#1293 - Andrew Santino

Jamie (0:02)

Boom, and we're live.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Cheeto Santino, ladies and gentlemen, come you with the hot ones.

Andrew Santino (0:07)

Hello, sir, how are you?

Joe Rogan (0:08)

What's going on, Big Daddy?

Andrew Santino (0:09)

Good, brother. Just played a little bit of pool and lost a game, and lost one illegitimately.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

You won one illegitimate, you mean?

Andrew Santino (0:18)

Lost, you lost one illegitimately, I won one, yeah. You know, scratching is not a good way to win.

Jamie (0:23)

I scratched an eight ball, ladies and gentlemen.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

It is the way to win.

Andrew Santino (0:26)

It happens, even to the best.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

But it's a real way to win. I'm good.

You must control the cue ball.

Andrew Santino (0:34)

I have no balance over any of that stuff whatsoever. I know there's those little red dots on there.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Yeah, those are.

Andrew Santino (0:39)

It means nothing to me.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Those little red dots, they call that the measles cue ball. And that cue ball, they've developed for television so that you can watch the ball spin so you know what kind of English the guy puts on the ball.

Andrew Santino (0:50)

That has nothing to do with the person that's shooting whatsoever.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

It does. Yeah, it's the person that, like, for the most, it's a very controversial ball if you really want to get into it.

Andrew Santino (1:00)

I do.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Because it has a different reaction than a red circle cue ball or a red dot cue ball. Those are the preferred cue balls of a lot of players.

Jamie (1:09)

But the measles cue ball is just maybe the tiniest bit heavier or the surface is different or something.

Andrew Santino (1:17)

But it's still legal. People use it in tournaments?

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Okay. But some players got angry when they came up with it. They didn't like it. They liked the old cue ball. That's how precise the reactions are. When you get to the very top level of pool players.

Andrew Santino (1:30)

Well, it's kind of like golf balls. When people think golf balls don't mean anything to golfers, they do.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Oh, I'm sure.

Andrew Santino (1:34)

The feel is, so there's a lot of softer golf balls. Like a lot of people, like Titleist makes pro V1s or pro V1Xs, harder or softer. The average Joe who's full of shit, who's like, I like pro V1X, it doesn't mean anything to him.

Some guy that's like a 15 or 20 handicap, it means nothing. A guy that's like a scratch golfer, like a pro pool player, it makes all the difference.

How it comes off the face, how it spins. There's a thing called a mud ball.

If it's buried in mud, it reacts differently the moment it comes off the face.

Jamie (2:02)

Because it has mud on it.

Andrew Santino (2:03)

Yeah, but it's just even a little bit, right?

Jamie (2:05)

Yeah, that makes sense.

Andrew Santino (2:05)

Even the tiniest bit. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

That weight. The thing about what's impressive about golfers, too, is they play with a bunch of different weights of clubs.

Like a pool player basically uses one cue and maybe one cue to break with, and some players even break with their playing cue. But you don't have a bunch of different cues for a bunch of different shots, usually.

Well, just get used to the feel of one cue. So when a player changes cues, like say if you go from an 18-ounce cue to a 21-ounce cue, there's a big difference in the way it hits the ball. It drives through the ball different. You have to make the cue do more of the work with a heavy cue.

Andrew Santino (2:40)

Do you think it mentally changes the way you strike it?

Joe Rogan (2:42)

Totally, yeah. It's focused on people's heads. That's what's so impressive about golfers. They got all these different weights. Everything's different shaped, and it's different.

Andrew Santino (2:50)

There's a guy, I think his name is Bryson DeChambeau. I think that's the golfer. He uses, all his clubs are cut to the same length, which is really rare. Nobody does that. Like almost every club set you get is all different length clubs.

And he is, people did it years and years ago, but he's like one of the only guys on tour that now cuts his clubs to the same length, because he mentally wants to have the same exact stance over the ball, no matter the shot.

It's pretty smart.