SPECIAL: The Tyler Herro Whistleblower Speaks! | The Dan Le Batard Show
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Pablo Torre does his fancy boy journalism, and we do ours. We have now the anonymous guest, but this is real. He wants his anonymity protected because of how flammable the Internet can be. We have on with us, and I'm not even going to say his name, the person who revealed that Tyler Hero had been instant messaging and direct messaging things that would make Bam out of bio and eventually punch him. So that guest is on with us now, and he's doing a great job. I thought we were going to have to do some of this work for him, but he brought his own mask and brings his own anonymity, and we don't even have it. He looks tremendous. No, this is serious. This is serious journalism. Thank you for being on with us, mystery guest who absolutely got Tyler Hero punched.
Take us through the beginning parts of this story. How is it that you and Tyler Hero began interacting where he felt comfortable enough with you to share family secrets?
So basically what happened was I was scrolling on Instagram and I came up on his burner and I commented retire hole pretty much. And then he commented back telling me that he's just getting started this, that, this. And like his career is going to be great. And then he hopped in my DMs, like making fun of me. And then we were going back and forth for like months. Every time he had a bad game or something like that, I tell him he's terrible. Miami's going to be better when he's gone. Stuff like those lines. And he would, anytime he had a good game, he would help him by being like, drop dots, talk about how nice he was. And just like this, he needs the team to be built around him and things of that nature.
And then the particular message about Bam, he had a terrible game the game before and I was telling him how bad he was. And then he's like, everyone's worried about me, but there's a guy making 60 million. And then he started to go in on Bam.
So you were basically taunting him for months with Retire Ho?
Yeah, basically like that, like the particular ban message, he had a bad game. And I said to him, so how many more years until you're in China? 2029? And then he got mad and then started going back and forth with me from there.
So how long would you, if you had to guess, how many months were you going back and forth with Tyler Hero? Probably, I'd say probably since like around like December. Were there times that he was reaching out to you after good games that you weren't even reaching out to him?
Yeah, like there was one time where he had like a 30-point game, but we lost. And he was on a flight to Philly. And like he hit me with a bunch of dots. And then I said, there's no way you're thinking about me after you just dropped 30.
Was there ever a point where you were saying to yourself, why is an NBA player even having these conversations with me?
Yeah, I think it was because he would always laugh about the way I talked to him. I think he just found me funny, so he would just go back and forth with me. But I found it crazy, and all my friends who I showed them to. I've been watching Heat for 20 years since I was a kid. They've been my favorite team. So my friends, the only player that I've ever disliked on the team, not him as a person, just his game. I always kept it on his game. And they just found it crazy that he was interacting with me.
Are you more of a Wasteman, or is he more of a Wasteman?
I would say he's more of a Wasteman.
What the hell does that mean? Do you feel good or bad about everything that's happened here?
Him getting hit, it's like 50-50. I don't really want somebody to get hit. Everything else, it doesn't matter. I was just trolling him. He should have known it was going to get out. The only reason why I talked to him was to talk to him and to tell him how much I didn't like his game.
It's not a bit. It is not fake.
How did the whistleblower first start interacting with Tyler Herro on social media?
We are not acting. This is the person who he outed, Tyler Hero. Do you have any regret about that? Any remorse about that? Remorse about Bam punching him? Yeah. The DM's not really, no. So how does the news get to you that all of this has escalated to the point that Bam has punched him?
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