Famous Amos

And so I go off on this odyssey for about... another three and a half years.

And that is, I see that there is a franchise, I buy a bake shop franchise, famous Amos cookie bake shops.

They were a really big deal when I was in college, not the bake shops, And so I do that.

And by the time it's all said and done, guys, after a year, my wife had left me.

was like, my fucking God.

apparently it was a take on Famous Amos so whoever the hell that is I have no idea who Famous Amos is but there we are it was a take on that but apparently the studio wanted a up and comer and Larry's like nope I want somebody who knows what they're doing so he hired Garrett Morris and the up and comer was oh my god uh oh my god wait wait wait wait my brain has went to shit tonight my god and yeah great it was basically eddie murphy's best friend the one that had the talk show um fuck his name hall arsenio hall that's who the studio wanted and larry's like no i heard of him i'll go with somebody more accomplished so they went with snl's garrett morris who I've got to say, by the way, what is his deal? Because, I'll put it into perspective here.

Mo goes to some little podunk town in somewhere arse end of America.

He finds out it's a post office and there's a JAG, an old Type 2 JAG.

All right.

Famous Amos.

Real.

Aunt Jemima.

The

big cook.

Anyway, Famous Amos was a real guy from, I think, Oakland, California.

Betty Crocker made up.

He got injured.

And he was stuck with famous Amos Cookies.

And we saw that he wasn't able to help the Giants that much.

They only put up 12 points.

It's for science because-

And I'm a scientist

... we are scientists.

Um, we didn't have these when, when we were kids.

You mean, like, in our house?

And I think a lot of that really comes from their influence.

And so all those years later, when he starts Famous Amos, it is really about him chasing kind of the memories and the feelings that he had as a young boy living with Aunt Della up in the Bronx.

you've been listening to sarah amos tell the story of her father wally and what a story it is indeed and so many of these stories we do from the great duke ellington and even madam cj walker when we do them are sort of not just racial histories of america not just economic stories but there are just clear and simple american history stories we're getting a look at america through this one man's life.

And my goodness, growing up in Tallahassee in 1936 was tough.

Is there bad blood between you and the Comets as you guys meet again in the championship?

Oh, we're coming back to win.

And we're back with Our American Stories and with the story of Famous Amos.

When we last left off, a young Wally had moved from Tallahassee to New York, where his Aunt Della introduced him to chocolate chip cookies.

I might have one in my bag.

It's like the famous Amos.

You

might have a

Fig Newton.

Chips Ahoy.

Famous Amos.

Come on.