Fast Hours
by Drew Brucker & Rory Flynn
ArtsE · Explicit
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How an Investor in 300+ Companies Picks What to Build With AI (feat…
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About this podcast
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
Episodes
The newest 20 of 89 episodes
- How an Investor in 300+ Companies Picks What to Build With AI (feat. Anthony Pompliano) · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 30Anthony 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…
- How a Figma Weave Insider Gets Creative Teams to One Click (feat. Ron Baranov) · 1 h 42 min · Season 2 Episode 29Creative 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…
- We Built an Entire Creative Team With AI Agents. It's Getting Weird. · 1 h 49 min · Season 3 Episode 28Drew 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…
- He’s Using AI to Double His Agency Without Hiring (Ep. 86 / feat. Phil Rivers) · 1 h 42 min · Season 3 Episode 27Phil 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…
- Claude Opus Feels Like Midjourney Now · 1 h 27 min · Season 3 Episode 26Claude 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…
- Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit · 1 h 28 min · Season 3 Episode 25Opus 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…
- 20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI (feat. Ingi Erlingsson) · 1 h 38 min · Season 3 Episode 24After 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…
- What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do? · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 23So, 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…
- How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs · 1 h 57 min · Season 3 Episode 22To 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…
- A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook (feat. Jamey Gannon) · 1 h 42 min · Season 3 Episode 21An 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…
- AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For · 1 h 51 min · Season 3 Episode 19Brands 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…
- He Built an 8 Figure AI Business in One Year (feat. Rourke Sefton-Minns) · 1 h 22 min · Season 3 Episode 19Rourke 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…
- How to Build an AI Universe That Compounds (feat. BLVCKL!GHT) · 1 h 30 min · Season 3 Episode 18Build an AI universe by compounding recognizable characters, consistent worlds, recurring stories, and creative assets instead of starting from zero. BLVCKL!GHT has spent…
- How to Build AI Workflows That Never Start From Zero · 1 h 37 min · Season 3 Episode 17A 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…
- How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI” (feat. Finn McKenty) · 1 h 39 min · Season 3 Episode 16AI 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…
- How AI Is Making Human Creativity More Valuable · 1 h 25 min · Season 3 Episode 15AI 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…
- She Cracked AI Advertising Before Brands Were Ready · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 14In 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…
- Taste Isn't the AI Moat You Think It Is · 1 h 28 min · Season 3 Episode 13The 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…
- Midjourney's Wildest Move Yet: Full Body Medical Scans · 1 h 24 min · Season 3 Episode 12Midjourney 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…
- The Weird AI Video Formula Getting Millions of Views · 1 h 19 min · Season 3 Episode 11In 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…
