Deleting podcasts on my iPod

I have a 4G iPod Nano with the latest iTunes software on a Mac laptop. Before the latest iTunes update, I'd plug in my iPod to my Mac and see two different folders: Podcasts and the playlist where I'd put the podcasts. After I finished listening to a podcast, I'd delete it from the "Podcast" folder and it would be gone from iPod flash drive. Once I downloaded the latest update, older podcasts that I had yet to listen to would disappear from the "Podcast" folder. I didn't think much of it as they still appeared in the playlist where I had originally put them and I merely deleted them from the playlist folder. However, as my flash drive's available space kept getting smaller even though I was deleting the podcasts from the playlist, I realized that they weren't actually being deleted from my iPod.
I'm guessing that I need all these old podcasts to show up in the "Podcasts" folder so I can permanently delete them but they continue to inexplicably disappear from the folder before I have the chance. Can anyone help me out? Thanks for reading...

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