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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm Elvis Morning Show. I love it when we have
visitors from way across the country and from Saint bonaventrore
Mission in school in thorough, New Mexico. I'm saying it right.
It's thorough, not thorough.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's actually through.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I always get it wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's the rue.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's exactly if you go to If you go there,
they'll tell you you're saying it wrong. It's the rue.
But I still say it wrong because well obviously it's
not there there, because that's how they say it. Anyway,
from a Saint Bonaventure Mission and school in Thorrough, New Mexico,
we're pleased to have Chris Halter and Thurmon Jones, both
(00:53):
from Saint Bonaventure Mission in school. Welcome to New York guys.
Thank you, you know, being of course a New Mexican,
New Mexico resident as well. I don't know why would
you want to come to New York? Do you do?
You do you get tired of peace and quiet and tranquility?
Do you need this mess?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We actually loved going back to New Mexico after we visited.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I can imagine you know what Nate was visiting a
Saint Bonaventure not that long ago, and he came back.
Dare I say, changed you were? You had this new
outlook on what's going on in our country, especially with
a nah Noveljoe Nation, and at Saint Bonaventure, tell me
what your feelings were in Nate, what you saw and
(01:39):
how you felt.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I gotta say.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Chris and Thurman, they rolled out the red carpet for
me when I got there. Okay, So I was just
expecting to go there and do a little quick tour
and see what Saint Bonaventure was all about. I show
up to the school and I'm like, okay, you know,
we're walking through the school and we're seeing where the
students sit, and we're going through the gymnasium and they
made this huge band greeting me and you elvis to
(02:02):
Saint Bonaventure. And I'm like, well, where are all the
students And Chris looks at me and goes, well, we
have a surprise for you. And they're waiting in the
chapel and they want to sing you a song. And
when I tell you, I was you know, I'm not
a very emotional guy. I was fighting back tears because
(02:22):
all of these children had taken the time to learn
a song to sing to me, and I just, you know,
I'm really kind of getting tongue tied because they just
took the time to do that for me. And we're
such a big part of their day. So many of
the families that are part of Saint Bonaventure and a
(02:45):
part of the Navajo Nation, they listen to us every day.
I had so many people come up and say, oh
my god, can you give Gandhi a hug for me?
Can you give Danielle a hug?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Say I love her laugh?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
And we are such a part of their day and
their life out there. It just dawned on me that
we actually do something, you know, for people, right like
what we do here in this little room matters to people.
And they showed their appreciation to me.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And all that you didn't give us hugs, making it
for lost time. So, Chris, I would love for you
to explain to anyone and everyone who may not know
what Saint Bonaventure is all about and how important it
is to the Navajo families who are in need uh
talk about it. Talk about the story that's coming out
(03:32):
of that area of New Mexico and that we all
need to know about here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So Saint Bonaventure is now celebrating fifty years in existence,
and it is a Catholic organization, but we serve anybody
and everybody, but the primary outside of education, because education
is so important to end poverty. If you can get
(03:59):
people educated, they can move on and get out of poverty.
But some of the interesting things that hold people back
is the Navajo reservation is the size of West Virginia,
and it has twenty five grocery.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Stores, no fourteen.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Grocery stores on the entire reservation the size of the
state of West Virginia. And so to go to a
grocery store, it's sixty to one hundred and twenty miles
round trip just to get food. The other thing is
forty percent of the Navajo families have zero access to
(04:43):
any type of running water. And one of the interesting
things is that an average American household uses one hundred
and twenty five to one hundred and fifty gallons of
water a day. The Navajo families that we serve have
to live on forty gallons of water a day, and
(05:04):
the only way they get that water is we have
water trucks that deliver water five days a week to
over two hundred and fifty families, and we also bring
water on the railroad during times of you know, greater need,
and so we have these giant twenty thousand gallon tanker
(05:25):
cars that come on the railroad and we fill up
our water trucks and take it out.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
There is water not accessible there, like is there no
water source there or what is the reasoning for not.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So there's no infrastructure, okay, or very limited infrastructure. Most
of the roads are dirt roads, as they experience.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So the second half of my day, I went with
Darlene Arviso, who is nicknamed.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The water Lady.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
She drives us water truck and goes to different I
guess you could call homes which you know, there's no
electricity to a lot of them, right, didn't even have
you know, doors, right, It's just the infrastructure is so lacking.
And I think it was what a mile to the
first house that we went, and it took us almost
fifteen minutes because the roads are so bad. It just
(06:14):
takes that long to drive this truck over it. And
it's just astounding to me that here we are in
the United States of America, and.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This is what we have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This is what It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The people that were here before us are living with
and living through.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You know, Gandhi, you visited me in Santa Fe. It
looks Santa Fe and Albuquerque, these of course have incredible infrastructure,
but even there you're reminded every day about how precious
water is in that part of the country. For sure,
you know, it's always on the edge of drought, you
typically anyway, That's why when you guys are walking here
in New York City, I was like, there's fountains everywhere.
(06:51):
We're just like blowing water in the air because it's
fun when.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You're at your house and like you let your water
run and you walk away from the sink, and then
you come back and you like you didn't think about it,
Like you would never do that.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
We don't do that. I know what I'm saying. It happens.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You need to think about those.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Things, you know, right, well, so imagine a world where
there is no water going to a sink.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
There is crazy and Thurman were explaining to me that
when people take a bath, they save the water so
that then they can do.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Their dishes with it, you know, right, because.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
They only have those forty gallons a day and it
goes really fast.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well yeah, I'm going to get into that. Well, this
is why we're here to help, trying to at least
at least help out until there is God help us
a way to fix this. What's going on, Thurman? What
are you feeling? What is your thought of Saint Bonaventure
and everything that we're trying to get out there with
with the message.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No, I'm glad that it's there, because without their existence,
I mean, who's going to be able to, you know,
take up part. I mean not only do we do
the water delivery, but we also do like food delivery,
we do home repair and stuff like that. So Saint
Bonaventure wasn't there, you know, where would the people on
the Eastern Naba reservation that we serve, you know, where
would they get like any type of funding for utilities
or any type of help in any way that they need.
(08:07):
And you know, just to put in perspective, we only
serve the eastern part of the network reservation, and you
know the reservation is so big, we don't we can't
serve everybody else. So like the need is great, and
I'm I'm glad Saint Bonaventure is there.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Also the food pantries. Talk about that here we you know,
we have these grocery stores all they're so pretty with
flashing lights and sales on peanut butter and this and that.
If the food pantry situation, which of course is funded
by Saint Bonaventure and manage I guess by Saint Bonaventure
Mission correct, What what's it like to go to the
food pantry to get food for the week for your family?
(08:46):
Like what's waiting for you there?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
So it's actually just like non perishable food, so you know,
anything boxed up, you know, spaghetti, pebing, j cereal. We
like to do something with their you know, enable to
get them you know, like fresh food like eggs, milk,
cheese or whatever they need. But it's just non perishable
foods for now.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And that's primarily because so many families don't have access
to electricity, so they don't have refrigerators to keep things cold,
and so you know, there are these challenges. It's not
that we want to fill people up with carbohydrates, you know,
but that's what we have available and they're happy to
(09:27):
get it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know, how many people are we talking about who
are affected by all of the things we're talking about
going on in the eastern part of the Navajo Reservation.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Well, I can't put a number on that. I can't say,
but for our water delivery since I've started, I mean,
we've grown probably from maybe about one hundred families to
about two hundred and fifty families that we serve that
we do deliver water too. And then monthly the families
that do come through our food pantry, I would say
(10:03):
probably about between two hundred and fifty three hundred average,
you know that would come through and get you know,
our food boxes that we have available if we have
them available at the time too.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So Gandhi your question, ask it again, because I think
it's very important.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
How do we fix this?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
How can we help?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Look, it's there's not an easy answer, okay, I mean
to put in an infrastructure, you're talking a trillion dollars
and so that's never going to happen. I think that
the best way is, you know, people to go to
our website make donations of five dollars, ten dollars, whatever
(10:44):
you're able to do, which helps us operate and run
these programs for these people that don't have any other way,
as thurman z, to get access to things. And I
want to say, you've got to think about water and
think about hygiene, and think about teenagers and how all
(11:08):
of that affects their mental health. And so you know,
forty gallons of water helps people stay, you know, with
good hygiene, and we have washing machines to wash clothes
for students. You know, there are various things that we
do to try to meet those needs. And suicide rates
(11:28):
are really high on the Navelahoo Reservation and so we're
also trying to address all of these mental health issues.
So it is a daily challenge for all of us
that are out there, but we love what we do.
And you know, if you're ever on your way to
the Grand Canyon, it's only about three hours from us. Yeah,
(11:49):
and so swing by through New Mexico and we'll show
you around. We'll take you to everything that we're doing
and really let you see the impact that your generosity
can actually make.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Wow, I'm sure the pandemic did not help at all.
I mean, remember the governor closed down Gallop the statehotwns
of Galluper Remember it was closed. Can you imagine having
a town that you can't get in or out of, Like,
what the what? But it's true. And now imagine how
that affected everyone out on the reservation. I mean it
must have been just devastating. And you're still paying the
(12:26):
price for that, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, yes, And you know, the thing about the pandemic was,
remember what was the number one way to keep yourself
safe outside of wearing a mask? Washing your hands, and
how do you wash hands without water? And so we
actually set up these hand washing stations and different parts
of the reservation, and then we were able to get
(12:48):
lots of donations of hand sanitizer. But you know, that
was and at one point the Navajo Nation had more
people dying from COVID than New York City, you know,
per population or per capita. But I mean, that's how
bad it was out there.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was really bad. Gosh, thank god those days are
in the rearview mirror. But still, like I said, being
paid for. Look, it's so simple to go to Saint
Bonaventure Mission dot com. I'll spell it for you. It's
of course Saint s A I N T and then
Bonaventure's b O n A V E N t U
r E Mission dot org. And we can put this
up on our our instagram right a Westerinshow Instagram on
(13:32):
behalf of the Elvistream morning show. We'd like to make
a contribution right now. But just because we're making this big,
fat ass contribution doesn't mean you can't make one more.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
We've been saying it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We know we have rich people listening out there.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We know we got billionaires listening.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Come on, Elvis, thank you very very much. But let
me just say it's actually Saint s t it's it's
it's not spelled out, so it's St. Bonaventuremission dot org.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I knew that I planted that to make you say that.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Who do all that money? I know?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Can you imagine the Saint Bonaventure St. B O n
A V E N t U r E Mission dot org.
All right, let's let's make a contribution of ten thousand
dollars right now to Saint Bonaventure. Thank you. But I'm
saying right now, don't say, well, Elvis made a donation,
so why should.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
We what you heard of it right now?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Look, you know what we the United States is so
so so well known for sending money around the world
to help people around the world. Let's talk about taking
care of people who are Americans, Native Americans, people who
are living right here, right in our the side yard, right.
I think that's a very important thing to remember. We're
talking the need of water, something we take for granted
(14:48):
beyond measure. Talking about food, education, hygiene, mental health. All
those things fall into place with what you can do
to help out now with Saint Bonaventure Mission dot org.
Do it immediately what you want to say.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I can attest the smiles that people would have on
their faces when they would be exiting their house.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Darlene's delivering the water.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
They leave their house, they meet the truck on the
road because they cannot wait to see this woman that's
bringing them food and water. It's just they are doing
such great work out there, and I really hope everybody
takes the time to make a five dollars ten dollars
donation to further this work because I've been there and
the smiles.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
That these people have, that the.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Energy that is at that school, and from what you
tell me, they go there and that's that's home for
them because sometimes their home life isn't so great, and
you guys are doing such great work and thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
So much for doing it. It's it's just amazing. You
guys are angels out there.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well. Thank you, thank you so much. We appreciate being here.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Chris Thurman, Carmen over there, Carmen, thank you, thanks for
having us enjoy New York City again. We will post
this on our Elvis durn Show Instagram account. Go check
it out. It's a Saint Bonava, Trremission dot Org and
Christian Thurman. God bless you. Thanks for coming to see us.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Thank you, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
The Fifteen Minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firm Elvis Morning Show. I love it when we have
visitors from way across the country and from Saint bonaventrore
Mission in school in thorough, New Mexico. I'm saying it right.
It's thorough, not thorough.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's actually through.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I always get it wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's the rue.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's exactly if you go to If you go there,
they'll tell you you're saying it wrong. It's the rue.
But I still say it wrong because well obviously it's
not there there, because that's how they say it. Anyway,
from a Saint Bonaventure Mission and school in Thorrough, New Mexico,
we're pleased to have Chris Halter and Thurmon Jones, both
(00:53):
from Saint Bonaventure Mission in school. Welcome to New York guys.
Thank you, you know, being of course a New Mexican,
New Mexico resident as well. I don't know why would
you want to come to New York? Do you do?
You do you get tired of peace and quiet and tranquility?
Do you need this mess?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We actually loved going back to New Mexico after we visited.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I can imagine you know what Nate was visiting a
Saint Bonaventure not that long ago, and he came back.
Dare I say, changed you were? You had this new
outlook on what's going on in our country, especially with
a nah Noveljoe Nation, and at Saint Bonaventure, tell me
what your feelings were in Nate, what you saw and
(01:39):
how you felt.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I gotta say.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Chris and Thurman, they rolled out the red carpet for
me when I got there. Okay, So I was just
expecting to go there and do a little quick tour
and see what Saint Bonaventure was all about. I show
up to the school and I'm like, okay, you know,
we're walking through the school and we're seeing where the
students sit, and we're going through the gymnasium and they
made this huge band greeting me and you elvis to
(02:02):
Saint Bonaventure. And I'm like, well, where are all the
students And Chris looks at me and goes, well, we
have a surprise for you. And they're waiting in the
chapel and they want to sing you a song. And
when I tell you, I was you know, I'm not
a very emotional guy. I was fighting back tears because
(02:22):
all of these children had taken the time to learn
a song to sing to me, and I just, you know,
I'm really kind of getting tongue tied because they just
took the time to do that for me. And we're
such a big part of their day. So many of
the families that are part of Saint Bonaventure and a
(02:45):
part of the Navajo Nation, they listen to us every day.
I had so many people come up and say, oh
my god, can you give Gandhi a hug for me?
Can you give Danielle a hug?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Say I love her laugh?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
And we are such a part of their day and
their life out there. It just dawned on me that
we actually do something, you know, for people, right like
what we do here in this little room matters to people.
And they showed their appreciation to me.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And all that you didn't give us hugs, making it
for lost time. So, Chris, I would love for you
to explain to anyone and everyone who may not know
what Saint Bonaventure is all about and how important it
is to the Navajo families who are in need uh
talk about it. Talk about the story that's coming out
(03:32):
of that area of New Mexico and that we all
need to know about here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So Saint Bonaventure is now celebrating fifty years in existence,
and it is a Catholic organization, but we serve anybody
and everybody, but the primary outside of education, because education
is so important to end poverty. If you can get
(03:59):
people educated, they can move on and get out of poverty.
But some of the interesting things that hold people back
is the Navajo reservation is the size of West Virginia,
and it has twenty five grocery.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Stores, no fourteen.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Grocery stores on the entire reservation the size of the
state of West Virginia. And so to go to a
grocery store, it's sixty to one hundred and twenty miles
round trip just to get food. The other thing is
forty percent of the Navajo families have zero access to
(04:43):
any type of running water. And one of the interesting
things is that an average American household uses one hundred
and twenty five to one hundred and fifty gallons of
water a day. The Navajo families that we serve have
to live on forty gallons of water a day, and
(05:04):
the only way they get that water is we have
water trucks that deliver water five days a week to
over two hundred and fifty families, and we also bring
water on the railroad during times of you know, greater need,
and so we have these giant twenty thousand gallon tanker
(05:25):
cars that come on the railroad and we fill up
our water trucks and take it out.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
There is water not accessible there, like is there no
water source there or what is the reasoning for not.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So there's no infrastructure, okay, or very limited infrastructure. Most
of the roads are dirt roads, as they experience.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So the second half of my day, I went with
Darlene Arviso, who is nicknamed.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The water Lady.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
She drives us water truck and goes to different I
guess you could call homes which you know, there's no
electricity to a lot of them, right, didn't even have
you know, doors, right, It's just the infrastructure is so lacking.
And I think it was what a mile to the
first house that we went, and it took us almost
fifteen minutes because the roads are so bad. It just
(06:14):
takes that long to drive this truck over it. And
it's just astounding to me that here we are in
the United States of America, and.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This is what we have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This is what It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The people that were here before us are living with
and living through.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You know, Gandhi, you visited me in Santa Fe. It
looks Santa Fe and Albuquerque, these of course have incredible infrastructure,
but even there you're reminded every day about how precious
water is in that part of the country. For sure,
you know, it's always on the edge of drought, you
typically anyway, That's why when you guys are walking here
in New York City, I was like, there's fountains everywhere.
(06:51):
We're just like blowing water in the air because it's
fun when.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You're at your house and like you let your water
run and you walk away from the sink, and then
you come back and you like you didn't think about it,
Like you would never do that.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
We don't do that. I know what I'm saying. It happens.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You need to think about those.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Things, you know, right, well, so imagine a world where
there is no water going to a sink.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
There is crazy and Thurman were explaining to me that
when people take a bath, they save the water so
that then they can do.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Their dishes with it, you know, right, because.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
They only have those forty gallons a day and it
goes really fast.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well yeah, I'm going to get into that. Well, this
is why we're here to help, trying to at least
at least help out until there is God help us
a way to fix this. What's going on, Thurman? What
are you feeling? What is your thought of Saint Bonaventure
and everything that we're trying to get out there with
with the message.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No, I'm glad that it's there, because without their existence,
I mean, who's going to be able to, you know,
take up part. I mean not only do we do
the water delivery, but we also do like food delivery,
we do home repair and stuff like that. So Saint
Bonaventure wasn't there, you know, where would the people on
the Eastern Naba reservation that we serve, you know, where
would they get like any type of funding for utilities
or any type of help in any way that they need.
(08:07):
And you know, just to put in perspective, we only
serve the eastern part of the network reservation, and you
know the reservation is so big, we don't we can't
serve everybody else. So like the need is great, and
I'm I'm glad Saint Bonaventure is there.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Also the food pantries. Talk about that here we you know,
we have these grocery stores all they're so pretty with
flashing lights and sales on peanut butter and this and that.
If the food pantry situation, which of course is funded
by Saint Bonaventure and manage I guess by Saint Bonaventure
Mission correct, What what's it like to go to the
food pantry to get food for the week for your family?
(08:46):
Like what's waiting for you there?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
So it's actually just like non perishable food, so you know,
anything boxed up, you know, spaghetti, pebing, j cereal. We
like to do something with their you know, enable to
get them you know, like fresh food like eggs, milk,
cheese or whatever they need. But it's just non perishable
foods for now.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And that's primarily because so many families don't have access
to electricity, so they don't have refrigerators to keep things cold,
and so you know, there are these challenges. It's not
that we want to fill people up with carbohydrates, you know,
but that's what we have available and they're happy to
(09:27):
get it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know, how many people are we talking about who
are affected by all of the things we're talking about
going on in the eastern part of the Navajo Reservation.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Well, I can't put a number on that. I can't say,
but for our water delivery since I've started, I mean,
we've grown probably from maybe about one hundred families to
about two hundred and fifty families that we serve that
we do deliver water too. And then monthly the families
that do come through our food pantry, I would say
(10:03):
probably about between two hundred and fifty three hundred average,
you know that would come through and get you know,
our food boxes that we have available if we have
them available at the time too.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So Gandhi your question, ask it again, because I think
it's very important.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
How do we fix this?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
How can we help?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Look, it's there's not an easy answer, okay, I mean
to put in an infrastructure, you're talking a trillion dollars
and so that's never going to happen. I think that
the best way is, you know, people to go to
our website make donations of five dollars, ten dollars, whatever
(10:44):
you're able to do, which helps us operate and run
these programs for these people that don't have any other way,
as thurman z, to get access to things. And I
want to say, you've got to think about water and
think about hygiene, and think about teenagers and how all
(11:08):
of that affects their mental health. And so you know,
forty gallons of water helps people stay, you know, with
good hygiene, and we have washing machines to wash clothes
for students. You know, there are various things that we
do to try to meet those needs. And suicide rates
(11:28):
are really high on the Navelahoo Reservation and so we're
also trying to address all of these mental health issues.
So it is a daily challenge for all of us
that are out there, but we love what we do.
And you know, if you're ever on your way to
the Grand Canyon, it's only about three hours from us. Yeah,
(11:49):
and so swing by through New Mexico and we'll show
you around. We'll take you to everything that we're doing
and really let you see the impact that your generosity
can actually make.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Wow, I'm sure the pandemic did not help at all.
I mean, remember the governor closed down Gallop the statehotwns
of Galluper Remember it was closed. Can you imagine having
a town that you can't get in or out of, Like,
what the what? But it's true. And now imagine how
that affected everyone out on the reservation. I mean it
must have been just devastating. And you're still paying the
(12:26):
price for that, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, yes, And you know, the thing about the pandemic was,
remember what was the number one way to keep yourself
safe outside of wearing a mask? Washing your hands, and
how do you wash hands without water? And so we
actually set up these hand washing stations and different parts
of the reservation, and then we were able to get
(12:48):
lots of donations of hand sanitizer. But you know, that
was and at one point the Navajo Nation had more
people dying from COVID than New York City, you know,
per population or per capita. But I mean, that's how
bad it was out there.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was really bad. Gosh, thank god those days are
in the rearview mirror. But still, like I said, being
paid for. Look, it's so simple to go to Saint
Bonaventure Mission dot com. I'll spell it for you. It's
of course Saint s A I N T and then
Bonaventure's b O n A V E N t U
r E Mission dot org. And we can put this
up on our our instagram right a Westerinshow Instagram on
(13:32):
behalf of the Elvistream morning show. We'd like to make
a contribution right now. But just because we're making this big,
fat ass contribution doesn't mean you can't make one more.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
We've been saying it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We know we have rich people listening out there.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We know we got billionaires listening.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Come on, Elvis, thank you very very much. But let
me just say it's actually Saint s t it's it's
it's not spelled out, so it's St. Bonaventuremission dot org.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I knew that I planted that to make you say that.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Who do all that money? I know?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Can you imagine the Saint Bonaventure St. B O n
A V E N t U r E Mission dot org.
All right, let's let's make a contribution of ten thousand
dollars right now to Saint Bonaventure. Thank you. But I'm
saying right now, don't say, well, Elvis made a donation,
so why should.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
We what you heard of it right now?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Look, you know what we the United States is so
so so well known for sending money around the world
to help people around the world. Let's talk about taking
care of people who are Americans, Native Americans, people who
are living right here, right in our the side yard, right.
I think that's a very important thing to remember. We're
talking the need of water, something we take for granted
(14:48):
beyond measure. Talking about food, education, hygiene, mental health. All
those things fall into place with what you can do
to help out now with Saint Bonaventure Mission dot org.
Do it immediately what you want to say.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I can attest the smiles that people would have on
their faces when they would be exiting their house.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Darlene's delivering the water.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
They leave their house, they meet the truck on the
road because they cannot wait to see this woman that's
bringing them food and water. It's just they are doing
such great work out there, and I really hope everybody
takes the time to make a five dollars ten dollars
donation to further this work because I've been there and
the smiles.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
That these people have, that the.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Energy that is at that school, and from what you
tell me, they go there and that's that's home for
them because sometimes their home life isn't so great, and
you guys are doing such great work and thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
So much for doing it. It's it's just amazing. You
guys are angels out there.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well. Thank you, thank you so much. We appreciate being here.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Chris Thurman, Carmen over there, Carmen, thank you, thanks for
having us enjoy New York City again. We will post
this on our Elvis durn Show Instagram account. Go check
it out. It's a Saint Bonava, Trremission dot Org and
Christian Thurman. God bless you. Thanks for coming to see us.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Thank you, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
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