Do iTunes podcasts make my Mac 'TOO FULL'.

My MacMini disk is TOO FULL.
Even after i deleted more than 8GB of Podcast from iTunes.
No improvement.
Still getting 'startup disk TOO FULL - DELETE some stuff' warings.
1st: How could that be?. Cuz i don't unerstand much how iTunes works.
Are all my podcasts stored on my computer? Seems not, but i dunno.
Or are iTunes podcasts stored online in iTunes/ cloud?
Thanks for your help, solver.

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