[thedudemabry]

It is relatively common to hear pre-roll advertising, and sometimes hosts do speak too slowly. A very niche solution to the problem is a popular iOS podcast player with a connected web service called Overcast (after downloading the app, you have access to a browser player with similar features.)

It approaches the pre-roll ad problems by having prominent "skip forward" and "skip backward" 30 seconds buttons, so usually two to three quick taps will bring me back to the content. It solves the speech speed problem by offering pitch-adjusted playback speed controls (so no-one sounds like a chipmunk.)

I assume those can be found in other podcast clients on other platforms, but I'm not familiar with them.