This episode was supposed to be about Gone Girl. It isn’t. Caleb ends up walking through his Cisco network engineering years instead, detailing a class full of pill trading dropouts, confused prodigies, and a series of choices that,in hindsight, read like warnings. Lauren listens and tries to connect the dots between that environment and the person sitting next to her.

The conversation shifts to their condo. A neighbor’s nicotine stained dog bites Caleb in his own walkway, the owners pretend it’s normal, and Earl, the retired federal agent who runs the community by default, steps in to clean it up.

Then the Clever Name Podcast takes shots, which sends Caleb into a long, flat monologue about piss recordings, fake AI accusations, and a podcast war nobody cares about. Somewhere in the middle of all this, Mexican Dracula shows up…

Gone Girl is barely acknowledged. The rest is weed, nicotine, neighborhood disputes, and two people trying to get through the week.