Drew and Rory pull up to Episode 57 running on fumes and caffeine, only to get smacked in the face by one of the wildest AI weeks of the year.

Midjourney drops two new features back-to-back like it’s nothing, Google drops Nano Banana Pro into the world like a nuke, and both guys are out here pretending they’re emotionally prepared (they’re not).

They clown themselves for completely misusing Style Creator on day one, break down how user profiles actually work, and speculate on whether v8 is hiding the surgical editing tools everyone’s been begging for.

Then the Nano Banana Pro segment hits and things get unhinged: micro-edits that used to take an hour now take a second, text layouts that look like a designer touched them, coherence hacks, refraction tricks, split-stack continuity workflows, and some examples from the community that genuinely feel illegal.

If you’re trying to stay ahead in Midjourney, Gemini, or AI creative workflows in general, this episode is basically the “don’t-get-left-behind” starter pack.

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⏱️ Midjourney Fast Hour

00:00 – Cold open + Thanksgiving chaos

01:16 – Stream kickoff + why this week exploded

01:47 – Midjourney drops two features in two days

02:23 – First reactions to Style Creator

04:52 – How Style Creator confuses everyone at first

06:18 – Refining styles + the 5–15 refinement rule

07:40 – Style history, safety nets, and code tracking

08:36 – Eliminating style-drift anxiety

09:25 – What Style Creator still gets wrong

10:21 – Smart Search wish-list + missing features

11:29 – Does refinement actually improve downstream results?

12:15 – Style Creator verdict: fun, but who needs it?

13:26 – Ending sessions + saving yourself from randomness

14:38 – Style Creator wrap-up

15:08 – Midjourney user profiles deep dive

17:34 – Spotlight, archive, and profile curation

18:43 – Private vs stealth vs public image management

20:47 – Social linking + hopping across profiles

22:52 – Portfolio potential + what’s still missing

27:22 – The V8 conversation: what MJ still owes creators

29:50 – The editing limitations everyone wants fixed

30:24 – Nano Banana Pro enters the chat

31:57 – Google’s naming chaos (again)

32:53 – Nano Banana Pro’s first real test: auto-summarizing video

35:30 – Split-stacks, keyframes, micro-sequences

41:34 – Refraction, distortion, and text-on-glass tricks

45:35 – Micro-editing breakthrough examples

48:33 – Best platforms for running Nano Banana Pro

50:13 – Gemini Studio vs Weavy workflows

52:13 – Multi-step layouts: text + objects + composition

55:18 – Design briefs, ingestion, and real client examples

57:57 – Why every team now needs a Nano Pro person

01:01:02 – The “segment anything” Meta update + VFX workflow talk

01:03:00 – Minority Report future of editing

01:04:20 – Feeling behind while the internet shows off

01:05:40 – Lighting setup extraction examples

01:06:04 – Thanksgiving scheduling + next week’s plan

01:06:35 – The “full sprint” AI moment

01:07:19 – Outro