Latest / Go News To Go: More Good News / Good News speaks to Ernie Anastos Host of Wonderama Press Conference and Commissioner Edward Mermelstein NYC Mayors Office International Aff

Transcript

Good News speaks to Ernie Anastos Host of Wonderama Press Conference and Commissioner Edward Mermelstein NYC Mayors Office International Aff · Go News To Go: More Good News

• 0:00
  M m. All right, we're here in Times Square. Why are we
• 0:11
  here? We're here for one diorama. How exciting could this be when Durama
• 0:16
  has a great occasion to be here today and we're reaching out to the producer.
• 0:24
  You have Ernie Anastis on the stage, you have some of the Times
• 0:28
  Square Alliance people here as well, and you're videotaping. Okay, I'm working
• 0:42
  for some of the Times Square Alliance. Speaker, then it's got your bot.
• 1:00
  No, no, who did gentlemen? He was a direct vice president
• 1:03
  of communication that said, oh yeah, so you an interview? Should I
• 1:07
  interview him? You can't, Jack, you want to say something? You
• 1:12
  got to be too busy. I think Paul is the most handsome person in
• 1:17
  the world. All right, Jack, you know what to say. That's
• 1:22
  why you do you say? All right, my name is falts Lastus,
• 1:26
  I'm with the Good News Podcast. I do your Peace Day and I'm event.
• 1:30
  You want to say something about okay that Ernie anaskis on the stage there?
• 1:48
  Yeah, m hm, you want to say hello, Ernie an asked
• 2:07
  this. It couldn't be any more fortune. Everything is good, Join ourselves
• 2:10
  and you know what about NIXT World I've got the New York City Commissioner of
• 2:15
  International Affairs. I know that that's we're all excited to be celebrating sext year
• 2:23
  two thous four with me. All right, sounds good? All right,
• 2:30
  hid Reverend Boslactics, I work a lot with Pastor Monros very nice. How
• 2:36
  are you today? Tell us about where are we now? H We're in
• 2:40
  the center of the universe. This is uh, the most impressive place in
• 2:47
  the best city in the picture, the best country in the world. We
• 2:52
  are very lucky to be here, very lucky because the rest of the world,
• 2:55
  as we all know, it's not doing as well as we are.
• 2:58
  So let's pray for peace. New York is such a welcoming city. We've
• 3:05
  dealt with and dealing with and doing our best with the migrant situation. Enough
• 3:08
  is enough, though, as the mayor would say, what you're feeling?
• 3:14
  I mean you're involved within the international I've reached out to you because we do
• 3:16
  the International Day of Peace concerts right here in Times Square. What do you
• 3:22
  feel about how we're doing now? In the future? New York is a
• 3:28
  very special place. I'm a refugee from Ukraine. Wow, So there's lots
• 3:35
  of history in this conversation. So for me this is all very personal what's
• 3:39
  happening with migrants also, having just come with the mayor from South America and
• 3:45
  the witness the learning that they're taking from thousands of miles away. It's just
• 3:53
  it's quite horrific and I hate to say it, but we're not doing Let's
• 3:59
  go to my job as we should be helping them where they are, rather
• 4:02
  than helping them where they're coming to. Lots of lots of things that we
• 4:09
  need to fix around the world, and no better place to do it,
• 4:13
  or at least start from the New York City. I agree with you.
• 4:16
  I guess my families or refugees are from Hungary and Poland right by the border
• 4:21
  of the ukrad Well, congratulations. I happen to know you're doing a great
• 4:29
  job at what you're doing and and keep it up because we are a fortunate
• 4:33
  place to live in. We are in a peaceful place and a freedom location.
• 4:39
  We are very lucky. We are very lucky to be here. Dear,
• 4:43
  Thank you so much. Okay, all right, good news. We
• 4:47
  got some internet connection here and the show is going to start quite soon.
• 4:51
  First, let me turn around, I hope that's not a mistake because of
• 4:55
  the Internet connection. Because every so we see one Dirama on the One Time
• 5:01
  Square building. That's where the ball drops in the evening. And the reason
• 5:05
  is is because the One Time Square people are connected to this event and they're
• 5:14
  on the stage now, Sherry and the Commissioner of International Affairs, and Ernie
• 5:20
  Anastis and another representative from the One Time Square building. This is a Reverend
• 5:27
  Paul Slakis and one of my favorite places in the world. We call it
• 5:31
  Times Square, the Crossroads of the World. And why is this so important
• 5:36
  to us is that we did Woodstock here back in nineteen eighty nine and hopefully
• 5:41
  we're coming out with that movie. We we we also okay, now you
• 5:50
  see one Dama, I know all that's a pretty wonderful And Chuck Armstrong,
• 6:01
  that's the producer right there, has been putting this on Beautiful Noise. We
• 6:06
  almost got that to be part of our show, but they had too many
• 6:10
  people out with COVID. Gentleman here is Damian Santucci, a representative of the
• 6:15
  Times Square Alliance. One of the nicest guys in town. We love him,
• 6:20
  and so this is a great event. Hey, everybody, are you
• 7:00
  ready. We're so excited to be here today. This is a very exciting
• 7:04
  day. I'm earning an ASTs by the way from New York Television and positively
• 7:10
  America and positively Earnie, and it's so good to be here. Are you
• 7:13
  happy to be here? I want to know. I want to see a
• 7:15
  little spirit. Yeah, Thank goodness, it isn't raining, right, Happy
• 7:20
  Halloween to everybody. We're so excited to be on board because we're celebrating something
• 7:26
  really special today and I've got a great cast of characters that you're going to
• 7:29
  meet. But we're talking about Won Durama's great event coming up next year in
• 7:33
  twenty twenty four, and it's going to be a special parade to unite all
• 7:38
  of us from Columbus Circle all the way down here to Times Square, the
• 7:41
  crossroads of America, and we're going to have a family style parade. Are
• 7:45
  you excited about that? Yeah? Will you bet here? Next year's a
• 7:48
  week in March together. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it because
• 7:51
  it's going to be a wonderful event. Wonderama, by the way, is
• 7:55
  a terrific television show started back in the sixties right here in New York,
• 8:00
  and it's all across America and also here in New York on WWOR Channel nine
• 8:05
  on Sundays at three pm. I hope you will be watching. But today
• 8:09
  we're really celebrating something unusual and something special because we have so much negative news
• 8:16
  and you know that. But today we have a positive story and we're celebrating
• 8:20
  twenty twenty four coming up next year, and we want you to be part
• 8:24
  of this event. This is a special program developed by our good friend Chuck
• 8:28
  Armstrong, who's the founder and creator of wonder Rama here at New York.
• 8:31
  Let's hear it for Chuck's boy, Chuck. We have a partnership with the
• 8:37
  Times Square Alliance and One Time Square. We're going to be hearing from them
• 8:41
  in just a moment. But I'm delighted to have with us a very special
• 8:45
  individual from New York and he is the Commissioner of International Affairs. Ed Merlinstein
• 8:50
  is with us. Let's hear a grand come off here ahead, grab your
• 8:54
  microphone and get rid. This is an exciting day and tell us why it's
• 8:56
  so important for New York to be celebrating or any First of all, thank
• 9:01
  you for allowing me up on the stage. I'm a huge fan and very
• 9:05
  hon you. New York City and this spot especially is the center of the
• 9:11
  universe. We are in the best city in the world, in the best
• 9:15
  country in the world, and celebrating an event that is going to just take
• 9:20
  over this entire area for next year is so exciting. But we we are
• 9:26
  a city that has the largest and most diverse diplomatic community in the world,
• 9:31
  the most diverse city in the world. We are number one and practically everything.
• 9:37
  So I'm a little biased, as I should because we all love New
• 9:41
  York. You know, about about a million people pass through Times Square every
• 9:45
  day. Is that incredible. It's the crossroads crossroads of the world. And
• 9:50
  you know, we also have some interesting art that people should look at and
• 9:54
  tell us a little bit about what's out here on display. So the katrinas
• 9:58
  that were donated to us by Mexico, some of them are from Mexico City,
• 10:03
  some of them are Quebla and uh as. Many people in New York
• 10:07
  know that New York City is known as Quebla and New York. Yes,
• 10:13
  So therefore we have you know Selby to celebrate here as well. You know
• 10:16
  what, I want you to stay with me, ed because I want to
• 10:18
  introduce a couple of other great people. Uh. Regina Pojas is where this
• 10:22
  She's with the Times Square Alliance and also joining us as sharing White One Times
• 10:26
  Square. Welcome to both of you, Regina. Let's start with you.
• 10:31
  Tell us about the exciting program that we're announcing today. Sure, Hi,
• 10:35
  good morning. I'm really excited to talk about how the twenty twenty four went
• 10:39
  around. The Halloween Parade is going to be a representation of the variety of
• 10:43
  cultures and unity and just an overall celebration in Times Square. Isn't it nice
• 10:50
  that we have to celebrate this, Regina, especially the time when you know
• 10:52
  we're facing so much negative news in the world. Absolutely, totally, Yeah,
• 10:56
  it's a good thing. Sherry, Come join us right now because you're
• 10:58
  also part of this with one Time Square. Your take on what we're doing
• 11:03
  here today and what we can expect twenty twenty four. Oh, I love
• 11:07
  Times Square. I wish we could get open in twenty four, but the
• 11:09
  building is under construction, so we're trying to bring some change to Times Square
• 11:16
  in the future. So we'll open in late twenty twenty five, and we
• 11:20
  hope we bring a lot to twenty five and to twenty four we'll bring to
• 11:22
  yours eave well, thank you so much for being here. We're really happy
• 11:26
  about what we have on board One Durama. Wonderbul take a look. Turn
• 11:31
  around, guys, look at that that's ten stories high? Is that a
• 11:33
  beautiful sign? I love it. Oh. This is so great because we're
• 11:39
  here to talk about you know, one Durama, the television show, but
• 11:41
  also the parade that will be bringing you. We have a lot of entertainment
• 11:45
  from around the world here, and we've got a great disc jockey. His
• 11:48
  name is ty Hollywood. Tye. You back there, hey, buddy,
• 11:52
  all right, let's get you started, okay, because we want to entertain
• 11:56
  and have people enjoy themselves right now. Okay, so here you go,
• 11:58
  take it away time alleyway, I'm not head of the dark. You've never
• 12:03
  seen it look so all right? Come on you guys just walking by,
• 12:07
  yo, good morning, help me Halloween. I didn't have you, the
• 12:13
  working nothing left in the shadow, the man that you never thinks that I
• 12:20
  didn't have you and never see the sun and this honey, have this word,
• 12:26
  yeah, my life. So I'm about to give you guys a little
• 12:31
  sembow I when is coming all these