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

Waymo came up in 2 of 89 episodes (2%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 7% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.

2 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

6%May 103 of 524%Jun 72 of 463%Jul 52 of 6911%Aug 26 of 5511%Aug 306 of 552%Sep 272 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “Waymo” or “Whimo” 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 2 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.

“…is like most changed my life outside of cloud products is probably Whimo. Like I'm a diehard Whimo user. Um use it…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 1:18:05 ↗

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…

“…although obviously there's YouTube and there's a bunch of other stuff and Whimo and all these interesting things now,…”

The Tim Ferriss Show · week ending Apr 26 · Watch at 57:55 ↗

The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil

“…that conversation. I think companies like Whimo are doing a lot of, you know, service positively to the industry in…”

Latent Space · week ending May 3 · Watch at 35:46 ↗

The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied…

“…meaningful when you're controlling a car, right? For-- Well, you've-- you've seen, you've used Waymos, right? When Waymos don't work, and that happens even if one percent of the time, there is someone that is basically…”

Lex Fridman Podcast · week ending May 10 · Watch at 3:28:50 ↗

FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496

“McLarens more often. Uh well, in other car news, Whimo is maybe going crazy or something. What's happening in Atlanta?”

TBPN · week ending May 17 · Watch at 1:37:31 ↗

Debater Center, Figma's Not Dead, 67 Year Old Founder, AI Monet Paintings

“I think going to a city where you can't get in a Waymo or a cyber cab is going to feel barbaric and unsafe until you…”

All-In Podcast · week ending May 24 · Watch at 32:50 ↗

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bon…

Most recent mentions

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

“…place. Everybody's in Whimos now. Tesla cyber cabs. Maybe…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 1:34:22 ↗

Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith Rabois

“…that the positive statement is they're the only other competitor to Whimo with credibility and they have an approach on…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 42:59 ↗

Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town

“…doing that by building cooking robots for homes. We thought that if Whimo and Tesla and Zuks can use computer vision…”

My First Million · week ending Aug 23 · Watch at 2:56 ↗

3 strangers showed us how they made $8M, $10M, & $40M/year

“…million deliveries a day. Then you look at just massive progress by Whimo. They're doubling the number of cars on…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Aug 23 · Watch at 36:19 ↗

Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up

“…that evolving. Of course, I love, you know, at Whimos are probably if if I could like own a Whimo right now that…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Aug 16 · Watch at 1:04:47 ↗

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN15
20VC with Harry Stebbings14
All-In Podcast03
Lenny's Podcast03
Invest Like the Best01
Latent Space01
Lex Fridman Podcast01
My First Million01
No Priors01
The Tim Ferriss Show01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Waymo” or “Whimo” 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 Waymo and the spelling YouTube captions use for it. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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