Clavicular Is a Symptom, Not The Cause (with F.D. Signifier and Kat Tenbarge)

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to podmax. The Internet’s biggest rising star is a 20-year-old from New Jersey named Braden Peters, and he wants your sons to hit their jaws with hammers so they can get girlfriends. Not great! But in my quest to explain Clavicular, I encountered other, bigger problems: a generation of young people who know the American social contract is broken, a generation of older people who don’t care, and a media industry that feeds off rage at the expense of reality. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today’s sponsors! Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity Watch F.D. Signifier on YouTube. Follow F.D. Signifier on Instagram. Read Kat’s work at Spitfire News. Follow Kat on Bluesky. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	not this ASMR.
0:14.1	This is a visual-based joke so the people who are only listening to the podcast aren't going to get it.
0:18.5	I bought a hammer for this, guys. I'm doing
0:21.5	props now. I'm hitting the microphone with the hammer so that it's a microphone fibers will grow back
0:27.1	stronger. Matt, I love the reveal that you didn't have a hammer. I'm happy you said it because I thought the same thing like, damn, you got to at least have a hammer.
0:42.3	You don't have a tool.
0:44.3	I had to go out and buy a hammer.
0:46.3	It is a nice one, too.
0:48.3	It is neon with grips.
0:50.3	1299, baby.
1:03.8	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFrudy.
1:04.7	I'm Matt Bernstein.
1:06.1	I'm so happy that you're here.
1:12.6	I recently spent a weekend at a leadership conference where I was invited in my capacity as a podcaster and where most people were a lot older than me.
1:16.9	We're going to talk more about that later.
1:18.5	But I got pulled into multiple conversations over the course of the weekend where people
1:23.7	wanted me to explain to them clavicular and looks maxing, mostly because they kept hearing
1:29.6	those words from their kids. Clivicular is the online pseudonym for the 20-year-old
1:34.2	Braden Peters, a radical men's self-improvement, in heavy air quotes, influencer, who advocates
1:41.5	for all manner of aesthetic intervention, including weight loss, GLP1s,
1:47.0	peptides, testosterone injections, a variety of what he calls pharmaceuticals, and at times, crystal
1:54.3	meth. He's perhaps most famous for his practice of bone smashing, a pseudoscientific wellness practice that involves taking a hammer
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