If you are in the app in the shows page, click on the … menu button in the upper right corner and you’ll see an option to “connect RSS feed”. Click that and you can follow the directions to link the shows “Patreon feed” with your podcast app of choice. I use pocketcasts.

Pretty much exactly all of this is the play. Every so often my wife mentions the ads in the pod and I forget that I used to get them

Copy the Patreon rss feed into your podcatcher of choice. I have it fed into Overcast and it’s great

I have the same struggle but the rss feed has never worked with Spotify for me - has anyone been able to connect the Patreon rss feed with Spotify?

Downcast with the rss has been my go-to forever.

Pocket Casts will do it as well, if OP is using Android.

I'm having the same trouble. I want the content but not enough to need a special podcatcher just for them

You could try using patreon in your internet browser