Android: Podcast Doesn't Resume on Correct Episode

[hathormeow]

Podcasts don't resume on the last episode that was playing. It starts playing the last few minutes of a random episode in the podcast that's already been listened to. I have to manually go into the list and find the episode I was listening to and play it from there. Is there a way to fix this? I found threads that reference this exact issue, but it didn't list what was done to resolve it. Just that it suddenly started working properly. I am on Pixel 3 with no other devices to test this out. Thank you.

mod edit: changed title for clarity

[Braxerman]

It's a mix of both I'd say. While I'm working I try to have the app open as the last used so it doesn't time out and then shut off my screen. Although when I'm on break watching Crunchyroll on their app. It's paused in the background. And I return to it afterwards.

Since my last post pandora has moved on from episode 120 to now repeating the "rock not rock draft". (It's alot more interesting than the title says).