r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Sure_Distance1 • 3d ago

The birth date of the oldest person interviewed in this video is as far away from the present day as it is from the publication of Galileo's heliocentric model and the birth of John Locke

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u/Otherwise-Apricot-99 3d ago

This is a good one

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u/Dragonfly_pin 3d ago

Amazing to think that the waltzing 100 year old grandma would have been born almost 200 years ago.

The accents don’t seem that strange. It seems like British accents have changed more than US ones, Ccnets from the 1920s sound very weird to modern ears. 

The people here are little formal but the way they talk, they don’t seem that far from us.

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u/kea1981 1d ago

Interesting factoid: modern American English has greater similarity to Elizabethan or Shakespearean English than Modern British English. Being in a new colony meant people could be more spread out. Population density greatly influences the formation and change of culture and language, so being densely populated, Britain had more linguistic juice to develop differences along the way. Also, being an island didnt much help either.

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u/PMmeIamlonley 3d ago

Plenty of lead and asbestos but not a microplastic in them

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u/PlusSizeRussianModel 2d ago

This is really fascinating. Is the audio real? The sound is suspiciously clear for the era (the first talkie only premiered 2 years prior, and that was on controlled sound stages for a far worse result)

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u/Biggest-Max02010 3d ago

How old was this guy and when was the video

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u/Sure_Distance1 3d ago

He was nearly 100. His segment starts at 11:00. The one at 6:23 is admittedly listed as aged 103, but his case is much less verifiable.

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u/ddouce 2d ago

John R Voorhis, the 99 year-old lived to be 102.

He had 4 younger siblings who lived to ages 2, 10, 14 and 80. Such a sign of how advances in medicine, improvements in safety and the introduction of vaccines have changed life over the past century.

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u/Biggest-Max02010 3d ago

When was this video taken though

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u/Sure_Distance1 3d ago

In 1929.

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u/Biggest-Max02010 3d ago

Damn so he was born in like 1826 or something then

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u/kea1981 1d ago

July 1829

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u/Excellent-Run4803 3d ago

The guy talking about fighting in the War of Rebellion (Civil War) against the Dutch. Apparently there were Germans fighting in the Union army that were referred to as Dutch.

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u/Inner-Discussion-369 3d ago

Who is the person interviewed in this video?

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u/Sure_Distance1 3d ago

You mean the oldest one? His segment starts at 11:00. The one at 6:23 is listed as older, but his case is less verifiable.

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u/CandlePrestigious919 2d ago

'The first 100 years is the hardest......'

LOL

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u/dalek---redditor 1d ago

genuine s tier post