There was a place where toilet paper was $85, a gallon of bleach $95, a place where any sandwich with meat was called a CUBAN SANDWICH (thanks to Mr. Garcia), unlimited flow of home baked cookies and treats with story time. Coffee was made fresh and black, people entered skinny and two months later left fat…… We know what you are thinking. This place must be DIVINE. Let Matt and Rich to take you there and feed you with all the leftovers and crumbs.

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Did you know that Divine Naples Coffee and Wine Bar was at one time a Substation for AREA 51 and literary the safest place with the most guns in the city? Episode #393  July. 21th  2023

00:00:20 – 00:11:51

Hello all Divine people, more Saturday, Friday, July 21st and it’s 2023, that’s the year, episode 393, here we are, Rich from this mic, and Matt from this mic, and today I would say we are Hans and Franz, they will pump you up, you gotta have a little age under your feet to relax from Saturday Night Live baby, I would like to make that show over here, I think we can do that, I’ll try to see if I can after we get done with this podcast to bring up a few episodes of that, the only thing you need to learn is that Kentucky accent, yeah, well, because I have it, you don’t, I mean Hans and Franz, I think it might be better if we just did a Flintstone act, who would be Fred and who would be Barney, I don’t know much about that, well then there’s more homework I got for you, I’ll get you a few reels of that, that’s what I need, that’s what I’m missing, do you know the cartoon Scooby Doo, no, I don’t watch that, it’s important because we’re going to talk about snacks and they love Scooby snacks, it’s Friday evening and we’re sitting here in our studio, Divine Naples podcast studio, next to Divine Naples coffee and wine bar, on 4th avenue south, and I tell you what, outside is 88, which I think they are lying constantly on those devices when they tell you what the temperature is, it’s unbelievable, it was steaming hot today, yeah, I think it was hot enough to open up clams, without any steam, you don’t need a hammer, no shucking necessary, you are the shucker, you’re teaching everybody to, no that’s shank, you’re the shanker, or the schmucker, they call it, I’m a schmuck, you are capable of making shank out of newspaper, actually I could, well that’s the least of the capabilities, I know I’m safe, I tell you what, there’s a lot of things going on, it’s Friday, it’s kind of a quiet evening, we see some cars parked around, that means people finally get out of their houses, supporting our local businesses, which is fantastic, because I just came across a really beautiful picture on the social media, let me see, right here, where you found a portrait of me, no, but there was a sign outside of one of the businesses, I was reading it, it’s a handwritten sign, yeah it’s nice, chalk, yeah why don’t you read it, chalkboard, let me read it, when you buy from small business, you are not helping a CEO buy a third holiday home, you are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy his team jersey, mama and dad put food on the table, shop, local, I love it, and that is true, and it’s like, it’s handwritten, yeah that is really awesome, where did you find that, on the social media, wow that is really awesome, we need more of that here in Naples, and all throughout Southwest Florida, actually I’d like to see us, see this thing go worldwide, well this is why we are here, this is what we are doing, we are trying to bring community together, we are trying to tell people what is going on in Naples, we are trying to tell and remind people that they should spend money with our local businesses because around 75 cents or between 70 and 80 depends I guess what you buy, stays locally, and one day, and I predicted this 12 years ago, I already said that, we are going back to the circle of the local businesses and support in our own community, because if you want that grass to be green and nice and cut, we are going to have to figure out how to pay for it, we are going to have to figure out who is going to do that, and I don’t think for all governments coming with the landscapers here, it’s going to be paid for and we don’t have to worry about it, no I don’t, do you think any of the Walton family members are going to do it, no they are going to react, yeah, it’s kind of really interesting because you know this whole Fauci virus, you have been here, I have been here, we have been sitting and scratching our heads and when they told us you shut down your business, you know the story right, yeah I know it, you have been here right, figuratively speaking you gave them the finger, no really, let me just tell you exactly what happened, it was compliant, you did it, you were compliant to the law, every time I see, I mean we have a great relationship with our Naples Police Department, and the city, and the mayor, and they treat us with respect, but when I see every single time some police officer coming with the paperwork in his hand, I know something is cooking, so that time somebody parked, it was like, you know what I exactly know, March 15th, that was the day, March 15th, 2020, am I correct, yes, and he came over with the paperwork in his hand, parked the car, and you know a lot of businesses were shutting down already, yeah, and he came over and says hey Rich, I’m here to shut you down, and like 6 months prior that we were pretty much shut down because the whole street was shut down, yeah, I mean from one end to the other during a turn around in the 8th street, yeah, so we couldn’t get any business here and we were just like open for 7 months after grilling from the building department and the story I already said about the permits, and now, month and a half we finally see people coming in, some people, and now somebody came to shut us down, right, so after basically building the year and year being in business and not being in business, so the patience is not there anymore, right, you coming here to hurt the business again, no, that’s just the answer is that, over, and so he said well I’m here to shut you down, and I was like for what, well you know all the businesses need to shut down, you know the pandemic which I can do, that’s just a reward, it’s like boiling, boiling my blood, and he says well you know we cannot be open, I said how come some businesses are, well that’s only essentials, I go what’s essentials, well you sell essentials then you can be open, and I’m just looking at him strange, thinking for a second, what do you mean essential, what’s more essential than coffee, and food, yeah, and he goes, well you know cleaning products, I said okay come with me, so I took him inside and there was nobody here right, because everything was like shutting down, so he said him and me, he stood by the countertop, I went to the kitchen, opened the cabinet in the kitchen, pulled out the used bleach, like a gallon of bleach, it was not full, we already used it right, but nobody knows unless you check, I put the bleach on the countertop in front of him, I went to the restroom, and I slightly used toilet paper, already used, you know not fully, you know, uh, manufactured, sealed toilet paper, already like a hard road, somebody had already pulled it, yeah, so I put it on the countertop, went back behind the countertop, took the sticky notes, yellow sticky notes and put $85 in toilet paper and $95 for the bleach, and I look at him and I said, I saw essential, you want to buy some, ha ha ha ha, that is funny, he says, are you serious, I said yeah, yeah, well you’re just like sitting essential now, you should have told him it’s like, I just turned to the, and pointed at the coffee, I said that’s not essential, this is right, you just told me, and he just, he starts swearing, ha ha, I know it’s not gonna be easy with you, and walk away, see, three days later, everything was shut down except our business, we were open every single day, all the time, the whole night, most of the times, because I was here, and every single of them were sitting here because they had nothing to do, nobody was here, yeah, no tickets to give when everybody’s in their house, and we had such a good time, I put a sticker, you put a sticker, aerial 51, ha ha ha, when they were talking about that, that was the only place that they would sit, nobody but the Naples Police Department, or if a sheriff came in, you know what’s funny, that was brilliant, now you remember, you know, you are the genius, you know what, I would have told him too, I would have said that this is gonna be an endless supply on that toilet roll, because I