PSA: playback glitches (Patreon)

Just wanted to let The Listenership (the Sixth Estate) know that this site is having weird problems with audio playback – I don't know if it's happened to you guys, I don't even have a smartphone & don't listen to shit that way, but over the past week or so, there's been a "scratched CD" sort of error with audio files.  Glitching, popping, the occasional microsecond skip that cuts out part of a word, etc.

I've looked into it, and it's not a problem with the audio files; it's likely a problem with Patreon's upload/playback codec, about which, ahem, [comments here].  But the glitches stop, at least for a while, if you reload the podcast episode, and because it's a problem with the site and not the audio, you might be able to download the shows directly and bypass that layer of code.  (I thought Patreon got rid of downloads, but they're still here, just hidden – you click the "..." icon in the lower right corner of the show description, and you can download anything you're subscribed to.)

So, like a true American, I recognize that there is a problem, and I recognize your suffering, insofar as it is not my fault.  Allahu akbar.  Genocide's up to 700 murders per day.