At this point I prefer greg, it's still very minimal, but lets you download episodes as you need them rather than literally everything ever made.

https://castget.johndal.com/

config

Unclear if XDG is supported...
~/.castgetrc

[revleft]
url=https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/rss
spool=/home/kota/podcasts

options

-p - progress bar
-r - resume downloads (breaks if podcast reuses filenames)