109-Year-Old Veteran and His Secrets to Life Will Make You Smile | Short Film Showcase

yeah I read a lot of things that God kept you here to help others but I don't know why hit me I can't kill you he talked to me he talked to me my name is Richard oven Overton I am a hundred and nine years old stillwall I still talk and I still drive [Music] I just got my license renewed this year yet they give you a kiss everything they're given our passion I feel good going on driving I like to drive myself cause other drug they drive crazy I am always wore to read I went in the Army at 1940 making mo braver stronger I could see could ever do is opening here not a lot going hasty no you don't know boy yeah you see a soldier would have gone y'all see him turn around go back this way they go side way but he ain't gonna come around go back okay I can put his airs you ain't gonna go back there yet when you go in there USA we're dodging got me now see you got to take care of your time to go hey buddy don't get you if you take your time to go that brother going over you hey I think I hit you go man a killer but God you want to keep you alive [Music] it wasn't it wasn't good but we had to go [Music] I built my house and that's 45 that's where I've been ever since it's a nice face of the earth [Music] yeah I'm happy with my own I saw what I need I bought one thing I will use that one thing I was about one thing go buy a nut and go buy a new I've got a crook after any run just like I wanted so I just keep it [Music] but I don't fool with a credit card never be everything are you paid cash for it I got 50 cents a day that's way back in but I lived at that I was ever staying with nickel and dime three cents I meant when the man get your face forward like that Epping it up I take a pink car Danny heard he gonna get a car we know what a car would with later back we know what's come to town much my first car was a little boy t-ball forward that didn't front cranky you remember him car no you weren't born their way no I know you would [Music] I just said in smoke some time twelve cigars a day maybe sometime Monette [Music] anybody share what you smoke them for I guess I guess it makes you feel better [Music] but you came in here just to go ahead and just go to that letter going forget about swathi sorry no taste to it just make you cold I'm going to health away every time I get up in the morning that cat sitting there waiting either go to V it sometime they're sitting up there waiting because they want to get to supper and then they want to go to be [Music] but you don't feed a cat too much cause he will eat a rat [Music] I have those casting to keep me happy I tell a drill a team habit I want to see my cats alimony I wake up one o'clock or you know wake up it two or three any time I wake up I just get up get me a cup of coffee sometime I drink I broke up the coffee in the morning this morning I drank about that much whiskey I love me up a fish corn and soup I love soup a lot of people don't like soup don't break me up but I've been drinking milk for over writing all my life and ice cream I eat ice cream every night it makes me happy he put butter for cars you're bowing to buying and you buy butter pecan it is the old tinnitus anybody died there Maureen [Music] you Church is a wonderful place lovely place [Music] keeps me going makes me feel good I think that helps me push myself at all [Music] you're lonesome eh too you know how to live better I'll treat people [Music] we don't have old and I just say someone asked somebody else to do and singing I know that you're saying it beautiful [Music] Church is just for everybody [Music] you have to go for one person that's yourself good have a speck July but you got living [Music] they make you feel better to have it first man you're like this we get along real nice though he 91 years old you know I'm kind of 9 [Music] yeah we goes to the hospital to see people go to the grocery store we go shopping sometime and register stretching and take a different place is she just a nice person yep we have fun together [Music] I've seen large large live [Music] I'm still living good and suffer nothing gets what I want sure and she live it all right [Music] you [Music] don't give up you're through you just found yourself I am I'm giving you some my secret to a long life if you ever use it if you don't use that you're better off not coming got ya yet and I don't know when I'll come here and I don't know where I'm going you eat dear one I was going we going I [Music] may give out but I never you up [Music] you [Music] you [Music] you [Music]

Channel: National Geographic

Views: 34,535,090

Rating: 4.9471478 out of 5

Keywords: Richard Overton, Veteran, World War II, supercentenarian, centenarian, elderly, whiskey, cigars, old age, documentary, short film showcase, longevity, PLivjPDlt6ApSV6IhEzPW2w60mwFVtXgNR, PLivjPDlt6ApTDlm7OufY6HAzNmFAqxWSo, PLivjPDlt6ApRiBHpsyXWG22G8RPNZ6jlb, secrets, life, short, film, national geographic, nat geo, explore, survival, natgeo, science, nature

Id: BXyfCGDnuWs

Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 05 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/scsuhockey]

You see that beautiful old truck he's driving? He was 72 when it was built.

Here's what a Ford truck looked like when he was 16.

[u/zzzxxxccc1]

great genetics

[u/Boney_Stalloney]

You never hear about the world record for oldest driver. They don't want some 117 year old punk trying to take over the record and killing a family

[u/NWBoomer]

"Is it true that you smoke two cigars a day?"

"That's true."

"Is it true that you drink two martinis a day?"

"That's true."

"What does your doctor say about all of this?"

"My doctor is dead." - George Burns

[u/Hopenstein]

.He's 110 now

[u/DishonoredSinceBirth]

Do you think you'll get your own squad after what happened last night?

[u/Starry-Sky]

What I get from this is that you should do what makes you happy. He doesn't smoke or drink or even eat ice cream because it makes him live longer, he does it because it makes him happy, and that's what's most important.

[u/BongWaterRamen]

I love his simple little phrases about how life works, like "we dont have all the answers, you gotta leave some answers for somebody else"

[u/JohnnyTries]

"I may give out, but I'll never give up." - R. A. Overton

Holy shit.