December 20, 2024 • 27 mins
Aaron Hernandez’s life story is a tragic exploration of fame, mental health struggles, and the consequences of societal pressures. Delving into his complex identity and actions reveals a cautionary tale about the darker side of professional sports and the impacts of CTE on behavior.
• Aaron Hernandez's challenging upbringing and expectations of fame
• The conflict between athletic success and personal struggles
• Investigation of Odin Lloyd's murder and its implications
• Hernandez's complex relationships and their influence on his behavior
• The alarming suicide and motivations behind it
• The impact of CTE on athletes and behavioral outcomes
• Reflection on the societal responsibilities toward young athletes
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
hey, welcome back to paranormal 956.
My name is david and, as always, I am here with bianca.
Hi guys, what are we talkingabout today?
Um, so we just talked about theguy who allegedly killed the
(00:24):
CEO, right, right, so we're justgoing to do another crime.
You know, we're becoming likethe murder channel, right, a
little bit.
We just like to switch it up,guys.
We don't want you to.
You know, get used to just onething, yeah, but we've been
(00:46):
doing a lot of murders lately.
Well, we've been also planningon doing the john benet ramsey.
Yeah, that's a very interestingstory as well.
So we're talking about aaronhernandez, who was an NFL player
, a New England Patriot.
So he kind of had a rough life,at least in the beginning.
(01:10):
I don't think he grew up poor,but, being kind of an athlete,
his father was like a highschool star, and so his father
was like really high school star, okay, and so his father was
like really tough on him andpushed him yeah, pushed him
pretty hard.
(01:30):
His brother as well, yeah, andI don't know if it's because
they were football players, butthey had some questionable
characters in their life, somebad guys, drug dealers.
Okay, okay, got it, got it.
It got it, stuff like that, andthe environment wasn't the best
, that's right, yeah, yeah, wellsaid.
(01:52):
And so aaron hernandez was fromconnecticut and then, when he
made it pro, he went to the NewEngland Patriots, which is in
Boston, literally an hour awayfrom where he grew up.
Okay, so, since you don'tpractice all day I mean it's not
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like a 24-hour-a-day job, rightyou go practice.
You don't practice every day,obviously.
You go to the gym mix it up,yeah, yeah, yeah, he still lived
where he grew up, still had allthese friends, right, yeah.
And so things were tumultuous,right, and so he had like an
anger issue.
(02:35):
He apparently was bisexual,maybe, maybe, If not gay, right,
right, and so you know, maybe,if not gay, right, right.
And so you know thatcomplicates things, right, right
, he had a lot of anger issues,like I mentioned.
And so at one point, after themurder, oh well, he murdered a
(02:59):
guy named Olden Lloyd who wasthe brother I think he was like
a brother of, like his, it wasfriends somehow and this guy
knew something about him, aboutAaron.
Okay, the gay part, so that'swhat they're kind of hinting at,
(03:23):
right.
They don't know the gay part,so that's what they're kind of
hinting at right, they don'tknow.
After the murder, it turns outthat he had killed people before
, oh shit.
So technically, aaron Hernandezwas a serial killer, right, he
killed, according to records,like three different people Wow,
(03:43):
right, like three differentpeople, wow, right, which is not
what you expect with a nflplayer, right?
And so let me see, and so hewas kind of a question mark when
he went to to college.
He was supposed to go to UConn,which is where his father went
(04:06):
and where his brother went, okay, but he was kind of an even
better player than they were,and so he went to Florida, which
is like a really powerhousefootball place.
Yeah, so it would be likesomebody going to UT for us in
Texas, it's a really goodfootball school.
Uconn, for football, it's not agood school.
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It's kind of like a Brownsvilleschool.
Like Brownsville doesn't winstate in football.
Soccer, soccer, yes, soccer,they got soccer, but football,
(04:51):
right.
Football, soccer, soccer,soccer, yes, soccer, they got
soccer, but football, right,they need to make another
division, I think.
Right, yeah, like five foot andbelow um, but anyway, yeah,
somebody's taking that personalover here, but anyway, so he, he
chose to go to a footballschool instead of just following
his father and his brother andhe ends up winning a national
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championship and getting a lotof press.
But he got in a lot of troubleat school as well.
So when it came for being gay,no, no, no, oh, for drugs and
for fighting and things likethat, right.
And so there was a bit of aquestion mark when he was
getting drafted into the NFL.
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He was probably on the talentside like one of the best
players in that draft, butbecause he was a troublemaker,
he kind of slipped and slippedand slipped and didn't make as
much money as he could have,right, okay.
So then when he gets drafted,he gets drafted by the New
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England Patriots.
And so for those of you who arenot football fans, this
particular New England Patriotsteam was, I guess, what they
would describe as stoic.
What, what the fuck is that so?
Stoic means like your emotionsnever really change.
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So to give you an example,let's say somebody throws a pass
and it's intercepted and theylose the game.
When they go into the pressconference and they say, hey, so
what do you think aboutso-and-so throwing that bad pass
or doing that bad play?
The coach would go I'm justworried about next week,
wouldn't get mad, wouldn't getnothing.
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Aaron wasn't a stoic, and so Ifancy myself a stoic.
I try to always be even keel.
Sure, don't get super happy,don't get super sad.
I'm always in the middle.
Yeah, you're like.
Whatever happens, happens.
Yeah, a lot of people are notlike that, right?
No, yeah, not me, aaronHernandez.
Right, you're not a stoic.
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My wife's not a stoic.
I am not surrounded by would bemore like you than like me.
So, okay, like a lot of footballplayers, because very few
football players are stoics.
Very few athletes are gonnahype up the game.
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They gotta like that's right,feel that's right, hype up and
that's right, all the shits, butthat's not all the shits and
giggles, what they call thepatriot way.
Oh, right, so the patriot wayis supposed to be.
They're like hey, the giantssaid they're going to kick your
ass on sunday.
What do you say about that?
And they go well, they're agood team, so maybe, okay,
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that's the patriot way, sure,right, aaron hernandez, you
don't play like that, right?
He's like I'm not scared ofthem.
In fact, they should be scaredof me.
Okay, the coach hated that.
Okay, like, no, no, that's nothow we play.
I don't want them to get anyfuel and play harder because of
something we said oh, okay, wewant to sneak in mental game
(08:05):
here, right, right, right.
And so the coach is famous forsaying don't do anything more or
anything less than your job,and if everybody does their job,
we win.
Okay, that's how he was.
So nobody's got to be a hero.
Nobody's got to be a hero, justdo your job, your job alone.
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We win.
Okay, because we have betterathletes and better coaches, so
we win.
So you don't have to put theteam on your back and win, just
push yourself to, just do yourjob.
But Aaron didn't grow up likethat.
He didn't grow up like that.
So it's very difficult for him,yeah, yeah, to adjust.
Very difficult for him.
I can see that, right, I seethe red flags already, guys,
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yeah, yeah, well, he's a littlebit of a what's the word?
Like a firecracker personality,right.
What's his zodiac sign?
Here we go.
Here we go Scorpio.
(09:17):
Yeah, he's like very emotional.
So, just so you know what helooks like.
Oh, yeah, I know what he lookslike.
He looks pretty hot.
Of course he would.
Anyways, of course he would.
We do our research here, right,that's what it is.
Yeah, that's what it is.
So there was rumors, I guess,that he was gay, and this is one
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of the things that it's kind ofbugging me, and we went over
this with the Menendez brothers.
I feel like the way that thepublic is portraying things is
like he was gay, obviously hewas a murderer and to don't.
I don't draw that line likeyeah, there's a lot of people
that are gay and they don't killpeople that we know of, I mean
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we don't know about.
I know a lot of gays theycouldn't kill nobody, right?
No offense, guys, but I ain'tscared of no ghosts over here,
right?
So, anyway, yeah, yeah, so thereason it came out you don't
know gays that look like this,that's true.
I also don't know a lot of gayNFL players.
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This guy, if he was around us,he would be a giant.
So I'm six foot tall, right,he's six foot nine inches tall,
so almost a foot taller than me.
And then I'm 220 pounds.
I'm a giant here.
Yeah, he's like 275 of puremuscle Muscle.
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Yeah, right, I mean, I'm 220pounds.
I'm not even going to saythat's all muscle, right, like
I'm not delusional.
No, you're just like.
You just have a big head.
I have a big head, that's true,it's a Scorpio, you can see
that.
Yeah, so Like this guy's fit,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So he would be, yeah, duncan'sover here trying not to get
distracted, anyways, so he'd bea giant.
And so imagine this guy, guy,this giant of pure muscle,
having a temper as well.
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Yeah, like, that's, that's thetrouble.
That's the trouble part, right,the gay part, I mean.
Right, but him being thisstrong, like this guy's dacked,
you know what I mean.
So, anyway, he ends up there,ends up being this murder.
The olden what did I say?
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His name was odin lloyd isfound murdered in this kind of
industrial park and at the verybeginning, they notice that the
car is his car.
Aaron had not his car.
So he's a good athlete, he'snot a genius, right?
(12:26):
Let's just get this straight.
There's a reason why he was infootball, right, yeah, yeah, he
wasn't solving crimes and hewasn't curing diseases.
He's carrying a football for aliving, yeah, right.
And so at first they were likeyou know what?
Somebody probably stole his carand murdered somebody.
(12:47):
The benefit of the doubt, right, because he's a fucking
millionaire.
Right, he had, like he had justsigned like a $40 million
contract.
He was already in the deal inthe game.
He's rich and famous.
Why is he going to be killingpeople?
He's hot, right.
Doesn't make any sense.
He got the bitches, he got themoney, he got the cars, he got
everything.
Right now, bro Well, and thedudes, apparently, according to
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rumors.
Yeah Well, it gets more thanrumors later.
We're going to get into that.
We're going to get into that.
We got receipts here, right itis.
So.
They end up looking at videotapeand blah, blah, blah and it's
like it's his car, clearly it'shis car.
And then, oh shit, he's drivingthe car and and he's with this
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guy that gets murdered who, whenthe car comes back, the
murdered guy's not in the caranymore, right?
So it's like, clearly him,right?
So he gets arrested.
And then they start digginginto other things and they find
out that there's these other twomurders that happened a while
back.
Oh shit, he did those murderstoo, right.
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And so, long story short, hegets found guilty of murder, but
then he appeals.
Like all murder cases, they goback to appeal, right?
If it's something serious, likea murder, you get an automatic
appeal.
Well, in the middle of theappeal, he kills himself right
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Now.
The reason that he killshimself is because in I think
it's Boston or MassachusettsRight, there's a law that if you
die waiting for trial, all yourcases and your convictions and
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all of those things that areheld up go away.
So you're found innocent.
No, but you're found innocent,oh Right.
This is why it's important.
Remember what I talked about thePatriot Way.
Yes, the part of the PatriotWay, part of the contract that
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he signed, is that if you get inany trouble and you're arrested
, we don't have to pay you apenny.
But because he died, all hisrecords are erased.
They have to pay him.
Yes, and his daughter gets $40million, holy shit.
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So he killed himself at a veryspecific time to make sure that
his daughter gets paid.
And now we're back to thereceipts part.
Right, all right, he killshimself in jail, which is very
suspicious because he was undersuicide watch, kind of like a
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little bit I mean, he's not amolester, but kind of like the
Jeffrey Epstein, like, how didthis guy kill himself in jail
with people watching him 24-7?
It's just, it's weird, right,it seems to happen a lot.
Apparently, he wrote threesuicide letters, three, number
one to his daughter, okay,telling her a really nice letter
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, right, obviously right that heloved her and wants the best
for her.
I'm proud of her.
Be smart, do smart choices.
Right, right, don't be amurderer like me.
Probably I'm paraphrasingfootball right, right, he writes
one, two, I, two.
I think they were married, I'mnot sure To his wife or the
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mother of the baby, okay, whowas his baby mama.
At the very least they mighthave been married I don't really
remember, but they might havebeen married and one to his gay
lover.
Oh, oh, a very romantic suicideto a man.
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Let's keep it as a baby.
So now, it's like that's wherethe bisexual part comes out.
Right, because it's like he heclearly in the letter loved the,
the baby mama as well.
You know, they had a daughter.
They've been through a lottogether, blah, blah.
But he had this other guy thathe loved, right, apparently, but
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no kids with him, right, yeah,it's harder, there's some
complications with that, right,right.
So after he died, theypetitioned the family, the
government petitioned the familyto donate the brain to science
to see if they have, if they canstudy for a thingopathy, what's
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that?
So, encephalopathy man.
I couldn't have said thatperfectly before the accident.
It's even harder now and Ithink I might have this as well,
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by the way.
What's that?
So, when your brain gets hit alot or severely in my case, lot
or severely, in my case right,you kind of, your, your brain
muscles kind of do this, right,like they shred a little bit,
shred, yeah, like they shred alittle bit.
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Well, nfl players not just nflplayers, to be clear, but
football players because theywear helmets and they use their
head almost like a weapon soccerplayers because they hit their
yeah, boxing, obviously, mma,any sport, a lot of sports,
including basketball, a lot ofthese sports they have this from
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these, what we think of aslittle hits, constant, little
hits to their head.
Yeah, they build it up in theirbrain.
Or, like in my case, like Isaid, I have a major brain
injury.
That's kind of I did it all atonce where people kind of do it
over a long period of time,right, well, this is the thing
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with this CTE is that there'sseveral people, including other
famous, famous football players,that have been diagnosed with
this.
You can only be diagnosed afteryou're dead, because they have
to slice your brain up and lookat it through a microscope to
diagnosis.
But they have very difficult, alot of difficult managing their
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emotions, like they have a lotof trouble with their emotions.
Yeah, they're very aggressive,they're very angry.
You know, a lot of the thingsthat we saw with Aaron was kind
of probably due to this, so hehad concussions all the way back
in high school.
Oh, so it started earlier.
Yeah, so people some people getCTE that only played high
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school football.
Fuck yeah, so it can happen.
Like I said, I could get itfrom the one car accident that
we had.
Yeah, you get a bad concussionin football and you could get it
.
Plus, I'm full grown, so mybrain fills my head.
You get a really bad fight.
That's it Right.
And so with kids, the youngeryou are, your brain doesn't fill
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your skull and it bounces more.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And so people that we have seencases where people kill
themselves in high schoolbecause they had CTE Damn school
because they had cte.
So it's a major issue and it'ssomething that even the nfl is
kind of like trying to researchto try to avoid.
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So they've taken out using yourhead as a weapon and all this
stuff.
Any little hits to the head.
The nfl throws a flag now, sothey're trying their best.
It doesn't prevent it really.
It's just not on purpose, ifthat makes sense.
I mean, it's a full fuckingbody.
Yeah, you're gonna hit yourhead, even your head.
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At this point you're talkingabout your whole body, like,
yeah, well, and you can hit,like if, if you tackle, you roll
down, you're putting your wholeweight on your head, right,
right, it's like, well, even if,like, if you're standing there
and somebody comes and tacklesyou from the stomach, your brain
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whiplashes in the air, even,right, I mean so there's really
no way around this,unfortunately.
That's crazy, but at leastwe're entertained, right, I
guess?
Yeah, I will say this SinceI've learned, because I have
learned a lot about CTE.
Yeah, I don't think you shouldjoin football.
It's hard for me to watchfootball.
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What I don't, really, I can'tremember the last time I watched
the game, because all I see isthese heads hitting, and it has
made it very difficult knowing,because I care about these.
I'm fans of these guys, right,these heads hitting, and it has
made it very difficult knowing,cause I care about these.
These are.
I'm fans of these guys, right,and I watching it to be
entertained, but now it's, andnow I feel like I'm watching
these guys ruin their brains.
(22:10):
Yeah, and I, it's verydifficult for me to watch
football.
I don't watch football thatmuch.
I'm more into basketball now, Idon't watch it.
Yeah, yeah, watch football thatmuch, I'm more into basketball
now I don't watch it.
Yeah, yeah, so, um, that'sfucking crazy, though.
Yeah, so you're not joiningfootball, right, I have no plans
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.
Okay, I mean I can't.
So nobody's going to want me.
I'm 6'2", 75 of that is fat,probably Like I'm not in the
best shape of my life, not yet.
The other thing that I wanted tomention in this episode is I
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was a huge fan of AaronHernandez.
So, as a Hispanic person, wedon't have a lot of heroes that
are Latinos, right, we're nottaught, we're not always
athletes, and then when they doshow up like I've watched MMA,
right, ufc and stuff there wasthese guys, the Diaz brothers.
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They're assholes.
I can't fucking root for theseguys.
You know what I mean?
I don't want to.
It's like I don't want to befriends.
And then this guy I don't wantto be friends like he was
kicking out with, I don't wantto support him, right, anyway.
But aaron hernandez, like he puton this, like he had a great
smile.
You know, he seemed friendly,he was good, he said all the
(23:35):
right things, you know.
So I was a fan of his.
And when, when there, there'sthis famous video of him being
arrested, where they like puthim like the picture was there.
Yeah, yeah, like with a shirt,yeah, they like just put the
shirt over his handcuffs, yeah,yeah, right there, I was like
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they got the wrong guy, likethis guy, and I was like the
tattoos man, like it doesn'tmake sense.
I mean, he had all the tattoos.
He looked like a thug, but Iwas like he's not really a thug,
it's like a look, right, Ithink I think of that a lot of
times, like you know, like youlook at 50 cent, and he seems
about look at this shit, he wasjust being like, that's him in
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court.
Look, look, look, look In theinterview.
Come on, yeah, that smile.
Come on, yeah, he had amillion-dollar smile.
There's no way.
Yeah, look at that, he'salready played.
Look how happy he looks.
Yeah, look, how big he is.
This guy's bigger than me, forsure, and he's's like towering
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over him anyway, anyways.
So that's the story.
You're being mesmerized by himtoo.
He was fun to watch.
That's it for today.
Put in the comments what yourfavorite Aaron Hernandez memory
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was.
He was a good player.
I mean, it's such a tragedy.
Nobody put him in jail forplaying bad.
Okay, david, that's true,that's true.
You know what?
The only way to stop AaronHernandez is if you murdered
somebody and then you put him injail.
Really, he was unstoppable.
He was unstoppable and actuallythat team had two tight ends,
(25:29):
which is very uncharacteristicof teams, and they were both
good.
They were like an unstoppableteam with him.
Yeah, and so it is a very tragicstory, shit and so, um, it's,
it is a very tragic story.
Um, as a person, you know wementioned kind of in passing
that I do have a lot of friendsthat are gay and lesbian and
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trans and so forth, and for themto have advanced so far to
where they don't have to hide itthe way that he felt he did,
I'm a little bit happy aboutthat.
But that just adds to thetragedy of this story.
If that was part of likethere's, there's, spec, you was
gay.
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I mean he was gay by, orwhatever.
I mean I wouldn't be mad.
Shit, he was getting the bestof both worlds.
So there's, there's I don't knowif I touched on, but there's
the theory that he killed thisguy because the guy was going to
tell people he was gay andthat's why he killed him, and so
to have that amount of pressure.
I mean I don't know if it'strue or not right, we'll never
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know.
Now that Aaron is, I think it'sfake, but Fake it's the lies
Pretty crazy, yeah, that's crazy.
Talk to you next week.
Bye, guys.
hey, welcome back to paranormal 956.
My name is david and, as always, I am here with bianca.
Hi guys, what are we talkingabout today?
Um, so we just talked about theguy who allegedly killed the
(00:24):
CEO, right, right, so we're justgoing to do another crime.
You know, we're becoming likethe murder channel, right, a
little bit.
We just like to switch it up,guys.
We don't want you to.
You know, get used to just onething, yeah, but we've been
(00:46):
doing a lot of murders lately.
Well, we've been also planningon doing the john benet ramsey.
Yeah, that's a very interestingstory as well.
So we're talking about aaronhernandez, who was an NFL player
, a New England Patriot.
So he kind of had a rough life,at least in the beginning.
(01:10):
I don't think he grew up poor,but, being kind of an athlete,
his father was like a highschool star, and so his father
was like really high school star, okay, and so his father was
like really tough on him andpushed him yeah, pushed him
pretty hard.
(01:30):
His brother as well, yeah, andI don't know if it's because
they were football players, butthey had some questionable
characters in their life, somebad guys, drug dealers.
Okay, okay, got it, got it.
It got it, stuff like that, andthe environment wasn't the best
, that's right, yeah, yeah, wellsaid.
(01:52):
And so aaron hernandez was fromconnecticut and then, when he
made it pro, he went to the NewEngland Patriots, which is in
Boston, literally an hour awayfrom where he grew up.
Okay, so, since you don'tpractice all day I mean it's not
(02:15):
like a 24-hour-a-day job, rightyou go practice.
You don't practice every day,obviously.
You go to the gym mix it up,yeah, yeah, yeah, he still lived
where he grew up, still had allthese friends, right, yeah.
And so things were tumultuous,right, and so he had like an
anger issue.
(02:35):
He apparently was bisexual,maybe, maybe, If not gay, right,
right, and so you know, maybe,if not gay, right, right.
And so you know thatcomplicates things, right, right
, he had a lot of anger issues,like I mentioned.
And so at one point, after themurder, oh well, he murdered a
(02:59):
guy named Olden Lloyd who wasthe brother I think he was like
a brother of, like his, it wasfriends somehow and this guy
knew something about him, aboutAaron.
Okay, the gay part, so that'swhat they're kind of hinting at,
(03:23):
right.
They don't know the gay part,so that's what they're kind of
hinting at right, they don'tknow.
After the murder, it turns outthat he had killed people before
, oh shit.
So technically, aaron Hernandezwas a serial killer, right, he
killed, according to records,like three different people Wow,
(03:43):
right, like three differentpeople, wow, right, which is not
what you expect with a nflplayer, right?
And so let me see, and so hewas kind of a question mark when
he went to to college.
He was supposed to go to UConn,which is where his father went
(04:06):
and where his brother went, okay, but he was kind of an even
better player than they were,and so he went to Florida, which
is like a really powerhousefootball place.
Yeah, so it would be likesomebody going to UT for us in
Texas, it's a really goodfootball school.
Uconn, for football, it's not agood school.
(04:29):
It's kind of like a Brownsvilleschool.
Like Brownsville doesn't winstate in football.
Soccer, soccer, yes, soccer,they got soccer, but football,
(04:51):
right.
Football, soccer, soccer,soccer, yes, soccer, they got
soccer, but football, right,they need to make another
division, I think.
Right, yeah, like five foot andbelow um, but anyway, yeah,
somebody's taking that personalover here, but anyway, so he, he
chose to go to a footballschool instead of just following
his father and his brother andhe ends up winning a national
(05:11):
championship and getting a lotof press.
But he got in a lot of troubleat school as well.
So when it came for being gay,no, no, no, oh, for drugs and
for fighting and things likethat, right.
And so there was a bit of aquestion mark when he was
getting drafted into the NFL.
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He was probably on the talentside like one of the best
players in that draft, butbecause he was a troublemaker,
he kind of slipped and slippedand slipped and didn't make as
much money as he could have,right, okay.
So then when he gets drafted,he gets drafted by the New
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England Patriots.
And so for those of you who arenot football fans, this
particular New England Patriotsteam was, I guess, what they
would describe as stoic.
What, what the fuck is that so?
Stoic means like your emotionsnever really change.
(06:16):
So to give you an example,let's say somebody throws a pass
and it's intercepted and theylose the game.
When they go into the pressconference and they say, hey, so
what do you think aboutso-and-so throwing that bad pass
or doing that bad play?
The coach would go I'm justworried about next week,
wouldn't get mad, wouldn't getnothing.
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Aaron wasn't a stoic, and so Ifancy myself a stoic.
I try to always be even keel.
Sure, don't get super happy,don't get super sad.
I'm always in the middle.
Yeah, you're like.
Whatever happens, happens.
Yeah, a lot of people are notlike that, right?
No, yeah, not me, aaronHernandez.
Right, you're not a stoic.
(06:59):
My wife's not a stoic.
I am not surrounded by would bemore like you than like me.
So, okay, like a lot of footballplayers, because very few
football players are stoics.
Very few athletes are gonnahype up the game.
(07:20):
They gotta like that's right,feel that's right, hype up and
that's right, all the shits, butthat's not all the shits and
giggles, what they call thepatriot way.
Oh, right, so the patriot wayis supposed to be.
They're like hey, the giantssaid they're going to kick your
ass on sunday.
What do you say about that?
And they go well, they're agood team, so maybe, okay,
(07:42):
that's the patriot way, sure,right, aaron hernandez, you
don't play like that, right?
He's like I'm not scared ofthem.
In fact, they should be scaredof me.
Okay, the coach hated that.
Okay, like, no, no, that's nothow we play.
I don't want them to get anyfuel and play harder because of
something we said oh, okay, wewant to sneak in mental game
(08:05):
here, right, right, right.
And so the coach is famous forsaying don't do anything more or
anything less than your job,and if everybody does their job,
we win.
Okay, that's how he was.
So nobody's got to be a hero.
Nobody's got to be a hero, justdo your job, your job alone.
(08:26):
We win.
Okay, because we have betterathletes and better coaches, so
we win.
So you don't have to put theteam on your back and win, just
push yourself to, just do yourjob.
But Aaron didn't grow up likethat.
He didn't grow up like that.
So it's very difficult for him,yeah, yeah, to adjust.
Very difficult for him.
I can see that, right, I seethe red flags already, guys,
(08:49):
yeah, yeah, well, he's a littlebit of a what's the word?
Like a firecracker personality,right.
What's his zodiac sign?
Here we go.
Here we go Scorpio.
(09:17):
Yeah, he's like very emotional.
So, just so you know what helooks like.
Oh, yeah, I know what he lookslike.
He looks pretty hot.
Of course he would.
Anyways, of course he would.
We do our research here, right,that's what it is.
Yeah, that's what it is.
So there was rumors, I guess,that he was gay, and this is one
(09:42):
of the things that it's kind ofbugging me, and we went over
this with the Menendez brothers.
I feel like the way that thepublic is portraying things is
like he was gay, obviously hewas a murderer and to don't.
I don't draw that line likeyeah, there's a lot of people
that are gay and they don't killpeople that we know of, I mean
(10:04):
we don't know about.
I know a lot of gays theycouldn't kill nobody, right?
No offense, guys, but I ain'tscared of no ghosts over here,
right?
So, anyway, yeah, yeah, so thereason it came out you don't
know gays that look like this,that's true.
I also don't know a lot of gayNFL players.
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This guy, if he was around us,he would be a giant.
So I'm six foot tall, right,he's six foot nine inches tall,
so almost a foot taller than me.
And then I'm 220 pounds.
I'm a giant here.
Yeah, he's like 275 of puremuscle Muscle.
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Yeah, right, I mean, I'm 220pounds.
I'm not even going to saythat's all muscle, right, like
I'm not delusional.
No, you're just like.
You just have a big head.
I have a big head, that's true,it's a Scorpio, you can see
that.
Yeah, so Like this guy's fit,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(11:22):
So he would be, yeah, duncan'sover here trying not to get
distracted, anyways, so he'd bea giant.
And so imagine this guy, guy,this giant of pure muscle,
having a temper as well.
(11:42):
Yeah, like, that's, that's thetrouble.
That's the trouble part, right,the gay part, I mean.
Right, but him being thisstrong, like this guy's dacked,
you know what I mean.
So, anyway, he ends up there,ends up being this murder.
The olden what did I say?
(12:04):
His name was odin lloyd isfound murdered in this kind of
industrial park and at the verybeginning, they notice that the
car is his car.
Aaron had not his car.
So he's a good athlete, he'snot a genius, right?
(12:26):
Let's just get this straight.
There's a reason why he was infootball, right, yeah, yeah, he
wasn't solving crimes and hewasn't curing diseases.
He's carrying a football for aliving, yeah, right.
And so at first they were likeyou know what?
Somebody probably stole his carand murdered somebody.
(12:47):
The benefit of the doubt, right, because he's a fucking
millionaire.
Right, he had, like he had justsigned like a $40 million
contract.
He was already in the deal inthe game.
He's rich and famous.
Why is he going to be killingpeople?
He's hot, right.
Doesn't make any sense.
He got the bitches, he got themoney, he got the cars, he got
everything.
Right now, bro Well, and thedudes, apparently, according to
(13:11):
rumors.
Yeah Well, it gets more thanrumors later.
We're going to get into that.
We're going to get into that.
We got receipts here, right itis.
So.
They end up looking at videotapeand blah, blah, blah and it's
like it's his car, clearly it'shis car.
And then, oh shit, he's drivingthe car and and he's with this
(13:35):
guy that gets murdered who, whenthe car comes back, the
murdered guy's not in the caranymore, right?
So it's like, clearly him,right?
So he gets arrested.
And then they start digginginto other things and they find
out that there's these other twomurders that happened a while
back.
Oh shit, he did those murderstoo, right.
(13:59):
And so, long story short, hegets found guilty of murder, but
then he appeals.
Like all murder cases, they goback to appeal, right?
If it's something serious, likea murder, you get an automatic
appeal.
Well, in the middle of theappeal, he kills himself right
(14:23):
Now.
The reason that he killshimself is because in I think
it's Boston or MassachusettsRight, there's a law that if you
die waiting for trial, all yourcases and your convictions and
(14:45):
all of those things that areheld up go away.
So you're found innocent.
No, but you're found innocent,oh Right.
This is why it's important.
Remember what I talked about thePatriot Way.
Yes, the part of the PatriotWay, part of the contract that
(15:08):
he signed, is that if you get inany trouble and you're arrested
, we don't have to pay you apenny.
But because he died, all hisrecords are erased.
They have to pay him.
Yes, and his daughter gets $40million, holy shit.
(15:33):
So he killed himself at a veryspecific time to make sure that
his daughter gets paid.
And now we're back to thereceipts part.
Right, all right, he killshimself in jail, which is very
suspicious because he was undersuicide watch, kind of like a
(15:55):
little bit I mean, he's not amolester, but kind of like the
Jeffrey Epstein, like, how didthis guy kill himself in jail
with people watching him 24-7?
It's just, it's weird, right,it seems to happen a lot.
Apparently, he wrote threesuicide letters, three, number
one to his daughter, okay,telling her a really nice letter
(16:20):
, right, obviously right that heloved her and wants the best
for her.
I'm proud of her.
Be smart, do smart choices.
Right, right, don't be amurderer like me.
Probably I'm paraphrasingfootball right, right, he writes
one, two, I, two.
I think they were married, I'mnot sure To his wife or the
(16:42):
mother of the baby, okay, whowas his baby mama.
At the very least they mighthave been married I don't really
remember, but they might havebeen married and one to his gay
lover.
Oh, oh, a very romantic suicideto a man.
(17:02):
Let's keep it as a baby.
So now, it's like that's wherethe bisexual part comes out.
Right, because it's like he heclearly in the letter loved the,
the baby mama as well.
You know, they had a daughter.
They've been through a lottogether, blah, blah.
But he had this other guy thathe loved, right, apparently, but
(17:25):
no kids with him, right, yeah,it's harder, there's some
complications with that, right,right.
So after he died, theypetitioned the family, the
government petitioned the familyto donate the brain to science
to see if they have, if they canstudy for a thingopathy, what's
(17:51):
that?
So, encephalopathy man.
I couldn't have said thatperfectly before the accident.
It's even harder now and Ithink I might have this as well,
(18:11):
by the way.
What's that?
So, when your brain gets hit alot or severely in my case, lot
or severely, in my case right,you kind of, your, your brain
muscles kind of do this, right,like they shred a little bit,
shred, yeah, like they shred alittle bit.
(18:33):
Well, nfl players not just nflplayers, to be clear, but
football players because theywear helmets and they use their
head almost like a weapon soccerplayers because they hit their
yeah, boxing, obviously, mma,any sport, a lot of sports,
including basketball, a lot ofthese sports they have this from
(18:53):
these, what we think of aslittle hits, constant, little
hits to their head.
Yeah, they build it up in theirbrain.
Or, like in my case, like Isaid, I have a major brain
injury.
That's kind of I did it all atonce where people kind of do it
over a long period of time,right, well, this is the thing
(19:14):
with this CTE is that there'sseveral people, including other
famous, famous football players,that have been diagnosed with
this.
You can only be diagnosed afteryou're dead, because they have
to slice your brain up and lookat it through a microscope to
diagnosis.
But they have very difficult, alot of difficult managing their
(19:37):
emotions, like they have a lotof trouble with their emotions.
Yeah, they're very aggressive,they're very angry.
You know, a lot of the thingsthat we saw with Aaron was kind
of probably due to this, so hehad concussions all the way back
in high school.
Oh, so it started earlier.
Yeah, so people some people getCTE that only played high
(20:02):
school football.
Fuck yeah, so it can happen.
Like I said, I could get itfrom the one car accident that
we had.
Yeah, you get a bad concussionin football and you could get it
.
Plus, I'm full grown, so mybrain fills my head.
You get a really bad fight.
That's it Right.
And so with kids, the youngeryou are, your brain doesn't fill
(20:25):
your skull and it bounces more.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And so people that we have seencases where people kill
themselves in high schoolbecause they had CTE Damn school
because they had cte.
So it's a major issue and it'ssomething that even the nfl is
kind of like trying to researchto try to avoid.
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So they've taken out using yourhead as a weapon and all this
stuff.
Any little hits to the head.
The nfl throws a flag now, sothey're trying their best.
It doesn't prevent it really.
It's just not on purpose, ifthat makes sense.
I mean, it's a full fuckingbody.
Yeah, you're gonna hit yourhead, even your head.
(21:06):
At this point you're talkingabout your whole body, like,
yeah, well, and you can hit,like if, if you tackle, you roll
down, you're putting your wholeweight on your head, right,
right, it's like, well, even if,like, if you're standing there
and somebody comes and tacklesyou from the stomach, your brain
(21:28):
whiplashes in the air, even,right, I mean so there's really
no way around this,unfortunately.
That's crazy, but at leastwe're entertained, right, I
guess?
Yeah, I will say this SinceI've learned, because I have
learned a lot about CTE.
Yeah, I don't think you shouldjoin football.
It's hard for me to watchfootball.
(21:48):
What I don't, really, I can'tremember the last time I watched
the game, because all I see isthese heads hitting, and it has
made it very difficult knowing,because I care about these.
I'm fans of these guys, right,these heads hitting, and it has
made it very difficult knowing,cause I care about these.
These are.
I'm fans of these guys, right,and I watching it to be
entertained, but now it's, andnow I feel like I'm watching
these guys ruin their brains.
(22:10):
Yeah, and I, it's verydifficult for me to watch
football.
I don't watch football thatmuch.
I'm more into basketball now, Idon't watch it.
Yeah, yeah, watch football thatmuch, I'm more into basketball
now I don't watch it.
Yeah, yeah, so, um, that'sfucking crazy, though.
Yeah, so you're not joiningfootball, right, I have no plans
(22:33):
.
Okay, I mean I can't.
So nobody's going to want me.
I'm 6'2", 75 of that is fat,probably Like I'm not in the
best shape of my life, not yet.
The other thing that I wanted tomention in this episode is I
(22:54):
was a huge fan of AaronHernandez.
So, as a Hispanic person, wedon't have a lot of heroes that
are Latinos, right, we're nottaught, we're not always
athletes, and then when they doshow up like I've watched MMA,
right, ufc and stuff there wasthese guys, the Diaz brothers.
(23:15):
They're assholes.
I can't fucking root for theseguys.
You know what I mean?
I don't want to.
It's like I don't want to befriends.
And then this guy I don't wantto be friends like he was
kicking out with, I don't wantto support him, right, anyway.
But aaron hernandez, like he puton this, like he had a great
smile.
You know, he seemed friendly,he was good, he said all the
(23:35):
right things, you know.
So I was a fan of his.
And when, when there, there'sthis famous video of him being
arrested, where they like puthim like the picture was there.
Yeah, yeah, like with a shirt,yeah, they like just put the
shirt over his handcuffs, yeah,yeah, right there, I was like
(23:56):
they got the wrong guy, likethis guy, and I was like the
tattoos man, like it doesn'tmake sense.
I mean, he had all the tattoos.
He looked like a thug, but Iwas like he's not really a thug,
it's like a look, right, Ithink I think of that a lot of
times, like you know, like youlook at 50 cent, and he seems
about look at this shit, he wasjust being like, that's him in
(24:16):
court.
Look, look, look, look In theinterview.
Come on, yeah, that smile.
Come on, yeah, he had amillion-dollar smile.
There's no way.
Yeah, look at that, he'salready played.
Look how happy he looks.
Yeah, look, how big he is.
This guy's bigger than me, forsure, and he's's like towering
(24:44):
over him anyway, anyways.
So that's the story.
You're being mesmerized by himtoo.
He was fun to watch.
That's it for today.
Put in the comments what yourfavorite Aaron Hernandez memory
(25:06):
was.
He was a good player.
I mean, it's such a tragedy.
Nobody put him in jail forplaying bad.
Okay, david, that's true,that's true.
You know what?
The only way to stop AaronHernandez is if you murdered
somebody and then you put him injail.
Really, he was unstoppable.
He was unstoppable and actuallythat team had two tight ends,
(25:29):
which is very uncharacteristicof teams, and they were both
good.
They were like an unstoppableteam with him.
Yeah, and so it is a very tragicstory, shit and so, um, it's,
it is a very tragic story.
Um, as a person, you know wementioned kind of in passing
that I do have a lot of friendsthat are gay and lesbian and
(25:49):
trans and so forth, and for themto have advanced so far to
where they don't have to hide itthe way that he felt he did,
I'm a little bit happy aboutthat.
But that just adds to thetragedy of this story.
If that was part of likethere's, there's, spec, you was
gay.
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I mean he was gay by, orwhatever.
I mean I wouldn't be mad.
Shit, he was getting the bestof both worlds.
So there's, there's I don't knowif I touched on, but there's
the theory that he killed thisguy because the guy was going to
tell people he was gay andthat's why he killed him, and so
to have that amount of pressure.
I mean I don't know if it'strue or not right, we'll never
(26:30):
know.
Now that Aaron is, I think it'sfake, but Fake it's the lies
Pretty crazy, yeah, that's crazy.
Talk to you next week.
Bye, guys.
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