Bikes, Coffee, and Social Enterprise in Omaha with Miah Sommer

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It's really-- It's just like, it's really fun to, like, explore this maddening hobby.

It's, uh-- I really enjoy coffee, and I enjoy the things that can be done with it.

So much can be done with coffee for good.

Yeah.

And I think we're exploring that now.

Yeah, 100%.

I think the-- I mean, part of the reason why I wanted to have you on was because the concept of doing good without God is fascinating to me because-

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I w- I was raised in a, in a Christian home, went to Bible school.

I'm not in the church anymore, not really interested in the church.

Uh, cuss like a sailor and-- But at the same time, with, with all of that I ha- I, I haven't lost my love for people and for the, the world around me and for doing good.

And in fact, I feel a deeper responsibility to do good for the world and the people in it.

And so I'm, I'm curious for you, like, how do you see that? Were you, were you raised in the church at all? Or what, what was kinda your background with, with, uh, with the church?

Yeah, I was, I was raised Catholic in, uh, South Omaha.

So South Omaha was, like, where all the immigrants went.

So it was like, there was, um, you know, everything that I am basically.

I'm, I'm Mexican, German, Polish, Swedish, Irish, and all those people were down there in full force.

And so it...

But it was, like, old school Catholic, you know? And it's like, you know, nuns still trigger me.

Like, nuns beat me up, you know? Like, it's, uh...

But and they, they were kinda like Vatican II, like meh, you know? Like, who...

You know, they-- It was just very old school.

I was taught of the curse of Ham, you know, where it's like, like Black people originated because of a punishment from God, the curse of Ham, you know? And so it's like, it was old school, and obviously as I grow up and start to ask questions, it was just like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm probably gonna jump off this train right now," and then, you know-