00:00The drink that's keeping you alive right now was once a crime.
00:03Coffee was born in Yemen, spread through Mecca and Cairo, and people loved it.
00:07Coffee houses popped up everywhere where people debated politics, poetry, and you know, life.
00:12And rulers freaked out, not because of the caffeine,
00:14but because coffee houses became hubs of free thought and free speech.
00:19From Mecca to Istanbul, coffee was banned multiple times in the 1500s.
00:23One of the sultans even made drinking coffee punishable by death.
00:26But banning coffee didn't work.
00:28The people refused to give it up.
00:29By the 1600s, coffee houses had spread everywhere to Damascus, Cairo, and later Europe.
00:34The same West that bans our voices today built their entire cafe culture on a drink they once tried to kill.
00:39So the next time you sip your Spanish latte with oat milk, three pumps of I don't know what,
00:43with caramel hot top and extra extra special sauce, remember, that was a rebellion.
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