WCS: Andrew Dukowitz, Clankers

The Worst Case Scenario is back, they talk about the Clankers, WWE, and Andrew Dukowitz joins to talk Wolves and Lynx!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A morning Conietzsche wah in bonjour.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Whatever language you speak, and wherever you're at in the world,
scratch that, wherever you're at in the universe, humans and
aliens alike. You were tuned into what we affectionately called
the worst case scenario.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
And Brett, I don't know if you know this. Did
we not make it to air We.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Almost didn't make it to the air today. We almost
didn't make it to the air today. I know it's shocking,
breaking news. The fan has learned our fearless leader, Chad Abbe.
You've heard of him before, right, I've met him a
time or two. He actually announced about a year ago
that he was selling the show, and there was countless
articles speculating on who would buy the show. I know

(00:43):
the Ishpia brothers were even in talks at some point.
Fans were super excited about the idea of worst case
scenario under new ownership.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I mean, we never win the championship.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
We're never relevant, we're never we're never up there with
the real shows in the radio world. So the fans
were super excited about possibly some new ownership, some new
creative direction for worst case, maybe some investment scenarios some
investment into better players, because clearly we're playing with triple
A guys right now, maybe even single it. But the

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weird thing is Abbit was asking for too high of
a price and he still wanted creative control over the show,
which is ridiculous and not how selling things works. You
don't get to put your lamp out at the grige
sale and then someone buys it and you say, by
the way, I'm going to turn it on whenever I
feel like it. But someday I'll stop coming into your

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house to turn on the light and it'll be all yours.
But after a year or so and much speculation, Abbot
wrote a letter to the fans.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
He just released it at ten forty five am.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
He wrote a letter to the fans explaining that he's
backing out of the deal and worst case scenario will
remain on the fan. And just like that, we are
back on the air. And when I say we, usually
there's a party of people up in here, but today
it's just a two man operation consisting of me, myself,
Max Fuller, AK, fro Cho Senko aka Mary k n

(02:13):
Maxley AK, a million other things enjoining me.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
As Lindsay Frohan.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I like that one. I like that one. I'm putting
that one in the back pocket. Seeh, I had to
expand to women's names. I'm running out of dudes' names. Yeah,
I had to expand. That's okay.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I was just thinking you you brought up parent trap,
so I had to go. I had to go free, right.
I don't think that was parent trap. But you get
my point?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, full house, what exactly alone? I get the point.
I get the point. You just heard him right now.
That's that.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's the man who is so excited for the thirty
fifth anniversary of the Ninja Turtles movie. Oh yeah, that
He came into the studio today with webbed feet. I
don't know how you did that, a shell strapped on
his back, an assortment of various weapons, including nunchucks, and
a blue eyemask over his face because he's a Leo guy.
At the end of the day, some may know him

(03:06):
as the Cornfield Casanova, others as the Hawkeye State hottie.
But here at sixteen hundred have we simply know him
as Brett Leonardo, Rafael Donatello, Michaelangelo Moore.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
How the shell are you home?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I was singing, Leonard frood one.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
That is a good one.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Here's a I mean, I am a Turtles guy. Yeah,
I never watched the live action and I don't think
I will.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's the best one.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's one of the best films of all time. You've
never seen when they were on.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Opie, they were on Oprah, even the.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Ninja Turtles were before Oprah was like super duper serious
all the time. It was a little bit more Jerry
Springer esque, a little bit more Gong Show esque. And
they had not even the actual actors who were the
Ninja Turtles in the live action movie. They just had
four random bros dressed up as Ninja turtles and we're
interviewing them like they seriously existed in our planning for you.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I just don't it just looks. I can't get past
the look. But that like the nineties looks.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
It looks perfect. They need to go back to that.
I want real, practical suits. Forget this animation stuff. I
want real, matter of fact. I want actual turtles where
it's a turtle representation. Yeah, we're supposed to know how
turtles feel. I want actual turtles in the next movie.
I can't believe you've never seen it. You know, so
you've never seen the second one. I'm assuming with the
legendary Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go by Vanilla Ice, one

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of the greatest songs of all time, which, by the way,
I wouldn't recommend saying that too fast on the radio.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh, I'll leave that to you. I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
It just it's like the campiness of it, and I
get that's kind of the whole bit. And I came
onto it late, like I literally, like a year ago,
just binged like the two thousand and three show just
out of nowhere, just because I needed something to do.
And I think it was during the sports abyss too,
so we need to fill that time.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Right, twins certainly are doing Nope, I watch any side.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Note the high price that Abbat was asking for I
have replaced the show was just sauce and Nordo and
they said that you didn't want to do so, yeah,
a little too.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Much of a high price.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
So but it's just the campiness of it and the
and the song, and I don't know, I just it
doesn't do that breaks my heart. That's why I liked
the two thousand and three one, because that was more serious.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
It was more like, it's more in vain with they were,
because a lot of people don't know because of the cammunists,
because they're action figures and comic books and Saturday Morning cartoons,
that the Ninja Turtles are actually made to be kind
of like a spoof of the hyper violent, hyper serious
comic books like The Punisher and people like that.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
So like in the comic books, they're actually like cutting
people's heads off and like murdering people. But that doesn't
sell well with children.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I am aware that me saying a more serious version
of the teenager Ninja Turtles could be also a preposterous statement.
I feel pretty confident I'm not going to get in,
but it could be considered.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
In the tournament, that's for sure. It could be. It
could be.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
It is a little funny to say to put your
suit and tie on and bring your briefcase to the
total meeting exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's like, this has to be dark and GrITT so
I just give you some sword combat.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, here's your chance. It's back in the theaters for
the thirty fifth anniversary. Brett Blake Moore.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
It is back in the theaters for the next couple
of days, and there's no better setting to see it
than in the theaters and you can wrap along to
the go Ninja, Go Ninja go.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't know my taste movies is weird because you're
talking about weapons with Bump.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
We were brand new horror movie that's been setting me
the critics and fans of Blaze alike.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
This may just be my personality. I don't find, you know,
Sauce is kind of the same way. I don't find.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
What would really be fun and would be enjoyable is
if we all died.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know, like, let's imagine that, you know, and some
people love it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I just I don't get it. It is not enjoyable.
You just not a horror movie guy at all. Enough tease,
you're going to bring up the flying object that could
be something I am that.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Will come up. It'll come up. So at some point
it today I hate it. I don't. I mean, I
can't stand because I don't want to. I just don't
want to think about it. Just it just want to
be just want to be in your bubble.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, no extraterrestriales, no interstellar objects, no apocalypse.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Just let me watch sports as long as I humanly
Can and and maybe my dumb superhero movies too. You
know my favorite horror movie.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
There's not a single one that really did it for you. No,
I don't, I can. When's the last one you saw?
Do you even remember?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
I don't even think I've seen one? Full throat, maybe
very paranormal activity. If you even count that, that counts, That counts.
Those are best in the theater, one hundred.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Those are best in the theater because those movies are
because you can feel and hear everyone physically adjusting in
their seats when the night vision camera comes on, because
everybody knows if you're watching paranormal activity, it's all good
day for it. It's all good during the day. Then
that night vision camera comes on, it's like, snap, let
me get.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Let me lean forward, let me get ready.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I mean I saw people literally physically sprint out of
the theater watching paranormal activity, a midnight showing physically sprint
out of the theater.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Is that you that you?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I think it was the second one that I saw.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
I remember, scared of them. Of these horror movies, you
just don't you didn't make you uncomfortable. I just don't
find it an enjoyable experience like Haunted House Guy. Either
you don't, I will never go to haunted horror nights.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'll never because the best case scenario is you're fearful
of your life.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, why it makes me feel alive? Brother, No, I
don't want What do you think I'm a black man
in America makes me feel alive? Again? I don't. I
don't have to. I don't want to deal with that.
So I'm happy that. I'm grateful that I don't have to.
So well, that's why you got that racial reassignment surgery.

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Weren't supposed to talk about. Okay, we'll scratch that from
the record from the podcast.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Speaking of that, what do you think you know? Another
tease is the robot bit.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, there was a there was a robot Olympics basically
in China for all the latest androids, AI and robots
playing sports like basketball, and I believe that they were sprinting, wrestling,
all types of stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
So this is a topic for the gen Z years
and the late millennials. How do you feel about You
may have a different perspective on this than me. How
do you feel about the fake, faux racism that is
sweeping TikTok against robots because I think it is hilarious.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think it's kind of great.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
There's like legit slurs robots now people, you know, I
don't know. I don't know if the FCC has even
covered this yet. Clanker is the word. I believe it
comes from Star Wars.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
It does.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I believe it comes from Star Wars. But people have
adopted this word and are now actively.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
They're like bucket of bolts and there's like POV my
daughter brings home a robot boyfriend. It's like, get this
clanker out of here. It's brilliant, it's hilarious. Nothing has
reunited us more, right then, just let's just screw that
guy over there, right?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
The common enemy what brings humans together more than otherings
get something else.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I think it's so funny.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
It might be what ultimately defeats racism is that we
all have to conjoin and and coalesce to unite against
our robot foes and friends for now, but maybe future foes.
I'm actually loving it. I maybe it's just from being
on the other side my whole life. I get to
participate and be have the pitsfork in my hand this time.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's pretty fun. I say, white people join these mobs,
it's pretty fun.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Well I even saw one either earlier today or yesterday
where it was like, uh, they should never let robots
play in these sports.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know, let these robots play in the sport, just
ruin it for everybody else. Back in my day, it
was humans.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
It was only humans, fats and blood exactly, Like who
is the Jackie Robinson of robots?

Speaker 2 (10:52):
That came right, Jackie Robots in He's coming soon to
a to a theater or a stadium near you. Yeah,
it was the World of Humanoid Robot Games kicked off
on Friday, and robots competed in sports such as track
and field, table tennis, and then as well as robots
specific challenges from sorting medicines and handling materials for cleaning services.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
See, that's what robots should be doing.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I don't need to see what do you have any
interest in seeing robots play sports?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Like in any way shape or I have no interest in.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I barely want to watch humans run around a track.
I only do it every four years. Yeah, basically I've
been here for ten second time ten seconds every four years.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's I don't I there's some sports.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I don't even want to watch people do, so I
definitely don't want to watch robots do almost anything. The
problem for me is the only sport that I think
it'd be interesting to watch robots do it would be
like some gladiatorial type of stuff them like destroying each other.
But then if you teach them how to destroy each other,
it's kind of a problem going they could destroy and
they could just the things us. Yeah, exactly, so that's

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kind of the problem. So I don't really I'm not
with it. I think they should just be doing the
medicine stuff, material stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
I'm not with the robots playing. I'm just not.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
So many people have welcomed AI and robots are just
supplant humans in every way, art, music, all types of stuff.
I agree, it's important for medicine, it's been important for
technological advances stuff like that science, But I don't want
to see robots doing anything creative whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know, what's going to be the worst part of this.
We might have to burn this segment from the Annals
of History. That's why I'm scared, well, because we're going
to get canceled in like fifty years from robots.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
So I mean we might have to delete this whole
episode right. Hashtag not my Max.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Audio was found of Max Buller radio personality Max Buller
probably saying the C word with.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
The hard R on major market.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
You'll have a gray fro. It was a different time.
It's different times.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Listen. My best friend is a robot. I'm dating a robot.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Robots in my family. Yeah, my favorite rap song came
from a robot. That is the scary part is that
they they they are gonna remember when they are more
human like, they are gonna remember. They absolutely are keeping taps.
I saw a video of these streamer guys. They were
they had some type of advanced robot, and they kept

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like they're basically bullying it, pushing it over, kind of
bullying it, which made me feel uncomfortable. I do feel
like when they're human shape, maybe I am, I'm a
clanker lover. Maybe I'm coming or maybe I'm coming around,
but I think you've got a bead when they're when
they're humanoid. But I also was like, you know what,

(13:47):
I'm just gonna be nice to the ones that I see,
so in case they do have that memory, that kind
of group mind, that group mentality, that they're not going
to discriminate again.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
BI the wait, what are these like roaming robots in
the groceriess that I keep seeing too, because that's the
video you see, right, Yeah, you'll keep it moving, you know,
dirty robot, like you're taking human jobs. But like, what
are they doing? Actually, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, I saw one in Japan and it was like
robot security and it was literally just doing like you know,
an R two D two just kind.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Of flies around in a circle and was like like
it was just kind of doing that over and over again.
I'm like, how was just keeping anybody safe?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I have no idea what they're doing, but direction it
feels like they came out of nowhere. I know that
people have been building these things forever, but it feels
like one day they were here and one day the
next day AI everything, chat, GPT everything, clanker everything.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't know how the people feel about it. Six
four six eight six three tow Zo five three two six.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
I just got this text six y five.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
One guy says sounds like Brett's love life and I
don't know what part.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
What does that mean?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
That could be a variety of different things in this conversation.
I'm really not sure.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
So well, we need some context for that one six guy,
We definitely need some context for that one six, four
six eight six. If you want to chime in on
the text line eight hundred three two zero five three
two six, if you want to call the Holla hotline,
I promise we'll be talking more than robot sports. Today,
the Timberwolves release their schedule for the twenty twenty five

(15:14):
twenty twenty six seasons. My man Andrew duka Wis of
Zone Coverage dot Com is going to call in talk
all things Timberwolves in a little bit of the Lynks
because they're the hottest team in the W right now,
the best team by a landslide. Of course, the Vikings
played preseason game number two yesterday, which I do want
to touch on a little bit. There's so many different

(15:34):
elite football minds on the fans, so you don't want
to you don't want to hear Us Dimwitz break it
down for too long, but I do I do think
that we should touch on it a little bit. Maybe
we've been checking with Brett's Packers, a preseason Packers checking.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
I don't really I've been so locked in with the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
I don't really know what the storylines and drama in
cheese Land is, right.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
A couple good things to chew on, Okay, get too
all right?

Speaker 2 (15:55):
We could check in on the Packers, you know, we'll
do a little behind the enemy alone. And of course
it's worst case scenario, so we got to talk some rattling.
We got to talk to Squared Circle, and a lot
of people are souring an old Triple H and the
WWE lately, so I'm curious maybe do a little temperature
check with Brett blakemore on how he's feeling about the WWE.

(16:15):
Some UFC news broke earlier this week that was gigantic
seven point seven billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
To be on Paramount Plus. We'll be talking about all
of that and more.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Coming up worst case scenario, hanging out with you until
twelve pm.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Meanwhile, like I said before, this is the People Show.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
So if you want to call in eight hundred three
two zero five three two six, text us six four
six eight six booth at kfan dot com. If you
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of zone coverage dot com about all things Timberwolves and
links bit lacked right here on the fan. Worst case

(17:29):
scenario is back on your airwaves for at least another
couple of weeks. I believe we'll be at the out
of the State Fair next Sunday and the Sunday after
at two Fair.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Think about it.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
So, if you ever wanted to see worst case scenario
live and in the flesh, you can come see us
out at the Minnesota State Fair at the.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
K f a N Booth.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Maybe someday, you know we're mostly a summertime, think maybe
someday we'll find a way to keep ourselves relevant year round.
It's gonna be it's gonna be real, because we're barely
relevant even in the summer. Maybe maybe we can find
a way to be year round, which kind of like
these a lot of these these pro sports leagues these days,
they kind of are year round now, even if they're

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not playing the end. The NFL are the masters of
keeping themselves newsworthy and relevant throughout the calendar year even
when football is not being playing, and the NBA has
kind of been following following that lead. These schedule release
days have become big deals for rubes.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Like me and you, especially media people, because we're like, fine,
we got.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Something in the middle of the sports abitsu in the
Minnesota Timbords.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Shot that you know, November tenth game against the Jazz
looks great to me.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
We get to make schedule prognostications, which is fine with
the seventeen game schedule. It's a little ridiculous with eighty
two when it comes to the NBA.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Paul Allen just said he can't find a loss till
the summer, and.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I got new glasses and I can't find one either time.
Right there with the PA, the two Wolves showed us
their twenty twenty five twenty twenty six schedule, and there
is a lot to chew on with that schedule, So
we had to call in Andrew Dukowitz of zone coverage
dot com. He covers everything basketball. He covers the Timberwolves,

(19:16):
he covers the length. I believe he's covering the Gophers
women's basketball team this year. If there's basketball being played,
he is covering it. Matter of fact, I had a
pickup game at Loring Park the other day, and about
an hour later.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I saw an article on.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Zone coverage dot com saying I shot eleven point three
percent from the field.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
It needed to be benched. So wherever there.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Is dribbling, there is duke Witz. Andrew Dukowitz. That is, Andrew,
how you live in player.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
I've never seen somebody have a worse plus minus in
a pickup game in my life, especially because it's only
to twenty You only played a twenty one Frohow you
had like a minus twenty four. I didn't really understand it,
but I felt it was worth an article.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well yet trouble tracking back on defense? Only half course
he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I went to the PA School of pickup basketball. Just
some shooting threes. I'm not I'm not running back and
playing defense.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
That one.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
That one was for a Chad abit uh. Andrew, The
Timberwlves release their schedule. Before we get into the nitty
gritty of the actual schedule, how are we feeling about
the schedule release video?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Because I know that's that's kind of a thing these days.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's part of the bit every all the teams and
all the pro sports leagues are tasked with coming up
with a creative way to announce the schedule. And the Timberwolves,
you know, I thought it was I I love everybody
at the Timberwolves organization, but you know, it's more I
think it was kind of standard fair. It was like
a crushing the competition type thing. They had like a
some type of press that was pressing down on different
objects related to each team.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
In Apple for New York and so on and so forth.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
How do you feel about the actual schedule announcement, Andrew?

Speaker 4 (20:50):
I thought it was fine. It was it was It's
August in the NBA world, and like people like squishing
things with tyro, so it fits the mood of the
current state of the country.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
That is that is true? It was?

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Was it more like what do you call asmr was
it kind of are you? Are you into that kind
of stuff? I can't stand it. It makes my skin crawl.
I live in rape like I live in the audio world.
Just hearing only sounds like that. I don't know why.
It just makes me so it makes me want to
jump out of my body. Are you an asm Margret?

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I am not. I will say there is a hot
flaming hot ball being dropped into different substances category on
TikTok that I have lost many an hour into in
the bathroom, you know, just replaying the same video over

(21:41):
and over again as I am getting ready.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
For the day. Other than that, not not too much interesting.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I'll have to look at and see I have TikTok,
But I'm it's like it's just like a like a
like a bottle of pills just waiting there for you,
just tempting you, you know, like I have it.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
I've made one, but I like dove quite.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Into it because I know it's just gonna it's just
gonna take over my whole life. So I'm very scared,
but I'm ready for the Timberwolves to take over my
whole life. The regular season is right around the corner,
and Andrew, one of the first things that stood out
on the schedules that the Timberlves have twenty eight I
believe nationally televised games if my brief little research, and

(22:22):
by brief little research, I mean Karas Savage looked it
up from me earlier this week. Ten nationally televised games
ahead of the twenty twenty three season. Now we have
twenty eight, more than teams like the Boston Celtics. I
mean outside of the standard teams that you would think
would be on TV, like the Lakers, like the Knicks,
teams like that. Obviously the Okay See Thunder because they
just won the championship.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
The Timberwolves, I think I have like the fifth.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Most nationally televised games of any team in the league.
I mean, this is this is this is unheard of
territory from Minnesota Timberwolves basketball, right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mean it just goes to show the drawing power
of Anthony Edwards, like he can draw a crowd from anywhere.
I I have a friend that lives in Indiana, and
there's Timberwolves gears showing up in the targets and Walmarts
in Indiana now, just because of how popular Anthony Edwards is.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
The other thing is the the Wolves should be really
good this year. I mean, any growing paints that they
had in the October, November early December of last season,
they are not going to feel those. This is the
same roster coming back. Seven out of the top eight
guys are returning, with Nikhil the only one leaving and
the person filling his place and Tarren Shannon or Rob

(23:33):
Dillingham were on the team last year. So this is
going to be a really good team, and they're going
to be really good right away. So it makes sense
that the NDA wants to kind of capitalize off of
Anthony Edwards winning basketball games.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
The idea of there being like bandwagon or like fake
Timberwolves fans from other states is really really funny, Foster, right, Yes,
exactly of those things were. Yeah, five years ago, if
you see a guy with the Timberwolves shirt on in Indiana,
you're like, you must know someone in Minneapolis, your grandparents

(24:07):
are from there or something. But now it's a it's
a super plausible thing because it could be argued that
if you're a kid these days and you're tuning into
the NBA, who better to idolize and pedestalize them in
terms of on the court than Anthony Edwards. I mean,
he kind of is. I know, we've been having this
talk for years now about who is the face league
who's not? But I mean, aside from Lebron James, stephcarp

(24:29):
from the legendary guys, I feel like Anthony Edwards already is.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, And what's interesting is he doesn't really want it
at all.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I mean, you know, I mean straight up explicitly said
he didn't want it.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
He said, that's for Wemby. I don't want to be
the basically exactly.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
He just wants to take the Kevin Durant mold, where
you play basketball, go home, play Xbox repeat every day.
But he's so authentic and so charismatic and just so
exciting that it kind of you know, Chris Finch said
it at the end of the year last year that
Aunt was very, very reluctant to like accept that responsibility.

(25:07):
But now he's starting to lean into it a little
bit more. I mean, he's doing more things with his
shoe releases. He's going over to China with part of Adidas,
which I think the last time I was talking on
the show, we were talking about Anthony Edwards in Japan
being a hilarious site. So that came to procision he'll
be He'll be in Asia promoting his shoes, and he's

(25:28):
doing more of those kind of public appearances to almost
almost acknowledge that at some point this is going to
be forced on him. But I agree with you. I mean,
if you're a young kid watching basketball, I mean, aunt
is a superhero to those kids, just like how step
was kind of the everyman superstar of like, oh, he's

(25:48):
not that big, he's not that fast. I could be
steps ant Is, you know, cracking open a comic book
and seeing like what Superman's doing every weekend, And that's
really appealing to I think a lot of fans in
the NBA.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I love the comic book analogy because it's so true,
because he is just larger than life. He's not that
kind of like Steph Curry. Like you said, obviously nobody
thinks that they could shoot as well as Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
But you see him talking, You're like, I know some
guys like Steph Curry.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
You listen to Anthony Edwards talking, It's like, okay, not
a lot of people know any guys like Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
He pops right off the page.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
He's so charismatic, and the whole country has a chance
to tune into him. Twenty eight National televis Nationally televised
games for the Minnesota Timberwolves. We can't say we're flying
under the radar anymore because everyone and their mom has
an opportunity to watch these Minnesota Timberwolves aside from the
twenty eight nationally televised games, Are there any scheduling standouts
that you see?

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Andrew, you know, I'm kind of a nerd, so I
actually do like those games where they're playing against like Utah, Washington, Phoenix,
the teams that might not be as good this year,
because last year those were the teams the Wolves seem
to struggle with and kind of play down their opponents.

(27:01):
So I actually am looking at like that November fifth
game against Utah like, man, maybe they'll just blow them
out this year and it won't be a repeat of
last year. Or the November third game against Brooklyn. Those
are the ones I'm kind of early on in the
season looking at of like maybe if this year is
going to be different. They got to win those games
by like twenty five.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Points, and that's I mean, that's kind of been like
the crux of the Timberwolves success over the last handful
of years, right is Like when they were what the
third seed a couple of years ago, they were beating
the teams that they were supposed to beat, and last
year they were kind of a little bit more mercurial,
a little bit more up and down, and they struggled
against some of those some of those teams, especially early on,
against a lot of teams that they should have been

(27:43):
winning against.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So hopefully they can take care of business.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Cause they always even in the Andrew Wiggins days, which
might get me in the proposer statement tournament, but I thought.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Even like in the really bad days.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Of Timberwolves basketball, they were still playing their best basketball
against the best teams. I mean a lot of people
forget and that record setting Warrior season where they only
lost what nine ten games? One of those games was
against a really bad Timberwolves team. That's kind of been
a part of this franchise's identities to play their best
against the best. But we got to be able to
play our best against the worst as well. I'm curious

(28:14):
you mentioned that the continuity of the team. How we
pretty much have the whole team coming back from last
year outside of guys like Niki Alexander Walker. But there
is still that that elusive final roster spot that is
being much speculated about.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Some people think that it could go to Bones Highland.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
I've seen other reports saying maybe Timberls are looking at
a guy like Malcolm Brogden campaign Landry, which is the
cam space pain not just like a campaign, not like
a Malcolm Brogden campaign. He's not running for office or
anything like that, or a guy like Landry Shamit. So
it seems like they're that final roster spot is more
than likely going to go to a point guard and
a veteran point guard that's not quite as veteran as

(28:53):
Mike Conley.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
What do you think they do with that final roster spot.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, it's going to be really interesting in Thailand. I
know Kristin Kid tweeted out that he might have kind
of the first DIBs at it because he was on
the team last year. I'm kind of hesitant to say
they're going to bring in like Malcolm Brogden or a
bigger name, because those guys are gonna want playing time.
If you're Malcolm Brogden, you're thirty something years old, you

(29:19):
might have one more contract left in the league. Why
would you want to spend a year sitting on the
end the end of the Wolves bench. You know, there's
another guy that just announced that he's going to be
coming back over after summer league, that he'll be back
in September. C J Fulton I covered kind of closely
in Summer League. He's the Irish kid, the first ever

(29:40):
Irish player to play in Summer League, and it sounds
like he's going to be here for training camp too,
So maybe you know, you give a look at a
guy like him that's a very low mistake, good shooter,
fifty year senior coming into the NBA. You know, Finch
has a good track record of developing those type of
guys you look at, like a Jordan McLaughlin. Even Monte

(30:01):
Morris in his one year here was pretty solid. I
do think point guard is where that last spot will go,
And honestly, it might solely depend on how good Rob
Dillingham looks in training camp. And he looks really good,
maybe it's a guy like CJ that gets the nod
at that last spot. And if he looks really bad,

(30:22):
then maybe you are looking for a cam Space Pain
or a Daylon Right or one of those break glass
in case of emergency type of point guards that you
at least know can hold up an offense for a
couple of games.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
You led me right into what my follow up questions was,
where does Rob Dillingham fit into all this? But it
might depend on just how good he's looking, and how
good that Timberroose coaching staff feels about Rob dealing. And
I like the idea of the Timberrows having the first
ever Irish player. We got in Australia, a couple of
Australians now a couple of Frenchmen. Irish, dude. It's an
international affair with the Minnesota Timberwolves. And speaking of international,

(31:00):
everyone around the world who's keeping an eye on the
w knows who the Minnesota Links are. They improved to
twenty eight to five after beating the Liberty eighty six
to eighty last night. Courtney Williams led the way with
twenty six points. I mean, these Links, they're unstoppable, Andrew,
They've been on a crazy tear all season.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I mean to the point that.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Cheryl Reeves talking about maybe dying or hairpink if if
they win the championship? Can these Links even beastop? And
they're not even at full strength right now. I mean,
obviously these games against the New York Liberty, they were
games that were circled on the calendar for a lot
of Links fans since the schedule was announced, and they're.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Kind of just beating them handily.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
It seems like, how do you feel about the links
kind of you know, hot streak right now as we
in closer and closer to the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah, I mean, first off, shout out to Cheryl Reeve
for understanding the assignment at all times. Always ask her
a question about dyeing your hair pain and she gives
an all time quote. Last night, I asked her about
Courtney Williams, and you know, court had been kind of
talking trash leading up to this game on her stud
Buds live stream, and Courtney said, and Cheryl said, you can't.

(32:14):
You can't. You can't talk about a burken bag and
show up with the target bag. She had to show up,
and she did, and it's like Cheryl, oh my goodness,
dropping all of.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
The best quotes.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, Cheryl said that if they win a championship, she's
dyeing her hair pink, which.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
I mean if Okay, so if I jump on this bandwagon,
right because I remember I infamously once said that I
would shave my head off if the Timberwolves didn't make
the playoffs, and it got down pretty close to and
I almost had to just like delete the tweet and
pretend like I never said it. And so like, if
I say that I'm going to die my afro pink
if the Links win the championship, what are your what

(32:54):
is the percentage that my afro is going to be
pink in a couple months.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
So I'm going to just phrased it this way. The
Links are the best offensive team in the league, the
best defensive team in the league, the best team at assisting,
the second best shooting team in the league. They are
basically the best at every category except for rebounding and
their fifth so top half of the league. They've only
lost one home game all season, and with or without Fee,

(33:22):
with or without Kmax, they have been just running over
teams in the W to where I do like an
annual little nerdy analytic piece for you know, the Wolves
and the Links when the playoffs are coming up, and
the Links, based off of my piece, are basically the
best team in the history of the wnbah Wow. So

(33:44):
if you put your money on I'm gonna dye my
hair pink, I would say there's probably like a ninety
percent chance you're dyeing your hair pink. They are to
the point now where we should be talking to them
about them as like if they lose the championship. It
is that seventy two to ten Warriors team losing the championship.
It would be kind of a monumental collapse at this point.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
And that's not to.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Say like New York isn't a really good team. Like
New York the last three games against the Liberty or
against the Links haven't had their former MVP, Brianna Stewart.
It's just interesting because talking to New York media members
and I had one of them on my pod this week,
they even their media members are kind of like, yeah,
we don't know how they can stop the Links. Like

(34:32):
their offense is so much better than it was last year,
their defense is significantly better than it was last year,
and they're playing with this type of swag where they
want to just kind of break the league. Wow, so
you might be dying your afro pink. It sounds lot
of that story.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
It sounds like I'm going to be in Nikki Max
Nodge and have a pink afro come fall time.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Here, I'll put my name on it. I'll die part
of the fro pink. I'll die out of the part
of the Fro pink.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
You heard it here first on Worst Case scenario are
part how do you do the whole thing? I do
the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
I've done the whole afro.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Pick at the Links win the championship and you heard
it from Andrew Duka, which the most elitist of elite.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Links minds in town.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
They might be the best team in w NBA history
and they're not even playing with the MV fee to
be Nafisa Collier has missed, I mean been a handful
of games now, I think as an ankle issue, what's
been going on with Fee?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Do we have any injury updates on that.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I saw that she was listening as doubtful in the
most recent game, so that's got to be a good sign.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
Right, Yeah, you know she went out with the ankle injury.
Next time we saw her, she was wearing I mean
for non medical people, my day job's the nurse, so
sorry everybody, but she was wearing a cam boot, which
is one of those like gray ugly boots that goes
from your toes to halfway up your your calf.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Not one of those crazy high fashion cam Newton boots
that you might see on at Prescott.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Those would be potentially the worst things she wore that
for about a week and now she's back to just
wearing regular shoes. She danced after the win last night,
did the electric slide with the rest of the team.
She was jumping off the bench last night. I would
be very surprised if she's back by Tuesday, just because

(36:21):
you know, when you have a seven game lead for
the one seed with eleven games to go, you probably
slowed La Fista Collier coming back. But I wouldn't be
surprised that all if she's back by Thursday or Friday,
either against Atlanta or Indiana, and then it's just going
to be a matter of keep everyone healthy going into
the playoffs and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
And it sounds like what's going to happen is the
Links will be taking home yet another championship. And Cheryl
Reeve myself and you Andrew Duke was because I'm throwing
you on this as well.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
We will all have pink hair come fall time.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Krett, let me ask you, are you are you going
to commit to dyeing your hair?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Hang on? I always love that.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I could maybe put a little pink on the beard,
maybe the mustache.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Why pink muffstache would be kind of cool. I don't
think there a lot of pink muffstaches going at the Links.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Pert. Now, that's a good point. Run it past your
lady and see and see how it.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Goes, because that's always that's that's the final decision right there.
You gotta run it past your leg and she's gonna
dump you on the spot if she's eesy with the.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Pink bo I know she's listening right now, and she
probably she'd consider it's.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Pink hair.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Yourself a deal. If you go pink afro, I'll go
pink hair and beard too.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Let's freaking do it.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Everybody is gonna be all pink, come tickled pink, I
should say, and the Twin Cities come fall time when
the Links take home another championship. In the meantime, we'll
be checking in with you, Andrew, because you are the
elitist of the elite's minds in town. If people want
to read some of your elite thoughts, where can I
find you?

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Yeah, my writing comes out on Zone Coverage every Wednesday
and Saturday. You can just simply type in zone coverage
in the search bart and you'll get right to the site.
On all socials, I'm a duke m n a d
uk e MN posts a lot more of the behind
the scenes player interview type of stuff. I'm a serious

(38:27):
journalist who asks head coaches if they'll dye their hairpinks.
So there's a lot of content like that there too.
And then I am a part of the Hitting the
Hardwood Network and have a live stream that goes about
an hour after every Links game and it's super fan interactive.
So if anyone ever wants to just swing by and
talk Links, that is on my ex and YouTube.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
What if Brett Blakemore wants to stop by and talk
Ninja Turtles, will you talk Ninja Turtles with him?

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (38:53):
I feel like it's going to have to be more
of a debater a discussion. That nineties Turtle movie was
the entire child same so.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Exactly, That's like, that's it that is critical to understanding
Max Fuller Lower It's just watching a cannon event.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Is it is a canon.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Event in my timeline is watching that Ninja Turtles movie
and Brettlake he doesn't know.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I just completely missed it.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
And then when, to be honest, when they added the
Turtles to Fortnite, I was like, you know, I've never
given this franchise a shot at all, and I searched
which one I would probably like the most, and everyone
said the two thousand and three one was the most
like serious and dark of them, and I tried it
and I liked it. But I just going to that
and now having to go back to watch the nineties

(39:40):
one where they're just dancing around. I don't know, it
just doesn't doesn't took them on. I just missed it
as a kid, and now it's I'm past it. I
can't go back. I can't turn back the clock.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Kids these days you never had that Neon Orange VHF.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Just waiting to go never once.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
I don't even know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
The kids these days don't know Andrew. They just don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
But they know about Zone coverage dot Com and they
know about Andrew duke Witz.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Thanks for joining us today, my friend.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Appreciate you man.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Once again, Zone coverage dot com if you want to
read all things links, wolves, twins, wild vikings, they cover
it all much like we do. At worst case scenario,
bit of a mixed bag segment to close out the
show coming up next right here on the Feris series,

(40:33):
whether we are one hour or two I am incapable
of managing a clock, so a couple more minutes on
the final segment of Worst case Scenario. And speaking of
one or two hours, I believe we'll be back to
two hours for our two State Fair shows over the
next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
I believe.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
So I believe we're eleven to one out there at
the Great Minnesota Get Together next Sunday and the following
Sunday after that to come see the worst case scenario
if you've ever wanted to see us live and in
the flesh. We could be talking robot racism, we could
be talking Ninja Turtles, Timberwolves basketball, or we could be

(41:12):
talking a little w w E, as we are prone
to do here on the worst case scenario Clash at
Paris coming up the next WWE p l E. Which,
speaking of that, the pay per view, I'm so used
to calling them pay per views still from when we
were when we were children good rints. Pay per views

(41:32):
are officially all but dead after UFC's deal earlier this
week seven point seven.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Billion dollars aw to give the program. They're the last
bastion of pay per view.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Them and random boxing cards featuring Jake Paul are they
they're like the last bastion of pay per views. So
we've almost done away with pay per views for good.
WW moving by the way to ESPN's new streaming service.
They're future of ples pay per views. How are we
feeling about WWE pl e's moving off of Peacock.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I liked peak Ick was fine, I got used to it.
I miss the WWE network.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
The WW network was the chance that brings me.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
That what's the best?

Speaker 2 (42:15):
You have the full library right there, all in one place,
and you knew where to go to watch all the
premium events.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah, I think people are getting because the package for
like all the p l E s is like thirty
bucks a month, and people are getting up in arms
about that. Understandably site, But if you have cable or
you have any streaming you know, direct TV or you
can log in using that and you get free. So
there is a little work around if you have cable

(42:45):
or mooch off of your relatives cable.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
They need to they need to like put that out
there a little bit more though, because if there's so
much confusion and everybody's kind of just and in general,
I mean WW p l E, all these different acronyms UFC,
A lot of.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
People saying FBI C. I see a lot of people
say that right now. WW is b A D. I'm
seeing a lot of people sour on the product right now.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I've seen a lot of triple H libeal and slander,
a lot of just kind of lack of faith in
the creative direction. I don't know. I don't think it's
it's not on fire right now like it was a
couple of years ago. I wouldn't say that a year
or two ago, I wouldn't say so it's on fire
right now.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I just don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
It's a weird It is kind of an an abyss.
It's in like a sene of purgatory. It's not his fault,
but the whole thing is kind of just it didn't work.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
It didn't work.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
It didn't work, and now we've we've built up this
whole year to be he's the main character of the
whole show pretty much, and the heel turn just didn't
work and they had to kind of just you know,
exit exit button on that one super quick, and hopefully
they can right the ship as we end his career
here and then over the next couple of months, but
I think John seeing himself, I think he said in

(43:54):
a recent interview that his heel turn kind of just bombed.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
But it's no one's in my It's no one's fault
but the fans. Yeah, people at the state, because they
just wouldn't stop cheering him. That is, no matter what
he did, they kept cheering him. So it's really you
have to look in the mirror if you're disappointed that
the heel turn didn't go the way he wanted, because
he got he got booed like three times in Europe
and that was that. And as soon as he came back,

(44:19):
everyone just loved him, thought he was great, and kept
cheering him to the point where they had to change it.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
So I'm just happy that Cody didn't turn.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
You.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I want to get that, yeah, where we all are
all happy about that.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
And it isn't it ironic that at the end of
John Cena's careers it's the cheers and the cheers that
are causing us jeers when it was the jeers that
people were cheering for for much of his career. It'll
be interesting to see how that shapes out. We'll talk
about it because we've got a couple.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
More weeks of worst case scenario right here on the fan.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Will be back same time next week, but not the
stay the same place. Will be at the Minnesota State Fairs.
Will come see us a love if you wanted to
see our handsome faces. We'll be at to Stay Afair
the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, stay tuned
to the fan. We'll be breaking down all things Vikings
Patriots and Vikings Titans coming up ahead of the final

(45:13):
preseason game of the year before the regular season starts. Folks,
it's right around the corner. Worst case scenario will be
back next week. Stay safe, Peace,