The Long Game: Part 2

The Dating Detectives

Dear Media

True Crime, 448526, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

In Part Two of this gripping two-part series, we sit down with Talia to unravel a story that starts with an innocent friendship but quickly spirals into obsession, manipulation, and eerie control. What begins as a lighthearted Coachella connection with Finn—a quirky, seemingly harmless guy—slowly morphs into something much darker.

As Talia navigates young adulthood, heartbreak, and personal trauma, Finn is always there—offering support, but with strings attached. With every twist and turn, he becomes more entrenched in her life, crossing boundaries, planting seeds of doubt, and isolating her under the guise of protection. But just when she starts to recognize the patterns, Finn’s behavior escalates in ways she never saw coming.

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0:00.0	The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety.
0:08.8	The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances.
0:22.4	If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at
0:26.6	1-800-799-7-233 for support.
0:40.0	Part two, let's do this.
0:44.1	Part two, I know you guys kind of sometimes people are like, I won't want to watch.
0:45.9	I don't want to listen to the episode until both of them are out.
0:52.0	But this one's kind of, this one, like, the first, I hate it when like the first half is like, oh, this sounds okay, all right?
0:53.2	Like, okay, what's going to happen?
0:59.8	Why are they on our podcast? Yeah, some of you were a little like, what's the point of this one? I'm like, okay, hold on to your hats and trust us. Trust the process. We're not going to bring you anything that's not dogfishy
1:04.6	y'all. But I love some of the comments, like people are guessing like, oh, he's going to do this. I love when you guys go into like your, your theories. I love it so much. It's great. I'll briefly recap what happened in part one,
1:15.1	although strongly encourage you to listen to the whole thing. Yeah. So Talia is our guest.
1:22.6	I think she said it so well at the very beginning. She came from a pretty abusive, I think, household. At least
1:29.1	there was a lot of, like her mom had an opioid addiction. Basically, she described it as she had
1:33.3	a very confused relationship with love, where she often confused love and abuse. So I think a lot of
1:40.1	people can relate to that. That led to a series of relationships in high school and a little
1:45.6	bit afterwards that were either, well, one was abusive. Like, she just, like, had a series of
1:51.5	relationships that were difficult in different ways. All the while, she had this friend named Finn,
1:56.8	who was stage five clinger. And specifically when they went camping, he invited himself on a camping trip with her friends.
2:04.6	He was being super weird to her ex-boyfriend who happened to be there.
2:08.2	And she straight up told him, bro, this is not cool.
2:12.9	Nobody really invited you.
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