An odd fellow

So, out of sordid curiosity I did read that profile of Andrew Huberman, who I had briefly watched on Youtube, but only once or twice.  Here's how Daily Beast starts its description of the article:

Andrew Huberman is a straight-talking science podcaster known for his hours-long episodes about biohacking, and for having muscles almost as big as his brain. But the new-media darling has a secret mental asset revealed Monday by New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: the flexibility and logistical acuity to manage multiple concurrent affairs with women spread across the continental U.S.

He certainly seems a very odd man, and the oddest thing in the article was his claim (made through a spokesman, apparently) that the long term girlfriend whose story is the backbone of the article was going through IVF with him not to necessarily have children, but to create embryos together.  What sense does that make?  IVF is no walk in the park, by all accounts, and doing it to only "make embryos" just doesn't make much sense.  (Unless he thought he could sell them via his Youtube videos, or something!) 

There was also a comment following the article (which I can't copy now, as it has gone behind a paywall) from some woman who claimed she had some dates with him, before soon deciding he was such a weirdo that she (a bit facetiously, I think) feared for her life if she slept over at his place.  Seemed to me a bit "brave" of the magazine to leave that comment there.   

Anyway, it's interesting that many on the Right think he is the victim of a "witch hunt" because he has been on shows like Joe Rogan.   Apparently, though, he generally has avoided politics in his podcast career, but it seems he is pretty popular with at least part of the (what?) "self improvement bro community". 

I don't know:  if a person is going to make a career, and a lucrative one, out of self improvement advice (an article says his podcast topics include: fitness, learning, creativity, hormones, fertility, grief, trauma, and happiness) I think there is a legitimate public interest if his own life is something of a complex mess, relationship wise.

I mean, I'm sure a lot of Right wingers enjoyed Paul Johnson's book Intellectuals (I know I did!) which was entirely about (mostly) Left leaning public intellectuals whose personal life was in complete contradiction to their public views.   

Sure, Johnson did only deal with people who were already dead:  but if you are going to try to juggle not just 2 or 3, but 5 girlfriends at once while being media famous, you have to expect public exposure if caught out.