“Preserve This Podcast” podcast lost an episode

Recently, I wanted to re-listen to the episodes from the Preserve This Podcast podcast (a podcast that discusses strategies for saving artifacts used in creating podcasts). I had written about this podcast when it came out in 2019, and poked at the creators for depending on the Internet Archive to publish the site instead of paying for hosting themselves. After all, they had a GRANT to cover the production costs! Surely they could have budgeted for 5-10 years of hosting. I went to the site, got the feed URL, added to my podcast app, then started listening. When I got to the second podcast (Episode 1), my podcast app displayed an error message that it could not download the file. However, the app was able to download the remaining episodes. I decided to open up the feed in a text editor to see if there was any problem. I found the URL for the episode and pasted it into a browser tab. To my surprise, the browser said there was nothing at that URL in the Internet Archive. I then checked the URLs for several other episodes, and they showed the expected files. After some searching at the Internet Archive, I found this collector page for Episode 1, which led to this URL for Episode 1, which did not match the URL in the feed. UGH!

It is quite ironic that a podcast about preserving podcasts has a problem with its own feed! I will try to contact the team from their About page, but if anyone knows how to get in touch with one of the producers, I would appreciate it!