KILLINIT

KILLINIT presents itself as a call-in advice show, but what it delivers is closer to a live stream where the advice keeps getting interrupted. Blake Webber and Steve go live on YouTube with a guest, take questions from callers and the chat, and follow whichever tangent gets the biggest reaction. The register is loud, teasing and quick, with profanity and raunchy jokes left in rather than trimmed. The audience sees how the stream is run. Cold opens are full of mic checks, starts that land three minutes early or seven minutes late, and repeated questions about whether the stream is actually live yet. Steve is the most dependable punchline. He is ribbed for not having the stream link ready, for asking to have it texted to him, and for what gets described on air as doing the bare minimum. Guests land in the same crossfire. Jackson McQueen shows up insisting the pair bullied him in high school, and the denial gets repeated so many times it turns into the bit. Neel Nanda, introduced as a good friend, is on hand for a detour explaining the crude nickname given to a former guest's cat. The Nina Marie Daniele visit, where she is billed as an internet legend, features a complaint about getting stuck behind a truck in traffic that spirals into the line 'everyone forgets about science until science happens.' Callers are treated the same way. One, phoning from St. Louis with what he announces as a very serious question, just wants to know why California is so bad at hockey, and is written off as a fan talking trash while his team is winning. Super chats arrive mid-conversation, and one viewer's jab at Blake's friends is read out and openly admired. Tiny subjects get stretched until they snap. A new-year vow to skip gluten and sugar becomes a standoff over a cookie, and a question about favorite emoji turns into a round-the-room debate, with Maddie, who runs tech, weighing in. The business side gets played for laughs as well: a plug for a show at Levity Live Oxnard comes with talk of an 18-minute flight to get there, and one episode celebrates landing the show's first sponsors. In one closing, Patreon backers are thanked by name. One cold open is a breathless recap of a weekend at EDC, which Steve calls the craziest of the three he has attended. For a quick sense of the format, JACKSON MCQUEEN | #KILLINIT #16 is a good example: an old acquaintance, an old grudge, and a denial repeated until it is the whole joke.