The Pickle Podcast #32 - Tony Nour - Running it all together

I'm a South Dakota guy.

I graduated high school.

of Armor, 100 miles west of here.

Okay, so straight

west? Yeah, just east of the river.

Okay.

Between Parkston and Platte.

But yeah, love South Dakota.

Stayed in state for undergrad at Dakota State.

Yeah, so let's start kind of where out in Armor family.

yeah so a dad immigrated here when he was 16 he's palestinian okay from israel my mother is a dutch german farm girl from hitchcock okay so i and what

brought dad to south dakota

a better life okay um and uh the events that are happening right now are emblematic right that was emblematic of why he came here

he decided to

come you go back even further in the 60s the six-day war and the history of the middle east but uh yeah so he found his way here had an older brother that was already here but what got him to south dakota uh his older brother made it here okay his older brother had uh Ended up in Texas at first and then made it to South Dakota here on college and brought his younger brother over who had dropped out after eighth grade and got him into high school.

Was able to get him on his path to citizenship.

Wow.

So was it

agriculture? No,

ended up going to school.

for criminal justice of all things.

I don't know that he really knew what he was going after at that point, but met my mother while in school.

Of course, Huron, Hitchcock are only 20-some miles apart.

And yeah, so 50-some years later, they're

still