he has a bird: Recent Episodes
sean shelton
the german expression “einen Vogel haben” (literally “to have a bird”) is used to describe a person who is acting crazy. most likely people are accused of “having a bird” because of an old belief (or urban legend) that crazy people have little birds living in their heads.
a podcast about what I find interesting through my perspective. so sports, married life, being an expecting father, living aboard and a lot of silliness.
outro song: hhanoi - conceding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWayNmQ7wyY)
patrick and i talk about how we define leadership and our journeys to become better leaders ourselves. enjoy!
an quick update about my thoughts on the mahomes, garret & henry signings as well as some social changes in the states. enjoy!
an awesome conversation about josiah‘s journey from being told he would never walk again to returning to competitive power lifting. check out squat university’s documentary of josiah’s injury and rehab here: https://youtu.be/56e6h129sxU enjoy!
my guy kaleb leach joins me to talk about his path to become a major ambassador for american football in europe. we also dive into his message from the his speech at last weekend's protest in salzburg. it is a conversation i encourage everyone to listen to.
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captain patrick shelton and i discuss what we believe to be a winning mindset and how acquire it.
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the afl all-decade team is here! i announce the team position by position and give my feedback to the voting results.
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a great interview with a legend of european american football, david mccants. we chat about his very productive career and what his future might look like. enjoy!
i am building the afl all-decade team with some criticism already and i give my thoughts on the finale of the last dance.
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i share my thoughts on frank gore being a hall of famer, review the all-decade o-lineman and talk about the greastest sports documentary i have ever seen, the last dance.
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the moment everyone has been waiting for is here! dragons and the giants face off for all the marbles!
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it has been a while since we have talked qbs and there are some news and thoughts to share! speaking of thoughts, i give mine on episodes 5 & 6 of the documentary 'the last dance'.
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another former raider that is living the american football dream, valentin senn joins me to talk about his first season living abroad in boulder colorado and playing division 1 football!
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poor carole got tricked into an interview and i give my thoughts on the first four episodes of the last dance.
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the semi-finals are here! pop your popcorn folks because we have great battle between the giants and the vikings.
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i am now a huge tj bray fan. not only is this guy one of the best basketball players in germany, he is super humble and down to earth. we had a great conversation about his story and basketball in europe.
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captain patrick shelton, or pat to me, joins me for another instalment of our segment 'captain 2 captain'. In this series, we talk about how lessons learned via football have help us in out personal lives and in our careers, mine still in football and his in the united states military. today's episode is about anxiety and how to best deal with it.
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i am so proud and happy for this kid. this opportunity couldn't of presented itself to a better person. we talk about his experience finding out he made it into the nfl pathway program and i show him how i would of done it.
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dillon is back to discuss our thoughts on how the rookie rankings for fantasy football look now that the draft is over.
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i give talk about the many teams that had great weekends in the draft and one team that really funnel caked...
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while setting on my coach eating breakfast, i give you my commentary for round 1 on the nfl draft.
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i am back on team brady... for now. i also talk about how gronk will fit, nominate my dummkopf der woche, and some new uniforms updats. at the end of the show, martin senfter joins me to breakdown some of his thoughts of the 2020 nfl draft. martin has written an extremely detailed draft guide in german for anyone looking to read up on the draft before watching! senfl.at 2020 draft guide: http://www.senfl.at/senfl-draft-guide/
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my good friend dillon besser, his pup and i break down why fantasy football is so great (especially dynasty fantasy football) and discuss the nfl draft rookies and favourable landing spots!
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max and i are at it again. this documentary made me feel a lot of emotions... mainly anger! this is a story that could never be written because it is so absurd.
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i review the tiger king and i episode with max and man am i glad that that show is over.... for now!
next assignment for tuesday: abducted in plain sight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLC-Fgfz6n4
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my dad and i are going through a tournament of afl team names to figure out which mascots would win in a 11 on 11 battle. our second matchup is between the steelsharks vs vikings.
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i discuss if paying christian mccaffery was the smart thing to do, breakdown the nfl all-decade wrs and pondering over the future of the redskins# future at the qb position.
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my dad and i are going through a tournament of afl team names to figure out which mascots would win in a 11 on 11 battle. in the first instalment of the afl team name rumble, the giants take on the rangers.
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a great interview from charlie boscoe for his podcast 'the winning mentality'. we dive into me career and what being a quarterback for the swarco raiders tirol entails.
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apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-winning-mentality/id1347519230#episodeGuid=090e2c01-87a8-412b-8da6-6765a93dda64
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i talk about some of the usual suspects that seems to keep doing dumb things! mike gundy joins, david carr, jameis winston and bill o'brien all get me worked up today.
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a surprising amount of news from the nfl. we have new uniforms, security concern for the draft and more tom brady news. but best of all, we have a dummkopf of the week!
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just a mixed bag of sports news to cover. the awful deandre hopkins trade may fall through, the nfl all-decade qbs & dana white wants to buy a private island to host fights!
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i talk about the latest news from the austrian government in regards to the afl and i have a great convo with the ssangyong dragon's qb, chad jeffries.
i had a great time on instagram live doing the podcast. i was a bit distracted at times lol but all in all i think it was a great show. i discussed what are the possible scenarios and outcome of the austrian football league in 2020 in relation to covid-19.
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max and i finish up our review of one of the craziest documentaries i have ever seen!
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episode 14! wow. just trying to bring you guys content on a daily basis. today's episode was a little bit a everything including von miller, chris godwin, tb12, this week in history, zoom weddings, and fan questions.
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my oldest brother, captain patrick shelton, and i talk about how we learned consistency via football and we have applied it to our respective professions.
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i explore the possibility of lebron's championship window being effected by the season being postponed and answer some fan questions.
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what a crazy ass show! max and i review the first 4 episodes of the tiger king from netflix.
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an nfl saturday episode for you guys. i talk about which teams are going into the draft with momentum and which teams did themselves no favours thus far. i also touch on which players' fantasy situations were effected.
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a great interview with darius robinson talking about his youth, college days and now professional endeavours. i give the best advice i can give and nominate my song of the week.
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a conversation with one of my favorite platzgummer's in the world. we talk about his experience training at img and trying to make the nfl and he answers some personal questions.
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i unfortunately apologize to tom brady... i discuss cam newton's future, assign my dummkopf of the week and give a public service announcement.
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thomas and I talk about his experience with the Raiders and compares that to his experiences as a professional soccer player.
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that's right! der fussball gott himself! in part 1, we talk about fatherhood, his life as a rising star and then his transition to italy. tomorrow, part 2 will be released!
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i discuss the financial future of the running back position, my new logo, and give a quarantine update.
stay safe and enjoy!
max pichler joins me as my first guest to give advice on how to make a quarantine more bearable.
if you can bare the audio quality, i talk about the new cba, nominate my first dummkopf(s) of the week, and nfl free agency.
thank you for listening and the product will only continue to improve!
finally doing something i have been thinking about doing for a while now. people seem to enjoy listening to me talk and i certainly enjoy talking so it is a match made in heaven! talking tom brady and where he may be going cause it doesn't seem like he will be staying.