interesting content but bad listener experience

Love the actual podcast, hate everything about the listening experience. I'm not paying for the podcast but subscribed to it. I guess that's why the new episodes don't download automatically??? I have to remember to go to the store and manually download each week. The order of the dates is confusing; hard to remember who is who between their dates, as weeks pass. And the order of the episode listing in the itunes store is confusing; not in chronological order. Again, I'm really enjoying the content but don't understand why everything else is such a mess.