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Simone Biles, Mental Health, and Why Athletes Shouldn't Think
from #262 - We're Back | The Tim Dillon Show · #262
20 min
Tim goes on an extended rant about Simone Biles withdrawing from the Olympics, arguing athletes succeed because they're mentally simple 'machines' who shouldn't overthink, spirals into a bit about gymnastics being rife with pedophilia and stunted growth, claims male gymnasts are secretly gay, mocks Naomi Osaka for skipping press interviews, and delivers a mock pep-talk to Biles about shutting her mind off.
- Simone Biles dropped out of the Olympics and her sister defended her mental health on Twitter.
- Tim argues the Olympics is a scam and doesn't care who shows up, but he has a bigger problem with the fetishization of mental health.
- People diagnose themselves with disorders from Instagram posts and it's becoming a weird identity.
- Athletes don't have minds—their body is their temple and the mind should just be the operating system.
- Tim questions whether we're telling athletes to think too much, which makes them lose their minds.
- The vast majority of great athletes are not intelligent because they devoted their lives to something silly.
- Mental toughness is part of athletics, and the greatest players are mentally tough because many of them are stupid.
- If athletes couldn't do athletic things, they wouldn't be CEOs or running hospitals—they're driven by competition and physical prowess.
- Gymnastics is a sport of pedophiles that stunts girls' growth and keeps them like little dolls, with Larry Nassar molesting thousands.
- Men doing gymnastics are gay men unable to come out, and it's just a fact that everyone in gymnastics is gay.
- Tim would have preferred if Biles competed and lost instead of withdrawing, since it's funny when people phone it in.
- The twisties are like vertigo where she could think she's doing a flip and land on her head and die.
- We're confusing athletes by telling them to think when they should not—they need to stop trying to be experts in everything.
- Biles' mental health is deteriorating because she's realizing that all her achievement doesn't matter and the happiest people do nothing.
- Once you realize greatness doesn't make you happier, you have to shut it off and just do the flip.
- Bad actors exploit mental health to usher in mediocrity, like Naomi Osaka refusing interviews.
- Tim dismisses Osaka, saying she makes money to play tennis and should do the interviews—he's sick of hearing this stuff.
- Athletes are the best at what they do because they're stupid and don't question why they do it.