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?
Expect AI news, practical workflows, experiments, guest conversations, and strong opinions from two dudes actually using it in their professional work.
https://www.fasthourspodcast.com
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 from two dudes actually using it in their professional work.
https://www.fasthourspodcast.com
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Oct 18, 2026 • 1h 49min
We Built an Entire Creative Team With AI Agents. It's Getting Weird.
AI agents are becoming an entire creative department, producing clips, thumbnails, websites, games, and client workflows. Explore squirrel video games, Lord of the Rings-inspired agent armies, AI-generated “slop,” reverse-engineered software, flying cars, and the strange new bottlenecks created by limitless creative possibilities.
Oct 11, 2026 • 1h 43min
He’s Using AI to Double His Agency Without Hiring (Ep. 86 / feat. Phil Rivers)
Phil Rivers, entrepreneur and founder of Growth Point, is rebuilding e-commerce retention agencies with AI. He explores automated client approvals, Asana campaign planning, Slack agent Tim, shared AI skills, and onboarding systems. Learn how Claude Code, MCP, Supabase, and GitHub support an agency’s goal to serve twice as many clients without hiring.
Oct 4, 2026 • 1h 27min
Claude Opus Feels Like Midjourney Now
Claude Opus is turning sparse prompts into imaginative motion graphics, websites, and animation systems. Discover how a custom AI clipping workflow uses transcripts and reference clips, why domain expertise still matters, and how handwriting, music-reactive design, and code-based animation are reshaping creative work. The discussion also explores AI avatars that are starting to feel remarkably human.
Sep 27, 2026 • 1h 28min
Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit
Claude Opus 5.5 turns a T-shirt cocktail graphic into an editable motion system, then tackles recipe videos, a Pokémon battle, podcast promos, and a B2B SaaS commercial. Explore how Three.js enables rapid 3D previsualization, why code-based workflows are changing video editing, and how shared context helps AI collaborate more effectively.
Sep 20, 2026 • 1h 39min
20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI (feat. Ingi Erlingsson)
Ingi Erlingsson is an Icelandic-born creative entrepreneur, director, and AI technologist who founded Golden Wolf, led content at Doodles, and now builds creative systems at SYSTMS. He discusses brand freedom, attention versus recognition, and developing a signature AI visual language. The conversation dives into ComfyUI, custom nodes, LoRAs, model training, After Effects, open source, and why experienced creatives may thrive in an AI-driven future.
Sep 13, 2026 • 1h 8min
What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do?
OpenAI’s Astra tackles ambitious experiments: designing a golf course from real terrain, rebuilding a vintage typewriter in 3D, managing a fantasy-football dashboard, and exploring Midjourney. GPT Image 2.5 gets tested on multi-step edits, sketches, custom aspect ratios, and brand templates. The discussion also investigates a viral AI resignation, alleged model distillation, and Anthropic’s report on AI misuse.
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Sep 6, 2026 • 1h 57min
How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs
Two founders reveal the AI systems powering their solo businesses. They explore Claude skills, agents, MCP workflows, email and call ingestion, Notion as a CRM, and a 21-layer writing voice system. Along the way: automated podcast publishing, invoice tracking, contract red-teaming, LinkedIn performance prediction, field-report generation, and AI-assisted personal logistics.
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Aug 30, 2026 • 1h 42min
A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook (feat. Jamey Gannon)
Jamey Gannon, a 24-year-old AI creative director and business stylist who builds AI-first branding workflows and teaches creative tooling. She talks about self-taught design and freelance hustle. She demos MidJourney mood boards, Figma and Photoshop pipelines. She explains when to build custom tools and when traditional tools still win.
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Aug 23, 2026 • 1h 51min
AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For
They explain why brands pay five figures to turn repetitive creative tasks into reusable AI systems. The conversation covers node-based tools like Figma Weave, model orchestration, and batch-processing engines. Real-world cases show localization, asset re-versioning, 3D conversion, and scalable fashion and product pipelines. They also discuss publishing reusable workflows, enforcing system prompts, and where workflow ROI comes from.
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Aug 14, 2026 • 1h 23min
He Built an 8 Figure AI Business in One Year (feat. Rourke Sefton-Minns)
Rourke Sefton-Minns, founder of Gen HQ and generative-AI creator who scaled to eight figures in a year. He recounts wild creator experiments, a sleep-streaming breakthrough, 420 days of posting, and lessons from hitting zero and burning out. He explains communication-first AI content, vibe-coded ideation, narrative-loop videos, and how brand partnerships and education fuel a creator-driven AI business.
