Looks like I did a terrible job of explaining that the podcast was *free*; it's just the added bits that cost. I hear you 100% on budget-cutting, have dropped a number of journals myself.

If you have a mobile phone (iOS or Android) there are free podcast playing apps, so that doesn't represent a cost either. If you're on Android, PodcastAddict is very good, free in basic mode, but you can pay for the adverts to go away so you don't have to re-learn a different player if you decide to buy one.