Podcast Sort Order

Seems like this has been a problem... forever. I google it and there seems to be a thread for every year the platform has been available. It's almost like iTunes is either really not intuitive or just doesn't do what people want it to do.

In my case, it has my unplayed podcasts listed from newest to oldest. I found the View Options (ctl + J) that looks like it should allow me to change the sorting from oldest to newest, but when I try to change the sort order from ascending to descending... it doesn't. It's stuck on ascending.

I just downloaded iTunes today on a new computer.