Drew and Rory start with eyeball horror, Stranger Things hype, and the idea of AI-powered contact lenses before stumbling straight into the real mind-melt: Midjourney, Grok Imagine, Mystic 3, and Flux all colliding in one episode. They roast their own prompts, trigger an accidental NSF-DoubleU moment live inside Grok, argue about โflux face,โ and still somehow manage to pull out real, practical tips for people trying to make better AI images without losing their minds. Across an hour of chaos, they unpack Midjourney v8โs subtle shifts, hidden personalization signals, Style Explorer tricks, Smart Search shortcuts, Grokโs Sora-style infinite feed, Mystic 3โs scary-good skin detail, and why Midjourney still owns lo-fi, lived-in, โshot-on-a-phoneโ energy. If you care about composition, cinematic ratios, editorial portraits, food realism, or just want to hear two people dunk on Flux and node editors while actually teaching you something, this one hits. Listeners will come away knowing how to use stills archive for composition, when to skip upscales for more analog realism, how Grok Imagineโs image + video workflow really behaves, and where Mystic 3 can replace Midjourney in a serious portrait or product stack. -- โฑ๏ธ Midjourney Fast Hour 0:00 Intro, eyeballs, and a Friday brain check 2:05 Contact lens horror stories, Mission Impossible, Black Mirror eyes 3:07 Stranger Things Season 5 hype and binge vs weekly TV 4:51 Movies, biopics, sports docs, and couch season setting in 6:23 Cowboys documentary, sports pipelines, and TV as passive story feed 7:00 AI overload, nobody keeping up, and why this pod exists 8:30 Midjourney profiles, Style Creator, and new personalization talk 9:29 Like/dislike buttons as hidden training data and 7:3 aspect ratio love 10:35 Stills Archive, cinematic framing, and cleaner compositions 12:00 Style Explorer vs old-school SREF and what quietly vanished 13:16 Three under-the-radar Midjourney Smart Search + right-click + Option-upscale tweaks 15:35 V8, fewer wall-of-text prompts, and a move toward visual controls 18:12 First look at Grok Imagineโs interface and infinite scroll feel 19:35 Sora-style endless bottom feed, variants, and โmake videoโ in Grok 22:51 Cinematic looks, color grading, and Grok as โidea and curateโ engine 24:19 Live NSFW surprise inside Grok Imagine and instant rating change 25:23 Finding Grok history, stills, and video exports with sound 26:31 Who actually gets Grok video and Drewโs first real reaction to using it 27:38 Mystic 3 enters the chat and upscaling less for analog vibes 29:02 Why โtoo sharpโ screams AI and how grain + smart detail saves realism 30:18 Outpainting, editing, and why Midjourney still wins surgical compositing 35:01 Mystic 3 V3 screen-share and first impressions 35:45 Editorial portraits, skin detail, eyelashes, and hands that finally look human 37:26 Mystic 3 model comparisons: Zen, State-of-the-Art, and weird description blur 39:16 Zooming all the way into pores, fingerprints, and micro skin texture 43:44 Cocktail and food prompts where Mystic falls behind Midjourney 50:05 Nano Banana 2 rumors, native 4K wishes, and how Midjourney might respond 50:58 Why Midjourney still rules lo-fi, disposable camera, and Polaroid-style shots 52:16 Grok Imagine vs Flux vs Midjourney for lived-in Y2K flash photos 53:39 Flux face, direct flash tests, and โgo flux yourselfโ is born 55:30 Nodes, Grok workflows, and why scrolling is faster than wiring graphs 56:01 Why Midjourney is avoiding node-based interfaces on purpose 57:05 Final sendoff: go flux yourself and get out of here