Fast Hours

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 finally land... and was it worth the wait? In this episode, they break down their real first impressions of Midjourney V8, including what feels better, what feels busted, why mood boards are suddenly acting possessed, and why the old “short and vi...

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 as we think? Because while everyone waits for v8, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 are raising the bar, Claude Code and Claude Cowork are quietly changing how builders operate, and Claude Agents are turning workflows into autonomous systems. Mean...

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 Brucker and Rory Flynn catch up after the holidays and dive headfirst into what’s actually happening across Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, system prompts, and the growing gap between “fun” image generation and production-ready work. They unpack w...

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 stands right now. Not the hype decks, but the messy, useful, (occasionally) frustrating truth. They break down what Midjourney v8 really signals, why the long-awaited edit model has become table stakes, and how Nano Banana Pro quietly chang...

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 Image 1.5, Weavy, video models, workflows, and the uncomfortable truth about how fast all of this is moving. They unpack the real inflection points no one labeled at the time. Why March quietly changed everything. Why Nano Banana Pro rewired im...

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 booger fingers, they somehow manage to tear into ChatGPT's Image 1.5 disappointment, expose why Nano Banana Pro is quietly dominating their workflows, and reveal the Weavy automation setup that's actually working (while FreePik continues its re...

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 full-blown lecture on composition, lighting, and how to reverse-engineer blockbuster shots into Midjourney and Nano Banana Pro prompts. They talk like film school dropouts who discovered prompts instead of lenses. From there, they unpack fr...

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 two new features back-to-back like it’s nothing, Google drops Nano Banana Pro into the world like a nuke, and both guys are out here pretending they’re emotionally prepared (they’re not). They clown themselves for completely misusing Style...

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: Midjourney, Grok Imagine, Mystic 3, and Flux all colliding in one episode. They roast their own prompts, trigger an accidental NSF-DoubleU moment live inside Grok, argue about “flux face,” and still somehow manage to pull out real, practical ti...

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 “make him smile” buttons, then crack open the new wave: nodes in Krea, Freepik Spaces, and Weavy...batching, branching, and wiring prompts like a patch bay. Drew admits he’s been using v6 personalization inside v7 like a goblin. Rory shows how t...

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 down why Midjourney’s entire system is quietly evolving—from Style Creator and V6 personalization inside V7 to what V8 might unlock. They also unpack Figma’s surprise grab of Weavy, Adobe Max’s wild AI experiments, and Google’s Pomelli quietly...

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 Office Hours intel (V8, maybe no 7.1), go deep on the Style Explorer/Style Finder with token-level searches, then build a rapid prompt-testing pipeline across Weavy + multiple image models. Somewhere between Scream and Sandstorm, they also unp...

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 Creator, and why personalization has everyone stuck in a pink-blue haze. They compare Sora 2’s shock-tightened IP rules to Veo 3.1’s practical upgrades, then sprint through Runway’s new “apps,” Reve’s under-the-radar glow-up, and a wild photo tool...

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: total burnout) and immediately get smacked in the face by Sora 2 , Veo 3 , and Midjourney Style Explorer updates that make everything they said last episode obsolete. They break down what’s actually working in Sora 2 (full edits, audio,...

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 brand-new Style Explorer (yes, that hidden Smart Search → Styles move), while guest Allar Haltsonen cheerfully roasts their “we’ll plan it later” energy and shows how RAW can completely flip a style’s look. They blitz through v7.1 notes, v8 teasers,...

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, moonlight, GOBO shadows, datamosh, pixel smear, prismatic rainbow light streaks, and androgynous beauty plus where --exp actually makes images better (and where it ruins them). They also crack open token bashing (smashing words to birth fresh...

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 you need to know. Two bleary-eyed nerds test Midjourney’s newest toys so you don’t torch your credits. In this run-and-gun lab, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn cover the video update (batch size 1–2, HD now available), why Moodboards finally liv...

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 episode, the guys go full nerd on Midjourney’s video loops, end frames, and personalized Explore Pages—plus fresh Office Hour gems on Style Explorer, V8 hints, and even video audio layers that could flip workflows on their heads. If you’ve ever...

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 teardown of Midjourney video loops and end frame control—features built for creating cinematic AI video workflows. Drew and Rory show how to use loops, start/end frames, and extended keyframes to build seamless sequences, plus what to avo...

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 what happens when you feed it your childhood art. Along the way, they break down the newest Office Hours updates, upcoming pro features, and the mystery of “unglued photography". Expect: Creative tests (some failed spectacularly) Deep...

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 all this. This week on Midjourney Fast Hours , the boys stumble into an accidental emergency episode because (surprise!), Midjourney just casually launched the most fun AI video tool yet. No press release. No tweetstorm. Just boom...

Drew and Rory spiral through the Disney + Universal vs. Midjourney lawsuit, throw some shade at corporate legal strategy, and explore why this could weirdly help Midjourney in the long run. They go deep on the upcoming Midjourney video feature (yes, angle changes confirmed), dissect the new --sref update and moodboard upgrades, and test out video upscaling tools and Runway’s new chat interface liv...

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 of Midjourney Fast Hours yet. This week, your two favorite Midjourney degenerates talk AI's messy evolution, why --sref still hits, and what to really expect from Midjourney’s upcoming video model (spoiler: temper your expectations, but g...

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, rabbit-hole-riddled ride, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn spiral from glass milk bottles and brain microplastics to the existential chaos of AI's future. They debate Claude's weird behavior, muse on whether their kids will ever drive cars, and roast L...

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 new Flow suite — with its Veo 3 video model, sound + dialogue generation, and confusing-as-hell product naming. They talk strategy, cost, coherence, and why it still feels like Midjourney has that “magic dust” no one else can replicate. Along...