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Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

Cookies is a basketball podcast hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. Conversations range from breaking hoops news to advanced statistical analysis to Anthony Mason's haircuts. Guests are basketball junkies from the worlds of music, comedy, art and film.
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Now displaying: April, 2020
Apr 30, 2020

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. 

Apr 27, 2020

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. 

Apr 24, 2020
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.
Apr 23, 2020
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.
 
Apr 22, 2020

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.

Apr 21, 2020
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.
Apr 20, 2020

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.

Apr 17, 2020

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. 

Apr 16, 2020

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.  

Apr 15, 2020

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.  

Apr 14, 2020
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.  
 
Apr 13, 2020

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. 

Apr 10, 2020
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, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

Apr 9, 2020

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. 

Apr 8, 2020

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 Andrew Kuo. 

Apr 7, 2020

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 Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

Apr 6, 2020
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 we're desperate enough to try it (1:26:14). 
 
Apr 3, 2020

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 Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

Apr 2, 2020

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), if could LeBron James have existed before....LeBron James? (1:10:43), an ode to Starbury (1:17:21), Chinatown shirts in a time of peril (1:21:54). Cookies is hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

Apr 1, 2020

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, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo. 

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