rant · moment 10 of 12
Athletes as the Ideal of a Silenced Mind
from #262 - We're Back | The Tim Dillon Show · #262
4 min
Tim continues riffing on sports and athletes (mentioning Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles again), arguing athletes are important because they connect us to physicality over intellect, and jokes about athletes being 'naturally trans' in build.
- Sports offer people an escape from reality—Ray watches basketball constantly despite being 900 pounds and immobilized in a chair.
- Tim wakes up each day discovering new reasons he's supposedly a Nazi, as the definition changes overnight like COVID symptoms.
- Athletes matter not as a distraction but because watching physically perfect specimens connects us to nature and our primal stupidity.
- Sports connect us to childhood—before we polluted our bodies with pills, food, booze, drugs, and tattoos, which look grotesque on anyone.
- Athletes embody the ideal we all secretly want to be: perfectly stupid, showing us how to sweat, shred, and win without thinking.
- Male athletes are graceful and light on their feet while female athletes are often hulking with deep voices—both naturally trans as the body's evolution.
- The perfect state requires the body and mind working in synchronized agreement, which means shutting our minds off entirely.