Now my audience on YouTube can see you, but from my audio people, can you tell the people what's your name? Where are you from? And then where do you live now?

Absolutely.

So my name is Dr. Brian Arnold and I live in Denver.

Uh, Colorado is where I live and I've been here for many years.

I have eight children, I have 16 grandkids, and I cannot wait to have this conversation with you today because my whole world is, I guess, based around helping people become the person that they were meant to be.

And so just to kind of give you an example, Back in about 2023, I believe, I went to this event.

It was called the Trust Leadership.

So when people remember Brian Arnold years from now, what do you hope they say about the man, not the accomplishments?

What on earth do we do with it?

I mean, there's a lot of times where it's kind of interesting.

If I look at my world, I came into this and technology was mechanical, electrical.

So it was primarily the engineers I was working with on that side.

So it was very, I don't know, physical.

And then we've had this transition into the more computer sciences and And it's interesting, I still see the same struggles we had 15 years ago.

Now we can just collect more data.

What are you guys seeing on the progression of the machine learnings, the artificial intelligence, and all that being able to actually start doing more with that data? Is that stuff that's still pretty limited to those top-end producers, the major companies? Is it working its way down further? How does that look?

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And when I followed up with him about, you know, what the particular question was, he had recently saw on YouTube a video of tuskless elephants and how this phenomenon of tusklessness has been present in African elephants for a long period of time, but in some regions, uh, it has increased dramatically in frequency.

And so he was thinking, "I wonder if we could find which mutations are causing this feature in elephants that's literally changing the face of the world's largest land animal." N- neither of us had worked on elephants before.

We need to work with elephants now.

We need to get genetic material.

How do we do this? Uh, it was not easy, especially in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, which is where, uh, we decided our study population would be.

The elephants are, sometimes they're tricky to find.

Brian, are there other examples of mutations that are literally a lifesaver or had a, quote, unquote, "heroic result"?

So what was there like a, an aha moment for you? And you were like, I think I'm out of alignment.

Yes, there are several.

If I can think, I don't know if there's one in particular, but there's several where I would say, oh, I'll just give you an example of having, you know, there was a time I'm teaching high school.

I'm teaching, you know, and I decided I grew up a special ed kid.

And so as a special ed kid, I had zero desire to go to college at all.

My mom's trying to convince me.

I happen to be a pretty good athlete.

dream and vision, right?