How do you delete grayed-out podcast videos?

I am currently experiencing the grayed out videos (from podcasts). They only exist on my iPhone 4s, not in iTunes. I've tried swiping them to get the red "Delete" button, tried various syncing/unsynching of Podcasts within iTunes. I cannot get them to appear active so that I may delete them. Something is definitely out-of-sync somewhere within the video database and indexing. All I want to do is delete these nine videos and I'll be happy again. I have read and tried all that has been posted to date with no success. You'd think there would be an easy way to delete things from your phone, wouldn't you? Apple, please provide a method to do this. Thanks!

Strangely the easiest way if you have a windows computer or can take to a friend and access the TC via windows explorer and it will probably see the directory and be able to delete it. You cannnot delete a greyed out directory from the Mac .. as you have permissions issues. If you created this directory inside the sparsebundle of TM.. it belongs to TM not the user.. and that is why you cannot delete it. Never create a directory inside the TM sparsebundle.. it must be directly into the root directory of the drive.

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