To Kill Time Podcast · TJ VanBuren, Kain Wilder, Dylan Freeman

E53 Premiering Season Two To Kill Time!

October 25, 2023·50 min·4 clips

I'm saying an alligator weighs four and a half.

Travis, Kane, and TJ come back for Season 2 with new colors and a new logo, but the same three-man chemistry. They are not live on Twitch for the opener, but they are back across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. The conversation starts goofy and stays that way for a while. Someone asks if the moon is fake. An alligator gets guessed at four and a half something. TJ gets dragged into a Marshall Mathers comparison because that is the level of nonsense the room is running on. After that, the episode settles into the real catch-up after more than two months away. Travis says he has been working a lot and trying to stack bread. He also says his job has been a mess because they cannot keep people on. That kind of plain frustration sits near the center of the episode. Nobody tries to dress it up. It is just there, the way real life usually is. The move comes up next, and it is only about 20 miles down the road, which still somehow turns into about 30 minutes of Nashville traffic pain. A buddy with a flooded apartment has a brand-new washer-dryer set. That sounds like a win until the dryer plug shows up and starts acting wrong. The washer works fine. The dryer does not. The problem turns out to be old three-prong versus newer four-prong wiring, because of course it does. Travis starts spiraling a little and hunting for adapters like the whole house depends on it. He makes the Home Depot run and finds out the fix is real, which is a relief, but not before everybody spends time acting like the situation is much bigger than it is. Somewhere in the middle of all that, they get stuck on whether something has to be a handle or a knob, because once a bit is dumb enough, they are going to keep pushing it. That is basically the rhythm of the whole episode. One small detail becomes the main event, then another one takes over. It has the feel of a long road trip conversation where no one is in a hurry to get to the point. The hosts keep giving regular life the full treatment, whether it is work bullshit, moving bullshit, or appliance bullshit. The close keeps the same shameless energy, with a shoutout to Dub's Barbecue Sauce and the running joke that Arizona Iced Tea would be the dream sponsor. It lands like a fresh-season hangout that knows exactly how to turn mundane chaos into something worth sitting with.

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A shaggy season opener where ordinary annoyances become the main event.

Season 2 opens with Travis, Kane, and TJ back together, with new colors and a new logo already setting the tone, while the loose group energy still does most of the work.

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You want to hear three friends turn a dryer plug into a crisis.

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