Fast Hours

Midjourney's Wildest Move Yet: Full Body Medical Scans

June 23, 2026·1h 24m
Episode Description from the Publisher

Midjourney 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 Brucker and Rory Flynn, two men with zero medical degrees and a medically concerning level of confidence, unpack Midjourney Medical and David Holz’s surprise hardware reveal. At the center is the Midjourney Scanner, a water-based, full-body Ultrasonic CT prototype designed to capture detailed 3D body maps in roughly 60 seconds.They break down how the scanner uses sound waves, water, and serious computing power; why Midjourney plans to introduce it through a San Francisco spa; and how a bootstrapped company with no investors can make a bet this strange. They also separate the scanner’s current body-composition ambitions from the much bigger MRI-level future Midjourney hopes to pursue through research, testing, and FDA approval.Then the episode gets even less normal.Claude Fable 5 appears, dramatically accelerates Rory’s coding, Blender, and MCP workflows, and disappears days later following a US government directive. Naturally, this sends the hosts directly into Conspiracy Corner with no adult supervision.Along the way, Drew and Rory explore how brand adoption of AI has changed, why some of the most advanced commercial AI work stays hidden behind NDAs, how companies can reward employees for useful AI innovation, and why first-time reaction content remains one of the internet’s strongest viral formats.Is Midjourney’s full-body scanner a medical breakthrough, an ambitious wellness experiment, or the first clue to a much larger hardware roadmap? The hosts attempt to answer that question while also discussing the World Cup, the Knicks, government intervention, possible AI futures, and several topics their wives wisely avoid asking them about.---⏱️ Fast Hour00:00 Knicks, World Cup, and viral tourism10:14 Sports, culture, and AI gatherings13:06 Midjourney reveals secret hardware15:49 David Holz explains the bigger mission18:27 The 60-second full-body medical scanner20:18 How bootstrapping made this possible23:26 Water, spas, and medical skepticism28:56 The scanner demo and nine-person team40:30 Midjourney’s bigger secret roadmap48:11 How brand AI adoption has changed58:57 Claude Fable 5 appears, then vanishes1:00:41 Inside the Fable 5 conspiracy corner1:04:48 Why Fable 5 felt revolutionary1:13:58 The AI race and 12 possible futures1:18:22 Four years of Midjourney and the outro

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