Anything that isn't an RSS feed that serves MP3s, and therefore can't be synced to an offline media player, isn't a "podcast", and shouldn't be called such. If

Anything that isn't an RSS feed that serves MP3s, and therefore can't be synced to an offline media player, isn't a "podcast", and shouldn't be called such. If they can just remove their show feed from Google's program, then it's probably not an open/standardized RSS feed, and Google's program probably isn't a podcast program as we know it. Podcasts are great because they're essentially open and standardized, and I can sync them with bloated desktop programs like iTunes, FOSS programs like Antennapod, or even command-line interfaces like Newsboat. DRM and arbitrary gating of media behind proprietary technologies just makes it worse and blocks it off from so many people.