Hmm. My mariokart is Peach on the purple motorcycle and I don’t play Smash

That I agree with

It is the best one available, but unfortunately lacks some basic features like autodownloading enqueued episode (you can either auto download everything or nothing at all)

Edit: my other issue with antennapod is being unable to listen to an episode of a podcast without subscribing. You have to subscribe. Even to open the podcast page you have to subscribe.

You can and it’s called Previewing, just under the episode info when looking through the podcast catalogue or search results

Oh but this solution defeats the purpose of even using Kodi doesn’t it? This isn’t switching engines, but rather forcing Kodi to open files in an external application

that would be great, but how to do that?