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Fast Hours

Drew Brucker & Rory Flynn

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 for creatives? Expect AI news, practical workflows, experiments, guest conversations, and strong

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All Episodes

01:28:00

Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit

Fast Hours ·

2026/09/27

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 Rory’s T-shirt became an animation system. Then came four more drinks, a Pokémon battle, podcast promos, and a client-style video. Drew and Rory sound like two people who’ve spent years hearing “one tiny change” and knowing exactly how much work that used to mean.Claude Opus 5.5 turns one cocktail image into a JavaScript or HTML animation

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01:38:34

20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles,...

Fast Hours ·

2026/09/20

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 has spent two decades making work for brands including Nike, Adidas, Jordan, Disney, Netflix, Coca-Cola, and Cartoon Network. He built Golden Wolf from the ground up, sold the studio to Doodles, became Doodles’ Chief Content Officer, and now builds custom AI creative systems at SYSTMS.So naturally, Drew and Rory spend half the episode staring

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01:07:56

What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do?

Fast Hours ·

2026/09/13

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, a vintage typewriter animation, and a round of image edits. Rory’s golf course experiment burns 70% of his weekly allowance. Drew spends three hours getting a typewriter to type. Their gift for turning a quick test into a side project remains undefeated. The pro-AI half of the show. The other half: a viral AI resignation that looks planned to

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01:57:07

How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills,...

Fast Hours ·

2026/09/06

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 who swore AI would give them their time back open the hood on what they actually run. Drew walks through 37 hand-built skills and a 21-layer system for writing in his own voice. Rory runs his whole business out of Notion and Claude, down to finding an online fax machine for New York State. Neither of them can remember what half their own skills

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01:42:10

A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her...

Fast Hours ·

2026/08/30

An AI creative director combines design fundamentals, AI fluency, tool selection, and repeatable workflows to produce better creative work.The boys over at Fast Hour invites a 24-year-old AI creative director to give away her playbook and somehow gets reminded that buying more AI subscriptions does not count as mastery. Jamey Gannon explains why AI is a skill, what top operators do differently, how Midjourney mood boards become brand systems, and why sometimes the smartest AI move is opening

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01:51:07

AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For

Fast Hours ·

2026/08/23

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 their way into a useful business model while trying to explain node-based AI without melting anyone’s brain. The opportunity itself is practical. Find expensive, repetitive creative bottlenecks, turn them into reusable workflows, and make the complicated machinery simple enough that an entire team can actually use it.The boys break down Figma

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01:22:38

He Built an 8 Figure AI Business in One Year (feat....

Fast Hours ·

2026/08/14

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 system.Drew and Rory invited Rourke Sefton-Minns on to discuss AI and somehow ended up reverse-engineering a business built on sleep streaming, 420 straight days of posting, multiple failed creator experiments, hitting zero in the bank, and an apparently unhealthy refusal to quit. Rourke breaks down how Gen HQ grew, why brand partnerships now drive

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01:30:24

How to Build an AI Universe That Compounds (feat....

Fast Hours ·

2026/08/09

Build an AI universe by compounding recognizable characters, consistent worlds, recurring stories, and creative assets instead of starting from zero. ⁨BLVCKL!GHT has spent thousands of hours doing the thing most AI creators accidentally avoid: sticking with one weird idea long enough for it to become an actual universe. Route 47 now spans 28 interconnected shows and characters, four seasons, recurring locations, expanding lore, and even a game in development. characters → worlds → stories → audience

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01:37:21

How to Build AI Workflows That Never Start From Zero

Fast Hours ·

2026/08/02

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 how advanced AI workflows actually work, then accidentally expose the mildly concerning machinery behind their own. The useful version of AI goes far beyond isolated prompts. It remembers prior decisions, pulls from real conversations, reuses approved skills, evaluates its own output, and saves the human from rebuilding the same process every

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01:39:13

How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI”

Fast Hours ·

2026/07/26

AI images stop looking generic when creators steer models with real expertise, original references, hand-built assets, and selective craft.Finn McKenty joins Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn to explain why the fastest route to better AI work may involve drawing by hand, reading the manual, and making fewer things. The three alleged efficiency experts also wander into AI burnout, fake UGC, Higgsfield trust problems, Midjourney’s long game, and the deeply inconvenient possibility that one great image may

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01:25:14

How AI Is Making Human Creativity More Valuable

Fast Hours ·

2026/07/19

AI is making creative production faster while increasing the value of human craft, imperfection, and hands-on creative control.Drew and Rory start with Netflix’s 300 AI-assisted programs and somehow end up defending Blockbuster, boxy cars, greasy roommates, and the radical act of making creative work harder on purpose. Between the usual intellectual potholes, they uncover why invisible AI succeeds, why perfect outputs are becoming exhausting, and why human-made work may become the premium

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01:18:24

She Cracked AI Advertising Before Brands Were Ready

Fast Hours ·

2026/07/12

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 to AI-native campaigns for brands including Coca-Cola, Panasonic, and Google Labs. She breaks down her viral IKEA exploding-room video that helped brands see the commercial potential of generative AI video, the detailed JSON prompting method behind it, and the modern AI creative stack she uses across Claude, Midjourney, Nano Banana, Seedance,

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01:28:35

Taste Isn't the AI Moat You Think It Is

Fast Hours ·

2026/07/04

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 into Figma Config, Waymo trust issues, Invisalign lisp watch, and the quiet horror of paying for AI models that may or may not be getting nerfed behind the curtain.This one gets into the big question creative teams keep circling: is taste still a moat in the AI era? Drew and Rory break down why “taste as a moat” is getting shakier, what

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01:24:55

Midjourney's Wildest Move Yet: Full Body Medical Scans

Fast Hours ·

2026/06/23

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 Episode 71, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn, two men with zero medical degrees and a medically concerning level of confidence, unpack Midjourney Medical and David Holz’s surprise hardware reveal. At the center is the Midjourney Scanner, a water-based, full-body Ultrasonic CT prototype designed to capture detailed 3D body maps in roughly 60

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01:19:41

The Weird AI Video Formula Getting Millions of Views

Fast Hours ·

2026/06/07

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 social menace responsible for some of the wildest AI videos your algorithm has probably shoved into your face at 1:13 a.m.They get into how Tyler has gone viral across multiple generations of AI tools, why copying trends is creative quicksand, how shock value actually works when it is paired with taste, and why the best AI creators are building

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01:11:27

Google Dropped Too Many AI Tools. Which Ones Matter?

Fast Hours ·

2026/05/24

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 Google’s latest AI product avalanche.This week, they dig into Google Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Flow, Google Pics, Nano Banana, Veo, and whatever else Google launched before anyone had time to make coffee. The big question: are these actually meaningful creative upgrades, or did Google just throw 19 AI names into a blender and call it

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01:26:45

The Prompt Is Dead, Long Live the Reference + The...

Fast Hours ·

2026/05/17

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 dig into Freepik changing its name to Magnific, why enterprise AI image tools are starting to feel more like creative operating systems, and how brands may be better off using approved model aggregators instead of building weird internal Franken-tools that immediately become outdated.Then things get nerdier. Obviously.Rory breaks down how he’s

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01:05:39

GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good?

Fast Hours ·

2026/04/26

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 officially drop “Midjourney” from the podcast name and relaunch as Fast Hours, a broader home for the creative AI ecosystem: image models, video models, LLMs, vibe coding, Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and whatever tool drops five minutes after they hit publish. Naturally, the rebrand lasts about four minutes before they’re elbows-deep in

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01:09:36

Midjourney V8.1 Review & Reactions + Wen Edit Model?

Fast Hours ·

2026/04/19

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, stress-tested text, and immediately started asking whether the edit model is the part that actually matters.In episode 66 of Midjourney Fast Hours, the boys dig into why Midjourney v8.1 feels way better than v8, where it still falls short, and why this release feels less like a victory lap and more like Midjourney finally arriving at the version v8

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01:23:40

Claude Knows Kung Fu. Midjourney's Still in the Dojo...

Fast Hours ·

2026/04/05

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 tools until something breaks, gets weird, or accidentally becomes useful.They kick things off with fresh Midjourney V8 impressions, including what changed after another week of testing, why resetting personalization profiles helped, where the weird magic still shows up, and why V8 still feels like it is waiting for its real arrival. They also dig

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