I am recovering from my sickness and working on the backend for my podcast player. this involves parsing XML feeds and a lot of the answers i foudn online use jquery. this is a neat solution that doesnt need jquery.

fetch('http://chatwithtraders.libsyn.com/rss').then(e=>e.text())
        .then(str => (new window.DOMParser()).parseFromString(str, "text/xml"))
        .then(e => console.log(e))