Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

Writer Jonah Weiner of Blackbird Spyplane joins Cookies Hoops to discuss hiking fit checks (3:18), Bay Area vibes (9:15), Keith McNally vs Graydon Carter as New York heals (20:01), what do these geriatric millennials want? (35:01), BBSP's color of the year (43:05), aesthetic coffeehouse predictions (53:24), what's beef: factory farming (1:08:24), viral food horrors (1:13:36), Westbrook vs Embiid (...

New episodes drop first on our Patreon page! Kuo's art show closes (1:40), why are Uber and Lyft so freaking expensive? (18:25), subways are back to running 24 hours a day (24:02), Mare of Easttown episode 5 with spoilers (37:39), Kwame Brown takes on all haters (45:31), what makes an NBA player a bust (55:33), Chris Webber makes the Hall of Fame (1:03:37), is Julius Randle the best Knick since Pa...

The CDC has liberated us from Soros muzzles (2:05) and elbow bumps (13:25), Dimes Square tours (25:03), the Mare of Easttown (45:21) with spoilers (54:21), Knicks potential playoff opponents (1:01:01), the play-in tournament is unfair and stupid but we like it (1:14:32). 

New episodes drop on Patreon first! It's Frieze art week! (3:05), Yachty and Yams (12:02), Keith McNally logs on (17:25), pandemic shower habits go lamestream (34:05), ska...is healing (39:17), do denim nerds still exist? (42:01), Alife closes (44:02), did this NBA season suck? (59:02), if mental health is the new wanting it more (1:08:33), Lakers in jeopardy of a play-in game (1:28:03), anti-big...

Subscribe to the Cookies Hoops Patreon to hear new episodes of the perfect pod as soon as they drop! On 293: An existential threat to the Clandestino cheese plate (9:33), end of the curfew (19:33), masks gone...or masks forever? (24:33), Black Rob, Shock G and DMX (42:33), the surging Wizards (1:05:33), Dr J's top 10 and the BMM (1:24:33), superteams (1:34:33). 

Living in a cashless society (5:35), pasta technology (17:03), Derek Chauvin is convicted (23:05), the Knicks are streaking (47:40) and will Zion join them? (50:12), the city-less Brooklyn Nets (59:35), MVP darkhorse candidates like Curry and Lillard (1:03:44), Kobe sneakers (1:20:15), Chris Paul worship (1:30:31). 

Midnight curfews (2:10), does work...suck? (13:25), our predictable arguments about capitalism and technology (40:33), vaccine skeptics (58:02), sandwich artists (1:20:02), LaMarcus Aldridge retires (1:29:33), rim protection fetishism (1:35:33), streaking Knicks (2:00:22), Kuo was right about Porzingis (2:08:33), Jabari Parker returns (2:14:33). 

Subscribe to our Patreon to hear episodes as soon as they drop! New York vibe check (7:02), bar rules (12:05) and the return of nightlife (18:35), worried about DMX (32:05), angels that walk among us (39:33), ketchup shortages (43:10), who is to blame in Boston? (52:33), Paul Pierce logs on (1:05:25), Durant returns after warring with Rapaport (1:15:04), lucky shots and a KBB glimpse (1:28:33). 

White boi summer (1:05), Rochester culture is not a costume (16:33), normalize bibs (21:45), Lil Nas X and his blood-drip (29:45), Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out" and other new music we're listening to (41:48), does the NBA have a buyout market problem (57:45), defensive player of the year and the tyranny of monoculture (1:34:20).  

The art of wedding playlists (3:25), shrimp scammers (16:20), crab boils (26:35), why is there still a curfew? (35:02), NBA deadline action (54:00), Lowry stays put, as Ujiri refuses to blink (58:02), the Sixers pick up Hill and moneyball Doc Rivers (1:11:23), the Heat have a good day one (1:20:37), Boston keeps it redundant (1:28:03), Orlando's diaspora (1:38:03), the Knicks do nothing and Kuo is...

Is it ethical to get an early vaccine? (3:03), media searches for post-COVID content (18:02), attacks on Asian-Americans (31:02), forgiving Meyers Leonard and Tim Hardaway Sr. (52:35), Sixers take on the Bucks (1:02:11), Knicks grand plans (1:19:18), coastal elites (1:24:10), Lonzo Ball (1:27:02).   

Is COVID really ending on March 12th? (1:02), the forgotten male harpist (11:30), royals, flushed (21:05), downtown media gets exposed by the New York Times (27:02), Dimes Square origins (42:05), the NBA All-Star Weekend (47:01), inside the Knicks' disjointed front office (56:08), Blake Griffin and Nick Collison party in the Lower (1:10:25), Meyers Leonard goes gaming (1:17:28). 

To subscribers' delight, new episodes drop first on Patreon! Coffee and newspapers (1:20), Zizmorecore and instant nostalgia (16:30), Dr. Seuss was cancelled or something (21:30), Texas reopens because COVID is over (25:03), voting rights and surface tension (36:20), crypto-art (48:26), Shaq and the NBA's fandom divide (56:45), Karl-Anthony Towns to Knicks rumors (1:10:33), odd Sixers role player...

Bobby Shmurda comes home (2:33), salad days for dressing are back! (17:33), The Drunken Canal and tactile media (25:02), Tiger Woods' car crash (30:45), Twitter gleefully windmills dunks on NBA nerds (44:35), All-Star stubs such as Trae Young (58:45) and Devin Booker (1:11:04), what to do with Kristaps Porzingis (1:30:33). 

Is Matt Ox a future GOAT? (1:05), the lunar boys enjoy Chinese New Year (5:38), Andrew Yang remains the heavy frontrunner for NYC mayor (16:32), corporate community grifters and public spaces (41:20), where do the Knicks go from here? (41:20), Ben Simmons notches a career high (1:11:25), Draymond publicly airs out the NBA for hypocrisy (1:29:05). 

New eps drop first on the Cookies Hoops Patreon page! National food holidays (1:23) and pizza overexposure (4:30), an uncompetitive Super Bowl (18:33), vaccine rollouts and resumption of normalcy (21:21), tech innovation and governmental upside (32:50), impeachment! (40:03), Derrick Rose returns to Thibs' arms (53:05), De'Aaron Fox and the flying Kings (1:05:33), backup center issues in Philly wit...

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Titanic boys and Olivia Rodrigo (1:35), Lil Uzi gets a diamond in his forehead (8:35), baseball card collecting as investment strategy (15:23), Andrew Yang's chicken non-noodle soup (32:17), Marjorie Taylor Greene and the framing of lunacy (41:11), fixing the Mavericks and Luka's oversized impact (1:00:25), big men are back—or have always been here! (1:22:05), J...

New eps drop first on our Patreon page! Jeezy snowmen and blizzard buzzkills (3:22), tech clothing (12:50), Bullies 2021 hits different (17:30), bulk buying (20:30), will galleries and nightlife rise again in the broken city? (26:02), "Nevermind" and meaningful art in the Trump era (37:03), NBA's most influential players of the last 30 years (50:50), the case for and against Kobe (1:04:03), revers...

Reddit Robin Hoods take on Wall Street (3:02), financial perception versus reality (15:33), the diaspora of memes (30:05), Proud Boy origins (45:33), Lakers versus Sixers (52:01), an overabundance of volume scorers (1:08:13), the Thibs wants what the Thibs wants (1:19:44). 

New episode of Cookies Hoops drop first on our Patreon page! Inauguration pomp and circumstance (1:35), the relief of Trump's departure (13:09), Biden's rare opportunity—that goes against being Joe Biden (25:43), Donald = RIP to a Twitter GOAT (48:21), Ben Simmons' early season performance (58:02), Kuo defends winning culture (1:06:22), can Kemba Walker fulfill his promise on a rebuilding Boston t...

Beware of bucatini panic-buyers (1:04), we struggle to define "fast casual," (8:03), Yang brings back bodega discourse that never left (12:30), conservatives get purged from social networks (19:03), Armie Hammer is brimming with chaotic energy (34:02), James Harden is traded to Brooklyn (43:33), what are the Rockets doing? (1:02:33), Sixers Nation wails about a first-place rife flush with young ta...

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Colors of the year (1:02), our dream guests for the world's most influential basketball podcast (6:47), "Sex and the City" returns without the sex-haver (18:25), short culture (25:02), Andrew Yang's mayor road starts with a pothole (30:05), the process and results of the Capitol siege (49:25), some impeachment talk (55:32), Kyrie vanishes and indignation theater...

New episodes drop first on Patreon! The Capitol gets bum-rushed by Trumpers (2:02), why did the police offer such little resistance? (14:32), Ariel Pink, John Maus and indie rock rioters (28:33), Georgia Senatorial runoff (42:35), the Knicks are streaking! (50:20), Steph Curry debates—and what happens when a chiller doesn't care about their legacy (1:02:21), Sixers' hot start (1:33:04). 

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Emmy-winning journalist Jason "netw3rk" Concepcion join Cookies Hoops to discuss the arrival of 2021 (2:01), California's predictable COVID-19 blunders (5:01) and the ominous start to vaccine rollouts (17:43), the life and death of god-tier rapper MF DOOM (28:30), Los Angeles hot versus New York hot (45:31), Kyrie Irving and postmodern basketball (56:30),  honey...

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Christmas trauma, Santa visits Chinatown (2:30), Hilaria Baldwin's great Iberian getaway (21:25), the reputed bucatini shortage and cultural pasta signifiers (35:14), NBA's elongated preseason and fan hysteria (53:15), lil stinkers of Sixers Nation instantly overplay their hand (1:13:32), Knicks drub the Bucks (1:23:15), stumbling Jayson Tatum wedged into cavern...