In all honesty, I listen to more podcast content than music some weeks. I had mTorrent pull the podcasts, Zune would watch the folder, and suck them in as music. Then I had to find them. What's the artist? Too many thumb clicks.
NOW it just knows. I've subscribed (like other feed aggregators/clients) and it shows up on the Zune under Podcasts not Music. Selecting a podcast will display the description. You can resume from where you left off. And, the software and the Zune talk so the software can do things like sync all unplayed and partially played episodes.