Name: Andrew Huberman | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #585
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Andrew Huberman | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #585

Today's guest is a neuroscientist.
He's a professor, he's a podcaster.
He hosts one of the biggest shows in the world
called Huberman Lab,
where he focuses on helping us to become our best selves
and get the most out of our bodies.
I believe that he's one of the people
who's responsible for bringing health
and self-evaluation into the mainstream.
I'm grateful for the chance to finally link up today
with the one and only Andrew Huberman.
Whitney's been amazing to me.
Since I moved to LA, she kind of ushered me in.
I didn't really understand LA.
I moved to Topanga during the pandemic,
set up there with my bulldog,
started doing the podcast in a closet.
And she kind of taught me about LA
and I'd never done anything public facing.
Let's start.
You want to just start there?
Yeah, we can do it.
But we can talk.
I mean, I think we should mention
what a cute baby Henry is.
That kid is so cute.
Oh, the baby is beautiful.
I think bring up Henry.
Bring up Henry Cummins.
I don't even know if it's...
Has it ever staged?
I have no idea if the baby has a front name or last name.
I'm pretty sure it's Henry Cummings.
Oh, my God.
That's beautiful.
Oh, yeah.
Look at him.
He's got your haircut.
Wow.
He does, dude.
And you can tell he cuts it himself, too.
Yeah.
He's a...
You know, I've met him
and he's just such a good-natured kid.
He looks AI right there.
He looks like Dermot Kennedy a little as well there.
He loves animals, which is great
because she's, you know,
surrounded herself with animals.
Are you trying to attack a resemblance there?
I'm just saying the child has a slight resemblance
to the remarkable crooner, Dermot Kennedy.
And look.
Whoa, hold on.
Whoa, whoa, bro.
I'm gonna have to call my sponsor, dude.
Oh, wow.
That's a great photo.
That is super cool.
Yeah.
I think that last shirt says...
I think that shirt says single mom.
Yeah.
Ooh.
It's like a rock and roll.
Whitney's a punk rocker.
We have a lot of friends
through the punk rock community.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And she sometimes posts with Chris Cole,
who's a guy who grew up watching skateboarding.
He's a...
I think he's in the Tony Hawk skateboarder game.
Is he?
Bring him up.
Bring up a picture of Chris Cole.
I've heard of Nat King Cole
and I've heard of Cole.
There he is.
Yeah, he's a beast.
Famous for...
Oh.
Doing a tray flip down Wallenberg,
which in the Bay Area,
Wallenberg School is famous for stair.
Huge.
So, you know, he's...
Wallenberg, it's a staircase?
It's a school.
And so they call it Wallenberg for...
I grew up skateboarding.
And there it is.
Wallenberg's the third one down there.
Right?
Oh, yeah.
So this is like...
This is one of the things
that made Chris legendary.
That and he always had those silly wristbands on.
Not wrist guards, wristbands.
But this is a long time ago.
That's a lot bigger than it might look.
No, it's...
And you actually have to...
Now they build roll-ins,
but back then you would push in
down the avenues.
This is so sick.
It's just him trying it over and it's so cool.
Over and over and over.
Oh.
Oh.
And you can kind of start...
Even just watching this,
you start to gain the...
Oh, it is.
And it's all bolts, as they say.
He lands perfect.
God, it's just so crazy.
How many times...
It's just such a little piece of perfection.
It's like just such an organized,
specific moment,
like the point of a pin
when they land those things.
Super satisfying to watch.
It's got to feel incredible.
Yeah.
Oh, that's amazing.
He looks a little bit like your assistant
that came in today, too.
Oh, yeah.
He does look a little bit like Greg.
You're right.
They have a resemblance.
He looks a little bit like Greg, dude.
Yeah, and they're friends.
So that's interesting.
But...
But yeah, that baby.
God, I would have loved to have been her son
or been...
Or just had a change.
Yeah, even...
I'm glad that...
Yeah, I'm happy that she has a baby.
Well, and she's got that menagerie of animals
like Mona,
her pit bull Ridgeback mix.
I love.
I also...
I have a close relationship
to her Great Dane, Frank.
Oh, let me see that.
Like right now, I don't have a dog.
So a little while ago,
I was like,
I need some dog time.
So I went over there
and he thinks he's a puppy.
And he crawled up on me on the couch.
And that's a different one.
Frank's gray, but...
That one's mixed.
There he is.
That's probably Frank.
And he...
And I woke up at two in the morning.
She had covered us
with a blanket on the sofa
and Frank was breathing into my face.
And it was a moment.
But I love Great Danes
because they think they're little dogs,
but they're giant dogs.
So anyway,
never a dull moment
at Casa de Cummings.
No, she's always had excitement
and she definitely will free an animal
if there's even...
You know,
she'll release a damn animal
from anything.
Oh, if she hears that there's
like a dog running around in the street
or...
I think this is right.
Check me on this.
We'll have to ask her.
But a while back,
I think that she was
trying to rescue a giraffe.
You know,
you get these wealthy people
that have exotic animals.
They want a giraffe
or an elephant or something.
So she'll drop everything
and like go try and rescue a giraffe.
She's a real animal lover.
She's definitely...
Who's the guy?
William Wordsworth or whatever.
Who's...
No,
who had the animal movie?
Dr. Doolittle.
She's like the female Dr. Doolittle.
That's where you can talk to the animals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would love to see her do a show
just for animals,
even like a live performance
just for animals
and see how it goes.
But yeah,
she'll pet anything,
but I'm glad she's got
that beautiful baby over there.
Andrew Huberman,
good to see you, dude.
Great to meet you in person, finally.
We've corresponded a little bit,
but I'm a big fan.
And I heard your name mentioned
at the inauguration
of the president of the United States.
And I went,
this is wild.
Worlds colliding, right?
I think Dana White mentioned Joe Rogan
and you
at the inauguration
of the most powerful person
in the world.
And who else?
I'm sorry.
The Nelk boys.
Well, he mentioned us
and the Nelk boys
and then he mentioned
and the most powerful person,
Joe Rogan.
We definitely were like
just some satellites in the orbit,
but it was really sweet of him.
I mean,
I think you catch Dana White
at 2 a.m.,
you know,
and he'll drop
some different names and stuff.
But yeah,
that was crazy when that happened.
I remember my ex-girlfriend's mom
just texted me like
they just mentioned you
on the inauguration address
or something.
And I was like,
what is going on
that podcasting
has become this thing
as just such a part
of the universe,
you know?
What do you think it is?
You know,
like what do you think it is?
Because you may even have
more of a scientific look at it.
Why is podcasting just,
it's as common
as like somebody said
in the New York Times
five years ago.
Yeah,
I have a lot of thoughts
about this.
First of all,
it's interesting
that we looked
at skateboarding earlier.
I've been lucky enough
to get in on some things
in the early phase,
not the very earliest,
but the early phase
when things were kind of small
and there wasn't a lot
of money at first
and then things kind
of blow up.
When I was younger,
I got into skateboarding.
Every kid in my town
played soccer,
swam.
I got really excited
about skateboarding
when it was kind
of at a low point
in terms of like
there weren't
a lot of kids skateboarding.
It had gone through
a phase of popularity
than it had died
in the early 90s.
What town was that you're in?
I grew up
in the South Bay area.
So this is what now
is known as South Palo Alto
before the internet.
Oh, yeah.
So, you know,
we worked hard
when we were in high school
to get a skate park put in.
There weren't many skate parks.
It was really small.
We used to take the 7F bus
up to San Francisco,
the famed Embarcadero
or EMB crowd.
This is where people
like Rob Dyrdick
would show up.
Back then,
he didn't have his show.
Actually, the photographer
for my podcast,
my layback,
was taking photos
of all those guys.
A lot of those guys
now went on to have,
well, Rob Dyrdick's famous,
has his own show,
Ridiculousness,
and has done a bunch
of other things.
Robin Big.
Tony Hawk, of course,
has lasted through
all the peaks and valleys
of skateboarding.
Pretty impressive.
You know,
so back then,
it was really small.
I was going to contests
where I met Frank Hawk.
Tony's dad was kind of
running it a little bit
like a baseball league.
Bring him a picture of Frank Hawk.
You never see him, huh?
Yeah, Frank and Nancy Hawk.
I'll tell you a funny story,
actually.
When I was 14,
I went to a contest
at the Linda Vista Boys Club
out in the middle of nowhere.
And when the contest ended,
I was 14.
When the contest ended,
Frank came around
and asked me
and this kid,
Billy Waldman,
who was like,
they called him
the demon child.
He's kind of a wild one.
He was my friend.
If you put Billy Waldman,
demon child,
he'll show up.
You'll see it in his face.
Watch this.
Ready?
But that's what
a demon child looks like.
He was a good kid.
But in any case,
what ended up happening
was Frank was like,
hey, where are you guys going?
And we're like,
well, we don't know.
I was going to take the bus
to Lancaster,
see my friend Joe Rickerbosch
and somehow get home.
And he was like,
no, no, you guys can't do that.
He was like a real protective dad.
So he and Nancy Hawk
took me in.
I got to stay
in Tony Hawk's bedroom
that night
with all the trophies everywhere.
And they took me out to dinner
and I'll never forget.
And this is how
I got back in touch
with Tony in recent years.
They had black coffee
after dinner
at like 8 p.m.
And I'd never seen that.
So a few years ago
on Instagram,
I wrote to Tony
and said,
hey, you know,
your parents took me in
when I was a little bit stranded.
And if you don't believe me,
they drink coffee
at 8.30 p.m.
after dinner.
He wrote back
and he goes,
no way,
you're the only person.
The only way to know that
is to actually have
a meal with them.
So anyway,
you know,
skateboarding back then,
I got out of it.
I wasn't very good.
Okay.
I got put on a team
out of sympathy.
I tried,
but I kept getting hurt.
You say a team,
what do you mean?
Sponsored.
And I think the Dutch
drink coffee late at night.
Bring that up real quick.
Who's drinking coffee
very late at night?
Or see if Tony Hawk
is Amsterdamian,
if he's an Amsterdamian guy.
I believe he looks
Amsterdamian to me.
Tony is like 6'5".
I know the Dutch are tall.
And his son
is tall as well.
You can pick a more
perfect last name
for a professional skateboarder,
right?
Well,
that's another reason
I believe that he's all,
in addition to his talent,
which has helped him
stand the test of time
is such a moniker.
There's nothing like that.
Tony Hawk,
it's totally.
Tony is the most relatable
name in the world.
And then just like,
who don't want to be like,
Tony Hawk is a predominantly
British Isles descent.
Oh,
damn.
I was hoping we'd get him
in Amsterdam.
All right.
That's all good.
But yeah.
So what were you saying,
brother?
Sorry.
Yeah.
No.
So got into that early
and then got hurt.
You got put on a team,
you said.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I got sponsored
by a company called
Thunder Trucks,
Spitfire Wheels.
They put me on
out of sympathy.
I'm still friends
with the team manager
from back then.
And he'll tell you
it was out of sympathy.
But I got to see
a lot of friends
turn pro,
start companies.
Danny Way and Colin McKay
started DC.
Oh, yeah.
BDC,
which eventually
sold to Quicksilver.
They did that also
with Ken Block,
who was a rally car driver.
Unfortunately,
passed away a few years ago.
He was the guy
that do Jim Conno,
all the driving around cities,
you know,
jump.
You haven't seen Jim Conno
in San Francisco?
Oh, man.
We're bringing back
all the stuff.
Well, this is awesome.
Pull this up.
So if you look at
San Francisco
and you say
Ken Block,
this is,
I mean,
so Ken unfortunately
died in this
snowmobile accident
a few years ago.
But this on YouTube
is unbelievable.
I would go to
the middle of it
to reall