Episode 43 - Passing Down the Recipe with Machel St. Patrick Hewitt

Machel St. Patrick Hewitt, one half of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, joins the show to talk in more detail about how he and his co-host Santokie Nagulendran started making their podcast, the role the podcast plays in covering West Indies cricket, and the reasons why they dedicate so much of their time and effort to the cause.The Caribbean Cricket Podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaribbeanCricketPodcastOn Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2vseYQXRRe614G84eNydM7Follow the Caribbean Cricket Podcast on Bluesky @caribcricket.bsky.social‬The Cricket Sickos Podcast on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2kkhzf25On Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aditrs7870?feature=sharedRSS link: https://anchor.fm/s/fa16cb28/podcast/rss Follow Adit on Bluesky @aditrs.bsky.socialChapters:01:05 Cricket origin story04:02 Meeting Santokie06:56 Reasons why support for the West Indies among the diaspora has declined11:04 How conversations with Santokie turned into the podcast13:20 Influencing how West Indies fans talk about cricket18:33 What success looks like for West Indies cricket26:10 How Machel finds the drive to keep the podcast going32:35 Why the podcast is important