That’s right, TikTok removed our video on the CCP and its weather modification technology. Curiously, the video was not taken down on any other social media platform (YouTube, X, LinkedIn). Here’s the messages we received from TikTok citing “misinformation” as the violation:

The video in question is a clip we posted yesterday in which a guest on our podcast talked about the CCP’s cloud seeding program. He says, quote, “China’s cloud seeding program is the most sophisticated, is the largest, is the most operationally complex of any in the world… they have an explicit, state-mandated, open plan to export this technology across the entire planet by 2035.”

All of these facts are, however, true. Not misinformation.

We invite you to watch the full clip on X and be the judge for yourself on why a platform like TikTok may want to censor this information:

For the next eight weeks, we’re bringing y’all two podcast episodes per week in which we sit down with top founders and venture capitalists to talk about everything from 3D printed weapons grade drone technology to marriage advice.

And we started with a bang.

In El Segundo, CA, a technological storm is brewing, and its big puffy clouds are full of cloud seeded rain.

RAINMAKER is pioneering a modern cloud seeding system with specialized drone technology that sprays silver iodide (basically jewelry) into storm systems to help them precipitate rain. And its founder Augustus Doricko is the real McCoy.

His mission is to make water abundant and Earth habitable. RAINMAKER’s profound purpose comes from Genesis 2:15, when God commands humanity to care for His creation through the stewardship of the land. Augustus doesn’t mince words—his first love is Jesus, and nothing will keep him from doing the Lord’s will. During our interview he said, “Sorry to my cap table, but if I had to choose between living under a bridge for the sake of God’s will, if that’s what it was, or building RAINMAKER… I would prefer to live under a bridge.”

The Lord’s will today, however, is for Augustus to make rain. And he’s doing it—RAINMAKER’s technology is being deployed across the United States, offering hope against drought in arid regions.

And the RAINMAKER team is all in as well. While we were in their office in Gundo on a Tuesday morning, we talked to multiple guys who had just woken up. Like literally walked out of an office room next to our shooting area where they had been sleeping on a bed on the floor. Everyone was young, early to mid 20s. It sort of felt like a college dorm room. In fact, every room we walked into on our tour through the office had a mattress in it with a pile of dirty clothes in the corner. And to be clear, in no way did it feel like a toxic work-life balance expectation thing either, the guys just actually do eat, drink, sleep the rain.

This is an interview you don’t want to miss.

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