Time to start moving away from google services there mate. This behaviiur is only getting worse with time, and don’t get me started on the tracking.
There are plenty of FOSS apps to do pretty much anything you need to do on an Android device
Antennapod is a great podcast app. I have behind the bastards on there right now!
Should also be available in most Linux Repo’s from what I know.
Try not to crush me for the wrong words there, its 3am