Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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ChatGPT: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

ChatGPT came up in 10 of 89 episodes (11%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (13%).

10 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

10%May 105 of 527%Jun 73 of 469%Jul 56 of 6918%Aug 210 of 5520%Aug 3011 of 5511%Sep 2710 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “ChatGPT” or “Chat GPT” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 10 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“…of those bets and then see one of them come from so far behind? You know, Chat GPT has 900 million users. I don't know…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Apr 5 · Watch at 43:42 ↗

Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…

“Now that people's expectations are increasingly, they ask their AI for stuff. It feels like you should be able to ask your AI, whether that's ChatGPT or Gemini or whether that's Siri or whatever your interface is to AI, it's like,…”

Cheeky Pint · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 1:21:45 ↗

The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash

“…call out your your options you're considering on ChatGpt, including an old school Blackberry. I loved my Black…”

How I AI · week ending May 3 · Watch at 34:48 ↗

How a non-technical founder built a $100K ARR meme company | Jason Levin (Memelord CEO)

“…three years ago. Three years three years ago before Chat GPT launch, right?”

Latent Space · week ending May 3 · Watch at 0:19 ↗

⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founde…

“…notion assistant was actually launched before Chat GPT. And so it's not that like I think both Ivan and uh Simon had…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending May 3 · Watch at 49:34 ↗

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening…

“Like Look, if you cannot, using Claude or ChatGPT or Codex or Grok, write a SQL query, you should not be…”

Invest Like the Best · week ending May 10 · Watch at 27:43 ↗

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Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…percentile. People are calling it like a chat GPT for developers and that shouldn't even be possible because chat…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 1:15:08 ↗

Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EV

“…that that are going to use the tools to make great content, and they make content that is not easily replicable, you know? Maybe it's commentary that's sort of deeply personal. My mom, by the way, she was very proud. She was telling me that she used ChatGPT to fix her toilet recently. Good for her.”

Odd Lots · week ending Sep 27 · Listen at 11:43 ↗

AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally

“…cases I like you could not discern a chat GPT versus an alpaca result and I figured if if it was this easy to make a…”

Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 5:40 ↗

The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP

“…of my favorite bum around the house t shirts. I'm wearing it right now. For those who are watching us on YouTube, it says, I hallucinate more than ChatGPT. And so, my wife is completely sick of seeing me wear it. It's faded red now. It doesn't, I'm sorry, man. It looked good when you gave it to…”

Practical AI · week ending Sep 13 · Listen at 2:36 ↗

Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic Internet

“…anything. It's blue ocean because people people are using chat GPT as like a Google enhancer. Like that's the market.”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 37:15 ↗

Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN28
20VC with Harry Stebbings26
Odd Lots22
All-In Podcast17
Latent Space16
Lenny's Podcast14
Practical AI11
The Tim Ferriss Show04
How I AI03
My First Million02
Huberman Lab01
Lex Fridman Podcast01
No Priors01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “ChatGPT” or “Chat GPT” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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