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Hey everybody. Welcome back to a special edition of the Mo News podcast. Today we dive into a topic

that so many of you have written into us about changing the weather, creating rain, what's real, what's not.

And today we talk to someone at the forefront of that who will fact-check us and talk about what his company, his drone company, is doing when it comes to cloud seeding and what is actually possible and what is in the realm of conspiracy theory.

Augustus Tariko is the founder and CEO of Rainmaker.

It's a drone-powered cloud seeding company, very unique business.

We have the chance to speak to him recently about what his company is up to.

Why this technology, he says, is necessary as climate change happens.

What countries around the world are embracing this and why he believes the U.S. needs to really kick it up into high gear to get competitive with China and some other parts of the globe?

He actually joined me from the Middle East where he was talking to a number of Middle Eastern leaders who deal with major droughts and the deserts of that region,

but still want to be able to grow agriculture and deal with the various changes to the climate.

We should note we did tape this conversation before the recent deadly flooding in the Austin,

Texas area. And in the aftermath of that flooding, there have been accusations that

Jericho's company Rainmaker may have done something that led to that record rainfall. He will

explain in this podcast what's real and what's not, but we are including at the end of this podcast

how he's responding to those specific allegations in Texas in a recent interview. So stay tuned for that

if you've been following those headlines. So I think you'll find this conversation extremely

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