Those "chickens on a dish" are a huge collector's item. You can find them in depression glass, milk glass, etc. It's as popular as a cream pitcher. Do a google search for "depression glass chicken" and look at all the images.
Or, look at eBay. "Fenton Glass Chicken"
Martha Stewart made some amazing knock-offs at one point.
Here's a book about them from John's Amazon wish list, that includes some "old school" toys.
Google's podcast library is still relatively new, so there might be a lot of things not on there. I also found the Play Music app to be a bit too simple to manage podcasts effectively.
Here is the app I use, called Player FM. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.player&hl=en
S-Town is on there, as well as Serial. And the really cool thing about this app is that if something isn't on there, you can add the feed manually, and then that feed becomes available to search for all the other users.