Must-See Interview with Kerry Howley Reveals Shocking Insights About Andrew Huberman – Exclusively from New York Media!
Andrew Huberman in one of his own YouTube videos.
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NY's The latest cover story is a deep dive into Andrew Huberman, one of the biggest podcasters on the planet and a Stanford tenured professor who has attracted millions of acolytes by preaching self-discipline and healthy lifestyle habits. Feature Writer Kerry Howley find in your Huberman Laboratory podcast “a world where the gentle art of self-care becomes concrete, where Goop-adjacent platitudes find solidity in peer review,” dubious product endorsements alongside genuinely helpful lifestyle tips from which She and her family benefited. Howley also finds a wide gap between Huberman's public persona, featured on her own podcast and as a guest on others, and how she conducts her private life. “In private, he could sometimes seem less concerned about the patriarchy. [than he did on his podcast]”Howley writes. “Several women remember him saying that he preferred the type of relationship in which the woman was monogamous but the man was not.” From the story she tells about his childhood to the state of his Stanford lab, there's a distance between his podcast persona and what Howley's reports show.
“We talk a lot about parasocial relationships from the perspective of an adoring audience and less about the relationship in the other direction,” Howley says. “A giant platform is an opportunity to create and control a narrow personality; How does that affect relationships outside of acting?
Howley has written for NY since 2015 and on staff since 2021; his features in Marjorie Dannenfelserinsurrectionists of January 6, and Larry Nassar They were finalists for the National Magazine Awards. She is the screenwriter of Winner, a film starring Emilia Jones, Connie Britton and Zach Galifianakis that debuted at Sundance in 2024.
Elsewhere in the issue, David Freedlander profiles Frank Carone, former chief of staff to Mayor Eric Adams and master practitioner of an era of unabashedly transactional government in New York City; Michael Wolff discusses former CNN and NBCUniversal leader Jeff Zucker's misadventure on Fleet Street; and The Cut debuts Fashion Pages, a new occasional feature in the inaugural issue spotlighting the women running Harlem's top cultural institutions.