The only thing you can't pin to the start screen is the thing I need the most. Figures. It would be great to pin the list of podcasts. Is there a 3rd party app to do this? It would eliminate the extra step of having to go thru the music hub.
There are two apps that I love for Podcasts on WP8. One is Podcasts! which is from people who work on the phone for Microsoft, and did a project on their own time. The second is carbon cast which is fairly new.