diff --git a/metropolis/cli/dbg/main.go b/metropolis/cli/dbg/main.go
index f7eb1a4..e702083 100644
--- a/metropolis/cli/dbg/main.go
+++ b/metropolis/cli/dbg/main.go
@@ -21,10 +21,8 @@
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
-	"math/rand"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
-	"time"
 
 	"google.golang.org/grpc"
 	"k8s.io/cli-runtime/pkg/genericclioptions"
@@ -180,7 +178,6 @@
 		// The base code is straight from:
 		//   https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/cmd/kubectl/kubectl.go
 		os.Setenv("KUBECONFIG", kubeconfigFile.Name())
-		rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
 		command := cmd.NewDefaultKubectlCommandWithArgs(cmd.KubectlOptions{
 			PluginHandler: cmd.NewDefaultPluginHandler(plugin.ValidPluginFilenamePrefixes),
 			Arguments:     os.Args[2:],
diff --git a/metropolis/node/kubernetes/hyperkube/main.go b/metropolis/node/kubernetes/hyperkube/main.go
index fd0703d..5f9d443 100644
--- a/metropolis/node/kubernetes/hyperkube/main.go
+++ b/metropolis/node/kubernetes/hyperkube/main.go
@@ -33,10 +33,8 @@
 
 import (
 	goflag "flag"
-	"math/rand"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"time"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
@@ -51,8 +49,6 @@
 )
 
 func main() {
-	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
-
 	hyperkubeCommand, allCommandFns := NewHyperKubeCommand()
 
 	// TODO: once we switch everything over to Cobra commands, we can go back