Erasing Aaron | 5

Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

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4.8 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With his arrest, Hernandez traded in his jersey number for an inmate number in the Massachusetts prison system. His voice was rarely heard from again in public -- but he spent hours talking on the phone from inside jail. Spotlight obtained ninety hours of jail calls -- never before heard publicly -- that provide an intimate look at his life and mind in the period before his first murder trial.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Gladiator, Aaron Hernandez, and Football Inc.
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0:13.0	A listener note, this episode contains some adult language and themes.
0:17.0	It's so funny that the guys in there, the guys in there last year probably,
0:21.0	you were their favorite player, now you're thinking out of them.
0:24.0	Even in jail, the world of football and the New England Patriots
0:28.0	looms large for Aaron Hernandez.
0:31.0	Where they yelling about him?
0:33.0	Here in yellow?
0:35.0	Yeah, it's like a game.
0:37.0	Crazy, the whole fucking game.
0:39.0	He remains something of a celebrity.
0:41.0	The dude came on the unit today this morning and it was crazy.
0:44.0	The whole unit was just going crazy.
0:46.0	He's like, Aaron Hernandez is in this unit and I need your fucking autograph.
0:49.0	And he was like, kind of, like Jason, in your own.
0:52.0	And then right before he left, and he wrote on a toilet paper roll,
0:55.0	the dress call me, you need anything, I have to do anything for your family.
0:58.0	Go, Aaron Hernandez.
1:01.0	By November 2014, he's been in two different jails over 16 months
1:07.0	as he awaits his murder trial.
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