Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

Poet and writer Hanif Abdurraqib joins Cookies to discuss his hometown of Columbus  (8:18), removing police from schools (10:10), saving smaller American cities (18:26), protesting as social life (23:10), rewiring our brains about justice (31:20), balancing return of the NBA and life priorities (53:18), his love for the Timberwolves (1:01:54), Kuo is confronted about the Knicks (1:15:22), bad teams, good times (1:31:18), the end of the NCAA (1:42:11). 

Former Chicago Bull and NBA 3-Point champion Craig Hodges joins Cookies Hoops to discuss modern athletes and activism (8:22), his call for a boycott of the 1991 Finals (16:15), growing up in the civil rights movement (27:50), visiting the White House (36:22), if he played in the wrong era for 3-point shooters (47:57), being forced out of the NBA (52:22), whether Michael Jordan was a locker room motivator (56:12), racism from coaches and fans (58:30), his concept for making shoes in America (1:01:54), unheralded ballers of the late 80s and early 90s (1:08:32) and wanting it more (1:17:51). 

Cookies is joined by Nikki Mayard to discuss Instagram black boxes (14:10), the freakout over shoplifting (21:44), the power of peer pressuring your famous pals (35:04), defunding the NYPD (41:25), global interest in American protests (56:01), James Dolan's leaked email (1:28:15), long wistful walks through New York (1:46:22).  

Civil unrest grips America, a covid-ravaged tinderbox (2:02), revolution is scary (20:18), the fog of war and competing visions of what change looks like (33:50), defund a police force, coward (40:10), the NBA responds, Michael Porter Jr. is told that it's not it, chief (51:02), is this...bad? (1:01:22), Hubie Brown's pizza party is plagued by medium pizzas (1:10:07). 

On episode 224, we discuss Kuo vs Lower East Side Bonobros (7:35), crippling Covid guilt (12:22), the murder of George Floyd (28:40), how the Bucks are playing dorkball with a blunt object (1:05:28), weighing excellence vs entertainment (1:18:33), Dame Dolla and the potential return of the NBA (1:28:03), and more!

Thanks to all our new Patreon subscribers! On Cookies Hoops Ep. 223, we discuss why Kuo hates beaches (1:45), incomprehensible evidence of parallel universes (10:45), Peter Luger steak delivery systems (18:22), New York's nightly clapping ritual (26:33), Cory Booker: rap genius (35:12), Bounty Killer vs Beenie Man (45:22), Mitchell Robinson = Point God (52:31), Knicks build new front office with old heads (1:07:58), Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant feel like wallflowers at "The Last Dance," (1:20:21), was Kobe doing sociopath cosplay? (1:29:02), pizza poison 2: more poison pizzas (1:35:03). 

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...wellness (1:07:13), big tent viewership for basketball (1:22:45). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

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 (1:18:02). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.

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 compelling portrait by omission (1:22:53), boomer boom-bap and shallow crates (1:30:42). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.  

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, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

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 (1:17:22). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

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 work versus athleticism (1:14:33). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.

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 Andrew Kuo.  

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 Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.

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 Andrew Kuo.

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 hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

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 Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo.  

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.