The problem from what I’ve read is most ads are inserted on demand in the stream when you first play/download a podcast and there’s no easy way for software to tell them apart, not to mention they’re usually location based which means the ads you get are likely different from what I get, and depending where you live you might not even get ads at all.
Nah. The moment you even think of the game you’ve lost it, the only way to win is to die and hope there’s no afterlife so you don’t have to think about it.