MCP: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
MCP came up in 8 of 89 episodes (9%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (8%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 8 episodes behind the newest bar
- From AGENTS.md to Enterprise DeploymentPractical AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 29 times
- Computer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic InternetPractical AI · week ending Sep 13 · said it 11 times
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- Inside the Team That Killed Mandatory Code Review — Quinn Slack, AMPLatent Space · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
- I built a Claude Cowork system that does a week of PM work in a dayHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- GPT-6 Astra blew away every one of my benchmarksHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…and instead they're building on their APIs and we're creating MCPS and hooks into the hotspots of the world and…”
Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…
“…right, and you say, "I'm just going to communicate with these products via MCP and with agents, you can't charge on a…”
SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike
“Yeah. You can also connect to like your Figma MCP if you if you have your slide format um saved there and it can pull…”
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…
“Claude correctly recommends Stripe again, and now it's got our MCP tools helping it figure out our…”
“…system components so our design system is called sale and then it was a MCP integration with sale so there's an MCP…”
The internal AI tool that's transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams
“…is other use cases but um you can hook whether through CLI, MCPS, other tools um you can then hook that into your…”
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & C…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…environment... ...which seems to be really fascinating. We recently had on someone from the Agentic AI Foundation who is kind of stewarding the Model Context Protocol and agents.md and and those sorts of things. So, very relevant kind of carry on from that conversation. But I'm wondering as…”
“…uses um that do not have wellsupported MCPs or APIs. And I think that's a lot of what made bot so before and after…”
“…don't we make it so that our dashboarding tool has some MCP so that it can you know interact with our agent…”
Inside the Team That Killed Mandatory Code Review — Quinn Slack, AMP
“…use pocket, you can connect your cloud MCP or OpenAI's API and your your chat GPD already knows about all your…”
Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center Designs
“…you purely just using like connectors and MCPS for all of this. Yeah. So I I would say in the beginning…”
I built a Claude Cowork system that does a week of PM work in a day
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| How I AI | 2 | 6 |
| Practical AI | 2 | 2 |
| TBPN | 1 | 6 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 5 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 3 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 3 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| My First Million | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “MCP” or “Model Context Protocol” 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. Counts MCP, the Model Context Protocol. We skip a mention near biology words such as mitochondria, since MCP is also a term in cell biology. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.