Unable to delete some files

I have some audio files that appear only in smart lists and not in the library. You can't delete a file from a smart list view (correct me if I'm wrong) so you have to find it in the library to delete it.
It doesn't appear in the library - so I cannot delete these files.
I'm not sure how this happened but I have a theory. These all appear to be podcasts. Some are from audible but not all are. I think I may have deleted, or unsubscribed from the podcast in the podcast view but I didn't remove the files first. So it looks like the files are still around but since they are podcasts they don't appear in the library, and since the I'm not subscribed to the podcast they aren't in the podcast list either.
Is there a way to get rid of these files? I thought of resubscribing to the podcasts but a lot of these I don't even remember what the podcast was.

You can't delete a file from a smart list view (correct me if I'm wrong)
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