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00:26 - Live streaming channel Facebook at YouTube.
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00:33 Thank you.
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00:39 One of the most respected,
00:41 one of the most awarded journalists in this country.
00:44 Naitai Kapuso, please welcome the one and the only,
00:48 Jessica Sol.
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00:57 - Thank you very much.
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01:03 - You do the Zumba, right?
01:06 - Yeah.
01:07 - Is that every day?
01:08 - Twice, three times a week.
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01:15 (laughing)
01:18 Once a week.
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01:24 - One, two.
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01:28 - You take the red chair today, Jess.
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01:36 - Thank you, boy.
01:44 - Thank you for being here.
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01:59 - Birthday.
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02:04 First question, boy.
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02:14 - Okay.
02:15 - I have always denied my age.
02:17 - Okay.
02:18 - I'll explain why.
02:19 For the longest time,
02:20 growing up in the industry,
02:24 growing older in the industry,
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02:30 - Okay.
02:33 (speaking in foreign language)
02:37 that people generally are not kind to old gays.
02:41 (speaking in foreign language)
02:45 If you Google me, I am like 65, 66, nine years old.
02:49 - Okay. - That's not true.
02:50 I'm younger.
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02:54 (speaking in foreign language)
02:58 - 34.
03:05 - How young are you?
03:06 (laughing)
03:08 34.
03:09 - 34, Jess.
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03:14 - Mental age. - What is your mental age?
03:16 - 20.
03:18 - Wow.
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03:23 - You are what you believe in.
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03:28 - That's true.
03:30 - What's in your head space right now, boy?
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03:36 - Joy.
03:38 - Wow.
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03:42 - But I am, I think, on my way to recovery
03:46 because (speaking in foreign language)
03:51 it was so uncertain.
03:52 I used to think all the time, what's next?
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03:57 I'm living in gratitude.
03:59 I am present.
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04:02 - Okay.
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04:10 - Wow.
04:14 (speaking in foreign language)
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04:16 (laughing)
04:18 (speaking in foreign language)
04:21 - My partner Bong has been there for decades.
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04:33 Less, (speaking in foreign language)
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04:39 It took a while.
04:43 It took a while.
04:45 It took a while (speaking in foreign language)
04:50 - National artist, (speaking in foreign language)
04:55 (speaking in foreign language)
04:59 - Although I've been able to manage this,
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05:19 Not so much with the poverty that I went through.
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05:28 I don't even talk about (speaking in foreign language)
05:34 My mother was a proud public school teacher.
05:37 She was teaching grade one for 41,
05:39 she taught grade one for 41 years, 11 months and two days.
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05:47 That gutted me in a certain way.
05:54 - Okay.
05:54 (speaking in foreign language)
05:58 But we couldn't ask questions.
06:06 And (speaking in foreign language)
06:09 Many years ago, I did an interview.
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06:12 And I spoke like this.
06:14 - Yes.
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06:20 - And I was talking about Tatay's being born out of wedlock.
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06:26 Nanay sat me down.
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06:30 The short of the long story was,
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06:43 Until her death.
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06:58 He's not even here to defend himself.
07:23 He's not even here to explain to you the narrative.
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07:31 To this very moment, nobody has explained to me the story.
07:36 Did I deserve to know the truth?
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07:40 I also have my own skeletons in my own closet.
07:43 I have to deal with my truth.
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07:52 And I have not forgotten this as a person.
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08:21 I apologize to my mother.
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08:41 - Sorry, boy.
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08:51 (speaking in foreign language)
08:55 Eight years old, she died of cancer.
09:01 So, (speaking in foreign language)
09:03 My brother and I, we had to grow up on our own.
09:06 Actually, (speaking in foreign language)
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09:16 - I know I was 90.
09:24 - 90, oh.
09:25 - Just before the beginning of COVID.
09:26 - Yes.
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09:31 - What have you become?
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09:39 - I said to learn things on my own.
09:41 DIY, my DIY life.
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10:56 (speaking in foreign language)
11:00 - Same vein.
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11:32 - I was made to feel inferior by people
11:36 who probably didn't mean to make me feel inferior.
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11:44 You know, my partner Bong used to say,
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12:00 Exact words.
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12:04 It's coming from a space of love,
12:07 but it took a while for me to realize that it's okay.
12:12 It's okay to have a nose like this because it's mine.
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12:19 In my journey, I wanted to have nice hair.
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12:23 I wanted to have nice nose.
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12:34 To fuel whatever I have become.
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12:42 The one immutable law in the business
13:01 is that nothing lasts forever.
13:03 We will all go.
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13:09 - So boy, because mentally you're 34 years old,
13:23 what will you tell your 34 year old self?
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13:29 - Be healthy, be happy, and be sexy.
13:32 And do not ever be afraid.
13:34 What will you tell your 20 year old self?
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13:45 - No, but I'm just so proud of what you have become.
14:00 - Thank you, boy.
14:01 - You're the one in the world who made it big
14:03 because you worked so hard.
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15:14 - By two points, Marianne.
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15:19 - One to 10, (speaking in foreign language)
15:35 - One to six, (speaking in foreign language)
15:41 and I live below my means.
15:43 - Okay, one to 10, (speaking in foreign language)
15:46 - 10.
15:47 - One to 10, (speaking in foreign language)
15:50 - 11.
15:51 (laughing)
15:53 - One to 10, (speaking in foreign language)
15:58 - 10.
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16:01 - Worst intrigue about you.
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16:46 - Good answer.
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16:55 - I get lost.
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17:07 - I have a sense of what is right and what is wrong.
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17:15 - Bikini man, boy.
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17:23 - Lights on or lights off?
17:24 - On.
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17:29 - Happiness or chocolates?
17:31 - Happiness.
17:32 - Best time for happiness?
17:35 - Maga.
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17:38 - Morning person, si boy.
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17:45 - On your birthday, what's your wish?
17:48 - I will use that word again, joy.
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17:57 I'm not wishing for a perfect life.
18:03 I just wish for joy in my heart.
18:07 - Yay!
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18:12 Thank you, boy.
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18:17 - Jess, thank you.
18:22 No, I have flowers for you.
18:23 - Thank you, boy.
18:24 - Thank you, thank you very much.
18:25 - Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
18:27 - Thank you very much.
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18:31 - And salamat to the men and women of FASTO
18:35 for doing this celebration.
18:39 (speaking in foreign language)
18:43 Yeah.
18:45 (laughing)
18:47 And (speaking in foreign language)
18:51 But congratulations,
18:52 you have the number one show in this network.
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18:56 And it's not by accident, you work hard at it.
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19:02 - It's never to any one person's credit, boy.
19:05 You know that.
19:06 - I know that.
19:07 - I have a great team behind me.
19:08 - That's true.
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19:11 That's true.
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19:26 Thank you, boy.
19:31 - Maraming salamat.
19:32 - Happy birthday.
19:33 - Thank you.
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19:38 - Salamat.
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19:41 - So in my head also, 34 years old ka parin.
19:44 - I will stay there.
19:45 - Yes.
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19:47 - Thank you.
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19:56 Just one is a lot.
20:00 Do one good thing a day,
20:01 like making your nanay and tatay proud,
20:03 saying thank you and being kind.
20:06 We'll talk again.
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20:11 Goodbye for now and God bless.
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