You would sync them to your iPod like any other audio. You download the podcast, put it in your iTunes library and when you plugged in your iPod it would transfer everything over.
Remembering back before iCloud sync and plugging in your iPhone to iTunes and thinking it synced but then realising the playback position never synced and you had to manually find your way in every single podcast again
Weird! How were they consumed before they were added to iTunes or the iPod? I should know this but I don’t recall.
We had RSS feeds that would auto download the latest episode, then you could copy it to your ipod
You would sync them to your iPod like any other audio. You download the podcast, put it in your iTunes library and when you plugged in your iPod it would transfer everything over.
Remembering back before iCloud sync and plugging in your iPhone to iTunes and thinking it synced but then realising the playback position never synced and you had to manually find your way in every single podcast again