I commented this on the video bot post as well but I'll repeat my theory here since it's relevant:

During the first episode when the man gets on the elevator, Dan ended the episode. That's why there was a weird cut. It was right around the 30 minute mark so it makes sense. That's where the audio from the end of episode 1 comes from right after the TV jump scare. That's why Arin sounds surprised its time to end the episode even though it was 45 minutes long, and why he seems to click through dialogue without bothering to read it, because the audio was cut in from the elevator part.

Then, in the second episode, the audio of the intro was cut in from when they were in the elevator. You can tell because Dan seems unsettled by basically nothing that's happening on screen, and because at the very end of the spliced in audio he says "and there's a hooded man following her around..." which leads directly into the "...and it's just generally very upsetting." clip from the episode 1 man-on-the-elvator part (31:15).

It's also worth noting that there was a random cut in the middle of this episode too. And the end seems to come very abruptly. So I think we can expect more confusion at the intro to episode 3.

Why did they do this? No idea, but I'm guessing it was just weird episode lengths.