I share this complaint with nearly every podcast site. We all know the episode is just an MP3, but sites generally refuse to have a clear download link, and often just push you onto pointless sites like Apple Podcasts or Spotify. As someone who uses a very locked down browser, podcasts should be one of the most easily accessible forms of media and yet they all seem to go to a lot of trouble to hide the actual files from users.
Podcasts without RSS are not podcasts.
Ask Apple. Other platforms let you save whatever you want.
Works fine for me. Have you tried Firefox?
That peeved me too. I wanted to save something cool.