rogan. So if you run into either of them, make sure you know which one you're talking to.