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This sounds awesome, but I cannot for the life of me understand why the Podcast feed for This American Life only contains one goddamn entry. Who uses this shit? What is the point of a podcast if I can't download it in my podcast software of choice on my home Wi-Fi network and listen to it at my leisure?

Am I missing something with a typical podcast workflow? Because this makes zero sense.

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Buy their app and you can stream any episode whenever you want.

My podcast client fetches new episodes as they become available in the feed and then stores them for me to play whenever I like.

Your response is overly harsh. Consider there are political and financial challenges they might be dealing with as a non-profit that don't allow them to be as accommodating as you demand.

They used to be downloadable, now you can pay to listen at your leisure... or pirate it..

I would love to pay them for their content, but they only have an iTunes option. iTunes? Seriously? What is this, 2002?

Is iTunes not cool anymore? How are cool people distributing audio?

You can also download the app for a one time fee of $2.99.

Podcast Adict (Android) finds it just fine.

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