Fast Hours

Anthony Pompliano chooses AI projects around problems he needs solved, friction worth fixing, and builds he enjoys. After investing in 300+ companies, Pomp still builds software because something in his own day annoys him. He joins Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn to explain when an AI idea earns his time, when paying for existing software makes more sense, and why a weekend experiment can be valuable...

Creative teams get to one click by building and testing Figma Weave workflows, then packaging repeat work into shared tools. Figma Weave Creative Workflow Advocate Ron Baranov shows how the hours behind a one-click AI workflow become a tool the whole team can run. Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn follow the builds, from looping animations to locked illustration styles, and Rory discovers version histor...

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 discussing who they'd need to hire to scale Fast Hours. Now they've built an interconnected system handling everything from podcast clips and thumbnails to website publishing, creative production, and client workflows. Naturally, tha...

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 embarrassing amount of time obsessing over AI visuals. Phil Rivers shows up with 40 clients, 16 employees, and an entirely different obsession: automating all the boring stuff nobody wants to do. And it turns out the boring stuff might be wher...

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 to create, then watched the to-do list get ambitious (their neglected websites finally got some attention). A promo’s visual style carries into animated podcast clips, while a handwriting experiment reshapes Drew’s site. Claude Opus powers m...

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 muc...

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...

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 remai...

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 f...

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, h...

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 th...

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 a...

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, rec...

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, reuse...

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 t...

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 succeed...

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 metho...

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 ta...

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-b...

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,...

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 actua...

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...

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 afte...

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 thi...

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...