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

E74 Talking Camping Essentials To Kill Time

·50 min·3 clips
The camping draft adds hot dogs, baked beans, a 30-rack of Coors Banquet, and a boat.
1. To Kill Time Podcast episode 74 centers on camping essentials, fantasy football, work stress, and house-guest etiquette. 2. TJ, Kane, and Dylan host the episode, and Dylan drives the main drafts and weekly updates. 3. The episode asks what a boys' camping trip should include, and it also asks what behavior feels wrong at a friend's house. 4. Dylan says he has been doing "a lot of DoorDash lately" in the Glens Falls area and averaging "over $20 an hour." 5. One host lists five fantasy football leagues, including a 16-team league, a paid league, Jeff's league, and Will's league. 6. The same host says he started the season "2-8" across games and then won "15-0" across the last three weeks. 7. He also says one paid league went from a "9% chance" of making playoffs to a "29% chance." 8. The camping draft starts with "USDA prime" steak and moves to hot dogs for lunch and steak for dinner. 9. The draft adds baked beans, specifically "right out of the can," and then a "30 rack of Coors Banquet." 10. Later picks include fishing poles, a tackle box, firewood, weed, and a boat. 11. One host wants "a big ass banging the speaker" for music, while another says smooth jazz would force him to speak up. 12. The group says music should stay on during the pregame and go off when the game starts. 13. A friend's house becomes a test case when someone imagines a downstairs den with a pool table, darts, and beer on draft. 14. The speaker says a charcuterie board at a boys' hangout would feel wrong and makes him ask, "what the fuck is this?" 15. He also says red wine or rosé at a game night would prompt a conversation about "what are we doing?" 16. The episode keeps a loose, joking pace, with the hosts interrupting each other and revisiting the same jokes. 17. The tone stays conversational and rough-edged, with a lot of back-and-forth about work, sports, and drinks. 18. The format moves from weekly life updates into drafts and then into a "what would you say no to" social scenario. 19. Listeners who like sports chatter, group drafts, and barstool-style banter would fit this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly structured interview or a single topic probably would not.

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A loose, funny group chat that turns a camping-trip prompt into a relaxed hangout.

TJ, Kane, and Dylan keep the tone loose and off-the-cuff, which gives the segment most of its charm. It moves from the sponsor read to a fantasy-basketball detour, then circles back through the dog jokes and into the camping-trip prompt, so the flow feels more like a hanging-out…

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You want a camping chat that sounds like your group text with microphones.

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