As someone that always got the creeps from this guy and got tired of seeing him all over social media promoting his nonsense with his whole “I’m a professor at Stanford” act, this article is cathartic and somewhat vindicating to read.

The long and the short of it is that while preaching self control, cutting out toxicity from your life, and creating peace, he proceeded to have affairs with five or six different women at the same time, with unprotected sex and potential spreading of STDs/STIs, along with cheating on the woman he was trying to have a child with, as well as ghosting pretty much everyone in his life constantly. He also made up a dubious backstory to hide the nepotism that allowed him to have a career at Stanford:

What does seem certain is that in his adolescence, Andrew became a regular consumer of talk therapy. In therapy, one learns to tell stories about one’s experience. A story one could tell is: I overcame immense odds to be where I am. Another is: The son of a Stanford professor, born at Stanford Hospital, grows up to be a Stanford professor.

For context with this paragraph, Huberman talks about the benefits of therapy all the time:

Andrew’s relationship to therapy remains intriguing. “We were at dinner once,” says Eve, “and he told me something personal, and I suggested he talk to his therapist. He laughed it off like that wasn’t ever going to happen, so I asked him if he lied to his therapist. He told me he did all the time.”

As a summary for how his podcast is filled with projection:

With repeated listening to the podcast, one discerns a man undergoing, in public, an effort to understand himself. There are hours of talking about addiction, trauma, dopamine, and fear. Narcissism comes up consistently. One can see attempts to understand and also places where those attempts swerve into self-indulgence.

  • LarsAdultsen [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I feel like his solo podcasts aren’t all that bad. Gets straight to the topic at hand without any meandering. Some of the guests he platforms and his appearances in other media, though, tend to brush up against manosphere territory.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 months ago

      Yeah his podcast episode on alcohol is probably one of the best pieces of publicly available media with regards to explaining the terrible health effects alcohol has on the body, if you ignore his thinly veiled dislike for everyone who drinks alcohol. So he does make some good content. Though his content has always been straight up manosphere for me, like a scientific Joe Rogan.

      I just found some of the preaching he does annoying and thought there was no way he actually believed or practiced it.