Before I start, here's some basic info:

Family Plan

Premium

USA

iPhone XR (iOS 15.1) and 2020 Macbook Pro (MacOS Monterey 12.0.1)

My Question or Issue:

I've been having some serious issues with the Spotify Podcasts lately, specifically related to my episode progress. I am attempting to listen to an episode of a podcast that is approximately 1.5 hours long, of which Spotify shows me my progress upon first starting up the app, but whenever I press play, the "play"/progress bar goes totally out of wack. For example, it currently says I am at 2:44:30 out of 3:37:29, which makes no sense, as the episode is only 1:25:21. Also, whenever I pause the podcast for more than a few seconds, I will skip back ~30+ minutes in the episode, while this incorrect progress bar still shows the time I paused at. So what, at one minute, was 1:20:03 on the incorrect timer in the podcast, is now at 1:52:43. Skipping forward using the 15 second skip is also acting very strangely, as at one point I pressed the skip 8 times, which should have sent me two minutes ahead in the podcast. After I stopped skipping, I realized I was around 15 seconds BEHIND the point at which I had started skipping. 

I've attached a few images of this occurring, where you can see the episode I'm listening to and the progress bar being completely incongruous. This is occurring on both my mac and my iPhone, and I've tried closing and reopening, undownloading and redownloading, powering off my devices entirely, nothing seems to be having any affect.