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 reign of mediocre terror).
The duo gets brutally honest about why OpenAI feels like it's slipping, why negative prompting might be more important than what you actually want to create, and how to build your own custom AI tools in Google AI Studio without selling your soul to another subscription.
Plus: vintage Kodak rally cars, the art of perfect thumbnails, coconut water in cocktails, and why their illness prevention protocols involve more vitamin C than common sense.
If you survived their holiday absence and made it through the mandatory 20-minute ramble tax, you'll be rewarded with legitimate workflow gold that actually ships.
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⏱️ Midjourney Fast Hour
00:01 A Mr. Sniffles cold open
05:18 Prompting while sick, then getting cooked on X
07:35 An “Am I an AI artist?” reality check
15:08 Moodboards, unsettling styles, and “what counts as art”
27:39 Blade, Pluribus, and movie still inspiration sites
31:42 Midjourney V8 quiet, Style Creator alpha changes
37:45 The pace of releases and tool fatigue
40:37 World models, Veo 3, and the next leap
43:28 ChatGPT Image 1.5 talk and why it’s still behind
46:12 Nano Banana Pro flex, Freepik waits, and why it matters
49:17 Weavy workflow walkthrough: from ref to shot list
55:26 Contact sheets, “mini LoRA” vibes, and system rules
59:14 Kling o1 keyframes: why 3–10 seconds is a cheat code
01:03:32 Real text and brand risks in outputs
01:06:52 Build your own Nano tool in Google AI Studio
01:08:01 Writing models: ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude
01:09:23 Negative prompting becomes the main event
01:11:25 Wrap, thumbnails, and holiday chaos