Trying to get Podcasts into a smart Playlist on my phone

I just bought Beautiful Clock Radio from the app store, (a great app) and was hoping to get it to play podcasts.
I emailded there support and they said "make a smart playlist for the podcast you want to listen to and sync that with your device". So i did. The problem is the playlist on my computer has the podcast in it and works fine but when i sync it with my iphone the playlist is empty? What the heck is wrong?
Thanks, Mark
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