What's it like to be a sports podcast producer?
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 577 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Patrick Antonetti, who has produced this podcast for many years. In this podcast, Antonetti discusses what his job is; how this podcast gets produced; the challenges and opportunities of doing a podcast that is interview-based; how to edit when a host has verbal tics; the different genres he has produced over the years; what makes a good guest for this podcast; why he loves SI's Jimmy Traina as a guest; his thoughts on his favourite team, the Mets, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm your host, Richard Dutch. |
| 0:09.8 | My producer is Patrick Antonini. |
| 0:11.8 | First off, happy new year. |
| 0:14.1 | Happy 2026, wherever you are listening to this podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | The statistics say the majority of you are in the United States and |
| 0:21.2 | Canada, we are going to do a bit of a special podcast on this episode. My guest is a familiar |
| 0:29.7 | name to anyone who's listening to this podcast. It is my producer Patrick Antonetti, who has been a |
| 0:35.9 | producer of this podcast for many, many years. |
| 0:40.0 | I've had a number of producers in the iterations of the sports media podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | But I think Patrick Antointy now, I believe he is the longest serving producer of this podcast. |
| 0:51.8 | We will get into what Patrick does |
| 0:54.3 | because probably some people |
| 0:55.1 | listening out there |
| 0:55.8 | like, |
| 0:56.0 | all right, |
| 0:56.1 | what does a podcast producer do? Ask Patrick about sort of how he, and by the way, this podcast is not the only podcast that Patrick does. So, you know, I'm not sure how much he's allowed to reveal, but I'll ask him sort of like what his week is like. and then we'll probably at some point |
| 1:10.6 | and we'll get into like |
| 1:11.7 | what he thinks worked |
| 1:12.7 | on this podcast |
| 1:13.3 | what hasn't |
| 1:13.9 | and then we'll probably at some point uh we'll get into |
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