ZM's Bree & Clint - Clint learns about the Sunday Scaries for the very first time

Episode Date: July 11, 2026

Happy Sunday, hope this doesn't highlight the fact that you probably have work tomorrow but how has Clint gone this long without knowing what the Sunday Scaries are?! What a blessed life he leads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZM's Brian Clint, the podcast. It's a long weekend, which means the Sunday Scaries are going to be twice as bad. It does it? I think so. Okay. Well, you don't even know what the Sunday Scaries are. No, that's why it's so confusing to me.

Why does an extra day off make the Sunday Scaries worse? Because that's what I believe. The longer you have off, the worst the Sunday Scaries are. Okay. because you've had extra time to relax and realize how good your life is without having to go to work. Producers, you know what I'm talking about when I say the Sunday Scaries? 100%.

The Sunday Scaries, Clint, is that feeling of dread and anxiety you get on a Sunday afternoon, Sunday night. It could even just be all day Sunday, really, where it's the looming sense of the week ahead. and you're like, oh no, I've got to get organized and I've got to get my lunch or my breakfast ready for the week and I'm going to do my meal prep and I've got to get, oh my God, there's so many things happening this week.

And this happens to you guys every Sunday? Clint's never experience the Sunday scary. I know things to make myself sound unrelatable or to like act like I'm better than other people because I don't want to, but I'm just going to say this once because it's the first time I'm hearing about this. I'm just going to say this once. Yeah.

Sunday's my favourite day of the week. Look, he's never, particularly. He's never experienced it. And I've always said this, particularly Sunday afternoon. Wait. It's my favourite time of the whole week. Wow. Did you not have it as an intern or like in your career when you were younger?

You should be studied. You should be studied as a medical marvel in the sense of how good. I'm not trying to put myself up. I'm not trying to put myself up as an oil pedestal. Genuinely, you should be studied as to how good your mental. health is. Like, it amazes me. Like, and genuinely, genuinely, I'm so envious. Yeah, I want a piece of that. Yeah. What are you guys so worried about on a Sunday?

It's, it's, it's, what are people, not you guys? God, I've felt like I'm minimizing your situation. No, no, no, these are good questions. What are people worried about on a Sunday? It's the, you're thinking about the week ahead. A lot of the time it's going back to work, how much work you've got on, the stress that you feel throughout the week, I've got to organise this, oh, I've got to exercise, I've got to get my meals ready, it's just It can also be the unknown. Like, I have

work tomorrow, I have a meeting, what's going to happen? I don't know. Who cares? Me? But who cares what happens in that meeting? Me, I have to be prepared. Oh, okay. According to reports, 75% of workers are impacted

by the Sunday Scaries. That's not good. It's also people that hate their jobs, you know? Yeah. Okay, so this is what I was trying to pick out a little bit. Is it just the people who hate their job? No, I don't think so. Because you guys hate me? Maybe you are the problem.

Is it a looming dread of another week around me? It could be. No. Because you don't have to hang out with you because you are you. Maybe that's why. That's so silly. You're so happy and go lucky. Okay.

I have noticed though, I have noticed that the job I'm in now. there's less Sunday scleries. I think I've experienced very bad and intense Sunday scaries. If you're going back to a toxic environment, I can totally understand how grim that would, and how anxious that would make you feel. And I think the big thing is if you've got... Stop trying to relate to us. We, you are not relatable to us at all.

I use the anxious. Stop trying. Don't buy it, girls. I bought it. He has no idea what he's talking. about. He's never had to take a mental health day in his life. He's like, wait, we can take mental health days?

Yes, you can. Look at him. Look at him. I've got solutions, but I'm not going to offer them. The serotonin that this man produces is disgusting. We should take it. You overproduce serotonin, give some to the rest of us. I'm trying.

For God's sake. I'm trying. What's your number one tip? If your meal prepper is dressing you out, do it on Saturday. That's even worse. Clint, what's your biggest, what is your biggest, genuinely, I'm asking you, what is the biggest worry that you have in your life at the moment? Me personally, probably my mortgage.

Okay, oh well that's a genuine one. Yeah. That's a genuine one. It's relatable. What did you want me to say whether the Orblacks are going to win by 50 or not? I thought you were going to say something like, well, it's whether to get the top of the range ties to put on my Volkswagen Golf. or get the mid-range tiles.

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