Playback failed in the podcast app?

I recently submited my podcast, got it approved, but when I try to play it in the Podcast app on my devices iPhone/iPad it says... Playback Failed.
Does it take a certain period of time before it is completely functional across all platforms?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zulu-time/id672134957
Thanks.

Your feed is at http://seanzulu.com/zulutime?format=rss
It can be subscribed to OK in iTunes, and in the Store on a Mac it plays your episode (after a very long pause).
I'm not in a postition to test it on an iOS device. However the server appears not to handle 'byte range requests' as required by iPhones (where only a part of the file is requested at a time rather than the whole thing) and this can cause playback problems. If that is the case thenI'm afraid that's something you can only solve by hosting on another server (though the fact that your podcast was accepted would suggest that it's OK - if it didn't support this you would get an error message and a rejection).
Another point, though it probably isn't the cause of the problem: your file name has spaces in it. Spaces are not allowed in a URL. The feed has handled this correctly by substituting the code %20, so it shouldn't actually be an issue, but it's something you should avoid.

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