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0:01[applause]
0:07Well, don't stop.
0:09[cheering]
0:11>> All right. All right.
0:13Okay. First and foremost, let's set the
0:15tone for the statement in the free
0:18speech spirit from which PGMN was built.
0:21Ready? Zoom in closer.
0:25On behalf of my family, on behalf of
0:27everyone at PGMN, and on behalf of the
0:30entire Philippines,
0:32[ __ ] Martin Rmaldness. [cheering]
0:36[applause]
0:38Secondly, as is the case for all honesty
0:42posts on social media these days, this
0:44PGMN episode will be hit by a big troll
0:46farum again. Locked profiles with no
0:49posts, no friends, no pictures,
0:51accounts, all created last week. Why?
0:55Because Martin is finally in real
0:57trouble with the ombbudsman and wants to
0:59make sure that anyone who speaks out
1:01against him now will be attacked by a
1:03call center of hateful ogres. But we
1:06know you're not naive. You were not born
1:08yesterday. You know to look at the
1:10substance of the content itself rather
1:12than the haha reactions and hateful
1:15comments from empty accounts with no
1:17profiles. Remembering what the actual
1:19point of this whole thing is. What is
1:21the point of this whole thing? It's that
1:22the biggest problem in the Philippines
1:24is and has always been corruption. And
1:28the most corrupt politician of the 21st
1:30century is Martin Rmaldis. We'll discuss
1:33this thoroughly later in this video, so
1:34stay till the end. For now, let it be
1:37known that he's relentlessly trying to
1:39silence us. He's trying to silence PGMN.
1:42Don't let him silence you. Thirdly,
1:46before we talk about Ramaldez in the
1:48case, I want to talk about PGMN. I built
1:51Peanut Gallery Media Network for a
1:53specific reason. I come from the social
1:55media generation who endured the full
1:57weight of the censorship industrial
1:59complex during the height of the
2:01malicious western woke movement from
2:042017 through the pandemic and all the
2:06way until Trump was reelected in 2024.
2:09During that period, if you said anything
2:10even remotely odd, controversial,
2:13comedic, irreverent, or rebellious about
2:16gender, immigration, abortion, COVID,
2:19Hillary, Biden, Camela, radical
2:22feminism, climate, BLM, Russia, China,
2:25transgender sports, transgender minors,
2:28veganism, socialism, communism, Zionism,
2:31or any of the hyper sensitive woke
2:32issues that were deemed off limits. You
2:35were silenced by every major social
2:36media platform, especially Facebook and
2:39Twitter. That era was hideously
2:42authoritarian. Three or four dozen very
2:44young, very weak, tyrannical nerds in
2:47Silicon Valley sat behind their
2:49computers massaging their flaccid egos,
2:52arrogantly thinking that they had the
2:54moral authority to determine what
2:56billions of people around the world were
2:58allowed to say out loud. It was
3:00disgusting. Mainstream social platforms
3:02became so aggressively woke that not
3:05only could you not give your honest
3:06political opinion, you couldn't even
3:08crack a joke. It was a terrible time for
3:10freedom of speech. Then in 2022, as I
3:13got out of rehab to finally get sober
3:15after being a cocaine addict for almost
3:1820 years, the great Elon Musk bought
3:20Twitter, turned it into X, and
3:23instantaneously altered political
3:24discourse around the world. For the
3:27first time in years, people could
3:29finally speak freely again without any
3:31fear or apprehension of dictatorial woke
3:34snowflakes pressing a button to throttle
3:36the reach, shadowban their accounts, or
3:38erase them entirely. Moments after his
3:41revolutionary purchase, I vividly
3:43remember Elon in an interview say this.
3:47>> Like say, when does free speech matter
3:48most? It's when someone when it's
3:50someone you don't like saying something
3:52you don't like. That's when it actually
3:54matters. Free speech only matters when
3:58it's someone you don't like saying
4:00something you don't like. He looked like
4:03a man who was willing to die for that
4:05idea.
4:06That deeply inspired me. It's a quote
4:08I'll never forget. And so two years
4:10later, I created PGMN. Before we were
4:13framed for extortion and the whole thing
4:15became a national story, we had 25
4:18anchors in total. Five anchors were
4:20proudly pink. Four anchors lean DDS. Six
4:23anchors were MAGA. Seven were
4:25center-left liberals. One anchor is even
4:27super woke. The rest don't give a [ __ ]
4:29about politics. All of us work together
4:32well, at least before the scandal blew
4:33up in my face. We're self-aware of our
4:35biases and we don't hide them from
4:37anyone. Most importantly, we all get
4:40along like a family because we've
4:42discovered that even if our politics
4:43oftentimes don't align, the unifying
4:46denominator is that we've found a common
4:48home in the idea of being able to always
4:51speak freely about anything, literally
4:53anything, even when we're wrong, even
4:55when we're foolish, in so long as we're
4:57communicating in good faith. As quite a
4:59few of you know, I've been operating at
5:01the highest level of national politics
5:03and leading some of the most influential
5:05national machineries in media for quite
5:07a while now. And I can say with an
5:09unwavering certainty that we've built
5:11something that isn't just uncommon, it's
5:14extremely unique. We've also said
5:16repeatedly on all our channels that we
5:18are not avoiding conflict. We are
5:20actively seeking intelligent,
5:22articulate, authentic, amazing people
5:25with differing political views and
5:27opinions. This is precisely and entirely
5:29what PGMN is all about. This is why PGMN
5:32was created. This is what we hope PGMN
5:35will always be. Moreover, it needs to be
5:37said that our anchors are independent.
5:39They have never been under contract.
5:41They are not on a monthly PGMN payroll.
5:43They are not employees. They are not
5:45assigned source they do not want to do.
5:47They are not told what positions to
5:49take. They keep full editorial control
5:51over their own segments, their own
5:53opinions, and their own publishing
5:54cadence. Each anchor upon engaging PGM
5:58was promised one thing, a platform to
6:01say whatever they want in whichever way
6:04they want in so long as what they say is
6:06legal and honest. Literally free speech
6:08absolutism. They have no routine
6:10schedules, no quotas to hit in terms of
6:12content output, no standard newsroom
6:15deliverables, and the freedom to come to
6:17work quite literally whenever they want.
6:19In return, our anchors receive two
6:21things. the highest quality of video
6:24content excellence and guaranteed
6:26virality.
6:2818 months later, we hit 1 billion views
6:31collectively across all platforms. We
6:33have undeniably impacted culture. We
6:35have consistently influenced government
6:37legislation. We have gotten multiple
6:39corrupt officials to resign and we have
6:41literally altered election results. At
6:44our current pace, we will easily hit 2
6:46billion views in the next 6 months. That
6:48is how PGMN was able to achieve anything
6:50between 1/3 to 1/4 of the monthly social
6:53media engagement of many of the big
6:55legacy media companies that have been
6:56around for decades at less than 1% of
6:59their monthly OPEX and by boosting less
7:02than 2% of all of our post. That is not
7:05a recent recarerization. That is how
7:07PGMN was built from the start with that
7:10specific strategy in mind. And it
7:12worked. I built PGMN this way
7:14deliberately. The kind of journalism and
7:17commentary this country needs, sharp,
7:19fearless, accountable, and we will prove
7:22in court that we understand what being
7:23accountable means, cannot be produced by
7:26anchors taking orders from a corporate
7:28assignment desk. It can only be produced
7:30by real industry experts who chose off
7:34their own free will to publish on a
7:36platform that gives them the production
7:37infrastructure and the audience reach to
7:40do their work at scale. What PGMN
7:43provides the studios, the world-class
7:45editing, the strategies, the cutting
7:47edge AI native production stack, the
7:50multiplatform distribution system, the
7:52rapid faithful audience, a network
7:55infrastructure design unprecedented in
7:57Philippine media, and the best young
7:59social media team the country has ever
8:00produced. what our anchors provide.
8:03Their voice, their judgment, their
8:05reporting, their varied specializations,
8:08their reputation, their decisions about
8:11what is worth covering and what is not,
8:13their expertise
8:15and their excellence. There are a lot of
8:17things you can criticize us for. Yes, we
8:21may have been mean at times. We may have
8:24been too anti-woke. We may have been
8:28perhaps a bit rude to the haters in our
8:30comments. And maybe, and this is just in
8:32terms of the editorial, not the videos
8:34of the anchors themselves, but maybe we
8:36made the strategic decision to never
8:38criticize Bong Bong Marcos, Sarah
8:40Duterte, or Lenny Rodredo.
8:43But do you know what PGMN has never
8:45done?
8:47PGM has never lied.
8:50I challenge the haters in our comments
8:53to find in our 18 to 19 months that
8:56we've been publishing to find any piece
8:58of content wherein you can prove that we
9:01maliciously lied about anything. Yeah,
9:03we made mistakes for sure. And we've
9:05happily and I think consistently
9:07corrected any of those mistakes, all of
9:09them, I think. But we've never
9:11maliciously lied. We never outright went
9:14out of our way to lie about anything.
9:16And I think the super majority of the
9:19people who follow us can attest to that.
9:21The people who follow us, especially the
9:24people who are assessing in good faith,
9:26they know what's up. Fourth, regarding
9:29this whole alleged extortion case,
9:33there's nothing I want more than to tell
9:35you my side of the story. Nothing. I
9:38don't think it's possible to
9:39comprehensively explain how painful it
9:41is to know you're innocent, to have in
9:43your hands and your lawyer's hands all
9:46the tangible, indisputable evidence that
9:48will prove your innocence, and yet to
9:50have to muster the daily strength and
9:52restraint to withhold all legal
9:54information. Right now, I don't have the
9:57emotional or the psychological luxury to
10:00care whether you believe me or not. I'm
10:03just saying that holding my tongue in
10:04this moment and under these
10:05circumstances is easily one of the most
10:07difficult things I've ever had to do.
10:08The very first thing the good judge said
10:10at her first court appearance is that
10:12because of the tremendous public
10:14interest in this case to not discuss any
10:16elements of the case publicly, I fully
10:19intend on respecting her wishes. What I
10:21can say is that so far by every
10:23conceivable metric and I mean this
10:24sincerely is that in my opinion the
10:26judge has come across as fair and honest
10:30and because of that I am confident we
10:32will win. Fifth and lastly
10:36let's talk about Martin Raldness.
10:41Why is Rmaldis doing this? That I can
10:43tell you. The former speaker is in the
10:45most precarious and unstable position of
10:48his life. He feels desperate and unsafe
10:51because he is finally in real legal
10:54danger. Let me explain. 6 weeks ago, the
10:57country was set ablaze with this one
10:59headline. Zaldiko arrested in the Czech
11:03Republic. He was set to be shipped back
11:05home to the Philippines. What did
11:07Ramaldis do? Do you remember? He
11:09panicked. He tried to leave the country.
11:12He said he had to go to Singapore for
11:13his heart condition. He was going to run
11:15like a little [ __ ] The office of the
11:18ombbudzman courageously and correctly
11:20blocked his flight. Boying Ramulius's
11:23exact words accurately translated. I
11:25tried to say this in the Gal, but I
11:27couldn't. It's very difficult for me to
11:28read in Filipino. But anyway, this is
11:30the exact English translation. Open
11:32quote. We did not respond favorably to
11:34the request that he be allowed to leave.
11:37The problem is that it is too extreme of
11:39a coincidence that Zaldi Kov was
11:41captured and then suddenly Martin Raldez
11:43intends to leave the Philippines. If
11:46this sort of behavior is continually
11:47allowed, we may lose all the people
11:49we're meant to hold on to. All the
11:51people who are meant to be made
11:53accountable or answerable will escape
11:55our jurisdiction. We too have to take
11:58care of our rights as a nation. We have
12:01a right as Filipinos to tell Martin
12:04Raldez, you cannot leave. And what did
12:08Martin do? He panicked again. He did
12:11something he never does. He sat in front
12:13of a camera just like this and issued a
12:16statement. He said in so many words, "I
12:19know things about this administration.
12:21If I go down, you go down." That's
12:24essentially what he said. Now, what has
12:27made Martin Ramaldez so desperately
12:29anxious? There's a lot of things apart
12:32from his overabundance of powerful
12:35enemies wanting to expose his super
12:37abundance of crimes. In my opinion,
12:40there are two main reasons. And these
12:42two reasons are both facts. The first
12:45reason is that the first family hates
12:48Martin Rmaldez. They hate him. I know
12:50that many of you in the comments are
12:52skeptical of this. There's quite a
12:54number of you that think this is all for
12:55show, that this is all ruse and that the
12:58president won't actually go after his
13:00cousin. I understand why you think that,
13:02but I have it in good authority. I know
13:04people who are very close to the
13:06president on a personal level. I know
13:07people who work at the office of the
13:09president and I know people who work
13:11with him on a daily basis on a political
13:12level. They all tell me that this
13:15resentment is absolutely real. Why?
13:18Because they all feel like Martin
13:21betrayed them. As a fun side note, I
13:24have heard from multiple people that
13:25work under him or have worked under him
13:28that the richest man in the country, my
13:31hero, uh, Enrique Rosan, the 14 billion
13:34man, also thinks that Martin deserves to
13:36go to jail. One, because, you know, it's
13:38the right thing to do. And number two,
13:39it's because it's one of the ways to
13:41appease the national political climate.
13:43I think he's right. Now I don't know for
13:45certain if this is true but the sources
13:48that I heard this from who said this
13:50directly to me are very close to Mr.
13:52Rosan so I believe him. Second reason
13:55and possibly the most important one is
13:59that the ombbudsman Boing Ramulia who
14:02used to be very close to Martin they're
14:04fraternity brothers and they used to go
14:06on vacation together you know that sort
14:08of thing they're not okay anymore they
14:11had a falling out
14:13I asked two senators sitting senators
14:16who were both godfathers of mine at my
14:18wedding two months ago to introduce me
14:20to Boying and they both initially
14:23hesitated because of the fact that they
14:25told me that Boying was very close to
14:27Martin and that might not be a good
14:29idea. But upon further investigation
14:32from people who work at the DOJ and the
14:35office of the OMBbudsman and at the
14:37office of the president in Malakanyang,
14:40they're all telling me the feud is real.
14:42Boying and Martin are no longer friends.
14:45They're not cool anymore. So much so
14:48that the prevailing rumor is that Martin
14:50is having Boying's movements monitored
14:53at the moment.
14:56That's why Martin is spooked. That's why
14:59for the first time in the last three and
15:01a half years, the once all powerful
15:04Martin Raldez is legitimately spooked.
15:09Just last May 21, in a radio interview,
15:12assistant ombbudsman Miko Clavano, who
15:14seems to be really cool guy, said
15:15Rmaldis' moneyaundering complaint had
15:17already reached the preliminary
15:19investigation stage. Clavo accurately
15:21called Rmaldez the master plunderer. He
15:25said that on record. Boing Raullia
15:27earlier said the OMBbudsman was
15:29preparing plunder cases against Rmaldez
15:31in connection with the unbelievable
15:33flood control anomalies. The complaints
15:35against Ramaldas include plunder, direct
15:38bribery, indirect bribery, money
15:40laundering, and violations of the
15:42Anti-graft and Corrupt Practices Act.
15:44Prosecutors are saying with their chests
15:47that Raldez is the purported mastermind
15:49of a kickback scheme tied to ghost flood
15:52control projects with alleged kickbacks
15:55reaching approximately 56 billion pesos.
15:58The pressure is no longer just
16:01political. The court of appeals has
16:02issued a freeze order covering assets
16:05linked to Toraldes, including 25 bank
16:07accounts and 10 insurance policies under
16:10his name. The order also covered
16:13additional bank accounts, insurance
16:14policies, an investment account,
16:16property accounts, and real estate
16:18assets linked to an alleged business
16:21associate and a corporate entity. Not
16:23enough in my opinion because we all know
16:26Martin is the kind of guy that hides
16:27most of his money under a mattress. And
16:29as I mentioned earlier, the Sundigan
16:31Bayan also issued a precautionary whole
16:34departure order against Rmaldez after
16:36the ombbudsman said it found probable
16:38cause that he might leave the country to
16:40evade arrest and prosecution. That means
16:43the former speaker is now facing three
16:46layers of legal pressure, covered assets
16:48frozen, foreign travel restricted, and a
16:51moneyaundering complaint already under
16:52preliminary investigation. Rumaldas has
16:55denied wrongdoing out of desperation and
16:57insists that there is no evidence that
16:59proves he committed plunder, conspiracy
17:02to commit plunder, or any similar
17:03offense. But with the ombbudsman probe
17:06advancing, his camp is no longer only
17:09fighting the allegations. It is also
17:12fighting the public weight of a
17:14nationwide call to finally hold him
17:16accountable for his heinous sins against
17:18an entire generation of Filipinos. a
17:21call. It seems that the office of the
17:24ombbudsman intends to heed and honor
17:26because remember people literally died
17:29because of Martin's corruption. Piecing
17:32all that together, at least in my mind,
17:34I think that the first family,
17:35specifically President Marcos, is
17:38genuine in terms of finally making sure
17:40that Martin meets justice
17:43for these four reasons. Number one, as I
17:45mentioned earlier, I think it's
17:46personal. I think that the resentment
17:49and the hate is real because the first
17:52family, they feel that Martin betrayed
17:56them and he did. Number two, it's
17:59strategic. I don't see a universe where
18:02the administration goes after Sarah
18:04Duterative for 6 billion pesos and
18:06doesn't go after Martin for 200 billion.
18:08I think that that that idea is absurd
18:12and I think if the former is executed
18:15and the second isn't. Number three, I
18:17think it's optical. In last year's State
18:19of the Nation address, BBM went on stage
18:23and delivered his now iconic line.
18:28[cheering]
18:33For those that I've haven't spoken to
18:35BBM in a long time, but for those that
18:37are close to him, they all tell me that
18:39that was directed at Martin. The State
18:42of the Nation address this year is in
18:44July. that's in about uh as of this
18:46taping that's in about 6 weeks. I think
18:49that the best thing that he could do in
18:51terms of optics at the moment is to
18:53ascertain that the guy that he was
18:55referring to last year at last year's
18:57state of nation address is now presented
18:59to the country on a silver platter
19:01behind bars when he delivers the state
19:03of nation address around July 13. And
19:06lastly, the fourth reason, it's the
19:08moral thing to do. You know, BBM is not
19:11perfect, but I wouldn't underestimate
19:14him
19:16choosing to do the right thing in this
19:17moment, or at the very least making sure
19:20that the ethics or the morals of this
19:22situation is considered or is at least
19:26part of his overall assessment and
19:28consideration in terms of making sure
19:29that Martin goes to jail. So, those four
19:31things, personal
19:34because there's real resentment. It's
19:36strategic because Sarah can't be
19:38impeached. than Martin.
19:40Number three, optics because the sauna
19:41is coming up. And number four, because
19:43it's the right thing to do. It's moral.
19:46And that is why Martin is going after
19:48us. That is why he framed us. He caught
19:51wind of the evidence that we have
19:52against him. He knows we have the goods
19:54on him and he knows we have more. I'll
19:58give you an example. The good people at
20:00Rapler and the good people at SMI, two
20:02media companies that are ideologically
20:04disaled in the furthest possible sense.
20:07Rapler and SMI, although they're vastly
20:10different in many ways, have
20:11consistently maintained their integrity
20:13when it comes to going after Martin
20:15Ramaldez. They didn't succumb or cave to
20:18the Bayer tactics of Martin's camp that
20:21many of these other mainstream media
20:22outlets have completely caved to. And
20:25yet, Martin didn't go after Rapler and
20:27Martin didn't go after SMI.
20:30Martin went after PGMN.
20:32Why?
20:34Last year before the flood control
20:36scandal erupted and blew up into this
20:39nationwide firestorm, Mayor Vikos Sto
20:41and Mayor Benjamin Maggalum, both really
20:44good mayors, really good mayors, were
20:46calling out people, but the only thing
20:47they were doing was they were issuing
20:49blind items. They were just throwing out
20:51blind items. The first people to
20:53explicitly call out names within the DPW
20:57for corruption, the very first were PGMN
21:00and my friend CJ Hero. CJ researched,
21:04wrote, and published a revolutionary
21:06expose on PGMN that fully exposed
21:10multiple DPW executives under then DPW
21:13secretary, they're now shamed and
21:16besieged, Manny Bonoan, the five
21:18executives that CJ explicitly called
21:21out. Yueno Pipo resigned or fired.
21:24Adoras resigned or fired. Loretta
21:28Malaluan resigned or fired. Neri Bueno
21:32resigned or fired and Catalina Cabral
21:34resigned or fired and now dead.
21:36Obviously, the latter part wasn't our
21:38intention. Former Congressman Marvin Rio
21:41was exposed also by CJ Herro for his
21:44alleged corruption in Kesson City and he
21:46ended up losing his election in 2025 by
21:490.1%.
21:51That margin of victory by Bongundai is
21:54the closest margin of any congressional
21:56candidate in the last 30 years. We did
21:59that. Like it or not, PGM has a
22:02legitimate track record for doing this
22:04sort of thing extraordinarily
22:06effectively. Again, in summary, Raldis
22:09thought they caught Zaldi, realized he
22:11was in deep [ __ ] tried to run away,
22:13flee to another country, and when he got
22:16denied, he couldn't risk anything from
22:18blowing up on social media, especially
22:20something as destructive as what we had
22:23and have in our hands and coming from a
22:26source as historically effective as
22:27PGMN. Get it? That's when he threw the
22:31kitchen sink at us. He hit us with
22:33everything. He pressed the apocalypse
22:35button one by one. Framed us with an
22:38extortion plot using the filthiest NBI
22:40director of all time. Number two, Bayan
22:43mainstream media. Number three, he hired
22:46all these dishonest influencers. And
22:48mind you, I need to say this. If you are
22:50one of those influencers that defended
22:52Martin Rmaldez or went after CJ for her
22:56unbelievably good expose, if you went
22:58after it because of the length or
23:00because she used public records or if
23:02you criticized her for using AI in that
23:04video, you can never ever say that
23:07you're pro- Philippines or
23:08anti-corruption. What CJ did so well in
23:11that episode through her unbelievably
23:13good research was that she sorted
23:15through all the public records, put it
23:17all together in a way that was
23:19digestible and entertaining for the
23:21general public, for the masses. Because
23:24everybody who knows anything about
23:25anything in politics knows that
23:27corruption is not simple. Corruption is
23:29complicated. It's multi-dimensional.
23:31It's multifaceted. And in order for you
23:33to be able to explain this to the
23:34masses, you need to present it in a way
23:36that the masses can absorb efficiently.
23:39That's what she did. And you guys went
23:41after it. Said it was a waste of time.
23:43Said that it was too long. Said it was
23:45nothing new. Well, if it was nothing
23:47new, why didn't you guys say it before?
23:49Why? Instead, what happened was you guys
23:53ended up covering for Martin. Now, none
23:56of us were born yesterday. We all know
23:58that Martin does not have a base of
24:00followers that loves him. He doesn't
24:02have the pinks like Lenny or the DDS
24:04like Sarah or the loyalists like BBM. He
24:07doesn't have that. We all know that if
24:09you are protecting, defending or
24:12supporting Martin in any capacity, it's
24:14either because you're stupid as [ __ ] and
24:16there's very few of you or because
24:18you're paid. Now, any of you that did
24:21air cover for Martin during that new
24:23cycle of CJ, I'll say it again. You can
24:26never in your lives, in your entire
24:28careers, say that you are pro-
24:30Phililippines or anti-corruption because
24:32we will always call you out for it.
24:33Always. Number four, he created the
24:37biggest troll farm in the history of the
24:39Philippines. You know, the Philippines
24:40is the troll farm capital of the world.
24:42There are more troll farms in the
24:44Philippines than in Russia and Israel
24:46combined. Did you know that? And here in
24:48the Philippines, Martin Raldes used his
24:51very deep resources to create the
24:53biggest one ever. And I'll admit, before
24:55I fixed it, before I solved that troll
24:57farm problem that he created for us,
24:59that troll farm was quite overwhelming.
25:01He needed to make sure that when this
25:03whole fake extortion thing blew up, that
25:05he controlled or at least had massive
25:08influence on the comment sections of
25:10every mainstream media outlet and every
25:12YouTube channel and every paid
25:14influencer channel. He wanted to make
25:16sure that he controlled the narrative
25:18thoroughly and meticulously. But the
25:20problem with that kind of scale is that
25:23it's very difficult to maintain. It's
25:25like sprinting through a marathon. It's
25:28very difficult to sustain and I don't
25:30think you guys know how to do it yet.
25:32Number five, this one I will say very
25:34carefully. One day, and this is after I
25:37beat you in court, after our case either
25:39gets dismissed or after I beat you fair
25:41and square, one day I will tell the
25:44world the truth about the fiscal that
25:48changed the inquest details, the time
25:51that we did the inquest in the NBI all
25:53the way up to the resolution. I know
25:55what you did. One day the truth will
25:57come out.
25:59So all those things combined, NBI
26:02director, paid mainstream media, Bay
26:05influencers, biggest troll farm ever,
26:07and what you did to that fiscal, plus
26:10all the things that I'm hearing now
26:11behind the scenes. I hear the people in
26:12your camp have reached out to my
26:14personal friends and my professional
26:16colleagues asking them to turn on me,
26:20asking them to basically lie under oath
26:23and commit perjury. I've heard that. You
26:26see, I think you've fully underestimated
26:29our capacity to get people to be loyal
26:31to us. But my goodness, you are a dirty
26:34man. And do Martin.
26:37Oh, by the way, about NBI director
26:40Matibag. You know, when I was in NBI
26:42custody, he uh pulled me into his office
26:45three times. The first one was just us,
26:47me and him. The second and the third
26:48were relayed through his chiefs of staff
26:50or people that work directly underneath
26:52him. So, when it was just us the first
26:54time, I remember he pulled me to this
26:55office. He said exactly this. He goes,
26:57"Franco, 20 years. We've been friends
27:00for 20 years. Read my mind. Read my
27:02mind. I want to cut the deal with you.
27:05CJ Hero, show me the video. Show me the
27:08video and at best I will make things
27:10easier for you." He said that three
27:13times. And three times I told him no.
27:18Three times I said no. He thought that
27:20he put so much stress on me that I would
27:23actually be disloyal to a friend.
27:27You know, Melvin, I've known him for a
27:29long time. I don't think he's an evil
27:31person. Is I don't think he's a
27:34fundamentally bad person, but in terms
27:36of
27:38slimy,
27:40in terms of just being dirty, he's so
27:42far gone now. He's so far gone.
27:45That's the kind of soul that in my
27:46opinion is so irredeemable cuz he's
27:48crossed too many lines already.
27:57Do you know that the day after I was
27:59released from jail, the NBI director,
28:01Melvin Matibug, went on a podcast and
28:05said this on record. He said that after
28:07my arrest, 200 people called him to say
28:12that I extorted them. Liar. [ __ ]
28:16liar. NBI director lying through your
28:18teeth. I've never extorted anybody in my
28:20entire life. I dare you, Melvin, my dear
28:23friend. I dare you to come out on TV and
28:26produce all those messages, all those
28:28numbers verifiable either by WhatsApp,
28:31by Meta, by Facebook Messenger, by
28:32Telegram, by Glob Smart, etc. On those
28:35days, on those days where you said that
28:37they called you, that they'd reached out
28:39to you. I've never extorted anybody in
28:41my entire life. And the reason why you
28:42said the reason why you lied and said
28:44that 200 people reached out to you is
28:46because the case against me is weak as
28:48[ __ ] And you know that. Martin's
28:50lawyers know that. And the reason why
28:52you had to lie was to prop up the case.
28:55Apart from that, you maliciously pushed
28:58this narrative to the whole world that
29:00you had a cyber warrant to open my
29:02phone. Why do I think you said that in a
29:04press conference and multiple interviews
29:06that you could open my phone and check
29:08out all the conversations and look at
29:10the photos and videos, etc., etc.? I
29:13think it's because you wanted to make
29:15people feel that the NBI, although
29:19illegal, could leak certain photos,
29:21certain videos from my phone,
29:22conveniently leaving out the fact that
29:24you only had 10 days from the day of
29:27their arrest to look at all that
29:28information and that nothing outside of
29:31the case itself is admissible in court.
29:34And you are very well aware that Martin
29:36Wallace, your friend, has a multitude of
29:39trolls and operators operating on me and
29:42PGMN simultaneously. And you wanted
29:45them, [clears throat] in my opinion, to
29:47create fake conversations, fake
29:50messages, fake calls, fake photos, and
29:53fake videos and pretend that they were
29:55all leaked from my phone
29:58just to ruin my credibility because your
30:01pal Martin Raldes knows we have more
30:03[ __ ] on him. In order for that dirt,
30:06that evidence, all those exposees that
30:08we have in Martin that were set up and
30:10planned, in order for them to lose
30:12credibility, you had to ruin ours. So,
30:15you told the world that we have a
30:16warrant. And what happened since? A
30:19plethora of
30:22fraudulent [ __ ] I'll give you an
30:25example.
30:26Look,
30:28these are all the things circulating
30:30online at the moment. This is a fake
30:32screenshot circulating online that is
30:34trying to make it seem like that I've
30:35reached out uh to somebody from the
30:37Ramaldis camp. Okay, it says, "Hi there,
30:39it's Franco, blah blah blah, etc., etc."
30:41This is fake, by the way. This
30:42conversation never happened. The person
30:43who made this fake screenshot, what
30:45they're trying to present or what
30:47they're trying to make you believe is
30:49that this was leaked from my cell phone
30:51after my phone was taken by the NBI, but
30:54I was arrested on May 5 when I was
30:57framed for extortion. If the insinuation
30:59here is that I reached out to Martin at
31:02the time, then why does it say today at
31:05the very top of the screenshot? That
31:07makes no sense. It's stupid. Number two,
31:09here's a fake screenshot that is trying
31:11to make it seem like I was having a
31:13conversation with CJ Hero. It says,
31:14"Franco with the video solid. I just
31:16need someone inside willing to sit down,
31:18blah blah blah." At the end of the
31:19message, it says done. Meeting set for
31:21the 22nd, Friday, March 20. I am 100%
31:25certain that on the weekend of March 20
31:27all the way till past March 22 or on the
31:29day of March 22 I was in Hong Kong.
31:31That's easily verifiable and these
31:33messages are easily disprovable. All the
31:35court has to do is reach out to Meta and
31:37WhatsApp will give that information.
31:39Next stupid ass AI picture of me looks
31:44fake. The guy in this picture is much
31:45more good-looking. Although that is my
31:47watch, but the picture's not real. Okay.
31:50All right. Here's the worst one.
31:52Controversial
31:57rape victims.
32:21Sex addict
32:26watch.
32:37All right. Okay. This video falsely
32:42claims that there were rape victims. It
32:46showed explicitly pictures of those
32:50alleged rape victims. I will show you
32:52these pictures one by one. This is the
32:55first picture. Do you see this lady here
32:58next to me with the black bar in her
33:00eyes? This is an AI generated image.
33:04This is the original photo. This is a
33:07picture of me with Vice President Sarah
33:10Duterte and my good friend Karen Jimeo,
33:14the person who made this video obviously
33:17to lie, to smear me, to smear my
33:19credibility just in time by complete
33:22coincidence during the time that I am
33:24going after Martin Ramaldez. This
33:27person, whether male or female, created
33:30this video, stamped an AI woman into
33:33onto Karen Jimeno [clears throat] while
33:34she's sitting beside the vice president
33:36and then put a black bar in her eyes.
33:39Picture number two. This is a picture of
33:42me kissing a girl on the cheek. This is
33:45the original picture. The girl in the
33:47middle is my dear friend Roxan Barcelo.
33:50The other guy is Gia Sky, the best man
33:53in my wedding. The three of us are
33:55really good friends. No rape victims
33:58here. The third and this is the girl who
34:01in the video the narrator said was going
34:03to commit suicide because of blackmail.
34:06This is the picture in the video and
34:08this is the original picture. That's
34:10Senator Grace Poe. As far as I know, not
34:12only is she alive, she's doing quite
34:15well. Fourth picture. This is the
34:18picture in the video. And this is the
34:20original. It's a [ __ ] guy. It's my
34:23good friend Jet Valentino.
34:26This is how low
34:28this smear campaign is getting. This is
34:30the level of evil that they're willing
34:32to go down to. To fake rap allegations
34:36just to smear my name so that my
34:39credibility will be diminished as I am
34:42going after Martin Raldez. Not only is
34:45that [ __ ] up, not only is that
34:46immoral, that's straight up evil. That's
34:49evil. It came from this page. I want to
34:51call out the page explicitly. Okay, this
34:53came from this page. The page is called
34:55Kabatak News. It has 102,000 followers.
34:59It's gone after Kiko Barzaga, Jingoor
35:01Estrada, Alan Kayatano Bau. Obviously,
35:04this entire page is leaning in one
35:06direction. As far as my lawyers have
35:07checked, it has a total of 16 completely
35:11defamatory, lielist, and untrue posts
35:13about me. If you look at the reactions,
35:15they are all trolls. If you look at the
35:17comments, they are all trolls. First of
35:20all, your PR [ __ ] sucks. Number two,
35:23whoever is operating against me or
35:25whoever is or whoever gave the
35:27instructions to operate against me
35:30cuz she sucks. Furthermore, do you know
35:33why you cannot find any victims? Because
35:36there are none. I have always believed
35:39that apart from pedophilia, rape is the
35:42worst thing you can do to another
35:43person, even more than murder. because I
35:46think that some people do deserve to
35:48die, but nobody deserves to be held down
35:49and raped. Nobody. And in my opinion, it
35:52absolutely deserves the death penalty. I
35:55also believe that any woman who is
35:58proven to have lied about being raped to
36:00hurt a man should absolutely be given
36:02the same punishment the man would have
36:04gotten if he was guilty. Not only
36:06because an allegation this heinous was
36:08meant to ruin the innocent man's life,
36:10but because it makes it that much more
36:12difficult for real victims of rape to
36:15speak up when evil liars use the word
36:18falsely to weaponize it for the sake of
36:20jealousy, revenge, immaturity, ambition,
36:23or politics.
36:25Now, do you really think you can get
36:26away with this? Do you really think you
36:28can get away with a lie this egregious
36:31with no consequences? Do you really
36:33think I would let you just walk all over
36:35me like a doormat? My amazing legal
36:38team, I've never lost a case in my life,
36:39mind you, will absolutely,
36:41unequivocally, and mercilessly be filing
36:44civil and criminal charges against the
36:47horrible human beings that made these
36:49accusations, that made these false,
36:52baseless, and defamatory accusations.
36:55And I give you my word that I will not
36:57stop until I see you behind bars crying.
37:02You really want to stoop this low?
37:04You're willing to frame an innocent man
37:08who is already being framed for
37:09extortion by a dollar billionaire who
37:11was the most corrupt politician in the
37:12entire country, maybe ever. You want to
37:15frame him for something this egregious
37:16and this unforgivable.
37:19That's what you want. I guess some
37:22people are just built differently. Some
37:24people are just willing to cross certain
37:27lines. Yeah, but I'll fight you. I
37:30promise you I'm not I'm not going to let
37:32this go. I'm not going to let this go
37:33until I see you in jail.
37:39It's been 3 weeks since myself and four
37:41of my friends, now turned brothers, were
37:43framed for extortion and illegally
37:45arrested. It's been a little over two
37:47weeks since our release. It's been hard.
37:50Majority of my friends stayed. Well, the
37:52super majority of my friends stayed. You
37:53know, the people who I considered, you
37:55know, really close, good friends, they
37:57stayed. They were loyal. They knew that
37:58if roles were reversed that I would do
38:00the same for them in a heartbeat. But I
38:02lost a few. I lost people like James
38:04Deacon and Anubzano. That hurt. Uh it
38:08hurt because they were my real friends.
38:09And I don't blame them. They were
38:11[clears throat] assessing the situation
38:12based on incomplete information because
38:14I couldn't give them the full context of
38:16the story because I was legally
38:17disallowed from doing so. So they felt
38:20betrayed and I was left in a position
38:22where I couldn't explain to them
38:24thoroughly what happened.
38:26Yeah, that sucked. My kids have had to
38:28quit school. Um, who was diagnosed with
38:32breast cancer three weeks before I got
38:34arrested. Her cancer has since spread to
38:37her liver because she can't handle the
38:38stress from my case. And so many others,
38:41you know, so many other people who uh
38:44are close to me got hurt or devastated
38:50um financially, reputationally, uh in
38:53terms of credibility, in terms of you
38:55know emotional trauma. simply because of
38:57their association with me. You know,
38:59these are people who stood up for me
39:00throughout the years. You know, they got
39:01hurt. A lot of people got hurt. Martin
39:04doesn't care about any of that stuff. He
39:06doesn't care about the collateral damage
39:08of innocent people. He just wants to
39:11survive.
39:12Remember, he never cared in the
39:14slightest about all those folks who died
39:16because of the flood control corruption.
39:18The guy doesn't have a soul. this
39:21current situation where so many good
39:23people I care about got hurt. I can't
39:26even begin to elaborate on the immensity
39:28of the [ __ ] that Martin Raldez does not
39:31give.
39:32Martin will cross the reddest of the red
39:35lines if it means him staying out of
39:36prison.
39:38I've also been grieving the loss of
39:39something very personal to me, something
39:41I love, something beautiful that Martin
39:43Raldez felt he had to destroy to save
39:46himself. These four letters, PG GM N,
39:51they mean the world to me. If you know
39:54me, you know that the four letters
39:56represented my comeback story, my
39:58newfound sobriety, my redemption, my new
40:01mission in life. PGMN represents the
40:04embodiment of everything I am good at,
40:06where at the same time, I could elevate
40:08and nurture the people I truly love and
40:10care for. Martin wrecked it. He didn't
40:13kill it, but he sure as [ __ ] damaged it.
40:17>> [sighs]
40:18>> You know, you brought me to my knees
40:20several times in the last three weeks,
40:21Martin,
40:24and because of that, I had to wrestle
40:28with two
40:30conflicting ideas.
40:32One is that I seriously considered
40:35reaching out to you to wave the white
40:37flag. I wanted to reach out to you
40:39through a common friend and say, "Please
40:41relay this to Martin." Martin Martin
40:45because of all the people that got hurt
40:47because of everything that I lost. Um,
40:50and I want a ceasefire. I was seriously
40:54considering saying, "I won't post about
40:56you anymore. I won't reveal any more of
40:58your corruption or any more of your
40:59crimes, and I will destroy all the
41:01evidence."
41:03And then the other option
41:08was to go all out and come after you.
41:11Nothing in between. It was just really
41:13one or the other. You see, I wasn't just
41:16an atheist for 21 years. I was a
41:18militant atheist. I started talking to
41:20God again around 9 months ago when too
41:23many good things were happening to me
41:25after finally getting sober.
41:27>> [snorts]
41:27>> I realized in the most pleasant capacity
41:31that there were too many minor miracles
41:33and a couple of major ones for me to
41:34just arrogantly assume that everything
41:37good that was happening to me was
41:39happening only because of me. And I
41:42found the concept of surrendering all
41:44that good stuff back to the power who
41:46gave it to me to be absolutely
41:48beautiful. I found the idea to be wise.
41:52I got reacquainted with God on the way
41:55up and recently I got to know him on the
41:58way down.
42:00As I reflect on these profound truths,
42:03I'm reminded that the path of
42:04righteousness is rarely the easiest.
42:07Echoing the timeless wisdom that to
42:08truly live is to carry our cross,
42:11however heavy it may be, however hurtful
42:14it may be. It's a journey not defined by
42:16the absence of pain, but by a real
42:18courage to face it, to choose integrity
42:21even when the cost is great. In doing
42:23so, we discover not only our deepest
42:25strength, but also the deepest
42:28transformative power of a life lived
42:30with purpose and conviction. The ordeal
42:33brought me back to God, not gently,
42:35violently. It reignited a faith that had
42:38been dormant, almost dead for two
42:40decades. And as I wrestled with whether
42:42to surrender or fight, I kept returning
42:44to the same question. What would my Lord
42:47want me to do? The answer was never
42:50unclear. It was just costly.
42:54So, Martin,
42:56I've decided
42:59not only will I carry this cross, I will
43:02embrace it. Because what defines a man
43:05is not the absence of struggle. It's how
43:08much weight he can bear on his
43:09shoulders. How many wounds he can absorb
43:12without buckling to fear. And as this
43:14fight unfolds, I am walking into it with
43:17one certainty. Jesus has me, which means
43:21I'm coming for you. Oh, and you might
43:24win. You are a dollar billionaire after
43:26all, sitting on the darkest secrets. And
43:29desperation makes you dangerous. I know
43:32that. But I promise to expose you every
43:35step of the way. I promise you the full
43:38force of arguably one of this
43:40generation's best political strategists
43:42and certainly the best social media
43:44strategist for politics right now with
43:45our industry's best political talents
43:48aimed squarely and honestly at
43:50everything you are. And if you somehow
43:52miraculously never see the inside of a
43:54prison cell, I promise you this, you
43:58will spend the rest of your life as a
44:00man every Filipino knows to be without
44:04integrity. You will not like me when
44:06this is over. But Martin, I promise you
44:10will respect me. You brought me to my
44:13knees, but you should have finished the
44:16job because I don't stay down.
44:18Throughout my life, I have survived
44:20national hate and thrived. I have
44:23survived untrue accusations and thrived.
44:26I have survived a crippling cocaine
44:28addiction that lasted nearly 20 years
44:31and thrived. You think I'm a normal man?
44:34I am not. I can absorb a tsunami of lies
44:36and hate directly to the chest and feel
44:38[clears throat] nothing, especially when
44:40I know I'm right. Every single time I
44:42fell in my life, I got back up. I did it
44:45as a fat, broken, godless drug addict.
44:48What do you think I can do now that I'm
44:50fully sober, in the best shape of my
44:52life with Jesus running through my
44:53veins? You picked the wrong person to
44:57choose to silence, Martin.
44:59Also, I don't think this is going to be
45:00as difficult as people think
45:03because you're not a good person and
45:06everybody hates you. I'll even tell you
45:09what I'm going to do. I'll even lay out
45:11my strategy because you won't be able to
45:13do anything about any of them. You
45:15ready? Okay. Number one,
45:18[music]
45:21CJ Heroes expose on you that got 1
45:23million views on YouTube before you took
45:25it down and well over 5 million in
45:27Facebook. So, what happened there is you
45:30asked ABS CBN to hit that episode with
45:33multiple copyright strikes so that
45:35YouTube would take it down. So, you did.
45:37You uh you hit us with one copyright
45:39strike, YouTube took it down, we
45:41appealed it, we won, YouTube put it back
45:43up, you hit it with another copyright
45:44strike, we appealed it again, we won
45:46again, YouTube put it back up. The third
45:48time, YouTube finally took down the
45:50video as it just broke a million views
45:52for that specific news cycle. This was
45:55so clearly disingenuous and malicious.
45:58The reason why is because we're 150
46:00episodes deep in PGMN. We use clips from
46:03other mainstream media outlets all the
46:05time. We do it within context. We
46:08properly source everything. We site our
46:09sources correctly. We make sure that
46:12it's always used respectfully and
46:14correctly. And in our year and a half
46:16that we've been doing this throughout
46:18150 episodes, we have never been called
46:20out for copyright restriction. Yet this
46:22time, the first time, the time that we
46:23go after Martin Ramaldis, we suddenly
46:25get hit by a copyright restriction.
46:28We all know that it's not about the
46:29copyright restriction. We know that this
46:31happened because Martin Rwaldis has a
46:35relationship with ABS CBN and because
46:37you can't get us taken down on Facebook,
46:39you now have your little puppy dogs at
46:41Billionaario. Send us a cease and
46:43desist. I expect that kind of behavior
46:45from billionaire because they're, you
46:46know, the people that run that company,
46:48they're dishonorable. ABS CBN, really?
46:51You're protecting Martin? We were
46:53exposing his corruption. You know, we
46:55exposing how he manipulated
46:59not billions, tens of billions from
47:01Congress so that he could pocket them
47:03and so that his cronies could pocket
47:05them and you end up protecting him.
47:07Really? I'm really disappointed. I don't
47:10know if that means anything to you, but
47:11for what it's worth. A lot of us are
47:13disappointed in you guys. We thought you
47:14were better. Thought you were better
47:15than billionaire.
47:18Yeah. But anyway, what we're going to do
47:19is that that 2-hour expose, we've now
47:22condensed it into 50 minutes. 50 minutes
47:25where we've removed all possible
47:28copyright violations or copyright claims
47:31that any media company can throw against
47:34us. It's actually made the episode
47:35better cuz now the episode is just
47:36hard-hinting. It's punch after punch. It
47:39now exposes in a rapid pace how you
47:42undeniably stole all that money from
47:45Congress. It's actually Yeah, you
47:46actually made the episode better. And we
47:48will release that episode, the 50-minute
47:50episode on all of our platforms,
47:52Facebook, YouTube, Tik Tok, X, etc.,
47:54right after we release this episode, and
47:57you can't do anything about it. And all
47:59the influencers or mainstream media
48:00outlets or fake journalists that were
48:02saying that that episode was a waste of
48:04time. If it was really a waste of time,
48:07why is it that Martin went out of his
48:09way to make sure that got taken down
48:13relentlessly? you know, unrelentingly he
48:16went out of his way to make sure that
48:17trolls hit it, mass reported it, trolls
48:20in the comments section, reached out to
48:22ABS CBN to hit it with copyright claims,
48:24reached out to Billionaire to send a
48:26cease and desist. If it really was
48:28nothing, why are you guys so paranoid?
48:31And why was there such a ridiculous
48:33sense of urgency to make sure that less
48:35people saw it?
48:37That's because your claim is horshit.
48:39That's because no one does better
48:41journalistic research than CJ Hero.
48:44And that's because if people begin
48:47understanding what Martin did in
48:50Congress through that expose video that
48:52CJ did, it would really damage Martin.
48:55It's a kind of virality that would make
48:58an impact in the real world. It's big
49:00reason why you went after us. Okay, so
49:03that's what we're going to do right
49:04after this episode. It gets dropped.
49:06Number two [music]
49:10on PGMN moving forward. Yes, we will
49:13cover all the other things, politics,
49:16geopolitics, health and fitness,
49:18wellness, sports, technology, all the
49:21stuff that PGMN is known for. But I have
49:23made the decision to ascertain that
49:26onethird to half of all PGMN content
49:30moving forward will be about explaining
49:33your crimes to the entire country. We
49:36are going to turn PGMN into the Bible,
49:39into the manual that comprehensively
49:42explains in detail what you did to each
49:44and every Filipino. All of your crimes,
49:47every single one in every format, reals,
49:50long- form videos, podcasts, carousels,
49:53articles, article links, photo
49:55carousels, everything. We're going to
49:57make sure that everything that has been
50:00said about you, from politicians, from
50:02PGM and anchors, from normal citizens,
50:04from people in the business sector, from
50:06people who are your enemies to people
50:08that used to work with you, everything
50:10we're going to explain in detail, how
50:12you've been corrupt, how you are a
50:14criminal, and why you deserve to be
50:16punished. And when I say that we're
50:19going to explain everything about you,
50:21initially we're first going to focus on
50:23the things that we think the ombbudsman
50:26already knows about you. We're going to
50:28make sure that it's translated and
50:29communicated properly to the entire
50:31country so everybody knows what you did.
50:34And then after that, we're going to
50:35reveal to the country what no one else
50:38apart from PGMN knows about you. We do
50:42that stuff really well. And to be
50:44specific, what do I mean by this? You
50:46know, to be clear, as I said earlier, we
50:48have undeniably impacted culture. We
50:50have consistently influenced
50:51legislation. We have gotten so many
50:53corrupt government officials fired or to
50:55resign, and we have literally altered
50:57election results. Apart from Rodrigo
50:59Dutter in 2016 and the Pink Tsunami in
51:022022, in my opinion, there's been no
51:06political social media entity that has
51:08been more quantifiably persuasive than
51:10PGMN. And we will use all of that
51:13talent, that machinery, that strategy,
51:15that grit, that God-given skill, and
51:17that painfueled fire to show the world
51:21every minute of every day exactly the
51:24kind of man you are. And we will do it
51:27honorably. No lies. And I promise you,
51:30Martin, you will feel it. Number three,
51:38we have solved your troll farm.
51:41You had initially right after we got out
51:43of prison by my estimation about 25,000
51:46accounts. It was large, like a very
51:49large troll farm. By my estimation, you
51:51had a couple of hundred people operating
51:54maybe a couple of hundred accounts. And
51:56I'll admit, they really packed a punch.
51:58It was quite overwhelming initially. All
52:00we had to do was hire 10 people and
52:02create a department called Block and
52:04Delete, where all they were doing all
52:06day was just finding your accounts and
52:08blocking and deleting them. It worked
52:10very well because it takes a long time
52:12for a troll to make an account. You
52:14know, you got to make an email address,
52:16make the Facebook page, put the
52:17information in there, put the picture,
52:19etc., etc. Where on our end, all we had
52:21to do was click one button and that
52:24account gets blocked along with every
52:26other account that that email could
52:27possibly make. So, if each of my 10
52:30people blocked 500 people each per day,
52:34which was, you know, quite quick, that
52:36would mean we were blocking 5,000
52:38accounts a day. And then in a week we
52:40went through your entire troll farm and
52:41it worked. I think that your troll farm
52:44operator got very frustrated about this.
52:48After we had decimated your troll farm
52:50about a week later, I think your
52:52operator created 30,000 more. I it could
52:55be more. It could be less. It could be
52:56more. I'm not sure. But but by my
52:58estimation there were 30,000 new
53:00accounts. I didn't expect you to go that
53:03hard, you know, to go that ham. But I
53:06guess, you know, I should have expected
53:07it because you're desperate, you know,
53:09and you've got a lot of money. So, what
53:11did we do? We created an AI tool that
53:15eliminates the troll farms. For the
53:17first time in Philippine history, an AI
53:20tool was created at about 97 to 99%
53:23accuracy that can identify specific
53:26trolls based on specific aspects that I
53:28will not reveal to you. And what it does
53:31is it just eliminates these trolls at
53:34breakneck speed. We've solved your [ __ ]
53:36So, what I'm trying to say is send your
53:38trolls over. Send all of them. Send a
53:40100,000 of them. We're happy to go
53:42head-to-head.
53:44Strategy number four to beat Martin
53:46Raldes.
53:51This one I'm quite excited about. You
53:53know, as I mentioned earlier,
53:55[clears throat] I don't uh speak Tagalog
53:56very well. I mean, I know how to speak
53:58it, but I don't read it very well. So,
54:00what we're going to do is we're going to
54:03use AI for this specific reasons. So,
54:05I'm going to read these things about
54:06you, okay? And then watch what's going
54:08to happen.
54:09Former House Speaker Martin Raldez is
54:12facing a sprawling corruption case
54:14centered on an alleged 56 billion
54:16kickback scheme tied to ghost flood
54:18control projects in Lee, his own home
54:20district.
54:23plunder, bribery, money laundering
54:26mastermind
54:32speaker
54:35at I don't
54:59Singapore.
55:29Mark Ventures, Bride Kindle, a Prime.
55:40So what does this entail? Well, these AI
55:42language models are quite common in
55:44social media these days. But in 6 weeks,
55:46PGMN will be the only company in the
55:49world, we checked, that'll have the
55:51capacity to convert everything we say
55:53into all the local major dialects. I'm
55:57talking about Bisaya, Bolano, Ilano,
56:01Warai, etc. Now, if you're sitting at
56:03home watching this from Ilocos, Cebu, or
56:06Davao, now you feel like you're part of
56:07the conversation. For the first time in
56:10Philippine news history, the majority of
56:12Filipinos will feel like they don't have
56:14to adjust to the news emanating from
56:16Imperial Manila. Now all the damning
56:18evidence, all the blistering commentary,
56:21all the opinions and revelations hurled
56:23against you Martin by every PGM anchor,
56:26every politician, every public figure
56:28and every citizen of this country won't
56:31just be communicated in English or
56:33Tagalog, but communicated to every
56:35Filipino in a manner they fully
56:37understand. Because every Filipino
56:40deserves to know what you did to them.
56:44It will be the highest form of cultural
56:46inclusivity for news that the
56:48Philippines has ever seen. Lastly,
56:51strategy number five,
56:53[music]
56:57we have more dirt on you. No one in this
57:00country is a better researcher than my
57:02friend.
57:04She's the best journalist in the
57:05country. Why? Because if you amalgamate,
57:08if you interweave research with writing
57:10the script and then perform it on
57:12camera, she is a oneofone. There is
57:15nobody else like her. I really want to
57:17tell you what she found.
57:20But I won't.
57:21I won't. I'll let her do it. So those
57:24five strategies, that's just the stuff
57:27that I can reveal to you. Martin, by
57:30framing me for extortion, not only did
57:33you make things personal, you put me in
57:35a situation where I have to fight. What
57:38did you think was going to happen?
57:41Now, I'd like to address the pinks and
57:43the yellows. I know that we have not
57:46gotten along historically over the
57:47years. Sorry. I know that most of you
57:50are reasonable. I saw many of you
57:52rallying in Mindola or in Eda Shrine.
57:55There were thousands of you then. We all
57:57want the same thing. in terms of
57:58corruption. And before you feel like I'm
58:01your enemy in this situation, let me
58:04just remind you what Martin Ramaldez
58:05did. Rmaldez butchered the national
58:08budget. He crippled multiple government
58:10agencies. He encouraged the disgusting
58:12flamboyance within the house that he
58:14led. He befriended the villains
58:16associated with the communist
58:17terrorists. He attempted to abolish the
58:19Senate. He weaponized government funds
58:21during a democratic election cycle. He
58:23caused a dangerous divide between
58:24Congress and the armed forces. He
58:26alienated almost the entire Philippine
58:28South. He engineered what's being widely
58:31alleged as the most creative and
58:33efficient corruption blueprint of all
58:34time. And so many people literally died
58:38from the flood control corruption. What
58:40are we even talking about? All in the
58:41name of appeasing the ambition and abuse
58:44of a tubby house speaker. Even Rhysa
58:47Hiveros has said that Martin Ramaldes
58:49should at least answer the flood control
58:50allegations.
58:52to um former vice president and current
58:55Naga city mayor Lenny Rodredo. I know
58:57that you know there have been times I've
58:59been unfair to you and for that I'm
59:01sorry. I got married two months ago and
59:03I had five senators that were my neons.
59:05One of them is very close to you and he
59:07told me in private that about a year ago
59:11before B and Martin had their falling
59:14out that you refused to be the candidate
59:17in 2028 to go up against Sarah because
59:21allegedly and I don't know if this is
59:22true but this is what it was told to me
59:24because allegedly at that time one of
59:26the conditions was that Martin Ramaldes
59:29be excluded from receiving any
59:32punishments and your response was No,
59:36you turned down the offer to be their
59:40presidential candidate because
59:44I don't know how accurate that story is
59:46because the senator who said it to me
59:48doesn't like Martin in the same way I
59:50don't like Martin. But if it's true,
59:54that was cool. That was [ __ ] cool.
59:58You have my respect. I mean that
1:00:00sincerely
1:00:02to the DDS. [clears throat]
1:00:05I don't think I need to get you guys to
1:00:07hate Martin more than you already do,
1:00:09but let me just remind you of something
1:00:12very pivotal here. You won in 2022 with
1:00:1630 million votes, the most of all time.
1:00:18With that kind of political capital,
1:00:20with that kind of mandate, with BBM and
1:00:22Sarah winning with record numbers back
1:00:25in 2022, the amount of change and
1:00:28improvement and development and growth
1:00:30that this country could have seen with
1:00:31that much political capital would have
1:00:33been breathtaking. It would have been
1:00:37unprecedented. It was unprecedented.
1:00:40And right now, where are we? We're in
1:00:42the state that we're in. The country is
1:00:44in disarray. Economy is messed up.
1:00:47education is a cluster [ __ ] Um, tourism
1:00:50is down and we're all fighting each
1:00:52other. Who caused that? Do you remember?
1:00:56Do you remember who caused that divorce
1:00:57between BBM and Sarah? Because it wasn't
1:00:59them. They were good. They they they
1:01:01were so fond of each other in the
1:01:02beginning. It was Martin. Martin has an
1:01:06undeniable track record of betraying
1:01:09people so that they turn on each other.
1:01:10I'll give you facts. Okay. First, former
1:01:13President Gloria Royo, his mentor, the
1:01:16person who trained him in Congress. When
1:01:18she was supposed to be House Speaker,
1:01:20Martin threw her under the bus, made
1:01:22sure BBM and her had a huge falling out
1:01:24just to ascertain that he would become
1:01:26speaker of the house. He betrayed his
1:01:27mentor, that's Gloria Royo. Number two,
1:01:30he betrayed BBM's sister, because he
1:01:32wanted to make sure that I stopped
1:01:34giving advice that would be detrimental
1:01:36to Martin to BBM. So, what did he do? He
1:01:39made sure to get in the way. Talk [ __ ]
1:01:41about I BBM listened and then there was
1:01:44the wildest falling out between the two
1:01:47siblings. Insane. That was Martin 2.
1:01:50Number three, he betrayed Sarah. He was
1:01:52Sarah's campaign manager, right? Or so
1:01:54he said. What happened afterwards?
1:01:56Martin wanted to become president in
1:01:572028. He said his his mentor Gloria Roya
1:02:00always said that the presidency is
1:02:02destiny. And Martin looked at her and
1:02:04said, "No, the presidency is man-made."
1:02:07because he was he has this preposterous,
1:02:09delusional, ridiculous, like disgusting
1:02:11levels of ambition. He wanted to be all
1:02:14powerful. He wanted to be president in
1:02:152028. And he knew in order for that to
1:02:18happen, he needed to get Sarah out of
1:02:20the way. So what did he do? He
1:02:21intentionally made sure that Sarah and
1:02:24BBM were separated and eventually
1:02:26divorced. And it was one of the ugliest,
1:02:29nastiest president, vice presidential
1:02:31wars we've seen. Probably the worst one
1:02:33ever. That was Martin, too. And what was
1:02:36Martin's weapon of choice against Sarah?
1:02:38How did he begin the media and political
1:02:40black ops against Sarah in a way that he
1:02:43knew would stick? Do you know? Can you
1:02:45take a guess? The confidential funds was
1:02:49Martin Rmalda's idea. How? Why did he
1:02:52think of that? As you all know, Martin
1:02:54is the engineer or the architect of the
1:02:56most efficient corruption blueprint of
1:02:58all time. I said this many times in this
1:03:00piece. Apart from being efficient, he's
1:03:03super creative in terms of corruption.
1:03:05Martin looks at corruption with no
1:03:07restraint, with no soul, with no
1:03:09conscience, he views corruption quite
1:03:11obviously as like this Olympic level
1:03:13sport where he's like the gold medalist,
1:03:15where he's like the world record holder.
1:03:17And because of that, he found so many
1:03:20creative and admittedly brilliant ways
1:03:22to steal. If we're talking about flood
1:03:24control, MOE, the gold reserves, you
1:03:28know, any of that stuff, Martin was so
1:03:30good at leaving no stone unturned. CJ
1:03:33Hero's episode purposefully, she
1:03:35explains there how he even took the
1:03:38salaries of the janitors in Congress,
1:03:42>> General Services, manitor
1:03:45security. Wow. from 214.96
1:03:50million pesos 2022
1:03:54budget para to 425
1:03:58million pesos in 2025 excuse me
1:04:04130 million
1:04:08according to KOA and that was in 2023.
1:04:13Why then did they add
1:04:16175 million pesos
1:04:192025?
1:04:25130 million pesos
1:04:2810 million pesos election year 2025
1:04:35425US
1:04:39140 my 285 million pesostor
1:04:48Security
1:05:00budget for it.
1:05:19security.
1:05:26Wild, unbelievable greed. So because of
1:05:30Martin's unparalleled understanding of
1:05:32how money moves within government,
1:05:34right, of how money moves within
1:05:36politics and how to cover his ass while
1:05:38he's stealing, he knew that the
1:05:41confidential funds of Sarah because
1:05:43there's confidential funds in multiple
1:05:44government agencies and offices all
1:05:46across the country and he knows that
1:05:49that aspect is unreed that he knows that
1:05:52a lot of that expenditure is not
1:05:53audited, at least not traditionally in
1:05:55the government sense. So he knew that if
1:05:58he called that out it would look dirty,
1:06:01right? It would look dirty. Now whether
1:06:03or not those confidential funds were
1:06:05actually used in a dirty way by Sarah is
1:06:07not the point. Martin used that aspect.
1:06:10He used that characteristic to make it
1:06:12look like Sarah was undeniably stealing.
1:06:16But he didn't do it altruistically. He
1:06:18didn't do it to save the day. Martin did
1:06:20it because he wanted to get Sarah
1:06:23Duterte out of the way for 2028. Because
1:06:25in his mind, now that he had all the
1:06:28influence of speaker of the house, now
1:06:29that he was stealing all those billions
1:06:31of pesos and eventually billions of
1:06:33dollars, he felt that if he got the vice
1:06:36president out of the way, he would have
1:06:38a clear path towards Malakanyang in
1:06:412028.
1:06:43That's what he did. And then after that,
1:06:45what did he do? He betrayed his cousin,
1:06:47betrayed the president, betrayed GMA,
1:06:49betrayed, betrayed Sarah, and then
1:06:52betrayed BBM.
1:06:54Imagine that. Betraying the hand that
1:06:55feeds you. Martin has so many billions
1:06:57of not pesos at dollars now. And then
1:06:59right after, what does he do? The moment
1:07:01it became inconvenient for him to
1:07:04maintain his alliance with BBM because
1:07:07for all the corruption, he then betrays
1:07:09BBM. That's the kind of person Martin
1:07:11Ramaldis is. That's the kind of human
1:07:13being he is. He's piece of [ __ ]
1:07:16He's terribly disloyal.
1:07:20You know, I wish I could tell you that
1:07:21it was Martin's idea to send PRD to the
1:07:25Hague. I wish I wish I could tell you,
1:07:26but I don't know. I don't know for sure.
1:07:28And I want to maintain full honesty in
1:07:30this piece. But what I can say with
1:07:33absolute certainty is that because of
1:07:35that succession of betrayals that he
1:07:37inflicted against former president Aoyo,
1:07:39current Senator Amy, current Vice
1:07:40President Sarah, and current president
1:07:42BBM, we are in this apocalyptic
1:07:47um uh
1:07:50dish, thoroughly disheartening,
1:07:54close to hopeless situation.
1:07:58That was him.
1:08:00So, [ __ ] that guy. To Vice President
1:08:02Sarah. Ma'am. Ma'am,
1:08:05we're not close. I've only met you a
1:08:06couple of times. I am friends with your
1:08:09brother, your younger brother, Bast.
1:08:10He's a good guy. Um, but I want to let
1:08:13you know that your dad was my favorite
1:08:14president and you are easily the most
1:08:18resilient human being I've ever met in
1:08:20my entire life. So, whatever happens, I
1:08:23wish you good luck. I mean that
1:08:25sincerely. Finally, my plea to the
1:08:27Marcos loyalists. I'll just direct this
1:08:30to the president and first lady to
1:08:32President Bong Bong Marcos and first
1:08:34lady Lisa Marcos. I don't care what
1:08:37Clare Castro said about me.
1:08:41>> And I hope this is okay. But I will
1:08:43refer to you as I always did as Bong and
1:08:46Tita Lisa. I hope this doesn't embarrass
1:08:48you. You know, you weren't just my
1:08:50clients, you were my friends. And
1:08:52knowing you, I can imagine that you're
1:08:56watching this right now, looking at the
1:08:58screen, thinking, "Look at this [ __ ]
1:09:00kid getting into trouble again." I hope
1:09:03I can speak candidly.
1:09:06I'll just speak freely. I hope that's
1:09:07okay. I think most Filipinos today from
1:09:11Lison through to Mindanao believe that
1:09:13the Marco ship isn't just sinking. I
1:09:16think that they believe that it's
1:09:17already at the bottom of the ocean and
1:09:19that we all have to wait for 2028 for
1:09:22some kind of political tsunami to emerge
1:09:25from the left or from the south for any
1:09:28substantive systemic change to manifest.
1:09:31Most Filipinos have chosen to give up,
1:09:33to despair, and to view our national
1:09:36circumstances as inescapable and
1:09:38hopeless, as just another thing yet
1:09:41again that needs to be sucked up.
1:09:45I refuse to believe that. I refuse to
1:09:48kneel to the idea of hopelessness
1:09:50because I know you, Mr. President. I
1:09:53know you. I'll share two things. Uh I
1:09:56have two very close friends who are two
1:10:00of your fiercest critics. The first one
1:10:02is attorney Rowena Guanzon, former KMA
1:10:05commissioner, former COA commissioner
1:10:07running for senator in 2028. She's a
1:10:09dear friend. I really wish people got to
1:10:11know her the way I did because they feel
1:10:13they I think most people see her as this
1:10:15uh feisty angry pitbull, but she's
1:10:19actually a really amazing human being.
1:10:21Um, Rowena, who has been fearlessly
1:10:26attacking your administration for quite
1:10:28a while now, said on record on SMI on
1:10:32camera, said that she will stop
1:10:35criticizing you
1:10:37if you hand over Martin's head on a
1:10:40silver platter to the Filipino people.
1:10:42She said that on TV. And sorry, just to
1:10:45be clear, she meant that obviously
1:10:46metaphorically because you know how NBI
1:10:48director Matibug might file some stupid
1:10:51ass cases again by taking this [ __ ]
1:10:52literally. No, she meant it
1:10:53metaphorically. She meant it
1:10:54figuratively that if Martin is if Martin
1:10:57meets justice, she will stop criticizing
1:11:00the Marcus administration. My other
1:11:03friend, the second friend is Congressman
1:11:04Kiko Barzaga, also one of your fiercest
1:11:07critics. um he told me privately in all
1:11:10seriousness and I'm paraphrasing
1:11:11horribly here so I hope I get this
1:11:12correctly but he told me this is the
1:11:14gist of it and then this is accurate
1:11:16that he told me that if Martin Rmaldis
1:11:18is put in prison that he's happy to make
1:11:20amends to the Marcoses now I don't know
1:11:24if my other friends like mayor busted
1:11:26duterte or former under secretary Loren
1:11:29Bado would feel the same way because I
1:11:31think you know some people many people
1:11:34their anger towards this administration
1:11:37is at a point of no return. But what I
1:11:40can guarantee you is that there are
1:11:42millions of Filipinos that will share
1:11:44the same sentiments as Rowena and Kiko
1:11:47that they will feel or at the very most
1:11:50peace and at the very least accepting
1:11:54and filled with faith that you are
1:11:59capable of doing the right thing. I mean
1:12:01think about all those people your dad
1:12:03was good to. your dad. I mean, all those
1:12:06people that he was really good to in the
1:12:0770s, but who ultimately betrayed him in
1:12:09the end. How did that make you feel as a
1:12:11young man, sir? Did you wish caramel on
1:12:14them then? Did you wish that they met
1:12:16divine justice?
1:12:18Well, currently you have the chance to
1:12:22bring legal and moral justice to the man
1:12:24who betrayed you. The man who betrayed
1:12:27PGMA,
1:12:29I Sarah, you. and perhaps most
1:12:33importantly, Sandro. And you know, he
1:12:35[ __ ] the whole country, too. So, as
1:12:37you stand on the shoulders of your
1:12:38father, feeling the inspiring pressure
1:12:40of a moment that took a preposterous and
1:12:43unfair 40 years to come to fruition, I
1:12:47want to admit to you with a genuine
1:12:49humility, sir, that I once believed in
1:12:52you possibly more than anyone. And I
1:12:54want to remind you that although the
1:12:56country is where it is, there are still
1:12:59those who believe in you right now free
1:13:02of any fear, shame, or financial
1:13:04transactionality,
1:13:06they simply believe in you because of
1:13:08how they remember you before all this.
1:13:11For any feelings that have been hurt now
1:13:13or in the past, especially especially
1:13:17towards the first lady, I am sorry. I
1:13:20mean that sincerely.
1:13:23Good luck, Mr. President. Good luck, my
1:13:25dear old friend.
1:13:27To Martin Ramaldis.
1:13:30[clears throat]
1:13:33So, you can't do [ __ ] like this. In
1:13:35whichever language, you cannot talk to
1:13:38the people directly. Why?
1:13:40I hear once upon a time you were quite
1:13:42charming in person.
1:13:44Like, uh, but I heard our common friend,
1:13:47attorney Sal Panel,
1:13:49say that you're different now. You're
1:13:50not like this happy Jollibee character
1:13:52anymore. You're uh more reserved, more
1:13:57quiet. There's a bit of gloom hanging
1:13:59over your head. You're melancholy
1:14:00though. I suppose, and I'm just guessing
1:14:03here. I don't mean to be disrespectful,
1:14:05but I'm just presuming that it's because
1:14:08your testosterone is now low from the
1:14:10anxiety and depression you're feeling
1:14:11because of your current situation.
1:14:13You're probably inflamed because of, you
1:14:14know, poor eating habits. It's made you
1:14:17physically and psychologically frail.
1:14:21It's made your manhood brittle. So,
1:14:24you're not charming anymore. And you
1:14:26were never charming on camera, on stage
1:14:27anyway. You were never charismatic
1:14:30and you were certainly never relatable.
1:14:33But here's the most critical reason you
1:14:35can't talk to the people directly.
1:14:38You were never honest. When you speak,
1:14:41no one really listens or if they do,
1:14:43they don't believe you. And it's not
1:14:45just you. It's all of you in the room
1:14:47all this orbit. your lawyers, your
1:14:49staff, your PR, your Bayern influencers,
1:14:51everyone around Martin Ramaldes. None of
1:14:54you have ever been honest people. This
1:14:56is a sentiment shared not by the
1:14:58minority of Filipinos, not by the
1:15:00average Filipino, not by majority of
1:15:02Filipinos, and not even by the super
1:15:05majority of Filipinos. You not being an
1:15:08honest human being is a fact known by
1:15:11every Filipino. And that's why if you
1:15:13cut through the noise in the comment
1:15:14sections, uh if you remove all the
1:15:16trolls, if you do a cross scan, removing
1:15:18all the accounts that were created a
1:15:20week ago with zero posts, zero
1:15:22followers, zero profile pictures, if you
1:15:24remove all that stuff, you see the
1:15:25comments of people overwhelmingly siding
1:15:27with us, overwhelmingly siding with
1:15:29PGMN, it's because no one likes you. No
1:15:31one believes you. And the biggest
1:15:33difference between you and me, and I
1:15:34don't know if you're a religious man or
1:15:35not, so I don't know if this will land,
1:15:37but it means something to me, so I'll
1:15:39say it anyway. The biggest difference
1:15:41between you and me is that I can sit in
1:15:44silence anytime
1:15:46and pray to God for justice. Because in
1:15:49this case where you framed me for
1:15:51extortion, I am innocent. You on the
1:15:54other hand, you cannot pray for justice
1:15:57because everyone knows definitively and
1:16:00without question that you are a
1:16:02plunderer and that people literally died
1:16:04because of the obscene wealth that you
1:16:06stole, particularly within the context
1:16:08of the monumental flood control [ __ ]
1:16:10that you masterminded. You can pray to
1:16:13God for mercy and forgiveness, but you
1:16:15cannot pray for justice. Because every
1:16:17time you ask the Lord to help you get
1:16:19through this unprecedented cluster [ __ ]
1:16:21that you now find yourself in, you know
1:16:23as well as I do that not only thousands
1:16:26but millions of your countrymen will
1:16:28simultaneously be praying for you to get
1:16:30exactly what you deserve. And who do you
1:16:34think God will listen to?
1:16:37You can't beat me by asking for help
1:16:39from God. You can't beat me by ruining
1:16:41my credibility, by paying billionario
1:16:43and other dishonest entities to lie
1:16:45about me. You can't beat me by shaming
1:16:47me. One, because that stuff doesn't
1:16:48affect me. I don't care about that [ __ ]
1:16:50And two, because every smart person can
1:16:52see through the black ops, knows you're
1:16:54behind it all. And at the end of the
1:16:56day, no one in the country has a worse
1:16:58reputation than you. To beat me, in my
1:17:01mind, you only have two options:
1:17:05bribery and violence. The whole country
1:17:09knows how unequivocally willing you are
1:17:11to cross one of those two lines.
1:17:14The question is, [sighs]
1:17:17how willing are you to cross the other?
1:17:20Are you willing to kill me?
1:17:25Because [ __ ]
1:17:27I finally understand my purpose now.
1:17:31I am in a situation that's basically do
1:17:33or die. We all know that. I didn't plan
1:17:36this, but circumstances have pushed me
1:17:38into a fight that very few people are
1:17:40willing to take on. In the past, I was
1:17:42always more of an operator, a kingmaker
1:17:45in the background. But now, history has
1:17:47placed me at the front line. And I don't
1:17:50know, maybe that's exactly why I was put
1:17:52here. Because I know how people like you
1:17:55operate. I know the system from the
1:17:57inside and intimately. I understand the
1:17:59game, the personalities, the weaknesses,
1:18:01the ulterior motives, the machinery
1:18:03behind everything. Also, I'm talented. A
1:18:07statement elevated not by ego, but by
1:18:08track record. In many ways, that makes
1:18:11me one of the few people actually
1:18:13capable of fighting this war properly.
1:18:15In my eyes, this is no longer just about
1:18:18politics. This is about the future of
1:18:21the Philippines as well and the kind of
1:18:23country the next generation will
1:18:25inherit, including my two sons. A friend
1:18:28uh I trust and admire very much told me
1:18:31that I'm at a stage in life where legacy
1:18:34becomes real. He said years from now my
1:18:37sons will either look back and say
1:18:40my dad stood and fought for the country
1:18:42even when it was dangerous and difficult
1:18:45or they will remember that I walked away
1:18:47from the very mission that life
1:18:49unexpectedly placed in front of me. That
1:18:52friend said that he honestly believes
1:18:54this responsibility was bestowed upon me
1:18:56for a reason and that the timing is not
1:18:59accidental either. When I just
1:19:01rediscovered the Lord, this enormous
1:19:03task suddenly entered my life. Maybe God
1:19:05allowed that because he knew I would
1:19:07need strength far beyond politics,
1:19:09strategy, or influence.
1:19:12So, Ferdinand Martin Rmaldez,
1:19:17are you willing to kill me?
1:19:20because I know my purpose. Now, the
1:19:23biggest problem of the Philippines has
1:19:25always been corruption. The most corrupt
1:19:27Filipino politician of the 21st century
1:19:30is you, Martin Ramaldez. Yours is the
1:19:33kind of breathtaking greed and
1:19:35corruption that literally kills. And my
1:19:39purpose is to not stop until I see
1:19:42justice is done to you. I want to let
1:19:46you know that I'm willing to die for
1:19:47that purpose. I want to look the villain
1:19:50billionaire in the face and say enough
1:19:53is enough. Enough [snorts] of you.
1:19:55Enough of the system that you created.
1:19:57Enough with all your corruption.
1:20:00I want my 5-year-old son, Sebie, and my
1:20:02three-year-old son, Leighton, to look
1:20:04back at these decisions when they're
1:20:06older and see the kind of man their dad
1:20:08was.
1:20:09All right. So before we move on, so I
1:20:12want to so to everybody just watching
1:20:14this, um, yeah, follow PGMN because it's
1:20:18going to be this is going to be the
1:20:19wildest journey of our lives. Follow PGM
1:20:21as we embark on taking down the most
1:20:24powerful and most corrupt politician of
1:20:27our generation, certainly of the of the
1:20:2921st century. And it's dangerous. We're
1:20:31literally in real danger. So you're
1:20:34probably going to enjoy this. And then
1:20:36also um help us like buy our merch, buy
1:20:39our shirts, you know, forget the trolls
1:20:41in the bottom. I know that there have
1:20:42been thousands of you, thousands because
1:20:44we have the data. Thousands of you that
1:20:45have proudly worn the four letters on
1:20:47your chests. We could sure use your help
1:20:49now. And to the uh the billionaires
1:20:53watching, the billionaires, senators,
1:20:54Congress folks, the tycoons, many of you
1:20:56know who I am personally. I never asked
1:20:59for financial assistance before because
1:21:01we didn't need to. But I'm currently up
1:21:03against a monetary Goliath.
1:21:06I know many of you want the same thing
1:21:09the rest of the country does. To make
1:21:11sure that Martin Ramaldis finally meets
1:21:13justice. If you would like to partake in
1:21:15this noble mission, please find me. Many
1:21:18of you know how to reach me
1:21:20confidentially. If you don't know me,
1:21:23ask around about me. Cut through the
1:21:25noise from all the troll accounts in the
1:21:27comments or from the losers on Reddit
1:21:29who've literally achieved nothing in
1:21:30their lives. Ask around about me and you
1:21:33will find much more people, especially
1:21:35in government and in politics, who will
1:21:37say that I am a good man and that I am
1:21:38trustworthy than those who say I am not.
1:21:42I need your help. This is a war I cannot
1:21:44win alone.
1:21:46In conclusion,
1:21:48I've spent the last three weeks trying
1:21:50to make sense of all this, the arrest,
1:21:53the betrayal, the headlines, the silence
1:21:56of people I thought would never go
1:21:57quiet. And what I keep arriving at every
1:22:01single time is this. None of it happened
1:22:05to me by accident. The addiction that
1:22:07nearly killed me didn't break me. The
1:22:10cancellations didn't erase me. And
1:22:12Martin Raldes with all his billions and
1:22:15all his darkness will not bury me.
1:22:19Because I was not built for comfort. I
1:22:21was built exactly for this this ugly,
1:22:25painful, necessary moment in our
1:22:27country's history where someone has to
1:22:29stand in the gap and refuse to move. I
1:22:32didn't choose this fight, but I will
1:22:34finish it. Not out of anger and
1:22:37certainly not out of ego, but because
1:22:39the Philippines deserves at least one
1:22:41more person who looked the most powerful
1:22:43criminal in the room directly in the eye
1:22:45and did not blink. I think about Sebie
1:22:48and Leighton constantly, my 5-year-old
1:22:50and my three-year-old who have no idea
1:22:53what their father is going through right
1:22:55now or why. And I have made peace with
1:22:57the fact that they may not understand
1:22:59any of this for many years. But someday
1:23:01they will. Someday they will. And when
1:23:04that day comes, I want the record to
1:23:06show clearly, irrefutably, and with a
1:23:10full weight of everything I am that
1:23:12their father knew what was right, knew
1:23:15what it would cost, and did it anyway.
1:23:19That is the only legacy that matters to
1:23:21me now. Not the views, not the verality,
1:23:24not the victory even, just the knowledge
1:23:27that I stood where I was supposed to
1:23:29stand, carried what I was supposed to
1:23:31carry, and walked where God told me to
1:23:35walk. That's enough. [snorts] That has
1:23:38always been enough.
1:23:41[sighs] The storm I face ahead will be
1:23:43messy and challenging. But I am not
1:23:46afraid because I have faith that Jesus
1:23:49is walking by my side and he is not
1:23:53walking by yours.
1:23:56Martin Rmaldez, I will see you in court.
1:24:00My name is Franco Mabanta and I am
1:24:04proudly PGMN.
1:24:08[applause and cheering]
1:24:25Uncle
1:24:30Sh.
1:24:33[music]
1:24:38>> [singing]
1:24:40[music]
1:24:48[music]
1:24:51>> Martin
1:24:58Ferdinand Martin Rualdez,
1:25:03welcome to the show.
1:25:16Martin Raldez.
1:25:19>> Martin Raldes. Martin Rmaldez.
1:25:20>> Martin Rmaldez.
1:25:21>> Martin Rmaldez.
1:25:22>> Romaldees.
1:25:23>> House Speaker Martin Raldez.
1:25:25>> Martin Rmaldez. And together Marie
1:25:29Rmaldez. Together they ran that
1:25:32committee like a syndicato. Now let us
1:25:35address the most absurd accusation of
1:25:37all that I am supposedly the mastermind
1:25:39of this corruption scheme. How can I be
1:25:42the mastermind [music]
1:25:52[music]
1:25:57which is
1:26:08Magnore
1:26:13[music]
1:26:23tax.
1:26:29>> [music]
1:26:42>> Martinald
1:26:50speaker. [music]
1:26:54Good job on bootsman boy.
1:26:57Thumbs down travel Martin Luther King
1:27:00Jr.
1:27:13One way [music] or another
1:27:16he will go down and I will make sure you
1:27:21all go down with him.
1:27:24>> [music]
1:27:29[music]
1:27:32[singing]
1:27:36>> And on behalf of the entire Philippines,
1:27:39[ __ ] Martin Ramaldes.
1:27:44[music]
1:27:47Hey,
1:27:51[music]
1:28:01[music] oh
1:28:06[music]
1:28:08my
1:28:12[music]
1:28:21Hey, [music]
1:28:22hey,
1:28:26hey. [music]

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