Alex Jones Podcast stops updating constantly

Why does the Alex Jones show Podcast stop updating all the time with only a few days of not listening while ALL my other Podcasts (some that haven't even produced a new Podcast in years) don't do this for months (or ever)? This gets REALLY old as I'm syncing my iPhone for my long commute to work, when I realize I only have the Alex Jones Podcast I listened to two days ago. I look in iTunes and once again I have the and it stopped downloading due to inactivity?
Who, what, where does this parameter to stop updating get defined? 3-4 days of not listening is all it takes for iTunes to decide not to download this Podcast?

There is no setting by which the produce of the podcast can affect this. The 'facility' is inbuilt to iTunes and cannot be adjusted. Please see this Tech Note:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23353
which states:
You've subscribed to a podcast but have more than five unplayed episodes. iTunes will stop automatically downloading newer episodes. You may get the following message:
iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened to any episodes recently. Would you like to resume updating this podcast?
You can click Yes to continue downloading additional episodes. Or you can just listen to any part of any episode and a new episode will download at the next update.
Note that it's the number of episodes, not the time since you last listened, hence your apparent discrepancy. The Alex Jones Podcast is updating almost daily: some podcast update weekly or monthly (or even longer).
For Mac users there is an AppleScript available which will apparently deal with this (I've not tried it):
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=updateexpiredpodcasts

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