FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/8OFnIlpPiXo Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT JACK's LINKS: IG: https://www.instagram.com/jackmaccfb/ X: https://x.com/JackMac YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UCX6n8xOugI3IYqzhDCK8_yA --- Jack Mac is a Barstool Sports personality who hosts Unpack With Jack Mac a nightly news show on his social channels that combine to an audience well over 1 million followers. He sits down with Julian Dorey for the most culturally specific and most personally revealing conversation in the series — covering Clavicular's strange rise and the Gen-Z looksmaxxing epidemic it has produced, whether Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel, how the Clavicular situation will end, the Prime McGregor parallel, the I Am You Theory, the kids Jack went to school with and what they reveal about how this all actually works on the ground, the Clavicular Elon Musk connection, the trust fund debate, what it means to be born in America, team players, and what Julian and Jack think parenting will actually look like in the era they are inheriting. The Clavicular strange rise thread is the episode's most culturally significant and most immediately alarming contribution. Clavicular has become one of the most followed and most discussed figures in the Gen-Z male identity and looksmaxxing space — a content creator whose specific aesthetic philosophy and specific claims about male physical optimization have produced a documented epidemic of looksmaxxing behavior among young men that Jack Mac argues is one of the most important and most consistently misframed cultural stories operating right now. The specific mechanism through which Clavicular went from obscure to culturally dominant is examined in full — and the Peter Thiel funding question is the most structurally alarming dimension of that rise. The is Clavicular funded by Peter Thiel thread is the episode's most immediately alarming and most structurally significant contribution. Jack Mac has a specific theory about the funding behind Clavicular's rise — the specific financial and ideological interests that would explain both the speed of the growth and the specific content philosophy that has driven it. The Peter Thiel connection is not confirmed but the theory is specific documented in its logic and alarming in its implications for what the looksmaxxing epidemic is actually designed to produce in Gen-Z male culture. The I Am You Theory thread is the episode's most analytically original and most personally revealing contribution. Jack Mac's I Am You Theory is the most important single analytical framework in the entire Clavicular conversation — it implies a specific and documented psychological mechanism through which looksmaxxing content creates the specific parasocial identification that makes Clavicular's audience so loyal and so immune to outside critique. Julian Dorey examines the theory and what it reveals about the broader Gen-Z male identity crisis that Clavicular is both reflecting and producing. **Inside This Clip:** - Clavicular's strange rise — the specific mechanism of the growth and why it matters - The Gen-Z looksmaxxing epidemic and what Clavicular has produced in young male culture - Is Clavicular funded by Peter Thiel — Jack Mac's specific theory and the logic behind it - How the Clavicular situation will end — Jack Mac's prediction and why - Prime McGregor and the I Am You Theory — the most important analytical framework in the conversation - The kids Jack Mac went to school with and what they reveal about how looksmaxxing actually works - Clavicular and Elon Musk — the specific connection Jack Mac identifies - The trust fund debate and what it reveals about the specific class dynamics of looksmaxxing culture - What it means to be born in America — Julian and Jack on privilege responsibility and team players - What parenting will look like in the era of looksmaxxing Clavicular and the identity crisis it is producing This is the Gen-Z looksmaxxing epidemic examined by the one content creator who has been close enough to the culture to know how it actually works — and the conversation that asks the most important question: who benefits from making young men believe their value is entirely physical. --- ***TIMESTAMPS*** 00:00 - Clavicular's Strange Rise & Looksmaxxing Epidemic in Gen-Z 12:00 - Is Clavicular Funded by Peter Thiel & How the Clav Situation Will End 24:47 - Prime McGregor & the I Am You Theory 36:58 - Jack on Kids He Went to School With Clav & Elon Musk & Trust Fund Debate 47:27 - Being Born in the USA Team Players & Julian and Jack on Parenting 53:31 - Jack's Work @JulianDoreyDaily