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Do your headphones have a 3.5mm jack? If so, you could use a bt receiver on that, make sure the receiver has multipoint.
A more difficult, but more likely to work properly, option is to get an audio interface with two inputs. Input your deck and phone into it and put a bt transmitter on the output or headphone jack. Keep in mind line-ins are usually in summed mono to you won't get directional sound.
But just to make sure I covered the obvious: could you not just play the podcast through your Deck while playing? I'm not familiar with SteamOS but Steam BPM has this option.
I don't think either of those is simplifying the setup much. It sounds like it would just be eliminating one of the receivers or transmitters.
The Steam Deck and phone combination was just for an example. I would be setting this up with probably five devices. SteamOS is more or less another Linux distro so I could do something like play in desktop mode and use something like gPodder to play podcasts or input the audio files into Steam or if I wanted to watch a video use VLC's always in front option for something kind of like picture in picture mode but it's a lot of individual software solutions for something that could be done a bit more smooth with some kind of hardware mixer.