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<p>Meet Wally Amos. He founded the ubiquitous Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies in 1975, turning the brand into an overnight sensation and himself into a pop-culture fixture in the 1970s and 1980s.</p><p>But there’s a darker side to Wally’s seemingly sweet story. One filled with five marriages to six women and a string of bad business decisions that led him to lose the empire he had created.</p><p>When he passed away in 2024, host Sarah Amos set out to untangle her father’s complicated past and finally face the life and legacy she had been avoiding.</p><p>New episodes every Wednesday: <a href="http://swap.fm/l/vf-toughcookie-feed"><strong>swap.fm/l/vf-toughcookie-feed</strong></a></p>
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