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The Pointless Andrew Huberman Hot Take Ecoystem (OK, I’ll Join)
By now, you may be familiar with the New York Magazine “hit piece” on popular podcaster Dr. Andrew Huberman, which has served its place in a 48-hour Internet cycle well: something gets released (content #1), and then a bunch of follow-up and downstream reaction needs to get released (content #s 2–1,549), and everyone needs to weigh the takes instead of doing something more important with their lives. It has served us well for about 15 years at this point.
The basic TL:DR on this: Huberman is a Stanford professor and popular podcaster. You can argue he has the №1 health-related podcast in the world. It is Rogan-esque in terms of the episodes are often three to five hours, but not “conspiracy”-laden like Rogan can be. You could maybe classify Huberman as “alt-right” in that he is very masculine, speaks more to men than women, and he is theoretically “anti-Big Pharma” in that he talks about natural healing and approaches to being healthy. While many conservatives still take campaign money from Big Pharma, the current “on-brand” of MAGA/Republicans is to be “anti” Big Pharma, so Huberman aligns with them on that side, and thus I guess you could call him “alt-right” in some ways. He’s really just a doctor tho.
Huberman is pretty vocal about not being married, and doesn’t really discuss his personal life. He has done episodes about sexual function and maximizing sex, sure, but he doesn’t spread his gossip all over the Internet or his shows.
What happened in this article is that you learn he sometimes “juggles” women, I.e. up to five to six at a time. On one day in March of 2021, apparently he slept with three women in a day and saw five women total, all of whom purportedly thought they were in an “exclusive” dynamic with him. There are many YouTube videos trying to recap all this, but this one probably does the best job:
