Ep. 903 - 2021: The Year Of Fake Winners
The Michael Knowles Show
The Michael Knowles Show
4.7 • 29.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | Time magazine has just announced its athlete of the year for 2021. Simone Biles, the |
| 0:36.2 | gymnast who took a spot on the U.S. Olympic team and then infamously refused to compete |
| 0:43.2 | in a bunch of events. Biles eventually blamed her pulling out on having the twisties, but |
| 0:48.7 | initially she chalked pulling out up to, quote, not having as much fun. She said, I feel |
| 0:55.2 | like I'm also not having as much fun. This Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself. |
| 1:00.7 | It felt like I was still doing for other people. That hurts my heart that doing what I love |
| 1:06.9 | has been taken away from me. That's what the Olympics are about. It's just you and not |
| 1:11.8 | your country and not the sport. It's all about you. The woman who refused to perform |
| 1:16.9 | an athletic event won athlete of the year, specifically for refusing to compete. Six |
| 1:21.5 | years after a man named Bruce Jenner won woman of the year from Glamour magazine. Rather |
| 1:26.8 | than criticize these two people and our culture of lies, I would like to look at this as an |
| 1:33.5 | opportunity, which is why today I'm Michael Knowles and officially throwing my hat in the |
| 1:38.8 | ring for 2022 Pakistani belly dancer of the year. I am brave. I am beautiful. If you don't |
| 1:46.6 | give me the award, you are a bigot. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. |
| 1:58.2 | Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Glenn Vastine, who is paraphrasing |
| 2:03.6 | Hillary Clinton from that video crying about how she didn't win. Quote, I would be the |
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