App Freezing During Episode Playback

### Description

From a user report:

> Often the freeze happens when I tap the up-next hamburger icon in the upper right corner of the screen, and it does not respond.
>
> Sometimes it happens when I tap the play / pause button and it does not respond.
> I don't remember which was the case this time.

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### Step-by-step reproduction instructions

No commonality that the user could identify.

They say it happens randomly — not a specific podcast or episode.

I have not been able to reproduce the issue.

### Screenshots or screen recording

_No response_

### Did you search for existing bug reports?

- [X] I have searched for existing bug reports.

### Device, Operating system, and Pocket Casts app version

App version : 7.72 (9270)
Phone: Google - Panther - Pixel 7 - panther
Android version: 14 SDK 34

Start by investigating the episode playback screen and the up-next hamburger and play/pause controls on Android 14 with app version 7.72 (9270). The report provides no reproducible steps or named files and says the issue could not be reproduced, so done would require identifying and reliably reproducing the freeze before confirming a fix.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.