PTFO - The 'Alpha' Myth, Debunked

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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From LeBron to Deion and Wall Street to Washington, one pervasive term has come to encapsulate a human desire for domination. Correspondent Bradley Campbell heads into the wild — with aerial wolf-hunting, bespoke bear-drugging, and more — to discover that the science behind the "alpha" … is based on a mistake. The new truth, however, may teach even and especially the most gentle among us how to become better leaders. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cx8spsfoUjo (If you are having thoughts of suicide, you can call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	And I looked up and here are two wolves charging towards me, maybe 100, 150 feet away or so.
0:13.0	Then I realized that maybe I was in a little trouble.
0:16.0	Right after this ad.
0:18.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. I think about vocabulary a lot.
0:35.0	Yeah, you do, you're a nerd and for the listeners who don't know,
0:40.0	there's a Twitter account. It's called the PTFO dictionary. That's right. Shout out to that listener viewer in Israel apparently who watches and learns unlike you
0:50.1	Okay, the learning part what he does is he looks up these stupid words you say and he finds
0:54.9	out what they mean like shambolic and sensorious and
0:57.8	great word parenium and every all these other weird words that you were saying
1:01.3	on the show so shout out to him yes you do think about vocabulary a lot.
1:04.5	Yes, and so I've been dying to do an episode about vocabulary.
1:08.6	Okay. And I wanted to do one in specific about a word that I I argue Cortez is the most
1:16.4	influential term in all of sports. These nuts? Close. Would you describe yourself as an alpha male?
1:26.0	As alpha males, you always got in the back of your mind saying,
1:28.5	listen, I want to be recognized as the greatest in the game.
1:30.8	You got two alphas and the prime of their careers.
1:33.8	He's got that alpha mentality.
1:35.1	I'm a competitive alpha dude.
1:38.6	And we could have kept going by the way.
1:40.1	Like that's just sports.
1:41.6	Like at the NFL playoffs are going on everybody is feeling like an alpha or they want to.
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