The Josh Innes Show - Perhaps The Most Heartbreaking Gambling Loss Ever

Episode Date: October 12, 2026

As you may have heard, I am a degenerate. I'm broken. What can I say? Anyhow, I suffered an absolute ball buster during the Sunday Night game. In fact, there was a call I've never seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. All right. everybody. It's 12.46 in the morning Sunday. Let me go live on TikTok. I've been TikTok and I've been TikTok and I've almost got 700 followers on TikTok, which is actually an accomplishment. Because I've had TikTok for a while now and I just never did anything. I think I started this TikTok when I was in Nashville. And I never really did anything. I had like two. 200 followers maybe. I just never did anything. And I just started posting shit about LSU and the Saints. And all of a sudden I picked up like 500 followers in the last month or so, which is pretty good.

I had a video the other day that I posted yesterday after the LSU game. They got like 300,000 views. Can these people listen to my podcast, please? Let me play a few commercials here. And then I'll start live. We'll see if we get any kind of interaction. We may, we may not. Let's see.

Let's see. I'm just going to label it. All my teams are ass. Or actually what I might do. Let me change the title on this thing. I'm going to say, do your, let's see. Do your, do your teams suck like mine? There.

All right. Let's play a few commercials. and then we'll see if we get any interaction. Last night, I got a whole bunch of fucking wackos, like Kentucky people and shit. So I appreciate the interaction. I just, you know, don't really give a shit. But okay, play a few commercials here.

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Free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. All right, we're going live on TikTok. I don't know if anybody out there in the TikTok universe. But anyway, so weird day. First off, I want to start with this. I'm going to start with something. I don't know if anybody that's going to be watching this or listening to

I don't know how many of you gamble or whatever it is you do that you're into, whatever, okay? But the most heartbreaking gambling loss, the most inexplicable gambling loss ever actually took place for me tonight. I think the same thing kind of impacted a lot of people. So I needed the yards. I needed receiving yards for Zayflowers of Baltimore, right? I did a parlay, a live parlay, where I needed Zayflowers, and I needed, I think Zayflowers to get to 60 yards, and I needed Drake London to get to like 50, okay? Drake London easily got there. They were just tossing the fucking ball. Like, they were just tossing the ball to Drake London. And he ended up getting

to like over 100 yards, right? But I needed Zayflowers. Okay. So I needed Zayflowers to get to 60. It was like a second down in 20. I think it was like a second and 20 in the fourth quarter. And Huntley scrambling around, he makes this a great throw. And Zay Flowers catch. It's on the last drive of the game. They have to go score a touchdown and get a two-point conversion. If they don't score a touchdown and get a two-point conversion, then it's done so.

Right? If they don't get the two-point conversion, it's, oh, I mean, like they have to score and get two. Cool, right? So my man goes down the field, throws one like 25. yards to Zay Flowers. I needed 18 yards, right? So I needed 18 yards and I'm good to go. He catches it for like 25 yards. I like, this is amazing. I hit this parlay. It would have won like three or 400 bucks. Life is good. We're kicking ass. It's amazing. Well, there is a pass interference. I'm thinking, okay, cool. Who gives a shit? There's a pass interference. No one gives a shit because

you caught the ball anyway. We're declining the pass interference. Pass interference. Pass Declined. First down. Let's go. Catch. Parlay. Victory. Life is good. Well, I was wrong. Because something I've never seen before. I'm sure it's happened at some point in the annals of sports history at some point. I'm sure it's happened. But in this moment, my man makes the catch. Okay. Makes the catch. There's a pass. interference, I'm thinking we decline it. It's a first down. I got 25 yards. I got my parlay. We're winning $300. Let's fucking go. They accept the pass interference penalty because the interference occurred like three or four more yards down the field. So to get those yards, they accept the penalty. So because of that, because of the fact they accept the penalty, catch doesn't count,

and I never get the Zayflower's yards. Even though the game went to fucking overtime, I ever get the Zayflower's yards. I have never seen that happen before, ever. In my life, I'm sure it's happened. I don't doubt that it's happened. I'm sure something like that has happened before. But in my life, I have never seen a pass interference that was accepted when the guy caught the ball.

And that beat me. So, and then eventually the game goes to overtime, right? because a miracle happens. Huntley drives them down the field. They score. They run the play that gets into the end zone for the two-point conversion. And great, okay? Everybody, it's going to overtime.

They threw it to Zay Flowers twice in overtime. Still didn't get to 18 yards. Caught it twice. Didn't get 18 yards. I mean, I have never seen something like that happen. And that one cost me that parlay. Now, on the flip side, because of the touchdown and the two-point conversion, the passing yards I needed, I did a live bet on the passing yards for Michael Pennix, and he got it. Like literally, the play before he got his ribs knocked out, he completed a pass that got me the yards for him.

But I can't think of a situation where I've ever seen anything like that. I'm trying to go back in time and think of a time where a pass interference penalty, was accepted when the guy actually caught the ball. I've never seen that before. And it screwed me out of like a $300 parlay victory. So that kind of fucking sucked. And by kind of fucking sucked, I mean, like, it really fucking sucked. And that should have been a hit and it should have been 300.

Actually, they would have won like $400. And it would have been fucking awesome. But, and I was looking at social media to see if other people were impacted by this. and the number of people who were just blown away, they're like, what the fuck happened? Whatever those Zay Flowers Yards? Like, where the fuck is Zay Flowers? I took his yards.

What's the deal? Well, as it turns out, Zayflower's yards didn't count. Like, I'm watching that play as it happened. And I'm like, oh, shit, there's a flag. It's going to come back. It's going to be a hold. No, it was a defensive penalty.

So I'm like, we got this. Let's go do shots. Me and my wife do shots every time we hit a parlay or a bed or LSU scores a touchdown. or whatever, that's kind of our thing, right? You know, we do shots of shit. Whatever, cool, fine. Tequila.

Swavcito tequila is what we did in that instance. But, oh, fuck, what a nightmare. So I'm like, well, wait a minute. Why is this going to, like, why is this happening? But, so got screwed on that one. That should have been a hit. Should have been victory. It wasn't victory.

It was depressing. Dude, I had someone. over the way. Actually, I'll give you one even worse while we're talking about shitty gambling situations over the course of the weekend. So I had a live passing yards bet in the Florida game with the kid, Philo or whatever the fuck his name is that's quarterback at Florida. And by the way, Florida is a total fraud. We all knew they were a total fraud. Everybody blowing Florida. Oh my God, look out for Florida. Florida's garbage. We knew Florida was garbage. They won because Florida was in a spot. We talk about spots all the time. Spots, spots, right? They beat all.

Ole Miss because they're not better than Old Miss. They beat Ole Miss because Ole Miss was coming off of the game against LSU. LSU was their fucking Super Bowl. They knew it was their Super Bowl. You were going to catch them in your place the next week coming off of that high and you beat them. And then the whole world starts talking about how great Florida is and how amazing Florida is. And oh, it's so great that they got this coach and all this shit.

Then they've gone out and just gotten their dicks knocked in the dirt a couple weeks in a row. But anyway, so I needed, because I don't really do a lot of bets before games. games. I like to do them live. If I have the availability, if I have the capability of doing a bet live, I like to do them live, you know, for like prop bets and shit. And I'm watching this. And I took the two quarterbacks. I need like 20 more yards from from Lenora's sellers who got it easily. And then my other guy's marching down the field, they turned the ball over. But I'm like, everything's going to be fine. I need three more yards from this guy. That's fine. They're leaving him in the game. I need three more yards. Dude fucking gets hurt on a second down play, I think. think it was. He was the second or third down. He gets hurt. Okay. So he gets hurt. They take him out for a play. Backup quarterback throws an incomplete pass or a short pass, whatever it is. It's fourth and like three. If they convert this, guy's going to stay in the game and I'm going to get it and I'm going to hit this parlay. Instead, they throw an incompletion, they punt it and then decide, hey, you know what we're going to do now? We're just going to take him out. So that sucked. I had a

couple. I had another one that lost by like a yard. There were a couple that really fucking suck this weekend. Because I don't really bet, like, I don't really do, like, point spreads and shit. Like, that's not really my, my M.O. Like, I like prop bets and I like doing prop bets live, you know. And a lot of them tend to hit, like, if you catch them in the right spot, like, oh, actually, one that was fantastic today is I did a prop bet, live prop bet thing that had yards for Jackson Smith and Jigba and a couple of other things that worked out well and it hit. So like I enjoy doing those kind of things. That would be my advice to you is to take these things live.

I love like I just love live betting. That's what I'm into. I like to live bet shit. So. But anyway. But overall, betting wise, I had some highs and some lows. And today, tonight could have been pretty epic. But then I get like caught up and shit.

And then I'll throw in bets that I, that I'm like, okay, there's a good chance. Like, I'll take chances on things that happen, like, in the moment. Like, there were a couple I lost today that I shouldn't have, well, there was one I had with Joe Burrow that should have hit, but it didn't hit. And then there was one that just, you know, it sucked with, it was a dumb decision I made with Aaron Rogers on like the last play of, like, of a drive, which was stupid too. But anyway, so, but the most heartbreaking, crushing. defeat. Like I've never, I've never seen anything like this. Like, I've never seen a sports betting loss like that. And I've, because I've never seen that happen. I'm sure it has. I'm sure there have been times that somebody has taken the, has accepted the penalty instead of

taking the receiving yards for the player. I've just never seen it. I've never seen that happen. and there it was. And it was the most gut punch. That would have won three, four hundred bucks. I forgot what it was. It would have been an awesome fucking win. And what ends up happening is, is I don't win. And why didn't I win?

I didn't win because of that damn play. And then they threw it to say twice in overtime. One was a screen past and went nowhere. And one was a conversion, I think, on like a third down. And, dude, it was, what are you going to do? do, right? Like, what are you going to do in that situation? But anyway, that was kind of shitty. And, but it's like the thing, and now I feel like my degenerate gambling grandma, who I never saw a bet on things, but my grandma always played lottery. So she liked, you know, she likes scratch

offs and she like bingo and all that shit. Scratchoffs, bingo, pick three powerball, mega millions, did all that shit, slot machines. If she ever got the opportunity to go, she'd be on the slot machines all the time. That was Grandma Edna. That's what she was into. And she used to tell me, I'd say, Grandma, why do you keep doing this shit if you never win? And she said, oh, hell, son, it's fun. And I'm like thousands of dollars in the hole in my life doing this yet. All I can think to myself is, oh, shit, son, it's fun. So. But anyway, that was kind of a bummer in that case. But anyway, Anyway, the, but my TikTok, it is a fascinating thing, though, because, like, I can post a lot of shit on a lot of different things, and I don't really get any kind of reaction or feedback, right? Like on Twitter, I can post something that I think is the most brilliant thing ever.

Nothing. No feedback. Two likes, whatever. Then, of course, you post something about Sophie Cunningham and a bunch of MAGA dwebs get in on it because they got to defend their princess. And all of a sudden, it's just, I'm inundated with shit to the point that I'm like, yeah, I don't want to do this shit. anymore. I guess it's been over a month, maybe a month plus since I've looked at it, but like I literally have not even opened up Twitter. I don't have it on my phone. I deleted it from my phone. I just made that decision. Like at some point, you just get to a point where you're

like, I don't give a fuck what these people say. Like you've got to get into the mindset of who gives a fuck, you know, let them. Like that would be the philosophy that I would adopt there. Like, hey, these people are talking shit about you on the internet. Fucking let them. who gives a shit? Let them talk shit. Talk all the shit you want about me. I don't care. Like, it shouldn't impact my life.

And you get to a point where you don't let it impact your life. And that's kind of what the case has been since I stopped looking at Twitter. I have not looked at Twitter since that moment when I just said, I'm not doing this shit anymore. I'm not going to sit here and let my day be consumed with a bunch of dipshits on Twitter yelling at me about fucking Sophie Cunningham. Someone that they're never going to fuck. She probably didn't even agree with you, Polishton. politically, like you people are morons. Why am I getting angry and worked up over this with you?

So lock them. So I didn't bother with it. But anyway, shitty gambling loss. Ballbuster. I had another one. I had one that lost by three yards. And then I had another where I needed one more yard from somebody. And I forgot who it was, but it missed by one fucking yard.

So a couple of real ballbusters. Anyway, more to come.