NEWS & INSIGHTS

EPISODE 238  |  APRIL 2, 2025

Bee Bee Boop: Humans are canceled, Barbie’s shout-outs, and ChatGPT’s latest glow-up.

Barbie’s showing love to future doctors. People are crowdfunding their hospital bills. And ChatGPT just dropped one of its most powerful updates yet. On this episode of The No Normal Show, Desirée, Stephanie, and Chris unpack the game-changing upgrade from OpenAI that makes photorealistic image generation feel real. From Bill Gates suggesting humans could be irrelevant within a decade, to the new frontier of visual storytelling and the copyright chaos of Studio Ghibli-style AI fan art, we explore what this all means for marketers, healthcare brands, and creatives. The AI race is speeding up—are you even on the track? Tune in now.

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Des: [00:00:00] Welcome everyone to the No Normal show brought to you by BPD. This is where we leave all things status quo, traditional old school, and boring in the dust, and celebrate the new, the powerful, the innovative, the bold, while delivering the future to healthcare’s leading brands. I’m Desiree Duncan, vice President of Health Equity and Inclusion, and today I’m joined by Stephanie Wo, EVP of Engagement. And Chris Bevelo, chief Transformation Officer. Hi, y’all. Hey, hey, Chris Bevolo: howdy. Des: What a beautiful April start to the. Month. But, uh, we are going to be talking about, uh, a couple of headlines around peer-to-peer crowdfunding for healthcare costs. A couple of quick little nods from Bill Gates talking about the future of AI and what that means, and some updates on the image generation model from Chachi pt. But first, what have been some interesting things you’ve been seeing in the world? Stephanie: Yeah, I can jump in. Um, I think we say this every week. I think there’s a lot going on, right? I feel like [00:01:00] every week I’m like, there’s so much happening. Um, but there really is, um, I’m gonna share something that’s really healthcare specific. Um, and this was something that caught. Some conversation in our team chat this past week. Uh, you would never think that Barbie would be something I would say is healthcare specific, but Barbie, the brand was all up in TikTok, commenting on match day, which was…