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Everything Is A Bitch Episode Fifty Three: Robbing Home Runs

April 11, 2026·52 min·5 clips
AJ Benza reveals he might say goodbye in the final episode, unsure if there will be a season 17.
AJ starts in Vegas. Poker is winding down, the farewell feels a little fake, and he admits the whole season-ending thing is strange because another season might still happen. Mike catches the uncertainty right away. That awkward goodbye talk barely has time to breathe before AJ gets a Kenny boat story he can really work with. A picture comes in. What sounded like loose boat chatter turns into a charter-day electrical fire, with the generator catching and everyone having to abandon ship. The fire department deals with the damage, the boat gets towed to Fort Lauderdale, and Kenny finds out how bad it is hours later. Then AJ gets to the part he cannot leave alone: Kenny had dropped the boat insurance because the cost looked too high. Somehow that bothers both guys more than the fire. AJ keeps circling it, saying the disbelief out loud, doing the math, and treating the missing insurance like the real reveal in the story. Mike keeps him moving. Sympathy turns into advice, then into a half-serious plan to sell the boat and buy a used one together. New boats are for suckers. They talk size, sleeping quarters, fishing, docking it at a buddy's place or at Joe's, and being fine if it takes a few hits. The fun is in the wandering. End-of-season uncertainty turns into a guy-talk autopsy of risk, pride, money, and expensive toys. The ads press in around the edges, but the good part is AJ and Mike turning Kenny's uninsured boat fire into a lesson about cheap choices with brutal endings.

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A shaggy Vegas chat that turns a boat fire into practical comedy.

Mike and AJ spend most of the episode in loose Vegas banter, then the conversation lands on something more immediate: Kenny's boat catches fire, the fire department puts it out, and everybody has to think through what comes next.

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Vegas banter runs into a boat fire and a costly decision not to carry insurance.

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