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    <description>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 the leverage is for creatives.</description>
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      <title>Ep. 84: Opus 5.5 Is Cracked! AI Videos You Can Actually Edit</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:08:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 84 argues that Claude Opus 5.5 makes AI video genuinely editable by rendering it as code instead of one-shot clips. Rory turns a T-shirt graphic…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 83: 20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 83 profiles Ingi Erlingsson, who built Golden Wolf, sold it to Doodles, and now runs the AI-systems studio SYSTMS. He walks through his ComfyUI…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 82: What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 82 tests OpenAI's Astra and GPT Image 2.5 against real projects. Rory lets two Astra sessions negotiate and build a golf-course design on real…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 81: How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents &amp; MCPs</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 81 opens up Drew and Rory's personal AI operating systems for running solo businesses. Drew walks through 37 Claude skills, including a 21-layer…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 80: A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 80 brings on 24-year-old self-taught AI creative director Jamey Gannon, who runs the studio ADM and the AI Creative Director course. She demos…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 79: AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn spend a full episode building node-based AI workflows in Figma Weave live, arguing brands pay five-figure fees for reusable…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 78: He Built an 8 Figure AI Business in One Year</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rourke Sefton-Minns, founder of Gen HQ, tells Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn how he scaled his AI creator business from zero to eight figures and twelve…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 77: How to Build an AI Universe That Compounds</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:05:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>BLVCKL!GHT of West Coast AI Labs tells Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn how one early clip, Gorbo's Swim Hole, grew into Route 47, a 28-show, four-season AI…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 76: How to Build AI Workflows That Never Start From Zero</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn break down how they build AI systems that compound instead of resetting every time: ingesting call transcripts and emails as…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 75: How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI”</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:50:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Finn McKenty, a former Abercrombie &amp; Fitch designer and fractional CMO, tells Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn why he skips prompting for most of his process: he…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 74: How AI Is Making Human Creativity More Valuable</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker argue that as AI output gets technically perfect, hand-made imperfection becomes the premium signal, citing Netflix's disclosure…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 73: She Cracked AI Advertising Before Brands Were Ready</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:36:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Creative director Salma Aboukar tells Fast Hours how she moved from CGI in Blender and 3ds Max to an AI-native ad stack, and how her viral…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 72: Taste Isn't the AI Moat You Think It Is</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker argue that 'taste is the moat' is already a cliché, breaking taste into stylistic, editorial, conceptual and cultural types, and…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 71: Midjourney's Wildest Move Yet: Full Body Medical Scans.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:40:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker react to Midjourney founder David Holz revealing Midjourney Medical, a bootstrapped, water-based ultrasonic full-body scanner…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 70: The Weird AI Video Formula Getting Millions of Views</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:34:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Generative AI creator Tyler Bernabe (jboogxcreative) joins Fast Hours to break down the viral formula behind his food videos, a deliberate mashup of food…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 69: Google Dropped Too Many AI Tools. Which Ones Matter?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:04:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 69 is Rory and Drew's reaction to Google's single-week flood of AI launches: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Flow, Omni, Pics, and refreshed Veo and Nano…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 68: The Prompt Is Dead, Long Live the Reference + The Monet Trap</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 22:21:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 68 argues that AI prompting is shifting from typed text to visual references: Rory builds reusable 'style card' sheets in Codex and GPT Image 2, and…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 67: GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 67 marks the show's rename from Midjourney Fast Hours to Fast Hours and centers on OpenAI's new GPT Image 2. Rory turns a logo brief into a…</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:56:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 66 is Rory and Drew's hands-on review of Midjourney V8.1, which both call an unambiguous upgrade over V8: three times faster, native 2K, and…</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:07:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 65 is mostly a deep dive into how Rory and Drew actually build with Claude: when a repeated task becomes a skill, why Claude Code skills are…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 64: Midjourney V8 First Impressions + Claude Code Breakthroughs</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:43:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn give their first hands-on verdict on Midjourney's alpha-stage V8: more coherent than V7, but volatile, with stacked mood boards…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 63: Midjourney V8 Countdown + Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 and Higgsfield Fallout</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:03:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn preview Midjourney's V8 countdown (rating party round two, an edit model expected within a month, native 2K under discussion)…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 62: Midjourney v8 Is Late, the Skill Gap Is Growing, and AI Agents Unionized</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:37:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn catch up after the holidays with Midjourney still lacking V8 (mood boards, personalization, and the edit model all pending),…</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:58:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In a live LinkedIn AMA for Episode 61, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn take audience questions on Midjourney's stalled V8 versus Nano Banana Pro, the difference…</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:59:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Closing out Season 2, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn rank 2025's biggest AI turning points: GPT-4.5 and 4o's image update, March's Gemini/GPT-image/Reve wave,…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 59: Midjourney v8 Countdown + Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT Image 1.5</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:27:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 59 has Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker return from the holidays to declare ChatGPT's Image 1.5 update still not close to Nano Banana Pro on realism and…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 58: Midjourney Edit Models + Nano Banana Pro: Eating Lunches in the Upside Down</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:48:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 58 has Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker walk through real Nano Banana Pro client work: swapping products inside a glass container, crisping blurred label…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 57: Two Midjourney Drops in 48 Hours + Nano Banana Pro Pulls Up with a Nuke</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:54:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 57 covers the same wild week Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) launched alongside two Midjourney drops, Style Creator and public user profiles.…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 56: Go Flux Yourself: Midjourney Still Runs the Realism Game</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:25:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 56 has Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker run Grok Imagine's infinite-scroll generator live, test Magnific's Mystic 3 against Midjourney on portraits and…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 55: Nodes Are Eating the Creative World And You’re Already Late</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:24:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 55 is a deep dive into node-based creative tools: Rory and Drew reverse-engineer Krea's beta node editor, compare it to Weavy and Freepik Spaces,…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 54: Midjourney’s Quietly Evolving + One Personalization Hack You (Probably) Didn't Know</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:04:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 54 reveals that Midjourney's non-global V6 personalization profiles still run under the V7 model, letting users keep a favorite V6 look at V7 image…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 53: Cracking Midjourney’s Style Explorer + Freepik’s Rise + Higgsfield Prompt Hack</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:41:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 53 treats Midjourney's Style Explorer as a token-based search engine, tours Freepik's shift into a full creative 'aggregator' platform, and demos a…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 52: Midjourney’s Next Chapter: V8, Style Tools, and The 99.99% Problem</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:39:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 52 centers on what the hosts call Midjourney's '99.99% problem': almost none of the images anyone generates ever get shared, and Drew and Rory want…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 51: Sora 2, Veo 3 &amp; The AI Video Gold Rush</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:52:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 51 marks Fast Hours' return after a month off with a deep look at Sora 2's remix, cameo and 'any IP' features, which Rory argues make it the easiest…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 50: Unpacking Midjourney's Style Explorer + Slipping Deeper Into Nano Banana 🍌</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 50 reunites Rory and Drew with returning guest Allar Haltsonen (Estonia) to unpack Midjourney's brand-new Style Explorer, including a little-known…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 49: Midjourney Token Bashing, Nano Banana, and Weavy with Marco Isle</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Episode 49 pairs Rory and Drew with creative polymath Marco Isle to pressure-test Midjourney prompting and Google's Nano Banana image model. Marco…</description>
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      <title>Ep. 48: Midjourney Video Update: HD for All &amp; Batch Size Changes + Our Style Explorer Wishlist</title>
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