Episode 1631
GOLD STAR RIDE FOUNDATION – Anthony “Token Squid” Price part 1
GOLD STAR RIDE FOUNDATION Anthony “Token Squid” Price
part 1
Pastor Bob Thibodeau welcomes listeners to a profound dialogue centered on honoring the sacrifices of Gold Star families through the lens of Anthony "Token Squid" Price's heartfelt mission. As the executive director of the Gold Star Ride Foundation, Anthony has traversed a staggering 141,000 miles across the United States, meeting with families who have endured the harrowing loss of service members. His narrative is one of compassion and dedication, marked by personal encounters that have left indelible impressions. He recounts his transformative experience, which began when he first learned about Gold Star families, highlighting the emotional weight carried by those who have lost loved ones in the line of duty. The episode delves into Anthony's motivations, which stem from a deep-seated desire to provide support and recognition to these families, showcasing how small acts of kindness can lead to significant changes in their lives. Through his stories, listeners gain insights into the broader implications of military service and the importance of community in healing grief, rendering a vivid portrayal of resilience in the face of loss.
Takeaways:
- Pastor Bob Thibodeau's Kingdom Crossroads Podcast showcases impactful stories from Christian influencers dedicated to the gospel.
- Anthony "Token Squid" Price, a disabled Navy veteran, exemplifies dedication to honoring Gold Star families through personal connections.
- The Gold Star Ride Foundation, under Anthony's leadership, emphasizes the importance of supporting families who have lost loved ones in military service.
- The episode highlights the profound impact of community support on Gold Star families, transforming grief into hope and resilience.
- Through his motorcycle journeys, Anthony has traveled extensively to meet Gold Star families, fostering a spirit of camaraderie and remembrance.
- The conversation also touches on the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing resilience and adaptation in honoring fallen heroes.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: info@goldstarride.org
Website: https://www.goldstarride.org
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Transcript
Welcome to the Kingdom Crossroads Podcast with Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Speaker A:Pastor Bob conducts personal interviews with Christian influencers from around the globe, helping Christian authors, recording artists, CEOs, entrepreneurs, non profit leaders and yes pastors and ministry leaders to get the word out about what they are doing to impact the world with the gospel.
Speaker A:Our podcast has been rated in the top 1/2% of all podcasts in the world by ListenNotes.com so you know your message will be heard.
Speaker A:Now here is your host with today's interview, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Speaker B:Hello everyone everywhere.
Speaker B:Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.
Speaker B:Welcome to the Kingdom Crossroads podcast.
Speaker B:Today we're so blessed that you're joining us.
Speaker B: In the summer of: Speaker B:And since that day, that one man has worked tirelessly to find a means and method to do anything to promote the honor of any of the Gold Star families in the United States.
Speaker B:Today we are honored to have Anthony Tolkensquid Price, a Desert Storm era disabled Navy veteran, executive director of the Gold Star Ride Foundation.
Speaker B:His non profit is dedicated to honoring Gold Star families.
Speaker B:Those who've lost loved ones in the military service.
Speaker B:Case you didn't know what that was.
Speaker B:By delivering personal support on a motorcycle, Anthony has traveled over 141,000 miles visiting all 50 states.
Speaker B:He's met over 539 Gold Star families.
Speaker B: e Gold Star Ride Foundation's: Speaker B:And he's here to share his story, the powerful stories that he's encountered.
Speaker B:I'm telling you folks, you're gonna like this.
Speaker B:And how we can all, all of us can honor our fallen heroes with all that Help me welco the program.
Speaker B:Anthony Price.
Speaker B:Anthony, it is a blessing to have you with us today and share all about the Gold Star Ride Foundation.
Speaker B:I appreciate your time today.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker C:And with an introduction like that, there's only really I thank you very much for having me.
Speaker C:I'll see you next time.
Speaker C:Wow, that was, that was quite an introduction.
Speaker C:I do have to make a correction.
Speaker C:One little correction.
Speaker C:I have not made it to 50 states.
Speaker C:I've made it to 48 states and Washington D.C.
Speaker C:i have not made it to.
Speaker C:I have not ridden My motorcycle to Hawaii, and I have not ridden my motorcycle.
Speaker B:I'm sure there's a barge that allow, you know, set up a track on it and just go around in circles till you get there.
Speaker C:You know, I, I often say I'm just waiting for the commander in chief to build the bridge that.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker C:San Diego to Hawaii.
Speaker C:And I'll just take the bridge.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think that was in the plans till the CREEP Key Bridge fell here.
Speaker B:Now they're shifting all the money to rebuild that thing.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker C:Yeah, I, I, I don't know.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:I don't know anything about the Key Bridge either, so.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:The first question I always start with is, other than that brief information I just shared, can you tell us in your own words, who is Anthony Tolkien Squid Price?
Speaker C:I don't know who I am.
Speaker C:I just know what I do.
Speaker C:You know, I, I, I can tell you a couple of humorous anecdotes.
Speaker C:Here's one.
Speaker C:My parents were married for 73 years.
Speaker C:My father passed away.
Speaker C:Man, my father passed away three years and a month ago.
Speaker C:My mother is still living by herself down in the town where I grew up in, and not in the same house that I grew up in, but right next to it.
Speaker C:So she's been there forever.
Speaker C:And I'm the ninth child in a family that had 13 kids.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:So that's, I stay busy.
Speaker C:That's who I.
Speaker C:Well, they stayed busy.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:And then I started being.
Speaker C:I started my own business and doing my own, my own thing, and I did it for a handful of years, and then I joined the United States Navy and I had my 25th birthday in boot camp.
Speaker B:So praise the Lord.
Speaker B:I'm sure they gave you a proper birthday party.
Speaker C:No, no, they didn't.
Speaker C:They didn't give me a proper birthday party.
Speaker C:But everybody else that was, I was in boot camp with, they were all 17 and 18 years, so they all called me Grandpa.
Speaker B:Yeah, my nickname was Pops.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I was.
Speaker C:That was the only time in my life I've ever been called Grandpa.
Speaker C:It hasn't happened since.
Speaker C:I don't have any grandkids.
Speaker C:Between my wife and myself, we have seven kids but no grandchildren.
Speaker C:Yeah, nothing yet.
Speaker B:Y.
Speaker C:Anyway, that's kind of.
Speaker B:Grandkids are a lot better than the regular kids, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker C:That's what I've been told.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You can kind of like just give them back anytime you want.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But when they start acting up.
Speaker B:Okay, time to go home.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And Then like you said, in, in about 13 years ago, some guys asked me if I want to go for a motorcycle ride.
Speaker C:And I've been a motorcycle enthusiast since.
Speaker C:Are you ready for this?
Speaker C:I've been a motorcycle enthusiast since Richard Nixon was popular.
Speaker B:That's about when I was riding bikes.
Speaker C:So, so I've been riding bikes ever since.
Speaker C:In fact, there's a little bit of sad news here.
Speaker C:About three weeks ago, the friend that I had growing up who had the motorcycle, first motorcycle I ever rode, he passed away three weeks ago.
Speaker C:So there was a, kind of a tough loss there.
Speaker C:But, yeah, so I've been riding motorcycles for a long time.
Speaker C:And 13 years ago, some guy said, hey, you want to go for a motorcycle ride?
Speaker C:And I said, sure.
Speaker C:We end up in a cul de sac in front of some house.
Speaker C:And I'm like, what the hell are we doing here?
Speaker C:Because, you know, when you get together with a group of motorcycles and you all go for a ride, the first stop is usually a bar.
Speaker C:You know, let's go get a cold one or something like that.
Speaker C:So that's what I was anticipating.
Speaker C:Not that I, I, I haven't had a drink on a motorcycle in 35 or 40 years, but that doesn't mean I don't drink.
Speaker C:That just means I don't drink on the motorcycle.
Speaker C:Anyway, I was surprised that we were stopping in front of somebody's house, and the leader of the group comes, brings a woman out the front door of the house and tells her story and how she married her high school sweetheart, he joined the army on the buddy system, and the buddy stepped on an IED and turned into that fine pink mist that you hear so much about.
Speaker C:And her husband was then wearing his best friend.
Speaker C:And that's, that's not something we want to wish on anybody.
Speaker C:The short version of this story is that they put him in the VA hospital in Los Angeles.
Speaker C:And at that time, because this was a long time ago, at that time it was 60 days is all they allowed in.
Speaker C:In the hospital for post traumatic stress, they said, don't let the door hit you in a butt on the way out.
Speaker C:And he lasted about six days on the street.
Speaker C:And now this woman that we're standing, all these bikers are standing in front of this woman in front of this house listening to this story.
Speaker C:And she's looking at being a welfare mom.
Speaker C:She's got two little kids there, and she's got no way or means to support them.
Speaker C:Because back in those days, the military did not recognize post traumatic stress or taking Your own life as part of the military Covenant.
Speaker C:Back in those days, as you probably remember, back in those days, you were government property.
Speaker C:You can't hurt government property.
Speaker C:Can't be.
Speaker C:Can't be destroying any government property.
Speaker C:Anyway, that sense changed.
Speaker C:But I watched.
Speaker C:I watched these 75 or 85 motorcyclists.
Speaker C:They're all standing.
Speaker C:There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Speaker C:You know, all these bikers, just bikers, bikers, bikers.
Speaker C:Leather tattoos, ear piercings, cigarettes, dangling bandanas, leather vests, the smell of oil, the smell of gasoline, the smell of burnt rubber.
Speaker C:All of this stuff was there.
Speaker C:And they all opened up their wallets and put that young lady back to college.
Speaker C:And today she's a productive member of her society.
Speaker C:And that event had such a profound impact on me.
Speaker C:First of all, before we got to her house, I didn't know what a Gold Star family was.
Speaker C:You know, that's not something that they teach you in.
Speaker C:In basic training.
Speaker C:They don't go out and say, yeah, when you die, when you get killed, your family gets to be known as Gold Stars.
Speaker C:You know, it's not a moniker that anybody wants.
Speaker C:But anyway, I.
Speaker C:I fell in love with the concept.
Speaker C:I recognized in, for me personally, that this was a deep and profound mission that I was going to be on.
Speaker C:I didn't know what it was going to look like.
Speaker C:I just knew I was going to be doing something for Gold Star families moving forward.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker C:And I've been doing something for Gold Star families ever since.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:You know, I heard the story about how you got your nickname token Squid.
Speaker B:Could you share that with our audience?
Speaker B:I loved it.
Speaker B:I started laughing when I heard.
Speaker C:You know, it's kind of funny.
Speaker C:I'm gonna.
Speaker C:I'm gonna preface the story with this.
Speaker C:And then we put this up here because your.
Speaker C:Your.
Speaker C:Your podcast is video.
Speaker B:It's audio and visual.
Speaker C:Audio, visual, visual.
Speaker C:So here's the little visual.
Speaker C:And for those of you who are listening in the audio and you're not looking at the visual, what I'm holding in my hand is a cartridge box.
Speaker C:This is an ammunition box that the Marines might use in the field.
Speaker C:Okay?
Speaker C:The United States Marine Corps.
Speaker C:But this one is a little bit different because when I slide it open, you see it's filled with color crayons.
Speaker C:Okay?
Speaker C:All of the Marines in the house are going to start laughing now.
Speaker C:And they're going, okay, wait a minute.
Speaker C:So the laughter will start with the Marine Corps and.
Speaker C:And a handful of people who, who remember that the.
Speaker C:The Marines have been Teased a lot as of late, all the time.
Speaker C:Color grants for lunch.
Speaker C:So I'm going to start the story with that.
Speaker C:And then a friend of mine, his name is.
Speaker C:His name.
Speaker C:His name is Colonel Bob Steffensen, retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel.
Speaker C:He decided about 25 years ago that he wanted to host a.
Speaker C:A casual Marine birthday party.
Speaker C:It started out with five guys getting together in a bar.
Speaker C:25 years later, they take over the whole bar.
Speaker C:There's 350 Marines there.
Speaker C:He brings out his.
Speaker C:His sword from his dress uniform to ceremoniously cut the birthday cake.
Speaker C:And everybody has a piece of cake and everybody has a lot of fun in the bar.
Speaker C: ,: Speaker C:You might, might remember that from your high school history dates.
Speaker C:Anyway, there's a couple of guys getting drunk in a bar and they said, let's start our own fighting force.
Speaker C:And they became what we now today know as the Marines.
Speaker C:Ton Tavern, I think was the name of the bar where it started, which was in.
Speaker C:Outside of Boston, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker C:But the original Sun Tavern has burned down 100 years ago, so it's not there anymore.
Speaker C:But they rebuilt it in the Marine Museum outside of Washington D.C.
Speaker C:so you can go there.
Speaker C:And I've been there and I've had a drink.
Speaker C:Anyway, because the Marines started in a bar, they're having a casual Marine birthday party in a bar.
Speaker C:And I started going to this birthday party, the Marine birthday party.
Speaker C:I think I've gone for 11 years in a row or 12 years in a row now, because when I was introduced to it, I went in there not knowing what to think.
Speaker C:I was like, well, I've been to a bar before, but I'd never been to a bar that had 100% Marines in it.
Speaker C:And the party just overwhelmed me and it was just so much fun.
Speaker C:And every Marine in there walked up to me and he said, oh, you're Navy.
Speaker C:Because, you know, they can see my crow.
Speaker C:There's.
Speaker C:There's my crowd.
Speaker C:They see my crow and they say, oh, you were Navy, you must have been a corpsman.
Speaker C:Nope, it wasn't a corpsman, because.
Speaker C:Corpsman.
Speaker C:Navy corpsman.
Speaker C:The Marines consider them attached to the Marines.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, they're attached to the Marines.
Speaker C:So Navy Corpsman, they call them.
Speaker C:You know, every one of them is called Doc, right?
Speaker C:And yeah, they're attached to the Marines.
Speaker C:Well, nope, not a corpsman, just a Navy guy who likes to hang out with the Marines at the Marine birthday party.
Speaker C:Anyway, fast forward a couple of years, and Bob Stephenson got himself a radio interview.
Speaker C:He called into the local radio station here.
Speaker C:I'm in the Minneapolis St.
Speaker C:Paul market.
Speaker C:So he called into the local classic rock radio station.
Speaker C:He's talking to the dj, who at the time his name was Tom.
Speaker C:So Bob and Tom are talking to each other on the phone, and Bob's telling Tom all about, come on out to the Marine birthday party.
Speaker C:You don't have to be a Marine, but if you are a Marine, come on out and have a great time at the Marine birthday party.
Speaker C:And he says, well, Tom, you know Tony Price, right?
Speaker C:And Tom says, well, yeah, I know Tony.
Speaker C:I've had him on the, on my program here.
Speaker C:We've talked about the Gold Star Ride foundation on the radio.
Speaker C:So, yeah, I know Tony Price.
Speaker C:And Bob says, yeah, Tony's going to be there.
Speaker C:He's our Token Squid.
Speaker C:And I happen to be listening to it.
Speaker C:That day.
Speaker C:I was actually listening to the radio program, and I pull out my telephone and I got Tom's private cell phone number and I sent him a quick test text message that says, oh, great, now I'm reduced to Token Squid.
Speaker C:And he read that text message to Bob on the air.
Speaker C:And so it became a little bit, A little bit funny.
Speaker C:But I've been known as the Token Squid ever since.
Speaker B:Well, you know, in the military, when they give their nicknames, you know, like, you know, Maverick and all that other stuff, Right.
Speaker B:Those are bogus.
Speaker B:You know, usually it's something that's embarrassing.
Speaker B:You know, they, you know, they, they, you know, did something stupid and, you know, you know, sure.
Speaker B:That's where the nickname comes from.
Speaker C:Well, sure, there's a fair amount.
Speaker B:And Squid became yours because you're hanging them out with a bunch of grunts.
Speaker B:The only, you're the only one that had any brains in the place.
Speaker B:They got to make fun of you.
Speaker C:Well, that could be.
Speaker C:There's, there's a, There's a lot to that.
Speaker B:Excuse me, that's the army and me.
Speaker B:Speak and see.
Speaker C:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker C:And, you know, bikers.
Speaker C:Bikers and military.
Speaker C:Those two sections of the population cross over more than.
Speaker C:More than any other two sections of our society.
Speaker C:Bikers and, and, and veterans.
Speaker C:More veterans are bikers and more bikers are veterans than any other two groups that you can come up with.
Speaker B:Yeah, I seen, you know, this is probably a couple years ago.
Speaker B:I can't I think we're may have been down at the inner harbor here in Baltimore or something, but there was several bikers down there.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker B:And I seen, you know, like, patches, you know, and some of them had military patches.
Speaker C:Vet.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:And I seen one had a drill sergeant patch.
Speaker B:And, you know, this guy, he's looking the biker part, you know, I mean, he's walking down the sidewalk.
Speaker B:People are taking the kids inside the stores and stuff.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Say, how you doing, drill?
Speaker B:He turned around, looked at me.
Speaker B:See my hat?
Speaker B:You know, he goes, hey.
Speaker B:You know, we just started talking on the street.
Speaker B:People walking all.
Speaker B:You know, they're giving us 10, 15ft walking around us and stuff.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, these cold winter days, and this is a cold winter day here where I'm at.
Speaker C:But on these cold winter days, one of my favorite things to set up for myself when I have to go to the grocery store, I will put on my leather motorcycle jacket and my vest and my bandana.
Speaker C:Always have a red bandana.
Speaker C:Red to remember everyone deployed.
Speaker C:But I always have my red bandana.
Speaker C:And then this is how I dress to go to the grocery store.
Speaker C:And I'll be pushing that cart right now.
Speaker C:Push it around the corner, and I'll watch.
Speaker C:Everybody would just clear out of the whole, you know, and I.
Speaker C:I doubt.
Speaker C:I doubt that you can find anybody with a whole lot less compassion than I have for my fellow human beings.
Speaker C:Yeah, you know, I'm.
Speaker C:I'm a really, really nice guy.
Speaker C:I'm not afraid to give hugs.
Speaker C:I'm, you know, I'm.
Speaker C:I'm, you know, I'm kind of a big teddy bears, kind of, sort of.
Speaker C:I've never really referred to myself that way, so it felt a little uncomfortable coming out of my mouth.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But, you know, I'm a super nice guy.
Speaker C:I'll talk to anybody.
Speaker C:But I get to the grocery store wearing my biker gear, and I go around the court, and they just clear path.
Speaker C:You know, I can get in and out of the grocery store really quickly.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:When Covid, you know, when they first, you know, really were shutting everything down and stuff, and I went into the grocery store.
Speaker B:You know, everyone's staying there.
Speaker B:You know, it says 6ft.
Speaker B:They're staying like 12ft apart.
Speaker B:And, you know.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:And they're going down the middle of the aisle.
Speaker B:You know, I mean, it just.
Speaker B:And I turn off, man, and I got a little something my throat.
Speaker B:You know, everybody had their mask on.
Speaker B:Like, man, they up against the head, and I just walked right down the middle of the aisle.
Speaker B:I came out, I said, I know the secret of getting out of the grocery store quickly now.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker C:There's a.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's a lot of that.
Speaker C:There's.
Speaker C:There.
Speaker C:There was a lot of it.
Speaker C:There's.
Speaker C:It's not.
Speaker C:We're fortunate that we've kind of mostly outgrown it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C: g that time frame that was in: Speaker C:I think that was the second week in March when he made that announcement.
Speaker C:And I might be mixing up the words, that's okay.
Speaker C:But anyway, he saw.
Speaker C:The first week that he.
Speaker C:After he made that announcement, I said, as the executive director of the Gold Star Ride foundation, all right, we're going to stop.
Speaker C:We're not going to ride all over the country.
Speaker C:We're going to take advantage or we're going to honor the.
Speaker C:The guidelines that have been put before us.
Speaker C:So for a week, we didn't go anywhere.
Speaker C:We didn't plan to go anywhere.
Speaker C:And then a week later, I looked in the mirror and I said, who's in charge here?
Speaker C:What's going on?
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:And it was, in my opinion, insane for us to stop living our lives because somebody sneezed.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker C:And it, you know, I get it.
Speaker C:Covid was a nasty thing.
Speaker C:Is a nasty thing.
Speaker C:I get it.
Speaker C:Some people die from it.
Speaker C:Jack lalanne died from, ostensibly what would have been Covid.
Speaker C:He died before COVID But.
Speaker C:And I don't know if you remember Jack Lane or not, but for you young people, Jacqueline Lane was the original fitness guru.
Speaker C:But anyway, he.
Speaker C:He died in 96 of.
Speaker C:Of influenza.
Speaker C:They had an infection in his lungs.
Speaker C:Guy was working out every day.
Speaker C:They couldn't.
Speaker C:They couldn't stop his heart from beating.
Speaker C:They had to stop his air from flowing.
Speaker C:Anyway, a week later, we just said, screw that.
Speaker C:If the Gold Star family says don't come because Covid, then we won't come.
Speaker C:If the Gold Star family says wear a mask when you come, then we'll wear a mask.
Speaker C:But otherwise, we're on the road and we're doing it.
Speaker C:And you know what?
Speaker C:I don't know how much I can openly quote the Bible.
Speaker C:I might not actually be able to quote the Bible.
Speaker C:I just kind of know bits and pieces of the Bible.
Speaker C:But there's a.
Speaker C:One of my favorite things to remember that I learned from the Bible was Jesus saying, you know, not the day nor the hour, it'll come like a thief in the Night.
Speaker C:And what that means to me is if Covid's going to kill me, then Covid's going to kill me, and the mask ain't going to make a bit of difference.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's.
Speaker B:That was my attitude when I was in the military.
Speaker B:And as a cop, you know, my wife heard it over and over.
Speaker B:So I tell them, you know, I could die of a heart attack sitting in this rocking chair.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker B:Shot or step on mine, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker B:When the time's up, the time's up.
Speaker C:Yes, I have a heart attack story for you, too.
Speaker C:Anyway, the.
Speaker C:The end of that little recap that I was just making there is I ended up in a little place out by you.
Speaker C:I was in Worcester.
Speaker C:Worcester, Massachusetts.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Took care of some gold star.
Speaker C:Two different gold star families there in Worcester.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:And I pulled into the parking lot where there were three hotels that all basically kind of sort of shared parking space in that town.
Speaker C:Which is.
Speaker C:Which is not far from you, right?
Speaker C:You've probably been there.
Speaker B:No, that's.
Speaker B:That's up the road a couple hours, so.
Speaker C:Oh, that's.
Speaker C:I go a couple hours to get milk.
Speaker C:Anyway, I get out my phone, and I use my app so I can get the best price on the hotel.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:Best price on hotel.
Speaker C:Okay, there it is.
Speaker C:Oh, there's the hotel right there.
Speaker C:I'm already parked, so I kickstand down, go into the hotel.
Speaker C:I got my bag with me, and just an overnight bag, and I said, I'm here to check in.
Speaker C:I paid for the hotel room in the parking lot there.
Speaker C:I'm just here to check in.
Speaker C:And they said, okay, where's your letter?
Speaker C:They said, what letter?
Speaker C:He said, you have to have a letter from your boss that says that travel for you is mandatory in order for me to give you a room.
Speaker C:I said, really?
Speaker C:I have to have a letter from my boss?
Speaker C:Give me a piece of paper and a pen.
Speaker C:I'll write one.
Speaker C:I'm the executive director of this charity organization, and I'm taking care of gold star families.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Here.
Speaker C:Anyway, I.
Speaker C:I explained to him that I was taking care of gold star families, and I was the executive director.
Speaker C:And he said, okay, we'll.
Speaker C:We'll let the letter go.
Speaker C:And I basically had the hotel to myself.
Speaker C:There was.
Speaker C:There was.
Speaker C:I think there was one other guest in that whole hotel.
Speaker C:And I was like, this is not the way we were intended to live.
Speaker B:Hey, folks, Pastor Bob here.
Speaker B:What a time for today's portion of this great interview with Anthony Price.
Speaker B:As he's been sharing with us some of the stories that from his Gold Star Ride Foundation.
Speaker B:Now, I encourage you.
Speaker B:Drop down the show notes.
Speaker B:Click the links right there.
Speaker B:Reach out to Anthony.
Speaker B:Send a donation.
Speaker B:This group is fabulous.
Speaker B:I'm telling you right now, there's not many groups that are going around doing what he's doing, just meeting with the Gold Star veterans, giving them that sense of love, letting them know that their loss really did matter.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Praise God for him and this organization.
Speaker B:Drop down the show notes.
Speaker B:Reach out to him.
Speaker B:But be sure to come back in the very next episode as we'll dive into part two.
Speaker B:Till then, this is Pastor Bob reminding you.
Speaker B:Be blessed in all that you do.
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