Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

We're on Patreon! (2:12), spirits buoyed by a potential coronavirus vaccine, maybe (10:03), time expansion vs lamb jerky (17:35), Chuck E. Cheese delivering under a pseudonym (25:02), Michael Jordan's pizza game rewrite (37:02), episodes 9 and 10 of "The Last Dance" (42:17), do the 90s need new contextualization or should they be trapped in amber? (57:01), whether the key to Jordan's winning was.....

Shall we all become country mice? (10:35), covid inspires magical thinking (25:25), Kuo refuses to stop dabbing (31:22), can Michael Jordan salvage "The Last Dance" before it drops him out of the all-time top-10 forever? (38:56), in praise of anonymous stud Eddie Jones (1:13:04). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.

RIP Jerry Stiller (1:07), have we finally reached Apex Kuo? (6:15), quarantine fatigue (10:22), building a better New York City (17:05), Cravings: a kitchenware war (35:45), "The Last Dance" and Jordan's relationship with his father (52:33), calcified immaturity (58:22), complicated explanation of a playoff loss to the Magic (1:09:41) and prolonged focus on Pippen's misdeeds as a born beta (1:18:0...

Kuo eyes new garlic crushers (3:22), Met Gala cancellation and teetering celebrity infrastructure (15:22), J. Crew declares bankruptcy (27:11), Westworld finally ends reign of pointless, arcane confusion (37:52), the New York Knicks show up on "The Last Dance" (52:10), Jordan's flimsy explanations for lack of political involvement (1:05:11) and gambling issues (1:14:23) begin to create a compellin...

New Yorkers find themselves in a flyover state (1:13), food fatigue (11:30), Mountain Dew mouth (17:33), whether the pandemic gaming window has closed (35:12), Time Machine LeBron returns to detroy 1991 (43:21), relegated Knicks resist front office overhaul, keep Scott Perry in building (1:06:12), NCAA desperately toys with idea of athlete endorsements (1:18:42). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick,...

We have given coronavirus a fair shake, and quite frankly, we don't like it (3:25), angry butter bois mourn the loss of Native American cartoon characters (31:25), what exactly does "The Last Dance" hope to accomplish—and is it an effective Michael Jordan hagiography? (41:25), the Rodman Episode (2 minutes, before getting back to Jordan dunks), Marc Eversley hired as Chicago's general manager (1:1...

Kuo again defends eating over the sink like a wild beast, takes credit for animalistic "trend" (3:03), 21% of New Yorkers have already had corona, apparently (13:20), Prune: the past and future of dining in New York (22:15), Travis Scott's big Fortnight concert (40:15), the NFL Draft's lessons for the NBA (45:20), Draymond and Barkley are still sparring (58:31), self-serving mythologies of hard wo...

NYC's covid badge of honor (2:30), hazards of Twitter brain (14:15), nerdcore and master nerd-shamer Alex Trebek (24:01), remembering Gangsta Grillz (32:11), HBO...to the Max! (42:15), hindsight and reevaluating the greatness of Dennis Rodman (48:50), have boomers and the BMM poisoned young, impressionable, and now declining Giannis? (1:06:35). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and...

Happy Earth Day! (2:21), please let us be wage slaves (13:30), French Montana vs Kendrick Lamar (18:02), industry plants (33:34), Kuo faces off against art critics (45:02), the looper industry (49:33), Knicks hire capologist Brock Aller (1:00:36). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.

Kuo's wistful taco tour (2:02), the burnt sienna and umber conclusion of "The Plot Against America" (17:21), Mike Dean's spaced-out new album (24:22), "The Last Dance" leaks (38:03), Jordan attempts to burnish his legacy—but is it backfiring? (43:28), NBA's most old and toxic players (53:22), Ben Simmons gets the Boston media treatment and Detrick...responds (1:09:12). Cookies is hosted by Ben Det...

Happy 420! (1:30), Portland's chicken sandwich wars (9:02), the modern art of incessant scolding (26:30), Fiona Apple's new album (43:45), ESPN's Jordan-deifying docuseries "The Last Dance" debuts (53:45), redemption and corruption of Jerry "Crumbs" Krause (1:05:12), glorying the 80s is cool until you need to show clips from the 80s (1:13:32). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and...

Adjusting to our loser new normal (3:40), itching for a bucolic yokel existence (10:50), remember...wilding out (20:25), boomers shame working from home outfits—but maybe they're right (28:21), generational hardships (38:22), "Who Let the Dogs Out?" documentary (43:38), NBA is hiding data...but why? (51:33), whether the can NCAA stage a counter-insurgency against the NBA (1:01:14). Cookies is host...

Checking in on the breaking and entering industry (2:22), masks...by gubernatorial decree (8:03), should we open up America? (23:25), Keith McNally's empire loses Lucky Strike (34:44), boomer Michael Jordan take-mudslide looms on the horizon (54:15), winners and losers of a 3-point line change (1:01:22), Jalen Green and the G-League path to professional prosperity (1:20:31). Cookies is hosted by B...

Where are the men of action? (2:33), Obama attempts to mend fences between the centrists and left-wing (21:02), heist movies, metaphors and creativity under covid (47:33), Luka can't shoot—but spacing is weird these days (57:02), Josh Smith butterfly effect (1:10:32), Bill Laimbeer, big truth-teller (1:14). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.  

The food supply chain swings low (3:02), Jerry Saltz hoards coffees (12:33), what kind of social isolationist are you? (17:15), big covid drip (24:02), baseball returns to Taiwan (39:21), down goes Forman! (55:07). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.    

Apparently, the worst is over? (1:30), Primo vs RZA beat battle (26:15), "Stress" and "Ego Trip" (45:22), NBA's glitchy H.O.R.S.E. tournament (57:02), desserts, apps and entrees are for the sus (1:11:34). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

Detrick might be a Sufi now (2:30), Kuo is doing his own "True Detective Rewatch" pod (19:02), was "The X-Files" sexist for making Scully always wrong? (27:20), a long requiem for the wonder of the Mid-2000s (37:22), Harden vs the legends of free throw shooting (58:33), The Art of Giving Up (1:15:02). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick...

Open workspaces (3:22), Kuo struggles with pizza cravings and civic responsibility (8:02), joggers on the sidewalk: corona vector or just evil subhumans? (20:02), athleisure is dead, long live athleisure (38:33), travel dress codes (47:02), Colangelo resurfaces (52:02), Chicago hires a Lithuanian man (1:06:02). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

Real talk about canned tomatoes (4:30), Bernie bows out, defeated by youthful, charisma-seeping juggernaut with an undeniable message (12:40), what to make of new streaming content Quibi (43:02), Boom-Bap and hoops parallels (53:22), Basketball Twitter needs a wartime consigliere (59:33), revisiting the 60-win 2015 Atlanta Hawks (1:05:44). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andr...

Self-improvement goes stagnant under shelter-at-home (2:22), short story...bias (6:43), reign of the flu food-fluencers (16:55), tiresome endurance of Roseanne and other washed celebs of yore (26:44), NBA Draft restrictions (38:22), champion Celtics vs champion Pistons: But why are we always talking about one of them? (55:24), Bucks, Raptors and 2020 storyline erasure (59:42). Cookies is hosted by...

Cruising New York's empty streets (2:20), even tigers get the Rona (16:20), a grim but unsurprising heat map (21:45), will post-pandemic New York become a bohemian xanadu? (35:22), looks like venal middlemen are at it again! (41:03), the Chicago Bulls finally pull the plug on Gar-Pax front office (1:00:22), Iverson and T-Mac could have been teammates (1:15:33), H.O.R.S.E. is never interesting, but...

An appreciation of the enduring food chain (10:22), Zoom meetings (14:44), Drake's terrifying, uninhabitable house (18:54), more reminiscing about rappers, plus kidnappings (28:43), LaMelo buys his Australian team as the BBB insurrection continues (36:32), NBA's 2K2020 tournament kicks off (50:22), Duncan vs Garnett revisited, with Detrick turning on one of them (1:01). Cookies is hosted by Ben De...

On Cookies' 200th episode, we discuss vintage jersey collections (3:30), skyrocketing unemployment (8:04), food-based attitude adjustments (13:30), Kuo remaining unapologetic about eating over the sink (21:44), reading the room during a pandemic (29:32), Scott Storch vs Mannie Fresh (36:22), New York Knicks' alleged interest in carb-on-carb size baron Elton Brand (48:45), erasing Iverson (59:21),...

April Fool's Day pranks: cancelled or necessary? (1:30), free our sweet tattletale king Tekashi69! (8:30), various stories—and celeb namedrops—about rappers and clubs (13:20), welcome to the era of the beat battle (27:12), HBO's "The Scheme" and NCAA recruiting scandals (44:02), Iverson vs Nash (54:11), Nets still star-hunting, just like everyone else (1:19:23). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, J...

Mask...on? (1:10), assorted healthcare debating (14:33), "Ozark" season 3 (31:33), FX's "Devs" and dreamy, tech sci-fi (36:02) which leads to a discussion of "Annihilation (43:04), ESPN pushes up new documentary about '90s Chicago Bulls (47:22), fantastic ideas for other NBA team docs (56:02), what was the deal with the 2006 Miami Heat? (1:04:32), here is your New York Knicks rebuild pod! (1:17:21...