You know, I used to always talk to her about what I wanted to do and she would just tell me if you want to do something, you just do it.

So like, it isn't about thinking about it or figuring out any other, just figure out what you want to do and she got your mind stuck to it, just figure out how you're going to do it.

And I always, since having that talk with her, I've always felt like no matter what it was, if I sat down and just thought for a long enough time,

then I'd be able to come up with a solution

to whatever I'm trying to figure out. So I think that it really just helped me to be

who I am now because now I believe that anything I think I want to happen can

happen. I feel like I have a good touch with with myself. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made

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Stanley for three and heobs in another one.

Twenty-three for Amoude.

Stanley Amoude has had a long journey to Arkansas,

quite literally.

The son of Nigerian immigrants,

he's the only member of his family, which includes two older siblings, who was born in America, and that led to a unique upbringing.

You know, it was definitely different for us, like I would say the food that we eat and certain things like that, the parties we go to, and, you know, just the culture, just the Nigerian culture that we live every day.

That life would take Amoude from Oregon to San Antonio where he discovered

basketball but an injury in high school left him under-recruited and he ended up

signing at South Dakota. Every morning I would get up and I would literally go look out the window

and just be like, wow, I'm in South Dakota.

Like, it's snowing again.

Yeah, it's snowing again.

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