Rotten Mango
#405: Man From Viral Tiktok Looks Exactly Like Missing Husband- Did He Fake His Own Death For Another Girl
04 Dec 2024
Do you trust a random stranger to give you life-altering advice?A TikToker is standing on the sidewalk with a giant pasteboard - “ASK ME FOR FREE ADVICE.” A middle aged man on a bike stops and asks“Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here?”The whole exchange is bizarre. She asks him why would he move? He tells her for a woman. She asks him why doesn’t he just date an American woman? He tells her that he’s already married with kids…All of this is made more confusing by the fact that the entire time the man appears calm. He’s pleasant and keeps smiling… That TikTok is filmed in June. In August, just 2 months later, a man goes missing in one of the deepest lakes in the state. He’s presumed dead. But why does he look identical to the man in the TikTok video?Did this man actually drown? Or did he fake his death, abandon his wife and kids, to be with a new woman? Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
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Do you trust a random stranger to give you life-altering advice? Imagine walking up to a stranger. You give them this coin. Hey, toss the coin. Toss the coin. And based off of what it lands on, by you tossing it, I'm going to decide whether or not I break up with my girlfriend and move to the other side of the country to join a band. And my fate is in this random person's hand.
Someone I don't even know. I don't even know what this person is about. Would you trust a stranger with that level of power? At the pier in San Diego, California, there's this TikToker Bailey who's casually sitting on the side and she is hoping that people trust a stranger like that.
She's got this giant poster board sitting on her lap and it just reads, ask me for free advice in big, bright orange letters. I don't know how long she's been sitting out there for, but a middle-aged man stops on his bike. Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here? Mmm.
Yes. And it's such an intense question. Say that one more time. Do I go to Uzbekistan or stay here? Do you have family there? No. Why do you want to go? To meet a woman. to meet a woman and it was Uzbekistan, which that's a huge thing to ask a stranger for advice. Do you move to the other side of the world for a woman or do you stay here?
I don't know, but maybe he just needs someone who blurts out an answer. To give you the honest truth of how I feel about this TikTok, it appears to me that he just wants someone to say yes. Like, you know, when you ask someone for advice, but you already know what you want to hear. So anything else is just going in one ear and out the other. It doesn't matter to you.
It's like when you decide you want to buy something already, you ask your friend and they tell you, do you really need it? You just keep going until they say, yeah, you should totally get it. That's the energy here. And the man on the bike has this very interesting outward appearance. He's wearing this black beanie, but it's only covering half of his bald head.
And he's eerily calm the entire time, like a bit too calm. The way he's just pleasantly smiling. Do I just uproot my life and move to the other side of the country? It's really odd, right?
Yes. And the TikToker Bailey continues to ask him, you don't like American women? Well, they're familiar. So you've given up on meeting someone here in America? No, I'm married. So he's married, pondering if he should move to the other side of the world for a woman. And the whole thing just gets stranger and stranger. He talks about how his kids are out of the house. He has an empty nest.
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