1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The u.s. Is the world's second biggest importer of coffee. 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It is a very labor intensive. Crop 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 can take three to four years for a plant to Bear. The kind of fruit. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We would roast and grind, 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but the two people typically paid, the least in the chain are the farmer. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the Barista learning about coffee is about learning where your dollar goes. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We follow one of those chains from Michigan to Yemen. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Hello. Hey, how are you? 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Would you recommend today? You wanted something with cream and night cream, 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 cream. Those go with them. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, everything for here, right? Yes, sir. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A human has, a bunny is a coffee Mogul in making 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in 2017. He opened his first shop in Dearborn, 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and is now branching out to two locations. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One across town and another in New York. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 He's not selling your average American style. Filtered coffee, though. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It has two bunnies. Coffee beans are from Yemen. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Good guys. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Thank you. We gonna make one son and one juvenile. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, Wilson, and I'm going to use the medium roast with the 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Mm. Mm, for the Jubilee we use. Light roast, medium, roast, 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 coffee house, Ginger. Cinnamon. Cardamom God. It's like 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 special mix. So, this is like the gateway drug into Yemen. Yes. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's like Bridge doesn't have sugar, but yemeni coffee is famous. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It has natural Sweetness in it 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and I take my coffee with sugar every morning, but I can drink this without sugar, 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 good. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's to gonna change your mind. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 These coffee beans are sweeter because they're grown in the highest mountainous. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Regions of the country. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Why is coffee so important for um, flaming first is our culture. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We drink coffee everyday. 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's also open Yemen to the other countries. 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So when they start shipping to different countries people, they 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 read more about Yemen, they want to visit them. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And they want to see what's different about you, man. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How old were you? When you had your first cup of coffee? 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So my mom, she told me when I was a kid, 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I had two things coffee and a spicy. Since the, if the 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Something wrong with this baby. Yemen, may have been the first to drink coffee, 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 nearly a thousand years ago, when it exported it, out of a famous Port called mocha, 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but, colonialism conflict and the rising popularity of coffee crops. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Elsewhere, overtook it 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and has a bunny left home in 2011, but his brother still back in her has 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 running the family's coffee Farm. Hello. 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Hello salaam alaikum. 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Huh? 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Look. 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How did she get in trouble? They'll try to give me a hug 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and it's almost 45 years, 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a rebel militia based in the north. The houthis has been fighting with a coalition 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 backed by the Saudis for control. 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The Coalition blocked. Most imports from coming in 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the fighting has made life in the Region's poorest country. 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Hell more than 100,000 people have died so far. 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 From airstrikes famine and rampant disease 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and exporting. Anything amid. All of this chaos is sometimes, impossible. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's cheaper to attempt this only once a year 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the only way to keep the beans fresh is to roast and grind them in the US. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 You must really believe in this yemeni coffee. Yes, first, I believe in our brand, 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I believe, in our yemeni coffee beans, as one of the best companies in the world. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Also, I believe in myself. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I didn't listen to anyone. I just said 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I spend all saving, I have 41k, a break it down. I guess I use it. 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I use all my credit card. I use all the money I have. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So everybody will be your crazy 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 when people first hear the word Yemen, they think of a current War. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Bloodshed, 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but to you, Yemen, signifies something else. It's not in my life. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's my birth place. 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I stopped watching news, actually, especially ones come to him. And it's just said, 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm fired right here, and I can't do nothing. 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's just, I can't control my emotion. I can't control myself. 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's bothering me from inside. 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Oh, my family. So there I have my sister said she was sick 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and because it was no hospital in here, man. It is no doctors normal said 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 she was away in the way and because 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they take her to the hospital and they said, they didn't do nothing for her. 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So they send her back home and she get worse. 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They take her back to the hospital. She didn't make it. 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you ever feel guilty 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that you're here and there? They're back in a war zone. 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sometimes I feel guilty because I'm not next to them. Family is very important. 84 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Other side, when I found not guilty because 85 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 at least I'm here to support them to help them. 86 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If all of us stuck there, you don't know what's going to happen. 87 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What are your hopes for a better? You 88 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 this war has to end. 89 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is first second. We have to be all yemeni together. 90 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What are you thinking about? I just wanna get emotional. 91 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's why I'm yeah. 92 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It just said I was crazy about me. 93 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When I remember those people as Nana, they fight. It's not just, 94 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's really bad. 95 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, if we're not, not gonna do nothing, nothing gonna change.