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AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens

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Better for America covers the issues mainstream media tries to suppress! The woman behind the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), CEO Rebecca Weber dives into the top issues of the week with insight and candor. Subscribe, listen, and visit us at www.amac.us.
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With skyrocketing rates of depression, increasing rates of poverty, hostile political radicalism, and so much more, it’s obvious that our modern society is failing us. Unfortunately, we’re struggling to navigate these many personal and social challenges because of a culture that promotes binary thinking (us vs them, black vs white, etc) & influences us to undermine our own well-being. Through controversial freethought, philosophical inquiry, and intellectual rigor, we seek to empower individ ...
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Whether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.
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In the last episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at KubeCon Salt Lake City, I spoke with Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of Aserto. Aserto has two open source project that it maintains, one of which it donated to the CNCF. In this episode, we talked about the decision to donate a project to the CNCF — both what the process entailed and w…
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This special episode recorded live at KubeCon Salt Lake City last November is with Martin Mao, CEO and co-founder at Chronosphere. We talked about how M3 was foundational to the early history of Chronosphere, and how the ability to leverage M3, which Martin and his co-founder had written while they were still working at Uber. One of the most import…
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Happy new year everyone! There was a short break for Christmas + New Years the past two weeks, but this week I’m back with a fabulous episode with Wei Lien Dang, General Partner at Unusual Ventures and formerly co-founder of StackRox. I recorded this episode on-site at KubeCon Salt Lake City back in November 2024. This episode is particularly fabul…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber sits down with gold expert Mike Fuljenz to discuss pressing issues shaping America’s future. From Texas' border policies under a new administration to the debate over retiring the penny, Mike offers sharp insights. He details how eliminating the penny could save billions and why bipartisan suppor…
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In this Better for America episode, Rebecca Weber welcomes Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids to discuss the alarming rise of gender ideology in schools. Jill exposes how DEI initiatives have become a "vehicle for Marxist ideals," replacing truth and meritocracy with divisive narratives. She emphasizes the importance of teaching America’s Judeo-Christia…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber interviews Carrie Lukas, President of the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). Lukas shares her insights on policies that empower families and individuals, highlighting the importance of reducing government intervention to promote personal freedom and economic opportunity. Lukas champions expanding t…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I have a special episode recorded on-site at KubeCon NA this fall, with Ramiro Berrelleza, the CEO of Okteto. We kicked off the conversation with a discussion about branding. Okteto is the name of the company, the name of the project and the name of the product. We started this conversation because it had b…
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Today I’m joined by writer, poet, farmer, and religious scholar, Brendan Graham Dempsey. In this episode, we go over the ideas covered in Brendan’s newest publication, A Universal Learning Process, which is part of his largest series entitled The Evolution of Meaning. This conversation is ultimately an exploration of the field known as complexity s…
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Today I’m joined by Dartmouth social neuroscientist, Mark Thornton. I was drawn to Mark due to my interest in work he did with Princeton's Diana Tamir around what is known as the MAPP–the Multilayer Atlas of Person Prediction. As the name suggests, this MAPP attempts to combine the many social theories that have been developed over scientific histo…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber interviews Carrie Lukas, President of the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). Lukas shares her insights on policies that empower families and individuals, highlighting the importance of reducing government intervention to promote personal freedom and economic opportunity. Lukas champions expanding t…
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This week on the Business of Open Source, I have an episode recorded on-site at KubeCon SLC last month with Cole Kennedy, co-founder of TestifySec. We kicked off the conversation with a discussion about software development practices in the US Department of Defense and the US government at large — and the challenges involved with deploying quickly …
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In this Better for America episode, Rebecca Weber speaks with author James Lindsay about Marxism’s infiltration into American culture and education. Lindsay explains that socialism, communism, and Marxism are "different shades of the same system" that rely on control and suppression of individual freedoms. Lindsay identifies "American Maoism" as th…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber is joined by Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, to discuss President Trump’s bold education agenda and the critical need to return power to parents and local communities. Justice emphasizes the importance of dismantling the Department of Education, calling it a bloated bureaucracy t…
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Who pays for the future of infrastructure? In this special episode, I spoke to Bobby DeSimone, founder and CEO of Pomerium, about how he feels like infrastructure and security both have to be open source — but then, what does that mean about the future of the financial support for infrastructure and security? We talked about: The importance for cus…
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Send us a text JESUS SAID, "LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME." HEAR ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND HOW WE PRAYED FOR EVEN ADULTS TO COME TO JESUS, JUST LIKE A CHILD SHOULD!! A PODCAST FOR FATHERLESS BOYS, THAT NEED HOPE AND LOVE OF JESUS IN THEIR LIVES, TO BELIEVE IN HIM, AND TO KNOW THE FATHER-"ABBA" GOD, ETERNALLY SO-FOREVER, AMEN!!…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Mark Fussell, CEO and co-founder of Diagrid and co-creator of Dapr, in a special episode recorded on-site at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City. We kicked off with a discussion of what’s different about running an open source company versus a proprietary software company, and Mark said that a big par…
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In this last special episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at All Things Open, I spoke with Elias Voelker, VP North America for CheckMK. We talked a lot about product strategy; when CheckMK decided that they needed a clear strategy for deciding which feature goes in the open source project and which goes in the commercial version. Elias f…
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In this Better for America episode, Rebecca Weber speaks with former U.S. Ambassador Carla Sands about President Trump’s decisive victory and his plans to restore America’s strength and security. Sands highlights Trump’s leadership in advancing energy independence, blocking China’s 5G ambitions, and promoting global peace, which includes plans to e…
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In this Better for America episode, Rebecca Weber speaks with AMAC National Spokesman Bobby Charles to discuss his inspiring new book, Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness. Charles explains how the book celebrates unsung heroes, historic moments, and timeless values, saying, “This is a book that will make you feel good about…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I have the first episode I recorded on-site at KubeCon Salt Lake City (and the only full-length episode), with Solomon Hykes, CEO and co-founder of Dagger, and co-founder of Docker. One thing Solomon mentions briefly but that is very important is that there are limits to what can be learned from Docker’s st…
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In this Better for America episode, Matt Kane speaks with Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief at The Post Millennial and Human Events, on President Trump’s re-election and his approach to countering “woke culture.” Emmons commends Trump’s plans to reverse Biden-era policies, especially regarding Title IX, which according to Emmons: “conflates gender with…
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In this special episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Nithya Ruff, director of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office (often referred to as an OSPO). We started out talking a little about what exactly an OSPO is and what they do in companies — something I’m guess not everyone understands. It boils down to managing the company’s open sou…
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In this special episode recorded at All Things Open, I talk with Peter Farkas, CEO and co-founder of FerretDB. We talked about about MongoDB and the license change fiasco and why Peter wanted to build an open source company and never considered building a non-open source company. The biggest 🤯 in this episode was about enforcing what it means to be…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber hosts investigative journalist and Founder of Just the News John Solomon, and AMAC’s National Spokesman Bobby Charles, where they analyze the significance of Donald Trump’s recent landslide victory and its implications for America’s future. Solomon attributes Trump’s win to the GOP’s focus on ear…
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This week’s full-length episode is with Bhaskar, founder of YottaDB. This episode was recorded on-site at All Things Open last week, and we covered a wide range of topics. Including: How the open source ecosystem, and the open source business ecosystem, has changed over the past 30+ years. Who can responsibly self-support an open source database, a…
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Today we're joined by social psychologist, Sheldon Solomon. Currently based out of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, Sheldon has spent roughly 40 years as one of the world’s leading researchers of death. Alongside his colleagues Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon established the Terror Management Theory, a rigorous body of scientif…
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In this episode of Better for America, Matt Kane speaks with New York Times Best Selling author and Navy Intelligence Officer Jack Posobiec about his and co-authored by Joshua Lisec’s new book: BULLETPROOF: The Truth About the Assassination Attempts on Donald Trump. Bulletproof is the first complete preliminary investigative report on the July 13th…
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In this episode of Better for America, host Rebecca Weber speaks with Terry Newsome, host of the Behind Enemy Lines podcast, about the rise of violent crime and human trafficking in America specifically in the Democrat-ran city of Chicago. Terry, a former Democrat and South Side Chicago native, shares his experiences with the Venezuelan gang Tren d…
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This special episode of The Business of Open Source with Tatiana Krupenya, CEO of DBeaver, was recorded on site at All Things Open 2024. It’s a short conversation, so we addressed one main question: What is the difference between running an open source company versus as proprietary software company? Tatiana says the difference is big — and it’s com…
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On AMAC's Better for America podcast, Phil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, criticized the Biden-Harris “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) for worsening inflation and compromising Medicare. Calling the IRA “an attack on Medicare,” he condemned its use of Medicare funds for climate initiatives, saying, “They used Medicare as a …
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In this episode of Better for America, Matt Kane speaks with economist and author Steve Moore about he and co-authored with Dr. Arthur Laffer's latest book: The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again. Moore shares insights from the book, arguing that Trump’s policies created a stronger economy than those under the Biden-Ha…
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Today I’m joined by psychologist, physicist, and neuroscientist, Frank Krueger. Based out of George Mason University, where he runs the Social Cognition and Interaction: Functional Imaging lab, Frank’s work primarily focuses on the dynamics of trust, cooperation, altruism. In this episode, we explore these subjects from their evolutionary roots to …
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, about the definition of open source and… the definition of open source AI. We recorded this episode on-site at All Things Open, so there’s a little bit of background noise. We talked about why OSI felt like it needed to develop…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber talks with Mike Fuljenz, known as "America’s Gold Expert," about the value of investing in gold and silver, especially in times of economic uncertainty. Fuljenz explains how rising national debt and inflation make precious metals a smart hedge: “Gold has outperformed the Dow since 2000, and it’s …
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber talks with Carl Hohsfield, Senior VP of AMAC’s Medicare Advisory Service, about the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period (AEP), which runs from October 15th to December 7th. Hohsfield explains that this is the time for Medicare beneficiaries to review or change their plans for 2025, encouraging memb…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Anais Concepcion and Paul Fitzpatrick , the co-CEO of Grist Labs and CTO of Grist Labs. We talked about managing growth of users versus growth of revenue, moving to an open source approach for technical, not technical, reasons, and open-source related product management questions for open sourc…
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber speaks with constitutional attorney Bobbie Anne Cox about the dangers of New York’s Proposition 1. According to Cox, this ballot initiative is presented as a way to protect against discrimination, but actually grants excessive government power and undermines parental rights. She explains how the …
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber speaks with Kari Lake, Arizona’s Republican Senate candidate, about her top priorities and the challenges facing the state. Lake emphasizes the urgent need to secure the southern border, warning that illegal immigration is straining the economy and endangering public safety: “We cannot afford wha…
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included talking about why documentation is often so bad, why documentation should be a priority, but also Eric’s experience building Read the Docs and Write the Docs. This episode was interesting because …
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In this episode of Better for America, Rebecca Weber is joined by Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who represents Georgia's 11th congressional district, to discuss recent findings regarding the January 6th Select Committee and what the Democrats don't want you to know about it. Loudermilk highlights newly obtained transcripts that reveal key discrepan…
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As 2024 approaches, one thing is becoming clear—Kamala Harris doesn't have the same level of support that Joe Biden did in 2020. But will this be enough for a Republican win? On this episode of Better for America, renowned pollster Robert Cahaly from the Trafalgar Group joins Rebecca Weber to provide a data-driven forecast of what lies ahead. "Stat…
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Today on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Chris Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Greymatter. Greymatter is deeply involved in the open source ecosystem and maintains the Go Envoy Control Plane, but Chris is adamant that it is not an open source company. We had a great discussion about why that is, what it means for the company and the convers…
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