Each take was already recorded with a waveform for its own player, but that data stopped there. The timeline blocks now draw that same waveform faintly behind the take number and time, so a glance at the strip of takes shows where the talking happened, not just how long each one ran.
Waveforms on podcast recorder take blocks
The red take blocks on the podcast recorder's timeline showed a number and a duration for each take, but no sense of what was actually said or where the quiet stretches were.