Count The Dings

Count The Dings

Rob produced multiple shows a week for the Count The Dings podcast network, from weekly episodes to live shows at venues across the country.

Count The Dings, Podcast Producer

Production

Produced and edited 2 to 4 shows per week across NBA, politics, and music alongside founder Jade Hoye.

Talent

Worked across the network's roster: Big Wos, Amin Elhassan, Zach Harper, Tom Haberstroh, Travonne Edwards, Dave DuFour, Ethan Strauss, and Michael Brooks, with the full lineup on the Count The Dings talent page.

Live & growth

Helped produce live shows at venues across the country and created promotional assets for free and Patreon-exclusive content.

The mentor

Worked directly with network founder Jade Hoye, formerly of ESPN and TrueHoop.

The endorsement

Network founder Jade Hoye publicly credited Rob with keeping the Count The Dings and Athletic NBA shows running through the April 2020 shutdown.

The acquisition

The Athletic acquired the Count The Dings podcasts in 2019, and Rob was named among those making the move in The Big Lead's report, archived and RealGM's wiretap.

2-4

Shows produced per week

Verticals: NBA, politics, music, live

Cities on the live-show run, 2018 to 2019

The flagship

BOMM & Woke Bros

Rob's slate on the network: BOMM and its Thursday edition Woke Bros, which Rob produced alongside the late Michael Brooks, the CTD OG Pod, Back to Back, and The Daily Ding, with the last two moving to The Athletic in the acquisition. It starts with the flagship.

BOMM, Black Opinions Matter, with Woke Bros as its Thursday edition. The same feed runs today as Hoop Sense, so the embed shows the network's current episodes.

Michael Brooks passed in July 2020. The network's tribute, Woke Bros: Michael Brooks Forever, and the remembrance episode are both still up.

Notable episodes

The shows on video

Era uploads still live on the Count The Dings YouTube channel, from shows that ran headlong at the news cycle.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Passes Away

Woke Bros · 2020

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Massachusetts Primary, NBA Strike, Barack Obama's Influence

Woke Bros · 2020

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Supreme Court Importance, Bad Bunny's NYC Concert

Woke Bros · 2020

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Billionaires vs Taxes

Woke Bros · 2020

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Music & Culture

Woke Bros · 2021

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Kenny Stills & Irv Roland Detail Louisville Protest Experience

BOMM · 2020

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Coup Realities, Capitol Riots, Barack Obama's Book

Woke Bros · 2021

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Armenian Conflict w/ Ana Kasparian, Stimulus Package Delays

Woke Bros · 2020

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Zach Carter on US Economics, Government Money and the Pandemic Impact

Woke Bros · 2020

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The REAL Truth about Alicia Keys and Mashonda

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The Star Wars show

Darth Amin's Rule of 2

Rob produced and co-hosted Darth Amin's Rule of 2, Amin Elhassan's Star Wars show on the network, recapping The Mandalorian and the Skywalker saga with guests. Amin was one of the network's central voices, a host on BOMM (now Hoop Sense) and the movie show alongside his NBA work, and the network's posts credit Rob's production and put him in the episodes.

Rob Lopez with Amin Elhassan — With Amin Elhassan, a host across Count The Dings including BOMM and Darth Amin's Rule of 2

Mandalorian Finale, with Joonas Suotamo, who played Chewbacca. Dec 28, 2020

The network's post crediting Rob: "Prod: @r0bato"

A sample of the run Rob produced

The CTD OG Pod, later The Friday Mailbag, was the network's flagship listener-question show, an homage to the network's TrueHoop days at ESPN. A sample of the 2020 to 2021 run Rob produced, hosted by Jade Hoye, Zach Harper, Anthony Mayes, and Eden Liu.

The CTD OG Pod, an homage to the network's TrueHoop days at ESPN

Dec 28, 2020

Darth Amin's Rule of 2: Mandalorian Finale, with Joonas Suotamo

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2020

Isolated and Shuttered

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2020

The Gut Punch

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2020

Never Ending Story

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2020

Slay Bells Ring

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2021

Stay Gold

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2021

Dream Baby Dream

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2021

The Many Shapes of Pasta

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Rob Lopez with Jade Hoye and Henry Abbott

With founder Jade Hoye and Henry Abbott (TrueHoop)

The live-show run

Rob helped produce the network's live shows end to end, from audio and talent coordination to merch sales. Five cities, from Brooklyn's Bell House in October 2018 through San Francisco's Independent in October 2019, each with a photo gallery still live on the Count The Dings site.