COOKIES covers basketball and the culture surrounding it.
Flex, time to have $12 eggs (1:34), Jack Harlow at Balthazar (8:21), the "singles tax" (19:26), social drinking and third spaces (28:01), Mexican Drake regresa (45:05), 2025 All-Star Game format (56:33), did TNT tank the broadcast? (1:05:00), dunk contest aesthetics (1:14:21), Wemby's adorable competitiveness (1:35:55), All-Star Weekend culture (1:50:48).
This full version of this (perfect) episode is on the Cookies Hoops Patreon! Return to Mexico (2:12), Super Bowl LIX (10:31), Kendrick's halftime show (22:41), the flattening of culture (36:07), Kanye's Twitter fingers (49:43), the full and immediate Anthony Davis Experience (1:07:43), Ben Simmons, learn to speak Clippers (1:35:22), end of the Hubie Brown era (1:45:02).
New eps drop first on Patreon! The end of food halls (2:04), MAGA victory lap (17:43), Deepseek (34:00), the Lord's Day (50:38), singing the Kuz blues (1:13:05), Kel'el Ware (1:42:03), Chris Paul 4 Ever (1:45:30), LaMelo snubbed! (1:51:02).
New eps drop first on Patreon! Trump 2: More Trump (2:05), TikTok banned and then not (15:11), ceasefire (21:43), generational solitude (35:41), David Lynch (45:03), watching the watchers (56:36), Celtics on frog watch (1:05:24), Beard appreciation goes mainstream (1:19:32), is OKC ruining the NBA? (1:35:32), Cam Johnson: trade bait (1:50:12).
New eps drop on Patreon first! Los Angeles fires and an assist from Cookies Hoops (2:04), congestion pricing snot rockets (10:04), tipping culture (16:33), NYC, the city that sleeps (23:04), battling bots (37:32), raw dogging life (47:02), the tragic saga of Podcaster P and the Sixers' lost season (1:03:41), Thunder be shopping! (1:19:28), Cooper Flagg's breakout game (1:30:39), "Tweaker" goes viral (1:45:22), "Jump Around" and situational basketball anthems (1:52:42).
New eps drop on Patreon first! Jolt Cola lore (2:48), touching glass in 2025 (13:34), congestion pricing hard-launch (24:06), subway terror continues (41:47), Thunder clap the cheeks of Eastern elites (1:19:02), NBA needs more nicknames (1:32:32), Jimmy Butler is disgruntled again, naturally (1:45:32).
New pods drop first on Patreon! We're bearing down on 2025 (3:02), annual food trend predictions (14:33), MAGA Civil War (32:27), jocks vs nerds forever (48:02), Euro invasions (59:06), Knicks vibe check (1:24), Sixers remain unconvincing (1:40:42), D'Angelo Russell traded back to Brooklyn (1:50:11).
New pods drop first on Patreon! Secret Chinese police station (1:16), the filthiest martini (12:03), a trip to Philly (18:03), lost monoculture (29:43), subway crime and everyone playing their part (40:34), horned up dunk metrics (51:56), "effort" as a morality play 1:01:34), subrosa defensive trends (1:09:43), MVP talk and the Wemby ascension (1:24:05).
New eps drop first on Patreon! Mapo Tofu: The Magazine (2:02), it's a drone, Tone (13:03), Luigi gets knocked (21:13), Downtown NYC culture wars—did the normies win? (54:33), all is well: a peek inside toxic NBA discourse (1:05:28), Jared McCain and the Sixers' season from hell (1:25:06), Giannis MVP campaign is having motion (1:38:19), does your shooting guard wear lingerie? (1:45:21), Caitlin Clark back in the news, surely the conversation isn't insane (1:45:02)
New eps drop first on Patreon! Purple Haze turns 20 (2:03), Mega Banton (5:32), assassin's credos (8:10), making Al-Nusra friends (36:43), Jay-Z (39:43), frosty beers on tap (43:03), The Unction (58:10), Thibs vs JJ Redick (1:17:43), Jokic = stat hoggin' (1:28:54), Brook Lopez glazing (1:46:32).
Are the 4th place Rochester Americans for real? (2:23), paying to eat over someone else's sink (9:03), some real reasons to love NYC (30:21), case closed: Hunter Biden is free at last (34:03), Drake gets litigious (51:36), Grimes is a hooper (1:02:31), whether the NBA is just for rich kids now (1:09:23), Julius Randle, your basketball worldview litmus test (1:38:27), Grizzlies look like a contender after spending a year in the pooping in the woods (1:52).