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Jesus Christ... So sorry, fellas. That is brutal. My old man is a gym fiend that was a weightlifter for awhile, then trimmed down to do more marathons (and a couple triathlons) and now just works out to stay healthy as long as he can. He's 68 this year and, save for a couple gall bladder scares, he's been remarkably healthy. I'm glad and thankful to still have him. Even more so after reading some posts tonight ...

So on this topic... The only reason I still live in AB (actually just turned down a job offer in Brandon) is because my wife - an only child - is the sole caregiver for her mother, who has MS and is in a care home at only 66. My wife needs to be in AB to take her mother to appointments and such. The MIL has been there the past 10ish years and recently had to move to an extended care floor as the MS worsens and she has less function. All this to say that you never know how many days you've got on the clock. Stay as healthy as you can and live every day to the fullest. The pandemic kicked my ass and I gained a pile of weight. I stopped drinking and cut out junk in January and dropped about 50lbs as of July. Hoping to lose another 10-15 and I'll be where I want. As much as I miss beer and the occasional evening whiskey, I'm much healthier, both physically and mentally (tied together very tightly!!) and living a much better/happier life.

u got in...strength and resistance training after 40 is huge...Wards off so many thigs, and keeps the body functioning as it should, and doesn't break down and age as fast....I go harder now somedays than I did when playing...and also all the new data now..tools...equipment...myths debunked and working with college level athletes for draft prep and pros keeps me engaged...Advocate bigtime of fasting...training while in a fasted state and you can't lose

I loved when Nate would quote you - say he agreed with you, then proceed to spend 4 paragraphs extrapolating a point you never made, would never make, and got angry reading.

I don’t mind a derailment where good info is passed on. And thanks to those who contributed, and to the mods for letting it play out. Booch I may reach out to get more info of the “fasting” concept, I clearly fall in the category of “not understanding the true meaning” and would welcome a tutorial. I’m no Jabba the Hutt, but the healthiest thing about me is my appetite, and my metabolism has always been hummingbird high but is definitely slowing as I hit the back nine of life.

Talk about derailing a topic!

It was this. I knew Morris a bit and he was an old school radio guy (did some work in various rural MB outlets) and also a wrestling fan. He truly committed to the bit he was performing. Like Howard Stern meets Old School Pro Wrestling Heel. He had some good old school radio stories but he was also crazy. I obviously spend a fair bit of time committed to trolling on here, but that guy took it to another level.

He was also a big wrestling fan, and my theory is he really looked at himself as the equivalent of a wrestling heel.

Yea...I hope not too. I want to go with dignity, although it certainly isn't anyone's fault when their body gives out I can certainly understand their frustration.

Lost my mother when I was in my 20's, a very tough loss for a family. The mother is always the glue that binds. Lost my father 4 years ago, he was my hero and has kind of set my family adrift. The estate is still not settled, as my father had many holdings that were complicated by partnerships etc. and I haven't seen some of my brothers and sisters since the funeral. We are all older now, and my older siblings have their own children and grandchildren, but it sure is tough to maintain immediate family ties without a parent to anchor things down. I really feel for anyone going through the loss of a parent. It is some of the worst days/months of your life afterwards.....so let's cut Biggie and Dru a little slack around here for a few weeks if they are reeling from their losses.

I lost my Mom at 29 in 1985.. She was 72. My dad at 82 in 2002, I was 47. No matter what age, it's a very hard thing to go through. I visit their graves every time I come to Winnipeg.

****, guys. I’m so sorry to hear you guys have had to deal with this already. My dad had a heart attack in the early days of covid and no one was allowed to go in and see him. The only reason I knew about it was my aunt was a nurse in the ER and called me. But for hours we didn’t know if he was alive or dead. He thankfully survived but even the thought was enough to put me to my knees. And same as you wbbfan, I couldn’t stand the thought of putting my daughters through that feeling. Started to be a lot more health focused again.

In an interview today Dru said his dad lost his at 10 so he feels lucky to have had him until 26. Can’t help but pull for the young man, such grace, very impressive.

Well-spoken kid in an especially tough situation in front of the media. Condolences to Dru and his family.

I do a 16 hour fast, nothing but black coffee, for 16 hours a day 4 times a week and a minimum of 12 the other 3 days a week. I went from an A1C of 13.4 to between 5 and 6 for the past 3 years taking no diabetes meds at all. Low carb diet (under 100g of carbs per day and never more than 40 in a 2 hour window), and moderate exercise level as well. For those with metabolic issues I highly recommend this approach.

I talked my Mom into going to the gym when I was 20ish. She went 3-4 days a week for 50ish years & she was physically good until she hit 90. Unfortunately, she wasn't mentally fit after 80 so she spent a decade in care living out her worst nightmare. I can only hope that she never had a moment of clarity in those last years. I live with my 92 year old FIL to keep him safe. He used to be a runner. He still goes out for a walk, with his walker now, a few times a week, but he can't take care of himself. We have to check if he's wearing his runners or his slippers because he forgets. He can't use a cell phone because he forgot how, so we hold our breath the whole time whenever he goes out. What I'm saying is... Being fit doesn't get more years in your 20's you get more years in your 80's/90's. That may be great or become your worst nightmare.

A big reason I'm getting into strength training in recent years. I've always been a runner, but I'm getting big on the idea that having a strong base of muscle to keep off the signs of sarcopenia is the best thing you can do to avoid those late life issues as long as possible.

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink By Sarah Kaplan July 12, 2023 at 7:49 p.m. EDT The world is hotter than it’s been in thousands of years, and it’s as if every alarm bell on Earth were ringing. The warnings are echoing through the drenched mountains of Vermont, where two months of rain just fell in only two days. India and Japan were deluged by extreme flooding. They’re shrilling from the scorching streets of Texas, Florida, Spain and China, with a severe heat wave also building in Phoenix and the Southwest in coming days. They’re burbling up from the oceans, where temperatures have surged to levels considered “beyond extreme.” And they’re showing up in unprecedented, still-burning wildfires in Canada that have sent plumes of dangerous smoke into the United States. Scientists say there is no question that this cacophony was caused by climate change — or that it will continue to intensify as the planet warms. Research shows that human greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from burning fossil fuels, have raised Earth’s temperature by about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. Unless humanity radically transforms the way people travel, generate energy and produce food, the global average temperature is on track to increase by more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit), according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — unleashing catastrophes that will make this year’s disasters seem mild. The only question, scientists say, is when the alarms will finally be loud enough to make people wake up. “This is not the new normal,” said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College London. “We don’t know what the new normal is. The new normal will be what it is once we do stop burning fossil fuels … and we’re nowhere near doing that.” The arrival of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the return of the El Niño weather pattern, which tends to raise global temperatures, are contributing to this season of simultaneous extremes, Otto said. But the fact that these phenomena are unfolding against a backdrop of human-caused climate change is making these disasters worse than ever before. What might have been a balmy day without climate change is now a deadly heat wave, she said. What was once a typical summer thunderstorm is now the cause of a catastrophic flood. And a day that is usually warm for the planet — July 4 — was this year the hottest ever recorded. Earth’s global average temperature of more than 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 Fahrenheit) may well have been the hottest it has gotten in the last 125,000 years. Otto is the co-leader of the World Weather Attribution network — a coalition of scientists who conduct rapid analyses to determine how climate change influences extreme weather events. Since 2015, the group has identified dozens of heat waves, hurricanes, droughts and floods that were made more likely or more intense by human-caused warming. Several events, including the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave that killed more than 1,000 people, were found to be “virtually impossible” in a world untouched by human greenhouse gas emissions. At this point, researchers say, the links between climate change and weather disasters are abundantly clear. When the planet’s average temperature is higher, heat waves can reach previously unheard of extremes. This was the case during recent heat waves in southeast Asia, southern Europe and North Africa, World Weather Attribution researchers found. When temperatures soar past about 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), or when they are compounded by extreme humidity, it becomes more and more difficult for people’s bodies to keep cool through sweating. Kids and the elderly, as well as outdoor workers and people with preexisting medical conditions, are especially vulnerable. This week, as more than 100 million people across the southern United States face exactly those conditions, climate researchers like Jennifer Francis fear the escalating heat may exact a deadly toll. “We’re seeing temperatures exceed those that can support life,” said Francis, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. “Certain places are becoming uninhabitable.” “All of these records are being broken left and right, and my hope is people will start to put this together in their heads,” she continued. “These things shouldn’t be happening. It’s all connected to the fact that we’re warming the planet.” The warmer the air, the more water it can hold — turning the atmosphere into a thirsty sponge that sucks moisture out of vegetation and soil. This exacerbates droughts and sets the stage for wildfires like those that have ravaged Canada this summer. Temperatures in the Northwest Territories spiked to 100 degrees over the weekend, intensifying fires that were already burning out of control. The flip side of this phenomenon is that a warmer, wetter atmosphere also increases the amount of rain that can fall during a given storm. In Vermont and New York this week, about two months’ worth of precipitation fell in just two days — far more quickly than it could be absorbed by the region’s saturated ground and mountainous terrain. The effects of extreme rainfall are even more disastrous in poorer countries, where people and governments have far fewer resources to cope. Rachel Bezner Kerr, a Cornell University sociologist who works with farming communities in Malawi, lost two close colleagues this spring when flash floods struck the north of the country. Penjani Kanyimbo and Godfrey Mbizi drowned while conducting a surveys for a sustainable agriculture nonprofit, Soils, Food and Healthy Communities. “It’s one of those bitter ironies,” Bezner Kerr said. “They were trying to work on a solution. … But these parts of the world that are contributing so little to the problem are facing many of the worst impacts.” The severity of recent extremes on land has been matched only by the scorching conditions in the world’s oceans. Global average sea surface temperatures hit a record high this spring, and they remain nearly a degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) higher than the average for this part of summer. “In a way it’s more concerning” than the record-hot atmosphere, said Ted Scambos, a polar researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While the land — and the air above it — warm up and cool down fairly easily, the ocean conducts heat far more slowly. “This means we’re storing a lot of heat in the ocean,” Scambos said. “The longer we wait [to act on climate change], the longer it’s going to take to have the ocean heat return to whatever normal is.” In the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, bathwater ocean temperatures will probably add fuel to this year’s hurricane season, making storms wetter and more intense. And near the South Pole, where Scambos works, the record-hot oceans seem to have disrupted the current of cold water that typically surrounds Antarctica. This February, for the second year in a row, the extent of sea ice around the continent hit a record low. Now, even as Antarctica is immersed in the bitter cold of the months-long polar night, the ice has been distressingly slow to recover. That’s bad news for Antarctica’s glaciers, which need sea ice as a protective buffer from the jostling of ocean waves. “This is unlike any behavior we’ve seen in the past in the Antarctic sea ice world,” Scambos said. He tried to find words to express how it felt to watch the planet careen into such uncharted territory. “It’s ... ” he started. “Ahh ... ” He shook his head. “This is more or less the picture that we’ve been describing for decades,” he said. “And for as long as we can stand it, we’re in for this kind of climate and worse, until we address the problem.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which includes hundreds of the world’s top climate experts — has called for countries to roughly halve emissions by the end of the decade and eliminate planet-warming pollution by the middle of the century. Humans can unleash only about 500 more gigatons of carbon dioxide to have an even shot at keeping warming below a manageable threshold. But global carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high last year, and governments continue to approve new fossil fuel projects that would make it almost impossible for the world to meet its climate goals, scientists said. Bezner Kerr recalled her dismay at seeing President Biden approve the Willow Project — an Alaska oil development projected to generate 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over its 30-year lifetime — shortly after the deaths of her Malawian colleagues. “It was really like, what will it take for people to see that we are creating an unlivable planet?” she said. “I felt there was not the political will in this country to face the reality of what was happening.” Then smoke from Canada’s wildfires descended on her hometown of Ithaca, N.Y., staining the skies orange, and Bezner Kerr’s friends and colleagues started asking her for help processing their fear. Maybe, she thought, this would be a turning point. Maybe people are finally realizing: The alarm bells are ringing for us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/12/climate-change-flooding-heat-wave-continue/

Ok, I'm game, just this once: He would hardly ever post in existing threads, but create his own 'originally titled' fake news satire threads - usually several threads per week, or even per day. Eg. "Dougie Brown isn't accomplishing anything, other than sumo wrestling opposing OL." But then he'd call Doug's radio show and gush all over him. Usually hilarious, always beyond ridiculous.

Looks like we are "dadding out" here so just add am so glad to still have both my parents with me and still relatively healthy and "with it" into their late 70's. It was my dad who took me to my first Bomber games and got me hooked on the Bombers in the late 70's when I was still in early grade school. I still remember my teacher in Grade 5 coming up to me in November and asking me if I could write down for her husband all the scores of the Bomber games for the entire year from memory and I did it like it was nothing. I can't do that now, I can tell you, but that's how big a fan I was even back then, I memorized and could tell you every detail and the final score of every game the Bombers played in 1982. Right through to the heart-breaking Western final against Edmonton. Of course it helped that we were season ticket holders (thanks Dad!) and I was present at half of the games. East side - Gimmee a B!! RIP Jack Skelly. Oh would that guy have loved to be watching the Bombers now in these new glory days.

He's just gotta be eased into the idea....

Breaking news: MBT to Ottawa

A guy shouldn't have to lose his dad at that young of an age. Way too young, for both of them.

That's my secret... I'm always angry

They are playing another team who always finds ways to lose so this one is a tough one to call.

Can a mod please move this discussion to the Health Thread?

Highly recommend.. yup....totally agree and it's too bad that when the mind starts to go...there is nothing that can be done...I'm gonna sling the iron around for as long as I can

Loved talking to Hootie. Great insights and such a nice guy.

A million paragraphs that boil down to...'Bauer is no longer in charge.'

oh yeah forgot about him...so many characters were around at some point....always enjoyed Ray Jones input..aka Hootie....met him several times...great dude

Condolences to Dru Brown.... well spoken young man... hopefully this will inspire him in his career and future... Also, side note... Brown's new hair style is a massive upgrade from the stupid "buzzed-sides and man bun" look he had before

I'm gonna go with everyone else screaming in the SUV.

My dad is 86 and showing signs of slowing down...finally. My mom is 78 and a firecracker. But I think they finally realize that looking after a 3,500 square foot log home on 3 acres is becoming too much, so hopefully they'll sell soon and move into something smaller and easier to maintain.

I hear MBT won’t go to Ottawa.

Ive been told by an ancestor close to the situation that MBT will infact not be easing his way into Ottawa.

I'm glad you realize just how lucky you are to have both your parents. Coming from a son who no longer can say that.

Good thing MBT is going Ottawa. He will be a great help in easing the fears of the next convoy.

it's the fact that he can't sustain drives and consistently hit receiver's beyond the line of scrimmage and about 15 to 20 yards out....or has any awareness in the pocket

So he takes 5 deep shots a game and hits 2 of them.

from what I hear...Quite likely MBT won't be going to Ottawa....for what its worth he still sucks

he's not an ambi-turner

I sense an angry dad or Homer versus NYC level of anger here.

His true coaching legacy lies in Ottawa, where he undeniably ranks among the top three head coaches in REDBLACKS history.

I'm sure Neuf is just taking a vet day but it's good to see Eli getting 1st team reps.

You're all a bunch of assholes and I hate you all.

The Beaverton @TheBeaverton On the one hand we're furious we didn't get -100%. On the other being more trusted than Rebel and Fox is hilarious. \/ Polling Canada @CanadianPolling Net Trust In (X): Weather network: +62% CTV: +55% Global: +53% CBC: +51% BBC: +42% Globe: +40% Canadian Press: +38% National Post: +30% CNN: +29% Macleans: +28% Toronto Star: +26% Sun papers: +4% Western Standard: -2% Beaverton: -5% Rebel media: -8% Fox: -27% - Pollara -

Love that Segel got a nom for Shrinking and Lyonne for Poker Face. Two wildly underrated shows.