The reporter showed up to his house and starts the interview.
First questions was what do you contribute your long life to, answer I don't exercise, I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day,drink a quart of moon shine each day and have sex twice a day.
The reported goes wow and you lived a long life.
The old guy says yea 39 is pretty dam old.
I just found an article that says he was less than a week shy of being 49. http://www.knoxville.com/news/2012/may/14/knoxville-celebrities-swamp-people-guist-dies/