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Fast Hours
Fast Hours is a weekly generative AI podcast where Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn dig into the craft, taste, and business of making creative work with AI. Every week, they unpack what’s changing across AI image and video generation, creative workflows, models, platforms, culture, creative careers, and the business of creative work. What matters? What works? What’s overhyped? And where does leverage exist? Expect AI news, practical workflows, experiments, guest conversations, and strong opinions…
Episodes
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How a Figma Weave Insider Gets Creative Teams to One Click (feat. Ron Baranov)
Creative teams get to one click by building and testing Figma Weave workflows, then packaging repeat work into shared tools. Figma Weave Creative Workflow…
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We Built an Entire Creative Team With AI Agents. It's Getting Weird.
Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn have officially reached the point where their AI agents are doing more work than they can keep track of.Six months ago, they were…
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He’s Using AI to Double His Agency Without Hiring (Ep. 86 / feat. Phil Rivers)
Phil Rivers is using AI to scale his agency by automating approvals, task creation, onboarding, and shared workflows across his team.Drew and Rory spend an…
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Claude Opus Feels Like Midjourney Now
Claude Opus feels like Midjourney because it can take minimal direction and produce imaginative visual work.Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn gave Claude Opus room…
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Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit
Opus 5.5 made editable AI video practical: build motion graphics in code, then revise shots, text, and variations without starting over.A cocktail graphic from…
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20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI (feat. Ingi Erlingsson)
After 20 years in creative, building Golden Wolf and selling it to Doodles, Ingi Erlingsson went deep on AI to start a new chapter at his company, SYSTMS.Ingi…
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What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do?
So, what can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 actually do? Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn put OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 models through a golf course build…
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How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs
To run a solo business on AI, build a system of small skills and agents that handle the admin, comms, and ops so your time goes to creating. --- Two founders…
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A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook (feat. Jamey Gannon)
An AI creative director combines design fundamentals, AI fluency, tool selection, and repeatable workflows to produce better creative work. The boys over at…
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AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For
Brands pay five figures for AI workflows that turn repetitive creative work into reusable systems teams can run at scale.Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn speedrun…
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He Built an 8 Figure AI Business in One Year (feat. Rourke Sefton-Minns)
Rourke Sefton-Minns scaled his AI creator business from zero to eight figures in one year by turning audience, education, and creative AI into a business…
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How to Build an AI Universe That Compounds (feat. BLVCKL!GHT)
Build an AI universe by compounding recognizable characters, consistent worlds, recurring stories, and creative assets instead of starting from zero. …
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How to Build AI Workflows That Never Start From Zero
A good AI workflow remembers what worked last time, so you don’t have to rebuild the same process from scratch.Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn attempt to explain…
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How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI” (feat. Finn McKenty)
AI images stop looking generic when creators steer models with real expertise, original references, hand-built assets, and selective craft. Finn McKenty joins…
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How AI Is Making Human Creativity More Valuable
AI is making creative production faster while increasing the value of human craft, imperfection, and hands-on creative control.Drew and Rory start with…
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She Cracked AI Advertising Before Brands Were Ready
In Episode 73, Salma Aboukarr joins the show. A creative director and founder, she explains how she moved from painstaking CGI workflows in Blender and 3Ds Max…
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Taste Isn't the AI Moat You Think It Is
The boys are back with episode 72, where Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker attempt to discuss AI like serious adults. Yeah, that didn't work. They immediately detour…
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Midjourney's Wildest Move Yet: Full Body Medical Scans
Midjourney spent years helping people generate impossible images. Then it used that image money to build a machine designed to look inside the human body. In…
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The Weird AI Video Formula Getting Millions of Views
In Episode 70, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn are joined by Tyler Bernabe, better known as jboogxcreative, a full-time generative AI creator, strategist, and…
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Google Dropped Too Many AI Tools. Which Ones Matter?
Drew and Rory are back for episode 69, which is legally required to begin with at least one immature joke before immediately collapsing under the weight of…
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The Prompt Is Dead, Long Live the Reference + The Monet Trap
In episode 68 of Fast Hours, Drew and Rory return from a two-week hiatus to prove that yes, the AI news cycle did continue without their permission. Rude. They…
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GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good?
Fast Hours has entered the witness protection program. Same Drew. Same Rory. But fewer syllables and more chaos.In this episode, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn…
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Midjourney V8.1 Review & Reactions + Wen Edit Model?
Midjourney finally dropped v8.1, so Drew and Rory did what any responsible adults would do: generated way too many images, argued with style codes…
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Claude Knows Kung Fu. Midjourney's Still in the Dojo (+V8.1?)
In episode 65, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn return for another round of Midjourney Fast Hours and immediately do what they do best: poke at bleeding-edge AI…
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Midjourney V8 First Impressions + Claude Code Breakthroughs
Drew and Rory crawl back from travel chaos, token addiction, and mild creative delusion to answer the question everyone’s been asking: did Midjourney V8…
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Midjourney V8 Countdown + Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 & Higgsfield Fallout
After a brief hiatus, the boys are back! With Midjourney v8 expected next week, Drew and Rory zoom out and ask the bigger question: does v8 even matter as much…
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Midjourney v8 Is Late, the Skill Gap Is Growing, and AI Agents Unionized
Episode 62 starts where every serious AI podcast should: Adam Sandler movies, Bobby Boucher lore, and a suspicious black eye.Then things spiral fast.Drew…
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Ep.61—Live Visual AI AMA: You Asked. And We Went There.
Episode 61 turns the Midjourney Fast Hours mic over to the audience.Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn go fully live for an AMA that exposes where visual AI actually…
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Ep.60—Fast Hours 2025 Wrapped: The Tools, Shifts, and Wake Up Calls
In this final episode of 2025, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn zoom out to dissect what actually mattered this year across Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, ChatGPT…
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Midjourney v8 Countdown, Are "AI Artists" A Thing? + Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT Image 1.5
Drew and Rory stumble back from the holiday chaos—one fresh off vacation, the other barely resurrected from a mystery NYC illness. Between fever dreams and…
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Midjourney Edit Models + Nano Banana Pro: Eating Lunches in the Upside Down
Rory and Drew celebrate crawling their way to 30k subs, then immediately prove they are barely qualified to handle it by turning a Stranger Things binge into a…
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Two Midjourney Drops in 48 Hours + Nano Banana Pro Pulls Up with a Nuke
Drew and Rory pull up to Episode 57 running on fumes and caffeine, only to get smacked in the face by one of the wildest AI weeks of the year. Midjourney drops…
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Go Flux Yourself: Midjourney Still Runs the Realism Game
Drew and Rory start with eyeball horror, Stranger Things hype, and the idea of AI-powered contact lenses before stumbling straight into the real mind-melt…
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Nodes Are Eating the Creative World (And You’re Already Late)
Rory and Drew return from Halloween with coffee, chaos, and a nerdfest on node-based creation. They speed-run Midjourney office hours, gripe about missing…
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Midjourney’s Whole System Is Quietly Evolving + a Personalization Hack You (Probably) Didn't Know
It’s spooky season, and Midjourney’s acting possessed — new UI, style creator, and a personalization trick you weren’t supposed to find. Drew and Rory break…
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Cracking Midjourney’s Style Explorer + Freepik’s Rise + Higgsfield Prompt Hack
Two tired dads with graying hair accidentally stumble into a killer AI workflow. In this Halloween-season hang, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn trade Midjourney…
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Midjourney’s Next Chapter: V8, Style Tools, and The 99.99% Problem
Rory and Drew try to keep up with AI like two dads jogging after a runaway stroller. They dig into Midjourney v8 rumors, the new Style Finder vs. Style…
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Sora 2, Veo 3 & The AI Video Gold Rush
Midjourney Fast Hours — Episode 51: “Sora 2, Veo 3 & The AI Video Gold Rush” Drew and Rory crawl out of their creative caves after a month-long “break” (read…
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Unpacking Midjourney's Style Explorer + Slipping Deeper Into Nano Banana 🍌
The Midjourney Fast Hours crew hits episode 50…and immediately forgets to throw a party. Instead, Drew and Rory stumble into a killer trick inside the…
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Midjourney Token Bashing, Nano Banana, and Weavy with Marco Isle
Rory and Drew invite creative polymath Marco Isle to do what this show does best: break Midjourney in interesting ways. It’s a token binge from shadow play…
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Midjourney Video Update: HD for All & Batch Size Changes + Our Style Explorer Wishlist
MJ:FH Ep. 48—Midjourney just unlocked HD video for everyone, added new batch size controls, and teased more of Style Explorer, V7.1, and V8. Here’s everything…
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Midjourney TV MJTV + Personalized Explore Pages
Rory’s apartment is in chaos, Drew’s talking about broken toes again, and somehow they end up deep-diving Midjourney TV like it’s cable circa 1999. In this…
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Using Midjourney Video Loops & End Frames: Live Teardown
Rory accidentally finds himself on a nudist beach while Drew's making DIY sunscreen with AI. And if that wasn't crazy enough, this episode is a full live…
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Midjourney Video Breakdown Part 2
Rory and Drew are back and things get... weird. In this episode, they push Midjourney Video to its limits—trying to animate mushrooms, morph soda cans, and see…
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Midjourney Video is HERE—Nerds React + New SREF System Chop-Up
Rory’s parents are laughing in the background. Drew just got a Midjourney tattoo that reads "/imagine". And somehow, Midjourney video dropped in the middle of…
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Midjourney Lawsuit, Video Leaks, and New --SRef System
Drew and Rory spiral through the Disney + Universal vs. Midjourney lawsuit, throw some shade at corporate legal strategy, and explore why this could weirdly…
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Can Midjourney Actually Compete in Video? + Sref & Monetization Talk
Drew forgot his hat. Rory got recognized by voice alone. And somehow, this spirals into one of the most insightful, chaotic, and weirdly therapeutic episodes…
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Midjourney Deep Hours: Existential Dread, But Make It Funny
Two guys walk into a podcast... and accidentally summon a demonic goat with the word homesteader. Welcome to episode 41. In this off-the-rails…
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Veo 3 Makes Yesterday’s Best Look Like a Beta Test + Runway & Midjourney Check-In
Midjourney Fast Hours, Episode 40 After a short hiatus (blame conferences and caffeine dependency), the Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker break down Google’s shiny…
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Midjourney Omni-Reference and --exp: Showing You How They Actually Work
Two weeks off, and Midjourney dropped two major updates: the all-new --exp parameter and the long-awaited omni-reference. In this episode of Midjourney Fast…
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Midjourney’s Secret Playground: Chaos, Weird, and New Editor
In this episode, Drew and Rory dive headfirst into the unhinged world of Midjourney’s weirdest features—literally. They crank up --weird, mash it with --chaos…
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Midjourney V7 Showed Up in Crocs and COOKED
Drew and Rory are back for their full Midjourney V7 breakdown. What starts as a casual catch-up spirals into 60 minutes of real strategy, subtle discoveries…
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Midjourney V7 is (Finally) Here! Was It Worth the Wait?
In this episode of Midjourney Fast Hours, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn react to the brand new Midjourney V7 update—and things get weird (in the best way). Draft…
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ChatGPT Image Gen Went Nuclear! + The Final Countdown to Midjourney V7 Preview
MJ:FH—Ep. 35 ChatGPT Image Gen Went Nuclear! + The Final Countdown to Midjourney V7 Preview ChatGPT’s new image generator (not named Dall-E?) is here, and…
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Letting AI Cook & The Final Countdown for v7 Feat. Allar Haltsonen
Drew and Rory sit down with Estonian AI chef, Allar Haltsonen, to talk about his creative process, spontaneous idea generation, and all the other tools in his…
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Midjourney After Dark—Organized Chaos & Wabi-Sabi
Drew and Rory sound like they know what they’re doing as they dissect the messy art of mood boards, style references, and Midjourney’s ever-changing quirks…
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Midjourney Questions Answered
Drew and Rory decided to take this episode live, which means things got real fast. Questions flew in from all over the world, Faye (Rory’s toddler) made her…
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Midjourney: New Tricks, Wild Updates, and Deep Cuts
Ep. 31—Midjourney: New Tricks, Wild Updates, and Deep Cuts Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn are back, and this episode is one giant creative rabbit hole. From the…
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Midjourney Moodboards: The Deeper You Go, the Crazier It Gets
Moodboards in Midjourney started as a fun experiment… and quickly spiraled into a full-blown obsession. In this episode, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynndive…
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Describe Feature, Moodboards & The Future of Midjourney
Drew and Rory attempt to keep up with AI’s relentless updates while questioning if sensory deprivation tanks might be their only escape. They dive into the…