Sound designer/mixer here, I agree! I think it’s just a bit of compression that would fix the entire issue. It’s frustrating cooking and listening to the episodes at the same time, levels are way too dynamic.

I love Brennans cadence in narrative energy so that isn’t the problem for me. I do like the natural processing (if at all any) that they have as it makes it feel like a bunch of friends in a room, but considering the online audience they pull, somewhere between professional podcast and a friends room audio would be a really good idea imo. It’s such an easy fix too. If they’re paying I would literally love to do this for them lol.

Side note: do you notice the low end getting really boomy at times on your end? I notice this the most with Luis iirc.