Joe Rogan isn’t interested in giving Sage Steele much grief for mixing him up with Dana White during her recent interview with the UFC CEO.
Former ESPN anchor Steele went viral when, during a sit down interview with the longtime UFC boss, she asked him, “What’s Joe Rogan’s dream?”
White was instantly puzzled by the question, and called Steele out about whether she thought she was interviewing the famous UFC commentator and podcast host Rogan.
Dana White gets mistaken for Joe Rogan by podcast host 😂
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— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) March 27, 2024
The exchange quickly spread around the internet, and many people have taken their chance to poke fun at Steele. As someone who has hosted countless podcast interviews and made his share of mistakes, though, Rogan wasn’t keen to pile on Steele. But he certainly found the incident amusing.
“People call me Dana – I’ve been called Dana before,” Rogan said on the most recent episode of “The JRE MMA Show” podcast. “People go, ‘Oh, it’s Dana!’ I go, ‘No, I’m the other dude.’ It happens all the time. I think she just made a mental flub. When you’re doing a podcast and you’re interviewing someone, especially if you haven’t done a lot of them and it’s a high-profile thing and you’re doing Dana White, you’re always thinking of what to say.
“Even the question is like, ‘What’s your dream?’ It’s not even it a crazy question. It’s like I don’t know what to ask you so I’m like, ‘What’s your dream?’ So she’s probably floundering there a little and doesn’t know what to say. It’s f*cking weird having a conversation live with someone in real time.”
Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra was one of the guests on Rogan’s podcast where he reacted to the Steele interview, and he said he’s been mistaken for both Rogan and White in the past.
It’s not the first time this has happen, and it almost certainly won’t be the last. But Rogan credits Steel for standing by her mishap.
“She handled it the right way,” Rogan said. “She kept it in there. She didn’t edit it out. It’s funny. It’s just a flub. I do it all the time. It happens.”