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Where you belong, which is business.
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But why the foray into politics?
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The sector approached me and wanted me to be part of the race
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so that I can represent dito ang mga health workers,
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yung mga micro enterprises, at saka mga teachers.
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Kasi yun ang tatlong profession ko eh.
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And then I was very reluctant.
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Nag-away pa kami ng misis ko
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because I was entertaining the idea
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until I received calls na nga from Doc Willie, from Isko.
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What was the most seductive about it?
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Nung kinusap ka ni Isko at saka ni Willie,
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what made you say,
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sige, tatakbo ako?
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Because we were in the crisis
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and we thought that people will be more compassionate for health workers that I represented.
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Akala namin na yung mga tao ay nakot sa karilang kalusugan
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kaya they will listen to a health professional wanting to serve them.
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And then sabi nila, baka maririnig ka ng mga magulang.
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And then I think the message was clear.
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The messenger that I was, was effective.
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But I think I was not heard enough
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because of the platform that was limited for my use.
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How difficult was it to see the election results
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and what happened after the elections?
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It was just, I was celebrating the learnings and the lessons and the experience in general.
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Unless something really would change.
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At this point in your life, you have decided,
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Dito ako sa industriyang ito.
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Politics is not for me.
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I mean, is that the decision that you've made?
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I may not have the power but I want to keep the influence.
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But not in terms of being a politician?
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But I think, for example, there is now a clamor for a nursing law.
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So now that the senators know me more or less,
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I can join my nursing leaders and lobby for the passage of the law.
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And same with the teachers.
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And I go around and I became...
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I think I broke the glass ceiling, Kuya Boy.
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They thought that Karl Balita was just the owner of a review center.
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I broke that ceiling.
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And not a lot of people knew in the first place.
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Those who listened sa DCMM program ko for 20 years
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thought that I was just a host of a radio show or a teleradio show.
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Until they realized na,
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Uy, si Karl pala is a multiple professional,
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a doctor of two programs.
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Multi-hyphenated.
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Multi-hyphenated.
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And when they saw me in your show and in some debates,
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sabi nila, wow, maganda yung sinasabi niya.
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And that's enough.
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I think I have conveyed the message loud and clear
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and let its presence in social media up to now
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be a proof that once there was a technocrat
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who wanted to bring change in at least in the three areas.
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That's a good way of looking at it.
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Pag-usapan natin ang isa sa mga bagay that you're very passionate about.
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Sabi mo nga, yung mga nurses.
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And you have this film.
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Yeah, Siglo ng Kalina.
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It's a 100-year celebration of Philippine nursing.
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It was founded 1922.
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After that foundation was Filipino Nurses Association
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by one Ilocana nurse, Anastasia Rontupas.
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And then we were planning for the celebration.
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So sabi ko, let's create a film
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inspired by the story of Anastasia Rontupas.
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So ano ang kwento nung Siglo ng...
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Siglo is century.
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Ang kwento ay tumagos dun sa isang daang taong
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from the moment it was founded.
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Hindi siya linear na historical film.
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It was well-written by Archie Del Mundo.
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And the film jumped from one genre to another
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including Panahon ng Hapon.
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Hindi natin alam kung anong nangyari.
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So kwento ito ng mga nurses in a 100 years.
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Exciting dito, Kuya Boy, is yung COVID scenes.
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Kasi di naman natin nakita kung paano nangyari.
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Anong nangyari sa loob ng hospital, no?
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Paano namatay ang mga tao mo?
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Hindi totoo na namatay,
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na mag-isa ang mga namatay sa COVID, Kuya Boy.
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May hawak-hawak silang kamay.
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Yun yung kamay ng mga nurses.
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Nakita yun sa film.
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At yung paano namatay ang mga health workers.
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Ganong kalungkot yung moment?
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May isa akong kaibigan na ang iniyakan niyang eksena.
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Ang sasabihin ko yung eksena is
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yung nagtitik-tok ng nurses.
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So kako ba't ko umiyak dun?
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Kasi sabi niya, imagine.
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Imagine na kailangan nilang gawin yung bagay na yun
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just to keep their sanity
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in a situation, in the middle of a situation like that.
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May everyone so afraid, including themselves.
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May mga eksena kami na talagang papatakanduhan mo.
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Ang goal nga namin dito ni Lem, Kuya Boy, is ganito eh.
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Kung nurse ka na nanood ka,
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nagugustuhin mo sa susunod ng buhay, nurse ka pa doon.
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Kung hindi ka nurse at nanood ka,
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maghanap ka ng nurse na papasalamatan mo.
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Kasi this is really a testament to the angels by the bedside.
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And even Kuli Desta, by the way, Ku is a nurse,
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when I invited her to sing the theme song
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written by the music by Benny Saturno
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and I wrote the lyrics of it,
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hindi siya, hindi ako magdalawang salita kay Ku
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let this be my service to my colleagues in the nursing profession.
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Salamat, salamat sa iyo.
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Poong wagas ang pag-ibig mo.
06:30.0
The very first time you saw it?
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Ah, tear jerking.
06:34.0
Alam ko yung story ah, kasi nagsa-suggest ito.
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Pero ito kasi yung napapagtapit-tapitan.
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Nag-premier na kami,
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ang ganda ng reviews,
06:42.0
even by editors and film critics.
06:48.0
We have sent it to festivals.
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Abroad, international, 40 plus festivals.
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Hopefully mag-hapog, kagaya yung isang film ko,
06:57.0
Nag-hapog ng awards naman yung film ko.
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Maestra, which is also directed by?
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And dito si the late Gloria Sevilla
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performed on Old Teacher who Never Won, di ba?
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It was a highly acclaimed film.
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Nakakatawa naman.
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Actually, people are excited.
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I spoke to one nurse who was saying,
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sanay mapanood at mas maunawaan yung aming trabaho.
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Kasi kung titignan natin,
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we are in the middle of a nursing crisis, Kweboy.
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Hindi mo kayang ipikit ang mata mo sa offers
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ng overseas opportunities for nurses.
07:34.0
We may be reduced to being cared by caregivers
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and nursing attendants
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while the world is enjoying the best of our Filipino nurses.
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Aren't we giving the world our best?
07:46.0
We are giving the world our best
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and nothing is left to us.
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We're losing all our best.
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Actually, ang solution na pinibigay namin dyan,
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ang advocacy group namin for nursing, Kweboy,
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is huwag lang natin tignan ang supply side.
07:59.0
Kasi maski school kulang na nandin.
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Wala nang clinical instructors.
08:04.0
How do you address ito nga sinasabi mong
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conflict between a good life
08:09.0
and being able to serve the country?
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Maraming gusto mag-stay.
08:15.0
Maraming mahal ang pamilya nila to be close to them.
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Pero ang tago ko dyan ng campaign, Kweboy,
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if you would remember, is positive practice environment,
08:24.0
security of tenure, recognition.
08:27.0
Yung magubuhay mo ang pamilya mo.
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Let's put more investments in health.
08:31.0
Let's not see nurses and doctors as expenses.
08:35.0
We have to see them as investment.
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Maraming salamat.
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The thing that I'm hearing from you, Karl, is,
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and this is a very good lesson,
09:08.0
and this is something I continue to learn
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with a lot of interviews that I do.
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Okay, politics may not be mine.
09:13.0
It may not be my calling.
09:16.0
Pero yung sphere of influence will never go away.
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Kasi tatlo, lima, isang daan, limang daan na tao
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that you can directly touch.
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If you touch one life out there,
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you've got to pay.
09:29.0
Especially teachers.
09:30.0
Lalo na teachers, healthcare professionals and many others.
09:34.0
Even criminologists.
09:36.0
May program ako for criminologists.
09:38.0
May isa araw na, may support ako sa kurame.
09:41.0
Ang mismong investigator ng case na pinapile ko,
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I mean, yung pinapainvestigate ko is,
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what's my product?
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And to figure it out.
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So sabi ko, lahat ng hospital na puntahan ko,
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I would have a nurse there.
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sarap lang ng feeling to look back and say,
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they were blessings to me as they are blessings.
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I was a blessing to them.
10:03.0
And exponential ang value ng Wayboy.
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You do a lot of things.
10:07.0
You're many things.
10:08.0
But who are you first?
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That's most important to me.
10:14.0
I'm a father not only to my family,
10:17.0
but to my people.
10:19.0
Alam mo ng pandemya,
10:20.0
Wayboy, I would have finished my third doctorate degree.
10:22.0
But I was so anxious to be able to really,
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you know, sustain the company.
10:28.0
And salamat kasi nagawa ko naman.
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Wala naman ako sinara, wala akong binenta.
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Pero napakahirap.
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Kami napakahirap din.
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Kasi one day we woke up.
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Wala na kaming televisyon.
10:39.0
Wala na kaming mga palabas.
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Magkakasama tayo.
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Pero yung realization na ay,
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ang bilis pala ng buhay.
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Eventually, God made us,
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I mean, created us in a way
10:56.0
We find our way to where we're supposed to be.
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And I don't say because we're powerful.
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I pay tribute to Him up there.
11:06.0
Pero dahil halimbawa sa pandemia,
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many of us learned how to simplify life.
11:13.0
And we also realized,
11:15.0
lalo na sa mga industriya,
11:17.0
katulad ng industriya ko,
11:20.0
na ang dalidaling umabang,
11:21.0
na realized natin na sa isang araw,
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lahat pwede mawala.
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And realizing that life is really a gift.
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It's really something we have to...
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we were just living one day at a time.
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We were just so consumed by the present.
11:35.0
And considering it as a gift,
11:36.0
really, of the moment.
11:38.0
You won't even think about tomorrow.
11:40.0
You won't think about the past
11:41.0
because I'm here.
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the power of now.
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Ating mga kababayan,
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napakiliki ng iyong pelikula.
11:48.0
isang pelikulang handog
11:50.0
ng mga nurses sa inyong lahat
11:52.0
para mas maintindihan ninyo
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at mas ma-appreciate nyo
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yung ginagawa namin
11:58.0
sa inyong mga mahal sa buhay,
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sa napakahabang panahon,
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panahon ng pandemia,
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panahon ng kasayahan,
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pag-uwit sa bahay,
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Sana huwag nyo iwanan yung pelikula,
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samahan nyo kami,
12:16.0
yung mga taong tunay
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na kasama nyo 24x7
12:19.0
in the hospitals.
12:20.0
Lagi nag-ihintay sa inyo
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kung kailangan nyo ng kanina.
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We're the best for the Filipinos.
12:26.0
We're the choice of the world.
12:27.0
Come watch us in this movie.
12:29.0
And congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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We end this interview
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the what questions.
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what are you when you're alone?
12:41.0
What makes you happy?
12:48.0
What do you know about love?
12:52.0
exponentially available for your use.
12:54.0
What can't you forgive?
12:56.0
I can't think of it.
12:57.0
What can't you forget?
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To see that my children
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ready for the road.
13:11.0
A lot of courage.
13:21.0
To not be in you?
13:22.0
To not be in you.
13:23.0
What is the best thing
13:27.0
What is the biggest misconception
13:28.0
about Kyle Benita?
13:39.0
What is the world like
13:43.0
What is life like?
13:46.0
What means to you the most?
13:48.0
My relationship with God.
13:51.0
to be a child of God?
13:54.0
To be able to care
13:55.0
for the children of God.
13:56.0
What is your family like?
13:58.0
It's an open family.
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What are you like
14:04.0
they can always run to.
14:05.0
What are you like
14:10.0
What is it like to be
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with intelligence.
14:27.0
that you don't have
14:29.0
that you want so badly?
14:33.0
What are you like
14:35.0
You don't like me.
14:38.0
if you were not you?
14:43.0
What if you were not
14:53.0
no one wants to be
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but a lot deserve.
14:56.0
What is your epitaph?
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Karl, thank you very much.
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Thank you so much.
