ZM's Bree & Clint - Bree & Clint's After Party: Clint hates sincere compliments

Episode Date: September 8, 2026

This is a real deep dive into the psyche of one Clint Roberts and his aversion to complimenting people on the radio.  Bree Tomasel & Clint Roberts on ZM - find us @breeandclint on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I must confess that my loneliness. Welcome to the after party, everybody. It's good to have you here. God, I struggled to get out of bed this morning. Me too. What time did you get up? Oh, an unknown number's calling me. Oh, pick it up live.

Oh, I'm scared. Do it live. Do it. I already stopped calling. Scam. Call them back. Look, and it doesn't even have a miss call. Oh, oh, no. I know who it is.

Oh. No. It's a friend of mine. They obviously realised their number was still on private and then changed it. Oh, wow. Yeah. They set their number to private. I told them the other day.

I was like, your number's on private. Oh. I'll call them back. Creepy. What were we talking about? Oh, boring shit. I struggled to go to bed this morning. Yeah.

I snooze my, I sleep, didn't go to the gym. What time did you get up? 20 past six. Fuck. Wait. My alarm was. God, what a big sleep. My alarm was set for 5.15.

You poor thing. Huge leaping. I don't want to do this anymore. I know, but it throws my week out. My routine's ruined. Better than throwing your back out. Am I right? Well, to be honest, I'm so stressed and so overwhelmed.

I didn't go to the gym today either. Look at us. Just wallowing in South Pity. I read. What are you reading? Yesterday. I swear going to the gym. makes me go backwards in fitness.

That doesn't make sense. I'm so, I'm just sore all the time, all the time. You have to get a run on though. No, I have been getting a run on. Oh, okay. And then I was like, oh, sweet, I'm not a sore. Nah, I just wasn't working as hard at the gym and then I did a hard session. Just as sore.

You still on the creatine? Nah, I'm on and off. Really good for recovery. Yeah, that's what they say. How's the creatine going that I gave you? It's tasty, nice. You taking it? Yeah.

I gave Claudia creatine for her brain injury. And I'm healed. I'm smarter than ever. I don't mean to sound like Andrew Huberman dishing out creatine advice. Fuck, this might be my worst nightmare of a podcast. You work for big creatine. Am I?

Oh yeah, I've got fingers in big creatine. Probably not in the one you gave me. No. No, I didn't finger your creatine. Thank God. Put his tongue in it instead. That's much worse. Are you still sad, Ella?

Ella started the day-to-day sad because the countdown is all. I woke up this morning with a like a bbba-ha heartbeat. Came in. Everyone's wearing black. Yeah. Everyone's true black. So on Friday, we've got leaving drinks for Ella with the whole station at 12 o'clock.

Ella, notorious lightweight. Can't handle two drinks. Can't handle more than two drinks. Half a drink some days. We've got Ella's leaving drinks. And then we've got to come and do the whole radio show. Yeah. So what's your plan of attack?

I think I'll just go have lunch, maybe have one drink. and it would be good vibes, right? So just ride that wave during the show as well. It'll be busy, ride that wave, and then get drunk. You get drunk after? Maybe have a little drinkies during the show. They can't fire you. Yeah, you're leaving.

Yeah, but I guess I'll do that. I'm going to say something nice about you guys as well, so you have to give me time to do that. I want a slot. You want a what? You want a what? A slot in the show. Yeah, you can have a... Put me in.

You can... Clint's worst nightmare is a circle jerk. I'm sorry, but I might do it. Can I be a circle jerk? It'll be a one-way jerk. Why isn't your worst- Why isn't your worst nightmare, you reckon? Because the circle is closed.

It's you jerking you and you jerk and me and you jerking me. No one outside of this circle's getting jerked. They're just all watching the jerk. And jerk-el are off. Yeah, nice. Yeah, but isn't it nice? Don't you think that isn't it nice to hear people appreciate friends or their colleagues

like to say nice things about each other or no yeah it is nice yeah don't you think the world needs more of that more compliments i know not every day yeah not every day because look at clit look at clit he hates it so much i want to say nice things to ella can you and i will good yeah it's just well you don't want to do it no i want to do it No, this is me just being genuinely curious. Why do you think it makes you so uncomfortable?

Like, I'm just being, like, I'm genuinely, genuinely curious. Like, where do you think that stems from? It's a good question. Yeah. But it does make me uncomfortable. Yeah. But I'm not going to make it all about me. It's not even about me.

It's Ella's leaving thing. Aren't you guys interested? I mean, if it's coming from a place of Clint just being like, the listeners don't care about us or jerking each other off, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that you've misinterpreted me there. Okay, well, that's what I'm assuming. Because people do care that you are leaving. Wait, I was getting somewhere with him.

No, no, no. And now you're bloody taking it back somewhere else. We won't love at you, Clint. Like, I'm genuinely curious as to why. Like, and it's not just you. Like, I feel like a lot, mainly men, but not all men, but a lot of men feel uncomfortable in this area. Yeah.

Don't they? Circle jure. Well, the gay men don't No, no, they're all about it And they're more in touch with their feelings So I'm not out of touch with my feelings Okay? No, I said that, you said that, we didn't say that

No, put me in, put me in for a whole jerk On Friday, okay? I'm up for it We can do a multi-break jerk if you want Oh, fuck, no Yeah, let's do four breaks on it. We do one each. We can do the whole four o'clock hour.

No, now you've made it a thing. Yeah, I don't want to do it anymore No, you have, no No Yeah No I don't get it out of the show That's great

No no No no Now it sounds like I don't care about Ella That's not what it is I don't think that's what it sounds like In the previous podcast we've done it We were like to compliment each other Oh fuck those

That's what I'm saying No we do that when Clint's not here Yeah We love it And for good reason It's okay But isn't Doesn't a compliment

From someone Who really engaged is in a compliment circle jerk. Doesn't it hit with a little bit more, you know, when you get you like, oh my God, I just got a compliment from someone who doesn't always get a compliment. No.

Trying to make yourself more valuable. Yeah. That's fine. I get it. Trying to create scarcity. But that's all good. What else is going on? I would love to know.

I'd love to, I'm so invested in this now. If you are like Clint, why do you think it makes you so uncomfortable? No, no, no, not why you're like. this but why do you what do you think it is um yeah I don't have a problem telling you guys how I feel about you no I just don't need to hear it but I don't think it's an area that you are comfortable in is it hearing compliments or giving them out which is worse for you I think Clint loves getting compliments

about himself no I like a superficial compliment I don't like a favorite type of compliments it's true that's what I meant yeah yeah I don't enjoy your heart felt compliment. Why? If I get, if I get, geez, you're looking good, Clint. I like that one. You don't like your inner self to be perceived.

No. That's fair. No, I don't want to connect with you. I'm trying to think of what a compliment I would rather. All compliments. I don't mind. Yeah, any are valid. I don't think I'm good at taking a compliment, but.

Do you believe that you have to give a compliment back when you receive a compliment? I think it makes it disingenuous. It does. It does. Yeah. It does. So I feel like if you can try and refrain from... You've got to go, thanks.

Thanks. That may be... Without sounding like an asshole who's like, I know. No, you can say, you can be like... You're right, because it's so awkward if someone's like, man, you were looking for at the moment. You go, oh my God, thank you. So are you. You go, no, I'm not.

Ready? Let me try and you tell me if you could tell that I was just doing it back to you, ready? God, geez, you're looking good at the moment, Breer? You've been doing weight. I was just thinking this about you when I saw you yesterday. Oh, no, you did that. Yeah, that's really good. Because it was fast.

Boom. But you wouldn't be prepared for it. No, no. That's the thing. You wouldn't be prepared for it. But if you do it like that, then fine. Damn, girl, those ankles are looking. Fire.

I saw your ankles yesterday and I just thought, you guys are getting your ankles out? What do you mean? I'm a WMPT. I don't have any ankles. They, nice, though. I think it was in my dream then. And if you did have them,

they'd be sexy. Claudia, do you like compliments? Yeah, I don't mind a compliment. I don't get many though. I wish someone would compliment me. Yeah, same. I can't remember the last time. The lonely compliment fishermen alone on a lake of no compliments.

She throws it out there. Dangling the compliment mine. You get the most compliments out of anyone on the show because you set up that system that if something went wrong, People have to compliment you rather than tell you you've done something wrong. I've ruined it for myself now that every time there is a genuine compliment in there, I go, oh no, I've done something. Oh no, I've fucked up.

Yeah, yeah. You've weaponized compliments. All right, well, three more Ella days to go, guys. Boo. We hate you. Have you ordered the disco ball? Yeah. Disco ball.

I was about saying, and then the autonomous Ella bot arrives. We're getting a humanoid robot to replace Ella. What the hell. And it just laughs. Ha, ha, ha, good one, Bree. Can I say your ankles are looking fire? He gives Clint compliments about the way he looked. I don't plug that robot.

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