I thought this was a really interesting interview. The guest is the guy who wrote Capitalism's Court Jester: Slavoj Zizek last month.
What I thought was interesting was less the take-down of :zizek:, but the more expansive conversion about what kind of radical (or "radical") voices get presented to us in the west, how they rarely support seriously challenging capital, and about the material interests of the industry that presents them.
Questions like "which thinkers get translated into English" or "which thinkers are considered 'canon' and who decided that they are" are deep questions for a propagandized left in the imperial core.
Yeah I ultimately agree about the host. I like the podcast because it centres and raises voices outside of the imperial core, a lot of it is just speeches from Chavez or a lecture from Walter Rodney or an old interview from Seymour Hersh, and these episodes don't feature the host beyond his curation. He also has good guests like this, but I think his actual commentary is the weakest part and I'm not typically motivated to check the eps out that feature him.