 Welcome to my show Friday PM. My name is Luigi Scarcelli. I happen to be here at the beautiful Naboo Resort in Roton, Honduras. I've been here for a few weeks and I've had a great stay here and this show is going to give everybody a chance to take a look at the island. Be talking to a couple of local folks here that have some great stories. We're gonna take some tours around the island with some great music locally as well as my friends in the band 13 Scotland Road, which are based in Portland. So we're gonna have a good time on this show. I hope you stick with me for the next 30 minutes. Enjoy. This shake is shaking. My body's aching. And I'm feeling all this healing. Sexual healing. And I'm looking for. Come here. Shake my head. Come here. Come here. Shake my head. I'm looking for. Give me a shot. I see what is going on. Give me a kiss. Give me a shot. Turkey High. Shake it, shake it. My body's so sexual healing. Come here. Shake my head. Come here. Shake my head. Shake my head. Shake my head. Shake my head. Shake my head. Shake it, shake it. My body's so sexual healing. I'm here with Sammy. Sammy is a resident here in Roton, right? So what is it that's 10 things that your favorite things about Roton? Well, one is a peaceful place, you know. And number two, my family always close to me. And another one that I've got a great, great job that I really do enjoy, you know. We got a tropical weather that you can, sometimes we got this heat, heat, heat, heat, but just when, when it's time, we get enough cool scenery today. I mean, a great, great cool day. Not so hot, you know. Lots of party. And I'll just tell the audience that Sammy, you have a canoe type of thing and you do drinks outside, right? We'll take a look at that. You can see that too. And how do you go about doing that? How long have you been doing those drinks? Well, you can classify like you started first with the coconut water. That was like 10, 12 years ago. Then I started with pineapple juice that was like maybe three to four years ago. And yes, almost two years and I'm working out in the kayak today, which I'm not working on it today because the sea is kind of rough. It's a very crazy day out there. How long have you lived in Rotan? Well, I'm 31 so far, so that means 31 years. Oh, you've been here all your life? Yeah, okay. And so you say for the viewers out there, Rotan's very safe. And how many people live on the island? Well, approximately because in between 80,000 and 100,000 people living on the island. At some point in life, it's about listening to the video here that Rotan is dangerous maybe because the concept that the mainland has it's kind of dangerous, but Rotan totally, totally, I can guarantee you, it's a way different whole thing. And also your government is associated with the government of Honduras, right? Yes, the same government, but like I tell you. But it's a better place because it's off the mainland. But do you have this Rotan having its own like a mayor or like a constable mayor? Our actual mayor named Ron Mr. Ron McNabb. Okay, very cool. And how much of the percentage of Rotan is people from other countries versus people that are native to here? Okay, we can say like in a percentage, we divide the local people local people and people from other countries in mainland, we can say we live with 25 to 30% or from other places on the island. Then the 70% are all islanders. Oh, okay. And I see we're right by the infinity resort. This is one of the very popular. Do you usually just stay on this beach? Well, on West Bay, normally bees up and down. Okay, with the kayak up here to paradise all the way down to the waters all the way through. And how long since you grew up, has there been more developments here? Is this fairly new? No, we can say like if you look at beaches from Rotan on the beach like say 15, 20 years ago, it was totally different here. Totally different. I remember going to the beach all the way up here picking coconuts and stuff, you know. It wasn't going to, but now it's now it's become. All tourists are out here. All tourists. So where do you see Rotan in the next couple of years? Probably get more and more popular. I know people. More and more developed. If you notice while you're going through the road they're building all over. So I'm pretty sure in the last 10, 15 years they're going to be a way different road. And what do you have to say to everybody who's a diver that knows about how great the diving is? Because I thought it's incredible. Oh man. I mean I'm not the person that dive but I've been on the river a couple of times, but trust me guys if you come to Rotan it's one of the best places in the world. And but what you do know is also a fun place for nightlife too, right? Nightlife, yeah, that's another thing. Like I said, one of my favorite things here is parties. Yeah, exactly. It's got all the great upsides. It's not far from Miami. It was a quick trip for me. Maybe like an hour and a half from Miami. Very quickly through customs. Get here. It's so peaceful. It's just a beautiful place. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Whenever you come to Rotan Sammy can pick up a bottle like this. I'm so waiting for you to welcome you guys. You can't miss Sammy. Thank you Sammy. I'm here with Omar. Omar works here at the Naboo. He's been a great help to me. Navigating the place. Seeing around here on Rotan. And I wanted to ask Omar a couple of questions. He did grow up here on the island. And he knows it pretty well. So hey Omar, good to see you. Hey, nice to meet you man. All right, good to see you. So tell me a little bit about the island. Like we talked to Sammy before and he said that it's, you know, it's a good size island. A lot of interesting people. What's your feeling about the island? Man, actually here. Yeah. I would be lying to you, but it's awesome. It's a great place to go and hang out. Have like a little vacation with the family also. And we have a lot of activities. It's pretty safe to walk around here. And the thing is we got a lot of things like restaurants like a go and hang out. I mean, like a little party and stuff. So if you guys like, you guys can come over. I mean, you can hang out with here. You guys will love it. You got some pretty good pool and beach also. Yeah. The weather is awesome. Yeah. Pool is right here behind us. We can see that. And so it's also known to be great for divers. Some really good reefs around. I know you may or may not dive as much, but you know it's really good for that. Yeah. Basically, yeah, I won't be lying to you. It's awesome guys. You guys can come over and try it. One thing is, well, you got two options. I mean, if you guys want to do the, like this, this like doing this, not going up with the gear on, you guys can do it also or with the diving too. I mean, both things are amazing, but mostly diving. Yeah. You can go a little more out, stay totals and stuff. Nice things, sharks and all that. I mean, you guys will love it. I'm not joking. It's true. You guys have to try it. And they have great certified divers. So it's diving instructors. So they take you out and it's good time. And there's a lot of interesting things you can do if you like exploring the island too. Like there's zip lines, hiking. It's fun all around. And one thing guys, don't forget if you guys decide to go out Sundays, that's the, we have one place that is really awesome to go is Punta Gorda. It takes like an hour to drive there, but it has the interesting things like a local drum homemade mating about the seafood. It's really good there. And the Sunday there, it always has a big party. So it starts from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Sunday. So it can be raining. It can be sunny. It will be a party. It will be a party, yeah. So if they come here, say that Luigi sent you and look for Omar. Omar. Thank you so much. Thanks a lot man. I'll be back here soon and I'll be seeing him again. Take care. Guys. Thank you. Bye bye. What's the show? I hope you guys enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed spending the time here. It's a great place. I recommend anybody who just wants to be out in the sun and enjoy a great resort, check out the Naboo. But if you're a diver specifically, Rotan is a beautiful place to go diving. So tell them Luigi sent you. Thanks a lot. Have a good night. Take care.