my first guest will be working tonight
before a capacity crowd at madison square garden i'm talking about dr krypton no no no
he is said to be the largest and highest paid and best known wrestler in the entire world this man
stands seven feet four inches tall weighs in at about 500 pounds please welcome andre the giant
oh boy you know it's true how are you fine can i can i get you a mimosa
no thank you what uh uh who are you gonna be wrestling tonight by the way anybody that we
would have heard of it'll be uh me and tony at nice and rocky johnson's against the three samoans
uh this how many people uh does the garden hole twenty thousand in the uh eighteen twenty upstairs
i get the almost twenty three thousand people and downstairs at seven thousand people oh my uh
now what what is the reaction of uh the average person when they see you like when you go into
a bar or something everybody get out they all clear out uh do you find that people are are
uh uh frightened by you or do they want to pick a fight with you do you ever run into this no no no
yeah what do they say when they see a man your size or when they see you
they can believe it they just look at me yeah uh
what about traveling now you uh hotel beds are are they a problem i tried to find water where
they got a king-size bed yeah there was when i got in japan all those cars are so small
even in the hotel i can't go through the door i can't go to the bathroom
but but the nature of your job you're traveling all the time aren't you like 300
320 nights a year yes yeah now what about plane travel does that get old after a while awful
i go in first class but i don't think mine wasn't yeah
uh what about airplane food is there any way for you to get filled up on a flight
oh yeah yeah those are all that nice give me two or three places yeah uh now speaking of food you
own a restaurant is it montreal yes no what kind of room french restaurant and um expensive place
no just a nice place a good food yeah and uh do you ever work there yeah i eat through it you sure
eat there but but do you ever go in and greet the customers as they're coming in no no yeah
uh how much time do we have here okay we gotta we gotta go away for a commercial but you can you
mind sticking around andre no okay great if you stay right here andre the giant is here andre have
you ever been injured in the uh ring many times and uh is this uh what we have here is this was
this the result of a ring injury that was the last time good lord um what what size shoe do you wear
20 20. good heavens let's just uh i'm gonna get the stage hands in here to help with this uh what
do you do when you're not wrestling you you're traveling all the time what do you do for fun
if you just wanna just have a good night uh you know you got a weekend off what would you do on
a saturday i go home i go to north carolina i got a house and look i don't know and what do you do
to relax there i drew some general time over there and walk in the woods and i got some cars and just
have a good time on the farm and you i know i know you enjoy drinking beer don't you oh don't anymore
you quit drinking beer yes now you used to have a really uh an incredible appetite for drinking
didn't you right for beer yes is it true that you would in one sitting drank 117 beers yes one
uh but you don't drink anymore not since uh 14 months ago i quit yeah uh you feel
better for not drinking yeah because when i was drinking beer i used to weigh 560 pounds
and you've trimmed down now to well now i'm 470. yeah i was gonna say you look you look about 470.
uh well congratulations now how much longer do you think you'll be wrestling
i don't know maybe tonight maybe my last match with you no no no no you never know
what's gonna happen in the ring what would you do after you uh uh your career was over
i don't need to stay in the farm we'll go walk in the restaurant in my store yeah they got my
business yeah well it sounds like you're in pretty good shape you got the the farm
and the the restaurant and uh and you don't drink anymore so what the hell you're
doing some white wine they have a little white wine now how much white wine would you have
at a meal but two or three months two or three months so in other words just fill up the shoe
now this afternoon we talked around in the office about having you lift me up and you
you just recently said you're not going to lift me up right why don't you want to lift me up it's
okay i mean i'm sorry i'll tell you why because one time i was doing an interview like this on tv
and the guy want me to pick him up so i pick him up and two weeks later he tried to give
me a lawsuit because he said i ordered him oh no now who was that oh i don't go to my shoes
no no is it somebody we might know no i bet it was merv griffin
um you can't tell us huh no i don't want to okay remember what time does the the match start at
the madison square start at eight o'clock all right well you gotta get going don't you
oh no i just stay all night well sure that's what we were hoping we uh uh sure andre of
course you you make yourself at home it was a nice uh nice meeting you sir good luck here i'm ready