If the music and speech could overlap at any point, then you should use AutoDuck on the music, so the speech can always be understood … Auto Duck - Audacity Manual
BTW, Batch-processing in Audacity is called “Macros” …
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html
If you had many such podcasts the same editing can be applied to all of them via a macro : (quicker & consistent ) .