Dan Hopper
@danhopp.bsky.social
Writer of comedy & sports stuff.
Host of THRILL OF DEFEAT: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thrill-of-defeat/id1816289659
The Only Pittsburgh Sports Page: https://danhopper.substack.com/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/DanHopp/
Host of THRILL OF DEFEAT: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thrill-of-defeat/id1816289659
The Only Pittsburgh Sports Page: https://danhopper.substack.com/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/DanHopp/
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Jacksonville Jaguars (with Brennan Tasseff)
Podcast Episode · Thrill Of Defeat · 11/11/2025 · 1h 9m
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Comedian Brennan Tasseff answers all our burning questions about Jacksonville Jaguars fans, such as: Who are you? What's your deal? Are you OK? and Seriously? We also cover the team's TWO peaks: the Mark Brunell / Jimmy Smith 90s, and the BLAKE BORTLES ERA (season) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
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Rod Stewart. Weird haircut raspy little elf man. But he's horny as all get out and it kind of works. Like if you walked in on him jacking off while flicking his tongue you wouldn't be surprised you'd just be like yeah thats about right. Not sure what this post was going to be about originally
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Rod Stewart. Weird haircut raspy little elf man. But he's horny as all get out and it kind of works. Like if you walked in on him jacking off while flicking his tongue you wouldn't be surprised you'd just be like yeah thats about right. Not sure what this post was going to be about originally
A joyful episode today talking to Megan Gailey and Tom Thakkar about their beloved Indianapolis Colts, blacking out during the Super Bowl and flipping off a Chicago cop, ending friendships over a Peyton Manning choke-job, and Marvin Harrison sorta killing a guy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Indianapolis Colts (with Megan Gailey and Tom Thakkar)
Podcast Episode · Thrill Of Defeat · 11/25/2025 · 1h 18m
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November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A joyful episode today talking to Megan Gailey and Tom Thakkar about their beloved Indianapolis Colts, blacking out during the Super Bowl and flipping off a Chicago cop, ending friendships over a Peyton Manning choke-job, and Marvin Harrison sorta killing a guy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Immaculate Grid ass wine
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Immaculate Grid ass wine
Trump 1 cabinet member: Chief Corruption Consultant at Billowing Smokestack Corp
Trump 2 cabinet member: 26 year old Groyper radicalized by racist Frodo YTMND
Trump 2 cabinet member: 26 year old Groyper radicalized by racist Frodo YTMND
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump 1 cabinet member: Chief Corruption Consultant at Billowing Smokestack Corp
Trump 2 cabinet member: 26 year old Groyper radicalized by racist Frodo YTMND
Trump 2 cabinet member: 26 year old Groyper radicalized by racist Frodo YTMND
My dad is texting on a level that the deepest irony posters spend a lifetime chasing
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My dad is texting on a level that the deepest irony posters spend a lifetime chasing
Punk bands were like “we reject all notions of what bands ‘HAVE’ to be in favor of raw emotion and direct expression that challenges authority and SHOCKS the status quo. Also we literally all covered Surfin Bird”
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Punk bands were like “we reject all notions of what bands ‘HAVE’ to be in favor of raw emotion and direct expression that challenges authority and SHOCKS the status quo. Also we literally all covered Surfin Bird”
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
Never forget: it was the fiery, divisive rhetoric of Joe Biden that brought us here….
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Never forget: it was the fiery, divisive rhetoric of Joe Biden that brought us here….
Someone would’ve gone mega viral (13 faves) on Old Twitter posting “here’s MY take on the Olivia Nuzzi scandal” and it actually links to charity dot com
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Someone would’ve gone mega viral (13 faves) on Old Twitter posting “here’s MY take on the Olivia Nuzzi scandal” and it actually links to charity dot com
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
When everyone else leaves the zoom so it's just you for a second
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
When everyone else leaves the zoom so it's just you for a second
When I read the Running Man novel, there was a preface from Stephen King where he says “using a pen name let me write some of my CRAZIEST stuff, like the end of The Running Man where [etc]” and I was like, there’s no way he just spoiled the book IN the book, right??” then read it & he totally did
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
When I read the Running Man novel, there was a preface from Stephen King where he says “using a pen name let me write some of my CRAZIEST stuff, like the end of The Running Man where [etc]” and I was like, there’s no way he just spoiled the book IN the book, right??” then read it & he totally did
Our plan to whip our voters into a perpetual, frothing paranoid rage that children are being groomed by like the Best Buy Geek Squad SHOULD work as long as our leader doesn’t turn out to be the closest of chums with King Pedophile
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Our plan to whip our voters into a perpetual, frothing paranoid rage that children are being groomed by like the Best Buy Geek Squad SHOULD work as long as our leader doesn’t turn out to be the closest of chums with King Pedophile
We recorded this episode on September 25th when the Patriots were 1-2. Since then, they’re 8-0. What hath podcasters wrought
Listen to me and @joshgondelman.bsky.social talk about how hard it is being the only good and cool Boston sports fans alive on @danhopp.bsky.social's Thrill of Defeat pod.
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New England Patriots (with Josh Gondelman and Luke O'Neil)
Podcast Episode · Thrill Of Defeat · 09/30/2025 · 1h 15m
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We recorded this episode on September 25th when the Patriots were 1-2. Since then, they’re 8-0. What hath podcasters wrought
Not one of Bart’s funnier ones tbh
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Not one of Bart’s funnier ones tbh
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if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "
If no one tells me to go into a movie "knowing nothing about it" I make sure to download and rigorously study the entire script
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
If no one tells me to go into a movie "knowing nothing about it" I make sure to download and rigorously study the entire script
My dog was sneezing violently so I got up to take a video to show the vet and she pulled her blanket back into where I’d been sitting to steal my seat & laid back down while sneezing the entire time. Just elite levels of being a dog
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
My dog was sneezing violently so I got up to take a video to show the vet and she pulled her blanket back into where I’d been sitting to steal my seat & laid back down while sneezing the entire time. Just elite levels of being a dog
Comedian Brennan Tasseff answers all our burning questions about Jacksonville Jaguars fans, such as: Who are you? What's your deal? Are you OK? and Seriously? We also cover the team's TWO peaks: the Mark Brunell / Jimmy Smith 90s, and the BLAKE BORTLES ERA (season) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Jacksonville Jaguars (with Brennan Tasseff)
Podcast Episode · Thrill Of Defeat · 11/11/2025 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Comedian Brennan Tasseff answers all our burning questions about Jacksonville Jaguars fans, such as: Who are you? What's your deal? Are you OK? and Seriously? We also cover the team's TWO peaks: the Mark Brunell / Jimmy Smith 90s, and the BLAKE BORTLES ERA (season) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Remembering that old tweet about how Trump looks like when you’d pause an 80s action movie to see the bad dummy that’s visible for a split second before a character explodes
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Remembering that old tweet about how Trump looks like when you’d pause an 80s action movie to see the bad dummy that’s visible for a split second before a character explodes
I keep getting "impulse buy" texts from the company I paid thousands of dollars to move my stuff from LA to New York. They're all like "Fall is here!! 🍁 Want to move everything you own back to the west coast?"
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I keep getting "impulse buy" texts from the company I paid thousands of dollars to move my stuff from LA to New York. They're all like "Fall is here!! 🍁 Want to move everything you own back to the west coast?"
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Had the pleasure of talking to Dan Hopper (@danhopp.bsky.social) last night for an upcoming episode of Weird Islanders: The Podcast! If you're a listener to our show, you need to check out Dan's great podcast, "Thrill of Defeat" about shared fan heartbreak.
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Toronto Maple Leafs (with John Cullen and Sean McIndoe)
Podcast Episode · Thrill Of Defeat · 07/29/2025 · 1h 11m
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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Had the pleasure of talking to Dan Hopper (@danhopp.bsky.social) last night for an upcoming episode of Weird Islanders: The Podcast! If you're a listener to our show, you need to check out Dan's great podcast, "Thrill of Defeat" about shared fan heartbreak.
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“You GOTTA see what’s in this person’s bio lmaoo”
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“You GOTTA see what’s in this person’s bio lmaoo”
Most political commentary from 1996-2004 was pundits asking "which candidate do you want to have a beer with?" Entire 12 person panels devoted to imagining some hypothetical hick holding a theoretical beer and shooting the shit with president pro tempore Orrin Hatch
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Most political commentary from 1996-2004 was pundits asking "which candidate do you want to have a beer with?" Entire 12 person panels devoted to imagining some hypothetical hick holding a theoretical beer and shooting the shit with president pro tempore Orrin Hatch