Basketball talk with cultural side quests.
Cookies starts with basketball and almost immediately wanders into everything orbiting it. Recent episodes fold together Knicks anxiety, Fashion Week sightings, Banksy theories, blizzard shopping, Greenpoint transit, Super Bowl politics, and the strange comedy of public life.
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Cookies is a basketball podcast with very little patience for staying only inside basketball. The sport is the anchor, but the conversation keeps tugging it into art, food, television, politics, New York life, and whatever strange headline has entered the room. Recent episodes move from Banksy identity jokes to Daft Punk mythology, then from Irish-Chinese spice bags to Greenpoint’s transit reputation. The show can spend time on the Rockets, the Knicks, young legs in the modern game, or a guest’s playoff doubt, then veer into Mark Ruffalo crime drama without asking permission. That looseness is the point. Cookies treats basketball culture as something porous, connected to fashion parties, celebrity sightings, neighborhood lore, military advertising, halftime shows, and the minor humiliations of grocery shopping before snow.
The tone is sharp and sideways. A premise gets tested by jokes until it either collapses or turns into a real argument. The show’s best moments often come from that unstable middle ground, where a bit about anonymous artists suddenly becomes a thought about taste, value, and why mystery can matter. It is funny, but not empty. When the conversation turns toward the NFL, politics, conspiracy-shaped media, or public harm, the show keeps its clipped rhythm while letting discomfort into the room.
Cookies is built for listeners who like sports talk with cultural static still attached. It does not smooth out the interruptions or pretend every take has been prepared in advance. The appeal is in hearing ideas arrive slightly crooked, get mocked, get defended, and then get connected to something else entirely. Basketball fans will get the player references and team anxiety. Culture obsessives will get the art, fashion, food, and media detours. The show works because those are not separate lanes here; they are all part of the same argument, usually already in progress.
Made for: For basketball fans who like their sports conversation funny, referential, New York-aware, and willing to wander. It especially fits listeners who enjoy fast banter more than polished debate-show structure.
What sets it apart: Cookies stands out by making basketball feel inseparable from the surrounding culture: art markets, neighborhood food lore, halftime politics, TV, fashion, and public absurdity. Its looseness is not filler; the detours are where the show builds its point.
Tune in for discussions that range from breaking news to advanced statistical analysis to the celebration of Anthony Mason's haircuts. Hosted by Ben Detrick, Jordan Redaelli and Andrew Kuo, COOKIES will feature guests from the worlds of sports, music, art, film, and comedy.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A Rockets-heavy Cookies episode spins basketball talk, New York riffs, and media skepticism into one unruly listen.
This slightly delayed Wednesday episode builds around the Houston Rockets, treating their offense as a marvel while asking why all that size and pressure near the rim is paying off more clearly on one end than the other.
Fashion Week, Task, and a cautious young-legs theory steer this loose, recognizable Cookies conversation.
This Cookies episode starts with Andrew Kuo coming out of Fashion Week with a Bull Bull sighting, then slides into a basketball debate about how much teams should prize younger players.
A 450th-episode celebration that moves from potting and moral horror to the Knicks' playoff stakes.
Cookies marks its 450th episode with the kind of loose celebration that fits the show: potting, lost tapes, arbitrary episode-count rituals, and a joke-ready promise to do it all again at 500.
A Zona Maco stop turns Super Bowl skepticism and P-zone lore into loose, pointed sports talk.
Cookies takes its basketball-podcast identity to Mexico City during Zona Maco, where an art-fair check-in about a city newly framed as opportunity runs straight into Super Bowl Sunday.
Sports takes with receipts.
NBA arguments before the take cools.
Fast arguments for serious NBA obsessives.
NBA talk with pace and bite.
Daily NBA stakes, fast and opinionated.
NBA arguments from the crowded couch.
Andrew Kuo interviews photographer Jason Notico on the Cookies basketball podcast, discussing his career and work on the Joy of Basketball.
Andrew Kuo and host discuss rising egg prices and cost of living in New York City, touching on political implications.
Andrew Kuo and co-host discuss the Oscars and basketball, touching on the film 'Hooker with a Heart of Gold' and recent games.
Ben Detrick declares he's done with the NFL culture right after Super Bowl Sunday, pivoting to discuss art fairs in Mexico City.
The hosts of Cookies celebrate 450 episodes by debating if they've mastered podcasting and joking about only celebrating milestones with Asian guests.
Cookies 582 opens with Andrew Kuo's solo museum show at SCAD in Savannah and a Greenpoint wedding Ben attended, which the hosts use to discuss how gatherings mark stages of life.
A teaser for a basketball podcast episode where the hosts humorously speculate that co-host Andrew Kuo is the secret identity of street artist Banksy.
Andrew Kuo and host discuss the Irish-Chinese spice bag and its cultural connections.
A basketball podcast episode where hosts discuss a blizzard, Eric Adams' comments, and make jokes about sex and immigrants.
A teaser for the Cookies basketball podcast discussing the Super Bowl and Robert Kraft.
The hosts of a basketball podcast engage in a tangential, humorous discussion about euphemisms for cat feces and the word 'evacuations'.
Quarter zips became a joke about “kids have been cured” and are now dressing like Tiger Woods.
Andrew Kuo interviews photographer Jason Notico about his work and the Joy of Basketball on the Cookies podcast.
On Monday, September 15th, Cookies opens with Andrew Kuo's Fashion Week sighting of Bol Bol, who was seen on Avenue C and later around Lucien Smith's circle.
Andrew Kuo and Ben use Donald Trump's supposed death and Danny Ainge's absence to satirize succession politics around J.D.
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