Not a Podcast

I'm irked.  So many formerly excellent podcasts have gone over to hiding their download links behind some "works for sure!" third-party interface, and thus have effectively disappeared off my listening radar.

Just to be clear:  Do I have to sign up for some hinky, privacy-stealing third-party site?  Then it's Not a Podcast.  Do I have to "subscribe" on Apple's encrusted iTunes store or similar platform?  Not a Podcast.  Does this third party promise to automagically deliver content to my device, whether I want that episode or not?  Then it's Not a Podcast.  Or maybe it's audio-only on youtube with a still image?  Not a Podcast.  Or worse, do I have to watch some guy's male pattern baldness bob around on a video while he looks down and reads what should've been a simple blog post?  Definitely Not a Podcast.

However, is there a conveniently labeled mp3 link displayed prominently on the page?  Now, that is a podcast.  What's more, only that is a podcast.

I don't have time to sort out ever-churning interfaces, subscriptions, video-to-mp3 rippers, those kinds of nonsense.  Download links have been around since before the web, and they work.  Drag-and-drop to get from a download folder to a device also works.  Why mess up a good thing?